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(Hong Kong) My 10 favourite posts in 2020

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25#Year2020 has been a tough year for all of us. I wish you have a pleasant #Christmas & New Year holiday. Stay positive & healthy!

I would like to share my 10 favorite LinkedIn posts in 2020 with you. What a year! Heartfelt thank for your support to me in 2020. Let’s collaborate even more in 2021 & beyond. Merry Christmas!

1. Realized my dream to launch my book #數碼力大提升 published by #Enrich #天窗 – top publisher in HK
https://lnkd.in/gyVR6U7
https://lnkd.in/gjZ29MA

2. Honored to be the Chief Judge of #FinTech Award & Grand Award of 2020 #HKICTAwards
https://lnkd.in/gAksMhg
https://lnkd.in/gyxXDJs

3. Played my #guitar to sing #folk #songs after decades
https://lnkd.in/gjMEFXV
https://lnkd.in/g8D9xfx

4. #DigitalStrategy exchange with top #management of the 91 years old industry leader #ChowTaiFook
https://lnkd.in/gkE4kW5

5. Learnt from HK #Unicorn #WeLab
https://lnkd.in/g93iyEB

6. Witnessed my #CUHK #CUHKMBA students to graduate
https://lnkd.in/gf5XJVY

7. Launched first-in-its-kind in HK #Platform Strategy course
https://lnkd.in/gDWxx4X

8. My favorite #hackathon #Finspire by #Convoy
https://lnkd.in/gJQupVP

9. Launched my #CUHKEMBA Innovation class
https://lnkd.in/g36Fn4M

10. #BODW TECH & DESIGN Crossover #HKDesignCentre
https://lnkd.in/g-wCf5G

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(Hong Kong) Many thanks for all your support to my book 數碼力大提升

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My heartfelt thank to all of my friends across various industries for your trust and support to my book #數碼力大提升 and my #career journey since 30 years ago。My #dream of publishing a book of mine couldn’t be realized without your encouragement. And I did it in 2020 even it has been a challenging year.
https://lnkd.in/gp3cgyc

The photos show lots of joy and #friendship there. That’s what I have appreciated the most from you. Those moments with you will be remembered forever in my #life. Thank you!

It only shows a portion of my chats with many of you. Can you find your photo with me there? Will take photos with many of you whom we couldn’t meet face to face due to the pandemic.

Wish you and your beloved ones have a pleasant #Christmas. Keep #SAFE and stay #POSITIVE. With all of our mutual support, #WeShallOvercome today’s challenge in #Year2020 and have a great year in #Year2021. Take care and #MerryChristmas.

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(Hong Kong) BODW 2020 – A few insights about InsurTech start-ups in Hong Kong

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#InsurTech is getting great momentum in Hong Kong. #Bowtie #Blue #OneDegree #CoverGo #Coherent #Weinsurance #ZongAn & a few more have been pioneering it & performing well. At the same time, incumbents gradually ramping up their innovation  like #Aviva #AXA #Prudential #SunLife #Zurich

I had a fruitful discussion with Fred Ngan #Bowtie in the #BODW2020 a few weeks ago. Today, I had another chance to talk to a group of experts in the InsurTech industry including Isabel Feliciano-Wendleken Lapman Lee ✔ Syed Musheer Ahmed in the 2020 #NEXX FinTech at #Cyberport.

My key takeaways:
1. InsurTech startups need to find the right sponsor in the incumbents which are aligned on KPIs

2. Like #OpenBanking, #OpenInsurance is needed for better customer experience & collaboration with the ecosystem

3. Build digital insurance from scratch so that the end products are simplier in nature & easier for designing better customer centric solutions

4. #B2B gains good momentum while #B2C can learn from #VirtualBanks.

Apart from InsurTech, the Conference had panels on #VirtualBanking, #Payments & other hot FinTech topics. Glad to see good friends Ernest Leung from #WeLab, Medhy Souidi from #DBS & FinTech guru Emil Chan & others.

Appreciate Mann WM Yim & Ivy Chan for organizing the conference.

