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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
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RTHK Radio 管理新思維: Interviewing Nixon Chau @ SenseTime

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Today is the reopening day across mainland, Hong Kong and Macau. What a good day to have a chat with Nixon Chau, Managing Director and General Manager, #Sensetime #商湯 Hong Kong today at RTHK1 New Management Thinking Programme #管理新思維 on the growth and future of AI in Hong Kong and beyond.

As I previously posted in my LinkedIn, https://lnkd.in/g7-XzN-Q, we did have a good discussion on the business potential, technologies, enterprise and SME adoption, career development, Hong Kong’s positioning in GBA and more.

If you have listened to us live today, we hope you got some inspiration there. If you haven’t joined us this afternoon, you are welcome to listen to our discussion here at RTHK1 webpage below.
https://lnkd.in/gYddhHHW

#RTHK #RTHK1
#NewManagementThinking
#AI #人工智能 #ArtificialIntelligence
#BigData #DataAsset
#Innovation #Technology
#GBA
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Stay Tuned for Upcoming RTHK Radio Episode with Nixon Chau @ SenseTime

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AI is impacting every company and every individual on earth. In the upcoming RTHK programme, New Management Thinking #管理新思維, I am grateful to have Nixon Chau Nixon Chau, the Managing Director and General Manager of #SenseTime #商湯 to be my guest. SenseTime is one of the world’s leading AI companies with root and headquarters in Hong Kong.

As a AI and Big Data practitioner myself, I am so pleased to have this opportunity to have a chat with Nixon on the growth and the future of AI in Hong Kong and the world, how large to SME companies and individuals can embrace and ride on this trend, what #startups can learn from SenseTime’s experience to grow from small to become a listed company, and more.

Don’t miss this opportunity. Tune in the radio channel RTHK1 this Sunday Jan 8, 2023 from 2pm to 4pm. Let’s dance with AI together.
https://lnkd.in/f-X8RaN

#AI #BigData
#Innovation #Technology
#RTHK #RTHK1
#NewManagementThinking
#CUHKEMBA CUHK EMBA
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RTHK Radio 管理新思維: Interviewing AECOM

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Back to the RTHK station today for recording another episode of New Management Thinking 管理新思維. Found a classical radio in 1950 there powered by Vaccum Tube. Oh, WOW! That actually made me think about my childhood with my whole family around a radio like this. It was as advanced and luxurious as what we have a 8k TV today. More importantly, a much more warmth and intimacy with my family back then. What a memory! Transforming a city from an old model to a smart city is like improving from a vintage radio to a 8K TV. Let’s talk about Smart City this time and why every citizen in Hong Kong should care about it. Grateful to have Thomson Lai, the Asia Digital Head of AECOM, as my guest for another fruitful episode in the RTHK’s New Management Thinking 管理新思維. #AECOM is one of key contributors in planning and building our city of Hong Kong in the last 60+ years. Received a book from Thomson called “Hong Kong Created Together”. Lots of Hong Kong’s history from nobody to one of the top cities with world-class infrastructure. Thanks the contribution from Thomson and his AECOM 艾奕康 colleagues. We started talking about what a smart city is. Then we discussed what Hong Kong has been doing in the journey of becoming a smart city, how other leading cities are doing, what key stakeholders are in a smart city and how they are empowering our city as a smart city. Certainly we talked about how emerging #technologies and #data are impacting smart cities. Very interesting. You don’t want to miss it. Really appreciate Thomson’s sharing and my RTHK partner Phoebe. My key takeaways are: 1. Citizen centricity 2. Innovation and entrepreneurship 3. Pan-city digital infrastructure If you would like to learn more from Thomson on Smart City now and the future, please tune in RTHK1 on Jun 19 at 2pm. https://lnkd.in/f-X8RaN For previous episodes of the programme, please visit here. https://lnkd.in/dWRkD_x7 #SmartCity #DigitalCity #RTHK #RTHK1 #FM94 #NewManagementThinking #管理新思維 #CUHK #CitizenJourney #MomentsOfLife #Data #BIM #DigitalTwins #AI #IOT #5G #MetaVerse #VR #Innovation #Entrepreneurship #Startups

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RTHK Radio 管理新思維: Interviewing Mr Clement Lam – CEO of Sun Life Hong Kong

