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Fortune Cookies

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Remember my years in the US, I always got the fortune cookies from the local Chinese restaurants. Today, I got one in one of the best restaurants in Hong Kong. More importantly, it has further inspired me the importance of #DREAM.

The message inside my fortune cookies said, “In dreams and in life, nothing is impossible.”

I hope many of you much younger than me to keep on chasing your dreams especially in the #innovation and #technology ecosystem. Tons of opportunities for you and the sky is the only limit. #GOGOX has just listed in the Hong Kong main board. Their founders started with only HK$20K. It was a miracle and a legend but the power of dreams of the #founders and #entrepreneurs did matter a lot.

Keep it going. Many of the #Unicorns and even #Decacorns are yet to come.

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Start-ups Ecosystem

The Dingge Awards 鼎革奖 2022 Open for Enrolment

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The Dingge Awards 2022 鼎革奖 is open for enrolment! It is the 5th year that Tsinghua University #清華大學, #哈佛商业评论中文版 Harvard Business Review China and SAP China are co-hosting these awards. It aims to recognize the outstanding mainland and Hong Kong enterprises that excel in digital transformation. This year’s main theme is “Discover Intelligent and Sustainable Chinese Enterprises 发現新型中国企业”. I am so grateful and honored to be one of the jury members to represent Hong Kong for this award in the consecutive 2nd year. Here is an introductory video for this year’s Dingge Awards https://lnkd.in/dSZ8bfS7. If you are currently expanding your enterprise into mainland China or planning to do so, the awards offer you golden opportunities to collaborate with top brands, leverage privileged media coverage to boost your brand image, and promote your success stories in Tsinghua and Harvard Business Review. I encourage enterprises from Hong Kong to showcase your digital transformation and innovation in this competition. More importantly, you can learn from other leading enterprises and build valuable networks through participating this award. For more information and enrollment for the 5th Dingge Awards, please visit: https://sap.to/6042zVGUM. Appreciate SAP Hong Kong team Sandy Yu, Helen Lam, Suki Chan and their teammates from the mainland to bring this impactful award to Hong Kong. See you all there! #DigitalTransformation #DinggeAwards #鼎革奖 #HBR #HarvardBusinessReview #TsingHuaUniversity #SAP #SAPHK

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Key Associations

Hong Kong Digital Asset Society Inauguration Ceremony

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Congratulations to the Hong Kong Digital Asset Society #HKDAS Inauguration Ceremony today at Cyberport. It was also a showcase of their hackathon winners. The award winners were so impressive. The youngest awardee was only 14 years old. It was an excellent start to nurture our next generation of digital asset talents for Hong Kong. Appreciate the great effort from the HKDAS’ leaders Fonia Wong 黃仰芳, Alex Au, and their committee members including the well-known artist Hanjin Tan, Celia Lok. Thanks for inviting Edmund Lee, Vincent So and me to be the DAS’s industry advisors. It was our pleasure to join today’s ceremony. As more and more events back to f2f, I am really glad to see friends again. I am very pleased to see Sunny Lee, #ASTRI Chairman, Simon Chan, #Cyberport Chairman, Peter Yan Cyberport CEO, David Chung #ITB, Joseph HL Chan #FSTB, Allen Yeung, Duncan Wong, Kenneth Chau, Priscilla Yeung, Joseph C. H. So, Miranda Lou, and many others today. Look forward to contributing more to the DAS in the future. #MetaVerse #NFT #Blockchain #DigitalAsset #DeFi #Cryptocurrency

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Competition

2022 Hong Kong ICT Awards: Enroll by Jun 27, 2022

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2022 Hong Kong ICT Awards #HKICTA, one of the most reputable and impactful innovation and technology awards in Asia, is ahead of us. OGCIO, all leading organizations, judges and assessors with expertise on different areas, were together in HKPC to exchange experience. Glad to see many friends again f2f in this event Simon Ho, Edmund Lee, Eric Chan, Victor Yim, Dominic Siu, John Li, Leon C., Henry Chang, Gabriel Pang, Clara Hong, HKIB Cherry Chan and teammates, and GS1HK Philip YK Choi, MBA and teammates, and many others. I am grateful to be the Chief Judge for the HKICTA FinTech Award as well as Judge for the HKICTA Smart Mobility Award this year. No matters you are enterprises, SMEs or startups, I encourage you to showcase your innovation in thime HKICTA. Please enroll asap as the deadline is Jun 27, 2022. FinTech Award organized by HKIB: https://lnkd.in/fs6zyte Smart Mobility Award organized by GS1 HK: https://lnkd.in/dPUSXTEe For all the awards in HKICTA, please visit here: https://lnkd.in/gpe-aUv See you all there. #HKICTA #FinTech #Mobility #OGCIO #HKIB #GS1HK #GS1 #Innovation #Technology #Entrepreneurship #Startups

