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(Hong Kong) Ice Breaking to Re-warm Back to the Physical World

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Ice breaking to re-warm ourselves back to the physical world. While we are gradually getting back to the physical f2f world, like 2 f2f conferences that I participated last week, we need some help to lossen up our ankles and muscle, and reboot our mindset back to the real world. #EnergyBooster is a good way that you may try.

The 6th Cloud Forum last Friday used the Energy Booster to warm up hundreds of audiences before the real show. What it did was to ask everyone to simulate and act on what they would do during their leisure time right in the venue. Then it asked the friends around to guess what it was.

It could be basketball, golf, singing, reading, mahjong, massage, etc. All audiences stood up and proactively joined. It ended up with many different ways on how the audiences spent their time on leisure. It was fun and really engaged the whole crowd be it be tens, hundreds or thousands on a physical location. Try it in your next #f2f #offline #physical event. Cheers.

Thanks Catherine Chan #Kornerstone the organizer of the 6th Cloud Forum to arrange such a great way to warm us up.

6th Cloud Forum
https://lnkd.in/g94MqeM

20th HK GS1 Conference
https://lnkd.in/gDd8sZf

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(Hong Kong) The 6th Cloud Forum Hong Kong – “Cloud Hyperdrive in Disruptive Times”

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Grateful to see and contribute to another great offline conference today. The 6th #Cloud Forum Hong Kong was successful launched today at the #HKCEC. The main theme was Cloud HyperDrive in Disruptive Time.
https://www.cloudforum.hk/

I was moderating the 1st panel of the forum and the topic was #CloudMigration. We had a good mix of experiences in our panel so we could make insightful discussion from different perspectives. It included well established company Dr. Ted Suen, MH #MTR, vibrant #FinTech #InsurTech #Startup Michael Kwan Yu Chan #Bowtie and leading Cloud Service provider #AWS  .

It was a very insightful discussion. We touched on internal buy in, Capex and Opex changes in adopting Cloud, governance, partner selection, outsourcing strategy, SME challenges, etc. Thank you for all our panelists’ insightful and practical experience sharing.

Thanks for the great support from Victor Lam #OGCIO, Peter Koo FCPA,CA,AICPA,CPA(Aust),ACCA,CIA,CFE,CISA,CISM from #Deloitte, Catherine Chan from #Kornerstone and many others.

Felt happy and warm to see many friends in person in these 2 days at HKCEC. It has been a long time. Physical forums are just beautiful. Hope that continues and gets bigger and bigger with good health for all. Take care!

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(Hong Kong) GS1 Hong Kong Summit 2021

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No one enjoyed queuing before the Covid19 but I felt great to be physically on a long queue to get into the #GS1 Hong Kong Summit today at #HKCEC https://lnkd.in/gpE26UJ. Over 1,500 offline & online participants joined the event today. A few inspirations that I would like to share with you.

Ricky Wong has been innovative in his career. He just had another one which is a great news to our #BigData industry – his #OpenDataBank initiative. It opens up the data from his #HKTVMall to the public through #API. External companies can innovate better customer experience by connecting data with his. It also sets a great role model to encourage other companies to open up their data for customers & social good as well. https://lnkd.in/gJy4xsk

Randy Lai #Mcdonald said that engaging not only with external but also internal customers. Her colleagues are young & digital natives. Making use of apps to deliver ongoing training to them is effective. Social connection & being a part of it,, not being an outsider is a great view too.

Thanks Kelvin Leung Anna Lin Mignone Cheng #GS1HK to make the offline show shine again. The good news is that I will physically queue up for the 6th Cloud Forum https://www.cloudforum.hk/ tomorrow in the same venue organized by Catherine Chan #Kornerstone.

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(Hong Kong) Seminar: Data Literacy – The New Essential Leadership Skill

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#DBS, a leading Asia’s #bank, equips employees with skills to become everyday ‘Data Heroes.’ Over 16,000 employees (＞50 of its workforce) have been trained in big data ＆ data analytics in the last 2 years.

#Esquel, a leading garment ＆ textile #manufacturer in the world, builds its data culture by organizing data hackathon.

#Bonjour, a leading #retailer in Asia, is pioneering #NewRetail with the power of big data.

