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(數碼力大提升) Book Signing in HK Book Fair 2021 on July 16

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Really grateful that the Hong Kong Book Fair is back. Mr. Paul Pong 龐寶林 and I will have a chance to meet you face to face in the Fair. We will sign our books #新經濟制霸戰 及 #數碼力大提升 for you, have a chat with you and take a photo with you.

See you in the 2021 Hong Kong Book Fair.
July 16 (Fri) from 4pm to 4:30pm
1A-C16, Hall 1, 1/F., HKCEC

Paul is an expert in investment field. He will share his perspective on the investment opportunities in the #NewEconomy with you.

I will share with you on how leaders, executives, #startup entrepreneurs, professionals and students can leverage on #Innovation and #Technology to seize the unprecendented opportunities in the #DigitalEconomy.

Here is a video of mine and the book webpage to introduce my book:
https://lnkd.in/gWpKnm3
https://lnkd.in/gagkR9k

More about the 2021 Hong Kong Book Fair:
https://lnkd.in/g3TiZKZ

#BookFair2021
#HKBookFair2021
#香港書展
#2021書展
#2021香港書展
#天窗出版社
#EnrichPublishing

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(Mainland China) Great Learning Attitude

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Just finished a 2 days intensive class on “Strategic Management * Digital Transformation” for a group of elite executives in mainland China. Really appreciate their great learning attitude.

In particular, the excellent quote that one of my students showed in her photo – “今天不学习，明天变垃圾”. It means that, “If we don’t learn today, we will become garbage tomorrow.”

Though I had to conduct the class on Zoom from Hong Kong, all my students gathered physically in Shenzhen and engaged well with me. It worked fine and was much better for individual student to login in Zoom separately. You may want to try this setting.

Excellent teaching and learning experience in this weekend. Thank you so much for my students’ active participation and the amazing technologies.

#LearningAttitude
#StrategicManagement
#DigitalTransformation
#Strategy
#CorporateInnovation
#ICB

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(Hong Kong) Thriving in a Post-Covid Era Thru Innovation

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Great insights from my discussion today with Austin R. Bryan, #CLP and Fred Ngan #Bowtie in the #HKGCC forum on “Thriving in a Post-Covid Era Thru Innovation”. Thanks Victor Lam, Chairman of the Industry & Technology Committee of HKGCC, to host us & moderate the panel discussion. Austin & Fred were on Zoom and Victor & I were in HKGCC.

My key takeaways are:
1. Living with #Ambiguity becomes a new normal. We need to keep innovating in an uncomfortable environment.

2. Sense of #Urgency & lean startup thinking are crucial for innovation but most corporates do not have that.

3. Forget about innovation if we don’t have a clear #StrategicIntent. It could be for customer experience, market share or others.

4. #Culture & #Purpose are the keys to drive innovation instead of revenue & profit.

5. >90% of #Startups fail so always making #Survival as a sense of urgency & doing different things from existing players are very important. Same for #Intrapreneurship.

6. #Diversity of teammates with no domain experience is critical as it will bring out blind spots that are unseen by industry experts.

Thanks HKGCC Simon Ngan & teammates to organize the forum. Find out more about the “HKGCC Hong Kong Awards for Industries: #Innovation & #Creativity” here.
https://lnkd.in/gchTvhv

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(Hong Kong) CUHK MBA Forum: “Digital Transformation at the Era of Uncertainty”

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Thanks Armstrong Lee Alexandra Lo, EMBA CUHK MBA Alumni Association to gather the digital leaders in town to discuss the hot topic “Digital Transformation at the Era of Uncertainty”.

Grateful to Alexandra to invite me to moderate this panel. Really look forward to learning from the vibrant leaders.
•  Adrian Toy #Google
•  Kevin Huang #Carousell
•  Ian Chan #Octopus
•  Frankie Ng #Shopify
•  Ralph Szeto Hong Kong Association of Interactive ( #HKAIM )

If you are affiliated with #CUHK #MBA #EMBA, you may enroll this forum. Here are the details.
Date: 15 July ( Thursday )
Time: 7:30 – 8:30 pm + Q&A
Language : English
Format : Offline + Online

More information and registration:
https://lnkd.in/gUTqwBD

See you there!

#DigitalTransformation #CorporateInnovation #CUHKMBA #CUHKEMBA #CUHKMBAAlumni Grace Liang Pong Yuen, Howard Lam Chun So

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(Hong Kong) HKGCC Forum: Thriving in a Post-Covid Era Through Innovation

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I am really pleased to join two innovation leaders and good friends Fred Ngan #Bowtie and Austin R. Bryan, #CLP to share our experience on #Innovation together in #HKGCC on Jul 8 afternoon.

It is one of the events of the “Innovation and Creativity” category of the Hong Kong Awards for Industries. The Awards is a premier business awards scheme championed by the HKSAR Government and the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce #HKGCC #香港總商會 is the organiser of the “Innovation and Creativity” category.

Austin is a seasoned corporate leader and has pioneered many successful innovation projects. He will talk about “Can Iconic Companies (old) Innovate? Why do they try? What does it Mean to Innovate?”.

Fred is a serial entrepreneur and has founded a few great #InsurTech #startups. He will talk about “Winning through Digital Innovation”.

