HKBU Entrepreneurship Bootcamp

Prof SIDHU is the Chief Scientist and Founding Director of UC Berkeley’s Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology. He received the IEOR Emerging Area Professor Award from his department at Berkeley. Prof SIDHU founded the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership. He serves as the faculty director of the Engineering Leadership Professional Program (ELPP).

His research areas include systems and stochastic models, strategic data analytics, and learning models. He has been granted over 60 US Patents in networking technology, IP telephony, communications, and mobile computing. He was awarded 3Com Corporation’s “Inventor of the Year” in 1999. Prof. SIDHU also serves as a Venture Advisor at Onset Ventures, a leading Silicon Valley investment firm.

Gigi WANG is a leader in global entrepreneurship and innovation and heads up MG-Team, LLC, a consulting firm focusing on entrepreneurship and innovation programs. She is an Industry Fellow & Faculty at UC Berkeley's Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Chair Emeritus of the VLAB (formerly MIT/Stanford Venture Lab), and on the advisories board of Mobility Ventures, iGlobe Partners and others.

Gigi is a frequent conference speaker and conducts entrepreneurship/innovation workshops for start-ups, corporates, incubators, and universities around the world, along with offering biz dev services to help companies scale. Gigi’s clients have included SAP, RockStart Accelerator (Amsterdam), HongKong Cyberport Incubator, Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship, Shanghai GM (auto-maker in China), Lagadere (France), Samsung, Runa (acquired by Staples, Oct 2013), Happy Farm (Ukraine), IDEPA (Asturias, Spain), and more. She has mentored and advised hundreds of of start-ups from around the world.

As an Internet pioneer, she launched the TRUSTe Internet privacy program in 1996 and started up Pacific Internet in Singapore (IPO on NASDAQ in 1999), along with doing technical sales at AT&T. Gigi holds BS & MS in Mech Engineering from Stanford University where she was President of the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, and she holds a MBA from the UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.

Nathan GOLD, also known as The Demo Coach, hails from the San Francisco where he spends his days coaching people around the world on how to prepare for high-stakes presentations through workshops, keynotes, live streaming and 1:1 sessions both in person and online. Gold has personally delivered over 15,000 presentations and 13,000+ hours of professional coaching and training. He has worked with all types of companies on designing, scripting and delivering more compelling and memorable presentations. He is an Industry Fellow at the UC Berkeley Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology, a guest lecturer and pitch coach at Wharton Entrepreneurship, is featured on Kauffman Founders School and he is a published author.

Ir. Dr. Tan is an entrepreneur, an IP attorney, an engineer, a research scientist, an inventor and a university administrator all rolled in one. He started his career in academia before embarking to successfully lead his own technology start-up. Ir. Dr. Tan has a number of patents to his name. He then returned to academia to further his career as a well published Professor in engineering and technology, both in Hong Kong and Australia. Ir. Dr. Tan is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Member of Engineers Australia. He is also a registered Australian Trade Marks attorney and an often referenced patent consultant. In his spare time, Ir. Dr. Tan has a keen interest in financial analysis and business modelling.

Bianca Ho is the co-founder and COO of Clare.AI. Award winning Clare.AI builds industry-specific conversational digital assistant that understands 10+ Asian languages across multiple platforms. We empower enterprises to engage their customers in a natural and reliable way at-scale.

She was formerly business development manager of Zendesk, responsible for their expansion into China market. She worked closely with Zendesk’s executive team on developing and executing the strategy.

Cesar Jung-HARADA is a French-Japanese Inventor, Environmentalist and Entrepreneur living in Hong Kong. Director of MakerBay, Hong Kong MakerSpace for Social & Environmental Impact. Inventor of Protei – a revolutionary shape-shifting sailing robot and Director of Scoutbots.

Cesar is passionate about “Open Hardware for the Environment”, "Citizen Science" with a strong focus on ocean communities & technologies.

Cesar often works as a professional speaker, panelist, educator, mentor, judge, designer, R&D. His TED Talk "How I Teach Kids to Love Science" has been translated into 36 languages and viewed more than 1.5 million times.

Cesar used to teach Masters of “Design and Environment” at Goldsmiths University and "Cultural Entrepreneurship" at Hong Kong University. Cesar is a graduate from the Royal College of Arts London, Design Interactions Department, and worked at MIT (USA) as Project Leader. Cesar was the construction manager of the *iHub_ in Nairobi (Kenya). Cesar led the Open-Sailing group to win the ARS Electronica Golden Nica [NEXT IDEA] (Austria) and the VIDA awards Fundacion Telefonica (Spain), Ocean Exchange Explorer. Cesar is a TED Senior Fellow and speaker. Autodesk Pier9 Designer in Residence (USA). Artist in Residence at V2_ (Netherlands). Cesar sailed around the world while being and Unreasonable at Sea Entrepreneur. He was trained in Design Thinking by Stanford d School George Kembel, Rapid prototyping by Tom Chi (former Google x). Nominated Figure of progress by GOOD and IBM, COP21 opening speaker about ocean technologies (speaking before Ban Ki-moon, President Hollande, Jack Ma and more). His company Scoutbots was nominated StartmeUp HK Grand Award winner and listed as China 10th most innovative company by FastCo (2015). Cesar's design and engineering work are part of the V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum, London) and CNAM (Musée des Arts et Metiers, Paris) collections.

