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Exciting Innovations Await: Hong Kong ICT Awards 2023 Kicks Off After Pandemic Hiatus

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Hong Kong ICT Awards 2023 is right on. This is the first one after the pandemic period. We have outstanding number of contestants to join our different streams of awards this year. We look forward to witnessing amazing innovations from this year’s competition. More about the HKICTA can be found here.
https://lnkd.in/gpe-aUv

I am grateful to have opportunities in the past few years to engage in the HKICTA as organizer and/or judge in various streams. Today, I shared, together with other ICT leaders Agnes Mak, CK Wong and Chin Lok Tsang (Winner of Grand Award of Student Innovation Stream last year), with this year’s contestants on our experience in preparing for the competition.

We received quite a few sensible questions from audiences on site and online. We did have a good discussion today and hope it helps.

Thanks for #OGCIO Josephine Cheng and her teammates to organize such a great learning session for all participants of this year’s competition.

More importantly, we all hope that all participants enjoy the process and learn more from it to make their innovations better year by year. I wish all of you can use your wisdom and innovation to make Hong Kong proud. Good luck and see you on the scene.

#HKICTA #innovation #technology
#Intrapreneurship #Entrepreneurship #Startup

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Advisory Services

Empowering Real Estate Consultants with Data Literacy: A Collaboration with Colliers

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It has been my great pleasure to collaborate with 高力國際 #Colliers Hong Kong in various perspectives in the last few months. From advisory and a panel discussion on the property strategy for the growth of innovation and technology ecosystem in Hong Kong, a forum on the power of data in sustainability, and, most recently, a sharing session on data literacy for real estate industry for the top consultants of Colliers, and more.

Colliers is a global real estate services and investment management company, with operations in over 60 countries. They specialize in providing a wide range of real estate services to clients, including property management, brokerage, valuation, and consulting. To stay ahead of their competitions, data literacy for every consultant is pivotal. Analyze, innovate, communicate and win with data is mandatory for professionals in today’s digital economy. Colliers is right on it.

Really appreciate the leadership from Chun Kong Lau and enjoy the collaboration with the Colliers’ team Chris Hui, Jo L., Kathy Lee, Andrew Lau, Hannah Jeong, Mandy Leung and many more. The team is passionate and professional with open mindset. Love their collaborative office and community sharing culture.

Look forward to collaborating with the team even more in their data literacy empowerment and digital transformation journey.

#DataLiteracy #Data #AI #DigitalTransformation #Innovation #Technology #Sustainability #ESG #PropTech #Property #RealEstate
#OCHA #DLEP OpenCertHub Academy
#DaLa DaLa – Data Literacy Association

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Join the Discussion on AI Applications and Trends with DaLa’s Top AI Leaders

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DaLa – Data Literacy Association #DaLa is proud to present you another “food of thought” forum on the hot topic “AI Applications and Trends” together with powerful AI leaders. Our panel speakers are all top notch leaders in Hong Kong AI Ecosystem. It includes Cally Chan #Microsoft, Nixon Chau #Sensetime, Chris Au Young #AAHK and Sunny Lee BBS JP #ASTRI. Chris and Nixon are also two of our DaLa’s Founding Fellows. We have just done a pre-panel call to prepare and ensure that we will have some fruitful and insightful sharing with our audiences.

We will look at new use cases of AI and certainly Generative AI. Will cover challenges to put AI into actions and look into the future of AI and its implications to us in HK and GBA in particular, as well as some key topic like Responsible AI and more..

Apart from the panel, we also support the Digital Transformation Award of this conference.

We are so grateful and honoured to power a panel discussion on AI in the BUSINESS GOVirtual 2023. It has been our pleasure to support and collaborate with the organizing team Culsin Li, Cathina Huen, Denise Ho and many others from Baobab Tree Event.

