SMU and Alibaba Cloud launched a landmark series of courses today to upskill more than 1,000 working professionals in Singapore. Formalised at a Memorandum of Understanding signing ceremony, the ‘SMU-Alibaba Series’ professional continuing education programme is the first of its kind for Alibaba Cloud outside of China, and will be offered at the SMU Academy from March 2019. “We are honoured to partner Alibaba Cloud in such a first-ever initiative,” said Dr Lim Lai Cheng, Executive Director, SMU Academy. “This collaboration leverages Alibaba’s cutting edge technologies and leading industrial knowledge; as well as SMU’s thought leadership, academic rigour and outreach.