Cesar has lectured / taught / mentored in many Universities including MIT, Carnegie Mellon University (USA), Royal College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Goldsmiths University (UK), Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'architecture de Versailles, Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture (France), Tokyo University (Japan), KAIST (South Korea), CCCB (Spain), CICESE (Mexico), Strathmore University (Kenya), Oslo School of Architecture and Design (Norway), HKU, PolyU, HKBU, HKUST, CityU (Hong Kong). Cesar is a Trustee of the Board of HBKU (Qatar).

A graduate of our distinguished institution, Mr Dickson SHANG received his Diploma in Business Management from the Hong Kong Baptist College in 1973. After his graduation from Dalhousie University in Canada with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree, Mr SHANG taught business at the College between 1975 and 1977. Thereafter he entered the field of business proper, assuming a variety of appointments in brokerage and commodities trading and management at Hong Kong’s finest and most reputable institutions, including Sun Hung Kai–ACLI Commodities Limited and the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), where he assumed the important appointment of Executive Director of HSBC Broking Services (Asia) Limited until his retirement in 2011. His career achievements in the financial sector are rightly considered exemplary.

As a long-serving alumnus of the University, Mr SHANG has been a steadfast supporter of the HKBU School of Business and the University’s mission and aims at large. He served as Member of the Advisory Committee for the School of Business from 2005 to 2009 and, despite his busy schedule, always enjoyed participating in the School’s functions and activities. He continues to enjoy a strong rapport with students, staff, and faculty in the School and has generously shared his financial and managerial experience with them, including having served as Career Mentor and Member of the Advisory Committee on Graduate Employment of the University. Since his retirement, Mr SHANG has served as Adjunct Professor of the School of Business and continues to offer his steadfast support to the School and its postgraduate students whom he greatly enjoys teaching. He has also been a reliable and insightful contributor to the School of Business Executive Development Seminar Series.

Mr SHANG’s enthusiastic support for the School of Business has also resulted in his being a major donor to University causes and initiatives in general. He has contributed over the years including: vesting the H. P. Shang Admission Scholarship in the School of Business; in support of the Finance Students Real Money Investment Fund; as a donor to the Hong Kong Baptist University Development Fund; and, via the HKBU Century Club, a most meaningful donation to the University’s Hong Kong Organic Resource Centre. Additionally, since January 2013, Mr SHANG has served as an Honorary Member of the University Court where his contributions have been characteristically cordial, astute, and helpful. Given such a demonstrable track record of broad-based and high-impact support to HKBU, Mr SHANG was recently appointed Honorary President of Hong Kong Baptist University Foundation, a post he currently holds. Looking forward, he is excited about on-going HKBU alumni development and other initiatives, including the recently launched “Alumni $100 Donation Campaign” in support of specific and targeted fund-raising campaigns.

A good friend and colleague to so many, Mr SHANG has consistently sought to enrich the student life on campus, in an effort to nurture the all-round talents of Hong Kong’s next generation of leaders. Since September 2011, he has served as Honorary Student Advisor to the Business School Alumni Mentoring Programme and, through it, effectively promulgated the University’s aim of Whole Person Education. His active engagement with and life-coaching of our students has greatly encouraged and inspired them as they strive to develop their potential both in the classroom and beyond as contributors to society.

A pillar of our University as well as a key enabler of its forward vision, Mr Dickson SHANG has carried numerous burdens with resolve and in good cheer on behalf of HKBU, our students and faculty, and Hong Kong society at large.

Hillary Yip is the 13-year-old founder and CEO of MinorMynas, the social language learning app for kids. In 2016, she won the 1st Price and Best Business Award at the AIA Emerging Entrepreneur challenge at the age of 10. In 2017, she won the pitching competition Runway to RISE becoming one of the two Hong Kong representatives to pitch at the RISE conference. She has been invited to share her idea on various venues and conferences including UXHK, Singularity University Master Class and StartmeupHK Festival. Hillary was also at TEDxTinHau as a speaker talking about her journey in education.

Hillary and MinorMynas has recently been featured by the media including South China Morning Post, HK Economic Times, Sing Tao Daily, Jumpstart Magazine, Expat Parents, and the BBC to name a few.

Isabel is focused on driving Tesla’s business growth with delightful customer experiences in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. Her career includes nearly thirty years at major corporations in the U.S. and Asia Pacific. During this time, Isabel spent 19 years working for Apple Inc. in Asia Pacific in channel retail development and enterprise and education market development. She has strong expertise in strategic planning, partnership management, sales operations with an emphasis on improving efficiency and productivity to drive results. Isabel has a strong passion for technology and how it works to enhance people’s life.

Mr. Jimmy TAO is a serial entrepreneur. He has founded 5 companies over the past 10 years who grew the businesses from scratch and one of the companies, Novanic Electronics was acquired by Shenzhen Riland Industry and later listed on SHE (Shenzhen Stock Exchange, China).

He feels very fortunate to work in Vitargent, a company that has the privilege of empowering the lives of millions of consumers each and every day to choose safer products. Our mission is to make the world a safer, healthier place by protecting the environment and families from everyday exposures to unsafe chemicals in personal care products, food and water.

His personal interest and motivation has always been in working with innovative technologies and bright minds to make a world a better place. He is a guest lecturer in universities sharing his experience as a seasoned entrepreneur and mentoring over 20 international students who want to start their businesses with social missions all over the world.

It’s his joy and passion to inspire and guide motivated teens, parents and educators to get ahead and succeed in any endeavor. Inspired & enlightened approximately over 50,000 audiences as a guest speaker frequently invited to and featured at numerous influential private & professional events in local & global theatres.

