CUHK Business School – Dr. Toa Charm

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

By Samson Lai 20th May 2023

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

By Samson Lai 18th May 2023

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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CUHK EMBA Hong Kong’s Got Talent: Highlights from the 2023 Reunion Dinner

By Samson Lai 13th May 2023

CUHK EMBA Hong Kong’s Got Talent was the main theme of our #CUHK #EMBA Reunion Dinner 2023. Really pleased to see many of my EMBA students without masks and with big smiles. They are in fact the core talents of Hong Kong. Well done the organizing team to organize such a great reunion gathering. Thanks for Pong Yuen, Howard Lam and his EMBA teammates for all the effort. Special thank to Professor Andrew Chan for his 30 years of contribution to our EMBA programme. Amazing!

I also invited many of my guest speakers whom I invited them to share their experience with my students in my previous classes including Ryan Lai #foodpanda, Jens-Peter Brauner, FIET #Siemen, Jacqueline Chong #AWS #Amazon, Thomson Lai #AECOM, 鄭嘉泓 #Wizpresso, Harris SUN #RaSpect, Ravel Lai #Hysan, Matthew Chan #JardineRestaurantGroup. Grateful and thankful to all of their support and trust.

Congratulations to Ryan as he will start his CUHK EMBA journey in Sep this year. Really our honour to have Ryan as our student. Both the CEOs of the leading food delivery platforms in Hong Kong (#foodpanda) and Macau (#澳覓 #Acen), Ryan Lai and 江海涛, are our CUHK EMBA students now. I have taken a memorable photo with them.

Also met my 5 Founding Fellows of DaLa – Data Literacy Association #DaLa there Nixon Chau, Henry Hui, Matthew Chan, Ravel Lai, 鄭嘉泓. Henry and Nixon are also CUHK EMBA alumni. What a small world! Glad to see old and new friends Vincent Ma Hong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Park Limited #HSITP, Andy Ann, Alan Lai, Emil Chan, Catherine Chan, Francis Ngai, Susanna Chiu, Laura Cozijnsen, Ivan Pong and many others.

Feel warm and great to see many fellow students of mine in CUHK EMBA including Dop Sun, Eric Loh, Anita Chan, Mae Chen, Vincent Wong, Victoria Wong, Rachel Yu, Yvonne Yu, Jane L., Justin Wu, 李立基, Vincent Cheng, Ronald Tse, Grace Chan, Mark Leung and many more…

It was a cool night as well. Lots of joy, memories, .. I also got my lucky draw award – very chill SUN glasses. Thank you.

CUHK EMBA CUHK Business School #CUHKEMBA

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Welcome CUHK Chinese EMBA Students Back to CUHK Campus in HK

By Samson Lai 12th February 2023

Back to school finally! Welcome our CUHK Chinese EMBA students back to our main CUHK campus in Hong Kong. Yes, it was all physical presence with no zoom and no MetaVerse. Today, we had a welcome dinner with our professors, students and colleagues .

If there was no pandemic, our EMBA students in mainland China were supposed to take most of the classes in our Hong Kong campus. Unfortunately, they haven’t been able to do so in the last 3 years and had to go online for most of their classes.

Apart from our core CUHK EMBA programme in Hong Kong, which is conducted in English, I also taught a few corporate innovation and entrepreneurship classes in Putonghua on Zoom together with a few guest speakers to our Chinese EMBA students. It was a valuable journey to share my experience with senior executives in mainland China and I learned a lot from them as well. It went well but it was still not as engaging and impactful as f2f classes where I can play “Ping Pong” (interactive chats) with my students on classes as I used to do.

It was a good start today to see our students in person. Good news is that my next class for CUHK Chinese EMBA will be f2f in our HK main campus. The students will come to Hong Kong for 4 consecutive days for every course. Will get it ready to have an impactful learning journey with my fellow executive students from the mainland. See you all soon.

Appreciate the great effort and support from our Chinese EMBA programme team. Let’s have many many great cohorts ahead without masks and Zoom any more. Cheers.

CUHK Business School
CUHK EMBA #CUHKEMBA
#CUHK #EMBA #ChineseEMBA
#CorporateInnovation #Entrepreneurship

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Goodbye 2022, Hello 2023

By Samson Lai 27th December 2022

Goodbye 2022, Hello 2023. First of all, I wish all of you have a prosperous, healthy & happy year in 2023. In the amazing Christmas and New Year holiday, there is no better time to review 2022 & plan forward.

