Kyndryl has launched its ASEAN AI Innovation Lab in Singapore, which will offer responsible enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) solutions with advanced security features across Southeast Asia.
The Lab will employ approximately 50 local AI specialists, including data scientists, data engineers and AI developers, and help organisations understand responsible AI technologies with use cases and live demonstrations.
“Our experience in designing and delivering complex systems at scale gives us an advantage in implementing end-to-end AI solutions,” said Andrew Lim, managing director of Kyndryl ASEAN and Korea.
“By partnering with Digital Industry Singapore (DISG), Google Cloud and other ecosystem players, we aim to scale trustworthy and high-impact AI solutions that enable businesses to move faster and smarter with responsible AI principles at the core.”
Kyndryl is working with Google Cloud and DISG to help Singapore-based companies accelerate AI transformation through the AI Cloud Takeoff program under DISG’s Enterprise Compute Initiative (ECI).
“Enterprises across Southeast Asia are moving quickly to harness generative AI and agentic AI, and they need trusted partners to do it responsibly and at scale,” said Mark Micallef, Google Cloud managing director in Southeast Asia.
“Our partnership with Kyndryl brings together deep consultancy expertise and interoperable data-to-AI capabilities to help organisations unlock tangible and measurable ROI from deployments of enterprise-grade AI with cutting edge security capabilities,” said Micallef.
The Lab will help customers operationalise AI through proven infrastructure and cloud-native architectures. Working with DISG and Singapore’s top universities and research institutions, customers can cultivate AI talent and build reusable assets and services to help future-proof their workforce and innovation efforts.
Additionally, the Lab’s AI experts will help organisations implement robust governance, privacy and security frameworks to address compliance and regulatory mandates, while also creating energy-efficient and cost-effective AI solutions that will reduce carbon footprints and computing costs.
For example, Frasers Hospitality worked with Kyndryl to enhance the processes through which operational expertise is documented and streamlined. A solution was jointly built to transform training videos and add interactive multimedia features and multilingual capabilities to scale across its global portfolio.
Also, Kyndryl used AI to help Vietnam SuperPort automate X-ray image analysis and validate documents.
Further, Quest is using AI to further personalise the user experience on its gig marketplace, improving the connection between businesses with open positions and skilled local talent, resulting in increased job matching and fulfilment rates.
Kyndryl’s ASEAN AI Innovation Lab supports Singapore’s goal of becoming a global AI leader by establishing a technology-forward, AI ecosystem, while providing valuable expertise across Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines to meet growing regional AI demand.
“We are keen for companies to develop their innovation mandates in Singapore and tap into our ecosystem to grow their businesses,” said Philbert Gomez, SVP and executive director of DISG.
“By bringing together industry, academia and government, this Lab will serve as a catalyst for innovation, workforce skilling and the development of scalable AI infrastructure in Singapore and the broader ASEAN region,” said Gomez.
