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Reviving Offline Conferences: Highlights from Google Cloud Summit Hong Kong 2023

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Finally, we could physically join the Google Cloud Summit Hong Kong after the 3 years long pandemic. Over thousand of guests attended the event today. The vibrant and engaging atmosphere was very impressive and full of passion. Thanks the great leadership from Kathy Lee and Disaree (DiDi) Wong to make this happen again in Hong Kong.

Today, we have witnessed many new offerings from Google. Needless to say, it was all about AI. Google really makes AI easier for every one from IT to business users. Impressive demos from June Yang on their innovation and applications on Generative AI. It was eye opener for me. Google and several renowed speakers also talked about democratizing data analytics and AI to users at all levels. Data culture again comes to the top of the list.

I delivered a talk in today’s summit on our experience how we collaborated with Google to empower business users in private and public sectors to make use of data every day as their habits through our Data Literacy Empowerment Programme #DLEP. Thanks for Owen Chong Michael Yung and Ricky Lau from Google for their support. More can be found here https://ochacademy.com/.

One after one offline huge conferences have been coming back to Hong Kong. Pumped into friends whom we have not met for years in these occasions. Really felt warm and happy especially seeing old friends Dave Chen, Suk-Wah Kwok, Alex Zhang, Kenny Au, Leo Tsang, CPA, LLM, MSc. Charles Hung, Chris Shum, Eric Or, Charleston Sin, Fuller Yu, Pascal Tse, Allan Wong, Justy Yuen, Derry Fong, Adela Lau and many others.

Also, it is always joyful to see our founding fellows of DaLa – Data Literacy Association #DaLa in any occasions. Today we had Ravel Lai Herman Cheng Stephen L. Andy Kwok Victor Ng Dr. Lana Lo Matthew Chan Jacob Wai, FRM, FFA FIPA, FCMA, CSDP, MHKCS, LLM, MBA Michael Yung, joined the Summit on different capacities.

See you and more in our next event. You are welcome to join our next DaLa event on June 20 and happy hours afterwards. Topic is Power of Data in Driving Sustainability and Operational Resilience. Find out more here:
https://lnkd.in/gt-J2BX7

#Google #GoogleCloud #GoogleAI #GoogleData #DataCloud #GoogleCloudSummit
#AI #GenerativeAI #Data
#DataLiteracy #DataCulture #DataMindset #OpenCertHubAcademy #OCHA

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Unlocking the Secret to Data Monetization: Insights from China CITIC Bank International’s Agile Culture Transformation Room

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Change Starts With “YOU”. What a quote posted on the wall of the Agile Culture Transformation #ACT room in the China CITIC Bank International #CNCBI 中信銀行(國際) in Hong Kong. The Bank really understands how important culture is to make any change work. It is so inspiring and a perfect place for us to hold our forum there with the main theme on Data Literacy: From Data Insight to Data Monetization.

The secret sauce of monetizing data asset effectively is in fact Data Culture of the organization. Our audiences were from different business units of the Bank. They also agreed with us that data culture is the top challenge to monetize data asset of the bank.

Frazer Lam, CIO of CNCBI, and I have delivered our speeches to set the scene. We then had a fruitful discussion with Patrick Khong #HKEX, Michael Yung #Google and Victor Ng #OpenCertHubAcademy #OCHA. Really grateful having them in my panel. We all learnt a lot from their sharing. Thank you.

My 3 key takeaways on monetizing data effectively are as follows:

1. Collaboration across business units, IT and Data teams are super important to capitalize data asset.

2. Users at all levels should speak the language of data as their habit to solve problems, seize opportunities and communicate/agrue with stakeholders.

3. Building a sustainable data culture is the most critical success factor for data monetization rather than talent, data, technology, financial support and business cases.

Victor Ng and I have been empowering quite a few enterprises with our Data Literacy Empowerment Programme #DLEP. It is a data culture change programme and is a journey instead of a project. Please find out more https://ochacademy.com/

Really appreciate Denny Woo, CPFinT(M), Salina C., Sunny So, Joel Tse and many others from CNCBI and my OpenCertHub Academy’s colleagues to make this happen. Thanks for all participants on site and online today and their sensible questions. Happy to catch up with good friends Benedict Lau, CSM, CSPO, Lam Holly, Hongming Hu,CFA FRM and a few more now with the Bank there after the long Covid time.