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to learn from us. See you there. Here is how to find out more details of the Business GoVirtual Conference.
https://lnkd.in/gqSCFXQH

Recently, DaLa has organized a Data Forum on the topic “Power of Data in Driving Sustainability and Operational Excellence”. You may view this video to learn more about this DaLa Forum.
https://lnkd.in/g5kQgtdF

If you would like to join our future DaLa future “food of thought” forums and join us to become a part of DaLa as members, please visit our website.
https://dalahk.org/

#AI #Data #GenerativeAI #ChatGPT #Innovation #Technology
#ResponsibleAI #DataLiteracy

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Chief Judge of FinTech Award Shares Tips for Winning the Hearts of Judges at 2023 Hong Kong ICT Awards

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In the capacity of the Chief Judge of the FinTech Award of 2023 Hong Kong ICT Awards, I have shared my experience and tips on winning the hearts and votes from the judges to the participants of this year’s competition today. Thanks to The Hong Kong Institute of Bankers #HKIB to organize this fruitful mentoring session. Appreciate the leadership from Carrie Leung, the effort from Chung Wan Lam and their HKIB teammates.

Apart from my sharing, we had a panel discussion with 3 other judges and assessors of the Award including Michael Leung #BOA, Jacob Wai, FRM, FFA FIPA, FCMA, CSDP, MHKCS, LLM, MBA #Deloitte and Henry Chang. Thanks for Lionel #HKIB to moderate our panel discussion.

I have included one of my slides on the 12 key advices for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs as your reference. Let me know if you would like to understand more. I am happy to share with you. I also introduced the Grand Award winners for the last 4 years where I was the Chief Judge. It includes Terence Leung #AIA, 鄭嘉泓 #Wizpresso, Miles Wen (温豪夫) #FanoLabs and Tomas Holub #CoverGo. I shared some insights on how they made it.

We also invited Kevin Leung #Liquid, the Gold Medal winner of last year, to share his experience. Kevin’s sharing was inspring. Here are my 3 picks from Kevin:

1. You are the winner already when you joined this award competition.

2. Keep trying and keep learning. He has tried several times and pivoted many times before he won the Award.

3. Speak slowly and clearly to get your key messages across deep to your judges. Keep it simple but really plant these few key points to the judge’s mind.

Met new and familiar startups and financial services leaders today as well. Wish you all have a great learning journey and all the best. See you soon in the presentation rounds. Cheers.

#HKICTA #FinTech #BankTech #InsurTech #LendTech #RegTech #SupTech #WealthTech #PayTech #Innovation #Technology
#Entrepreneurship #Intrapreneurship

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Global Startups Compete at the First Post-Pandemic Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund/HSBC JumpStarter 2023

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Grateful to be in the judging panel of the #Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund/HSBC JumpStarter 2023. It was the first f2f #JumpStarter after the pandemic. Heartfelt thanks to Teddy Lui #AEF and their teammates to organize such an outstanding global competition for entrepreneurs around the world. https://lnkd.in/gDXTweWj

I met Teddy when AEF just started in 2015 in my capacity of Cyberport Chief Public Mission Officer. It is amazing to see that AEF JumpStarter has become a global leading startup competition today. Well done Cindy Chow, Teddy Lui and many others at AEF, #Gobi and #HSBC.

Together with other experienced judges today including Cindy Z. #Gobi, Mingles T. #ParticleX, Rachel Lee #Cyberport, Winnie Lau #HKSTP, Ricky Lee #KROLL, Simon Law #Sino, Matthew Yung #HSBC, and Edmond Lau #CityU, we have selected the best startups from the world to proceed to the next round of the competition. Really appreciate all the effort from the participating startups as well and many of them are from ASEAN and even Latin America. Glad to see the global reach of Jumpstarter.

DaLa – Data Literacy Association #DaLa is proud to be a supporting organization of this year’s JumpStarter. Wish all of the stakeholders in the ecosystem can cocreate more values for Hong Kong and the #GBA region. Cheers.

#startup #entrepreneurship #entrepreneurs #technology #innovation

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Events & Activities

Insights on Cloud Security and AI at the 8th Cloud Forum in Hong Kong

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Congratulations to all the winners of the Best HR Awards 2022 organized by CTGoodJobs. Grateful being one of the judges and speakers for the Awards again. My OpenCertHub Academy team fully supported the ceremony this year. Thanks Vivienne Wong, Shirley Pi, William Ho, Reo Lam and their teammates to organize such a great award ceremony. We enjoyed our great collaboration and teamwork with the CTGoodJobs team.

