For decades, managing data essentially meant collecting and storing it. That has all changed. Businesses are now looking for critical information and insights that can be extracted from the massive amounts of data, to drive better business decisions that unlock efficiency and feature gains. This track is curated in a way that would inspire you to build a sector-specific modern data environment with proven data strategies that address infrastructure complexity and integration, help you make sense of that data through analytics, AI, automation and ML engineering and ultimately – deliver outsized business value and transform lives.
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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. COVID has brought tremendous changes to the business world by bringing many daily processes online and accelerating the process of digital transformation. Many employees now prefer and ask for work from home arrangements. This brings a significant change to the management of companies. Neufast has developed a remote video interview and assessment solution that help business navigate remote recruitment using technologies while striking the balance to satisfy personal data privacy concerns. This talk will also discuss the user cases and the business results the system has delivered. Sensors have matured in recent years; organisations have adopted this technology to collect data in its various forms. The data these sensors collect can range from temperature, footfall traffic, IAQ, occupancy, frequency of use, facility maintenance to name a few. Our panel will share their thoughts on usage, output, and how to best use these sensors now and most importantly the future, The session will showcase the real-world use cases of Language AI technologies in Hong Kong, particularly in the RegTech and WealthTech space. Learn how banks and financial service institutions are adopting language AI to process calls and conversations between RMs and clients, and detect potential mis-selling practices for risk control. More importantly, banks and FSIs can make use of the analysis results to better understand customers’ investment interests and their satisfaction levels about the banks’ services. Based on such insights, banks have come up with better ways to serve customers and make better investment advice. The word ‘Reindustrialisation’ has been popping up frequently in many channels. The government also sees it as the key to Hong Kong’s race for productivity and growth in the digital era. As consumer habits evolve along with technological advancement, businesses can no longer afford inefficiency hindering their growth. How can companies align sales and marketing to enhance customer experience and increase conversion? Learn how to leverage CRM and data-driven marketing solutions to create a cohesive combined effort in driving better marketing and sales results. Conversational customer experience is a type of CX that doesn’t only focus on problem-solving. It aims to build long-term relationships with customers that results in greater customer loyalty, improved brand image, and ultimately, more revenue. Infobip will share benefits, pillars, use cases, and examples of a conversational customer experience to show how it can increase engagement, satisfaction, and ROI. Commerce has come a long way since early humans bartered grain for livestock. Every step of the way, technology has been disrupting how humans trade. Today, amid the post-pandemic new normal, and as AI technologies drive real-time, digital decision-making, brands are once again reconsidering how they sell and distribute their products. Investment in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for marketing and advertising is growing at a very fast pace. Brands are increasingly embracing technology and harnessing the power of data and AI to enhance customer experience, provide better products or services and drive sales. Given the technology’s enormous potential, marketers must understand the types of marketing AI applications available today and how they may evolve in light of new regulations. We will explore this paradigm shift, revealing how AI is changing the way brands operate, reach potential customers and drive long-term loyalty. Two real cases of AI implementation with Shiseido Hong Kong and one of the world's leading FMCG groups will be introduced, discussing how to design a winning AI-powered marketing strategy as well as the inherent challenges of such projects. Crisis management has become increasingly challenging in today’s digital world. A single social media post can rapidly turn into a PR nightmare. When a crisis hits, the way an organisation acts and communicates often determines how the crisis may unravel. In this session, CARMA Asia’s Charles Cheung shares the role of AI, data and human analysis in crisis management, and how to successfully navigate a crisis to mitigate its impact. An end-to-end machine learning project involves numerous stages. From scoping the project with users and testing ideas with PoCs to deploying models and establishing MLOps cycle, the success of the entire project depends on the execution of each individual stage. In our sharing, we will go over real-world case studies from various industries to give tangible examples of how these stages can be effectively carried out depending on the requirements of the use case. The metaverse is quickly becoming the next digital frontier that everyone will want to conquer. Organizations have already been looking to metaverse as a means of connection and new sources of revenue. Leveraging the AI technologies, metaverse could have huge impact on businesses and our daily lives. In this session, our panel will explore different potential and different business approaches in metaverse. Machine Learning (ML) play a key role in digital transformation. It brings values to enterprise but it requires expertise to start with. Amazon SageMaker Canvas, is a visual, point-and-click service that allows business analysts to generate accurate machine le (ML) predictions without writing any code or requiring ML expertise. In this session you will learn how SageMaker Canvas makes it easy to access and combine data from a variety of sources, automatically clean data and apply a variety of data adjustments, and build ML models to generate accurate predictions with a single click. Finally you can easily publish results, explain and interpret models, and share models with others within your organization to review. In today’s commercial environment, it is essential to engage customers in a personally, artificial intelligence and machine learning are the technologies to enable companies to understand and interact with the consumers and to revolutionize the retail industry by improving efficiency, accuracy, and personalization capabilities. They can interpret data and perform analysis at a speed and volume beyond human capabilities. As a result, retailers could generate predictive analytics to deliver targeted marketing and advertising, discover market trends, predict consumer behavior, forecast sales, minimize customer churn, optimize restocking, assortment planning, size optimization, promotions planning, and more. Our panel experts will share their real-life experience in supporting retailers large or small. Is biased AI a bad thing? Not necessary. We want a chatbot to bias towards polite and empathic conversation over bad languages. AI bias could simply reflect the bias required in business reality. The problem, however, happens when there is combination of biased data, algorithm and business governance. The problem intensifies with automation in modeling, creating the “black box” mystery. In this panel, we’ll demystify what it means and what it takes to build transparent AI and ethical business with data and model governance. Programme
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Truddy heads up Consulting, North Asia, at JLL. She is a subject matter expert in Workplace Strategy and Change Management focused in workplace transformation efforts for corporate occupiers. She connects workplace strategy with design and apply organizational change management expertise to develop workplace solutions aligning business goals and optimizing employee performance. She pays attention in identifying opportunities to foster company culture, desirable employee experience, effective spatial requirements to achieve high performing workspaces for dynamic organisations.