Reeve Kwan is the Co-Founder of GOGOVAN. In this role, Reeve oversees various functions in Hong Kong including strategic planning, daily operations, business development and customer relations. Reeve also assists in developing new products and expanding new businesses for the company. In addition to optimizing the existing products, Reeve has successfully promoted “GOGO Business”, contributing to a promising growth of GOGOVAN in B2B area.

Prior to shifting his focus on the Hong Kong operations, Reeve expanded the business of GOGOVAN to five regions outside of Hong Kong, turning the company into a regional delivery enterprise.

Graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2010, Reeve was named one of the “30 Under 30 Asia: Manufacturing & Energy” by Forbes Magazine. He was also bestowed Young Entrepreneur of the Year in Sing Tao Group’s “2017 Leader of the Year” award.

Steven grew up from a low-income family in a public estate of East Kowloon. He studied community college - Diablo Valley College (DVC) in California, U.S. and completely funded himself through school by working in Chinese restaurant as a delivery boy after school everyday. During his time in college, he was eBay power seller by selling unlocked first generation iPhone, automobile parts and electronics. He also got elected as the Student Government President of DVC, which he was the first international student ever being a student government president of a California Community College. Then he got accepted to University of California, Berkeley - HAAS School of Business, which ranked as Top 3 Business School of the U.S. for undergraduate program.

After graduating in 2010, he returned to HK and started his own business with two friends who studied in DVC. While they were working in their second venture, Boxad, a company put advertisements on lunch boxes, they experienced a big problem on booking vans for delivery service. Then they started working on GoGoVan, which is the first and most popular Logistic Booking mobile app in Hong Kong. In less than one year, Steven and his team built the largest logistic fleet in Hong Kong, which including 18,000+ Cargo Vans and Trucks. GoGoVan is now operating in HK, SG, TW, KR and CN, with more than 45,000 registered vehicles and raised USD $16.5 million.

Ms Viola LAM, the CEO and Founder of Find Solution Ai Limited (FSAI) who won the Entrepreneur Year 2015/16 of the Youth Business International. This is one of the world's most honorific award for young successful entrepreneurs who make positive contributions to both society and people in over 68 countries. With an enriched experience in teaching mathematics of over 37,000 students in the past 12 years, Ms Viola is fully understanding the importance of pedagogical approaches to the next generation and is determined to enhance the learning condition and performance of learners with the use of technology. Therefore, FSAI was established in 2016 and developed an Ai-Driven Motivation Model – 4LittleTrees (4LTs) with over 30 patents, which is able to analyze the emotions and cognitive level of students during studies. Apart from developing education-focused software, the 4LTs is also applicable to various industries, including corporate training, e-commerce and healthcare.

FSAI has rewarded a range of significant local and international awards these years, including Caring Company 2018-19, platinum award of IFTA FinTech Achievement Award 2018, Outstanding Customer Experience Artificial Intelligence (Ai) and Analytics Solution of etnet FinTech Awards 2018, Gold Award of Smart Living in ICT Award 2018, The Best Potential Ai Facial Recognition Education Application Development Award of Xinhuanet and being the winner of Cyberport Incubator Pitch Day.

Alexander is the Research Director of the Data Lab and a co-founder of the Blockchain Lab at Sutardja Center of Entrepreneurship and Technology. He specializes in the business implementation of AI and Blockchain technology. He has co-created Data-X and is a lecturer in the UC Berkeley class Applied Data Science with Venture Applications. He is also the lead developer of the The Berkeley Innovation Index. Alexander has been part of the founding team of 3 companies: Wheely's (accepted into YC 2015), Auranest (Series A), and InnoQuant (currently Co-founder & COO).

Dr Cathy Lui, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow of Hong Kong Baptist University's Department of Biology, is the co-founder of OPER Technology Limited.

Cathy and her team announced they had successfully used nano-particles to harmlessly extract stem cells from a rat's brain and then reinject them. It raised the question of whether the procedure could be used on humans as a cure for brain diseases like Alzheimer's.

OPER Technology Limited is to develop and perfect an innovative technology in nanomaterial-based personalized medicine that can offer an inexpensive, real-time monitoring, precise, effective and globally available medical technology, to improve the healthcare and clinical practices for restoring health and extending life of patients with incurable diseases. This new core technology is a nanosurgery with real-time monitoring that enables both specific cell harvest in complicated systems in the body, cell engineering and specific drug delivery to specific cells in the body.

Previously, Jingo was a Principal Consultant at an international corporate and financial PR firm - Citigate Dewe Rogerson’s Hong Kong office, where he specialized in corporate and financial communications, event management for listed companies and financial institutions (from 2014 – 2017). Started from 2016, he started leading the business development in Hong Kong and assisted regional heads across Asia region at CDR including Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and Singapore for driving cross border business. He has nine years’ experience in the Financial Communications industry, having previously worked at another international financial communications agency – Hill+Knowlton Strategies for more than five years (2009 – 2014).

Separately, while Jingo has been running a side company - AMAXING Media Asset Management for media buying and planning, as well as media relation consultation. While AMAXING has secured two significant outdoor billboards located in Hong Kong island since two years ago. Currently, he has re-started his personal career at Black Media Group, an integrated digital marketing consultancy specializing in website design and programmatic development for corporate clients. His join will help expending the market fields tapping into financial communities, especially for Investor Relations by leveraging Investor Relations and Corporate Communications experience in the past years.

