This press release was issued by Red Hat.
Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today introduced Red Hat’s APAC AI Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Singapore. Supported by the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), the Centre will help organisations evolve from AI experimentation towards production deployment using Red Hat’s open source technologies and engineering expertise.
Red Hat has established the Centre to meet growing regional demand for trusted, enterprise-ready AI. The CoE’s engineering teams will help organisations move AI workflows into production through two complementary paths: developing reusable software architectures that address common industry challenges, and contributing code directly to upstream open source projects in an effort to address enterprise requirements in system deployment, runtime optimisation, platform management and more.
To harness the CoE’s capabilities, the Singapore Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) is collaborating with Red Hat to explore and co-develop AI and cloud-native solutions that strengthen capabilities in these areas and that the DSTA can then apply to defence applications.
Basing these engineering capabilities in Singapore shortens the feedback loop between customers, partners and Red Hat’s core product teams. This connection helps maintain development roadmaps grounded in customer requirements, accelerates solution delivery and strengthens Red Hat’s ability to co-innovate with organisations across the region.
Nurturing local talent to promote a thriving AI ecosystem
The AI CoE will give organisations expanded access to Red Hat’s AI, hybrid cloud and platform engineering expertise, while strengthening in-region technical capabilities in Singapore. The CoE includes a dedicated innovation team comprising engineers, forward-deployed engineers, architects and project managers all centered on making AI/ML deployments successful in customer environments. The Centre will also support skills development in areas critical to modern AI deployment, including software engineering, automation, cloud-native development and DevSecOps, for customers and partners to strengthen their own specialized internal capabilities.
Bringing production necessities into the Centre
Drawing on Red Hat’s open-source expertise and DSTA’s engineering capabilities and defence domain knowledge, both organisations will jointly develop scalable solutions in AI, cloud computing, application modernisation and edge computing to support multi-cloud operations. This includes jointly establishing architectures and practices for Development, Security and Operations (DevSecOps) and Day 2 operations for AI and cloud systems at scale, across both on-premise and off-premise environments.
These efforts aim to accelerate the development and deployment of AI solutions at scale, enabling greater agility for the DSTA in anticipating and addressing evolving defence requirements in the AI era.
Red Hat’s APAC AI Centre of Excellence aligns with Singapore’s National AI Strategy, providing contributions to the country’s broader AI ecosystem with talent, technology and real-world use cases. EDB’s support for the Centre, Red Hat’s open source AI expertise and DSTA’s co-engineering collaboration provide a model for translating AI capability-building into practical innovation in Singapore and across Asia Pacific.
