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Catch Up with Cally Chan

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Glad to catch up with Cally Chan GM, #Microsoft Hong Kong, to exchange ideas on the innovation and technology ecosystem and how we can collaborate to co-contribute more to Hong Kong. It was a meaningful discussion. Appreciate that, Cally.

Cally and I have things crossing over each other. Cally is one of our elite #CUHK#EMBA alumni and I am now a professor and associate director of our EMBA programme in CUHK. We are both very passionate in enpowering the #innovation and #technology ecosystem, in particular #startups and #entrepreneurs, in Hong Kong. Will continue to co-creating values for the ecosystem.

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Seminar: 推動珠寶零售行業數碼轉型能力提升啟動研討會

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The Hong Kong Jewellery and Goldsmith Association has launched a meaningful and impactful project to empower their members (small to large practitioners in their industry) to learn, plan and take actions on digital transformation. The project’s Chinese name is 「推動珠寶零售行業數碼轉型能力提升」。The Association has key members from all major jewelry companies like Chow Tai Fook, Chow Sang Sang, etc.

With the support of the HKSAR Government and HKPC, the project will do education and awareness programme in the 1st phase. Then, they will collect feedback and plan for the phase 2. It is a very good program to empower a traditional industry to stay relevant and competitive in the digital age. To know more about this project, you can watch this video.
https://lnkd.in/gQj-Vw4r

Thanks to Kent Wong 基哥，Chairman of the Association, to invite me to be the keynote speaker of this Kickoff Ceremony. I shared my thoughts on the critical success factors of digital transformation with a few hundred audiences on site and online. Received good questions from them as well. After my speech, we did have a fruitful panel with Kent and I being the moderators. Thanks for our panel guest Terrence Hui, Vincent So, Edmond Lai, and Abby Leung.

It was a good start for a great journey.

I have given and signed a few dozens of copies of my book #數碼力大提升 to encourage their members to add oil on their Digital Transformation journey.

#DigitalTransformation
#Jewellery #Goldsmith
#ChowTaiFook #周大福 #ChowSangSang #周生生 #HKPC

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Year Award of the 2022 Business GoVirtual Expo and Conference

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Congratulations to all the winners of the Digital Transformation of the Year Award of the 2022 Business GoVirtual Expo and Conference. Here are the awardees this year:
https://lnkd.in/gKg8Cuu3

In particular, I was so glad to see Serena Pau from #CLP again and happy for her to win the award. She was one of the elite entrepreneurs with us at Cyberport and is now a brilliant intrapreneur at CLP. That is exactly what I am encouraging more corporates to have entrepreneurs to join them. It will bring their entrepreneurship experience, passion and innovative mindset to the companies. That is what corporates badly need. Well done, Austin R. Bryan,.

Thank you so much for Li Culsin from Baobab Tree Event and wilson chong of IoT HK Association to invite me as the Chairman of this award and an advisor for the conference. Happy to see so many friends f2f over the three days in the conference.

The conference lasted for 3 days and kicked off by the GOH, Professor Sun Dong, Secretary of Innovation, Technology and Industry Bureau ITIB, HKSAR Government. Glad to have his support to us. I was impressed by his sincere chats with many of us in the conference. Appreciate Culsin and her teammates to make this happened.
https://lnkd.in/gqSCFXQH

#DigitalTransformation
#BaobabTreeEvent
#ITIB
#Innovation #Technology
#Entrepreneurship #Intrapreneurship

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FinTech Award of 2022 HKICT Awards – Mentoring Session

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To better prepare the participants for the FinTech Award of 2022 HKICT Awards, we have done a Mentoring Session for the contestants. We are so glad to have experienced judges and assessors, and the 2021 award winners to share their experience.

Thank you Michael Leung and Stephen Lau (Deputy Chief Judge) and Victor Yim and Jacob Wai 韋達人, LLM, MBA, FRM, FCMA, FIPA, CSDP, MHKCS (Chief Assessor) for their insightful sharing. I, as the Chief Judge of the Award since 2019, have also given a speech to share my experience and encourage the participants to learn more from the process.

