The GBA Innovation & Technology Forum
With the latest addition of Qianhai as a facilitator of the Greater Bay Area (GBA)’s development, the landmark initiative continues to gain momentum, aiming to create one of the world’s foremost economic and technology innovation hubs, rival with the bay areas of San Francisco, New York and Tokyo. While the GBA is expected to create business opportunities across all sectors, Technology and Innovation is identified as the top sector that will benefit the most.
How would the tech sector thrive in the GBA? What are the opportunities that lie ahead? How would Hong Kong businesses of all sizes gain from this collaborative initiative? What are the risks impacting their business plans? At the moment the concept of the initiative is still a at high level, but we are starting to see more implementation plans coming out. This forum will bring you latest insights on the region’s development framework, policies and practical analysis that matter most in your business.
Our Speakers
Cities like Hong Kong are rapidly evolving, driven by governments, talents in the cities and more and more importantly, technology. Where does the future of Hong Kong as a global city look like in the future? How will technology and innovation reshape the way Hong Kong is structured? Joining us with the insightful dialogue about our paveway to revive Hong Kong with energy, technology and future-proof city map. *This session will not be held at physical event during 24 - 25 Aug, it will be available in our online conference programme in mid-Sep Greater Bay Area - such a diverse geographical location spreading across several cities and regions, the formation of a company consisting of staff and offices scattered around to maximize business opportunities and flexibility. To succeed in this new model, enterprises need to reimagine their business infrastructure like business connectivity and security compliance to support the flexibility demanded by the modernised organizations - without compromising security or user experience as well as maintaining compliance with local and international legal and regulatory framework. Join us at this session to learn from industry experts about the latest customer use cases in utilizing SASE technology for capturing business opportunities in GBA Programme
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With over 25 years of innovation experience within information and communication technology, David has been involved in providing emerging technology and service for strategic enterprises in PCCW Global. David has worked on innovation as an incubator for 4 years and graduated from HKSTP. David was a significant team member in the establishment of the first-generation China Beidou system and received many national honor awards.
Mr Cheng, Head of SASE Sales, Greater China of Paloalto Networks is an experienced Regional Manager and evangelist for SASE and Emerging Technology adoption for enterprise customers in Asia with primary focus in Advanced Security Protection. He has also broad experience with Identity Access Management (IAM) and most recently focusing on helping customers to adopt the Security Access Service Edge (SASE) services across the Greater China region. Mr. Cheng previous work experience includes Gartner, RSA, Forgerock, Checkpoint across North Asia
Chefield Kan is an experienced product development manager who specialized in China-Hong Kong cross border and International connectivity services for Enterprise customers. He is experienced in developing and managing traditional connectivity services like IPVPN, IP-transit, Cloud Connect, as well as emerging technologies like Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) services. He is currently focusing on helping customers to adopt the SASE services across the Greater China region.
Mr Leo Ng is the first Chief Digital Officer of MTR Corporation, joining in May 2022. His charter has corporate oversight on digitalisation strategies and development together with his Global Innovation and Information Technology Services teams. He has more than 30 years of experience in consulting, program management, large-scale digital transformation program and technology architecture design and implementation for a wide range of companies across different industries in Australia, UK, ASEAN, and Greater China. Prior to joining MTR, he held various roles with Accenture in Greater China including being their Digital Lead, Technology Delivery Lead and HK Office Managing Director.
Peter Mok is the Head of the Greater Bay Area, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation. Peter is responsible for steering HKSTP’s strategic direction and development in the Greater Bay Area. He is also accelerating joint efforts with stakeholders to promote innovation and technology. Peter has over 30 years of experience and in-depth knowledge in technology commercialisation, corporate innovation, corporate merger and acquisition, venture capital investment, and C-Level executive recruitment.
Arthur is a public policy researcher in tech innovation at Our Hong Kong Foundation. He has co-authored industry-specific and value chain-wide research reports and provides frequent commentary on the topic. He recently spearheaded research on technology collaboration within the Greater Bay Area, specifically in partnership with the PRC Ministry of Science and Technology and the Shenzhen Municipal Government. He holds a MSc in Political Economy from the London School of Economics.
Kenny is the CEO of Cherrypicks, a regional leader in mobile technology. Cherrypicks’ innovative augmented reality, location intelligence and e-wallet platforms revolutionize the O2O mobile user experience with leading UX solutions and disruptive patent-pending products. Cherrypicks has represented Hong Kong and China on many world stages to win over 100 local and international awards. The early entrepreneurial journey of the company was featured as a Harvard business case (#N9-807-106).