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UOB FinLab Vietnam’s Smart Manufacturing Connect explored AI, trade shifts & digital strategies to drive Vietnam’s manufacturing toward a smarter future.
Southeast Asia’s consumers are choosing sustainability—and SMEs must adapt. Green preferences are reshaping strategies, making data-driven insights critical. Analytics helps businesses understand customer priorities, make smarter sustainability decisions, and turn purpose into growth. With UOB FinLab’s programmes and community, SMEs gain the tools and networks to act and build long-term success.
At the Singapore FinTech Festival 2025, leaders explored how trust, interoperable payments, and strong governance will shape SME success in a digital economy. UOB FinLab, celebrating its own 10-year milestone, continues to empower SMEs across ASEAN with programmes and tools to scale sustainably and thrive in an interconnected future.
Upskilling is the key investment that empowers SMEs to fully leverage technology, stay competitive, and thrive in ASEAN’s fast-evolving digital economy.
Sustainability reporting isn’t just compliance, it’s a growth strategy. It builds trust, wins bigger customers, and drives efficiency. The UOB FinLab helps SMEs start small and scale through its community and programmes, including the SME Elevate Programme and the Sustainability Innovation Programme (SIP).
The GreenTech Accelerator Thailand drives sustainability through pilots in energy, waste, agriculture, and building maintenance—delivering cost savings, improved recycling, reduced resource use, and AI-driven efficiency for measurable environmental impact.
The AI conversation is shifting from possibility to execution, with businesses focusing on how to create tangible value from emerging technologies. AI Ready 2.0 equips SMEs with the tools, expertise and guidance to adopt AI strategically, solve real business challenges and scale with confidence.
A UOB poll found strong interest in AI among SMEs, yet many businesses remain at the trial stage as they seek practical ways to realise value from new technologies. Through initiatives such as the UOB SME Elevate Programme and UOB BizSmart, UOB continues to support SMEs in building the skills, knowledge and foundations needed for sustainable growth.
A UOB poll found strong interest in AI among SMEs, yet many businesses remain at the trial stage as they seek practical ways to realise value from new technologies. Through initiatives such as the UOB SME Elevate Programme and UOB BizSmart, UOB continues to support SMEs in building the skills, knowledge and foundations needed for sustainable growth.
廖志明表示，人工智能（AI）已不再是科技公司的专属工具。面对数码转型与市场竞争，中小企业应善用AI提升效率、降低成本，并从日常工作逐步实践，将科技转化为生产力与竞争优势。
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.
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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