#FinTechstic #FinTech #Macao Macao Institute of Financial Services, Macao Talents Development Committee and Monetary Authority of Macao jointly organized a series of innovation forums for Macao industry leaders.

It was my honour to be the keynote speaker for the 1st forum of this series. The theme was FinTechstic where I shared with the industry leaders in Macao about the global, Asia’s and Hong Kong FinTech trends and opportunities. We also discussed FinTech opportunities in the #GreaterBayArea.

Thanks for the key leaders from the major financial services and technology companies in Macao to join my sharing forum. Appreciate the invitation from the organizers and their great effort in organizing the forum.

Macao has its uniqueness in #Hospitality, #MICE #Gambling  #IntegratedResort industries where #AI #BigData #IOT and #Blockchain can add lots of values. Its strong link with #Portuguese-speaking countries also has great potential for #FinancialInclusion market.

In the last few months, I also shared my FinTech experience with 3 major universities in Macao #MUST #UMAC #MCityU https://lnkd.in/fY86nPN

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Putting Consumers at the Heart of#DigitalInnovation was the main theme of 2019 Consumers International Summit. It was held in the beautiful city #Estoril of #Portugal. 416 guests from 87 countries were there. It was my honour to be invited byGilly Wong CE of #HongKongConsumerCouncil as a speaker in the opening panel session of the summit. https://lnkd.in/f3q8SvD

I shared my view from Asia’s perspective. Asia has a strong drive to innovate based on technology to drive economic growth and solve lots of social issues and inefficiency. It also has the advantage to leap frog the infrastructure layer over many developed economies. However, consumer rights are only in the beginning and valuable experience learned in the West can be applicable to Asia’s digital economy. This summit provided a great platform for mutual learning and understanding.

#AI got lots of attention in the summit. #Google has come up with a series of #AIEthics guidelines based on their human-centric AI principle. It is important to see how these AI Ethics will evolve and apply to real lives.

An artist was on the stage to do live infograph..impressive and great DNA from Portugal. Thanks to the artist..More importantly #ConsumersInternational #InternetSociety #HKConsumerCouncil

#IOT #FinTech

#SmartCity I had an opportunity to share my experience with #MTR #TownGas #HKElectric management today on how a Smart City improves our quality of life and drives its economic growth. Thanks for MTR and #CUHK invitation. We talked about what a Smart City is and benchmarked Hong Kong with other #MegaCity.

3 Major Layers of Smart Cities are: 1. Citizen awareness, usage & satisfaction 2. Smart City applications on 5 areas #Safety #Mobility #Utility #Health #Economy 3. Smart City technologies, such as #IoT, #Edge, #5G, #AI, #API, #OpenData, #BigData #Blockchain

These 3 critical layers are highly related but the end result would be the values generated to citizens. We talked about key metrics to measure the success of these 3 layers.

Key Takeaways: 1. What are happening in the communities around you? What pains are there? Don’t wait the big guy to lead you. Start from the bottom. Startups do it well here. 2. How #SharingEconomy models can solve these issues? How #Uberization works? 3. How can we open up more data with proper APIs from government and enterprises to empower citizens, developers, companies to innovate? 4. How do we manage #DataSecurity #DataPrivacy #AIEthics? We talked about #GDPR, #DistribitedAI#DataGovernance.

Have a great Smart City journey.