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This year’s SkillsFuture Human Capital Conference took place at the Suntec Convention and Exhibition Centre yesterday and saw about 800 enterprises, trade association and chambers, and industry partners come together to share insights on career health and adopting skills-first practices to build a resilient workforce. 

Co-organised by the Singapore Business Federation (SBF) and the National Centre of Excellence for Workplace Learning at Singapore Polytechnic (NACE@SP), with support from SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) and Lifelong Learning Singapore, SkillsFuture Human Capital Conference 2025 marked the culmination of this year’s SkillsFuture Festival that commenced in July. 

New Initiatives to Drive Skills-First Practices and Build Workforce Resilience 

“Transform Today, Lead Tomorrow: Strengthening Business Through People” – this year’s theme speaks of the important role employers play in supporting the career health of their workforce. SSG and NACE are committed to support companies in strengthening their capabilities to invest in skills-first hiring and workforce development. 

In support of Career Health SG, SSG launched a suite of new digital workforce planning tools today, in collaboration with the Ministry of Trade and Industry and GovTech. 

TalentTrack is a free-to-use dashboard that helps employers gain insights on in-demand skills and find training courses curated to their industry and business focus, while TalentTrack+ is a whitelisted collection of commercial HRTech tools in the market. Employers can use these advanced tools to assess each employee’s existing skills, identify skills gaps and obtain personalised training recommendations for their employees. 

To help companies build and scale their workplace learning capabilities, the National Centre of Excellence for Workplace Learning and SSG also launched Chrysalis, a free 24/7 digital platform that consolidates workplace learning resources in one platform. These include On-the-Job (OJT) blueprints, Training Needs Analysis Playbook and micro-learning modules. Companies, especially Small and Medium Enterprises, can access these resources anytime and anywhere, enabling them to adopt workplace learning and foster workforce agility.  

Guest-of-Honour, Dr Janil Puthucheary, the Senior Minister of State (SMS) for Education, and Sustainability and the Environment, presented 9 companies with Silver, Gold and Platinum Awards for the Workplace Learning Organisation of Competence, in honour of their exemplary efforts to put in place progressive workplace learning practices and capabilities to drive workforce performance and boost retention.

SP Company and Workforce Transformation (SP CWT) at SkillsFuture Human Capital Conference 2025 

This year, NACE@SP had the opportunity to put together a Workplace Learning Pavilion, with support from SSG, Lifelong Learning Singapore, Nanyang Polytechnic, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Republic Polytechnic, the Institute for Adult Learning Singapore, Singapore Institute of Technology, and Temasek Polytechnic. 

We were heartened to host SMS Dr Janil Puthucheary at the Pavilion for a learning journey through the exhibits, where representatives from the various NACE centres shared enthusiastically about their available Workplace Learning solutions and their success stories with companies that were positively impacted by incorporating Workplace Learning in their day-to-day. 

NACE advocates for companies to take greater ownership and strengthen their capabilities to invest in skills-first hiring and workforce development through solutions like Skills Gaps and Training Needs Analysis, On-the-Job Training, Mentoring and Coaching, Process Improvement etc. 

Colleagues from PACE Academy, INP, and BIC were also actively engaging visitors at the SP booth to share on the multidisciplinary expertise of our 12 SP Centres to support companies and their workforce in driving industry transformation. 

Supported by Government Agencies, Trade Associations and Chambers, and industry leaders, SP CWT provides cost-effective and scalable pathways tailored to every stage of growth – from identifying growth opportunities, matching suitable solutions and funding, to implementing transformation through workplace learning, job redesign, and project-based training.

In particular, BIC works closely with the industry to advocate skills-first hiring by rolling out training courses, consultancy projects and a HR Learning Journey for human resource professionals. 

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Thank you to all staff and partners who made SkillsFuture Human Capital Conference 2025 a success!