About Future Edge Institute

Founded by the team behind Kydon Group, who spent fourteen years building the systems Singapore's institutions learn on.

Our Story

We built the systems institutions learn on. Now we run the classroom.

Future Edge Institute did not appear from nowhere. It is the education institute of Kydon Group, a company that has spent fourteen years engineering how organisations learn.

2012 · Singapore

Kydon Group is founded

Kydon began as a digital learning agency and grew into Singapore's leading digital learning technology company: custom learning platforms, digital content and learning systems built for government agencies and enterprises. More than 100,000 learners across 100 plus organisations in 10 countries have learned on systems Kydon built and powered.

2021 · The platform years

ZilLearn: Kydon builds its own AI learning platform

Rather than only building for others, Kydon launched ZilLearn, its own AI powered learning platform: skills analytics, AI assisted course creation, and personalised learning pathways. Recognised in Singapore's national edtech initiatives and used in work alongside government agencies and institutes of higher learning, ZilLearn put Kydon at the frontier of AI in learning years before the current wave.

The shift

AI changes what one person can do

As agentic AI matured, Kydon saw the unit of transformation shrinking: from the enterprise, to the team, to the individual. One person with a trained AI workforce can now run operations that once needed a department. Kydon launched the AI Workforce Factory and built its flagship venture build programme: not a course but a system where every week produces a real business deliverable.

2026 · Today

Future Edge Institute

After fourteen years engineering learning for institutions, Kydon steps into the classroom itself. Future Edge Institute Private Limited carries the flagship method to every working adult as six standalone professional courses: shorter, focused, and open to anyone, with the same rule intact. You do not leave with notes. You leave with working assets.

Why We Built It

Why Future Edge Institute exists

Kydon Group spent fourteen years building the systems institutions learn on: platforms, content and infrastructure for government agencies, enterprises and schools. That work put us on the wrong side of a widening gap.

Organisations were investing in AI awareness. Individuals were collecting certificates. Neither was producing people who could actually operate AI inside a business: design the workflow, choose the model, connect it to real knowledge, and keep it running when it breaks.

Kydon's response was the AI Workforce Factory, an initiative built to close that gap. Future Edge Institute is the part that teaches. We were established in 2026 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Kydon Holdings Pte. Ltd., with one job: to build people who can do the work, and to assess them on whether they can.

That is why every programme here ends with something built, tested and demonstrated. A certificate that records attendance tells an employer nothing. One that records what you built, in front of an assessor, tells them everything.

The gap was never AI capability. It was the translation between what AI can do and what a business actually needs. That is the work.

David YeoFounder and CEO, Kydon Group
The Team

Who you learn from

The people who designed the programmes and stand in front of the room.

DY David Yeo

David Yeo

Founder & CEO

David Yeo is the founder and CEO of Kydon Group, and the driving force behind the AI Workforce Factory — an initiative built to close the gap between AI training and real employment outcomes for Singapore's SMEs. Rather than positioning himself as a technical AI practitioner, David works as a translator and convener between AI capability and business need, bringing together institutions, enterprises, and government partners to build workforce transformation pathways that lead to jobs, not just certificates.

AT Andre Mark The

Andre Mark The

Business Unit Lead

Strategic and results-oriented Business Unit Lead and former COO with over 8 years of leadership experience driving digital transformation, operational excellence, and multi-million dollar revenue growth within the EdTech and training sectors. Proven track record in spearheading high-stakes government tenders and enterprise Call for Proposals (CFPs), securing over SGD$10M in contracts. Expert in orchestrating end-to-end marketing automation, CRM integrations, and data-driven digital campaigns that significantly scale lead generation and learner acquisition. A Certified ScrumMaster and ACLP-certified professional adept at leading cross-functional teams of developers and project managers to deliver complex, high-impact learning solutions in a "quietly professional" and high-performance environment.

NN Nada Nazihah

Nada Nazihah

Business Development Executive

Nada Nazihah has experience in business development, strategic partnerships, and learning solutions. She has worked with organizations across the public, private, and education sectors, helping develop initiatives that support workforce capability and digital learning. She is passionate about building meaningful collaborations that create lasting impact.

Why We Exist

The market is full of AI talk. It is short of AI operators.

We built these courses because four problems kept appearing in every organisation and every career conversation we had.

1

Familiarity is not capability

Most AI training leaves people familiar with a tool. Familiarity holds until someone sits down with their own messy process, their own data, and a result that has to be right. That is where it runs out, and that is where our courses begin.

2

Chatting is not operating

Most people can prompt an AI model. Very few can make one do a defined job reliably: the right model for the task, the right context to draw on, and a human in the loop wherever a mistake would be expensive.

3

Skills that never connect

Tool tutorials teach features one at a time. Almost nobody shows you how agents, knowledge bases and workflows join into a single system that runs a business function from beginning to end. The value is in the joins.

4

The leverage shift

One person with a trained AI workforce can now carry work that used to need a team. Careers and businesses are being rebuilt around that fact, and most training has not caught up with it.

Our answer is the AI Factory workforce: individuals trained to design, run and maintain AI workflows and models as dependable working assets, in their job or in a business of their own.

The Programmes

See what we teach

Eight programmes across two series, each ending with something built, tested and working. No prerequisites beyond basic computer literacy and a laptop.

Browse the eight programmes