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AI is transforming Singapore’s F&B and retail sectors beyond customer engagement. Discover how businesses can integrate AI-powered solutions, streamline operations, optimise costs, and drive sustainable growth in an increasingly competitive landscape.
As sustainability requirements and digital disruption reshape the built environment sector, ISOTeam Executive Chairman and Co-Founder David Ng believes that upskilling people is the foundation of long-term business resilience. By investing in Generative AI and sustainability training across leadership and operational teams, ISOTeam is empowering its workforce to drive efficiency, strengthen compliance, and stay future-ready in a rapidly evolving landscape.
SMEs today face mounting pressure from economic volatility and rapid technological change. Upskilling has emerged as a critical lever—not just for resilience, but for long-term competitiveness—empowering businesses to harness AI, bridge capability gaps, and futureproof their workforce.
The traditional marketing funnel no longer reflects how consumers behave today. In a recent UOB FinLab panel with industry leaders, one message stood out: trust, authenticity, and community now drive growth for SMEs in an increasingly non-linear customer journey.
More Than a Founder: Growing a Business While Embracing Motherhood follows Sydney Ho as she navigates scaling multiple F&B ventures while raising a young family, offering a candid look at leadership, trade-offs, and building sustainable systems. Through her journey, the episode highlights that growth is shaped not just by strategy, but by support, adaptability, and grace.
Prime Aces Limousine shows that sustainability is a gradual and data-driven journey, building internal capabilities and leveraging digital efficiency while balancing service reliability with practical steps toward long-term impact.
UOB FinLab has earned two wins at the Asian Banking & Finance Retail Banking Awards 2026, recognising its impact in advancing SME transformation and sustainability. Through its programmes and ecosystem, UOB FinLab continues to equip businesses across ASEAN with the capabilities and connections needed for long-term growth.
UOB and JTC have signed an agreement to support companies expanding in Singapore by connecting them to industrial ecosystems, business networks and growth opportunities across ASEAN. The partnership will also provide access to financing, advisory services and capability-building programmes focused on AI, digitalisation and sustainability.
由本地社会企业 Mums@Work Asia 推出的“女企业家出海”（Women Beyond Borders）倡议正式启动，旨在通过海外考察、跨文化学习与商业交流，协助新加坡女性企业家开拓国际市场，首站将前往日本。
Singapore’s SMEs are rapidly digitalising, but true transformation depends on leadership. Technology delivers impact only when aligned with clear processes and a prepared workforce. The next phase of SME growth will be driven by leaders who integrate digital tools purposefully, invest in people, and leverage industry networks to scale.
DHL Express and UOB Indonesia are collaborating to drive sustainable trade and SME growth across ASEAN. Through DHL’s GoGreen Plus service, UOB is reducing up to 80% of emissions from international shipments. The partnership also launched the country’s first GoTrade event in Jakarta to support SMEs in cross-border trade.
At UOB FinLab’s “Digital Gateway to Global Markets” event in Ho Chi Minh City, experts highlighted Vietnam’s growing momentum in cross-border trade. With strong interest in e-commerce and regional partnerships, businesses are leveraging digital tools, financial solutions, and regulatory support to expand globally. UOB Vietnam and Alibaba.com’s Innovative Hub launched a support package to empower exporters, reinforcing Vietnam’s role in the international supply chain.
Joanna Teo, Managing Director of Attribute Data and UOB FinLab Womenpreneurs alumna, appeared on MONEY FM 89.3 to share how she built a million‑dollar, self‑funded startup without venture capital, emphasising the role of strong networks, sustainable growth, and reflects on how UOB FinLab connected her with mentors and like‑minded entrepreneurs who supported her journey.
AI has become a critical capability for SMEs facing rising cost pressures and increasing customer expectations. Through the UOB FinLab AI Ready and SME Elevate Programmes, SMEs can navigate AI adoption with greater clarity—leveraging readiness assessments, practical training, and workforce upskilling to move beyond experimentation toward sustainable, long-term growth.
Amid concerns about Singapore’s widening AI gender gap, Daphne Tay of Bluente shows how AI can empower women to break into tech. Despite a non‑technical background, she used generative AI to rapidly build prototypes and scale her translation platform, which now serves over 70 companies. Her story highlights AI’s potential to level the playing field and enable women entrepreneurs to lead and innovate.
Explore how one of the impactful pilot projects from UOB FinLab’s GreenTech Accelerator 2024 took off, where Circular Unite partnered with UOB’s Corporate Real Estate Services (CRES) to drive sustainable waste management through data-driven innovation.
For over a decade, UOB FinLab, the innovation accelerator has guided South-east Asia’s SMEs through transitions.
Explore how one of the impactful pilot projects from UOB FinLab’s GreenTech Accelerator 2024 took off, where Circular Unite partnered with UOB’s Corporate Real Estate Services (CRES) to drive sustainable waste management through data-driven innovation.
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