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Exciting Innovations Await: Hong Kong ICT Awards 2023 Kicks Off After Pandemic Hiatus

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Hong Kong ICT Awards 2023 is right on. This is the first one after the pandemic period. We have outstanding number of contestants to join our different streams of awards this year. We look forward to witnessing amazing innovations from this year’s competition. More about the HKICTA can be found here.
https://lnkd.in/gpe-aUv

I am grateful to have opportunities in the past few years to engage in the HKICTA as organizer and/or judge in various streams. Today, I shared, together with other ICT leaders Agnes Mak, CK Wong and Chin Lok Tsang (Winner of Grand Award of Student Innovation Stream last year), with this year’s contestants on our experience in preparing for the competition.

We received quite a few sensible questions from audiences on site and online. We did have a good discussion today and hope it helps.

Thanks for #OGCIO Josephine Cheng and her teammates to organize such a great learning session for all participants of this year’s competition.

More importantly, we all hope that all participants enjoy the process and learn more from it to make their innovations better year by year. I wish all of you can use your wisdom and innovation to make Hong Kong proud. Good luck and see you on the scene.

#HKICTA #innovation #technology
#Intrapreneurship #Entrepreneurship #Startup

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Advisory Services

Empowering Real Estate Consultants with Data Literacy: A Collaboration with Colliers

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It has been my great pleasure to collaborate with 高力國際 #Colliers Hong Kong in various perspectives in the last few months. From advisory and a panel discussion on the property strategy for the growth of innovation and technology ecosystem in Hong Kong, a forum on the power of data in sustainability, and, most recently, a sharing session on data literacy for real estate industry for the top consultants of Colliers, and more.

Colliers is a global real estate services and investment management company, with operations in over 60 countries. They specialize in providing a wide range of real estate services to clients, including property management, brokerage, valuation, and consulting. To stay ahead of their competitions, data literacy for every consultant is pivotal. Analyze, innovate, communicate and win with data is mandatory for professionals in today’s digital economy. Colliers is right on it.

Really appreciate the leadership from Chun Kong Lau and enjoy the collaboration with the Colliers’ team Chris Hui, Jo L., Kathy Lee, Andrew Lau, Hannah Jeong, Mandy Leung and many more. The team is passionate and professional with open mindset. Love their collaborative office and community sharing culture.

Look forward to collaborating with the team even more in their data literacy empowerment and digital transformation journey.

#DataLiteracy #Data #AI #DigitalTransformation #Innovation #Technology #Sustainability #ESG #PropTech #Property #RealEstate
#OCHA #DLEP OpenCertHub Academy
#DaLa DaLa – Data Literacy Association

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Join the Discussion on AI Applications and Trends with DaLa’s Top AI Leaders

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DaLa – Data Literacy Association #DaLa is proud to present you another “food of thought” forum on the hot topic “AI Applications and Trends” together with powerful AI leaders. Our panel speakers are all top notch leaders in Hong Kong AI Ecosystem. It includes Cally Chan #Microsoft, Nixon Chau #Sensetime, Chris Au Young #AAHK and Sunny Lee BBS JP #ASTRI. Chris and Nixon are also two of our DaLa’s Founding Fellows. We have just done a pre-panel call to prepare and ensure that we will have some fruitful and insightful sharing with our audiences.

We will look at new use cases of AI and certainly Generative AI. Will cover challenges to put AI into actions and look into the future of AI and its implications to us in HK and GBA in particular, as well as some key topic like Responsible AI and more..

Apart from the panel, we also support the Digital Transformation Award of this conference.

We are so grateful and honoured to power a panel discussion on AI in the BUSINESS GOVirtual 2023. It has been our pleasure to support and collaborate with the organizing team Culsin Li, Cathina Huen, Denise Ho and many others from Baobab Tree Event.

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to learn from us. See you there. Here is how to find out more details of the Business GoVirtual Conference.
https://lnkd.in/gqSCFXQH

Recently, DaLa has organized a Data Forum on the topic “Power of Data in Driving Sustainability and Operational Excellence”. You may view this video to learn more about this DaLa Forum.
https://lnkd.in/g5kQgtdF

If you would like to join our future DaLa future “food of thought” forums and join us to become a part of DaLa as members, please visit our website.
https://dalahk.org/

#AI #Data #GenerativeAI #ChatGPT #Innovation #Technology
#ResponsibleAI #DataLiteracy

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Chief Judge of FinTech Award Shares Tips for Winning the Hearts of Judges at 2023 Hong Kong ICT Awards

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In the capacity of the Chief Judge of the FinTech Award of 2023 Hong Kong ICT Awards, I have shared my experience and tips on winning the hearts and votes from the judges to the participants of this year’s competition today. Thanks to The Hong Kong Institute of Bankers #HKIB to organize this fruitful mentoring session. Appreciate the leadership from Carrie Leung, the effort from Chung Wan Lam and their HKIB teammates.