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(Hong Kong) Secret Skills of Today’s Digital Leaders – HKPC’s Sharing

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I have experienced a #LearningOrganization in Hong Kong today. #HKPC 香港生產力促進局 runs an internal forum every month to gather all colleagues together to learn relevant topics from external and internal experts. I love the tag #growth in the amazing new work space in HKPC. Great #culture!

Today, it was my honour to be invited by HKPC to share my view on #FutureSkills. Over 300 colleagues participated. Thanks Mohamed Butt Karen F. Marius Chow for their arrangement and their #talents #leadership at HKPC.

Top three future skills in my view are:
1. #DigitalLiteracy
2. #Intrapreneurship
3. #Ecosystem #Collaboration

These skills are the secret sauce of today’s digital leaders including #TechGiants, #Unicorns and even #incumbents who have transformed successfully. More importantly, they have democratized these skills to every single colleague, tech and non-tech, in their companies.

I have talked about these skills and how they helped individuals and leaders in their #DigitalTransformation in my book #數碼力大提升。Read on..

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(Hong Kong) TECH & DESIGN Crossover – Panel Sharing in BODW 2020

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#TECH * #DESIGN Crossover was the main theme of the panel that I moderated for the #BODW 2020. My honour having experienced serial entrepreneurs Jason Chiu and Fred Ngan together with design expert Amy Ip joined my panel today at the #ViuTV Studio in Hong Kong.

My key takeaway to get the best out of Design and Tech to create values for customers was that we need to build and cultivate a team with a diversity of background like Design, Tech, professionals, domain or subject matter experts, and more.

Most importantly, how to make them work together even under lots of challenges and differences. One of the best ways to do that is to leverage on customers as the focal point to validate different ideas and do it as often as we need. That can bring teammates with different views to align and co-create values for the sake of customers.

Well done, team. We all learned a lot from each other tonight.

Appreciate 香港設計中心 Eric Yim Edmund Lee and their teammates to lead and organize such an impressive international conferences with many renowned local and overseas speakers. Not easy for such under the Covid-19. Thank you.

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(Hong Kong) SAP New Office Visit

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Glad to meet 2 good friends of mine Andrew and Greg in #SAP. Met both of them for years since the good old days of #BI and #DataWarehousing.

Wow.. SAP has a brand new office with a nice open innovation environment to empower internal and external collaboration. I particularly like the workbench facing the Hong Kong Jockey Club #HKJC in #HappyValley.

It is not just an image packaging but a necessity these days to create values for a wide range of their clients. Most of the top companies are using SAP enterprise software. Like all other industry leaders, SAP also faces new challenges from a new wave of tech giants like Google, Amazon, Alibaba as well as thousands of #unicorns. Also, attracting & retaining young talents are very critical for today’s success. On one hand, SAP keeps building on their strength with deep domain knowledge & #ERP technologies; on the other hand, an #OpenInnovation strategy is undergoing to cope with new competitions & talents acquisition. Great and positive change!

Really pleased to see my two good friends today, a retail and supply chain expert Andrew Ling and a #AI and #BigData expert Greg Wong. Also met new friends in SAP Sandy Yu and Helen Lam. Let’s collaborate to contribute more to the #innovation and #technology industry in Hong Kong.

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(Hong Kong) CUHK Business School Graduation Day

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Today is a big big day for our Master’s students at #CUHK #BusinessSchool CUHK Business School – Masters because today is their graduation day. Congratulations to you all my fellow students for your marvelous accomplishment.

I am so grateful to have a chance to teach and make friends with some of you in my #EMBA, #MBA and #MiM classes on various #DigitalLeadership #Innovation #Entrepreneurship #FinTech #AI subjects.

You have completed an important milestone of your life journey. Keep up your passion of lifetime learning to cope with the ever changing world. Remember that your #DigitalLiteracy is the new language in the #DigitalEconomy. Keep it up, guys.

We “#LookForward” to hear from you and witness you to create more business and social impact to industries and societies in the road ahead. Congratulations again. Really proud of you all.

Thanks to our Dean’s leadership and all fellow faculties and admin colleagues. Pong Yuen, Howard Lam Grace Liang Andrew Chan.

