Women in Business
Programme
A Scale-Up Journey for Women-Led Businesses
Purposeful Growth × Resilient Scale
The Women in Business (WIB) Programme is a 6‑month scale‑up journey designed for women business founders who are leading established companies and preparing for their next phase of growth.
Built in collaboration with UOB SME Banking (Emerging Enterprise), the programme strengthens commercial clarity, leadership capacity, and regional expansion readiness through practical capability-building, strategic mentorship, and access to UOB’s cross‑border ecosystem.
Programme Schedule
Digital Growth & AI for Business Leaders
9:30am - 4:00pm
(Registration starts at 9am)
Microsoft Singapore
182 Cecil St, #13-01, S(069547)
Agenda Overview
This workshop equips women business leaders with practical, accessible ways to harness AI and digital tools to drive sustainable growth.
Designed for founders and decision-makers, the session goes beyond theory to provide a clear digital transformation framework that supports confident decision-making and day-to-day execution.
Through real-world case studies, hands-on demonstrations, and peer learning, participants explore how AI can be applied across key business functions—from marketing and customer engagement to operations and analytics.
9.30am - 10.30am
Frontier Firms: Harnessing AI & GenAI for Business Transformation
Tech Discovery: AI & GenAI for Businesses
This segment provides a clear, practical overview of AI and GenAI, focusing on what these technologies can realistically do for businesses today. Participants will be introduced to accessible tools and solutions that can enhance efficiency, augment teams, and scale output—without significantly increasing headcount or complexity.
Envisioning Workshop
Building on the Tech Discovery, this guided workshop helps business owners and leaders translate insights into action. Participants will reflect on their own business challenges and identify where AI can deliver the most impact across operations, marketing, customer engagement, or analytics—leaving with prioritised, business‑relevant use cases rather than abstract ideas.
10.30am - 11.00am
The 5 Focus Areas of Digital Transformation for Growth-Ready Businesses
A structured framework session that helps business owners look beyond tools to understand end‑to‑end digital transformation as a strategic growth driver.
Participants gain a clear mental model of how digital and AI capabilities come together across the business to support stronger decision‑making, capability‑building, and long‑term sustainable growth.
11:00am - 11:40am
Fireside Chat: SMEs on AI Adoption
To build confidence among business owners through peer learning, experience sharing and practical, honest advice towards adopting AI, especially for SMEs
11:40am - 1:00pm
Lunch and Networking
1.00pm - 2.00pm
Breakout Rooms
Participants can select one breakout track that they feel are most relevant to their business needs
1. AI for Marketing
This session introduces how businesses can use AI to strengthen their marketing efforts—improving visibility, engagement and conversion while managing time and resource constraints.
Participants will explore how AI can support content creation, campaign optimisation and audience targeting, enabling more effective marketing across digital channels without the need for large teams or complex systems.
2. AI for Customer Engagement
Leverage easy-to-use AI-enabled platforms to strengthen digital presence, streamline marketing and sales activities, and deliver more personalised customer experiences at scale.
Participants will learn how AI-powered customer insights, data and segmentation can be applied to understand customer behaviour and optimise engagement across key digital touchpoints—from first interaction to conversion and retention.
3. AI for Business Processes and Productivity Automation
This session focuses on how businesses can apply AI and automation to streamline internal processes, reduce manual workload and improve day-to-day productivity across different business functions and industries.
2:00pm - 2:30pm
Sharing session by UOB
UOB FinLab and Ecosystem Partnership
This session will share how UOB FinLab supports SMEs, including women-led businesses, in adopting AI within their business operations. Participants will learn how this initiatives supports businesses throughout their AI adoption journey – from building AI awareness and identifying relevant business use cases, to connecting with trusted AI solution partners.
They will also explore different adoption pathways such as Proof-of-Concept (PoC) development and understand how financing and ecosystem support can help turn AI ideas into action.
2:30pm - 4:00pm
1-1 Clinics
The 1‑1 Clinics provide participants with targeted, practical guidance to support their individual AI adoption journeys.
- Personalised guidance based on participants’ specific business challenges and readiness
- Practical advice on adopting AI in a structured, manageable way
- Clear next steps to translate learning into action beyond the session
Strategic Growth & Mentorship Kick‑Off Day
9:30am - 4:00pm
(Registration starts at 9am)
Name
Address
Agenda Overview
This integrated session brings together strategic clarity and meaningful connection to kick off the mentorship phase of the Women in Business Programme.
Participants build on earlier insights by sharpening growth and expansion decisions, before transitioning into structured mentor conversations.
The day is designed to help founders clarify priorities, deepen reflection, and connect with mentors who can best support their business transformation journey ahead.
9.30am - 12.30pm
Strategic Differentiation & AI Decision Guardrails
Spark Launchpad
This session helps founders make confident growth decisions by identifying practical differentiation strategies that do not rely on radical innovation. Participants explore how existing strengths, new customer segments, and scalable business models can support expansion across ASEAN markets.
