More than 20 SUTD faculty, representing more than a quarter of the University’s total tenure track faculty, have been ranked among the top 2% of the most-cited scientists worldwide in 2023.

Regarding the Government’s plans to grow the nation’s proficiency in AI, Mr Chan cited a discussion he had with SUTD - “I gave them a challenge: Can SUTD be an institution unique in the world where you can have the best of both the American and Chinese (AI) models working side by side?”

SUTD's 42 Singapore, modelled after Ecole 42 in Paris, was launched in September 2023.

Three students from the first intake of the Singapore University of Technology and Design’s (SUTD) 42 Singapore (42 SG) coding programme are among the fastest in the world to complete its common core curriculum.

The Future-Ready Society Conference, where the future of citizen participation was up for debate, was organised by the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities and the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS).

“The foreign workers, foreign talents, foreign spouses, international students and foreign domestic workers live in Singapore. They may be here for one year, two years, five years, and some even close to a decade, if not more. They are part of Singapore’s evolving social fabric and culture as the city state develops,” said Dr Felicity Chan, senior research fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities.

Growing economic pressures aside, experts said that the changing architecture of HDB estates is another reason why mamak shops might soon be a thing of the past.

Singaporean educator and entrepreneur Andrew Chin can't wait to meet his new “digital human” – a virtual avatar of himself designed and created by Chinese internet giant Tencent.

Only 64 per cent of Singaporean students feel confident in their creativity, compared to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) average of 73 per cent. Even more striking is that less than half believe they can craft compelling stories or invent new things.