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Global Startups Compete at the First Post-Pandemic Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund/HSBC JumpStarter 2023

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Grateful to be in the judging panel of the #Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund/HSBC JumpStarter 2023. It was the first f2f #JumpStarter after the pandemic. Heartfelt thanks to Teddy Lui #AEF and their teammates to organize such an outstanding global competition for entrepreneurs around the world. https://lnkd.in/gDXTweWj

I met Teddy when AEF just started in 2015 in my capacity of Cyberport Chief Public Mission Officer. It is amazing to see that AEF JumpStarter has become a global leading startup competition today. Well done Cindy Chow, Teddy Lui and many others at AEF, #Gobi and #HSBC.

Together with other experienced judges today including Cindy Z. #Gobi, Mingles T. #ParticleX, Rachel Lee #Cyberport, Winnie Lau #HKSTP, Ricky Lee #KROLL, Simon Law #Sino, Matthew Yung #HSBC, and Edmond Lau #CityU, we have selected the best startups from the world to proceed to the next round of the competition. Really appreciate all the effort from the participating startups as well and many of them are from ASEAN and even Latin America. Glad to see the global reach of Jumpstarter.

DaLa – Data Literacy Association #DaLa is proud to be a supporting organization of this year’s JumpStarter. Wish all of the stakeholders in the ecosystem can cocreate more values for Hong Kong and the #GBA region. Cheers.

#startup #entrepreneurship #entrepreneurs #technology #innovation

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GBA Insurance Awards 2023: Celebrating the Success of Insurance Companies in Empowering People Through Technology

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Pleased to be one of the judges again of the 2023 GBA Insurance Awards organized by Metro Finance. We have been witnessing the progress of insurance companies in leveraging technologies to empower their business and more importantly people to perform better and serve our community better in recent years. Congratulations to all the companies and people who have won the awards this year.

I am particularly grateful to collaborate with many great leaders in various programmes #金融科技大本營 #財智雙打 #財雄勢大 #智識做老闆 等等 of MetroFinance in driving the growth of innovation and technology in Hong Kong. Heartfelt thanks to Alaric Chu 朱子昭, Michelle Ngan #魏美珍, #胡孟青， Christine Lam, Steven Tsoi, Rita Tse, 梁耀宗Anthony Leung, certainly宋台長 for their trust and support throughout the years. And appreciate many many good friends and partners in our innovation and technology ecosystem who had been the guests of our programmes in the last few years.

Congratulations again for the marvelous success of the GBA Insurance Awards. Look forward to collaborating even more with you all in the post Covid era. Cheers.

#MetroFinance #新城財經台 #FM104 #MetroRadio
#GBA #GreaterBay
#InsurTech #Insurance
#FinTech #Finance
#Innovation #Technology

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Unlocking the Secrets Behind Hong Kong’s 18 Unicorns: Insights from Cindy Chow, Executive Director of Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund

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💡Have you ever wondered why Hong Kong could create 18 unicorns (3 were already listed) in the last 8 years? Grateful to have an opportunity to discuss with Cindy Chow, one of elite and pioneering leaders in the Hong Kong startups ecosystem, on this topic in our 🎬🎙#RTHK New Management Thinking programme #管理新思維. Cindy is the Executive Director of the globally-known #AEF Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund. Really appreciate and heartfelt thank to Cindy for her insights and inspiring sharing.

AEF has invested and nurtured more than 60 startups since founded in 2015. 5 of those companies were either unicorns (#Airwallex, #AnimocaBrands, #WeLab) or listed companies (#GOGOX, #Prenetics). Impressive and what a miracle that we had here in Hong Kong! However, we only had less than 0.5% of over 4,000 startups made this list. How can startups learn from the best and enhance their chance of success? I have discussed this theme with Cindy in our programme.

We looked at a few key things in specific.

1. What are the critical success factors and characteristics of the unicorns?

2. What has AEF done to nurture these unicorns?

3. How can we encourage and nurture more young people especially female students to participate in tech entrepreneurship journey?

4. How can we empower our startups to capture the opportunities in #GBA? How can Hong Kong play a pivotal role to empower GBA startups to expand to ASEAN and global market?

5. How do we pick the right startups to invest on? What new direction or types of startups that AEF is looking at? How do we attract the best startups to be our investment portfolio?

If you would like to learn more about all these questions from my discussion with Cindy, please tune in #RTHK1 radio this Sunday Jun 18 from 2pm to 4pm. Stay tuned and don’t miss it. https://lnkd.in/f-X8RaN

Yes, it is on the Father’s Day. Our gift for all fathers and all your beloved. Wish you all have a wonderful and warm Father’s Day. Cheers.

Remarks: If you cannot make it, I will post the link here for you to replay the recording later. Check this post again Sunday night and onwards.

As promised, here is the link for the replay. Enjoy!
https://lnkd.in/gYddhHHW
https://lnkd.in/gFgthySQ

#Startups #Unicorn #Entrepreneurship #Innovation #Technology #TechInvestment #TechInvestor #VC #VentureCapital #WomenInTech #Alibaba #FathersDay
CUHK EMBA CUHK Business School #CUHKEMBA

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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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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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HKPC Innopreneur GBA Forum

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What a month of GBA for me! This was my 4th forum with main theme on GBA that I have moderated or participated as speakers in the last 4 weeks. This one was specially designed for SMEs and very practical. Thanks to all experienced GBA leaders on our panel together Witman Hung, Raymond Yip, Dr. George So and Angel Wong. Our panel speakers shared practical tips with the SMEs on 8 key items. 1. Choice of location 2. Culture fit 3. Market, opportunities & challenges 4. 前海 #QianHai 及南沙 #NanSha 5. Bay areas comparison 6. Policies (bothe central and hk governments) 7. Company registration 8. Tips on ABCDEFG..H..S.. (let me know if you want to know more) Thanks to HKPC for organizing this. Appreciate the great effort and support from #HKPC Mohamed Butt, Karen F., Elly Yip, DAPHNE HO and many others. #GBA #GreaterBayArea 生產力局 HKPC #SME #Innopreneur

