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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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Media & Interviews

The AI Hurricane Triggered by ChatGPT: Insights from Economic Journal’s Special Edition

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AI hurricane has been triggered and highly accelerated by the #ChatGPT tide. Thanks for the Economic Journal #HKEJ #信報 to arrange a special edition on this hot topic. Cally Chan #Microsoft, Crystal Fok #HKSTP and I (in the capacity of #CUHK and DaLa – Data Literacy Association), had a chance to sit down and shared our view on this unprecedented storm to the whole mankind and more importantly its impact to Hong Kong.

My view is that we have one more key stakeholder in our ecosystem. That is the AI-driven robots. Just like other key stakeholders such as startups, investors, professionals, and more, they are one of the key partners for us to co-create values for our customers and societies. Human-AI collaboration is the ultimate competitive advantage in the Digital Era (Oh well, at least this decade). Whoever can make this right will lead the market and advance their career far better than who can’t.

Please have a look of our views. We will for sure discuss even more in the upcoming many occasions and many years ahead. See you and bots around. Cheers.

信報
微軟 香港科技園
#DaLa #MSHK CUHK Business School
#AI #Data
#Innovation #Technology

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Activities

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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Startup Advisory

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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“Bank of Future” – FinTech Week Hong Kong 2022

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I ran into “Bank of Future” today in the 2022 FinTech Week Hong Kong #FTWHK https://lnkd.in/gNF–y47. It was wonderful and amazing to see many old and new friends in the FinTech space. More eye-opening innovations from our FinTech ecosystem. Our innovation have not been stopped by the pandemic.

“Pushing Boundaries, Reaping Benefits” is this year’s main theme. I saw traditional financial services are doing exactly like this. Transunion’s “Beyond Credit”, DBS’s “More like a startup, less like a bank”. How about FinTech startups? #DimOrder looks like a POS system and now well beyond POS to solve finance related pain points for their supply chain. They got accepted to the world’s best accelerator, #YCombinator. Arguably, Y Combinator is the factory of Unicorns. DimOrder is our Hong Kong’s honour and proud. #Diginex goes beyond ESG reporting to solve the financing issues of SMEs. And more beyond everything plus the X factor of MetaVerse.

Thanks for Victor Yim #Cyberport, Crystal Fok #HKSTP, Jessica Liu #FTAHK and many other ecosystem enablers to make these all happened. More financial services incumbents are open their doors to collaborate with startups while the government and regulators have new policy and fundings for the fintech ecosystem in Hong Kong.

New initiatives on #CBDC, #CDI, #DigitalAsset, blockchain-based and AI applications plus #MetaVerse with infinite imagination are emerging. The financial services companies in this decade is going to be revolutionized. Or we should ask ourselves “What is a financial services company in 2030?” Stay tuned for more.

Glad to meet quite a few elite FinTech leaders and entrepreneurs there, such as, Marie Claire Lim Moore #Transunion, Ben Wong #DimOrder, Benedict Ang #OCBC, Kevin Leung #LIQUID, Taurus Cheung #ShipAny, Patrick C.S. Fan #beNovelty, Thomson Ho #10Life, Ankit Suri #PlanTo, Ben Wong #SunLife, Jaff Lau #HSBC, Paul Wan #SCB, Culsin Li #BaoBabTre and many other great startups and innovation leaders from #HSBC, #SCB, #BEA, #DBS, #OCBC, and more there as well. See you around in the venue or online.

#Innovation #Technology
#FinTechWeekHK
#Transunion #TU

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Activities

Announce the Result of Hong Kong Corporate Innovation Index on Nov 23

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Do you know which companies in Hong Kong are the most innovative ones? More importantly, what can we learn from them? I am so excited to let you know that we are ready to announce the result of our first-ever Hong Kong Corporate Innovation Index CII on Nov 23, 2022.

After more than one-year work on CII, we have identified the most innovative enterprises and SMEs in Hong Kong based on our innovation framework. We will also announce a Composite Index for Corporate Innovation in Hong Kong so that we can compare our improvement in the future years. Don’t miss it. Find out more and register here: https://lnkd.in/dznKapFj

Our aim is not so much on the rankings and awards, but more on identifying the gaps and empowering our Hong Kong companies to innovate more effectively. A series of seminars and workshops will follow. I am so grateful to have the opportunity to contribute to this project as it is impactful, meaningful and influential to Hong Kong competitiveness and sustainable growth.

In the past year, we have done a series of tasks and in fact iterations of tasks, e.g. research, pilot study, interviews, survey, analysis, expert groups, etc., to get these results ready. It was not an easy job as you can imagine. Appreciate all the effort and hard work from our CUHK teammates, all steering committee members, all organizing committee members, all sponsors, all supporting organizations and certainly all the companies who participated in our survey and discussions.

Please join us in the afternoon of Nov 23, 2022 to learn more about corporate innovation. Apart from the CUHK senior management, we will have 2 discussion panels. One is on corporate innovation and another one is on SME innovation. We will talk about the findings from our survey and then discuss with the panelists. They are all ranked high on our Corporate Innovation Index.

HKSAR Government top officials, CUHK management, the top management of the awardees, the key leaders on innovation and technology ecosystem in Hong Kong have confirmed to join the ceremony. Please come to learn from and mingle with them.

#CII #CorporateInnovationIndex
#innovation #CorporateInnovation
#Technology #Ecosystem
#CUHK CUHK Business School
#HKGCC #HKSTP #Cyberport #AWS #IBM #SAP #JETCO #HASE #JardineRestaurantGroup #TradeLink
#CUHKEMBA #CUHKMBA #CUHKMiM
CUHK EMBA CUHK MBA CUHK MiM CUHK MSc in Finance
#SME

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Sharing on Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship with My Mini-MBA

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What a week for me last week! I shared my experience on corporate innovation and entrepreneurship with my EMBA, MBA and then Mini-MBA students in a week. That was a very packed but very fruitful and meaningful week for me.

