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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 MakCK 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

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 ChowTeddy Lui and many others at AEF, #Gobi and #HSBC.

Together with other experienced judges today including Cindy Z. #GobiMingles T. #ParticleXRachel Lee #Cyberport, Winnie Lau #HKSTPRicky Lee #KROLLSimon Law #SinoMatthew 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

Pleased to make a trip to visit the #GBA #Nansha #南沙 with a few of my advising entrepreneurs from Hong Kong yesterday. We would like to find out how to leverage on this newly developed innovation and technology hub to tap into the GBA market with 80+ million people.

We visited GBA #创享湾 where 7 incubators are located. We were also impressed by the innovative tech and applications from two leading mainland #AI companies #iFLYTEK #科大讯飛 and #CloudWalk #云从香港科技大學 #HKUST新鴻基地產#越秀集團 also set up their substantial presence in Nansha. The ecosystem is gradually getting ready for #innovation and #technology.

Thanks Gary Lam #PosifySheldon Li #BuyandshipJoseph Yuen #SwapiflyAlan So #LivelyImpactAndy Kwok and Victor Ng #OpenCertHubAcademy #OpenCertHub and some others to join me to this learning trip in Nanshan. Appreciate Raymond Yip, Chief Liaison Officer, Guangzhou Nansha Service Centre in Hong Kong, to arrange such a fruitful programme for us to learn about Nansha.

Let me know if you would like to know a bit more about our experience in Nansha. Happy to share. Cheers.

#startup #entrepreneurship
#GreaterBay

Enjoyed my chat with Harris SUN, Founder and CEO, #RaSpect RaSpect Intelligence Inspection Limited in my OpenCertHub Academy office. I knew Harris when he has just started his #entrepreneurship journey back a few years ago. We both love #AI and #Data.

Back then, I have already appreciated his vision and determination to become an enterprenur after early career in a large multinational firm. Now his company is an elite #AI #PropTech #startup with major clients around the globe. RaSpect is one of the best AI startups from Hong Kong. His innovation use AI to inspect and predict defects and potential repairs for buildings and skyscrapers. Congrats on being one of the KPMG 2022 China Leading PropTech 50. Well done and proud of you, Harris.

We discussed about his market development plan, challenges and opportunities, joys and pains, and many other experience sharing. Enjoyed our conversation.

Christmas is coming. My OpenCertHub partner Andy Kwok and our teammates have set up a Christmas tree in our office. Harris is the first one to take a photo with me with that beautiful tree. Early Merry Christmas to you, Harris. Will continuously support you as always. Add oil!

Lots of Christmas parties are coming. Wish you all enjoy all these long missed f2f parties. Merry Christmas 🎉🍷🍷🌲.

#OpenCertHub #OCH #OpenCertHubAcademy #OCHA

Grateful to have joined the 62nd Annual Dinner of #FHKI last night. Most of the top government officials, including Chief Executive Mr. John Lee and ITIB Secretary Professor Sun Dong, and FHKI leaders, including Chairman Dr. Sunny Chai, and all key Chairpersons in the Innovation and Technology ecosystem, including #ASTRI Sunny Lee, #LSMC Dr. Alan Lam#Cyberport Simon Chan, #HKSTP Dr. Sunny Chai, #HKPC Sunny Tan, and more were there. Really full of stars🌟🌟 #星光熠熠 there.

Really feel thankful and honour being a ExCo Member and Chief Mentor of the Startup Council of FHKI under the leadership of Jason Chiu together with a team of veterans in the innovation, technology and industry ecosystem. As now we have the Innovation, Technology and Industry Bureau #ITIB, the Startup Council can and will contribute even more to bridge the #industrialists and tech #startup #entrepreneurs. More about the Startup Council here https://lnkd.in/gD8zQ6Xj

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

Just finished conducting a 4 days intensive and fruitful EMBA course on Innovation and Intrapreneurship Management for CUHK. On one hand, I am exhausted. On the other hand, I am very grateful as 83 top executives from the mainland China participated my class on Zoom even under the pandemic situation. Engaging 83 executive students for 4 full days on Zoom (plus conducted in Putonghua) was not easy as you could imagine but we did have a joyful and valuable learning experience together.

Not only the number of students has broken my record of teaching EMBA class, the quality of the students were very impressive. They came from different industries like property, professional services, design, manufacturing, engineering, technology and even agriculture. At the beginning, I had some doubt on how much they wanted to learn innovation and how much effort they would put on a course as they are all busy and uprising bosses and top executives. To my surprise, they were serious and really put lots of effort to learn. Really appreciate their passion and perservance to learn.

