Sustainability Innovation Programme
The FinLab’s Sustainability Innovation Programme (SIP) is a 4-week programme to help SMEs to transform their companies into sustainable businesses. It provides deep insights across a variety of Sustainability topics such as energy efficiency, clean energy, electric vehicle and food sustainability. SMEs will be introduced to various Greentech solutions that can kickstart their journey to a greener future.

Programme pillars
Learn key trends, solutions, and insights into what it takes to build a sustainable future
Understand your sustainability needs and opportunities for growth through sustainability
Start implementing the sustainable solutions, and plan for future growth leveraging clear sustainable actions

Learn
about sustainability

Evaluate
your sustainability quotient

Access
sustainability solutions & partners

Foster
sustainability goals

Site Visit
at a sustainability experience centre
Programme Topics

Energy Efficiency

Electric Vehicles

Carbon Reporting

Decarbonisation
Agenda
Sustainability Innovation Programme 2022: Week 1 – “Educate”
No better way to get your sustainability journey started than to better understand the basics of sustainability, and know where you stand with regards to key sustainability metrics! Join us next week for 2 and half-day session to deepen your understanding about sustainability fundamentals through sharing by Ngee Ann Poly, STACS, Enterprise Singapore, and UOB.
Date | Topic | Speaker | Information |
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11 May 2022 10.00am – 12.00pm | Learning Sustainability 101 | Benjamin Soh Co-founder and Managing Director, STACS Dr Jason Tang Director, Environmental & Water Technology Centre of Innovation (EWTCOI), Ngee Ann Polytechnic | You can look forward to learning about: |
12 May 2022 10.00am – 11.30am | Learning Sustainability 101 | Samuel Tan Vice President, ESG Solutions, Section Solutions Group, Group Wholesale Banking, UOB Shawn Yap Vice President, Wealth Management Advisory and Strategy, Personal Financial Solutions, UOB Shaun Tan Programme Director, The FinLab | You can look forward to learning about: |
Sustainability Innovation Programme 2022: Week 2 – “Evaluate”
Join our Sustainability Business Model Canvas Workshop to learn how to use a tried-and-tested innovation framework, the BMC, to understand the gaps and opportunities in your business. The workshop helps you to clearly identify your specific sustainability problem statement, so that you can find the right green solutions.
The sustainability assessment questionnaire developed by Global Initiatives helps companies start their sustainability journey using an assessment framework based on global standards like the UN SDGs. It provides a competitive positioning vis-a-vis peers, and it allows SMEs to develop a clear action plan for sustainability, based on the data collected.
Date | Topic | Speaker | Information |
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17 May 2022 9.30am – 3.00pm | Sustainability Business Model Canvas Workshop | Felix Tan Mentor-in-Residence, The FinLab | You can look forward to learning about: Venue : 80RR FinTech Hub SG, 80 Robinson Road, #08-01 Singapore 068898 |
19 May 2022 2.00pm – 3.00pm | Sustainability Assessment Tool with Global Initiatives | Puneet Chaddha Promoter and Adviser to the Board, Global Initiatives | You can look forward to learning about: |
Sustainability Innovation Programme 2022: Week 3 – “Experience”
Our first session in the “Execute” pillar in our SIP allows you to “Tech-Match” with solutions from SP Digital and E-Tech! Do join us as we showcase the benefits of these solutions offered by our partners, and find out how these innovative solutions can help your business increase productivity and save costs by being more energy efficient.
Date | Topic | Speaker | Information |
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23 May 2022 2.00pm – 3.00pm | Managing Rising Energy Costs with Greener and Smarter Solutions | Satinderpal Singh Sandhu Deputy Director, Business Development and Sales, SP Digital Mr. Sean Lee Assistant Director, Project Development, E-Tech Building Services Pte Ltd | You can look forward to learning about: |
25 May 2022 2.00pm – 5.00pm | Visit to SP Digital’s Office | Clement Cheong Vice President, Sales and Customer Operations, SP Digital Satinderpal Singh Sandhu Deputy Director, Business Development and Sales, SP Digital | You can look forward to learning about: |
Sustainability Innovation Programme 2022: Week 4 – “Execute”
Our second session in the “Execute” pillar in our SIP showcases UOB’s sustainability programmes, U-Solar and U-Energy. Join us as we feature the green solutions offered by the programmes, and discover how you can leverage the bank’s green financing to get support for your sustainability projects.
Our third session in the “Execute” pillar in our SIP features solutions introduced to us through our government agency partners. Find out more about the benefits of these solutions focusing on energy efficiency, and what kind of government subsidies and grants are available for these solutions.
Date | Topic | Speaker | Information |
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1 June 2022 10.00am – 11.00am | UOB U-Solar and U-Energy Solutions | Jasper Wong Head, Construction and Infrastructure, Section Solutions Group, UOB Teo Feng Ni Vice President, Section Solutions Group, UOB | You can look forward to learning about: |
2 June 2022 10.00am – 11.30am | ESG and SGI Solutions | Emir Nurov Co-founder & CEO, Resync Nilesh Jadhav Co-founder & CEO, BtrLyf William Temple CEO, Ampotech | You can look forward to learning about: |
Sustainability Innovation Programme – SMEs features
This video features previous and current programme participants Cheng Fong Enterprises, Container Printers Pte Ltd, Trust Cleanz Initiative, and Urban Origins.

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