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Basketball Time with CUHK EMBA Alumni

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Today, I saw another lively side of our CUHK EMBA alumni and students. I used to see my students in classroom with masks or graduation parties with formal suit and dress. Today, we were on basketball court with shorts and Ts. I can see them with no masks. What a contrast! Our alumni and students are really wonderful and beautiful no matter where they are in formal and informal scenarios.

Thank you so much for having me on the court tonight. I enjoyed every minute there to play a bit and watch them to have good games and fun as well. What an amazing evening!

As Covid is leaving us, we can have different f2f ways to reunion with our students and continue to support each other in our journey. See you all on the court next time.

#CUHKEMBA CUHK EMBA
CUHK Business School #EMBA
#Basketball

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Startup Advisory

The First Meeting with HairCoSys’ Core Team in 2023

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Glad to kickoff my first review meeting in 2023 with HairCoSys’ core team in my office today. HairCoSys aims to make use of AI to sustainably fix hair loss problems for many people with this pain point around the world. It is a big problem and it is a huge market. We reviewed what we have achieved, rooms for improvement and plan for 2023.

HairCoSys has just started last year. Really grateful to be their president and advisor and contribute my experience and networks for their growth. Appreciate the leadership from Michael Wong and the data science experience from Ivan Ng, and the effort from our passionate teammates there.

In a short period of time, HairCoSys has received good recognition from the industry. We have successfully been admitted to not only HKSTP Incubation Programme, but also Hong Kong AI Lab Programme. Both are reputable and solid programmes on cultivating elite #startups. What a year! We shall keep up our great effort and make more breakthrough in 2023 and beyond. Add oil, team.

#HairCoSys HairCoSys Limited
#AI #BigData #DataScience
#HairLoss #HairCare #HairHealth
#HKSTP #HKAILAB

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Hosting

RTHK Radio 管理新思維: Interviewing Nixon Chau @ SenseTime

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Today is the reopening day across mainland, Hong Kong and Macau. What a good day to have a chat with Nixon Chau, Managing Director and General Manager, #Sensetime #商湯 Hong Kong today at RTHK1 New Management Thinking Programme #管理新思維 on the growth and future of AI in Hong Kong and beyond.

As I previously posted in my LinkedIn, https://lnkd.in/g7-XzN-Q, we did have a good discussion on the business potential, technologies, enterprise and SME adoption, career development, Hong Kong’s positioning in GBA and more.

If you have listened to us live today, we hope you got some inspiration there. If you haven’t joined us this afternoon, you are welcome to listen to our discussion here at RTHK1 webpage below.
https://lnkd.in/gYddhHHW

#RTHK #RTHK1
#NewManagementThinking
#AI #人工智能 #ArtificialIntelligence
#BigData #DataAsset
#Innovation #Technology
#GBA
#CUHKEMBA CUHK EMBA CUHK Business School

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Hosting

Stay Tuned for Upcoming RTHK Radio Episode with Nixon Chau @ SenseTime

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AI is impacting every company and every individual on earth. In the upcoming RTHK programme, New Management Thinking #管理新思維, I am grateful to have Nixon Chau Nixon Chau, the Managing Director and General Manager of #SenseTime #商湯 to be my guest. SenseTime is one of the world’s leading AI companies with root and headquarters in Hong Kong.

As a AI and Big Data practitioner myself, I am so pleased to have this opportunity to have a chat with Nixon on the growth and the future of AI in Hong Kong and the world, how large to SME companies and individuals can embrace and ride on this trend, what #startups can learn from SenseTime’s experience to grow from small to become a listed company, and more.

Don’t miss this opportunity. Tune in the radio channel RTHK1 this Sunday Jan 8, 2023 from 2pm to 4pm. Let’s dance with AI together.
https://lnkd.in/f-X8RaN

#AI #BigData
#Innovation #Technology
#RTHK #RTHK1
#NewManagementThinking
#CUHKEMBA CUHK EMBA
CUHK Business School

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Panel Moderation / Conference Chair

RegTech Forum Organized by China Construction Bank (CCB)

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What a way to start our 2023! A group of elite FinTech start-ups and leaders from Hong Kong joined me for a RegTech forum today in China Construction Bank Training Centre in Hong Kong. Hundreds of CCB colleagues in various cities of China have participated it online and offline.