Kenneth Wan is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Black Media Group, and a member of the Hong Kong Designers Association (“HKDA”) – the first of its kind in Hong Kong. It is a design body that advocates for public interest in design and higher professional standards for practicing designers. He is also a member of HKGCC, HKGCYE and HKIRA. Kenneth has managed the company in Hong Kong for over 10 years. In his client work, he develops fully integrated websites and online marketing materials for multi-national clients, primarily in the corporate, financial and professional services sectors across Asia Pacific. Over the past decade, he has served numerous regional clients. Kenneth has developed bespoke design and programmatic systems for website development, as well as website CMS training workshops for clients. Prior to establishing Black Media Group, Kenneth was with an international 4As Design Agency for more five years, specialising in media planning and buying advice, developing online marketing content for clients, and providing Google advertising services. In 2015, he was invited to participate into the Lions Club (Causeway Bay division), and was promoted as 1st Vice President in 2017-2018.

Dr Yue is the Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Teaching and Research Division of the School of Chinese Medicine (SCM) in Hong Kong Baptist University. He is also one of the founding members of SCM and currently spearheading a project helping local secondary and primary schools to develop herbal gardens and Chinese medicine curriculum, utilizing augmented reality experiential learning trails. His other roles include the Honorary Director of the Center of Innovative Service Learning and the Resident Master of one of the undergraduate student halls.

Michele graduated with a degree majoring in English Language and English Literature before pursuing a Master’s Degree in English Language Education. Having set up her own company Pro English Consultancy Ltd., she has been actively involved in delivering parent-child workshops and talks, teacher-training workshops on various skills and materials development for various schools like St. Francis of Assisi's English Primary School and Precious Blood (South Horizons) Primary School. Michele provides language development courses for young kids, conducts teacher training workshops for in-service kindergarten, primary and secondary teachers, and runs business writing and presentation skills classes for large corporations such as MTR Corp, The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, Hong Kong Housing Authority, United Overseas Bank (UOB), Knight Frank HK, Gucci Group, Lacoste Hong Kong, etc. Michele has acquired her qualification as a dermatoglyphics analyst and has been analysing fingerprint reports and providing advice to parents of children aged between 1 and 13 with regard to their talent development and parenting skills in relation to their children’s learning styles and temperaments.

Having worked in the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, a statutory organization established to promote Hong Kong’s external trade, with particular focus on exploring opportunities for of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), for over fourteen years, Dr Yik Man Wong has substantial experience in assisting Hong Kong SMEs and business start-ups. Specifically, he has successful developed and launched a series of consulting services to help SMEs and new business ventures solve their problems in different areas, such as marketing, financing, accounting, legal, and operational. He has also piloted a project in setting up a business development centre for new start-ups.

Dr Wong joined the School of Business, Hong Kong Baptist University, as a Senior Lecturer in 2011, and is currently the BBA (Hons) Entrepreneurship Concentration Coordinator, and Di-rector of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Centre.

Khalil is a Regional Director for MIT Hacking Medicine (HM), an initiative dedicated to enhancing healthcare entrepreneurship. MIT HM events have spawned 45+ companies raising $175M+ in seed funding. Khalil is a final-year PhD Candidate in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology department, developing minimally invasive technologies for neuroengineering. He has received multiple honors including the MIT IDEAS Global Challenge award and a NASA Aeronautics Scholarship. Khalil was named a MIT Sandbox Innovation Fellow and Faculty Mentor of the MIT IDEA2 incubator. He holds a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and B.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering from the Pennsylvania State University.

• Over 5-year experience in Commercial Banking in Local and International Bank in Hong Kong (Hang Seng Bank (subsidiary of HSBC) and Standard Chartered Bank)
• Vice President at Hang Seng Bank and Relationship Manager at Standard Chartered Bank
• Took care different kinds of corporate clients with sales turnover ranging from USD1m to USD800m
• Client portfolio consisted of companies based in different Asian Countries such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, India with factories in emerging countries such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Indonesia and Thailand
• Excel in Trade Finance, Structured Trade Finance, Syndication Loan, Corporate Finance, Cross-border Finance & Commercial Lending
• Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)

Ray Chan is the CEO and co-founder of 9GAG, the global multi-platform entertainment company for viral content. Founded in 2008, 9GAG’s mission is to make the world happier. 9GAG has a total of 150 million global audience with 50 million followers on Instagram, 40 million followers on Facebook, and 15 million followers on Twitter. Ray graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a degree in Law.

Mr. Thomas Hung, aged 38, the chairman of Easy Group. He was graduated from Baptist University.

Thomas established the Easy Group and contrived the first in the world the innovative moving billboard advertising, moving showroom as well as Hong Kong First Bus Restaurant - Crystal Bus.

The innovative idea bought to him the rewards as the winner of Innovation Entrepreneur of the Year 2003” organized by City Junior Chamber in 2003 and Most Creative Award for LiveWIRE Awards 2004” by Shell & HKFYG in 2004.

Aries Lee is the founder of HOHOLIFE, a lifestyle select shop for active seniors with the goals to break stereotyping towards ageing and enabling users to stay active and enjoy lives joyfully with independence and dignity. HOHOLIFE has been awarded as Hong Kong Emerging Service Brand 2018 and SCMP Enterprising Hong Kong Brand Awards 2017.

Besides work, Aries is the Secretary General of Hong Kong General Chamber of Youth Entrepreneurs and a volunteer team leader at Agency for Volunteer Service. She holds a degree in Mathematics from the University of Waterloo and an MBA degree from the HKUST Business School.

