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

#OpenCertHub www.opencerthub.com was officially launched yesterday in Hong Kong. OpenCertHub is an AI & blockchain empowered platform to authenticate #BigData & #OpenSource competence of novice to experts in Asia Pacific. A globally recognized#qualification, Certified Professional for hashtag#Apache Project or #CPFA, will be granted to qualified professionals.

Thanks for the big data ecosystem in Asia to join our launch ceremony yesterday. Special thanks OGCIO Tony Wong, Legco Charles Mok, HKGS1 Anna Lin #Sequoia Herbert Chia, advisors Susanna Chiu Andrew Ling Matthew Chan Victor Ng Stephen Lau Oliver Au, representatives from Cyberport STP ASTRI HKCS, universities, enterprises, HR leaders, startups, investors, partners from mainland and Asia. Akina Fong 方健儀 as our MC & OpenCertHub team did a marvelous job.

Big data is the oil of #DigitalEconomy while #OpenSource is embedded in every part of our work & lives in #DigitalWorld. Enterprises & talents need to strengthen their #DQ(Data Quotient) on top of IQ #EQ #AQ to compete. OpenCertHub empowers enterprises to pick the right #talents with CPFA qualification & guides talents to pick up the right skills to create value for enterprises. #SmartCity #OpenData #API

Over 500 students worldwide were in #HKUST today to innovate and collaborate together to solve real life challenges from g#Jardine Restaurant Group #JRG #KFC #PizzaHut.#HackUST and #HardUST were 2 mainstreams to innovate software and hardware solutions respectively. Well done students and special thanks to the leadership from JRG Matthew Chan and HKUST Donny Siu to initiate and organize such a great programme not just good for JRG and HKUST but also great impact for Hong Kong.

#GoGoVan Reeve Kwan #KFC Janet Yuen, leaders from#PizzaHut #Deloitte #Accenture #GoAnimate and myself were the final judges. 16 teams were in the final round and 6 winners were selected for seeding fund and cash prizes plus more like internship and services.

I am so glad that more enterprises are reaching out to young students and startups for ideas, solutions, talents and investment. 4 years ago when I had just started in #Cyberport, enterprises were not that proactive in engaging with #innovation ecosystems. With our joint effort with enterprises, universities, startups, government, investors, regulators, we have been seeing #AIA #DBS #CITI #BOC, #SCB,#Cathay, #HSBC, #Smartone, and now#Jardine to open up to collaborate with external innovation. It is a very healthy trend. Let’s keep it going..

#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.