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Glad to have Mr. Clement Lam, CEO of Sun Life Hong Kong, be my guest on the RTHK radio programme – New Management Thinking 管理新思維. Really appreciate Clement’s sharing and time, and my RTHK partner Jenny Lee. We talked about how insurance companies innovate. While we are seeing some progress in this space, there are still quite a few internal and external challenges to making changes and innovations to this legacy industry. What have we discussed? 1. Sun Life has been in Hong Kong for more than a hundred years (130 years to be exact). Clement shared his experience of how to change the culture of a well-established company with many professionals and legacy culture to encourage and embrace innovation. 2. Leveraging and investing in startups (for example, Sun Life invested in Bowtie) and collaborating with the ecosystem are other topics that we discussed. 3. We also talked about opportunities and challenges for insurance companies in Hong Kong and the GBA. 4. We exchanged ideas on acquiring, cultivating and retaining the right talents, especially for young generations. 5. Leveraging slashers in the Gig and Sharing Economy is becoming a trend and more companies are making use of it. And a lot more.. If you would like to learn more from our discussion, please tune in RTHK1 this coming Sun (Apr 17) from 2 pm to 4 pm. https://lnkd.in/f-X8RaN Update: You can listen to it here now https://lnkd.in/gYddhHHW #insurance #insurtech #healthtech #fintech #startup #ecosystem #Bowtie #RTHK #香港電台 #管理新思維 #NewManagementThinking 永明金融 #SunLife #SunLifeHK #GigEconomy #SharingEconomy #GBA #GreaterBayArea CUHK Business School, CUHK EMBA, #CUHK #CUHKEMBA #EMBA Andrew Chan Pong Yuen, Howard Lam Chun So

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(Hong Kong) Co-host RTHK Programme Starting from 2022

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Starting from the Year of the Tiger, I will co-host the signature programme New Management Thinking 管理新思維 of #RTHK. I will invite top leaders in town to share their experience on digital transformation and corporate innovation.

I am so grateful that I had Ravel Lai, a veteran in #RetailTech industry, to be my 1st guest of this series. More top leaders will share their experience with us. Stay tuned.

Ravel has been applying technologies for retailers in all kinds from shoes, grocery, electronics to restaurants and shopping malls. He is a perfect expert to learn from on how retailers have been making use of technologies to solve problems, seize opportunities and handle crisis like the Covid-19.

We talked about technologies being used to overcome the pandemic. We explored the use of #BigData and #AI in #membership, #logistics, #eCommerce, #O2O, #NewRetail, #SocialCRM, and more. We also shared on various collaboration examples with startups. Then, we discussed the future of retail and the impact of emerging tech like #MetaVerse and #XR on retail industry.

Don’t miss the opportunity to tune in #RTHK1 #FM926 at 2pm on Feb 20.
https://lnkd.in/f-X8RaN

You can also review our chat through this link after Feb 20.
https://lnkd.in/gYddhHHW

Thank you so much to my CUHK teammates and my mentors Professor Andrew Chan and Professor Pong Yuen, Howard Lam and RTHK teammates.

CUHK Business School CUHK EMBA
#CUHKEMBA
#NewManagementThinking #管理新思維
#DigitalTransformation #CorporateInnovation #Entrepreneurship
#Retail #ShoppingMall #Shopping

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Human Touch of Technology – RTHK Radio Interview with Jess Mak (HTC) & Prof. Chan (CUHK)

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“We are not creating a breakthrough technology. We are creating an unforgettable customer experience”. This is what I learned from Jess Mak from HTC. In most of our innovation and technology discussions, we focus pretty much on technological advancement, business models, investments, markets, etc. We seldom talk about the Human Side of technology. It is not just important to our customers and but also to our colleagues. Though we talk a lot on pain points of our customers, engagement with our colleagues, how many of us are doing it well? Jess Mak from HTC brought us her experience on how human centricity 以人為本 can make a difference in Leadership, Marketing, Customer Services, Product Design, Research, Staff Management, etc. To many of us, HTC is a mobile phone maker. In fact, their mission is “We are not creating a breakthrough technology. We are creating an unforgettable customer experience”. Listen to the episode of CUHK EMBA 管理新思維 on RTHK1 FM926 broadcasted on Jul 28, 2019. Professor Andrew Chan, RTHK Fiona and I had a fruitful, interesting and joyful discussion with Jess. I also learned a lot from her. Big thank you to Jess. https://lnkd.in/e9k3nwF

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