Mr. Calvin Tse is an ‘80s youth entrepreneur. He graduated from La Salle College; majored in BBA and minored in IT at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Upon graduation in 2005, he joined the Big Four accounting firms and was involved in various IPO, M&A and Audit Projects for mainland China, Hong Kong and overseas companies. At the same time, he completed a bachelor's degree in law from the University of London and obtained a qualification as a Certified Public Accountant in Hong Kong. He is currently a postgraduate student in law at Renmin University of China.

Calvin started his entrepreneurial career in 2010. He founded a number of companies across different industries including food and beverage, accounting and finance. He is often invited to be mentor and speaker on business and entrepreneurship-related topics by various organisations.

In addition to his work, he is actively involved in social affairs. He serves as business mentor in government and social service groups to help young people start their businesses; undertakes a major position in the Chamber of Commerce to assist in the development of the industry; and acts as a youth leader in different organisations to promote exchanges of youths in Hong Kong and mainland China; Calvin is currently the Chairman of the Hong Kong Young Entrepreneurs General Chamber of Commerce.

Celia has 10 year Marketing and Communication experience in over 300 events and seminars, 50 exhibitions, and worked at AEG Promotion Ltd. In 2011-2013 who mainly focus on Brand Image and company invention Strategy. She is experienced in Startup Matching and brand Marketing , the case includes Freedy Phone , Archon Wellness, Novus Technology, ShopEasy Logistic, Omycar, Air Button, WanaStay, etc. She is focus on helping different SME and Startup companies from idea generation to marketing strategies in using Innovative way.

Mr Jimmy TAO is a serial entrepreneur. Before joining Vitargent International Holdings Limited as the Managing Director & CEO, he has founded 5 companies over the past 10 years who grew the businesses from scratch and one of the companies, Novanic Electronics was acquired by Shenzhen Riland Industry and later listed on SHE (Shenzhen Stock Exchange, China).

He feels very fortunate to work in Vitargent, a company that has the privilege of empowering the lives of millions of consumers each and every day to choose safer products. All of us at Vitargent put our purpose and passion to work every day. Our mission is to make the world a safer, healthier place by protecting the environment and families from everyday exposures to unsafe chemicals in personal care products, food and water.

His personal interest and motivation has always been in working with innovative technologies and bright minds to make a world a better place. He is a guest lecturer in universities sharing his experience as a seasoned entrepreneur and mentoring over 20 international students who want to start their businesses with social missions all over the world. His interest is actively involved in outreach activities to raise awareness of problems associated with the endocrine disruption attributable to synthetic chemicals found in the consumer goods and general environment.

It’s his joy and passion to inspire and guide motivated teens, parents and educators to get ahead and succeed in any endeavor. Inspired & enlightened approximately over 50,000 audiences as a guest speaker frequently invited to and featured at numerous influential private & professional events in local & global theatres.

He received his BSc from UMIST and holds a Master of Philosophy degree in Engineering from University of Cambridge. He is also a Clinton Global Initiative Commitment Scholar and selected as 1 of 14 Unreasonable Impact Asia Pacific Program leaders by Barclays.

Dr Gladys CHONG is Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing, Hong Kong Baptist University. She received her PhD in Media and Cultural Studies from the University of Amsterdam. Gladys has published various academic articles on subjects related to Chinese governmentality, power-relations, process of subjectification, place-making, gender, Olympic security, youth studies, technology, security, and risk. She is the author of Chinese Subjectivities and the Beijing Olympics (2017), co-editor of is Trans-Asia as Method: Theory and Practices (forthcoming, 2019). Her current research project on technology, security and risk is funded by the Hong Kong Research Grant Council.

Mr Marcel VAN DER VLIET started his first business in Amsterdam in 2003 selling specialized software solutions to high-frequency traders and market makers. He moved to Hong Kong in 2014 to launch his second business with two partners in 2016 to develop a technology platform for connecting asset owners and investors to make investment opportunity accessible to anyone. By transforming traditionally alternative, illiquid assets into digital asset-backed securities, FinFabrik powers a digitally integrated end-to-end lifecycle, from issuance to trading. This will broaden access to assets and capital, link supply and demand more efficiently and enable innovative new business models.

Ada currently leads the Innovative Business and Ecosystem Partnership team of Commercial Banking HSBC, driving the bank’s proactive engagement with innovation entrepreneurial ecosystem and support to startups and entrepreneurs in turning their business vision into reality. Prior to that, for more than 10 years she has gained extensive experiences covering various commercial banking areas including commercial lending, international trade and cash management solutions. Ada holds a Bachelor Degree of Information Engineering and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Alan is a scientist at Compass Therapeutics, a biotech startup that is developing therapies to treat cancer and autoimmune diseases. He is also a team member of MIT Hacking Medicine, an initiative dedicated to enhancing healthcare entrepreneurship. Alan has a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Stanford University and B.S. in chemical engineering and biology from MIT. He became involved with entrepreneurship while at Stanford, completing the Stanford Ignite program at the Graduate School of Business.

Dr CHU is the Founding Chairperson of Association of Retired Elderly Ltd., a charity in Hong Kong operating a work matching social enterprise serving job seekers aged 50 or above. She is also a practicing solicitor in Hong Kong specializing in mergers & acquisition, compliance and risk management. Dr CHU is active in social innovation and has taken up different roles including being the Advisory Committee Member of Hong Kong Government’s Enhancing Self-Reliance Through District Partnership Programme, Steering Committee Member of Youth Business Division of Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups, and Member of Social Enterprise Working Group of The Law Society of Hong Kong.

Mr Dennis KWAN has over 10 years of IT management experience and he is currently the co-founder of QBS System Limited. For recent years, he has been a serial entrepreneur.

Mr KWAN has been following the company vision - “Extend Interactive” for years. Since 2014, QBS has co-founded Cafe X Technologies. He built and led a team to implement a Robotic Cafe in the role of CTO.

Equipping with strong capabilities of the team of QBS, Mr KWAN is leading smart city application development for large-scale project; meanwhile he keeps enthusiastic to pursue a new startup – Instajuice cold-pressed juice smart vending.

Mr Gary WONG has over 18 years of IT management experience. He founded QBS System Limited since 2011, focused on Internet of Things technologies for the applications for Smart Cities.

With a desire to contribute to society in IT capability, Mr WONG has started venture building business, by mobilizing technology team resources and industrial knowledge to invest startups. Currently, there are over 10 startups under Init Builder – Venture Building programme.

Mr WONG is also enthusiastic to participate public-service activities including being the Honour secretary of Hong Kong Retail Technology Industry Association and founding Member of RFID General Chamber of Commerce.

Ms Denise LEE is a marketer who helps connect people within the entrepreneurship ecosystem. With a passion for people and events, Denise has become an integral part of the outreach team at Nanyang Technopreneurship Center in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Since the start of her career, Denise has spent six years as a marketer in the university to foster innovation through entrepreneurship education and engaging the community. She has spearheaded multiple public lectures and innovation festivals within the community.

Denise appreciates the peaceful tranquillity of nature. She also enjoys photography and content creation.

Felix is a young entrepreneur, community builder and growth hacker in Hong Kong, Greater China and Asia Pacific. He is the Community Manager of Greater China at Techstars, a worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed. Since 2015, he has facilitated over 50 Techstars Startup Programs regionally.

He started his career at Ricoh as a Data Scientist working with many multi-national companies in data strategy and digital transformation. As part of his startup passion, he co-founded and led 3 fast growing startups prior to joining Techstars. He co-founded Cloudbreakr aiming to bridge the gap between influencer marketing and data analytics. He also held position in growth at The Wave leading growth marketing and user acquisition strategy. After that, he joined Abtitu as the Director of Growth leading new product development, UI/ UX design and business relation.

Mr Kay TAI joined The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as the Programme Manager since 2018. He is the key driver to plan, develop and execute Good Seed Programme supported by the Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Fund of the Hong Kong SAR Government. He is responsible to oversee the execution and provide supports including seed money, training, workshops, mentorship and media coverage. Before joining PolyU, he was the Unit-in-charge of Social Innovation and Youth Business Unit of The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups. He led for planning, developing and organising signature entrepreneurial and social innovation programmes such as Global Youth Entrepreneurs Forum, HSBC Youth Business Award and various incubation programmes funded by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, J.P. Morgan and Youth Development Fund of The Home Affairs Bureau and the Commission on Youth.

Mr Jeff LAU is Chief Executive Officer of Mat-A-Cell Limited. He was the principal investigator in an interdisciplinary team awarded a HKD 3,000,000 grant by IRMS (2014/15) for 2 years to study the differentiation and proliferation of neural stem cells promoted by the interaction with biocompatible 3D nano-matrixes with engineerable morphology and surface functionalization. In 2018, he participated in the 4^th China College Students’ “Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition and won the Silver Award in the competition.

Mr Lemon KWAN has over 10 years of experience in knowledge transfer. He has been worked in the knowledge transfer units of The Education University of Hong Kong and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and involved in research partnership, IP licensing, entrepreneurship and technology marketing. He initiated the first entrepreneurship funding scheme, the EASE Fund, in The Education University of Hong Kong. He also taught in the Dual Degree Program of Technology and Management in The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Before that, he was an engineer in the Jardine Group.

Lemon graduated from The City University of Hong Kong with a MSc in Enterprise Technology and Management and a BSc in Applied Physics.

Ms Margaret BURKE graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in Materials Engineering in 1986, focusing on semiconductors and other materials for electronic applications. She also undertook substantial coursework in mechanical engineering. She completed her Juris Doctor and Master of Laws in Intellectual Property degrees at George Mason University in 1992 and 2003, respectively. She also completed her bachelor’s degree in electrical communications technology in 2014 from the Open University of Hong Kong.

Margaret has served at the USPTO as both a Chemical Patent Examiner and as an Electrical Patent Examiner. She also has extensive experience working in-house as a Patent Attorney and as Intellectual Property Counsel in private technological institutions such as AT&T Bell Laboratories, Ciena Corporation and Seneca Networks. From 1991- 1994, Margaret had worked for NIH and as a patent attorney in a US law firm, which represented the largest US surgical device manufacturing company at that time. Margaret also has international experience as a patent attorney for six years at a Tokyo IP law firm, Taiyo, Nakajima, & Kato. Before establishing Idea Intellectual Limited, Margaret was the lead US Attorney in Ella Cheong (Hong Kong) from 2009 to 2013, and worked as a solo practitioner from 2013 to 2015. Since 2009, Margaret has worked closely with many Hong Kong research institutes, including NAMI and ASTRI, universities, including HKUST, HKBU, CityU, and PolyU, commercial entities and individual inventors.

Her patent prosecution experience and opinion work covers a wide range of technologies including the technical fields of displays, photographic materials, imaging devices, telecommunications, mobile networks, printers, cameras, semiconductors, microelectronic devices, fiber optic systems, and biomedical devices. She has also engaged in intellectual property strategies, patent portfolio developments, product design reviews, freedom-to-operate and infringement opinions, and IP enforcement cases.

