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(Hong Kong) Meet with Andy Ann – One of the Best Tech Serial Entrepreneurs in Hong Kong

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Great exchange of ideas with Andy Ann – one of the best tech #SerialEntrepreneurs from Hong Kong as well as our #CUHK #EMBA #CUHKEMBA distinguished alumnus. He has founded a few successful start-ups before another great one #YAS today – a #InsurTech startup focusing on #MicroInsurance. Impressive!

I met Andy a few years ago when we participated the #HSBC Innovation Summit. We have both witnessed how HSBC Commercial Banking have been transforming in the Digital Economy and glad that we had a chance to contribute to their #innovation journey as well.

Honoured to receive his book #創業不困難 from him directly. Learned a lot of secret sauce on being a successful startup today from Andy. I will share a copy of my book #數碼力大提升 in my next round of discussion with him.

We will explore further on how to empower and support our startup ecosystem, in particular those are trying but not yet on the right track, better and stronger.

Look forward to learning from and collaborating with Andy and many other successful entrepreneurs from Hong Kong, mainland and Asia. Stay tuned.

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(Hong Kong) Takeaways from Fireside Chat in the Launch of Corporate Innovation Index

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Leaders in Hong Kong shared experience on how corporates can innovate in this challenging time & seize the opportunities in the #DigitalEconomy. It was a fireside chat moderated by Patrick S Lee & I in the launch of Corporate Innovation Index program organized by #CUHK & #HKGCC.

Key takeaways:
1. Corporate innovation is about margin, sustainability & opportunities.

2. Engaging new generation is important for corporate innovation. Reverse mentorship is very effective to empower senior management on innovation.

3. The more challenging time we are in, more innovation we need (not an excuse to give up the priority of innovation)

4. Passion is a key for driving innovation

5. CEO cannot delegate innovation. He or she has to drive it & align with the company’s strategy with it. Bottom up is as equally important as top down.

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Grateful to have all these leaders in innovation & technology ecosystem to join the forum and appreciate their active participation. Francis Ngai #IBM, Andrew Ling #SAP, Eugene Hsia #HKSTP, Stella Kwan #Cyberport, Eunice Chan #HangSengBank, Raymond Cheng former C-suite #HSBC, Matthew Chan
#JardineRestaurantGroup, Larry Poon #CUHK & more.

We look forward to collaborating with all to deliver our Corporate Innovation Index for Hong Kong.

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(Hong Kong) HSBC Webinar: SME Business Management Digitalization

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Today is a special day for me. I have just received my book #數碼力大提升. It is the best gift that I have ever received in the #MidAutumnFestival of my life.

Also, it came on time as I was giving a keynote speech on #SME #Digitalization today in a series of webinars hosted by #HSBC Commercial Banking & #SMELAB. I have shared the key essence of my book & exchanged ideas with the guest panel speakers. Really learned a lot from Daniel Chan Teddy Liu Sam Sio CY Chan. Pls download my presentation deck today here:
https://lnkd.in/gHEFWzs

Also many thanks to the teammates from #HSBC #SMELAB Ada L. Danielle Jaff Lau & many others to organize this wonderful & fruitful discussion.

I would also like to thank the publisher of my book #Enrich #天窗 Wendy Tsang & her teammates for their professional support to make my dream come true. Please visit their website to find out more about my book & order a paper copy or ebook.
https://lnkd.in/gN-TJvJ

You can go to my website to find out more about my book & related activities. https://lnkd.in/gp3cgyc

Tune to #新城財經台 #FM104 at 1pm Oct 1. Alaric Chu 朱子昭 will interview me on my book.

Thanks again to many friends to make my dream come true. Have a wonderful #Mooncake Festival & enjoy the holiday.

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(Hong Kong) Retailers, Industrialists, Bankers & Entrepreneurs Joining Hands to Bounce Back from the Covid-19

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Industrialists, Bankers, Retailers & Entrepreneurs joined hands to share how to deal with and bounce back from the Coronavirus / Covid19. I joined 2 online forums as panel speakers today with the same theme i.e. how to bound back from the downturn due to the Pandemic. The 1st one focused on retailers while the 2nd one was on industrialists, startups & entrepreneurs.

I had a fruitful discussion with Chow Tai Fook’s Kent Wong & Quentin Wong and HKMA’s Dr. Victor Lee on the impact of AI, Platform, Gamification and more on the retail industry.  I also learned a lot from YaTa’s Susanna Wong, Fortress’ Clarice Au, and HKRMA’s Mary Suen.  Susanna made a great point. She said, “2 things that we must invest”.  1st is engagement with colleagues & 2nd is technology.  These investments were well justified & paid off as it helped them overcome this challenging period. The 3 leaders also shared about the unprecedented challenges on Logistics, Agility, Staff Skills, Customer Expectation & how to deal with them.  Excellent sharing.

I also had an insightful exchange with FHKI’s Dr. Daniel Yip, Startup Council’s Jason Chiu & Bryant Chan, and HSBC’s Daniel Chan on opportunities & challenges for startups & opportunities in HK, GBA, SEA & Reindustrialization. Stay tuned for the upcoming DemoFest.

