HK as an Innovation and Entrepreneurship Hub: Fantasy, Reality, or Possibility?

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Join us for a thought-provoking event as we explore the potential of Hong Kong (HK) to become a thriving innovation and entrepreneurship hub. Delve into the captivating discussion surrounding the possibilities, challenges, and aspirations of HK in this dynamic domain.

Hong Kong's corporations, universities, and government have recently made substantial investments in innovation and entrepreneurship, hoping to produce a new engine of growth to complement the city's traditional strengths in finance, real estate, and trade. However, whether HK can really emerge as a global hub for innovation and entrepreneurship remains up for debate. HK has unique strengths, including its corporate sector, research universities, and connections across the region and the world. Nevertheless, it also faces unique headwinds.

Please join our panel of corporate innovators, entrepreneurs, and other visionaries as we explore Hong Kong's potential to become a thriving hub for innovation and entrepreneurship. Discover the success stories of startups and established companies that have already made their mark in HK's innovation ecosystem. Gain valuable knowledge about the existing infrastructure, resources, and support systems available to entrepreneurs, and explore the untapped potential that lies within the city's business landscape.

During the event, you'll have the opportunity to network with like-minded individuals, including aspiring entrepreneurs, investors, and industry professionals, fostering connections that could shape the future of HK's innovation and entrepreneurship domain.

Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur, a seasoned business professional, or intrigued by the possibilities, this event offers a platform to challenge assumptions, share ideas, and envision the future of HK as an innovation and entrepreneurship hub.

Speakers

Andy Chan

Forbes 30 under 30 2020, Co-Founder of Qupital

Joon Nak Choi

Adjunct Associate Professor and Advisor to the MSc in Business Analytics at HKUST, Founder of Learnovate

Raymond Chu

Associate Director – University Collaborations & Entrepreneurship of Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks Corporation

Jordan Kostelac

Formerly Asia Pacific Director of PropTech for Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), Founder at deploy

Prof. Carrie Ling

Director of Entrepreneurship Center and the Adjunct Assistant Professor of Integrative Systems & Design (ISD) at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

Vincent See

General Manager of New Ventures and Digital Transformation at Swire Properties

Andy Chan, is the Co-Founder of Qupital, a financial technology company that specializes in SME trade finance backed up by its cutting-edge technology and big data analysis. Qupital operates a safe and secure online platform which enables e-commerce merchants to raise quick quality capital in few clicks. Andy has experience in Banking and Asset Management in Hong Kong and New Zealand, while also possessing a background in Software Engineering. Also, Andy has helped to develop an innovative legal technology platform in Denmark.

As Co-Founder of Qupital, Andy helps small and medium-sized enterprises gain access to immediate funding. He oversees Qupital's daily operations, strategy and partnerships, managing relationships between clients, partners and major stakeholders. Andy is originally from New Zealand and studied Economics and Computer Science at Brown University. Andy was also selected for Gen.T List in 2019 and Forbes 30 under 30 in 2020.

Raymond joined HKSTPC in 2021 and is currently Associate Director (University Collaborations & Entrepreneurship) at the Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTPC), responsible for entrepreneurship education, startup pre-incubation and co-development partnership with universities and corporations. Before joining HKSTPC, Raymond served as Assistant Director of Knowledge Transfer & Entrepreneurship Office at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), where he spent 12 years helping to drive various university-wide entrepreneurship initiatives, ranging from seed funding programmes, entrepreneurship education to co-working spaces for students, alumni and academic staff.

Raymond has a strong passion in youth innovation and entrepreneurship education and incubation. He had served in a number of professional bodies outside his formal works, including design assessment panel of the Hong Kong Design Centre. He was also frequent speakers in local and overseas entrepreneurship conferences and judges for many incubation / entrepreneurship competitions and programmes.

Prof. Carrie Ling is currently the Director of Entrepreneurship Center and the Adjunct Assistant Professor of Integrative Systems & Design (ISD) leading the entrepreneurship development at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Before joining HKUST, Prof. Ling was an Associate Director of Business Development (InnoHK) at Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP). Her role was to drive the commercialization of research projects from InnoHK, a $10B flagship innovation and technology initiative of the HKSAR government, at HK Science Park. She also led the development of the translational research innovation ecosystem by equipping the researchers with entrepreneurial mindset and knowledge. As an Associate Director of Office of Innovation and Enterprise of Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2019-2020, she assisted the Associate Vice President (Innovation and Enterprise) to establish the CUHK InnoHK centers with renowned overseas institutions. In 2018, Prof. Ling was a Senior Manager in Medical Device of Biomedical Technology Cluster and a Technical Leader of Healthy Ageing Platform of HKSTP. Her role was to drive the development of health technology innovation ecosystem and to support the start-ups to commercialize their innovation in collaboration with the stakeholders from universities, NGOs, industry and government.

Prof. Ling is passionate about empowering one’s creativity in science and technology through solving real-life problems and nurturing the next generation entrepreneurs in HK, believing that everyone can be an innovator. She currently drives the development of entrepreneurship education at HKUST. When she was a senior lecturer of ISD in 2017-2019, she taught entrepreneurship introductory and healthcare innovation courses for undergraduate students. In 2016, she co-founded the “DreamCatchers Medtech Hackathon” with Stanford University and HKU. Her tie with HKUST started from a Lecturer position of Bioengineering Graduate Program at HKUST from 2012 to 2015. She launched a new biodesign experiential learning course to teach undergraduate students.
Prof. Ling obtained her bachelor and PhD degrees in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Hong Kong and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2002 and 2006 respectively. She pursued her orthopedic research training at University of Florida, Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, after her doctoral degree for two years. From 2009 to 2011, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University, Department of Mechanical Engineering. She has authored/co-authored more than 60 papers in international journals and conference proceedings and one US patent in mechanical and biomedical fields.

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