Marina is Director of Education at the MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node where she develops tech entrepreneurship programs and partnerships, working with students on their venture creation journey. A start-up enthusiast, she co-founded an educational social enterprise awarded by the HKSAR SIE Fund. She began her career in the telecoms industry as a financial analyst and later joined an investment bank in the Asian equities business. Marina received her master’s degree in education from Harvard University and a bachelor of commerce from McGill University. She sits on the board of the Hong Kong Red Cross Hospital Schools and is a CFA charterholder.

Mark is an enterprise software tech entrepreneur, sales executive, and startup advisor. He is currently launching the APAC region for Stack Overflow and is a leading voice in the software developer and IT leadership community. He also is the founder of the Enterprise Sales Forum, a community for B2B sales professionals and leaders to share ideas, network with peers, and learn innovations in the field of sales comprising over 20 global chapters and 25,000 members.

Mr Sam LEE joined New World Development Company Limited in April 2018. He is responsible for new business development, strategic planning and long-term investment for the Group. Before joining the Group, Mr Lee was a Portfolio Manager of Asia Pacific Equities at BNP Paribas Asset Management, covering Hong Kong and Mainland China. With over 10 years of experience in investment, Mr Lee started his career as quantitative research at ABN AMRO Asset Management back in 2006. Mr Lee holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics and Finance from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Mr Sam YIP graduated from University of Toronto with Bachelor and Master of Applied Science degrees in Electrical Engineering. He achieved his Juris Doctorate degree, focusing on intellectual property law, at the University of San Francisco School of Law. Sam has more than twenty years of experience as an engineer and a patent practitioner. He worked as a Patent Agent at a San Francisco IP law firm, Fliesler Meyer LLP before moving back to Hong Kong 8 years ago. As an engineer, he has worked for a number of Silicon Valley companies including Hewlett-Packard, Genentech, Computer Associates, and REMEC Inc. on projects spanning across software, electronics, communications, and system control technologies.

Before joining Idea Intellectual Limited, Sam was the lead US Attorney in Ella Cheong (Hong Kong) from 2013 to 2016. Sam has worked closely with many Hong Kong research institutes, including NAMI and ASTRI, the universities, including HKUST, HKBU, CityU, and PolyU; U.S. based technology companies, other commercial entities and individual inventors.

His patent prosecution experience and opinion work cover a wide range of technologies including the technical fields of software, mobile computing, displays, imaging devices, telecommunications, mobile networks, printers, cameras, automobile, marine vessels, construction and mining equipment, semiconductors, microelectronic devices, fiber optic systems, and biomedical devices. He has also engaged in intellectual property strategies, patent portfolio developments, IP valuations, IP licensing, product design reviews, patent landscaping, freedom-to-operate and infringement opinions, and IP enforcement cases.

Coty got the idea to start her own brand “Twinkle Baker Décor” sweet decoration sugar when she started working in the family business after returning from studying in Australia. The family had vast experience in producing plastic container, toys and decorative food items, but she wanted to capitalize on the growing trend of home bakers in Hong Kong. Also, there will be added up to 12 own brand cake shops in Hong Kong in 2019. Now she is the chairman of Hong Kong Top 10 e-Commerce Club (HKTTECC) and doing a lot charity activities with many different NGOs.

Dr Cathy LUI is the CEO of OPER Technology Limited, a biotechnology start-up; also, a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Biology in Hong Kong Baptist University.

Dr Lui graduated with her PhD in Neuroscience in Hong Kong Baptist University. She worked Post-Doctoral Research Fellows in Northwestern University in the USA and was trained in the University of Oxford in the UK. Her expertise is in neuroscience, neurodegenerative diseases and nanotechnology.

Under the leadership of Dr Lui, OPER Technology Limited has gained public-wide recognition and won 32 industrial and technological awards since its establishment in November 2014. She is also named as one of the top ten innovator under 35 (Asia Pacific) by MIT technology review this year.

Prof HUANG is a serial entrepreneur, a leader in a social enterprise and the eLearning field more than 30 years. Currently, he is Associate Professor and Senior Advisor of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, his mission is to teach Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship to university students and to let younger generations understand entrepreneurial spirit. He is Vice-Chairman of Junior Achievement Hong Kong, dedicated to inspiring and preparing young leaders to succeed in a global economy thru entrepreneurship, Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of DreamStarter, a new community initiative that makes dream projects initiated by school students come true, through raising awareness, mentoring, crowdfunding and crowdsourcing support.

International. This is one of the world's most honorific award for young successful entrepreneurs who make positive contributions to both society and people in over 68 countries. With an enriched experience in teaching mathematics of over 37,000 students in the past 12 years, Ms Viola is fully understanding the importance of pedagogical approaches to the next generation and is determined to enhance the learning condition and performance of learners with the use of technology. Therefore, FSAI was established in 2016 and developed an Ai-Driven Motivation Model – 4LittleTrees (4LTs) with over 30 patents, which is able to analyze the emotions and cognitive level of students during studies. Apart from developing education-focused software, the 4LTs is also applicable to various industries, including corporate training, e-commerce and healthcare.

FSAI has rewarded a range of significant local and international awards these years, including Caring Company 2018-19, platinum award of IFTA FinTech Achievement Award 2018, Outstanding Customer Experience Artificial Intelligence (Ai) and Analytics Solution of etnet FinTech Awards 2018, Gold Award of Smart Living in ICT Award 2018, The Best Potential Ai Facial Recognition Education Application Development Award of Xinhuanet and being the winner of Cyberport Incubator Pitch Day.

