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(Hong Kong) Seizing the Opportunity in ASEAN – HKPC InnoPreneur Meetup

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Seizing the opportunity in the #ASEAN market was my topic today at #InnoPreneur Meetup of #HKPC. I talked about the growth in ASEAN, opportunities & challenges to enter the market.

We introduced the ASEAN #Entrepreneurship & Market Development Executive Diploma Programme jointly organized by HKPC and me. It aims to empower #SMEs & #startups to enter to the ASEAN market.

Find out more about the program & enrol asap. The training program starts in late Aug. Only a limited number of seats can be eligible for the government funding. ACT FAST.

HKPC Programme Webpage:
https://lnkd.in/g_SiauT

Programme and guest speakers:
https://lnkd.in/gJH9cNX

One key message was that all of us need to be #digital savvy to capture the ASEAN market no matter which industry you are in. I presented today’s participants complimentary copies of my book #數碼力大提升 with my autograph. Hope that helps encourage more SMEs to catch up the high speed train of #digitalization.

Thanks #HKPC Karen F. Marius Chow #IOTHK wilson chong #Bowtie Emily Loi #Posify Koey Lee #BPO Portia Pui Shan Tang

If you missed my today’s session, please come to HKPC tomorrow afternoon (Aug 13) at 3pm. I will share again on ASEAN & present my books. See you there.

#Vietnam #Thailand #Indonesia #Malaysia #Singapore

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(Hong Kong) HKICT Awards 2021 Experience Sharing Forum

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To help the contestants better prepare for the #HKICTAwards FinTech Award, Hong Kong Institute of Bankers organized an  Experience Sharing Forum for them today. Thanks for #HKIB Carrie Leung Philip Kam & team’s effort.

We invited last year’s Gold Award winners, Miles Wen (温豪夫) #FanoLabs, Ken Shih #Aqumon, & Joyce Lau #HKFI. to share their experiences and journey. We also invited Dupty Chief Judges Michael Leung #BOA and Stephen Lau #HKCS, & Chief Assessors Dominic Siu #Prudential & Betty Chung #DahSingBank, to give advice to the contestants.

As the Chief Judge of 2021, I gave an opening speech on “Shaping the Future of FinTech Hong Kong”. In the last few years, we have together built a world class #FinTech hub in Hong Kong. FinTech entrepreneurs from nobody to today’s global FinTech leaders, like Simon Loong #WeLab, Fred Ngan #Bowtie, Tomas Holub #Covergo, Tim Lee #QFPay, Alvin Kwock #OneDegree & Miles Wen (温豪夫) #FanoLabs. Impressive! #HKMA, #SFC #HKIA #InvestHK #Cyberport #HKSTP together with incumbents #Citi #HSBC #HangSengBank #DBS #AMTD #BOCHK #AIA #Prudential, just name a few, also contributed significantly to the growth of HK FinTech industry.

Look forward to witnessing the innovations from this year’s contestants to shape the future of FinTech HK.

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(Hong Kong) Face-to-face InnoPreneur Forum in HKPC

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Our 3rd #InnoPreneur Forum finally went f2f today at #HKPC after the 1st & 2nd forums were online. 150+ audiences physically joined our forum plus those folks through live streaming & online. Our theme was #MarTech. Thanks for the leadership & effort from #HKPC Mohamed Butt, Karen F., Marius Chow & Elly Yip and #HKIM Ivan Wong 陳裕光博士 to co-organize this forum.

I moderated a panel discussion with MarTech gurus Daryl Choy, John Lo #iClick, Edwin Wong #Cloudbreaker and Allen Wong #Deloitte. We talked about how to leverage #BigData in MarTech including #KOL #analytics, #SocialMedia, #Miniprogram, #CustomerJourney, #KPI, etc. We also explored the challenges in adopting & justifying MarTech investment especially in the context of #SME #Digitalization. Really appreciate their sharing. We all learned a lot.

In order to help strengthen the #DigitalLiteracy of the audiences, I presented over 150 complimentary copies of my book #數碼力大提升 to the participants today. I also happily signed my names on the books & took photos with those who received my book.

Glad to see many partners, friends & students of mine were there to support me. Thank you to all. Have a great weekend.