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Hosting

RTHK Radio 管理新思維: Interviewing AECOM

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Back to the RTHK station today for recording another episode of New Management Thinking 管理新思維. Found a classical radio in 1950 there powered by Vaccum Tube. Oh, WOW! That actually made me think about my childhood with my whole family around a radio like this. It was as advanced and luxurious as what we have a 8k TV today. More importantly, a much more warmth and intimacy with my family back then. What a memory! Transforming a city from an old model to a smart city is like improving from a vintage radio to a 8K TV. Let’s talk about Smart City this time and why every citizen in Hong Kong should care about it. Grateful to have Thomson Lai, the Asia Digital Head of AECOM, as my guest for another fruitful episode in the RTHK’s New Management Thinking 管理新思維. #AECOM is one of key contributors in planning and building our city of Hong Kong in the last 60+ years. Received a book from Thomson called “Hong Kong Created Together”. Lots of Hong Kong’s history from nobody to one of the top cities with world-class infrastructure. Thanks the contribution from Thomson and his AECOM 艾奕康 colleagues. We started talking about what a smart city is. Then we discussed what Hong Kong has been doing in the journey of becoming a smart city, how other leading cities are doing, what key stakeholders are in a smart city and how they are empowering our city as a smart city. Certainly we talked about how emerging #technologies and #data are impacting smart cities. Very interesting. You don’t want to miss it. Really appreciate Thomson’s sharing and my RTHK partner Phoebe. My key takeaways are: 1. Citizen centricity 2. Innovation and entrepreneurship 3. Pan-city digital infrastructure If you would like to learn more from Thomson on Smart City now and the future, please tune in RTHK1 on Jun 19 at 2pm. https://lnkd.in/f-X8RaN For previous episodes of the programme, please visit here. https://lnkd.in/dWRkD_x7 #SmartCity #DigitalCity #RTHK #RTHK1 #FM94 #NewManagementThinking #管理新思維 #CUHK #CitizenJourney #MomentsOfLife #Data #BIM #DigitalTwins #AI #IOT #5G #MetaVerse #VR #Innovation #Entrepreneurship #Startups

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Latest Events

Think and Act BOLDER Culture: Co-creating Values for Our Customers

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“Think and Act BOLDER Culture: Co-creating Values for Our Customers” is the main theme for the 2nd Mastermind Forum of Sunlife Hong Kong. This series of forums aim to empower Sunlife’s teammates and their ecosystem to innovate more effectively for customer value creation. Over 350 Sunlife colleagues and their ecosystem partners have participated in the forum today through f2f and online channels. More forums on different themes are on the road ahead. We have invited the top leaders in innovation from tech giants, conglomerates, and startups to be our guest panelists. Grateful to moderate this fruitful discussion panel. We talked about the values, challenges, critical success factors, #culture, #leadership, and #talents for corporate innovation, especially in traditional companies. Our panelists shared practical examples and tips with Sunlife colleagues and their #ecosystem partners. Big thanks to our panel speakers Tat Lee #WeLab, Jacqueline Chong #AWS #Amazon, Herman Cheng #SHK, Teddy Liu, and Cynthia Sit #SunLife. Appreciate Sunlife Hong Kong’s CEO Clement Lam and his teammates Alice Chuck, Shirley Mak, Carmen Lo and many others to make this forum a success. #BolderandBeyond #放膽創 #CorporateInnovation #DigitalTransformation #Startups #Innovation #Entrepreneurship #intrapreneurship #SunLifeHK #CUHK

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Open For Enrolment: HKICT FinTech Awards 2022

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Here you go again – The 2022 #FinTech Award of the Hong Kong ICT Awards #HKICTA. It is one of the most recognized, reputable and impactful FinTech awards in Hong Kong and in fact Asia-wide as well. The award winners are the best of the best. It is now open for enrollment till Jun 27, 2022. I am so fortunate and honoured to have been the Chief Judge of this award since 2019.

Congratulations again to the Grand Award winners in the last few years including Tomas Holub #CoverGo (2019), Miles Wen (温豪夫) #FanoLabs (2020) and Calvin Cheng, CFA #Wizpresso (2021). They not just won the award but also transformed the #FinancialServices industry.

No matter whether you are FinTech #startups or financial services incumbents, I encourage you to join this award competition. Winning the award is good but learning together and building connections with our FinTech ecosystem is even more valuable.

Really appreciate the leadership from the award organizer – the Hong Kong Institute of Bankers #HKIB Carrie Leung and Philip Kam, and the effort from their teammates. Thanks in advance to all the judges and accessors.

To find out more, please visit the #HKIB webpage https://lnkd.in/fs6zyte. The application deadline is June 27, 2022. Please don’t miss this opportunity to showcase your innovation. See you all there.

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Latest Events

SKYCITY Brings Hong Kong Another Remarkable Showcase In Innovation

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As a practitioner in the #innovation and #technology industry for 30+ years, I am so grateful to see that our Hong Kong is going to have a global showcase on how technology and innovation can empower a #SmartCity. #SkyCity is an impressive project to build another landmark for Hong Kong. Something that we Hong Kong people can be proud of again https://lnkd.in/ethaW9vu.