I particularly appreciate this Awards because it has pioneered quite a few award categories to encourage HR leaders to cultivate digital transformation and innovation initiatives and talent to their organizations.

In this year, Data Literacy Association #DaLa www.DaLaHK.org , which was founded by a number of data leaders and I to nurture data culture in large to small organizations, jointly with CTGoodJobs created a new category called Data Literacy Award. It aims to encourage establishing data culture and enabling pervasive use of data in organizations to unleash the power of data to every employee. Congratulations to The Bank of East Asia #BEA to receive the 1st ever Grand Award of this category in Hong Kong. Really appreciate the great team effort from their FinTech, Data and Training and Development teams. Congratulations Stephen L. Kenny Au, and Doris Tong. My OpenCertHub teammates are so fortune to collaborate with the BEA team to empower their colleagues at all levels of the bank to speak the language of data.

Also happy for many HR leaders in town like Fanny Chan from China Everbright Bank Hong Kong #CEBHK, Eliza Ng #HKPC, Edmund Lam #FubonBank, Derek Wu #LKK, and many others for their amazing achievement. Also good to see young leaders like CY Chan #ECHealthCare, Bobo Wong, Michelle Chan #Microsoft, Mingo Tsang #Bowtie and more. They are with bright minds and our future as well.

As I mentioned in my talk on “Data Literacy – Build Future-proof Workforce with Second Business Language”, Digital Transformation not only needs digital experts but also HR experts as change management and culture play a pivot role in its success. Teamwork between digital teammates and HR teammates are super important. Had a very good chat with Kandy Lui #iHRM and learnt a lot from her on the HR profession and it’s latest development. Also learnt from José Carlos Bezanilla on how to make Hong Kong a Great Place to Work #GPTW.

#HR #HumanResoures
#OpenCertHub OpenCertHub #OpenCertHubAcademy
OpenCertHub Academy
#BankOfEastAsia #BEA
#DataLiteracy #DataMindSet #DataCulture #DataStoryTelling
#AI #BigData #HRAnalytics #HR
#DigitalTransformation #ChangeManagement

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Enjoying the Vietnamese Style Breakfast and Dragon Boat Festival in Vietnam

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“Good morning, Vietnam”. I remember this as one of the famous quotes from a classical movie. Yes, I am here again after 3 years of Covid period. Enjoying the Vietnamese style of breakfast with delicious authentic beef noodle, fresh fruits and western omelet in a beautiful sunny day here. Taste so good😋. Miss it so much.

It is also my first Dragon Boat Festival in Vietnam. Wish you all have a wonderful and happy festival with your family and friends in Hong Kong or wherever you are. Cheers.

#DragonBoatFestival #Vietnam

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Empowering Sustainability and Operation Excellence Through Data – Highlights from DaLa’s First Open Forum

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The first open forum of our DaLa – Data Literacy Association was held successfully yesterday. We had two inspiring panel discussion on the use of data in empowering sustainability and operation excellency plus keynote speech on the smart use of data in our Hong Kong International Airport.

Really grateful to have had an outstanding turnout rate of our audiences. Thanks for their participation. After the forum, we had arranged a networking session. We all could further chat and learn from each other.

Heartfelt thanks to my DaLa teammates to organize and contribute to this historic event of us. Also, appreciate our honorary advisors Jennifer Tan, David Ho, Dr. Michael Chan and Victor Lam JP for their presence and support. Certainly our renowed speakers Chris Au Young, Ravel Lai, Julie Wong, Andrew Lau, Max Chan, Michael Wong, Alvin Cheung and Kelvin Wong.

