Singapore is home to many global technology firms including Google, Facebook, Alibaba, and regional leaders like Garena, Grab, Lazada and Razer. All these firms are part of a rich ecosystem aggregating opportunities for ICT firms to partner with each other and with end user-companies to co-develop commercially viable solutions.

Technology players like IBM and Huawei have partnered with financial services, manufacturing, and services industries in Singapore to develop and deliver new solutions for the region and beyond.

A broad range of companies are investing in, and taking advantage of Singapore’s ICT infrastructure and connectivity to better serve customers and deliver digital services. These include Visa, whose Singapore transaction processing centre serves both its regional and global networks, and LinkedIn, which set up its first international data centre here to handle all its Asia Pacific traffic.

Cloud technology players like AliCloud and Google Cloud invest here to access Southeast Asia markets.

Singapore offers a steady stream of industry-ready talent through its schools, which collaborate closely with leading industry players. IBM’s Centre for Blockchain Innovation, for instance, has partnered with the NUS School of Computing to jointly develop a module on financial technology, given the rise of fintech opportunities within Singapore and elsewhere in the region.

Singapore’s S$120 million TechSkills Accelerator programme trains industry-ready ICT professionals.