Singapore, (ANTARA\/PRNewswire) - ATxSummit 2026 organised by the\nInfocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) of Singapore was officially\nopened this evening with a gala dinner at Gardens by the Bay. President\nof Singapore Tharman Shanmugaratnam attended as guest of honour. This\nyear ATxSummit brought together government leaders from Asia, the Middle\nEast, and the United States, as well as international organisations such\nas the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and\nDevelopment (OECD), and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).\nThe event was also attended by a number of global industry figures and\nacademics, including Denise Dresser, Chief Revenue Officer of OpenAI;\nDavid Zapolsky, Chief Global Affairs & Legal Officer of Amazon; Jane\nSun, CEO of Trip.com Group; William Dally, Chief Scientist at NVIDIA;\nYoshua Bengio, deep learning pioneer from the University of Montreal;\nand Professor Dawn Song from the University of California, Berkeley,\nknown for research on AI safety and trustworthy machine learning.<\/p>\n
ASEAN\u2019s Youth Generation Demonstrates AI Solutions for Society<\/p>\n
As one of the main highlights during the dinner this year, youths\nfrom AI Ready ASEAN Youth Challenge inaugural edition showcased 11\nprojects. With ASEAN AI adoption reaching 85% in 2024, these projects\ndemonstrate the momentum of ASEAN\u2019s younger generation who are beginning\nto harness AI to address a range of social issues. Of more than 600\nproposals from all ASEAN member states, 11 projects were selected as\nwinners. The projects span health, education, social inclusion, and\nagriculture with the aim of raising living standards and empowering\ncommunities.<\/p>\n
President Tharman presented the top prize to teams from Brunei,\nCambodia, and Myanmar presenting AI innovations in education, skills\ndevelopment, scientific advancement, and community empowerment. The \u03a3HAI\nteam from Brunei emerged as overall champions with an AI-based dementia\ncare platform that uses voice, language, and video analysis for early\ndetection, personalised guidance for caregivers, and coordination of\ncare services. Meanwhile, Voha.ai from Cambodia helps children with\nhearing impairment to improve pronunciation using real-time speech\nrecognition technology and mouth movement tracking. From Myanmar, the\nFuture Flux team presented an offline AI education platform based on\nedge computing to provide digital learning, adaptive materials, and AI\ntutor services for students in rural areas. The three winners received\nprizes of USD 5,000, USD 3,000, and USD 1,000 respectively.<\/p>\n
Director, Talent & Ecosystem, AI Singapore, Koo Sengmeng, said,\n\u2018AI Ready ASEAN programme not only trains the younger generation to\nunderstand how AI works, but also to master the use of AI that is\nappropriate and has real-world impact for society.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u03a3HAI team said, \u2018The Sahabat-Care platform addresses dementia\ndetection and helps carers in Southeast Asia. AI helps carers access\ninformation more quickly, provide more personalised guidance, and make\nbetter decisions in elder care.\u2019<\/p>\n
AI Ready ASEAN Youth Challenge is a regional ideas competition run by\nAI Singapore (AISG) with the ASEAN Foundation, supported by Google.org\nwith IMDA collaboration. The competition is part of the AI Ready ASEAN\ninitiative aimed at increasing AI literacy and basic AI capabilities for\n5.5 million people in the region. Under the theme \u2018AI for an Inclusive\nand Sustainable ASEAN\u2019, the competition invites young people aged 18\u201335\nto create AI solutions in three core areas: education and skills,\nscientific advancement, and community empowerment. Each proposal must\ndemonstrate tangible impact for at least 1,000 members of a\ncommunity.<\/p>\n
AI Collaboration for Health Research and Services<\/p>\n
Earlier, on the same day, two memoranda of understanding (MoUs) were\nsigned during SingHealth AI in Health Symposium at Capella Singapore as\na pre-event for ATxSummit 2026. The collaboration aims to accelerate\nAI-based health research and the development of health service solutions\nfor patients and health systems. The collaboration is considered\nimportant given Southeast Asian countries face challenges of ageing\npopulations, rising chronic diseases, and uneven access to healthcare.\nAI is seen as capable of assisting clinical decision-making, supporting\nhealthcare workers, and expanding access to high-quality healthcare.<\/p>\n
SingHealth and Gyalpozhing College of Information Technology (GCIT),\nRoyal University of Bhutan, signed an MoU to promote responsible AI use\nin the health sector, particularly for health service systems in\ndeveloping countries. The collaboration develops an AI model for chest\nX-ray analysis based on MerMED-FM, a multimodal, multi-specialist\nmedical imaging foundation model developed by the SingHealth Duke-NUS\nAcademic Medicine Centre in partnership with the Institute of High\nPerformance Computing of A*STAR. Published in The Lancet Digital Health,\nthe model has proven capable of detecting pneumonia, tuberculosis, liver\nmasses, and colorectal cancer. The model was trained with data from\nBhutan and is targeted to be deployed from 2027 at Gelephu Mindfulness\nCity Healthcare Hospitals in Bhutan. This technology is expected to\ndeliver specialist-level diagnostic capability for rural populations\nthat face limited access and radiology personnel, reflecting\nSingHealth\u2019s ambition to transform diagnostic services at a regional\nlevel.<\/p>\n
Singapore General Hospital (SGH), the flagship hospital of SingHealth\nand part of Singapore\u2019s largest public healthcare cluster, signed an MoU\nwith the Diagnostics Development Hub (DxD Hub) of the Agency for\nScience, Technology and Research (A*STAR). The collaboration aims to\naccelerate the development of precision diagnostic solutions based\non<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/atxsummit-2026-officially-opened-regional-ambitions-drive-ai-for-public-interest-1779542827", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }