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Grateful to have had chances to provide mentorship to so many #blockchain#web3#metaverse and #ESG innovators in today’s Hong Kong Digital Asset Society #HKDAS #Hackathon 2023 in Cyberport. I particularly appreciate these innovators’ heart and innovative minds to make use the emerging technologies to find new ways to solve tough problems and create deep social impact.

In the capacity of Industry Advisor of HKDAS together with Edmund Lee and Vincent So, and the Founding Chairman of Data Literacy Association #DALA, we act as mentors together with many experts for today’s hackathon. Thanks Fonia Wong 黃仰芳Alex AuCelia Lok and their teammates from HKDAS to have created such a great platform for us to co-create values in the web3 era. Glad to see Mrs Fanny Law, the former Chairman of HKSTP, there as well. Thanks to her continuous support and interest in our innovation and technology ecosystem.

Look forward to collaborating more with HKDAS to shape the future of the Digital Asset in Hong Kong.

#DigitalAsset #FinTech

Congratulations to AIA on being the Grand Award winner of the 2022 Hong Kong ICT Awards – FinTech Award. Well done Terence Leung #AIA and his teammates to apply AI to optimize training impact on agent’s performance. More about their innovation can be found here: https://lnkd.in/gNebssKA

It is exciting to see more financial services incumbents to innovate and collaborate with the ecosystem this year. Also, happy and proud of Kevin Leung #LIQUIDAndy Ann #YASRebecca Lim, CFA #AutoML and many other awardees. You can download the brochure to know all awardees and more. https://lnkd.in/gXNTAZ8m

Really grateful being the Chief Judge of this award in the last 4 consecutive years to contribute to the #FinTech #ecosystem. Appreciate the trust and support from Carrie Leung and Philip Kam of Hong Kong Institute of Bankers #HKIB, the Leading Organizer of the Award and all the effort from their teammates. Also, big thank to all judges and assessors.

As I said in my remarks during the award presentation ceremony, there is a series of new initiatives and technologies coming like #CDI#CBDC#DigitalAsset#ESG#DeFi#Web3#MetaVerse#FederatedLearning#AI#Blockchain, etc. I look forward to seeing more innovation and value creation riding on these new initiatives and technologies next year. See you.

#HKICTA #HKICTA2022
#Innovation #Technology
#FinTech #InsurTech

Hong Kong Computer & Communications Festival is back. Today was the first day and will continue till Sunday (Aug 21, 2022). Welcome back and see lots of people and old friends there today in the first day. https://lnkd.in/gXZtdhxH Glad to moderate 2 forums on #MetaVerse in the festival. This is the third forum of the MetaVerse series of the HKPC #Innopreneur Meetup. Grateful to be the moderator for this series. Thanks to #HKPC Karen F.Elly Yip, their teammates for organizing it. I had Andy Hsu from #MetaSze Lok Chan from #AWS, and Sam Hui from #CHKCI in my first forum. We talked about the MetaVerse ecosystem and opportunities for Hong Kong #SMEs. Then, I had 3 innovators on MetaVerse for the 2nd panel. Gabriel K. #AirWorldRicky Ng #BetterArena and Dr. Amen Lee #BetterVerse. We talked about the transition from #Web2 to #Web3, social impact on MetaVerse, global expansion through MetaVerse. Excellent innovations on MetaVerse from the elite startups. With the empowerment from Meta, AWS and other leaders, there will be lots of opportunities in hardware, software, applications for many industries, not just #Gaming#Crypto and #NFTs. Heartfelt thank to all the panel speakers and their insightful sharing. Mckinsey estimated that the MetaVerse market will grow to 5 trillion USD by 2030. The future of MetaVerse is not shaped yet. Hong Kong companies, large or small, startups and even investors will have great opportunities in this decade. Start fast, act fast, fail fast, learn fast and pivot fast. That is the new rule of thumb for success in the digital era.

Learned a lot today from the #MetaVerse practitioners in town in the 2nd forum of our “All About MetaVerse Series”. The main theme today was MetaVerse Strategies for #Brands#SMEs and #Entrepreneurs. I am so grateful to be the moderator of this series. More episodes will come shortly. Stay tuned with HKPC #Innopreneur vForum. My post on the 1st episode of this series can be found here. https://lnkd.in/dusKJYeA

Big thanks to our guest speakers Lorraine Cheung #YahooChris Wang #AWSKevin K T Lee #Redspots and Henry Chu #PillnPillow. Two of them are entrepreneurs and the other two are platform providers. That enabled us to discuss this topic from a more balanced perspective.

We discussed from MetaVerse opportunities, challenges to technologies, platforms, talents requirement and future skills. MetaVerse is not a hype but the direction is still being shaped. It is very early so everyone gets a chance but we need to keep learning and be open minded.

In essence, there are a few things that we need to strike a balance in order to make the best out of this unprecdented opportunity for the decade – MetaVerse.

1. The next 5 to 10 years will have lots of opportunities. By 2030, the market is going to reach 5 trillion USD globally. At same time, lots of regulations and governance needed to be in place to balance the opportunities and potential problems.

2. We have more opportunities from scalability to the global markets but at the same time competitions from global players.

3. New digital skills will be required but soft skills, like problem solving, communication, project management are equally important.

4. #Data analytics, #MachineLearning and #AI are crucial now and even more pivotal in the MetaVerse for customer experience and engagement.

5. SMEs are lack of resources and talents but lots of good partners in the MetaVerse ecosystem that they can leverage on.

6. Keep trying and learning to get started but be aware of the risks like losing Crypto from your hot wallets.

Lots more to come. See you in our 3rd MetaVerse episode soon. Have a good ride in your MetaVerse journey.

Thanks to Karen F.Elly Yip and their teammates #HKPCDr. Angus Ho #HKIM and Annie Yeung #Vootprint for their great effort to make this forum happened.

#SME #Startup
#Innovation #Technology
#Web3#NFT#Blockchain#Cryptocurrency#VR#Cloud

It was my first time to have an avatar in my panel. Can you find him in the photo? His name is “Inno”. What a way to discuss about the Next Big Thing – #MetaVerse in our Innopreneurs eForum today! Thanks for Karen F.Elly Yip and their teammates from #HKPC and Dr. Angus Ho and his teammates from HK Institute of Marketing #HKIM to make all these happened.

Certainly, the core team in our panel was the experts on MetaVerse including Chris So#AWSWilly Wong#EYSam Ngan#Popsible and Rex Wong Hong Kong Blockchain Industry Association. Over 400 audiences (online) mainly #SMEs joined this forum. It demonstrated that MetaVerse excited not only large companies, startups and investors, but also #SMEs. Appreciate the valuable sharing from all of the guest speakers in my panel.

We explored from what MetaVerse is to applications, business models and underlying technologies like #Web3#NFT#Blockchain#Cryptocurrency#VR#Cloud and more. We also talked about the roles of major stakeholders in the MetaVerse #ecosystem.

It is only the beginning of our Innopreneurs MetaVerse Series. Stay tuned for the rest of the series in the next few months. Check out HKPC 香港生產力促進局 website for more https://lnkd.in/gY57pzgW