BIZSpoke | Budget 2026 What Singapore Businesses Are Calling For

13 FEBRUARY 2026

Budget 2026: What It Means for Singapore Businesses

SBF welcomes Budget 2026 as a pragmatic roadmap to strengthen Singapore’s competitiveness and hub status ahead of our ASEAN Chairmanship in 2027. The Budget supports businesses through AI adoption and workforce upskilling, internationalisation and growth, and sustainable, inclusive competitiveness with calibrated wage, talent, and carbon measures. With 60% of SBF X PwC recommendations adopted, these initiatives provide clarity and practical support for businesses navigating an increasingly complex global landscape.

OUR MEDIA STATEMENT

Budget 2026 Insights: Driving AI Adoption and Growth

SBF sees Budget 2026’s AI focus as a game-changer for local businesses, including SMEs, to accelerate digital transformation and boost competitiveness. Listen to SBF Chief Policy & Operating Officer Musa Fasal as he explains how the Budget’s supportive measures help firms adopt AI responsibly while managing workforce adaptation, ensuring no segment is left behind.

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Singapore Budget Symposium 2026

Secure your place at the Singapore Budget Symposium 2026 on 12 March. Hear directly from key policymakers immediately after Budget 2026 and gain practical strategies to strengthen resilience, accelerate innovation, and drive growth. Join senior leaders from PwC Singapore, DBS Bank and Adecco Singapore in a high-impact forum designed to help your business stay competitive and future-ready in a rapidly changing economy.

WHAT'S NEW

How SBF Is Helping Singapore Businesses Future-Proof

As Singapore firms head into 2026 amid trade tensions, talent constraints and twin pressures to digitalise and decarbonise, SBF is stepping up its support. On CNA938’s Mind Your Money, SBF CEO Kok Ping Soon shared that the Federation backed 13,800 companies in 2025, with membership rising to more than 34,000 as businesses sought help to expand overseas, upskill talent and adopt AI. New trade, market-access and innovation programmes are helping companies break growth bottlenecks in an increasingly uncertain global economy.

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SKILLS-EMPOWERED

Is Your Workforce Ready for What’s Next?

In today’s era of relentless disruption, standing still is not an option. Navigating Future Uncertainties: Empowering Your Workforce to Thrive Through Change brings together 200 C-suite and senior leaders from the Wholesale Trade and related sectors to explore how leading organisations are building resilient, agile and future-ready teams. Gain strategic insights, learn from transformation leaders, discover workforce development partners, and connect with key decision-makers shaping the sector’s future.

SMART-ENABLED

Strengthening Singapore’s Business Defences

As part of Exercise SG Ready 2026, SBF co-organised two business-led Total Defence tabletop exercises to sharpen corporate preparedness against rising cyber and operational threats. With global cyber incidents showing how quickly investor and business confidence can be shaken, SBF CEO Kok Ping Soon stressed the need for more realistic, multi-scenario simulations — combining AI impersonation, AI-engineered emails and power disruptions — to reflect today’s increasingly interconnected and fast-evolving risk landscape.

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The Next Wave of Digitalisation

The Next Wave of Digitalisation is here. SBF’s National Business Survey 2025 – Digitalisation Supplement shows that four in five Singapore businesses are already transforming, with growing investment in AI, data analytics and IoT over the next 12 months. While firms are seeing gains in efficiency, customer experience and decision-making, cost, skills and data security remain key barriers. SBF will continue working with Government and partners to help businesses build the capabilities and confidence needed to grow in a digital economy.

FULL REPORT

Transform Your Business with SBF's Tailored Digital Advisory

Singapore businesses are seeing real returns from digitalisation — 45% report higher operational efficiency and 44% enjoy better customer experiences, according to SBF’s National Business Survey 2025.

Designed for companies with at least S$1 million in annual revenue, SBF’s Technology Implementation Advisory Services (TIAS) offers complimentary 1:1 advisory to help you identify and implement the right digital solutions for your business.

SMART-ENABLED

BS69 - Rentalworks - Navigating the Age of AI

Navigating the Age of AI Event

You are invited!

The technology landscape is evolving faster than ever. As an IT leader, staying ahead means making confident, future-ready decisions for your organisation.

In this session, you’ll gain clarity on:

Windows 10 end-of-support: how to stay secure now that it has ended
What’s New in Microsoft 365 Copilot for Business
Gain IT Procurement Insights 2026
IT Strategies and Solutions for IT Managers

This is your opportunity to optimise costs, improve productivity, and strengthen your IT strategy in 2026.

SUPPORTED EVENTS

Celebrating Leaders and Organisations Shaping Healthier, High-performing Work Culture

The WorkWell Leaders Awards recognise leaders and organisations who create meaningful impact by embedding wellbeing strategically and leading with courage and humanity. From visionary CEOs and catalytic leaders to organisations driving evidence-based wellbeing, thriving cultures and innovative solutions, these Awards honour impact that strengthens people, performance and long-term success.

Nominate a leader or organisation and make their impact visible.
Join us at the Gala to celebrate leadership that truly makes a difference.

Because real wellbeing creates real impact. Make impact visible.

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The Singapore WSH Conference 2026 is now open!

Join the Conference on 23 July where leaders and practitioners come together to translate commitment into real-world action and practical insights you can bring back to your workplace. Anchored on this year’s theme, Insight to Impact: Collective Effort for Stronger WSH Outomes, the Conference is designed to help organisations move beyond intention towards measurable impact. It focuses on shared responsibility across employers, workers, and partners, recognising that stronger WSH outcomes are achieved collectively.