• Home-based rehab using AI-based mobile app.

• Prediction or surgery duration to optimise scheduling.

• Superimpose scans on patients body to assist surgery for junior doctors (knowing how deep to drill comes with experience)

• Panic button on the nurse’s tag to protect nurses from assault.

• 3G printing of implants, prosthetics

• Neonatal jaundice screening tool from home

• AI tool to detect early cognitive impairment and dementia from patients’ drawings of shapes on touch screen tablet

• Using AI tool determine whether a patient actually needs antibiotics

• Automated Fee Revision (A.F.R.) can we use for keying in marks?

• Innovation guided by future megatrends vs teaching learners to be future ready

• Redesign (care & processes), introduce technology or automation, re-train workforce. Focus is on improvement and enhancement. Reduce waste, cut cost and add value. We can’t try EVERYTHING so need to be selective.

• Doctors or staff initiate a passion project. The AI team comes in to support, be selective and choose those that are scalable. Usually quite long term 3-5 years. Idea, triage, feasibility assessment, planning, endorsement? Funding etc, proof of concept, proof of value, produce. Impact, scalable? Multidisciplinary, community based, ties to strategic intentions

• Use of AI in surgery, how will it impact surgical skills development like how our students can no longer draw graphs without GC (it’s more to complement, check for accuracy, efficiency)

• Patients, at the heart of all we do vs Students, at the heart of all we do

2. Apps that streamline job flow

3. 3d printing, use of robotics to speed up medicine delivery, dispense medicine, QR code w info to help accuracy of surgery procedure and lessen surgery time

1) Technology, in particular AI, in manufacturing of cars leads to more customisation compared to previous convey belt manufacturing.

2) Vertical farming with AI improves efficiency and is more eco-friendly.

• 🚗 Digital Curated Experience (DICE) – a futuristic concept using AI and spatial computing to personalise mobility.

• 🏭 Transparent smart factory – where humans and robots collaborate, and visitors can actually see the car-making process.

• 🌱 Smart farm inside the building – linking mobility with sustainable food production.

• 🛞 Skytrack (rooftop test track) – letting people test cars in a unique space above the factory.

• 📱 Customer-centric personalisation – from virtual tours to customising vehicles and seeing the production journey.

Overall, the trend is towards human-centric innovation, blending digital, sustainable, and experiential design in mobility.

• Personalisation matters: if they can customise mobility through AI and digital twins, we should be thinking about modular, adaptive learning pathways instead of one-size-fits-all lessons.

• Work with tech, not against it: robots handle precision, humans handle creativity. Same for education — let AI do the grunt work so teachers can focus on mentoring, empathy, and higher-order skills.

• Sustainability is non-negotiable: if even a car factory has a smart farm, schools need to weave environmental and systems thinking into the core of every subject.

• Make learning visible and real: their transparent factory and Skytrack reminded me that students also need to “see the process” — authentic projects, demos, and applied learning instead of hidden exam prep.

1) Be innovative and adaptable with the new tech future.

2) Develop skills in innovation and thinking to prepare for the future.

3) A more sustainable future through new technology.

Use of AI-powered chatbots to enhance customer service and AI tools for creating video postings, which make content production faster and more engaging.

For sellers, it helps create content, manage shops, and analyse sales.

For consumers, it improves service and provides personalised recommendations.

For Shopee employees, it automates routine tasks so they can focus on higher-value work. This highlighted how technology is shaping the way businesses operate.

What really struck me is how important it is to have the right mindset - being open to new ideas and building the habit of continuous learning matter even more than just knowing facts.

More focus on digital skills, critical thinking, and giving students chances to explore new tools, while staying curious and willing to keep growing.

Shopee's core strategies

Hyper localisation

Digital inclusion

User Centricity

Digital skills development

VR technology allows users to have immersive experience in the production of the car. This in depth involvement elevates user experience beyond just a buyer to someone who appreciates the technologies and human centric thinking behind the "metal"