BEACON 2025 brought more than 240 changemakers together to build a more connected and caring digital future for Singapore

Singapore, 1 November 2025 – More than 240 changemakers from across Singapore’s public, private, and people sectors came together at BEACON 2025, held at UBS’s 9 Penang Road office, the event partner for this year's conference. BEACON 2025, the nation’s largest Tech-for-Good conference, is organised annually by Better.sg to explore how technology and community can strengthen the fabric of a caring and forward-looking society.

Guest-of-Honour Ms Jasmin Lau, Minister of State for Digital Development and Information, Minister of State for Education and Minister-in-charge of GovTech, delivered remarks at the conference.

This year’s theme, Connect, Collaborate, and Cultivate called on participants to look beyond individual achievements and build products and systems that uplift everyone, to ensure Singapore’s digital progress remains inclusive and human.

Building Together for a Shared Future

Opening the event, Better.sg CEO Vincent Teyssier thanked the community of volunteers, partners, and supporters who made BEACON possible, and reflected on the organisation’s journey towards scale and impact.

“Technology is key to what we do every day, and it is an enabler for the fundamentals of our world,” he said. “We wouldn’t be here if we did not connect. We wouldn’t build anything if we didn’t collaborate, and we wouldn’t do better every day if we didn’t cultivate.”

He added that Better.sg’s first years were about finding its values and direction. Now, with over 3,000 volunteers, the organisation is building stronger foundations to scale civic innovation and grow Singapore’s Tech-for-Good movement.

Strengthening Capability Across the Sector

Attendees were given a first look at an upcoming report co-developed with Accenture and The Majurity Trust, titled the Charities Digital Archetypes Report. The study maps how ready local charities are to scale through technology and provides practical guidance to strengthen digital capability and leadership across the sector.

The framework identified digital maturity levels across different archetypes of charities and suggested tailored pathways for each to unlock greater impact. The full report will be released in December 2025, as part of Better.sg’s broader effort to help Singapore’s social sector prepare for the opportunities and challenges of a rapidly digitalising world.

Bridging Sectors and Building Solutions

Across a full-day programme of panels, workshops, and showcases, speakers from organisations such as Care Corner Singapore, UBS, AI Singapore, National Council of Social Services (NCSS), Groq, Bloomberg, Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech), and Singapore AI Safety Hub shared how cross-sector partnerships can make technology more inclusive and impactful.

Highlights included:

• Purpose in Partnership: Joining Forces between People and Public Sectors, featuring Christian Chao (Care Corner Singapore), Steven Koh (GovTech) and Srabanti Ghosh (NCSS), who discussed how the public and charity sectors can work together to amplify impact.
• How Faster AI Impacts Societies with Sheldon Chin (Groq) exploring AI’s growing influence on industries and daily life, and Chandra Ong (AI Singapore) sharing initiatives to make AI literacy accessible to all.
• Agents of Change: Women Empowering Communities Through AI, featuring Shilpa S Nath (Women in AI for Good), Yeoh Wan Qing (Hatch), and Valerie Pang (Singapore AI Safety Hub), which introduced attendees to AI safety and governance, and shared how community learning can strengthen AI literacy and access to digital skills.

Technology that Serves People

Better.sg also showcased homegrown Tech-for-Good projects that translated digital innovation into community benefit, such as:

• SchemesSG, an AI-powered platform that makes financial aid easy to find.
• Checkmate, an AI-powered bot that helps spot scams and misinformation.
• RUOK, a mental wellness chatbot that empowers peer supporters.
• Growing Roots, a digital platform that bridges urban farming communities in Singapore.

These projects demonstrated how accessible technology, guided by empathy and purpose, can strengthen the social fabric and ensure no one is left behind in Singapore’s digital future.

Looking Ahead

As Singapore’s Tech-for-Good ecosystem matures, BEACON continues to serve as a bridge between innovators, policymakers, and community builders, a space where ideas become collaborations and collaborations become impact.

The 2025 edition reaffirmed Better.sg’s mission: that technology is most powerful when it helps people connect, collaborate, and cultivate a more inclusive digital future together.

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About BEACON

BEACON is the flagship annual conference by Better.sg, Singapore’s largest volunteer-run Tech-for-Good collective. Since 2023, it has convened innovators, policymakers, and community leaders to co-create solutions at the intersection of technology and social impact.

With support from leading public agencies, the social service sector, and industry partners across technology, finance, and creative industries, this year’s event reaffirmed Better.sg’s commitment to fostering a culture of innovation that prioritises inclusion and social responsibility.

For more information, visit beacon.better.sg.

About Better.sg

Better.sg is Singapore’s largest community of tech volunteers dedicated to creating innovative solutions that address social challenges. Through collaborations with nonprofits, ground-up initiatives, and social enterprises, Better.sg aims to empower communities and amplify social impact.

Media Contact:
Audrey Tim
Head of Branding, Marketing and Communications
Better.sg
audreytim@better.sg

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