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SME AI adoption in Singapore tripled in a single year, jumping from 4.2% to 14.5% according to IMDA's Singapore Digital Economy Report 2025. Budget 2026 is adding 400% tax deductions on qualifying AI expenses. The momentum is real. But IPI Singapore's CEO Michael Goh argues that speed without the right foundation is how expensive experiments go nowhere - and most businesses are making the same sequencing mistake before any grant or tax incentive can help.
Stat: SME AI adoption tripled from 4.2% to 14.5% in one year (IMDA 2025)

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Michael Goh, CEO, IPI

McKinsey's State of AI 2025 found that high-performing organisations are nearly three times as likely to have fundamentally redesigned their workflows before deploying AI. The sequence matters more than the technology. Michael Goh calls the common mistake "paving the cow path" - if your data is siloed and your process is undocumented, AI won't fix it. It will make it faster and messier.
High performers are 3x more likely to redesign workflows before AI deployment (McKinsey 2025)

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Michael Goh, CEO, IPI

Roots Innovation (a Singapore SME) and Panasonic didn't find each other through a middleman. They met at TechInnovation. Now they've signed an MOU. A real example of what technology matching looks like in practice — and why more Singapore businesses are showing up to events like this with a business agenda, not just a brochure.

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Ivan Cham, CEO, Roots Innovation

Singapore businesses are caught between two pressures, using customer data to compete, and staying on the right side of PDPA and GDPR. This is not a theoretical debate. It is a live business decision, and the answers are not straightforward.

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Alex Toh, Partner, Magellan Law LLP