Apart from going through core concepts and models, we learned corporate innovations and intrapreneurship by exploring 10 influential and inspiring internationl and Chinese cases. We discussed, debated and learned through this process. It was also my honour to have three elite leaders as my guest speakers to share how they innovate as a startup (Sum Wong from #EventX), a tech giant (Jacqueline Chong from #Amazon#AWS) and a traditional enterprise (Damien Wu#ChinaChem). We all learned a lot from them. Really appreciate it.

Now, I need to relax a bit and get a good sleep. Enjoy the Easter Holiday!

#Innovation#DigitalTransformation#CorporateInnovation#Entrepreneurship#DigitalStrategy#intrapreneurship#Startup
CUHK Business School#CUHK#CUHKEMBA#CUHKChineseMBA#EMBA

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 SchoolCUHK EMBA#CUHK #CUHKEMBA #EMBA Andrew Chan Pong Yuen, Howard Lam Chun So

Thanks to Joe Wan, CEO of #Tricor, for his experience sharing on talents cultivation in the digital era. Also, appreciate  for delivering the workshop on Leadership and Workforce Transformation in the Digital Era Programme. It was a part of our Digital Leadership Series for Executives initiated and designed by me and a number of industry experts and professors for #CUHK.
https://lnkd.in/gZBZmjp

Here are a few key takeaways from Joe’s sharing.

1. How important is “#WHY” and “#PURPOSE“.
We have to help our colleagues know why he or she is here and how important and relevant their contribution is to the company and themselves. If that alignment works well, people will not just stay but also do their best in their jobs.

2. Listen to all levels of employees
Willing to listen to different levels of staff and answer all kinds of questions directly from staff from levels down will earn trust and pick up ideas that senior management can never think of.

3. Transform every employee to be a #startup
Encouraging #intrapreneurship and innovation from the bottom also encourage talents to join you and stay and grow with the company. Joe has supported their teammates to open a cafe which is now in their building and other places.

4. Take exit interview seriously
Not only finding out more about why a colleague leaves, but also offering staff, who are leaving, a final chance to stay. Joe said in the Exit Interview, “If you stay, I can waive the advanced notice for your next resignation if any.” That sincerity is really building another level of trust even the staff finally left. Alumni groups can be very powerful these days as ecosystem collaboration is the key to success in the digital era.

5. Respect each other
Joe asked and enforced every manager to treat their staff with respect. For instance, it is fine for a manager to shout at their staff but never one stands up and the other sits down. A simple gesture means a lot.

All these tips applied well in particular to the young generation. I learned a lot from Joe and Teddy. To thank Joe, I also shared a copy of my book #數碼力大提升 to him.

#CUHKEMBA #CUHKMBA #APIB
CUHK Business School
#DigitalLeadership
#DigitalTransformation
#DigitalEconomy
#DigitalWorkforce

The Hong Kong Corporate Innovation Index programme #HKCII co-organized by #CUHK and #HKGCC with the support from key industry leaders has been progressing well. We have invited leaders in town to join our pilot study yesterday. More background of the #CorporateInnovationIndex:
https://lnkd.in/giJKk2Au
https://lnkd.in/geP2TCCw

The pilot study aimed to collect feedback from the leaders on the design of our survey which is going to send to hundreds of companies to study their innovation. The preliminary design of the survey was a result from our literature review and direct consultation sessions and focus groups with close to 50 large to small companies. Really thank to the inputs from these participated leaders and executives.

Apart from the discussion with the guests yesterday on the survey design, we also invited Ir. Andrew Young #SinoGroup to share his corporate innovation experience. We had Watson Chan #HKGCC and Professor WM Cheung gave opening speeches. In addition, we had a panel discussion with #startup, well-established enterprise and #SME including Andy Ann #NDN, Horace Chu #Gammon and Mandy Chan #Frutodor. Appreciate for all their valuable sharings.

What’s the next? We will continue to collect feedback from leaders, practitioners and researchers to revise our survey design and finalize the constructs and measures of the survey. Stay tuned!

Big thank to our guests, friends and partners who joined our pilot study yesterday. Eunice Chan Anson Bailey (eMBA) Peter Chan Chris Au Young Teddy Liu Eugene Hsia Chris So Matthew Chan Janssen Chan FCPA (Aust.) Patrick S Lee Dominic Chan and many others. Appreciate the effort and support from our CUHK #APIB and HKGCC teammates.

#Innovation
#CorporateInnovation
#CUHKMBA #CUHKEMBA