We also invited Calvin Cheng, CFA, #Wizpresso (Grand Award), Kelvin Yeung, #MediConcen (Gold Award) and Stephen Kwok #LeapExpert (Gold Award) to share their experience. You could find out more about these elite FinTech companies and the 2021 FinTech Award here. https://lnkd.in/fs6zyte

Audiences and award contestants on site and online did ask quite a few good questions and we did have a good and frank sharing with them.

Appreciate #HKIB Philip Kam and his teammates to organize such a great sharing and mentoring session. Look forward to seeing more impactful FinTech innovation this year. Add oil everyone💪👏.

#HKICTA #FinTech #InsurTech #BankTech #RegTech #PayTech #WealthTech #LendTech

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Congratulations to SAP 50th Anniversary

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Congratulations to #SAP for its 50th Anniversary. Nice to meet Rajni Sharma, the new Managing Director of SAP Hong Kong and Macau. Rajni is a nice, passionate and visionary leader. I am sure that we will see a lot more contribution from Rajni’s energetic SAP team to our #innovation and #technology #ecosystem.

Thanks for the invitation and effort from Andrew Ling, Sandy Yu and Helen Lam from #SAPHK. I was grateful to join and enjoy the luncheon. Also really happy to see f2f many friends there Jade Tin Hei Lee, Susanna Shen, Vincent So, Brian Chan, Thomson Lai, Henry Hui, Sankar V S, Bryan Ma, Mark Arel and made many new friends.

Really love to see more networking luncheon in a healthy and happy environment.

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My First-time Visit to the Hong Kong Observatory

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It was my first-time visit to the Hong Kong Observatory 香港天文台 #HKO headquarters in TST yesterday. It is on the top of a small mountain in the busy TST district. I can see the advanced devices and technologies as well as the 130+ years of legacy in the beautiful and historical buildings there. What a contrast and learning for this trip of mine!

I was invited to share my experience on how to collaborate with the #innovation and #technology #ecosystem to co-create values for customers and more importantly for citizens in Hong Kong. In fact, HKO has been good at making use of science and technologies but also putting emphasis on serving our citizens. I particularly appreciate their mission on “Innovate with Science, Serve with Heart” https://lnkd.in/d9XBB65J. I am impressed by what they have been doing for our citizens. Thank you.

I have shared how we can make use of data to understand the voice of our citizens and the importance of everyone in HKO to speak the language of data so they can solve the pain points of our citizens even better. Through most of the HKO colleagues are engineering background, they also recognized and agreed enhancing their data literacy with right data mindset and skills to understand citizens and solve customers pain points are very crucial for their success.

Thank you so much for Dr. Cheng, Director of HKO, his top management and staff participating in my sharing. In particular, thanks for their meaningful questions and ideas exchanges as well. Appreciate Justine Tang and #PolyU Research Institute for AI of Things #RIAoT to facilitate this sharing session.

#AI #BigData #Data
#DataLiteracy #DataMindSet

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Birthday 2022

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Enjoyed the physical nature and breathed the fresh air in my birthday celebration after 2 years of close door birthdays due to the pandemic. Missed that a lot. Really grateful to be able to do it this year healthy.

Just would like to share the joy with you all. I ate a lot of both eastern and western tasty food with my beloved, friends and family members in the last few days. Thanks to their and your caring for me in the last n years of my life. Will have my favorite steak and red wine tonight on my real birthday. Hmm yummies😋. Then, I need a lot of exercises and diet afterwards😅.

One year older and hopefully one year wiser in the sense of what matter and who to treasure the most in my career and personal lives. Hope to catch up with you f2f soon no matter which cities worldwide you are in.

Wish you can enjoy your birthday as well in the physical beauty and nature with your beloved and friends. Cheers!

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Introducing My New Advising AI Startup: HairCoSys

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Really glad to see the good progress of my advising AI startup, HairCoSys Limited. #HairCoSys aims to solve the pain points of lossing hair and other hair problems by making use of #AI and cultivating an #ecosystem. Look around our friends in the world, no matters what gender and age groups, these pain points on our hair have been getting more serious and the potential total addressable market #TAM is huge.

Today, we had a progress meeting with Michael Wong, Founder and CEO of HairCoSystem, together with my fellow well-experienced advisors Ivan Ng (Data Science), 黃創安 (Hair Treatment) and Vincent Tsui (Marketing) https://lnkd.in/dtGf_f2H .