This was my 1st event in 2023 and was indeed a great start. Meeting good friends first time this year was just wonderful and warm especially it was f2f. Also, the forum was very fruitful to learn more about RegTech innovation, applications, challenges and best practices in different countries. We also explored how Chinese banks like CCB can leverage Hong Kong experience in regulation and compliance plus the strong drive of FinTech by our regulators and government.

Really appreciate Victor Yim #Cyberport to share his experience at the beginning and all other panel speakers 鄭嘉泓 #Wizpresso, Emil Chan #Aereve, Jacob Wai, FRM, FFA FIPA, FCMA, CSDP, MHKCS, LLM, MBA #Deloitte, Wallace Chow #FCCAnalytics, and William Lam #FundingReach. Also, big thank for CCB Training Centre’s colleagues and my teammates’ support.

It has been three years since I visited CCB Training Centre last time because of the pandemic. Once the mainland-HK border reopens on Jan 8, 2023, I am sure we will be there more often. We all hope not just everything is back to normal, but also more FinTech collaboration and value co-creation between HK FinTech ecosystem and mainland banks.

#CCB #ChinaConstructionBank
#FinTech #RegTech #Ecosystem
#Startups #Entrepreneurs
#Innovation #Technology
#AMLab #POC #SandBox

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Activities

Goodbye 2022, Hello 2023

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Goodbye 2022, Hello 2023. First of all, I wish all of you have a prosperous, healthy & happy year in 2023. In the amazing Christmas and New Year holiday, there is no better time to review 2022 & plan forward.

Some of you may say, “Dr. Charm, you are everywhere. What are you doing exactly?” I would like to share my platform model namely #CASE #團學創企 with you. The main purpose of my CASE model is to co-create successful business cases with 4 key interconnected stakeholders in the #ecosystem by making use of innovation and technologies #攜手共創.
C = Community
A = Academy
S = Start-up
E = Enterprise

To recap 2022, I have done 120+ LinkedIn posts in the year. The actual number of activities, effort & challenges behind the scene were more than that. They were all strategically articulated around my CASE model. Let me share with you my top 10 posts in terms of impact. Really appreciate your trust & support to me throughout the years. You are always welcome to visit me. I am happy to share more with you about my CASE model & plans ahead. Look forward to collaborating with you even more in 2023 & beyond.

1. Successfully launched the first-ever HK Corporate Innovation Index #CII with #CUHK CUHK Business School
https://lnkd.in/gw8K6-jK

2. Appointed as INED of #Transunion, the global data leader on credit assessment
https://lnkd.in/gYKRygyR

3. Launched Data Literacy Association #DaLa with data leaders to nurture data culture in organizations
https://lnkd.in/ghadKAT7

4. Invited by a few more elite startups as President & Advisor: #HairCoSys (President), #Wizpresso, #Buyandship and #MixcareHealth (Advisor)
https://lnkd.in/g3UQ888C
https://lnkd.in/gnZwf_9Y

5. Appointed as Associate Director of CUHK EMBA programme, one of the leading global EMBA programmes
https://lnkd.in/gD9kAWXi

6. Empowered thousands of employees in #BEA & many other enterprises to become Data Citizens & Citizen Data Scientists
https://lnkd.in/gWhzn5Gm

7. Delivered talks & moderated panels in quite a few influential events & acted as judges on impactful awards and competitions
https://lnkd.in/g8dYnGw2
https://lnkd.in/gWKbdbFB
https://lnkd.in/giSUhG42

8. Delivered the most successful #CUHKEMBA class CUHK EMBA in my teaching life. Encouraged me to write another book on Corporate Innovation due 2023
https://lnkd.in/gaPce8rR

9. Reached another key milestone of #OpenCertHub OpenCertHub Academy by moving into our data-centric office. Quite a few customers, partners. mentors, friends visited us since then. Explored and made some impactful collaboration agreements there since the opening 好風水.
https://lnkd.in/g-iAUMpk
https://lnkd.in/gHSrwnDa

10. Last but not the least. Entered the world of #MetaVerse. Hosted a few Metaverse forums with #HKPC Innopreneurs Series and joined HK Digital Asset Society #HKDAS as Industry Advisor.
https://lnkd.in/gKqcCj45
https://lnkd.in/gRUyEAb7

#Innovation #Technology #DigitalTransformation #CorporateInnovation

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OpenCertHub 2022 Christmas Party

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We had a great Christmas party together with colleagues, friends and families in our OpenCertHub Academy office today. Good food, wine and enjoyable f2f chats to celebrate the Christmas. Sharing our joy with you through the photos.

