4,000 ST Engineering engineers, project managers to learn AI

Having domain expertise and AI know-how makes workers 'bilingual', says minister

- Sarah Koh

In line with the Government's call to develop a workforce fluent in Al, 4,000 engineers and project managers from ST Engineering will learn how to apply artificial intelligence in core work operations and customer solutions.

The company said on Sept 4 that these employees will receive intermediate-level training at its own digital academy and at specialist institutes such as the National University of Singapore.

The workers will be effectively "bilingual", given that they have expertise in their domain and the know-how to use AI to work more efficiently, said Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo in a speech on the same day.

She was speaking at ST Engineering's InnoTech Conference, held at Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre, to an audience of business leaders and government officials.

An example of such bilingualism would be how ST Engineering's space engineers are picking up AI skills to improve their work of building satellites and launching them into space for haze and weather monitoring.