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Exploring Sensetime’s Latest AI Innovations with CUHK Chinese EMBA Students

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Can you recognise the young avatar with lots of hair is actually me (perhaps 30 years ago🤣😄)? Amazing and unbelievable, isn’t it? It is one of the fantastic demos in the HQs of Sensetime in Hong Kong.

I have arranged our CUHK Chinese EMBA students to visit #Sensetime #商湯, one of the top #AI companies in the world listed in Hong Kong. It is a part of my Corporate Innovation programme at CUHK. Appreciate Nixon Chau, MD of Sensetime Hong Kong, to host us and shared their latest AI innovations with us. Our students asked very sensible questions and we all learned a lot from our discussion. Also, thanks to my colleagues from CUHK Chinese EMBA team.

Sensetime is rooted in CUHK and well-known for their facial recognition technologies. They have tremendeous success in smart cities, autonomous vehicle and health areas, and more. They didn’t stop there and continue to innovate.

We were impressed by how fast Sensetime to come up with relevant, comprehensive and competitive #GenerativeAI innovations and applications in the high tide of #ChatGPT. One of the reasons is that they have invested heavily on AI technologies and obtained thousands of IPs. Most of these IPs are not commercialized yet. When new trends come, these IPs and the super computing power for machine learning will empower them to respond fast to the market.

Look forward to seeing more AI innovations from Sensetime. We CUHK are so proud of Nixon as our CUHK EMBA alumni. Our #innovation and #technology ecosystem in Hong Kong also appreciate Sensetime’s great accomplishments and contributions to not just Hong Kong but the world.. Keep it up. Thank you.

Chinese CUHK EMBA #CUHKEMBA
#CUHK CUHK Business School

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Empowering Corporate Leaders and Entrepreneurs: Insights from Fubon Bank’s CUHK Mini MBA Journey

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Really grateful that we can bring Fubon Bank’s core team back to school to start their CUHK Mini MBA journey. I initiated and designed this CUHK Mini MBA programme a few years ago. We aim to empower the participants, either corporate leaders or startup enterprenurs, with the necessary mindset and skillset in the VUCA*Digital era. Since then, quite a few of corporates and startups have joined the programme.

It has been a great experience on empowering and re-energising corporate leaders and startup entrepreneurs to get them ready to seize emerging opportunities and manage the unprecedented challenges.

The participants take a series of modules on corporate innovation, digital transformation, branding and marketing, leadership and culture, financial management, and some modules tailored for participating corporates, such as, GBA, Regulation and Compilance, Artificial Intelligence. The students need to participate team discussions, discuss case studies, join study trip, and do group projects to apply what they have learned in all the taken modules.

Thanks for the support from the senior management of Fubon Bank especially Edmund Lam for his effort with my colleagues to make this happen.

For more about our Mini MBA programme, here it is.
https://lnkd.in/g89hXjXr

#FUBON #FubonBank 富邦銀行 #Banking
#MINIMBA #CUHK CUHK Business School
#FinTech #AI #DataLiteracy
#CorporateInnovation #DigitalTransformation
#Entrepreneurship #startups #Intrapreneurship
#Leadership #Culture
#VUCA #Digital

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Refreshed and Updated: Insights from Completing the Oxford Executive Strategy Programme

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Pleased to take the well-designed Oxford Executive Strategy Programme organized by the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, in the last two months.
https://lnkd.in/gi6sfztr

It was not easy for me as lots of trips, meetings, trainings, talks, etc., after the pandemic. Also, the programme was quite demanding as well in terms of assignments, group discussions with fellow students around the globe and time required. Grateful that I could hang in there to complete it successfully, gained the passing grade and received the certificate.

I have been practicing and teaching business strategy and digital strategy for decades. Why did I take this programme? Well, besides refreshing and updating with the latest strategies, I was just curious how the University of Oxford was different from what I used to learn from the leading universities in the US like #MIT, #Harvard and Asia like #CUHK, #CEIBS.

I am glad that I took it as this programme gave me another perspective in a very structured way around their 4 Ps framework: Purposes, Players, Partnerships and Processes. Learned a lot from Professor Richard Whittington, Professor Trudi Lang and the renowned guest speakers.

My key takeaways are

1. While we are all overwhelmed by digital innovation like #AI e.g. #ChatGPT, every leader including digital leader, in #corporates or #startups, needs to be a great strategist no matter how advanced technology is and will go.

2. #GoodStrategy will empower the leaders to leverage on #innovation and #technology to optimize the performance of their businesses or ventures. #BadStrategy will kill a business even they got rocket science.

3. People worry these days that AI will replace human soon. While it might be true one day, if we can be strategic, innovative and creative, customer-centric amd empathetic, data literate and entrepreneurial enough, I believe we will be the last to be replaced. Keep our fingers crossed🤞😄.

4. If digital leaders can make use of those 4Ps, they can acheive enough more in their career and make better impact to their companies and societies.

Will share more about my insights in my upcoming CUHK EMBA Strategy course starting next week. See you soon, my fellow students.