Change Starts With “YOU”. Let’s empower ourselves to be a data citizen and speak the language of data every day.

#DataLiteracy #DataCulture #DataMindset #DataCitizen #CitizenDataScientist
#DataMonetization
#Data #BigData #AI
#Change #Culture #Agile #Transformation

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Digital Strategy and Transformation at MTR: Insights from Elite Digital Leaders in Hong Kong

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Grateful to have a fruitful discussion with 3 elite digital leaders in Hong Kong and share our experience with a group of senior executives of MTR. Thank you to my panel guests:
Wai-yin Wan #MTR
Matthew Chan #JardineRestaurantGroup
Michael Yung #Google #GoogleCloud

Our main theme was Digital Strategy: Lead and Execute Your Digital Vision. It was really inspiring to many participants including myself indeed.

My 3 key takeaways are:

1. Digital Strategy should be seen as Strategy in Digital Era; Digital Transformation should be thought as Transformation in Digital Era; and certainly Digital Leader should transform themselves into Leaders in Digital Era. If we have no Strategy and cannot get transformation working, there is no place for Digital and certainly no place for Digital Leaders.

2. Cascading Strategy down is one of the major challenges for any companies. Just townhall communication is far from enough. Treat every employee differently just like how we are doing for customers. What does our Strategy mean to every single one of employees? Rather than just “Segment of One” for customer (customer centric or customer obsessed), can we do “Workforce of One” (employee centric or employee obsessed)?

3. Innovation will just become a threatre and showroom if we don’t understand the first 2 points. Even you got a fancy innovation head title, it doesn’t mean you can overcome all challenges in Transformation including Digital Transformation. Eventually you lose your passion and leave your company voluntarily or involuntarily.

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Thank you to MTR Learning and Development team and my CUHK teammates to make this meaningful panel discussion happen. Appreciate it.

#CUHK CUHK Business School
#DigitalTransformation
#DigitalStrategy #DigitalLeader
#Change #Transformation
#CustomerCentric #CustomerObsessed
#EmployeeCentric #EmployeeObsessed

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(Hong Kong) My First Series of “Toa Sir Data Talk” (ToaSir講數)

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I am so grateful to complete my first series of chats with leaders across industries on #DATA in our programme #ToaSirDataTalk#ToaSir講數 in the past few months.

Topics that we talked about:

1. #AI, #BigData and #MachineLearning#ML strategies and applications in #Retail, #SupplyChain, #Engineering, #Telecom and #Hospitality.

2. Business models and data monetization

3. Data leadership, culture and mindset across the organization

4. Challenges on culture, organization, ROI, technology, talents, and data governance, data security and privacy, and practical experience to tackle these problems

5. Upskilling colleagues across organization to speak data as second business language (democratize #DataLiteracy to business at all levels)

6. Data talents acquisition, cultivation and retention

Would you like to learn from them? You can now not just #WFH but also #LFH#LearnFromHome. Here you go! You can watch them in #ToaSirDataTalk official website www.ToaSirDataTalk.com.

Thanks again to my guests Dr. Ricky Tsui#ARUP, Anna Lin#GS1HK, Susanna Chiu#Bonjour, Daniel Kwong former #CITICTelecom, and Michael Yung#Google. Appreciate support from my teammates from #OpenCertHub, #OpenCertHubAcademyAndy KwokEric Luo, #HKPC#HKPCAcademyKaren F.Marius Chow, and the production crew🙏👍👏. Great team work!

*** In the MAKING: We have started another series of “Toa Sir Data Talk” with business, innovation and data leaders, e.g. CEO, Chief Data Officer, Chief Digital Officer #CDO, Chief Innovation Officer, Chief Information Officer #CIO, #DataScientist, etc. If you are interested to share your data stories, please let me know.

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(Hong Kong) Panel Discussion with Elite Digital Leaders @CUHK MBA Alumni Association 

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Amazing f2f panel discussion today with 5 elite digital leaders. Thanks for Ian Chan #Octopus, Adrian Toy #Google, Kevin Huang #Carousell, Ralph Szeto #AIM & Frankie Ng #Shopify.

We discussed 2 key questions.