Since HairCoSys was successfully admitted to the #HKSTP Incubation program just a few months ago, HairCoSys team has been progressing well. We are pleased to see the first #MVP of the product. Thanks for the day-to-day great effort and passion from Michael’s, his teammates and our advisors. Appreciate the great support from various HKSTP teams.

We are determined to leveraging AI to make a real impact on taking care of the hair healthiness of everyone in different stages of lives around the globe.

We had a small party for my birthday as well. Beautiful cake and wonderful team bonding. Really appreciate it.

Look forward to collaborating with our ecosystem partners as well. If you are interested to find out more, please let me know. For more about HairCoSystem, please visit https://haircosys.com/.

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HKPC Innopreneur vForum: All About MetaVerse Series

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Learned a lot today from the #MetaVerse practitioners in town in the 2nd forum of our “All About MetaVerse Series”. The main theme today was MetaVerse Strategies for #Brands, #SMEs and #Entrepreneurs. I am so grateful to be the moderator of this series. More episodes will come shortly. Stay tuned with HKPC #Innopreneur vForum. My post on the 1st episode of this series can be found here. https://lnkd.in/dusKJYeA

Big thanks to our guest speakers Lorraine Cheung #Yahoo, Chris Wang #AWS, Kevin K T Lee #Redspots and Henry Chu #PillnPillow. Two of them are entrepreneurs and the other two are platform providers. That enabled us to discuss this topic from a more balanced perspective.

We discussed from MetaVerse opportunities, challenges to technologies, platforms, talents requirement and future skills. MetaVerse is not a hype but the direction is still being shaped. It is very early so everyone gets a chance but we need to keep learning and be open minded.

In essence, there are a few things that we need to strike a balance in order to make the best out of this unprecdented opportunity for the decade – MetaVerse.

1. The next 5 to 10 years will have lots of opportunities. By 2030, the market is going to reach 5 trillion USD globally. At same time, lots of regulations and governance needed to be in place to balance the opportunities and potential problems.

2. We have more opportunities from scalability to the global markets but at the same time competitions from global players.

3. New digital skills will be required but soft skills, like problem solving, communication, project management are equally important.

4. #Data analytics, #MachineLearning and #AI are crucial now and even more pivotal in the MetaVerse for customer experience and engagement.

5. SMEs are lack of resources and talents but lots of good partners in the MetaVerse ecosystem that they can leverage on.

6. Keep trying and learning to get started but be aware of the risks like losing Crypto from your hot wallets.

Lots more to come. See you in our 3rd MetaVerse episode soon. Have a good ride in your MetaVerse journey.

Thanks to Karen F., Elly Yip and their teammates #HKPC, Dr. Angus Ho #HKIM and Annie Yeung #Vootprint for their great effort to make this forum happened.

#SME #Startup
#Innovation #Technology
#Web3, #NFT, #Blockchain, #Cryptocurrency, #VR, #Cloud

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GS1 HK Solution Day & 11th Consumer Caring Scheme Presentation Ceremony

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The first-ever GS1 HK Solution Day was successfully held today in HKPC. Really glad that it was a physical event. I have met many old friends #f2f FINALLY after the long Covid-19 period and made some new friends as well.

More than ten partners of GS1 were showing their practical solutions and many attendees participated the event. Great atmosphere and lots of chats. Thanks #GS1HK team.

In addition, it was also the 11th Consumer Caring Scheme Presentation Ceremony. I love the Chinese name #貼心企業嘉許典禮。I was grateful to represent GS1 on my capacity of President, IoT Industry Advisory Council, GS1 HK, to present awards for the winners in the Scheme.

Really learned a lot from Louis Mah, CIO of #Maxims, on Maxim’s digital tranformation and Sandy Tan, Head of Ecosystem, #DBS HK, on DBS’s data strategy. Glad to meet Samson Lam, Frandy Chu from #DSGEnergy and congrats on their Consumer Caring Scheme award. Enjoyed chats with Nelson Chow and Ming Chan #HKMA, my CityU DBA buddy Leo Yeung, my mentor Gregg L., my advising startup #Posify Koey Lee and many others.

Appreciate Anna Lin and her teammates Corinna Fung, Dr. Stephen Lam, Mignone Cheng, Philip YK Choi, MBA, Catherine Cheng and many others for their great effort to organize such a great solution day and gatherings.

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