#Strategy #Strategist #StrategicThinking
#CorporateStrategy #BusinessStrategy #DigitalStrategy
#Oxford #Saïd
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
英國牛津大學
#CUHKEMBA CUHK EMBA
#CUHK CUHK Business School

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Exploring the Innovation and Technology Hub of Nansha: Takeaways from the GBA Trip

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Pleased to make a trip to visit the #GBA #Nansha #南沙 with a few of my advising entrepreneurs from Hong Kong yesterday. We would like to find out how to leverage on this newly developed innovation and technology hub to tap into the GBA market with 80+ million people.

We visited GBA #创享湾 where 7 incubators are located. We were also impressed by the innovative tech and applications from two leading mainland #AI companies #iFLYTEK #科大讯飛 and #CloudWalk #云从. 香港科技大學 #HKUST, 新鴻基地產, #越秀集團 also set up their substantial presence in Nansha. The ecosystem is gradually getting ready for #innovation and #technology.

Thanks Gary Lam #Posify, Sheldon Li #Buyandship, Joseph Yuen #Swapifly, Alan So #LivelyImpact, Andy Kwok and Victor Ng #OpenCertHubAcademy #OpenCertHub and some others to join me to this learning trip in Nanshan. Appreciate Raymond Yip, Chief Liaison Officer, Guangzhou Nansha Service Centre in Hong Kong, to arrange such a fruitful programme for us to learn about Nansha.

Let me know if you would like to know a bit more about our experience in Nansha. Happy to share. Cheers.

#startup #entrepreneurship
#GreaterBay

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The 2nd Cohort of DLEP Programme in CEBHK

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Once again, users at all levels across departments demonstrated that they can make good use of data to create real impact to their customers and companies. We witnessed it once more in the China Everbright Bank Hong Kong Branch #CEBHK today.

Colleagues from different front, middle and back offices at CEBHK have gone through our Data Literacy Empowerment Programme #DLEP organized by Hong Kong Institute of Bankers #HKIB and OpenCertHub Academy #OCHA in the last few months. This was the 2nd cohort already at CEBHK. They were required to do a team project to pick a pain point in the company and use data to tackle the problem.

Today, they presented their projects to the CEBHK’s senior management Nancy Wu, Stephen Chang, Fanny Chan, Carrie Leung #HKIB, Dr. Victor Ng and myself from #OCHA. It was really impressive on not just the business impact created from their data initiatives but also the cross-team collaboration. Thank you so much for the team’s effort and the support from all senior management of CEBHK and Carrie.

In the last few months, Victor, Patrick Tsoi and I have provided a series of data literacy training, shared industry best practices, conducted hands-on workshops and provided mentorship for their team projects to the participants. We are so grateful to see that teams today can apply them so well in solving their real problems. From mindset, skillset to everyday use of data is our goal and we have seen this happening in CEBHK.

Special thanks to Fanny, Elaine and their teammates for their effort and trust to my team from the day 1 of our collaboration. Look forward to co-creating even more impact and values to CEBHK throughout our data literacy empowerment journey at CEBHK.

#DataLiteracy #DataCulture #DataMindset
OpenCertHub Academy
#BigData #AI
#CitizenDataScientist #DataCitizen

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My First Class In The Year Of The Rabbit

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My first class in the Year of the Rabbit was a demo class for CUHK EMBA. Really felt warm to see so many knowledge seekers f2f in our classroom. Good thing was that we kept it a hybrid mode where hundreds attended it online in parallel. That is our new normal for the future so more people can learn together even though they are still working or back home with their families.

In my capacity of CUHK EMBA Associate Director and Founding Chairman of Data Literacy Association, I talked about “Stay ahead of Your Conpetition: Treat Data as Your 2nd Business Language”. My key message is that business leaders need to use data daily as how they use English and Chinese for effective and compelling communication. Data is the Voice of our Customers and it is business through data monetization. Business users need to not just be data literate but also treat it as your competitive edge. Own it yourselves instead of just getting help from IT and Data teams. Building a sustainable data culture and empowering every employee with high Data Literacy are the secret sauce of leading enterprises in today’s Digital Economy.

Thanks for my EMBA student Chris So to have shared his learning experience as well as Rendy Ng. Appreciate all participants to have joined our session last night. Thanks to my EMBA colleagues to organize it as well Professor Pong Yuen, Howard Lam, Chun So, Ken Lin and many others.

#CUHKEMBA #EMBA
CUHK EMBA CUHK Business School
#DaLa DaLa – Data Literacy Association
#DataCulture #DataLiteracy
#AI #BigData
#DataCitizen #CitizenDataScientist

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HKIB Spring Lunch 春茗 for the Year of the Rabbit

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What a way to start the Year of the Rabbit with most of the bankers in Hong Kong! Thanks Hong Kong Institute of Bankers to organize such a great Spring Lunch 春茗 today in the Grand Hyatt Hotel. We used to have many CNY spring lunches or dinners in the banking industry but it was gone zero in the Covid period. We all enjoyed the f2f gathering again.

Appreciate the effort from Carrie Leung, Philip Kam and their teammates of #HKIB. Also, thanks to the great leadership from Mr David Kwok. Great to meet and have a chat with Legco Councillor (Financial Services) Hon Ronick Chan JP there as well.