Let me share a bit more on my Mini-MBA class as it was interesting. Our Mini-MBA programme is a series of one-day modules for business executives professionals and entrepreneurs to upskill themselves under their busy schedule. Our main theme is Innovative Leadership. My class this year had a very good mix of executives and professionals from commercial and public sectors like #HKHA Hong Kong Hospital Authority, entrepreneurs from startups like #Aerosim #BioMed, and team leaders from #HKSTP. We mixed them up for class exercises and discussion. That indeed was the best way to learn innovation as diversity is a key success factor for great innovation. Appreciate their active participation and sharing thoughts. Great class! Also, big thank to HKSTP Garland Chow and Gallen Leung to encourage amd support their #startups to join this programme.

More about our Mini-MBA programme, please click here:
https://lnkd.in/g89hXjXr

For more about my EMBA and MBA classes this week, check out my other two posts here.

EMBA
https://lnkd.in/gjtQTj-7

MBA
https://lnkd.in/gdYA-342

#CUHK #CUHKEMBA #CUHKMBA #CUHKMiniMBA
#MiniMBA
#CorporateInnovation #Entrepreneurship #Leadership
#HKSTP

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Key Associations

62nd Annual Dinner of Federation of Hong Kong Industries (FHKI)

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Grateful to have joined the 62nd Annual Dinner of #FHKI last night. Most of the top government officials, including Chief Executive Mr. John Lee and ITIB Secretary Professor Sun Dong, and FHKI leaders, including Chairman Dr. Sunny Chai, and all key Chairpersons in the Innovation and Technology ecosystem, including #ASTRI Sunny Lee, #LSMC Dr. Alan Lam, #Cyberport Simon Chan, #HKSTP Dr. Sunny Chai, #HKPC Sunny Tan, and more were there. Really full of stars🌟🌟 #星光熠熠 there.

Really feel thankful and honour being a ExCo Member and Chief Mentor of the Startup Council of FHKI under the leadership of Jason Chiu together with a team of veterans in the innovation, technology and industry ecosystem. As now we have the Innovation, Technology and Industry Bureau #ITIB, the Startup Council can and will contribute even more to bridge the #industrialists and tech #startup #entrepreneurs. More about the Startup Council here https://lnkd.in/gD8zQ6Xj

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Latest Events

Introducing My New Advising AI Startup: HairCoSys

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Really glad to see the good progress of my advising AI startup, HairCoSys Limited. #HairCoSys aims to solve the pain points of lossing hair and other hair problems by making use of #AI and cultivating an #ecosystem. Look around our friends in the world, no matters what gender and age groups, these pain points on our hair have been getting more serious and the potential total addressable market #TAM is huge.

Today, we had a progress meeting with Michael Wong, Founder and CEO of HairCoSystem, together with my fellow well-experienced advisors Ivan Ng (Data Science), 黃創安 (Hair Treatment) and Vincent Tsui (Marketing) https://lnkd.in/dtGf_f2H .

Since HairCoSys was successfully admitted to the #HKSTP Incubation program just a few months ago, HairCoSys team has been progressing well. We are pleased to see the first #MVP of the product. Thanks for the day-to-day great effort and passion from Michael’s, his teammates and our advisors. Appreciate the great support from various HKSTP teams.

We are determined to leveraging AI to make a real impact on taking care of the hair healthiness of everyone in different stages of lives around the globe.

We had a small party for my birthday as well. Beautiful cake and wonderful team bonding. Really appreciate it.

Look forward to collaborating with our ecosystem partners as well. If you are interested to find out more, please let me know. For more about HairCoSystem, please visit https://haircosys.com/.

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Key Associations

GS1HK: The First HK IoT Industry Advisory Council (IAC) Meeting

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What a day to start our 1st GS1 HK IoT Industry Advisory Council (IAC) meeting! Today is the date that our HKSAR Government starts relaxing some preventive measures for the Covid. We can now have more choices and freedom to eat, exercise, massage, go to movies, meet up with friends, families and partners, and more.

I am so honoured and grateful to be the new Chairman of the IAC and have a chance to collaborate with two well-experienced Vice-Chairpersons Susanna Shen and Patrick Tsang. Special thanks to Anna Lin and her teammates Julian Sin, Mignone Cheng, Philip YK Choi, MBA and more for their great support.

We are so glad that our IoT IAC has great support from the industry. Thanks for Ir Dr Hon LO Wai-kwok, GBS, MH, JP, Member of the Legco Council (Functional Constituency – Engineering) to be one of our honourable advisors. In addition, thanks for the continuous support from Ir. Eric Chan#Cyberport, Dr. Crystal Fok#HKSTP and many other leaders and experts from the industry.

Established in 2013, the Hong Kong Internet of Things Industry Advisory Council brings like-minded companies under the auspices of GS1 Hong Kong together to promote IoT adoption in Hong Kong, uplift the competitiveness of local companies and create an IoT ecosystem in Hong Kong. More about our IAC can be found here https://lnkd.in/gZ3M-NrZ

In the coming years, we will focus on our 3 key pillars. Your contribution and support are welcome and highly appreciated.

1. Sharing of best practices on IoT and related technologies like AIoT, Big Data and Mobility

2. Talents cultivation in various effective formats for small to large companies and the young generation (both technical and business)

3. Policies and standards advisory to the government and professional organizations

In the meantime, enjoy the relaxed environment in Hong Kong with your friends and family. Do keep safe and healthy as well.

#GS1HK#IOT#AIOT#AI
#BigData#Data#DataLiteracy
#Mobility#Connectivity

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