1. What are the hurdles of #DigitalTransformation?

2. What are the impacts of the pandemic on Digital Transformation?

My key takeaways are:

1. Sense of urgency is critical to drive change including digital tranformation.

2. Great potential of our #Entrepreneurship were unleashed when people have more time with themselves during the pandemic.

3. Culture is key as political and functional silos causing lots of hurdles without alignment.

4. The pandemic drives not only digital adoption of users but also #CustomerExperience #innovation from the providers.

5. Some great visions of the panelist: Carousell wants to make 2nd hand products as people’s first choice. It brings #Sustainability & #SocialImpact to the society while Shopify aims to be the platform of all commerce at all touchpoints instead of just #Ecommerce.

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Appreciate CUHK MBA Alumni Association Alexandra Lo, EMBA and Armstrong Lee & #CUHKMBA and #CUHKEMBA colleagues to make this amazing forum possible. Thanks to all f2f and online participants & their active participation. See you next time.

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(Hong Kong) CUHK MBA Forum: “Digital Transformation at the Era of Uncertainty”

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Thanks Armstrong Lee Alexandra Lo, EMBA CUHK MBA Alumni Association to gather the digital leaders in town to discuss the hot topic “Digital Transformation at the Era of Uncertainty”.

Grateful to Alexandra to invite me to moderate this panel. Really look forward to learning from the vibrant leaders.
•  Adrian Toy #Google
•  Kevin Huang #Carousell
•  Ian Chan #Octopus
•  Frankie Ng #Shopify
•  Ralph Szeto Hong Kong Association of Interactive ( #HKAIM )

If you are affiliated with #CUHK #MBA #EMBA, you may enroll this forum. Here are the details.
Date: 15 July ( Thursday )
Time: 7:30 – 8:30 pm + Q&A
Language : English
Format : Offline + Online

More information and registration:
https://lnkd.in/gUTqwBD

See you there!

#DigitalTransformation #CorporateInnovation #CUHKMBA #CUHKEMBA #CUHKMBAAlumni Grace Liang Pong Yuen, Howard Lam Chun So

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(Hong Kong) Reunion with Alumni of Cyberport CUPP 2016 Programme

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Really happy to see Roy Hung & his friends again. I met Roy a few years ago in our #Cyberport #CUPP 2016 programme. My team & I brought 50+ top university students from Hong Kong to the #StanfordUniversity in #SiliconValley to learn #FinTech & #Entrepreneurship. It was a fruitful, impactful & fun trip. Apart from what we learned from this trip, Roy & I also talked about the tasty & yummy lobsters and crabs in the Fisherman’s Wharf as well as the Ferrari from Leslie Yuen. What an experience and memory!. Thanks Leslie Yuen, Dr. Edwin Lee 李根興, Alice So and Katherine Lam for their great effort to make this happened.

Let me give you an eyesight test. Can you find out where Roy and I were in the group photo in front of #Google, #INTEL and #PlugAndPlay Headquarters in the #BayArea #California?

Really grateful to see & feel that Roy still has the heart to innovate and be a tech entrepreneur👍 together with his friends. We were discussing another potential and exciting venture last night. Keep it going and add oil💪✊. You have my full support🤝🙌.

Those effort that we put to cultivate next generation of startup entrepreneurs was well spent. Great stuff. 培養香港年青一代成為創業家。年青人及導師都要加油!努力!

To support them further, I have given them a copy of my book #數碼力大提升 with my encouraging message.

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(Mainland China) Platform Monopoly and Breakthrough

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Most of us have been using and engaging with these companies like Alibaba, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Tencent, and Ctrip. What do they have in common? They are not only the world’s highest valuated businesses but also the world’s most influential platforms. The next generation of Fortune500 companies in the decade of 2020 will be mostly platform-based businesses such as Airbnb, Grab, Robinhood, Spotify, and more.

What is platform? More importantly, what kind of magic do they have to make them so powerful? Platforms, a near-monopolistic business model, are quietly taking over the global economy. These platforms make much of their money not by what they sell but by facilitating the interactions or transactions of others. Traditional product, manufacturers,  brands, and intermediaries (or “the middleman”) incumbents in all major industries are being seriously disrupted by these platforms.

I am going to explore why every one of the businesses has to have the right platform strategy in order to able to compete and even survive in the DigitalEconomy, and how we can formulate a suitable and feasible platform strategy for our businesses even we are a product company now. Stay tuned on April 29.

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