As a strategic partner of HKIB on our Data Literacy Empowerment Programme or DLEP, we were so grateful to have a table there to host friends and partners of OpenCertHub Academy. Really feel warm to see many friends there and thanks for their presence in our table Kenny Au, Doris Tong, Barry Chan, Jacob Wai, FRM, FFA FIPA, FCMA, CSDP, MHKCS, LLM, MBA, 鄭嘉泓, Sunny Cheung, Patrick Khong, Jack NG, Edmund Lam and certainly my teammates Andy Kwok and Victor Ng. Also grateful to meet many friends in person and with joy Fanny Chan, Cheng Burton, Charlotte Wong, Michael Leung, Sammy Ho, Angela Lee, Ryan Fung and many more. It was cold outside but we had a warm gathering. Thank you.

#Banking #FinTech #AI #BigData
#OpenCertHubAcademy #OCHA
OpenCertHub Academy
#DataLiteracy #DLEP
#DataCulture #DataMindset

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HairCoSys Spring Dinner for the Year of Rabbit

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“Spring Dinner 春茗” is back. In our Chinese New Year #CNY tradition, companies will organize Spring Dinners to host their colleagues, close customers and partners, at the beginning of the lunar year. It aims to kick off a new year and welcome all their colleagues back to work after their CNY holiday. Unfortunately, because of the Covid, most of the companies haven’t done it for the last three years. In the Year of the Rabbit, most companies have started doing it. We are really pleased to have all these back.

Thanks 黃創安 of HairAgain 髮再生 Haspero 桂圓美 and Michael Wong of HairCoSys to invite me to join their Spring Dinner. We all had fun with professional artists and their colleagues to sing good songs, experience sharings, lucky draws, etc. Hong Kong local start-up, XOXO Beverages, was there to serve personalized cocktails to us. Their innovation was not just an ordering system. We can mix and match different ingredients for the cocktails ourselves through their app and a spider chart shows the result of the mix. And the robot makes it for you. That was the green drink in my photo with Mr. Wong. What an innovation! Thanks XOXO Beverages.

It is my first Spring Dinner in the Year of the Rabbit. I will have many more to come in the coming weeks. Good news is that we can see friends and partners f2f in great atmosphere. The bad news is that I have to be on a serious diet after all these to lose some weight after taken all these tasty food. Enjoy your Spring Dinners. I’ll see you in some of those.

Both Ivan Ng and I were grateful to be advisors of HairCoSys. It is so impactful and meaningful to use AI to add values to a very successful traditional leader like Hair Again. Let’s use #innovation and #technology to transform more incumbent companies to stay relevant in today’s digital age.

#SpringDinner #春茗
#HairAgain #髮再生 #Haspero #桂圓美
#HairCoSys HairCoSys Limited

#HairCoSys HairCoSys Limited
#AI #BigData #DataScience
#HairLoss #HairCare #HairHealth
#HKSTP #HKAILAB
#XOXOBeverages

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The First Meeting with HairCoSys’ Core Team in 2023

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Glad to kickoff my first review meeting in 2023 with HairCoSys’ core team in my office today. HairCoSys aims to make use of AI to sustainably fix hair loss problems for many people with this pain point around the world. It is a big problem and it is a huge market. We reviewed what we have achieved, rooms for improvement and plan for 2023.

HairCoSys has just started last year. Really grateful to be their president and advisor and contribute my experience and networks for their growth. Appreciate the leadership from Michael Wong and the data science experience from Ivan Ng, and the effort from our passionate teammates there.

In a short period of time, HairCoSys has received good recognition from the industry. We have successfully been admitted to not only HKSTP Incubation Programme, but also Hong Kong AI Lab Programme. Both are reputable and solid programmes on cultivating elite #startups. What a year! We shall keep up our great effort and make more breakthrough in 2023 and beyond. Add oil, team.

#HairCoSys HairCoSys Limited
#AI #BigData #DataScience
#HairLoss #HairCare #HairHealth
#HKSTP #HKAILAB

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RTHK Radio 管理新思維: Interviewing Nixon Chau @ SenseTime

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Today is the reopening day across mainland, Hong Kong and Macau. What a good day to have a chat with Nixon Chau, Managing Director and General Manager, #Sensetime #商湯 Hong Kong today at RTHK1 New Management Thinking Programme #管理新思維 on the growth and future of AI in Hong Kong and beyond.

As I previously posted in my LinkedIn, https://lnkd.in/g7-XzN-Q, we did have a good discussion on the business potential, technologies, enterprise and SME adoption, career development, Hong Kong’s positioning in GBA and more.

If you have listened to us live today, we hope you got some inspiration there. If you haven’t joined us this afternoon, you are welcome to listen to our discussion here at RTHK1 webpage below.
https://lnkd.in/gYddhHHW

#RTHK #RTHK1
#NewManagementThinking
#AI #人工智能 #ArtificialIntelligence
#BigData #DataAsset
#Innovation #Technology
#GBA
#CUHKEMBA CUHK EMBA CUHK Business School

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