IES-INCA - Sustainability Innovation Ideation Workshop

IES-INCA Innovation Ideation Workshop
Innovate for Impact: Engineering a Sustainable Future

Calling all Engineers, Sustainability Enthusiasts, Business Leaders, Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Date: Thu 4 Dec 2025
Time: 3-6 PM
Location: Singapore Sustainability Academy, Annex Collab Space
#06-01, City Square Mall, 180 Kitchener Rd, Singapore 208539

Join us for this 3-hour Innovation Workshop where we’ll bridge the gap between engineering excellence and business strategy to tackle the planet’s most pressing challenges.

Why You Should Be Here?

The clock is ticking on sustainability and climate action. These aren’t just environmental issues; they are the biggest economic and social challenges—and opportunities—of our lifetime.

This workshop is designed for people like you: Engineers who understand what’s technically possible, and Business Leaders who know what the market demands. We combine our expertise to move beyond incremental change and to create breakthrough solutions.

• Let’s Spark Radical Ideas: Move past conventional thinking using proven innovation frameworks to generate tangible, novel ideas focused on climate resilience and sustainable practices.
• Let’s Forge Powerful Partnerships: Collaborate directly with colleagues from different domains. Understand the business levers needed to scale your engineering concepts, and the technical realities that enable business growth.
• Let’s Define a Viable Path Forward: Translate raw ideas into early-stage concepts with a clear value proposition, combining technology, identifying technical feasibility, market potential and most importantly lasting environmental impact.

Let’s start collaborating and engineering our Sustainable Future together!

Program Schedule:

1. 2.45-3 pm – Registration
2. 3-3.15 pm – Welcome and Intro to IES-INCA
3. 3.15-3.45 pm – Where are we now on the Sustainability Journey? Orientation to the Sustainability Landscape
4. 3.45-4.30 pm - Facilitated Brainstorming with Andy and Boon Siong
5. 4.30-5 pm – Tea Break
6. 5-5.45 pm – More Brainstorm, Q&A
7. 5.45-6 pm – Wrap Up and Conclusion

Workshop Facilitators:

Mr Andy Wee, General Manager, IES-INCA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyandrewwee/

With a strong engineering background, having spent 13 years in Hewlett Packard in Product Design R&D, Andy has a keen interest in making technology work to create better life for everyone.

In 2014, Andy took time off to pursue a Masters in Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation at NTU's Nanyang Technopreneurship Centre, achieving a Director's List award for outstanding performance.Andy’s interest in technology spans from deeptech, web and mobile app, personal mobility devices, online and offline data storage backup solutions, medical health supplements, natural fertility and beyond.

Mr Wee Boon Siong, CEO, Aeterni.Eco
https://www.linkedin.com/in/boon-siong-wee-5a74b976/

Boon Siong is an IMCS Registered Management Consultant with over 25 years of experience in various industries including government, financial services, info-comm and sustainability, and holding different responsibilities from research to user operations and vendor service providers. He joined the sustainability movement in 2017 as he felt that it was important so that everyone could continue to co-exist in this ever-shrinking world.

He is currently the CEO of Aeterni.eco, a green consulting company specialising in sustainability strategy including reporting, carbon footprint for corporates, products and services and green finance. Aeterni.eco also provides training for corporates and public in these areas. He has been involved in various projects for entities like MAS, SGX, DBS, UOB, ICICI, PSA, SingPost, Philips, Sentosa, etc.

Boon Siong read Mathematics at Cambridge University and graduated with triple first class. He also holds a Diploma in Actuarial Science from the Institute of Actuaries and completed the Executive Development Programme at INSEAD.

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About IES-INCA – http://ies-inca.com

IES-Incubator and Accelerator (IES-INCA) is a strategic initiative by The Institution of Engineers, Singapore (IES) to support engineers in Technopreneurship.

IES-INCA is a platform “by engineers for engineers”. We promote and support entrepreneurial engineers in the scale up stage of their venture through our incubation and acceleration programs. IES-INCA also supports first time entrepreneurs through the ESG Startup SG Founder program. We support engineers with DeepTech innovations to be successful in commercialising their products and services.

About Aeterni.Eco – https://aeterni.eco/

Aeterni.eco was established in October 2023 by Mr Wee Boon Siong who has more than 9 years of experience leading sustainability projects in sustainability reporting, carbon management and sustainable finance. Clients included big organisations in the regulatory and commercial sectors in Asia.

With Boon Siong’s track record as a sustainability pioneer, he is now building a company that distinguishes itself by offering in-depth, practical sustainability strategy advisory to help organisations truly embrace sustainability.

In a short span of time, the company has helped companies in Singapore, Malaysia, and mainland China with their ESG journeys, enabling the achievement of important milestones.

The company now is the Approved EcoVadis Training Partner and a participant of the IFRS Sustainability Consultant Content Programme.