Smart airport, top shopping mall and commercial buildings (#11Skies https://www.11-skies.com/ or #Retailtainment from New World Development), world-class Expo exhibition centre, international hotels plus all the major scenic spots in the Lantau Island like #DisneyLand, and more importantly, providing a seamless experience for the key stakeholders of our #ecosystem including customers, tourists, visitors, merchants, tenants, startups and many others from the Greater Bay Area #GBA and all major cities around the globe. Appreciate the great leadership from Adrian Cheng #NWD.

Today, I moderated an expert panel to discuss how technologies could create that seamless customer experience for our SkyCity. There are 2 more panels on #ProfessionalServices and #Tourism in the forum. It drew over 10,000 offline and online audiences to attend today’s forum. Thank you so much for our panelists Chris Au Young #HKAA, Vivian Lo #CathayPacific, Paul Sin #NWD, and Francis Fong #HKITF
https://lnkd.in/erTCjUmH.

Here is my quote for the event:
“SKYCITY is a global showcase of how innovation and technology can generate a joyful experience for worldwide visitors. Emerging technologies are coming to us every day. The sky is the only limit on how innovation and technology can make a difference to customers and merchants in the SKYCITY. Come and experience it!”

Appreciate the effort from our MC Akina Fong and those behind the scene from #BrunswickGroup #K11 #NWD Quinton Chan, Mercury Wong, Ivan Chan, Vincci Hui 許煒森 and many others. Let’s collaborate together to build a smart SkyCity.

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DLEP Programme: Forum Exploring AI Investment

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Another bright day today. Apart from the sunny sky today, we did have a fruitful forum with the bright minds from the AI industry and bright talents from the China Everbright Bank Hong Kong Branch #CEBHK. It is a part of our Data Literacy Empowerment Programme #DLEP for CEBHK organized by OpenCertHub Academy #OCHA and Hong Kong Institute of Bankers #HKIB.

Appreciate the valuable insights and experience sharing from our guest speakers. It includes Ken Shih#Saxo#SaxoMarkets, Calvin Cheng, CFA#Wizpresso, Daniel Ling #OneConnect, and Edwin Hui#Capco. CEBHK’s C-suite together with their colleagues have actively participated our panel in their beautiful collaborative space. Thank you so much for the full support from Nancy Wu, Fanny Chan, their CEBHK’s C-suite and teammates. Also grateful to have my teammates from OpenCertHub and OpenCertHub Academy for their great effort behind the scene to make this forum an impactful one.

We went through a number of practical use cases, shared some key challenges, explored how to justify investment on AI in financial services. More importantly, how to nurture a data mindset and culture across the banks. It means from top management to all levels of colleagues have to be engaged and use data everyday.

In fact, MIT Slogan has a new article just published in May 2022. The core message is that Data is a team sport and the entire organization is the team. This requires data democratization, the idea that data should be in the hands of every employee.
https://lnkd.in/diqnCF4u. This echoes what we talked about today as well as what my team at OpenCertHub Academy is believing in. We aim to empower employees of an organization at all levels with data literacy. Through the collaboration between the data-literate colleagues from different business units and data experts, their organizations will be able to stay ahead of their competition by unblocking more values from data.

I was impressed by the way Nancy Wu, the Deputy CEO of CEBHK, engaged with us and her colleagues today. Here is how she summarized what she learned today from the forum. Her 3 key takeaways today are.
1. Ecosystem
2. Co-creation
3. Roadmap

With Nancy’s leadership, I am confident that we can effectively empower her teammates with the right data mindset and skills to grow and stay ahead of their competition in the AI Era.

#AI#BigData#DataLiteracy
#DataMindset#DataCulture
#FinancialServices#Banking
#DLEP#OpenCertHub#OpenCertHubAcademy

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HKPC Innopreneurs MetaVerse Series: The First eForum

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It was my first time to have an avatar in my panel. Can you find him in the photo? His name is “Inno”. What a way to discuss about the Next Big Thing – #MetaVerse in our Innopreneurs eForum today! Thanks for Karen F., Elly Yip and their teammates from #HKPC and Dr. Angus Ho and his teammates from HK Institute of Marketing #HKIM to make all these happened.

Certainly, the core team in our panel was the experts on MetaVerse including Chris So#AWS, Willy Wong#EY, Sam Ngan#Popsible and Rex Wong Hong Kong Blockchain Industry Association. Over 400 audiences (online) mainly #SMEs joined this forum. It demonstrated that MetaVerse excited not only large companies, startups and investors, but also #SMEs. Appreciate the valuable sharing from all of the guest speakers in my panel.

We explored from what MetaVerse is to applications, business models and underlying technologies like #Web3, #NFT, #Blockchain, #Cryptocurrency, #VR, #Cloud and more. We also talked about the roles of major stakeholders in the MetaVerse #ecosystem.

It is only the beginning of our Innopreneurs MetaVerse Series. Stay tuned for the rest of the series in the next few months. Check out HKPC 香港生產力促進局 website for more https://lnkd.in/gY57pzgW

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