Singapore’s NCS has revealed plans to help move enterprises beyond AI pilots and into full‑scale, production‑grade transformation.
At NCS AI Impact 2026, it unveiled an expanded Sunshine.AI suite, new sector partnerships, and major talent programmes.
According to NCS CEO Sam Liew (top), incremental gains are no longer enough. “The real opportunity isn’t incremental improvement. It’s redesigning core operations for exponential outcomes,” he said, emphasising that organisations need partners with deep industry expertise and sovereign‑ready platforms built for real‑world governance and security.
A sovereign-ready AI stack
The expanded Sunshine.AI suite is a family of enterprise-grade platforms and products designed for enterprises that need to deploy AI within their own environments while retaining full control over data, models and governance. It spans foundational AI, agentic assistants, physical AI, video intelligence, developer tools, IT operations automation, and AI safety.
Flagship components include:
- Sunshine.core, a foundational platform that lets organisations build and operate production-grade AI agents using reusable components rather than rebuilding infrastructure from scratch. It provides a single control plane for governance, cost tracking and real-time agent monitoring.
- Sunshine.builder, which allows business analysts to build applications without writing code, translating requirements directly into working systems.
- Sunshine.chilliclaw, an enterprise AI assistant that embeds agentic intelligence into everyday workplace software, from productivity suites to ERP systems.
- Sunshine.commanderAI, a Physical AI platform that unifies multi‑vendor robot fleets under one command centre, integrating IT and operational technology layers for safe, scalable deployment.
- Sunshine.guardian, an AI safety engine that continuously monitors, simulates attacks, and self‑remediates vulnerabilities, producing audit‑ready records aligned with governance frameworks.
NCS also upgraded its existing tools with agentic capabilities: Sunshine.coder (developer productivity up 15 percent), Sunshine.operations (IT incident escalations down 40 percent), and Sunshine.productivity (saving employees more than two hours weekly). Its Sunshine.kaisense video AI platform now moves beyond passive monitoring to active response, triggering real‑world actions such as dispatching first responders.
To accelerate physical AI adoption, NCS launched RAMP (Robot and AI in‑Motion Programme), a sandbox co‑developed with AWS GenAIIC, Dell Technologies, and NVIDIA to build solutions for public safety, smart buildings and physical operations.
Sector partnerships to prove AI
NCS is pushing AI into high‑stakes environments where reliability, safety and measurable outcomes matter most, such as in healthcare, education and transport.
Healthcare partnerships include a memorandum of understanding with IHH Healthcare to establish a Joint AI Centre of Excellence, co‑developing solutions across its multinational network to enhance clinical excellence and operational efficiency. NCS is also partnering NHG Health to deploy AI across biometric identification, digital pathology and HR transformation to strengthen workflows and improve patient outcomes.
In education, it is working with Ngee Ann Polytechnic on an AI Tutor that closes individual learning gaps. Adult learners in a recent pilot reported positive impact. Sunshine.coder will be embedded into the ICT curriculum to build AI‑native talent.
In transport, NCS is partnering with South Korea’s Autonomous A2Z to build an autonomous shuttle service for its employees, integrating the ROii vehicle with NCS’ RobotManager platform as a blueprint for future client deployments.
Beyond these, NCS is expanding into Physical AI and healthtech through partnerships with Fourier Rehab, Hypershell, iMedWay, and LinkDoc, covering rehabilitation robotics, consumer exoskeletons, digital healthcare solutions, and AI‑driven clinical trials.
On the enterprise AI front, it is partnering with Alibaba Cloud to combine its AI governance and systems integration expertise with Alibaba’s infrastructure and Qwen foundation models, enabling secure, scalable and cost‑efficient AI adoption across the region.
These partnerships add to NCS’ growing ecosystem of global technology leaders including Mistral AI, VAST Data, Agibot, and Lian Xin.
Building AI talent
Scaling AI requires leaders who can pair domain expertise with AI fluency. NCS announced new programmes for senior executives and specialist talent:
- Applied AI masterclasses with SUTD, NUS SCALE, SJTU and AI Singapore, covering practical challenges of deploying AI at scale, including role‑specific courses such as AI Economics and AI Governance.
- A partnership with Digital Industry Singapore (DISG) to hire more than 130 AI practitioners over three years to strengthen NCS’ AI Central team and sectoral expertise.
Also launched is the NCS AI Playbook distilled from more than 100 AI projects. It centres on two questions: Are we doing the right things, and are we doing things right? The learnings from the playbook will help shape enterprises’ thinking from short‑term ROI to long‑term transformative growth.
Entelechy Asia 