Apart from my sharing, we had a panel discussion with 3 other judges and assessors of the Award including Michael Leung #BOA, Jacob Wai, FRM, FFA FIPA, FCMA, CSDP, MHKCS, LLM, MBA #Deloitte and Henry Chang. Thanks for Lionel #HKIB to moderate our panel discussion.

I have included one of my slides on the 12 key advices for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs as your reference. Let me know if you would like to understand more. I am happy to share with you. I also introduced the Grand Award winners for the last 4 years where I was the Chief Judge. It includes Terence Leung #AIA, 鄭嘉泓 #Wizpresso, Miles Wen (温豪夫) #FanoLabs and Tomas Holub #CoverGo. I shared some insights on how they made it.

We also invited Kevin Leung #Liquid, the Gold Medal winner of last year, to share his experience. Kevin’s sharing was inspring. Here are my 3 picks from Kevin:

1. You are the winner already when you joined this award competition.

2. Keep trying and keep learning. He has tried several times and pivoted many times before he won the Award.

3. Speak slowly and clearly to get your key messages across deep to your judges. Keep it simple but really plant these few key points to the judge’s mind.

Met new and familiar startups and financial services leaders today as well. Wish you all have a great learning journey and all the best. See you soon in the presentation rounds. Cheers.

#HKICTA #FinTech #BankTech #InsurTech #LendTech #RegTech #SupTech #WealthTech #PayTech #Innovation #Technology
#Entrepreneurship #Intrapreneurship

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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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Media & Press

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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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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Collaboration for Co-Creation: Runnovation Place Hosts B4B Challenge and DaLa Crossover Event

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Another meaningful gathering for data experts and users to learn from each other this afternoon in the amazing #Runnovation place of China Resources Capital. It was a crossover for B4B Challenge #B4B and Data Literacy Association #DaLa. Appreciate the support from Dennis Choi, Philip Cheng and Xinyi L. #CRCapital.

B4B Challenge B4B Limited has been a platform for Hong Kong and mainland data startups to apply their data expertise to solve real world problems for the last 7 years. DaLa – Data Literacy Association has just started last year with aim to empower users to make use data effectively – “Empowering Everyone to Speak Data”. Both organizations are joining hands to bring experts and users together to learn and co-create values from data.

In the capacity of Founding Chairman of DaLa and Principal Advisor of B4B, I was pleased to see more collaboration across two communities to co-create more synergy. Grateful to see our DaLa founding fellows Michael Yung, Matthew Chan, Nixon Chau, Elaine Wang were there to support the event. Thanks Candi Yeung and her teammates to make this happen.

DaLa has started organizing company visits, forums and training to help our members to learn more data literacy in different functions, companies and industries as well as connect more like minds data friends to know each other. In early May, DaLa led a delegation to Macau. Here is a short video to get a feel of our inspiring and fruitful trip.
https://lnkd.in/g5ZT-22M

More on B4B Challenge 2023:
https://lnkd.in/gD79Uz_P

More on DaLa’s Study Trip to Macau:
https://lnkd.in/gaqfYZkd

If you, as company or individual, are interested to become a member of DaLa and participate our activities, please visit our website https://lnkd.in/gPzbeTmp. We look forward to welcoming you especially the users who are keen on upskilling on data literacy and unleashing the power of data in their businesses, operations and daily work.

#DataLiteracy
#Data #AI #BigData
#Innovation #Technology
#ChinaResources

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Training

Strategic Management of Innovation: Insights from CUHK Chinese EMBA Course

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Just delivered a challenging but rewarding 4-day intensive CUHK Chinese EMBA course on Strategic Management of Innovation. Really felt tired and exhausted but all my effort was paid off with the deep participation and engagement with my excellent executive students from the mainland.

My dear students presented beautiful flowers to me to show their appreciation. Wow! It was the first time in my teaching journey to receive flowers. What a surprise and touching indeed. Thank you so much my dear students.

We couldn’t have acheived that much without the great sharing from my guest speakers Miles Wen (温豪夫) #FanoLabs, Nixon Chau #SenseTime, Christina Ong #HSBC, Adonis Ya #NewRetail, and Thomson Lai #AECOM. They are all elite leaders from different industries. They openly shared their valuable experience on innovation from their perspectives. Our students including myself learned a lot from them. Thank you.

Felt particularly grateful to have Adonis as my guest speaker as he was my CUHK EMBA student who have taken this course (English version) before. He applied what I taught him so well and has created new breakthrough in his career. Really happy for him. He sincerely shared his experience with my students.

I would like to thank my senior executive students from different cities in mainland China for their effort to spend 4 consecutive days here and did a fantastic job in their group projects as well. I hope my experience in innovation has inspired them to lead their companies and teams to seek breakthrough and achieve their H3.

Recap, remember and redo… “What should we do differently from yesterday so we can survive today?”

CUHK Business School CUHK EMBA #CUHK #CUHKEMBA
#CorporateInnovation #Innovation #Technology #Entrepreneurship #Intrapreneurship

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