(From left) Event emcees Jonathan Goh, Nicole Lim, Chen Mei Jie, Praveen Chandra Segar and Alywin Chew lead the crowd through an action-packed day! (Photo: HTX)
- “HTX 3.0” unveiled: A five-year transformation plan to scale impact to the Home Team, built on HTX’s strong foundations and guided by key principles such as focusing on high-impact initiatives.
- HTX’s advancements in the fields of AI, robotics and autonomous unmanned systems have shown results. The agency will continue to push new frontiers in these areas.
- Xponents took home awards for their dedication and innovation in the past year.
- Register for MTX for free, to see the tech that was previewed at the Convention.
“How do we turn today’s momentum into meaningful transformation and real gains for the Home Team?”
HTX Chief Executive (CE) Chan Tsan posed this question to the 2,300-strong crowd at The Star Theatre on 24 March 2026 as Xponents gathered for another supercharged HTX Convention.
Themed “HTX 2030: Ignite the Power of X”, this year’s convention looked back on how far HTX has come since its 2019 launch, while reinforcing its goal of “powering a safer tomorrow” as it enters the next phase of growth.
HTX Chairman, Permanent Secretary (Home Affairs Development), Ministry of Home Affairs and Permanent Secretary (Information and Development), Ministry of Digital Development and Information Mr Tan Chye Hee (right), Senior Adviser, ST Engineering Mr Ravinder Singh (third from right), Partner (Head of Technology & Corporate Intellectual Property Practice), Allen & Gledhill LLP Mr Tham Kok Leong (second from left) were among the board members who attended the convention. (Photo: HTX)
HTX 3.0
In his opening speech, Chan Tsan unveiled the “HTX 2030 Transformation Plan” or “HTX 3.0”, a five-year plan focused on scaling the agency’s impact to the Home Team.
Its guiding principles, he explained, are focusing on what moves the needle, working across boundaries and delivering solutions that make a tangible difference to Home Team officers.
Chan Tsan lays out the “immutable realities” HTX will face over the next five years, and how HTX 3.0 aims to tackle upcoming obstacles. (Photo: HTX)
Whether through tapping into AI-powered possibilities or seeding strategic research and development, he emphasised that HTX’s mission to force multiply the Home Team “must guide every decision we make, every system we build, and every resource we commit”.
“This is our North Star,” he declared.
“And if we stay true to that, there’s no limit to what HTX can achieve. Because in the end, HTX succeeds only when the Home Team Departments (HTDs) succeed.”
For a moment, the venue is transformed into a mega spacecraft travelling towards 2030 as part of a theatrical 5D segment. (Photo: HTX)
During this segment, Xponents deployed lightsticks and bubbles to battle “galactic obstacles” while demonstrating HTX’s values. (Photo: HTX)
Emcees Praveen and Mei Jie work the crowd up by getting them to do a “Kallang Roar”. (Photo: HTX)
Lim Hock Chuan (centre) of HTX xDigital introduces the Home Team AI Suite, a series of AI-powered solutions launched in January 2026 to boost operational efficiency. This includes Paperwork, which enables project teams to generate procurement submission documents with much shorter turnaround. Another solution, called Teammate, can build contextualised chatbots to share knowledge securely. (Photo: HTX)
HTX Chief Innovation Officer, Chief Cloud Engineer and Director xCloud Ng Pan Yong explains how the agency’s AI capabilities have been supported by the growth of the Home Team’s first enterprise AI infrastructure, otherwise known as NGINE, which now supports 35 AI products and hosts over 40 large language models. (Photo: HTX)
Manager, Cybersecurity Audit Oaken Wong (left) pulls off a slick dance interpretation of Assistant Chief Executive (Operational ICT) Lim Kia Yong’s (rightmost) sharing on how AI has been integrated into HTX’s capability sustainment operations. (Photo: HTX)
Engineers Onn Wan Ni (left) and Seah Qi Yan from HTX’s Robotics, Automation, and Unmanned Systems (RAUS) Centre of Expertise present a ground patrol robot system. RAUS shared during the Convention that significant advancements have also been made in the space of Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drones and unmanned surface vehicles. (Photo: HTX)
Mechatronics Engineer Sean Lim shares that the Home Team Humanoid Robotics Centre, which will be launched later in 2026, will “roll out embodied AI solutions that target the mission, deal with routines and minimise risks for officers”. (Photo: HTX)
HTX’s humanoid robot captivates the crowd with its moves! (Photo: HTX)
Director, AI Central and Chief Strategy Officer Denise Ang (left) shared the importance of ensuring AI is used reliably to generate outputs aligned with mission outcomes. To this end, her team has put in place the AI Governance Framework for the Home Team. Pictured beside her is AIRI, HTX’s new AI Governance mascot. (Photo: HTX)
Fifty-one teams and 19 individuals from across HTX took home awards that recognised their dedication and innovation over the past year during the convention. (Photo: HTX)
Brenda Ong, Principal Scientist, Disruptive Technologies Office shares that HTX will soon venture into space. How will it do so? Stay tuned! (Photo: HTX)