Nicholas Lesek has specialist knowledge and experience in infrastructure strategy, design and operation. In 2014 Nicholas took a up a divisional lead role as APAC Head of Corporate Real Estate and Services for Swiss Re with a second hat as global ICT facilities SME. Nicholas has broad responsibility for leading Swiss RE’s regional corporate real estate requirements taking in real estate strategy and planning, facilities, capital projects, technology and workplace. For the PropTech layer of ABW implementation, Swiss Re in APAC incorporates real time workplace analytics. They use data to see how different parts/segments of the workplace are being utilized and how services are being consumed.
Heather brings over 20 years of experience with a critical focus on technology and corporate real estate project and program execution delivery. Her extensive background in the client-side's commercial real estate selection and contractual obligations, strategic operations, and hands-on project management enables her to take on the challenge of delivering innovative digital workplace solutions for the pro AV market. As Vega Global's Director for Digital Workplace Solutions, Heather works with leading technology manufacturers and providers in designing and delivering fit-for-purpose digital workplace solutions based on the client's business requirements, office footprint, and workplace strategy.
He started his research at Imperial College London on optimization of multi-input signal detection, which is a core technology in today’s 5G mobile network. He also had wide range of working experience in the research of complex systems and developing software for system analysis, including modelling of financial systems and the search for look-ahead indicators in the markets. He joined Quantum Scientia in 2019 as Chief Quantum Scientist. He leads the team in the development of reversible logic synthesis applications which help speed up the use of quantum computing in commercial applications.
Andrew Otremba is a consulting manager at fifty-five Hong Kong office with years of experience in data strategy, data analysis and omnichannel activation. Andrew engages with enterprise clients on the design, strategy and execution of bespoke and future-proof digital strategies inline with business needs and objectives. Andrew graduates from the University of Nottingham, with a strong background in engineering and business consultation. He has previously held a business development and strategic engagement role at iClick interactive before joining fifty-five.
Miss Mercy Liu is the Head of Global Industrial Business at SmartMore. Working closely with the General Manager, Mercy facilitates channel development, growth strategies & partnerships across different industrial applications of smart manufacturing. She is a experienced business development manager with 8 years experience in strategies, business planning, as well as building and maintaining collaborations with institutional partners ranging from Fortune 500 corporations to SMEs across industries in APAC.
Jonathan is knowledgeable in data analytics and modeling pipeline. He has taken lead on projects such as real time automatic data collection for a world leading aircraft distributor, an automation redaction system for a financial regulatory organization, as well as leading AI and data science workshops for Fortune 500 companies. He has also helped a property conglomerate to create customer segmentation models to better target potential buyers. Additional to his hands-on data science experience, he also serves as a part-time lecturer at HKU SPACE teaching a course about real life applications of big data and AI.
Ivan is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Pantheon Lab Limited, an AI technology company that uses deep learning technology to create software applications to serve the content, creative and marketing industries. Also, manages the corporate and strategic direction at Pantheon Lab, facilitating company activity in business and technology development. Ivan is a serial tech entrepreneur who enjoys building forward thinking solutions to disrupt the industries. With 15 years of programming and entrepreneurial experience spanning a few continents, Ivan has grown a strong interest in tackling very niche industry pain points with software and AI.
Jeanne is the Co-founder and CEO of beingAI, an AI startup based in Hong Kong. Jeanne has over 25 years of experience in business management and technology marketing. She is the former CEO and Chief Marketing Officer of Hanson Robotics, the creator of Sophia the Robot, and held marketing leadership roles at Dell, Cisco, Danaher, and Apple, where she was the product and business manager responsible for launching Apple’s most groundbreaking products in the region. She started her career as a Group Management Trainee at John Swire & Sons. Jeanne is a Volunteer and Director of Himalayan Consensus Institute, an NGO involved in social enterprise development and climate protection. She is also an angel investor and advisor of several startups. Jeanne has spoken at a number of events on technology, business, women in business, marketing, education, NGO, including AI Summit in Hong Kong, American Chamber of Commerce in China, Women’s Forum Asia, Milken Institute Asia Summit, CEO Summit, Business and Philanthropy Forum in Singapore, University of California, Berkeley Annual Conference in Hong Kong, StartmeupHK Festival, South China Morning Post Women of Our Time Conference, Metaverse Unlimited conference, Tufts University panel, etc. She is especially passionate about engaging with the young generation and has spoken at United Nations Summer Academy and conducted seminars at several universities and middle schools, as well as served as a judge to promote youth entrepreneurship at events such as Enactus China National Champion and Cyberport X Jumpstart Youth Entrepreneur. Jeanne has a Ph.D. degree in integrated and holistic health, an MBA degree from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and a BA degree in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a certified yoga instructor and a life-long student of yoga philosophy, having completed Georg Feuerstein’s five-year Traditional Yoga Studies course.
