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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, DistribitedAIDataGovernance.

Have a great Smart City journey.

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Entrepreneurial Competitions

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Winning in Entrepreneurial Competitions Award Hackathon Incubator Accelerator Funding Investor Pitching is getting tougher these days as more start-ups are in the market. More importantly, why do you, as startup, join any competitions? What values do you get from these competitions?

I put together my experience on organizing competitions and being judges in local and international competitions, such as MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Asia Pacific, HK ICT Awards, Alibaba JumpStarter Award, HSBC x HKET Innovative Business Award, Chicago Booth EMBA Global Entrepreneurship Challenge, etc., and share with CityU students. Thanks to Professor Ray Cheung of CityU for inviting me to share my experience with his students. Will share with CUHK HKU UST POLYU BUHK HSU VTC Cyberport STP soon.

Three key points shared: 1. What types of competitions out there in the start-ups world? 2. Why do you join these competitions? What values can you get out of there on the top of just the monetary reward? 3. How do you win these competitions?

If you want to find out more, please let me know. To be a successful start-up, there are a lot more to learn. I am putting together a book to share what I have been learning from the local and global start-ups world. Stay tuned.

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Entrepreneurial Competitions

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Winning in Entrepreneurial Competitions Award Hackathon Incubator Accelerator Funding Investor Pitching is getting tougher these days as more start-ups are in the market. More importantly, why do you, as startup, join any competitions? What values do you get from these competitions?

I put together my experience on organizing competitions and being judges in local and international competitions, such as MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Asia Pacific, HK ICT Awards, Alibaba JumpStarter Award, HSBC x HKET Innovative Business Award, Chicago Booth EMBA Global Entrepreneurship Challenge, etc., and share with CityU students. Thanks to Professor Ray Cheung of CityU for inviting me to share my experience with his students. Will share with CUHK HKU UST POLYU BUHK HSU VTC Cyberport STP soon.

Three key points shared: 1. What types of competitions out there in the start-ups world? 2. Why do you join these competitions? What values can you get out of there on the top of just the monetary reward? 3. How do you win these competitions?

If you want to find out more, please let me know. To be a successful start-up, there are a lot more to learn. I am putting together a book to share what I have been learning from the local and global start-ups world. Stay tuned.

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Entrepreneurial Competitions

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Winning in Entrepreneurial Competitions Award Hackathon Incubator Accelerator Funding Investor Pitching is getting tougher these days as more start-ups are in the market. More importantly, why do you, as startup, join any competitions? What values do you get from these competitions?

I put together my experience on organizing competitions and being judges in local and international competitions, such as MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Asia Pacific, HK ICT Awards, Alibaba JumpStarter Award, HSBC x HKET Innovative Business Award, Chicago Booth EMBA Global Entrepreneurship Challenge, etc., and share with CityU students. Thanks to Professor Ray Cheung of CityU for inviting me to share my experience with his students. Will share with CUHK HKU UST POLYU BUHK HSU VTC Cyberport STP soon.

Three key points shared: 1. What types of competitions out there in the start-ups world? 2. Why do you join these competitions? What values can you get out of there on the top of just the monetary reward? 3. How do you win these competitions?

If you want to find out more, please let me know. To be a successful start-up, there are a lot more to learn. I am putting together a book to share what I have been learning from the local and global start-ups world. Stay tuned.

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Innovation in Shenzhen

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Innovation GBA AI FinTech IoT I led a delegation ofCMU Carnegie Mellon University’s MBA students (one of the top MBA programs in the US) to visit key cities and enterprises in the Greater Bay Area GBA. It included Tencent and PingAn PingAnCloud in Shenzhen, CPIP in Dongguan ChangPingInnovationPort, Melco StudioCity in Macao and UMAC in Hengqin and more.. My heartfelt thank to all the friends and companies that we have visited. Appreciate it. Ricky OU Pierre W. Akiko Takahashi Daniel Zhang and many more..

We all learned a lot on the Innovation in Shenzhen, the SmartManufacturing in Dongguan, the IntegratedResort in Macao. With Hong Kong as the hub of the Greater Bay Area, the synergy among all 9+2 cities are just marvelous. We also experienced the HighSpeedRailWay and HongKongMacaoZhuHaiBridge. Fantastic.. Thanks for CUHK and teammates to bring CMU to come to Hong Kong and made this trip to be a reality. Also appreciate our highly engaged CMU students with great learning attitude. Foreign talents engagement are needed for the growth of GBA in the future.

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Innovation in Shenzhen

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Innovation GBA AI FinTech IoT I led a delegation of CMU Carnegie Mellon University’s MBA students (one of the top MBA programs in the US) to visit key cities and enterprises in the Greater Bay Area GBA. It included Tencent and PingAn PingAnCloud in Shenzhen, CPIP in Dongguan ChangPingInnovationPort, Melco StudioCity in Macao and UMAC in Hengqin and more.. My heartfelt thank to all the friends and companies that we have visited. Appreciate it. Ricky OU Pierre W. Akiko Takahashi Daniel Zhang and many more..