You may review our 1st and 2nd InnoPreneur forums here:

https://lnkd.in/gfCDpmP

https://lnkd.in/gHMn3HV

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(Hong Kong) CityU HongKongTech300 Program

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Venture Beyond Boundaries – I love this vision of #CityU #HongKongTech300. The program has gained tremendous support from the power houses and leaders from the #Innovation and #Technogy ecosystem in Hong Kong. It was a great ceremony yesterday to present the seeding funds to selected #startups for the program, appreciate and recognize experienced mentors and annouce the collaboratiom with the China Resources Group #CRC.

#ITB Secetary, #HKSTP Chairman, #Cyberport Chairman, #FHKI Chairman, #StartupCouncil Chairman and many other leaders in town were there to show their support.

I am grateful, as a CityU #DBA Alumni, as well as a Exco of FHKI Startup Council, to be a part of this program as a mentor and vetting team. It was my honor to receive the appreciation plaque from Mr Lester Garson Huang, Chairman of the CityU Council, and President Way Kuo of CityU.

Find out more about the program.
https://lnkd.in/gg5yStf

Thank you for my Alma Mater and all the leaders and supporting colleagues in CityU to create such a great energetic and impactful program to support local #entrepreneurs. I look forward to cultivating our next generation of tech entrepreneurs with you all.

#HKTech300 Sunny Lee Matthew K O Lee Ron Kwok Gary Cheng Jason Chiu Muammer Ozer

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(Hong Kong) The 2021 HKICT Awards Experience Sharing Session

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The 2021 #HKICTAwards is coming. Are you ready? Over 350+ audiences joined our experience sharing session today live on YouTube https://lnkd.in/gk9GRF6. They asked many good questions. Great sign. Thanks #OGCIO #HKPC.

The winner of the 2020 HKICT Award Grand Award Davon Hui #Blutechio, experienced judge Leonard Chan, the Awards’ Standard Assurance Subcommittee Prof Wong Kam Fai, & me were there to share our experience.

My key takeaways:

1. Identify the right problem or pain point to focus on

2. Passion, purpose, social impact & charisma count on top of #innovation & #technologies.

3. Scalability of your business to show your “hockey stick” growth

4. #KYJ Know Your Judges is equally important as #KYC Know Your Customers. Every customer is different so is every judge. Find out who they are & predict what they will ask.

5. Establish your credibility by proven cases, customer traction, industry endorsement, etc.

6. Time management, fully utilize your presentation and Q&A time

7. Preparation, rehearsal, proactively get third party feedbacks. Do you have devil advocate in your network? Find them & get them challenge you.

8. Rehearsal, backup plan for your demos, backup slides…

Happy to share more. Hope you can learn more from your journey & widen your networks.

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(Hong Kong) Dingge Awards 鼎革奖 2021 is Now Open for HK Companies to Join

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Don’t miss this great opportunity to join the annual Dingge Awards (鼎革奖) 2021 (Digital Transformation Awards) co-hosted by The Tsinghua University, Harvard Business Review and SAP China. It is the 1st year for HK companies to join the awards.

Dingge Awards #鼎革奖 will honor and recognize the industry leading enterprises which have excellence in digital transformation in 2021. It is a great platform to exchange experience with leading digital leaders in Hong Kong and mainland China. If you would expand your business and brands to mainland China, it is a good path.

It is my honor to be invited as one of Awards Jury Committee 2021 together with the top business, technology and academic leaders in the Greater China region. Sandy Yu #SAPHK and I have made a video clip to introduce the Awards in the SAPHK’s pretty and collaborative office in #Causewaybay. You are welcome to have a watch here.
https://lnkd.in/gT8TePi

Hurry up! The application deadline is end of Aug 2021. Awards website: https://lnkd.in/gTG5uck

#saphongkong #sapchina #SAP #DigitalTransformation #DigitalLeaders
#TsinghuaUniversity
#HarvardBusinessReview #HBR
Helen Lam Andrew Ling Greg Wong

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(Hong Kong) The 3rd InnoPreneur Forum on MarTech Goes Live on July 30

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Here you go! Our 3rd #InnoPreneur Forum co-organized by #HKPC & #HKIM is coming live on Jul 30. The last two forums were on #FoodTech & the upcoming one is on #MarTech. The series of forums aims to empower #SMEs to leverage #Technologies & #Innovation to seize the opportunities in the digital economy & boost up their competitiveness, productivity & efficiency.

