Organised by Synapxe, this inaugural AI conference explored the most critical topics in AI-driven healthcare today, including emerging technology trends, actionable strategies for AI adoption, and scaling AI solutions, through a series of engaging showcases and presentations. AI Accelerate 2025 also highlighted impactful AI innovations and new collaborations across public healthcare, the tech sector and Synapxe.
The event was held at Punggol Digital District on 16 Jun, with the Minister for Health, Mr Ong Ye Kung, as the guest of honour.
In her opening address at, the CEO of Synapxe, Ms Ngiam Siew Ying reiterated that AI Accelerate celebrates Synapxe’s bold ambition, tight collaboration and strong commitment to make Singapore’s healthcare more personal, more predictive, and more proactive with AI. She added that Synapxe is “laser-focused on the human experience in healthcare” and “technology alone cannot replace the heart and expertise of healthcare professionals”. Organised by Synapxe, this inaugural flagship AI conference explores the most critical topics in AI-driven healthcare today, including emerging technology trends, actionable strategies for AI adoption, and scaling AI solutions. Hear from leaders in technology, healthcare, academia, and government on the strategic and ethical considerations needed to navigate and thrive in the rapidly evolving health landscape.
Synapxe signed a collaboration agreement with OpenAI and 3 Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) with AIDX, Google Cloud, and Databricks, each enabling Synapxe to enhance and scale innovation capabilities. These include:
- Collaboration agreement with Open AI: Exploring how their multi-agentic framework can make everyday healthcare tasks easier and more efficient. A prototype has been developed to facilitate transactional services such as booking appointments and answering general healthcare questions.
- MOU with AIDX TECH: To identify AI risks in healthcare and ensure AI safety and reliability. Includes joint innovation labs, best practice frameworks and specialised training programmes.
- MOU with Databricks: Includes integrating Databricks' AI capabilities into HEALIX, the national cloud-based analytics platform for public healthcare, and supporting the training of public healthcare professionals.
- MOU with Google Cloud: Leveraging the latter's data and AI platform services to enhance HEALIX and Tandem – Synapxe's secure GenAI platform. Includes an AI capacity-building initiative to train more than 300 #HealthTech professionals.
Managing Director of International at OpenAI, Oliver Jay, and Synapxe’s Director of Data Analytics & AI- Services Planning, Christine Ang , explored the power of AI Agents in streamlining healthcare administration and making healthcare more accessible by performing complex tasks.
Moderated by Andy Ta, Director, Data Analytics & AI, Synapxe (far left), the opening panel, Building An AI-Ready Culture: Transformation from Within, featured tech leaders from the industry, government and academia:
- Ed Lenta, Senior Vice President & General Manager of Asia Pacific & Japan, Databricks
- Glen Francis, Strategic Advisor & CTO, Google Cloud
- Colin Lim, CIO and Group Director, Infocomm Technology and Data Group, Ministry of Health
- A/P Karin Avnit, Infocomm Technology Cluster, Deputy Director, CoLEAD, Singapore Institute of Technology
The speakers shared valuable insights on various ways different industries can navigate the common resistance and fears around the adoption of AI.
Note: Look out for our blog post that covers the key points they shared – coming on our website in early July.
The team from CareScribe, which is developed by Alexandra Hospital's Research Office team with the support of Avanade. CareScribe uses multi-modal GenAI technology to streamline verbal and written handovers for nurses.
Eight innovative Generative AI minimum viable products were unveiled at the event, as we celebrate the eight teams from participating Public Healthcare Institutions and Synapxe. They were the final selected solutions from the GenAIus Challenge, which aims to cultivate an innovative mindset among public healthcare professionals and equip them with the knowledge and experience to harness GenAI.
General Manager from Roche Pharmaceuticals Singapore, Ying Ying Yeoh
Four speakers, Ying Ying Yeoh, General Manager from Roche Pharmaceuticals Singapore, Sandeep Basu, Director Data & AI Solutions ASEAN from Microsoft, Engin Ozbay, Associate Partner in Cybersecurity Services at IBM, and Andrew Makmur, Group Technology Officer from NUHS, respectively shared insights on the adoption and innovation of AI in healthcare securely.
Elizabeth Pan, Assistant Director, Digital Innovation Office, Centre for Healthcare Innovation at National Healthcare Group (left) and Eileen Lew Yi Lee, Senior Principal Analyst, Machine Learning, Office of Insights & Analytics at SingHealth (right), presented on the value of adopting a hybrid strategy to integrate AI and how AI can augment patient care respectively.
Top 4 finalists from Singapore’s public healthcare clusters at the AWS LLM league
The AWS LLM League brought together over 100 healthcare professionals to explore Generative AI for real-world healthcare challenges. After hands-on training and model fine-tuning, the top four teams competed in the finale, showcasing AI solutions on the topic of bone and joint health.