#Accenture, a leading consulting firm, innovates with #AI ＆ #BigData to empower human to collaborate with AI.

How about #HR, #Marketing, #Finance and #Accounting professionals? These leading professionals have already made use of data to amplify their brain power to achieve more.

March is a special month for women. In fact, we have many great female data leaders #WomenInTech as you can notice in our panels. Happy to see all genders and all professionals treat data literacy seriously these days. #Diversity & #DataDemocratization are critical for data＃innovation indeed.

If you would like to learn more about how these leaders and professionals are enhancing their #DataLiteracy, don’t miss this forum on Mar 24, 2021 afternoon in #HKPC. Register here for a complimentary pass:
https://lnkd.in/g74Hatw

I will see you there.

#Kornerstone #OpenCertHub #AIM #CIM

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(Hong Kong) The Most Wanted Accountants in the Digital Economy

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AI will bring human & machine to work closely together. Rather than just Automation, Augmentation is the real thing that we need to adapt to in this decade. Digital Colleague will be working with us perhaps managing and supervising us. In the professional world, that is no exception and excuse. Accounting and Finance industry is facing the same challenge. Digital Accountant is emerging & becomes a must for all in the industry.

We have delivered a CPD webinar today to ACCA members on the topic “The Most Wanted Accountant in the Digital Economy”. Hundreds of accounting & finance (F&A) professionals participated.  We have lots of respect to the learning attitude of our fellow ACCA’s members during the challenging period of the Coronavirus. We started the forum with 3 critical questions that every F&A professional needs to have serious thoughts in the Digital Economy.

  1. Will AI replace F&A professionals? How bad? How soon?
  2. Are there any new roles for F&A professionals? If yes, what are they?
  3. What & how should F&A professionals reskill themselves so they can continue to be relevant & capable of taking up the new roles in the Digital Economy?

Daniel Yuen shared his view on Citizen Data Scientist & why F&A professionals need to strengthen their Data Literacy.  Patrick Tsoi then demonstrated how Open Sources based big data tools can make a huge difference to visualize & manage Big Data from the traditional Excel and BI tools. Thanks to both.

Appreciate ACCA HK to lead the Digital Transformation for and bring in innovation to the Accounting & Finance industry in Hong Kong. I have been collaborating with the team since 20+ years ago. Two of the photos below were taken in the panels of two ACCA annual conferences 15 years in between. Amazing that both HSU President Simon Ho and I were in both panels. What a great memory. I hope I could continue to support it in the next 15 to 20 years. Thank you so much to ACCA.

Appreciate ACCA, Kornerstone Catherine Chan & OpenCertHub Andy Kwok to co-organize this webinar. Kornerstone provides Citizen Data Scientist training courses while OpenCertHub provides examinations to certify big data, AI & open-source talents.

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Interplay “ABC” is the Key to Successful Digital Transformation

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What is #ABC?  #AI  Blockchain Cloud How these technologies interplay & contribute to DigitalTransformation? That was the topic of our panel discussion in the 5th Cloud Forum in Hong Kong.

We were so honoured to have digital thought leaders & evangelists in town to share their experience & I was the moderator of the panel. Big thank to Mr. Ravel Lai, CDO,  DaiCheongHong Ravel Lai, Dr. Lawrence Ma, President, HongKongBlockchainSociety Dr. Lawrence Ma, Mr. Sankar Villupuram, Digital Services Leader – East Asia,  Arup Sankar V S, & Mr. Michael Yung, Head of Digital Product & Technology,  AsiaMiles Michael Yung

We shared mainly the real cases on ground like RPA,  SupplyChain Optimisation, SmartContract, TradeFinance. Key takeaways are as follows:

1. Customer value is the most important thing. Don’t have to know it is a part of Blockchain or AI.

2. With today’s technology, it is a lot easier & cheaper to try out AI.

3. Talents & culture are a challenge.

4. In the last decade, Coding is the basic for jobs. In the next decade, Data capability becomes a basic skill to survive & compete.

Thanks Kornerstone Catherine Chan & Simon Yeung to organize it. Also learned from Charles Mok  Lawrence Fong Peter Koo FCPA,CA,AICPA,CPA (Aust),CIA,CFE,CISA,CISM,CGEIT Per Dahlberg

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