I would like to give big thanks to my colleagues for their marvelous jobs and achievements in 2022. Appreciate their families’ understanding and support to them to work days and nights in the tough Covid time.

We wish all of our partners, customers and friends have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. We are thankful to all your support in 2022. Let’s collaborate even more in 2023 and onwards to co-create more values for our customers, companies and Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Ecosystem. In the meantime, enjoy the holidays with your families and friends. Cheers.

#OpenCertHub #OpenCertHubAcademy
OpenCertHub Academy OpenCertHub

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Latest Events

Best HR Awards 2022

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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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Chatted with Harris Sun @ RaSpect

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Enjoyed my chat with Harris SUN, Founder and CEO, #RaSpect RaSpect Intelligence Inspection Limited in my OpenCertHub Academy office. I knew Harris when he has just started his #entrepreneurship journey back a few years ago. We both love #AI and #Data.

Back then, I have already appreciated his vision and determination to become an enterprenur after early career in a large multinational firm. Now his company is an elite #AI #PropTech #startup with major clients around the globe. RaSpect is one of the best AI startups from Hong Kong. His innovation use AI to inspect and predict defects and potential repairs for buildings and skyscrapers. Congrats on being one of the KPMG 2022 China Leading PropTech 50. Well done and proud of you, Harris.

We discussed about his market development plan, challenges and opportunities, joys and pains, and many other experience sharing. Enjoyed our conversation.

Christmas is coming. My OpenCertHub partner Andy Kwok and our teammates have set up a Christmas tree in our office. Harris is the first one to take a photo with me with that beautiful tree. Early Merry Christmas to you, Harris. Will continuously support you as always. Add oil!

Lots of Christmas parties are coming. Wish you all enjoy all these long missed f2f parties. Merry Christmas 🎉🍷🍷🌲.

#OpenCertHub #OCH #OpenCertHubAcademy #OCHA

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Training

DLEP Programme @Bank of East Asia

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My belief is that empowering people to do fishing is always better than serving them fish all the time. Our data and IT professionals have been doing a great job to help busness users to prepare reports and analytics so that the users can make better decisions, actions and even predictions. In the highly competitive envirnoment in the digital economy, doing this is simply not good enough to stay relevant.

That’s why we OpenCertHub Academy #OCHA www.ochacademy.com, a passionate and experienced team on data science and data culture, design our Data Literacy Empowerment Programme #DLEP to empower leaders and users at all levels across the whole organizations in major industries, such as financial services, property, transportation, utility, retail and so on, to speak the 2nd business language – Data. What it means is that everyone communicates, argues and wins with data as a habit in their daily conversation, meetings and tasks. We understand customers, seize opportunities and tackle problems through the smart use of data.

We aim to nurture and change the data culture of the organizations through training, data forums with industry experts and startups, cross-team data projects, community and more. Really grateful and thankful to see BEA to have a visionary leadership to go along with us in this journey of data culture transformation. We cultivated a group of Citizen Data Scientists (CDS) as the change agents to drive data culture change in their respective departments. We also have trained over hundreds of Data Citizens (DC) who now have the data mindset to use data more often in their daily jobs. The journey continues and more to come.

We thank for the trust from BEA senior management to us and have us as their trusted companion in the Data Literacy Empowerment journey. Really appreciate the collaboration and teamwork from BEA’s Data Team Kenny Au, FinTech & IT Team Stephen L. and Training & Development Team Doris Tong, and their bright teammates. Thank you! With their effort and support, we did build a very solid foundation and mutual trust to grow better and faster in 2023 and beyond. Look forward to sharing more experience with you all next year.

#BEA #BankofEastAsia
#DataLiteracy #DataCulture #DataMindset
#CitizenDataScientist #DataCitizen
#AI #BigData #Data #MachineLearning
#OpenCertHubAcademy OpenCertHub Academy

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