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Can our most challenging moments reveal our strongest leadership qualities? Explore how resilience, self-awareness, and purposeful action can help leaders emerge stronger and guide others through uncertainty.
From workforce transformation to technology adoption, the F&B and Retail Reset Programme provided actionable strategies to help businesses remain competitive in a rapidly evolving landscape. The sessions highlighted the role of AI, people development, and strategic partnerships in enabling long-term growth.
Growth often requires leaders to make critical decisions without complete certainty. Learn how resilient leadership can help SMEs build stronger teams, make better decisions and prepare for long-term success
As AI adoption accelerates across Singapore, businesses are focusing on how to translate emerging opportunities into meaningful outcomes. Explore how businesses can strengthen AI readiness and drive productivity, efficiency, and growth through practical applications.
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.
Women entrepreneurs are redefining growth and innovation across Singapore and ASEAN. Discover how women-led businesses can harness technology, strengthen strategic networks, and unlock opportunities for sustainable, long-term success.
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.
DKSH Business Unit Healthcare has reached a significant milestone in building a more sustainable healthcare supply chain by successfully tracking carbon emissions across its value chain through a collaboration with UOB FinLab’s GreenTech Accelerator and Smart Tradzt in Thailand.
The SkillsFuture movement is bringing greater professionalisation of adult educators – including a national registry – and more “Queen Bee” companies that support workforce skills development, particularly for smaller organisations.
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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