The session also covers key AI decision guardrails, highlighting the risks, governance, and compliance considerations business leaders must manage as AI is integrated into their operations.
12:30pm - 1:45pm
Lunch and Networking
1.45pm - 1.50pm
Welcome address and session overview
UOB
1.50pm - 2.10pm
SkillsFuture Singapore: Mentorship Grant Overview
UOB FinLab and Ecosystem Partnership
An overview of the SkillsFuture Mentorship Grant, highlighting how structured mentorship can be supported beyond the programme.
This segment is informational in nature, helping business leaders understand available pathways to deepen advisory support as they scale.
2:10pm - 2:40pm
Meet the Mentors
Meet the programme mentors and learn about their areas of expertise and experience. This segment helps participants identify potential alignment based on their current business priorities and transformation focus.
2:40pm - 4:00pm
Mentor Conversations: Guided & Open
A structured yet flexible session that combines focused group discussions with open mentor exchanges, helping founders identify the right mentorship fit for their growth and transformation goals.
Sessions Details:
- 2:40pm – 3:10pm – Guided Conversations
- 3:10pm – 3:40pm – Open Mentor Exchange
3:40pm - 4:30pm
Closing and Networking
Capstone Day - From Strategy to Opportunity: Expansion, Insight & Community
Agenda Overview
The Capstone Day brings the Women in Business Programme to a close by linking strategy, market insight, and community.
Participants sharpen their expansion and pitching narratives, ground their growth plans with ASEAN market perspectives, and connect with mentors and alumni through meaningful peer exchange.
Designed as both a culmination and a bridge forward, the day reinforces clarity, confidence, and community as founders step into their next phase of growth.
2.00pm - 4.00pm
Business Expansion Strategy and Pitching for Growth
Spark Launchpad
Learn how to articulate and pitch your expansion strategy clearly to investors, partners, distributors, and banks—especially in overseas markets.
This session focuses on brand storytelling as a differentiation lever in price‑competitive ASEAN environments and helps founders structure a compelling growth narrative.
Participants also get guided practice in pitching their differentiated expansion plans, with a brief focus on trademarks for overseas readiness.
4.00pm - 5.00pm
ASEAN Market Insights & Economic Outlook
This session provides participants with practical macro and market insights to ground their expansion decisions.
Translating regional economic trends into SME‑relevant implications, the session covers consumer demand patterns, operating considerations, and market risks across key ASEAN economies.
The discussion equips founders with a broader perspective to validate expansion plans and make more informed, risk‑aware growth decisions.
5:00pm - 5:30pm
Break and Preparation for Networking Night
A short transition break allowing participants to reset after the learning sessions, while alumni and mentors arrive for the evening programme.
Light refreshments are served as the space shifts from a workshop environment to a relaxed community setting.
5:30pm - 8:00pm
Women in Business (WIB) Community Evening
The WIB Community Evening brings together the current cohort, programme alumni, mentors, and ecosystem partners to close the programme through shared experience and connection.
The evening features lightly facilitated peer exchanges and organic networking, creating space for candid conversations, knowledge sharing, and relationship‑building across cohorts.
Alumni contribute practical insights from their growth journeys, offering perspective and encouragement, while participants deepen connections within the WIB community beyond the formal programme.
10:00am - 10:10am
Opening Address by UOB FinLab
10:10am - 10:20am
UOB Business Outlook 2026 Insights
UOB SME Banking (Emerging Enterprise)
10:20am - 10:40am
Financial Resilience for Business
UOB SME Banking (Emerging Enterprise)
10:40am - 11:00am
From Awareness to Action: Government Grants That Support SMEs
SME Centre@SICCI
11:00am - 11:50am
Foundations for Scale: Leading with Clarity, Confidence and Commercial Discipline
This fireside chat is a conversational and experience-driven session that explores how businesses like Manna Group scale responsibly amidst economic uncertainty, with a focus on strategic clarity, leadership confidence, and commercial discipline.
Moderated By:
UOB
11:50am - 1:00pm
Lunch and Networking
10:00am - 5:00pm
Lifelong Learning Institute
Level 1-02, 11 Eunos Road 8, Singapore 408601
Business Resilience Fundamentals: Winning The Bottom Line
Learn how to uncover the true drivers of profitability, identify margin leakages, and apply unit-economics thinking to make better pricing, investment and growth decisions.
Designed to help leaders strengthen resilience and scale intentionally – not just grow revenue.
10:00am - 5:00pm
Lifelong Learning Institute
Level 2 - 01, 11 Eunos Road 8, Singapore 408601
Leadership Identity & Personal Brand for Scale
An immersive session designed for women founders to clarify their leadership identity and strengthen their professional presence as they scale.
Through guided reflection and practical application, participants gain clarity on what they stand for as leaders and translate that into confident, credible visbility that builds trust, influence and partnerships.
This session reframes personal branding as a strategic leadership asset – supporting sustainable growth without superficial self-promotion.
Learning Outcome
- Build self-awareness & psychological safety: surface strengths, leadership challenges, limiting identities, and blockers to scale through open sharing.