Born and educated in Hong Kong, Derek is an early "returnee" toAsia with 25+ years of APAC market entry experience. Since the90s, his early work in venture capital makes him one of the firstinvestors involved with Asia based startups. Starting with first geninternet companies, he has reviewed 15,000+ business plans. Hewas part of a core team that managed funds for the Hong KongSpecial Administrative Region (HKSAR), Singapore GovernmentInvestment Corporation (GIC), Sun Microsystems, Mitsui, Fujitsu,NTT Docomo and PCCW. As one of the most respected techcommunity leaders, he is involved with nearly every accelerator/co-working space in HK. Since 2004, Derek is the Managing Partnerof BraveSoldier Venture Capital, an early stage tech fund. With abackground in i-banking, direct investment and mgmt consulting, hisfundraising experience includes seed, family office, Series A andIPOs. He was the CEO of a Chinese mobile payments company andcredited for "leading from the front" from seed round to commercialresponsibilities to investor exit. With 500+ "day trips" to the GreaterBay, Derek has direct manufacturing involvement in telecoms,robotics, wearables and pc peripherals. Derek is an author of twobooks, university lecturer, US-Global Innovation Fellow, TEDxspeaker, current board member and former Trustee/co-Chairmanof the Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals (SPCA),board member of Junior Achievement HK, mgmt committee of NewWorld Group’s - Eureka Nova, advisor to the Open University ofHong Kong and mentor/advisor to start-ups. He is an extreme multi-day ultra-marathoner, PADI Dive Master and jiujitsu practitioner.

Prof Roland CHIN is President and Chair Professor of Computer Science of Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU). Prof Chin obtained his Bachelor’s and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering at the University of Missouri. Prof Chin has extensive experience in teaching, research and leadership in higher education. He has held senior positions at The University of Hong Kong and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology before joining HKBU. His research is in the areas of computer vision, image processing, and pattern recognition. Professor Chin is active in public service, past services include Chairman of the Research Grants Committee; and he is currently a member of the HKSAR's Committee on Innovation, Technology and Reindustrialisation.

As Head of Digital at HKBN (i.e., Hong Kong’s 2nd largest Telco), Samuel bridges the gap between business and technology to create omni-channel experiences centered around both B2B and B2C customers. Samuel strongly believes that successful Digital Transformations are Talent-led, never Technology-led! As a thought leader in Digital Transformation, Samuel has spoken at a number of international conferences and seminars on driving innovations and agility in corporations.

Before taking on his current role, Samuel led the launch of Hong Kong’s fastest growing MVNO (HKBN Mobile). Samuel also brings with him a breadth of experience advising Fortune 500 Financial Services clients on business growth and transformation strategies at Oliver Wyman New York.

Samuel graduated from Dartmouth College, US with dual Bachelor degrees in Liberal Arts and Mechanical Engineering.

Mr Chow has over 20 years of investment experience and is currently a Managing Partner with Radiant Tech Ventures, a HK-based venture fund manager that invests in technology-empowered sectors such as Fintech, E-commerce, Healthcare, etc across various geographical markets: Hong Kong/China, Israel and North America. Radiant Tech Ventures is a HK SFC-licensed asset management company and upholds the highest standard of corporate governance and business ethics and it is selected as one of the six Co-Investment Partners of the HK ITVF scheme in 2018. Mr Chow is a Type 9 licensed RO in Hong Kong.

Mr Chow was previously Managing Director & Co-Head of China and a member of the Investment Committee for JAFCO Asia, responsible for all investment activities that spans across Asia (ex-Japan). Of the JAFCO portfolio in China, he was responsible for sourcing and completing the investments in the following companies, of which he sat on the board of directors of most of them: 3721 (Sold to Yahoo!), ChinaCache (NASDAQ: CCIH), GolferPass, Byecity Travel (OTC New Third Board: 836925), Amsky Printing (ChiNext: 300521), 51wan (Sold to Chinese A-share listed company), Tudou (Acquired by NASDAQ-listed Yukou), A8 Music (HKSE: 800), Coolpad (HKSE: 2369), HiSoft (NASDAQ: HSFT), Sinosun (ChiNext: 300333), etc. Mr Chow is today still an INED of Sinosun.

Prior to joining JAFCO Asia, Mr. Chow was an Assistant Principal with Capital Z Asia Limited. Capital Z Asia was a private equity fund manager associated with CZI, a Fund-of-Funds investment manager that was headquartered in New York with an AUM of US$3.8 billion, covering mainly investments in hedge funds and private equity funds worldwide. Mr. Chow was based in Hong Kong then, responsible for making private equity direct investments in Thailand, Taiwan, Singapore and Indonesia, mainly in the media, consumer and technology sectors.

Prior to joining Capital Z Asia, Mr. Chow was an Investment Manager with Peregrine Direct Investment Ltd, which is part of the Peregrine Holdings Group. Based in Hong Kong, he was mainly responsible for making investments for in China, and South East Asia. Mr Chow was first trained as an auditor at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and subsequently joined the retailing arm of the Hutchison Whampoa Group in Hong Kong as a Finance Manager where he was based in Shanghai.

Mr. Chow was born in Hong Kong but grew up in Singapore where he had lived for over 8 years. He obtained a Bachelor degree (Hons) in Business Studies from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and is a CFA Charterholder and a CPA (Fellow member) of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA).