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Singapore further boosts AI skills and readiness
New initiatives will include an artificial intelligence fluency programme and a workgroup to shape the future of tech work through close industry engagement.
At a glance
Who: Singapore Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA); Workforce Singapore (WSG); Singapore Computer Society (SCS); SGTech; Tech Talent Assembly (TTAB).
What: Singapore IMDA has announced further plans to upskill 40,000 technology professionals and grow the next-generation of tech leaders.
Why: To further boost its artificial intelligence skills, workforce and readiness.
Where: It has set a time-scale of three years to achieve its aims.
Singapore Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) is aiming to upskill 40,000 tech professionals over the next three years and grow the next-generation of tech leaders as it takes steps to further boost its artificial intelligence (AI) readiness.
Initiatives will include a new AI fluency programme and a workgroup to shape the future of tech work through close industry engagement.
Skills accelerator and AI fluency programmes
Under the National AI Impact Programme (NAIIP), the IMDA will expand the TechSkills Accelerator (TeSA) to upskill the tech professionals, including final-year Information and Digital Technologies (IDT) students, over the next three years.
Through strategic collaborations with industry partners, AI fluency programmes will be developed to help tech professionals stay current with rapid advances in AI. IMDA will co-lead a workgroup with Workforce Singapore (WSG), in partnership with the Singapore Computer Society (SCS), SGTech, and the Tech Talent Assembly (TTAB), an affiliate of the NTUC, to ensure these programmes remain responsive to how AI is reshaping the industry and evolving tech roles.
The initiatives will help build the skilled tech workforce needed to support Singapore’s digital economy ambitions while nurturing both current and future generations of tech leaders
IMDA is also welcoming 21 new SG Digital Leaders (SGDLs), expanding its tech leadership community to over 1,600, who are driving AI fluency from within and on the global stage.
Together, these initiatives will help build the skilled tech workforce needed to support Singapore’s digital economy ambitions while nurturing both current and future generations of tech leaders. They will complement earlier NAIIP efforts to train 100,000 non-tech professionals to be AI bilingual by 2029, announced at the Committee of Supply (COS) 2026.
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IMDA and AI Singapore’s (AISG) AIxTech AI fluency programme is designed to deepen the tech capabilities of tech professionals by equipping them with technical and responsible AI skills throughout the software engineering lifecycle, such as automating software engineering tasks with AI, context and harnessing engineering skills, and implementing agentic systems in multi-agent teams.
Developed in collaboration with over 30 leading tech firms, AI Centres of Excellence, government agencies, and Institutes of Higher Learning (IHLs), the AIxTech curriculum has been refined to ensure a strong learning experience. The programme has already generated significant traction, with organisations across tech (for example, NCS and ST Engineering) and non-tech sectors such as OCBC and Standard Chartered) expressing interest to enrol their employees.
IMDA said this early response reflects its alignment with real business needs and as organisations continue to strengthen AI capabilities in an increasing AI-driven economy.
AI coding solutions
AIxTech will provide training with access to a portfolio of leading AI coding solutions (for example, Claude, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Gemini, Kiro, GLM (General Language Model), Agnes), which will be regularly reviewed and refreshed to keep pace with industry changes.
Trainees will also be exposed to responsible AI development, which will include IMDA AI Verify Foundation’s governance principles, frameworks, and testing toolkits in traditional, generative and agentic AI. In addition, trainees can seek assistance from AISG trainers by posting questions to the community, submitting queries via a central ticketing system to a dedicated trainer, or attending in- person clinic sessions for face-to-face guidance.
AIxTech, and the recently announced TIP Alliance+ are the first steps in a broader government effort to build an AI fluent tech workforce in partnership with the tech community. Co- led by IMDA and WSG, the workgroup to study the future of tech work will engage members and networks from partners SCS, SGTech, and TTAB.
The insights will help the workgroup understand how tech teams, jobs, and skills are changing, and ensure its recommendations remain relevant to the needs of the tech professionals.
They will also shape future initiatives to build the AI fluent tech workforce Singapore needs to power its digital economy ambitions.
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