Special thanks to the great support from Eric Or, Michael Au and Catherine Yu from HKSTP Partnerships, 香港科技園, Hysan Development Company Limited, Alan Chan and Ricky Lo from Adobe and Chris So and Alvin Cheung from Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Everyone Speaks Data. Join us in our data empowerment journey. Find out more about DaLa:
https://dalahk.org/

Become our member:
https://lnkd.in/gPzbeTmp

#DaLa #Data #DataLiteracy #AI
#Sustainabilty #ESG

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Competition

GBA Insurance Awards 2023: Celebrating the Success of Insurance Companies in Empowering People Through Technology

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Pleased to be one of the judges again of the 2023 GBA Insurance Awards organized by Metro Finance. We have been witnessing the progress of insurance companies in leveraging technologies to empower their business and more importantly people to perform better and serve our community better in recent years. Congratulations to all the companies and people who have won the awards this year.

I am particularly grateful to collaborate with many great leaders in various programmes #金融科技大本營 #財智雙打 #財雄勢大 #智識做老闆 等等 of MetroFinance in driving the growth of innovation and technology in Hong Kong. Heartfelt thanks to Alaric Chu 朱子昭, Michelle Ngan #魏美珍, #胡孟青， Christine Lam, Steven Tsoi, Rita Tse, 梁耀宗Anthony Leung, certainly宋台長 for their trust and support throughout the years. And appreciate many many good friends and partners in our innovation and technology ecosystem who had been the guests of our programmes in the last few years.

Congratulations again for the marvelous success of the GBA Insurance Awards. Look forward to collaborating even more with you all in the post Covid era. Cheers.

#MetroFinance #新城財經台 #FM104 #MetroRadio
#GBA #GreaterBay
#InsurTech #Insurance
#FinTech #Finance
#Innovation #Technology

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Events & Activities

Reviving Offline Conferences: Highlights from Google Cloud Summit Hong Kong 2023

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Finally, we could physically join the Google Cloud Summit Hong Kong after the 3 years long pandemic. Over thousand of guests attended the event today. The vibrant and engaging atmosphere was very impressive and full of passion. Thanks the great leadership from Kathy Lee and Disaree (DiDi) Wong to make this happen again in Hong Kong.

Today, we have witnessed many new offerings from Google. Needless to say, it was all about AI. Google really makes AI easier for every one from IT to business users. Impressive demos from June Yang on their innovation and applications on Generative AI. It was eye opener for me. Google and several renowed speakers also talked about democratizing data analytics and AI to users at all levels. Data culture again comes to the top of the list.

I delivered a talk in today’s summit on our experience how we collaborated with Google to empower business users in private and public sectors to make use of data every day as their habits through our Data Literacy Empowerment Programme #DLEP. Thanks for Owen Chong Michael Yung and Ricky Lau from Google for their support. More can be found here https://ochacademy.com/.

One after one offline huge conferences have been coming back to Hong Kong. Pumped into friends whom we have not met for years in these occasions. Really felt warm and happy especially seeing old friends Dave Chen, Suk-Wah Kwok, Alex Zhang, Kenny Au, Leo Tsang, CPA, LLM, MSc. Charles Hung, Chris Shum, Eric Or, Charleston Sin, Fuller Yu, Pascal Tse, Allan Wong, Justy Yuen, Derry Fong, Adela Lau and many others.

Also, it is always joyful to see our founding fellows of DaLa – Data Literacy Association #DaLa in any occasions. Today we had Ravel Lai Herman Cheng Stephen L. Andy Kwok Victor Ng Dr. Lana Lo Matthew Chan Jacob Wai, FRM, FFA FIPA, FCMA, CSDP, MHKCS, LLM, MBA Michael Yung, joined the Summit on different capacities.

See you and more in our next event. You are welcome to join our next DaLa event on June 20 and happy hours afterwards. Topic is Power of Data in Driving Sustainability and Operational Resilience. Find out more here:
https://lnkd.in/gt-J2BX7

#Google #GoogleCloud #GoogleAI #GoogleData #DataCloud #GoogleCloudSummit
#AI #GenerativeAI #Data
#DataLiteracy #DataCulture #DataMindset #OpenCertHubAcademy #OCHA

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