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| Source: Oracle. From left: Chin Ying Loong, SVP and Regional MD, Oracle, ASEAN & SAGE; Ir Wan Murdani Wan Mohamad, VP, Digital Adoption, Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC); Royce Teoh, MD, Oracle, Malaysia; YB Gobind Singh Deo, Minister of Digital, Malaysia; YB Tuan Ma Sivanesan, Deputy Secretary General, Ministry of Digital, Malaysia; Chris Chelliah, SVP, Technology, Oracle, Japan & Asia Pacific; and Adrian Marcellus, CEO, MYDIGITAL. |
The collaboration provides students and professionals with access to over 200 hours of learning and certifications, including full structured learning paths, delivered over three years in technologies such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), OCI Generative AI, OCI Data Science, Oracle APEX, OCI DevOps, and OCI Security.
"Strong investment momentum in Malaysia's digital economy is reinforcing the country's ambition to become an AI Nation by 2030 and cementing its position as a leading digital innovation hub in Southeast Asia," said YB Gobind Singh Deo, Minister of Digital, Malaysia.
"MyDIGITAL Corporation's strategic skills development initiative with Oracle, alongside the Oracle Cloud Malaysia Region, will help build a high-calibre digital workforce while accelerating innovation and supporting Malaysia's long-term digital and economic growth. We continue to encourage greater provision of lifelong learning opportunities from both the public and private sectors to meet the rising demand for AI talent and strengthen Malaysia's competitiveness in the global digital economy."
The programme will be delivered as a free digital learning experience through Oracle MyLearn, Oracle's training and enablement platform from Oracle University, used by millions of technology trainees around the world. Learners can earn badges alongside professional certifications, showcasing readiness for specialised roles and helping employers identify qualified candidates. This complements the existing free digital awareness and literacy modules available in Rakyat Digital that are powered by MyDIGITAL. To provide a seamless user experience, Oracle MyLearn will be integrated into Rakyat Digital by June 2026.
"By unifying every layer of the AI stack, Oracle helps organisations across industries harness AI innovations, transform operations, and build critical digital skills," said Royce Teoh, MD, Oracle Malaysia.
"As Malaysia aims to become a regional AI Nation by 2030, the Oracle Cloud Malaysia Region and our collaboration with MyDIGITAL Corporation can strengthen the local digital talent pipeline, foster a vibrant digital ecosystem, and advance the nation's AI ambitions."
Oracle University provides access to some of the world's leading technology experts and practitioners to support cloud technology training and certification all over the world. More than 20 million hours of Oracle University learning content have been viewed globally, and the programme has trained over 3 million Oracle-certified professionals worldwide with participants from Malaysia.
The news follows the March set-up of an AI Customer Excellence Centre (CEC) in Sydney to help organisations keep pace with AI advancements. The CEC is expected to serve as a hub for innovation and collaboration, bringing together leaders to drive AI adoption and success across Australia and Oceania.
Each CEC provides access to Oracle and third-party technologies, along with flexible deployment options through OCI to help organisations reduce complexity, accelerate decision-making, and speed time to market. Through strategic ecosystem partnerships and as part of a global network of innovation centres, these facilities enable customers to design architect, and validate solutions in secured, scalable environments.
"AI will change everything and it will fuel the next wave of opportunity and growth," said Stephen Bovis, Regional MD, Australia and New Zealand, Oracle.
"The Oracle AI Customer Excellence Centre reflects Oracle's commitment to helping customers, partners, and developers across Australia and Oceania innovate faster using cutting-edge cloud and AI technologies. It will help build the skills and ecosystem needed to support Australia's digital economy by enabling organisations of all sizes to experiment, learn, and turn innovation into real-world impact."
Benefits of the Oracle AI CEC include:
- Training: Provides organisations access to training and certifications on the latest cloud and AI technologies led by Oracle University and ecosystem partners.
- Experimentation: Enables organisations to test early-stage AI innovations in secured cloud environments. Using OCI, organisations can explore agentic AI, AI-powered analytics, generative AI, and machine learning across multiple industries, including public sector, healthcare, financial services, and telecommunications.
- Transformation: Enables organisations to conduct proof-of-concept projects and lay the foundation for full-scale implementation by allowing them to pilot AI initiatives to test their feasibility and potential benefits.
- Rapid implementation: Enables organisations to quickly adopt new predictive, generative, and agentic AI features embedded in finance, HR, supply chain, sales, service, and marketing workflows. With the AI capabilities embedded across Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite, organisations can help increase productivity, reduce costs, expand insights, and improve the employee and customer experience, Oracle said.
"Artificial intelligence is fuelling unprecedented global demand for cloud infrastructure, data platforms and storage. ADAPT's latest edge research shows Australian organisations are already experiencing a 23% surge in compute demand, with a further 26% growth expected in the coming year as AI moves from pilots to production. As spending rises, boards and leadership teams want clear proof of AI's financial impact. With funding constraints and competing priorities still major barriers, technology leaders are under pressure to demonstrate measurable returns.
"Centres of excellence, such as the one being launched in Sydney by Oracle, could help accelerate the shift from AI experimentation to real business value while strengthening Australia's innovation capability," said Matt Boon, Senior Research Director, ADAPT.
"Access to a local Centre of Excellence gives us a practical environment to experiment, learn, and validate AI solutions in real-world conditions before committing to broader deployment," said Ryan Klose, Executive GM and CIO, Australia's Royal Flying Doctor Services.
"It's not just a showcase of what AI can do, it's a place to reimagine what's possible for our organisation. With the support of Oracle's technology and partner ecosystem, we can reduce risk, accelerate time-to-value, and ensure the AI initiatives we scale are grounded in real operational needs and deliver measurable impact."
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