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Cyberport Career Fair 2018 was successfully held today. Over 100 companies, including our start-ups like #GoGoVan, #Klook, #HeyCoins, #Origami, etc., plus large companies like #HKMA, #DBS, #BEA, #MoneySQ, #PCCW, plus #HKIB, Cyberport Startup Alumni Association, etc. , offered over 600 full-time and part-time jobs, and internship opportunities there. Jobs ranged from information technology, engineering, marketing, finance to legal support.

40+ career talks ranging from corporate introduction, startups journey, FinTech, AI, eSports to ICO opportunities, were delivered today. Over a few thousand students and young professionals joined our career fair today. I would like to thank all participating companies, students, Cyberport teammates and helpers.

Hong Kong is now heading to a Innovation and Technology era with lots of support from our government, IT industry, business sectors and universities. Let’s keep it going and create a better future for our next generation in Hong Kong.

Panel Discussion: Cybersecurity & Fintech Innovation: Friends or Foes?

  • Wally Lee, Principal Cyber Architect, Cyber COE, Head, Professional Security Services, Quann
  • Michael Leung, MH, Chief Information & Operations Officer, China CITIC Bank International
  • S.C. Leung, Centre Manager, HKCERT
  • Paul Wan, Head, Risk & Controls, HK & GCNA, Information Technology & Operations, Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited
  • Alfred Wong, Vice President, Information Technology, JETCO

Moderator: Toa Charm, Chief Public Mission Officer, Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited

#AI #Cyberport #Sequoia #Mckinsey #IBM #Microsoft

Cyberport Digital Entrepreneur Leadership Forum 2018 (DELF) was held succesfully today at Cyberport. http://delf.cyberport.hk/

We had powerful keynote speakers from Mckinsey (Jacques Bughin), Sequoia (Herbert Chia), IBM, Microsoft, investors, 20+ AI start-ups from Cyberport community to share their experiences today. HKSAR Secretary of Innovation and Technology Mr. Nicholas Yang and Cyberport’s Chairman Dr. George Lam gave opening speeches. Close to 500 audiences joined our forum. Special thanks for the support from the AI Society of Hong Kong Gerardo Salandra.

Thanks for the great presentation and showcase from our Cyberport AI start-ups like Vivek Mohindra 默威克 from Kristal.AI, Bianca Ho from Clare.AI, Viola Lam from Find Solution AI, Wing Cheung from Lattice and many more.

AI is one of the most important clusters of Cyberport. Please talk to us if you would like to tap into our AI ecosystem and seize the uprising AI opportunities in Hong Kong, mainland China, and SE Asia.

#BANKTECH2018 #FinTech

The 9th BankTech Executive Summit 2018 is coming to Hong Kong on Mar 6, 2018.

Find out more here. https://lnkd.in/fwxsmnw

I will be moderating the Executive Panel with the following distinguished guests from banks and insurance companies. Join me to learn more from these leaders.

Topic:

Financial Services 2018 – A CIO’s Perspective

 

Panel Chair:

Dr. Toa Charm, Chief Public Mission Officer, Cyberport

 

Executive Panelists:

1. Ash Shah, Regional Property and Casualty CIO and Chief of Staff, AXA Asia

2. Wendy Wang, Chief Information Officer, HSBC Commercial Banking; Chief Information Officer, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited

3. Manuel San Miguel, Vice President, Chief of Technology, Architecture and Digital Engineering, Manulife Asia

4. Peter Clark, Regional CIO, Technology & Operations, Standard Chartered Bank

5. Ritesh Sarda, CIO, Sun Life Financial Hong Kong

#AFF #Cyberport #FinTech

FinTech: Collaborative or Disruptive TNG Alex Kong (江庆恩), BONDIT Donald Chan, Clare.AI Bianca Ho and Seasonalife Fred Ngan were in my panel in AFF2018 today with over 800 business and technology leaders as audiences. They are innovative FinTech start-ups in payment, wealthtech, chatbot and insurtech areas respectively. We are so proud that they are all from our Cyberport incubation programme. Their sharings were very insightful on how FinTech start-ups can overcome challenges and collaborate with financial services institutes to create exceptionally great customer experience. Thank you. Our Chairman Dr George Lam and Vista Equity Partners CEO Mr Robert Smith did a very insightful fireside chat on global FinTech trend. Robert is very supportive to Hong Kong as the leading FinTech hub in Asia and confident of Cyberport. He has put their famous company, Finastra, the third largest FinTech company in the world, in Cyberport.