We all learned a lot on the Innovation in Shenzhen, the SmartManufacturing in Dongguan, the IntegratedResort in Macao. With Hong Kong as the hub of the Greater Bay Area, the synergy among all 9+2 cities are just marvelous. We also experienced the HighSpeedRailWay and HongKongMacaoZhuHaiBridge. Fantastic.. Thanks for CUHK and teammates to bring CMU to come to Hong Kong and made this trip to be a reality. Also appreciate our highly engaged CMU students with great learning attitude. Foreign talents engagement are needed for the growth of GBA in the future.

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Innovation in Shenzhen

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Innovation GBA AI FinTech IoT I led a delegation ofCMU Carnegie Mellon University’s MBA students (one of the top MBA programs in the US) to visit key cities and enterprises in the Greater Bay Area GBA. It included Tencent and PingAn PingAnCloud in Shenzhen, CPIP in Dongguan ChangPingInnovationPort, Melco StudioCity in Macao and UMAC in Hengqin and more.. My heartfelt thank to all the friends and companies that we have visited. Appreciate it. Ricky OU Pierre W. Akiko Takahashi Daniel Zhang and many more..

We all learned a lot on the Innovation in Shenzhen, the SmartManufacturing in Dongguan, the IntegratedResort in Macao. With Hong Kong as the hub of the Greater Bay Area, the synergy among all 9+2 cities are just marvelous. We also experienced the HighSpeedRailWay and HongKongMacaoZhuHaiBridge. Fantastic.. Thanks for CUHK and teammates to bring CMU to come to Hong Kong and made this trip to be a reality. Also appreciate our highly engaged CMU students with great learning attitude. Foreign talents engagement are needed for the growth of GBA in the future.

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Hong Kong ICT Awards 2019 – FinTech Award

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HKICT2019 FinTech HKIB Congrats to CoverGo to win the Gold Award of the 2019 HKICT Awards FinTech Award. Also congrats to all winners and participating teams. Really proud of Tomas Holub to create such a great InsurTech to unleash the power of digital innovation to the insurance industry.We have great InsurTech start-ups born in Hong Kong now. Apart from CoverGo, we have Bowtie OneDegree WeInurance Seasonalife 10Life etc. Hong Kong has become a leading InsurTech hub in the world.

It is my honour to be the Chief Judge of the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2019 – FinTech Award. The Award is an excellent platform to recognise FinTech talents in Hong Kong and encourage them to innovate more for the financial services industry. Thanks to The Government’s OGCIO and The Hong Kong Institute of Bankers for organising the FinTech Award 2019. My heartfelt thanks to our dedicated assessors and judges for providing their expertise and valuable advice to make the success of this Award possible. I would also like to congratulate all the participants and winners on their achievements FARSEER KYC TESS BOCHK DahSingBank AIA BITEX HKT ASSETONCHAIN.

HKMA HKIB SFC Cyberport STP ASTRI FTAHK INVESTHK

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Hong Kong ICT Awards 2019 – FinTech Award

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HKICT2019 FinTech HKIB Congrats to CoverGo to win the Gold Award of the 2019 HKICT Awards FinTech Award. Also congrats to all winners and participating teams. Really proud of Tomas Holub to create such a great InsurTech to unleash the power of digital innovation to the insurance industry.We have great InsurTech start-ups born in Hong Kong now. Apart from CoverGo, we have Bowtie OneDegree WeInurance Seasonalife 10Life etc. Hong Kong has become a leading InsurTech hub in the world.

It is my honour to be the Chief Judge of the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2019 – FinTech Award. The Award is an excellent platform to recognise FinTech talents in Hong Kong and encourage them to innovate more for the financial services industry. Thanks to The Government’s OGCIO and The Hong Kong Institute of Bankers for organising the FinTech Award 2019. My heartfelt thanks to our dedicated assessors and judges for providing their expertise and valuable advice to make the success of this Award possible. I would also like to congratulate all the participants and winners on their achievements FARSEER KYC TESS BOCHK DahSingBank AIA BITEX HKT ASSETONCHAIN.

HKMA HKIB SFC Cyberport STP ASTRI FTAHK INVESTHK

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Hong Kong ICT Awards 2019 – FinTech Award

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HKICT2019 FinTech HKIB Congrats to CoverGo to win the Gold Award of the 2019 HKICT Awards FinTech Award. Also congrats to all winners and participating teams. Really proud of Tomas Holub to create such a great InsurTech to unleash the power of digital innovation to the insurance industry.We have great InsurTech start-ups born in Hong Kong now. Apart from CoverGo, we have Bowtie OneDegree WeInurance Seasonalife 10Life etc. Hong Kong has become a leading InsurTech hub in the world.

It is my honour to be the Chief Judge of the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2019 – FinTech Award. The Award is an excellent platform to recognise FinTech talents in Hong Kong and encourage them to innovate more for the financial services industry. Thanks to The Government’s OGCIO and The Hong Kong Institute of Bankers for organising the FinTech Award 2019. My heartfelt thanks to our dedicated assessors and judges for providing their expertise and valuable advice to make the success of this Award possible. I would also like to congratulate all the participants and winners on their achievements FARSEER KYC TESS BOCHK DahSingBank AIA BITEX HKT ASSETONCHAIN.

HKMA HKIB SFC Cyberport STP ASTRI FTAHK INVESTHK

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