- Shift mindset for scale: move from “doing everything” to building systems and developing people.
- Anchor a scalable leader identity: translate the new identity into clear communication, leadership behaviours, and an actionable personal brand aligned with business growth.
10:00am - 3:00pm
Lego Serious Play (LSP) Workshop
- Leadership Identity & Strengths
- Understanding Challenges in Scaling Business
- From Bottleneck to Builder
- Letting go of OLD Identity
- Embodying the Next-Level Leader
3:00pm - 3:15pm
Break
3:15pm - 4:00pm
Personal Branding Strategy
- Personal Branding Canvas Exercise
- Pair sharing & feedback
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Building a Brand that Grows Beyond You
Practical insights, and next steps for implementation
Panelist:
Bynd Artisan
Louken Group
Unilever
July - Sept | Mentorship Period
Grow with clarity and confidence
Personalised 1-1 mentorship to refine decisions and accelerate growth.
Women in Business
2026 Vibes
Food &
Beverage
One That You’ve Been Eating Since 1999
GAN HUP LEE (1999) PTE LTD
Wholesome, Planet‑Loving Eats
Saute Earth Food Pte Ltd
We Don’t Chicken Out on Quality
Hai Ge Ji Pte Ltd
Fresh from the Oven – Tarts
Mdm Ling Bakery
Childhood Memories, One Pastry at a Time
Uncle Lee Confectionery
Pastries with Precision
Patissier Woo Holdings Pte Ltd
Baked to Be Loved
Butterfingers Pte Ltd (Butter Studio)
Where Concepts Become Cafes
Mega Collective Pte Ltd (cafés & F&B concepts)
Education & Enrichment
Growing Curious Minds
Bluetree Education Pte Ltd
Building Confident Communicators
WRITERS AT WORK ENRICHMENT CENTRE PTE LTD
Where Great Writing Begins
Writers Studio
Grooming Tiny Hands for Future Musicians
Joy Education
Early Genius Builders
Heguru Education Centre Pte Ltd
Playground for Future Tech Innovators
The Lab Education Centre Pte Ltd
Furniture Built for Kids
Kids Haven
Modernising Calligraphy Culture
Inklings Creative Studio
Health, Beauty and Wellness
Wellness from Tradition
Oriental Remedies Group
Bespoke Beauty and Wellness for Glow
A DrBrand Pte Ltd
Breathe. Stretch. Namaste
Hom Yoga
Skincare for Confidence in Every Layer
Skin Belief
Natural Ingredients for Better Living
Kew Organics
Caring for the Wellness of All Mummies
Lady Raffles International Pte Ltd
Purposeful Longevity Care
Ikigai Medical
Science Meets Skin
DR ORA PTE. LTD.
Hospitality & Travel
Handpicking Your Holiday Villa
VILLA FINDER PTE LTD
Design for Excellent Boutique Stays
Nuve Holdings Pte Ltd (Hotel Nuve)
Aviation, Up Close
WingsOverAsia
Industrial, Logistics & Trade
Making Stylish Power Point Tracks
Currentx Pte Ltd
Turning Sunshine into Energy for Eco Purpose
Stellar Industries Pte Ltd
Reliable Packaging for Your Irreplaceable Items
BlackVel Bulk Packagings Pte Ltd
Logistics Made Simple
A2EShip
Connecting Global Trade in Wellness
Iluho International Pte. Ltd.
Professional Services
Big Moments Made Beautiful
Rosette Creative Events Pte Ltd
Design. Build. Deliver
Builtbot Pte Ltd
Crafted Living Spaces
Haus Atelier
Making Words Work like Magic
Whitewords Pte. Ltd.
Weave Engagements and Impressions for Clients
Weave Asia Pte Ltd
Retail, Lifestyle & Consumer Brands
Everyday Active Living
Enso Lifestyle Pte Ltd
Timeless, Priceless
ANDRINA YVETTE
Thoughtfully Arranged Flowers and Moments
The Florte Pte Ltd
Raising Gentle Giant Cats
Oubao Asia (Perfect Maine Coon SG)
Minimal Looks, Maximum Vibes
byCaxs
Comfortable Wear Designed for Daily Life
JERNN INTERNATIONAL PTE. LTD.
Happily Ever After in Style
Z Wedding Design Pte Ltd
Dream Dresses Realised
Odelia Bridal Studio
Timeless Feminine Style, Everyday Elegance
Theory Inc Pte Ltd (Thread Theory)
Blooms with Heart
Petite Fleur SG Pte Ltd
Care for Every Creature
My Animal Dispensary Pte Ltd
Scents You’ll Remember, Especially in Sentosa
jetaime perfumery pte ltd
Ultra‑gentle Things for Tiny Humans
Elly Milley Pte Ltd
Timeless Sparkle Pieces
SIMONE JEWELS PTE. LTD.
Business Needs & Readiness Assessment
Start by understanding your business needs and priorities for a more meaningful scale-up experience.
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