Thank you to all of them for their contributions to AFF2018 and Cyberport.

#AFF #Cyberport #FinTech has just started today with our Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s opening speech. She emphasized on how important FinTech is for Hong Kong and Asia, and how Cyberport plays a key role there. Cyberport will lead a FinTech forum on AFF Day 2 Jan 16 morning and showcase a few innovative FinTech start-ups in the morning and afternoon. On Day 3 Jan 17, we have arranged tours to visit our Cyberport FinTech centre. Please stop by our Cyberport booth there to find out more.

The 10th Episode of Cyberport FinTech Series on Metro Finance Radio Channel features INSURTECH – the next hottest thing in FinTech. I have invited Raymond Tam from Hong Kong Insurance Authority HKIA https://lnkd.in/fTRmz7r and Fred Ngan from uprising InsurTech start-up Seasonalife (Cyberport incubatee) https://lnkd.in/f2n73zi to share their views.

Listen to this episode here:

Part 1 https://lnkd.in/f6h-gCh

Part 2 https://lnkd.in/fryYNsG

At Christmas time, I would like to thank all friends who joined my FinTech show on MetroFinance in the past few months. Their experiences and sharings were inspirational to all stakeholders in Hong Kong FinTech Ecosystem. Special thanks to Stephen 蔡展輝 of Metro Finance and my Cyberport team for their great effort to make this show possible and fruitful.

Previous 9 episodes from my posts:

https://lnkd.in/f9VMRhn

https://lnkd.in/fU3Usxd

https://lnkd.in/fw7QjQj

https://lnkd.in/fr6ynEg

https://lnkd.in/fbz9nTG

https://lnkd.in/fQJwr4a

https://lnkd.in/fNCkeSn

https://lnkd.in/fAKF9QZ

 https://lnkd.in/fr49j4C

During the Christmas holiday, you can review all episodes here
https://lnkd.in/d3YㄧBQ5D
https://lnkd.in/djnAniK

FinTech is getting hot in Macau as well.

International Economic Seminar on FinTech Macau IESFT was held on Dec 19 in Macau. Major topics like Crytocurrency, Cybersecurity, etc., were discussed. It was my honour to be one of the speakers there. We also discussed how Hong Kong and Macau can play a key role to develop FinTech in the uprising Greater Bay Area. Here are some media coverage.

https://lnkd.in/frxp-_G

https://lnkd.in/fJpKn-i

The 9th Episode of Cyberport FinTech Series on Metro Finance Radio Channel features a traditional bank and a FinTech innovator i.e. Standard Chartered Bank and Mindlayer. Standard Chartered Bank, one of the first in its kind, started its own FinTech Accelerator in Hong Kong. Find out more from Paul Wan on how a traditional bank embraces innovation and excel in the digital economy.

Mindlayer started its journey from Cyberport’s CUPP FinTech programme in Stanford University and succesfully got admitted to Cyberport’s CCMF, Incubation and Accelerator Support programmes. Now, Kinni MEW is busy servicing their Chatbot offerings to customers. Find out more how a young student became a great FinTech start-up.

Listen to this episode here:

Part 1 https://lnkd.in/fSNACPU

Part 2 https://lnkd.in/fnd4HVR

Previous 7 episodes from my posts:

https://lnkd.in/fU3Usxd https://lnkd.in/fw7QjQj https://lnkd.in/fr6ynEg https://lnkd.in/fbz9nTG

https://lnkd.in/fQJwr4a

https://lnkd.in/fNCkeSn

https://lnkd.in/fAKF9QZ

https://lnkd.in/fr49j4C

Official Programme Review and Facebook MetroFinance Radio:

https://lnkd.in/d3YBQ5D

https://lnkd.in/djnAniK