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2022 粵港澳大灣區高峰論壇 Organized by Hong Kong Economic Journal

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Grateful to join the 2nd influential GBA forums in the same week. This one today was organized by Hong Kong Economic Journal HKEJ 信報. We had our HKSAR Government Chief Executive, John Lee, this time. He shared his GBA strategy for Hong Kong with us. I will be participating in a few more GBA forums in the next couple of weeks. Learn more every day. Stay tuned. Pleased to be a guest speaker in a panel today to talk about the impact of innovation and technology on the GBA growth for Hong Kong companies. Learned a lot from my fellow panel speakers like Dr. Rocky Cheng #HKCS, Peter Mok #HKSTP and Ir. Dave Chan #ATAL. Appreciate 信報財經新聞總編輯 #郭艷明 #HKEJ Chief Editor Alice Kwok and her teammates to organize such a great forum for experience sharing. Also, thank 林伽遙 Caca Lam for moderating the panel. #GBA #GreaterBayArea

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RTHK Radio 管理新思維: Interviewing Celly Chan @ Microsoft

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Grateful to have Cally Chan from #Microsoft to be my guest for another episode of the RTHK New Management Thinking programme #管理新思維. Appreciate her insightful sharing with us. Thanks to her teammate Bobo Wong for her great effort behind the scene.

We tapped into Cally’s brain on her view on a few interesting hot topics like Women In Tech, Hybrid Working Style, Startups, Digital Transformation, GenZ Talents, Sustainability and ESG, and certainly Cloud and MetaVerse.

We also explored the future of Hong Kong and GBA. Cally is a positive, passionate and visionary leader. She and I believe a healthy and vibrant ecosystem is super important for everyone’s success in Hong Kong. Knowing how to co-create values with the ecosystem will lead us to stay ahead of the curve.

Cally talked about “ABCD..EFGH”. What is it? Stay tuned to RTHK1 this Sunday Aug 21 at 2pm to listen to Cally’s sharing. https://lnkd.in/f-X8RaN

More about the programme and review of the past episodes can be found here https://lnkd.in/gYddhHHW

#WomenInTech #Startups #Ecosystem #Startups
#HybridWorkingStyle
#DigitalTransformation
#GenZ #DigitalTalents
#Sustainability #ESG
#Cloud #AI #MetaVerse
#GBA

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OpenCertHub Academy Moved to a New Office!

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Congratulations to OpenCertHub Academy on reaching another key milestone. Apart from onboarding a few influential enterprises to our Data Literacy Empowerment Programme in the last 12 months, we have moved to our new office. Our core team did a soft internal launch on a great “lucky” day with some traditional Chinese ceremony. “Pau Pau” bear also joined us. Thanks Ryan Lai #FoodPanda for the super cute bear.

To cope with higher demand from our clients, we have further expanded our team and office. Appreciate the trust from our customers and partners. Heartfelt thank to my teammates Andy Kwok, Dr. Victor Ng, Francois Lee, Candi Yeung and many others plus our close partners to make it happen.

My team and I will keep up our effort and passion to empower and upskill more talents on data literacy in Hong Kong as well as #GBA and #ASEAN.

To find out more about our Data Literacy Empowerment Programme or #DLEP, please visit here www.ochacademy.com

If you are interested in our DLEP programme as a client or a partner, please feel free to contact us. Cheers!

#DataLiteracy #Data #AI #BigData
#CitizenDataScientist #DataCitizen
#OpenCertHubAcademy, #OpenCertHub
#PauPau

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SKYCITY Brings Hong Kong Another Remarkable Showcase In Innovation

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As a practitioner in the #innovation and #technology industry for 30+ years, I am so grateful to see that our Hong Kong is going to have a global showcase on how technology and innovation can empower a #SmartCity. #SkyCity is an impressive project to build another landmark for Hong Kong. Something that we Hong Kong people can be proud of again https://lnkd.in/ethaW9vu.

Smart airport, top shopping mall and commercial buildings (#11Skies https://www.11-skies.com/ or #Retailtainment from New World Development), world-class Expo exhibition centre, international hotels plus all the major scenic spots in the Lantau Island like #DisneyLand, and more importantly, providing a seamless experience for the key stakeholders of our #ecosystem including customers, tourists, visitors, merchants, tenants, startups and many others from the Greater Bay Area #GBA and all major cities around the globe. Appreciate the great leadership from Adrian Cheng #NWD.

Today, I moderated an expert panel to discuss how technologies could create that seamless customer experience for our SkyCity. There are 2 more panels on #ProfessionalServices and #Tourism in the forum. It drew over 10,000 offline and online audiences to attend today’s forum. Thank you so much for our panelists Chris Au Young #HKAA, Vivian Lo #CathayPacific, Paul Sin #NWD, and Francis Fong #HKITF
https://lnkd.in/erTCjUmH.

Here is my quote for the event:
“SKYCITY is a global showcase of how innovation and technology can generate a joyful experience for worldwide visitors. Emerging technologies are coming to us every day. The sky is the only limit on how innovation and technology can make a difference to customers and merchants in the SKYCITY. Come and experience it!”

Appreciate the effort from our MC Akina Fong and those behind the scene from #BrunswickGroup #K11 #NWD Quinton Chan, Mercury Wong, Ivan Chan, Vincci Hui 許煒森 and many others. Let’s collaborate together to build a smart SkyCity.

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