Some of you may say, “Dr. Charm, you are everywhere. What are you doing exactly?” I would like to share my platform model namely #CASE #團學創企 with you. The main purpose of my CASE model is to co-create successful business cases with 4 key interconnected stakeholders in the #ecosystem by making use of innovation and technologies #攜手共創.
C = Community
A = Academy
S = Start-up
E = Enterprise

To recap 2022, I have done 120+ LinkedIn posts in the year. The actual number of activities, effort & challenges behind the scene were more than that. They were all strategically articulated around my CASE model. Let me share with you my top 10 posts in terms of impact. Really appreciate your trust & support to me throughout the years. You are always welcome to visit me. I am happy to share more with you about my CASE model & plans ahead. Look forward to collaborating with you even more in 2023 & beyond.

1. Successfully launched the first-ever HK Corporate Innovation Index #CII with #CUHK CUHK Business School
https://lnkd.in/gw8K6-jK

2. Appointed as INED of #Transunion, the global data leader on credit assessment
https://lnkd.in/gYKRygyR

3. Launched Data Literacy Association #DaLa with data leaders to nurture data culture in organizations
https://lnkd.in/ghadKAT7

4. Invited by a few more elite startups as President & Advisor: #HairCoSys (President), #Wizpresso, #Buyandship and #MixcareHealth (Advisor)
https://lnkd.in/g3UQ888C
https://lnkd.in/gnZwf_9Y

5. Appointed as Associate Director of CUHK EMBA programme, one of the leading global EMBA programmes
https://lnkd.in/gD9kAWXi

6. Empowered thousands of employees in #BEA & many other enterprises to become Data Citizens & Citizen Data Scientists
https://lnkd.in/gWhzn5Gm

7. Delivered talks & moderated panels in quite a few influential events & acted as judges on impactful awards and competitions
https://lnkd.in/g8dYnGw2
https://lnkd.in/gWKbdbFB
https://lnkd.in/giSUhG42

8. Delivered the most successful #CUHKEMBA class CUHK EMBA in my teaching life. Encouraged me to write another book on Corporate Innovation due 2023
https://lnkd.in/gaPce8rR

9. Reached another key milestone of #OpenCertHub OpenCertHub Academy by moving into our data-centric office. Quite a few customers, partners. mentors, friends visited us since then. Explored and made some impactful collaboration agreements there since the opening 好風水.
https://lnkd.in/g-iAUMpk
https://lnkd.in/gHSrwnDa

10. Last but not the least. Entered the world of #MetaVerse. Hosted a few Metaverse forums with #HKPC Innopreneurs Series and joined HK Digital Asset Society #HKDAS as Industry Advisor.
https://lnkd.in/gKqcCj45
https://lnkd.in/gRUyEAb7

#Innovation #Technology #DigitalTransformation #CorporateInnovation

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(Hong Kong) Joint Webinar with HKiNEDA for Introducing the Corporate Innovation Framework

By Samson Lai 26th March 2022

We kicked off our Hong Kong #CorporateInnovationIndex #CII programme last year https://lnkd.in/geGBxEVS. CII is being co-organized by #CUHK and #HKGCC, and has gained full support from #ITF, #HKSTP, #Cyberport and many other leading enterprises, tech leaders and professional associations.

Since then, apart from research and literature review, we have done a series of consultation sessions and pilot studies with industry leaders and practitioners. We are grateful that we have finished the design of our Corporate Innovation Framework. Thank you so much to all those who have contributed to our framework and definitely my teammates at CUHK.

The framework contains 12 factors under three constructs – Resources, Enablers and Value. If you would like to know more about the framework, please let me know. Based on the framework, we have designed a survey to measure the corporate innovation of large companies and SMEs.

We have started introducing the Corporate Innovation Framework and the survey to different associations and companies. Today, we have done a joint webinar with #HKiNEDA for their #INED members. Appreciate their support. We did have a good discussion today. If your associations or companies would like to organize a session to learn about our Corporate Innovation Framework, please let me know.

We have just launched the CII survey and are now collecting data. If you would like to have a health check for the innovativness of your company, I would encourage you to participate the survey. Find out more here https://lnkd.in/gzykEWCF.

It is not just a ranking exercise. Rather, it will give you a good opportunity to discuss about innovation with your colleagues when you are filling up the survey. You will find out and learn more about your company.

We will also provide assessment to you so you know where you are and where to improve. A series of workshops and trainings will be offered then.

Let’s together enhance the innovativeness of our companies, our teams and ourselves.

CUHK Business School
HKiNED 香港獨立非執行董事協會
 香港總商會

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