- Three new companions in Digital Enterprise Blueprint to construct SMEs’ capabilities in GenAI, Cloud and Cyber Resilience
- AWS and Microsoft to work with IMDA to speed up GenAI adoption and profit 1,000 Digitally Mature SMEs
- 800 extra native AI practitioner job and coaching alternatives to be created to assist upcoming demand
SINGAPORE, Might 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — New partnerships with {industry} giants Alibaba Cloud, Prudential and ST Engineering will give extra native SMEs entry to cutting-edge applied sciences together with synthetic intelligence (AI), cloud and cyber safety. Introduced at this time on the opening of ATxEnterprise by Mr Tan Kiat How, Senior Minister of State for Digital Growth and Info, these new collaborations, in assist of the nation’s Digital Enterprise Blueprint (DEB), will equip companies to speed up the adoption of frontier applied sciences. Mr Tan additionally launched two new expertise programmes that may present upskilling alternatives and create AI profession pathways for locals. These programmes will practice AI Practitioners forward of demand as Singapore accelerates Generative AI (GenAI) adoption throughout the enterprise ecosystem, strengthening the nation’s place as a world AI hub.
Three new partnerships to uplift digital capabilities of SMEs
2. IMDA will probably be engaged on three new partnerships designed to strengthen AI adoption and enhance cyber resilience throughout the SME panorama.
- Partnership with Alibaba Cloud to lift cloud and AI capabilities – as much as 3,000 SMEs and digital resolution suppliers will obtain assist to lift cloud and AI capabilities by the Alibaba Cloud Digital Accelerator Programme. This complete initiative equips companies with sensible cloud expertise and technical assets, together with assist by cloud credit, technical coaching workshops, skilled consultations, and trial entry to Alibaba’s Cloud AI Mannequin Studio.
- Partnership with Prudential Singapore to reinforce GenAI adoption – beneath the GenAI Xponential Programme, Prudential in partnership with its Expertise Engagement Ecosystem associate, Republic Polytechnic, will produce a sequence of as much as 10 GenAI tech explainer movies tailor-made for SMEs, and conduct as much as 4 workshops to assist SMEs study extra about IMDA’s pre-approved GenAI options and promote adoption.
- Partnership with ST Engineering to launch the SME CyberResilience Programme – this initiative will present as much as 2,000 SMEs with a one-time complimentary cyber risk scanning service by IMDA’s CTO-as-a-Service platform, whereas equipping them with essential insights into rising cyber threats and defence methods by devoted consciousness occasions.
3. The brand new partnerships are a part of the efforts beneath the DEB to energy the subsequent certain of digitalisation for enterprises. Since its launch in Might 2024, the DEB has benefitted over 10,000 enterprises.
Increasing GenAI assist for Digitally Mature SMEs
4. IMDA’s GenAI x Digital Leaders initiative was launched in 2024 to assist DMEs construct digital capabilities and overcome key challenges. Along with AWS and Microsoft, over 200 enterprises have been geared up with deeper technical understanding of GenAI and gained higher entry to tech experience and recommendation on deploying GenAI options.
5. IMDA is presently supporting 50 DMEs with mission implementations that ship concrete enterprise affect – producing an estimated productiveness enhance of as excessive as 50% and annual value financial savings of as much as S$300,000.
6. IMDA is now strengthening its partnerships with AWS and Microsoft to speed up frontier expertise adoption. The improved initiative goals to achieve greater than 1,000 enterprises and assist as much as 500 initiatives within the coming 12 months. The expanded collaboration will ship twice the variety of Tech Discovery Workshops and personalised Tech Deep-Dive periods, whereas considerably lowering resolution growth prices and time by half by tapping on the most recent expertise growth instruments with pre-built GenAI modules.
7. DMEs will acquire enhanced entry to technical experience, together with material specialists and mannequin builders, backed by important assets reminiscent of compute energy and cloud credit.
Collaborations with AI Singapore and main corporations to offer 800 AI Practitioner job and coaching alternatives for locals
8. The demand for AI expertise continues to extend as main corporations arrange AI Centres of Excellence (CoEs) and construct up their AI groups and actions in Singapore. To fulfill this demand, IMDA is boosting efforts to construct Singapore’s AI expertise pipeline. By the TechSkills Accelerator’s (TeSA) Firm-Led Coaching programme, IMDA has secured 400 native AI Practitioner roles by collaborations with main corporations reminiscent of Amazon Internet Companies (AWS), Microsoft, Oracle, and SingTel.
9. IMDA can be partnering with AI Singapore (AISG) and the {industry} to launch two new coaching programmes, which is able to present one other 400 AI Practitioner job and coaching alternatives for locals.
- AI Apprenticeship Programme (Trade) (AIAP(I)) – To coach extra locals to take up job alternatives in AI Practitioner roles.
- Pinnacle AI Trade Programme (PAIP) – Uplifting native AI Practitioners in frontier corporations into skilled mannequin builders.
10. Set to launch in June 2025, the AIAP(I), developed in collaboration with AISG, will equip locals with AI, Knowledge, and Machine Studying expertise, and the chance to hone their expertise in real-world initiatives by a six-month programme. The AIAP(I) goals to coach 300 AI Practitioners in batches over two years. Upon completion, trainees will probably be prepared for hiring by AI COEs and main corporations.
11. To construct deeper technical experience reminiscent of superior AI mannequin constructing and fine-tuning demanded by frontier corporations, IMDA has partnered AISG’s SEA-LION group to develop the PAIP. This initiative anticipated to be launched within the second half of 2025, is an intensive six-month full-time programme that may upskill 100 native AI Practitioners into skilled mannequin builders over three years.
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