Special thanks to Angel Ng #CEO #Citi to give a specular speech to our students. Find out more in my comments below.

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(Hong Kong) “The Power Duo of AI & Big Data” Programme in CUHK

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In today’s #DigitalEconomy, executives & professionals have a sense of urgency to master “The Power Duo of AI & Big Data”. In the last 2 days, I delivered an executive class on this. I am so grateful to have a class of highly-engaged students across industries. We had fruitful discussion on the opportunities & challenges of #AI & #BigData. Thanks to my fellow students.

My career journey has been highly related to data from my 1st job in #SiliconValley #Informix #RDBMS to later #BI, #DW #BigData & #AI. My key takeaway from this journey is not just technology but also how to make use of data to create value for our customers & capture value for our companies.

The students learned about applications & technologies of AI, #MachineLearning & Big Data through cases #Airbnb, #StitchFix #Lemonade #SquirrelAI #Linkedin #Uber #MasterCard.

Big thanks to Jade Tin Hei Lee from #ChowTaiFook and Calvin Cheng, CFA from #Wizpresso to share their experience with our students from a traditional company and a startup perspective respectively.

The Power Duo of AI & Big Data is a module of #CUHK #Digital #Leadership Series Program. #Platform #Strategy is another module. We launched it a few weeks ago as well.
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(Hong Kong) HKICT Awards FinTech Award Ceremony 2020

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Congratulations to all the winners of the 2020 #HKICTAwards #FinTech Award. Today, we held our #f2f presentation ceremony. Meeting friends in person is great & has been missed. The winners are:

#FanoLabs – the Grand Award Winner & the Gold Award of the RegTech & Risk Management

#HKFI The Hong Kong Federation of Insurers – the Gold Award of the Banking, Insurance & Capital Markets

#AQUMON – the Gold Award of the Emerging Solutions

Also congratulations to the other winners of this year #Wizpresso #Pecutus #KnowYourCustomer #Datago #HangSengBank #OneDegree #BeeFinTech #gini #InfoCast #IDDY.
Download the Award Pamphlet here.
https://lnkd.in/gMSZusc

It is my honour to be the Chief Judge of this year’s Award. My heartfelt thank to all the judges and assessors for their contributions to this year’s Award and their professional advices.

Thanks to #HKIB Hong Kong Institute of Bankers and #OGCIO to organize such a great Award to encourage FinTech #innovations for Hong Kong. Appreciate #HKIB Carrie Leung Philip Kam and their teammates to make today’s presentation ceremony a successful and safe one.

Well done Miles Wen (温豪夫) Duncan Wong Calvin Cheng, CFA Victor Lang (梁敬熙) Victor Yip Ken Shih Alvin Kwock Herman Cheng Ray Wyand Yi Long unsung heroes.

See you all f2f next year!

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(Hong Kong) WeLab Group Visit – One of the HKICT Awards Winners

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Right after our Hong Kong FinTech Week 2020 last week & right before the announcement of the 2020 #HKICTAwards FinTech Award Winners tomorrow, I visited the CEO of the leading FinTech company in Hong Kong i.e. Simon Loong of WeLab Group today.

#WeLab is one of the leading #FinTech #Unicorns in the world. They pioneered so much that we, #startups or #incumbents, can learn from them. Thanks for Simon’s & Professor Chan’s leadership.

“Inspiring Workspace” is what I described their headquarters. I see young professionals with passion. I see #DNA of an Unicorn. I particularly love the quotes on the wall, e.g., “Never Not My Job” reminds us the importance of #Agility & “Stay Hungry” reminds us the importance of #Sustainable #Innovation. Great #culture!

I also learnt their history from the Bell on the wall (They rang the bell when they hit performance target), #永樂街 (their 1st office), table tennis table (once was their workbench), van, little unicorn..

Special thank to Simon to write a Preface for my book #數碼力大提升。He also shared copies of my book to his teammates. Really appreciate it. Look forward to writing the next chapters of WeLab in many years ahead.

Well done team:Kelly Wong Adrian Tse Fiona Ng Jessica Lam Tat Lee Kenny Cheng Paul Ip Nancy H. many unsung heroes.

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