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12 Elite Startups Shined in FHKI * HSBC STARS Programme

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Part 2 of #FHKI × #HSBC STARS Programme: 12 elite entrepreneurs shined on the demo day of our #FHKI × #HSBC STARS Programme in front of a number of  influential and experienced #toys and #electronics manufacturers.   We have carefully selected these start-ups through several rounds of assessment and prepared them for the demo day.  Congrats to AGIT FreightAmigo Quikec PowerArena Raspect  ArtroDigital Parami Posify 42Lab BNET-Tech CapLab and iCUBE.

The participating manufacturing leaders from FHKI will help and collaborate with these innovators on #GoToMarket strategy, #Production, #Marketing, #Funding, business connection and matching, etc.  Both sides were highly engaged in the demo and networking sessions.

Thanks again for #HSBC Daniel Chan Jaff Lau and Ada LAM for their support and presence on the demo day.  Daniel also shared how HSBC collaborates with startups to support SMEs.   Appreciate FHKI Bryant Chan Jason Chiu Gordon Lo Idy Cheung for their excellent leadership and execution.  It was my honour as the Principal Mentor of this program and am proud of all the participating startups and FHKI manufacturers.  Enterprise collaboration is the key for start-ups’ success.  Keep it going.

Part 1 of #FHKI × #HSBC STARS Programme can be found here.
https://lnkd.in/f5ui7rG

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FHKI x HSBC x Startup Collaboration

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It is absolutely critical to have leading manufacturers,  financial services institutes &  startups to collaborate together to co-create innovative solutions to solve customers’ pain points & come up with new business models to seize the market opportunities in the Digital Economy. Here is a great example in  Hong Kong.  FHKI Federation of Hong Kong Industries Startup Council partnered with  HSBC has organized a STARS programme to select the best of the best startups to add values to the Toys & Electronics manufacturing industries. https://lnkd.in/fV79SXT Today, we have done the vetting exercise. It was my honour being the Chairman of today’s judging panel & Principal Mentor of the programme. Experienced manufacturers, serial entrepreneurs, financial services leaders & investors were in our panel today. 10+ teams were selected & will proceed to next round for business & investors matching. It is encouraging to see all key stakeholders of the start-up ecosystem working together.  It combines the strength of HK to create synergy & miracles. Look forward to seeing more joint effort there. Special thanks to FHKI & HSBC to make it happen & the great effort from participating startups. Bryant Chan,  Jason Chiu , Gordon Lo , Idy Cheung Jaff Lau,  Ada LAM,  Daniel Chan & more.

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Empowering SMEs for Digital Economy – 智識做老闆Metro Radio Series

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Digital Transformation for SME is very critical for small to medium-sized companies in Hong Kong and many cities in  Asia to operate, compete and survive in the ever-changing digital world. from Metro Radio & I have been doing a series of chats with innovative start-ups and large companies in Hong Kong to tap into their minds and how they help SME to transform digitally. You can listen to the program 智識做老闆 from this link: https://lnkd.in/fvCkxmT

Jul 27 HSBC Daniel Chan Support SME Digitalization

Jul 20  Backers Damien Ng Match  innovators with  retailers

Jul 13  Raspect Harris Sun Use  AI to inspect buildings & roads

Jul 6  Quikec Peter Li Use AI to do QA & QC for  manufacturing

Jun 29  LivelyImpact Ivan Ng Leverage BigData to do smart advertising

Jun 22 theAnswr Edmund Lee Democratize Big Data Analytics to the mass

Jun 15 Posify Make online & offline O2O retailers to do business easier

Jun 8 CryptoBlk Duncan Wong Apply blockchain in the real world

Jun 1 OpenCertHub Dr. CHARM Toa Build startups ecosystem Certify Big Data & AI talents

Let me know if you would like to know more how Digital Innovation can empower your businesses & operations. Thanks Christine Lam & all of guests to share their valuable experiences with us.

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Outstanding CityU DBA Alumni Award 2018

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It is my honour to receive the Outstanding CityU DBA Alumni Award 2018 from Prof Ozer, CityU DBA Director, and Dr. George Lam,Cyberport Chairman. I would like to thank Prof Ozer, Prof Vogel and Prof Kumar, many professors there to nurture me and support me to complete my doctoral thesis on big data in my Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) journey.

Thanks for Dr Geroge Lam, Tenny L. Michael Leung Dr. Wilson Cheung as my guests of honour to witeness my award presentation. I would like to thank my family to raise me up with solid education in school and at home.

During my career, I was so fortune to work for great companies Cyberport HSBC IBM Oracle Informix JOS Kingdee and met with great people. I learned a lot from them. It is only a few of them here. Daniel Lai Susanna Chiu Susanna Shen Sunny L. Stephen Lau Louis Ma Thomas Wan Kevin SM Yeung Allen Yeung David Chung Andrew Chan, Prof Jacky So of University of Macau, Mr. Robert Xu from Kingdee, Mrs. Chan Siu Hing from HSBC, and many others. Thank you so much to all of you.

I will continue to improve and do my best to contribute to innovation and technology industry especially in AI BigData FinTech and the society, economy and next generation in Asia. Cheers.

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