I have nurtured quite a few startups. I currently chair, advise and invest in a few emerging startups, and cultivate corporate leaders on #DigitalTransformation and #CorporateInnovation through my training and advisory roles. I will talk about “Digital Transformation: Opportunities and Challenges for Traditional Industries”.

Find out more about this forum here and see you there.
https://lnkd.in/gCnvqv7

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(Hong Kong) Meet with my inspiration mentor Prof. Andrew Chan

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Glad to meet with my inspiration mentor #啟蒙老師 and good friend Professor Andrew Chan today in his Greater Bay Business School office. We exchanged our latest books, #陳志輝 教授著 #與CEO對話 精益求精 and my #數碼力大提升。

We also explored ideas together with Dr. Veronica Li, Professor Dicky Shek and Amy Mak on the development in #GBA and the talents gap in this area.

Really appreciate Professor Chan’s support, trust, wisdom and guidance to my career and life. Look forward to learning from and collaborating with him and his teammates in fueling up talents and wisdom for the growth of the Greater Bay Area.

#GBABusinessSchool
#大灣區商學院

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(Hong Kong) Hong Kong ICT Award – FinTech Award is Now for Application

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Hong Kong ICT Awards – FinTech Award, one of the most respectful FinTech Awards in Asia, is coming again this year. No matter you are #FinancialServices incumbents or #FinTech #Startups, it is a great opportunity to showcase your best use of #Technology and #Innovation in financial services and get recognized by customers, investors, industry practitioners and government officials.

The FinTech Award is composed of three streams:
1. #Banking, #Insurance and #CapitalMarkets
2. Emerging Solutions
3. Regulatory Technology and Risk Management*
*Includes FinTech Security

Please find out more from the Award’s Leading Organization, Hong Kong Institute of Bankers. Thanks #HKIB Carrie Leung Philip Kam to organize such a great award for the last few years and this year again.
https://lnkd.in/fs6zyte.

The application deadline is July 16, 2021. I have been the Chief Judge for this Award since 2019. I encourage you to join it and experience the rewarding journey. See you there.

King Leung Calvin Choi Karena Belin Medhy Souidi Syed Musheer Ahmed

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(Hong Kong) GBA Insurance Award 2021 – Hong Kong Region

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#Insurance opportunities in the Greater Bay Area are tremendeous. To recognize the contribution of insurance companies to the growth of this emerging market, Hong Kong #MetroFinance #MetroRadio had presented a series of awards to the best insurers and talents yesterday. Find out more here:https://lnkd.in/gNT_uTj

Congratulations to all the winners. I was one of the judges there representing the #Innovation and #Technology industry. I was so pleased to present the following awards to #AIA HK – the winner of the Best InsurTech, Best Online Platform & Best Anti-Covid19 Contribution. Impressive! They set a great example on how to make use #BigData, #AI & #Platform to create a personalized seemless experience for their customers. To find out more, please watch this video on their #SuperConnect platform here.
https://lnkd.in/gygZUhp

Influential leaders from the insurance industry shared their views on the opportunities and challenges in #GBA. Glad to meet two outstanding leaders of Hong Kong, Dr. Michael Chan 陳裕光博士 & JP Simon Wong 黃家和太平紳士. They were also judges of the awards.

Appreciate #MetroFinance #新城財經台 宋文禧先生, 魏美珍小姐， Alaric Chu 朱子昭 & teammates to organise this great awards. Our #InsurTech #entrepreneurs #startups will surely energize this growth further. Keep it going.

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(Hong Kong) Knowledge of Design Week 2021

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Thanks to Michael Ng #WeLab Bank, Yvonne Leung #Alipay HK and Ken Lo #SF Supply Chain for their insightful sharing in our panel in the 2021 #KODW Conference. It was organized by the Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC). We talked about Winning in Hyper-efficient Commerce.

My key takeaways were Relevancy, Experience and Trust. Our panelists shared how they have brought these values to their customers and the key role of #data in achieving these goals.

Appreciate #HKDC team led by Eric Yim Edmund Lee Jillian Lee to organize such a marvelous global conference. More about the conference https://lnkd.in/e9EAmgT

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(Hong Kong) HK Tech 300 – Innovation and Entrepreneurship Programme by CityU

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Another good news to the Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Ecosystem. City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has launched its #HKTECH300. It aims to raise up to 300 start-ups in 3 years. They offer attractive 10K, 100K, 1,000K schemes to cultivate these emerging #startups.

Depending on stages of the startups, the beginning startups can start with 10K which basically includes a series of #entrepreneurship training. If the startups are more mature, they can go for a seed fund of 100K or an angel fund of 1,000K.

Are you qualified for this program? If one of the key members in your startup is a CityU alumnus or your project can make use of CityU’s #IP, you may apply for it. For exact eligibility, please refer to the link https://lnkd.in/gSHdQ7m .

I am so grateful to be a member of the vetting team (as EXCO of FHKI Startup Council) to help choose the best of the best to join the program, & provide mentorship & advice when appropriate. More importantly, I am so proud of my Alma Mater, CityU, where I earned my doctoral degree years ago. Thank you #CityU to empower me & many leaders in the #innovation and #technology industry.

Thanks, Ron Kwok, Adams C., Michael Yang, Thomas Chan, & many other professors & colleagues City University of Hong Kong to make this happen.

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