The MarTech forum will be a #f2f event (more interaction👍🙂). We have invited elite MarTech leaders to be our speakers & panelists. Edwin Wong #Cloudbreaker, Allen Wong #Deloitte, John Lo #iClick, Daryl Choy. Grateful to be the panel moderator to learn from them.

To support our SMEs to learn more about digital transformation, I will give a complimentary copy of my book #數碼力大提升 for the first 200 enrollments of this forum.

Please register the event through HKPC website & find out more on the eligibility of receiving my book.
RSVP: https://lnkd.in/giq5yyu

I launched my book signing in the 2021 Hong Kong #BookFair last week. Find out more about my book here.

Hong Kong Book Fair 2021:
https://lnkd.in/gBsy3_y

Book Webpage:
https://lnkd.in/gp3cgyc

See you on July 30 in HKPC. Perhaps we can have a chat & take a photo, & I can sign on your copy of my book.

Karen F. Marius Chow Ivan Wong

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(Hong Kong) A Meaningful and Joyful Project with my MBA Students for Bowtie

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Just completed a meaningful and joyful project with a group of my #CUHK #MBA students to do research and make recommendations to one of the leading InsurTech #startups from Hong Kong, #Bowtie. Really proud of my students Kinsley Chan, JACKIE XU and Shaarang Begani on their effort and insights.

Appreciate Bowtie’s team Gabriel Kung and his teammates to collaborate with and support my students on this amazing project. Thanks the leadership from Fred Ngan and Michael Kwan Yu Chan, and their effort to nurture our next generation and give back to our society.

Learning cannot be just done within classroom. Practise in the field, validate with the practitioners and apply what we learned from the class are critical to turn information to knowledge and wisdom. That is what the Business #Practicum Program of #CUHKMBA aims for.

I am so grateful to be a mentor for this impactful program. Thanks Seen Meng Chew, Serina Chow, Grace Liang, Frandy Chu, Rebecca Wong, MBA and many others from CUHK to lead, organize and execute the program. Keep it going.

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(Hong Kong) Thanks for the Support in Book Signing Ceremony in HKBookFair 2021

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Heartfelt thank to all of my friends and fans who came to 龐寶林 Paul’s and my book signing ceremony in the 2021 Hong Kong Book Fair on Friday.
https://lnkd.in/g6gKan9

We would like to share some photographs and memories with you. Here is also a slideshow on YouTube as well.
https://lnkd.in/gNtArGe

Really appreciate #EnrichPublishing Derek Lee and Wendy Tsang to support us from the day one of our authoring journey. And thanks to those friends who had contributed to my book.

Also, thanks Paul to partner together for this book fair. Hope you all can read our books #數碼力大提升 and #新經濟制霸戰 to pick up the hottest topics in the world and seize the opportunities in the #DigitalEconomy.

#HKBookFair #香港書展
#天窗出版社
#NewEconomy
#Innovation #Technology
#HKTDC

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(Hong Kong) Panel Discussion with Elite Digital Leaders @CUHK MBA Alumni Association 

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Amazing f2f panel discussion today with 5 elite digital leaders. Thanks for Ian Chan #Octopus, Adrian Toy #Google, Kevin Huang #Carousell, Ralph Szeto #AIM & Frankie Ng #Shopify.

We discussed 2 key questions.

1. What are the hurdles of #DigitalTransformation?

2. What are the impacts of the pandemic on Digital Transformation?

My key takeaways are:

1. Sense of urgency is critical to drive change including digital tranformation.

2. Great potential of our #Entrepreneurship were unleashed when people have more time with themselves during the pandemic.

3. Culture is key as political and functional silos causing lots of hurdles without alignment.

4. The pandemic drives not only digital adoption of users but also #CustomerExperience #innovation from the providers.

5. Some great visions of the panelist: Carousell wants to make 2nd hand products as people’s first choice. It brings #Sustainability & #SocialImpact to the society while Shopify aims to be the platform of all commerce at all touchpoints instead of just #Ecommerce.

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Appreciate CUHK MBA Alumni Association Alexandra Lo, EMBA and Armstrong Lee & #CUHKMBA and #CUHKEMBA colleagues to make this amazing forum possible. Thanks to all f2f and online participants & their active participation. See you next time.

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