Red Hat Celebrates DBS and DIS for Driving Open Source Excellence at the Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2025 for Singapore

Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the winners of the Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2025 for Singapore. This year, Red Hat is celebrating DBS Bank and Digital and Intelligence Service (DIS) for their forward thinking use of open source to drive innovation, enable transformation and create meaningful impact across their organisations.

The pace of change in Asia Pacific shows no signs of slowing, especially as AI becomes a core driver of business transformation. Despite these demands, our customers have delivered remarkable results, showing that innovation thrives when paired with open source. The Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2025 are an opportune time to recognise and celebrate these achievements, highlighting how our customers are unlocking what’s next and shaping a future defined by creativity, resilience, and impact. - Marjet Andriesse, senior vice president and general manager, APJC, Red Hat

At the heart of AI adoption in 2025, organisations across Asia Pacific are moving decisively beyond experimentation to focus on measurable business impact. Research from International Data Corporation (IDC), sponsored by Red Hat and Intel, forecasts that by 2030, AI will generate $19.9 trillion in global economic value, contributing 3.5% of global GDP. Much of this growth will come from enterprises that embed AI into their operations to optimise processes and open new opportunities. With experimentation giving way to full-scale AI adoption, the differentiator will be how organisations harness open source to unlock AI’s full potential, driving agility, scalability, and sustainable value. Smaller, open source models tailored for local contexts and business needs are also emerging to bridge today’s capabilities with tomorrow’s possibilities while amplifying human expertise.

Embodying this year’s theme, “Unlock what’s next,” the Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2025 celebrates customers turning these trends into tangible results. The awards recognise 30 winners across the region whose inventive use of Red Hat’s open source technologies has sparked innovation, strengthened competitiveness, and delivered lasting value for their industries, customers, and employees. These organisations demonstrate how open source empowers enterprises to reimagine possibilities, navigate complexity, and seize new opportunities in an evolving landscape to define future competitiveness.

The awards comprise five categories: Digital Transformation, Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud-native Development, Automation – and the newly added AI and Emerging Tech. 

Category: AI & Emerging Tech

Winner: DBS Bank

DBS Bank is Singapore’s largest bank and a leading financial services group in Asia, serving individuals, businesses, and institutional clients with a comprehensive suite of services. Having an early lead in its digital transformation journey, DBS Bank continues to push the boundaries of innovation to better meet the needs of its diverse customer base. 

DBS Bank embarked on a strategic initiative to re-platform its digital assets custodian operations onto Red Hat OpenShift, leveraging Red Hat’s emerging confidential containers This world-first deployment has created a more scalable, secure, and future-ready foundation for digital asset services, strengthening security, reducing operational risk, and accelerating the delivery of new services. By pioneering the use of advanced open source technologies, DBS Bank is setting a benchmark for responsible and innovative adoption of emerging tech in financial services.

Category: AI & Emerging Tech

Winner: The Digital and Intelligence Service (DIS)

The Digital and Intelligence Service (DIS), the fourth service of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), plays a critical role in defending Singapore in the digital domain and enabling the SAF to operate as a networked force against a wider spectrum of external threats. 

The DIS has identified cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) as critical enablers, and established the SAF C4 & Digitalisation Command (SAFC4DC) with Digitalisation as a mission. The SAFC4DC will accelerate and integrate efforts across the SAF’s digital technology stack to deliver end-to-end digitalisation outcomes. The DIS partners closely with the Defence Technology Community, and industry innovators such as Red Hat, to operationalise AI and cloud capabilities reliably and securely in constrained warfighting environments. Through such collaborations, the DIS unlocks digital enablers for the SAF to gain enhanced situational awareness and derive deeper operational insights for decision-making.  

Supporting Quotes
Marjet Andriesse, senior vice president and general manager, APJC, Red Hat

“The pace of change in Asia Pacific shows no signs of slowing, especially as AI becomes a core driver of business transformation. Despite these demands, our customers have delivered remarkable results, showing that innovation thrives when paired with open source. The Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2025 are an opportune time to recognise and celebrate these achievements, highlighting how our customers are unlocking what’s next and shaping a future defined by creativity, resilience, and impact.”

Ang Li Khim, Group Head, DBS Bank Institutional Banking Group Technology

“Our collaboration with Red Hat on the production deployment of confidential containers on our digital assets infrastructure has enabled us to innovate at greater speed and scale, providing secure and resilient services to our customers. This further underscores our belief that open technologies will be key to driving the next wave of financial innovation.”

ME7 Guo Jinghua, Commander, SAF C4 and Digitalisation Command, The Digital and Intelligence Service (DIS)

“The Digitalisation of the SAF is mission-critical for the SAF to realise our vision of SAF 2040. Cloud, software and AI have become crucial warfighting capabilities for the SAF, equal to the advanced platforms the SAF deploys in the land, air and maritime domains. To build and deploy the advanced digital capabilities we need, the DIS is deepening our partnership with the Defence Technology Community, and collaborations with industry innovators such as Red Hat. We will deploy and integrate leading commercial capabilities into our environments to scale defence AI capabilities for the SAF’s operational edge.  We hope our efforts will inspire further collaboration across the defence ecosystem to advance innovation and resilience in the digital domain.”

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