Serial Entrepreneur Patrick Tu graduated from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2018. He is the CEO and co-founder of Dayta AI, a Hong Kong-based AI startup with a vision to build a SmartRetail ecosystem that entails Computer Vision and Business Intelligence. While Dayta AI was selected as the 2021 'Forbes Asia 100 to Watch', Patrick is also named as 'Forbes 30 under 30 Asia 2021'.
Rudy Chan graduated from University of Toronto majoring in Finance & Accounting and has 5+ years of experience in business consulting at KPMG before founding Cloudbreakr. As a co-founder and COO of Cloudbreakr, he oversees all business operations, finance and data analytics related areas within the company.
In the years as the Executive Director of the HKAI Lab, Timothy has supported and coached many startups in the journey to become a successful business, including areas in fund raising, product and business development, and team management. HKAI Lab is a not-for-profit initiative fully funded by the Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund and SenseTime focused on advancing the frontiers of AI with cutting-edge technologies and expertise, and empowering startups to commercialize their new inventions. Timothy is also a co-founder of a tech startup. Timothy has accumulated over 20 years of experience in the technology field. He worked in esteemed companies such as Alibaba, Apple, and PCCW. Timothy has 20+ years' experience in the technology field covering Asia, Europe, and Americas. He directly managed staff and partners in Japan, Korea, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Turkey, USA, UK, Italy, Brazil and Peru. In early 2022, Timothy joined The Artificial Intelligence Society of Hong Kong as the VP. The society is a non-profit interest group with an aim to cultivate a community of AI enthusiasts and to boost the development of AI technology in Hong Kong.
Adam leads the data strategy for Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, responsible for the adoption of data and analytics inside the Group, managing the infrastructure, governance and data science teams. He is an entrepreneurial senior executive bridging the gap between technology and business. Over 15 years of experience with authoritative knowledge of financial markets, data and quantitative analysis. Proven fund-raising and networking skills, Adam is an expert at building consensus and fostering innovative solutions in both start-up and enterprise environments.
Jacky Ng is an actuary turned data scientist, he is currently with Swiss Re's Advanced Analytics Centre of Expertise as the Data Science Chapter Lead for the APAC region. Jacky previously led Swiss Re's Life & Health Actuarial Asia regional valuation and modelling teams. Prior to Swiss Re, Jacky was an actuarial consultant with extensive working experience across APAC including Australia, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea.
Sheila Lam was a seasoned journalist covering the enterprise IT market for 20 years. She has extended her journalistic experience into the content marketing arena and started Ignite Content Marketing. Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Computerworld Hong Kong—a publication with more than 30 years of history in Hong Kong— Sheila witnessed and covered the emergence, development and maturity of different technologies. Through telling these stories, she has built knowledge across a wide variety of IT topics including data science, agile architecture, cloud computing, digital transformation and cybersecurity. She was also previously an industry analyst with IT research firm IDC Asia/Pacific, covering the regional enterprise software and SaaS market. Riding on her storytelling skills and technical knowledge, Sheila develops content marketing strategies and offers research services to many technology providers. She is also a recognized conference moderator and producer, hosting and producing events of various sizes from roundtables to seminars and conferences.
Gemma is a committee member of the Hong Kong Data Science Society and the business and project manager at ThinkCol Transform. She has led AI, data science, and innovation projects for the world’s largest health and beauty retailer, various publicly-listed companies, and government agencies. She has also co-authored The State of Ethical AI in Hong Kong White Paper - one of Hong Kong's first Ethical AI papers and AI-powered Feedback Loop in Driving Efficient Urban Planning published by the Hong Kong Institute of Urban Design.
Jeremy is an Associate Partner at Sia Partners Hong Kong, leading the Transformation, Growth & Innovation practice in Asia. He thrives in supporting his clients in their Business and Technology transformation agenda, bringing a specific expertise on topics such as digital transformation, AI & data analytics, customer experience and innovation management.
Charles Cheung is currently General Manager of CARMA Asia, a global media intelligence company. Charles is a certified PR measurement and evaluation expert. He works with public relations and communications professionals from multinational and local organisations across the FMCG, Banking, Lifestyle, Legal and Industrial sectors to name a few, to identify and address their media intelligence needs. He earned his master’s degree in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from the University of Adelaide, and had since worked in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong. With over 10 years of experience in multitude of environments including MNCs, SMEs, and start-ups, Charles brings unique perspectives on the importance of effective PR measurement and evaluation.
Dr Albert Lam received his BEng degree (First Class Honors) in Information Engineering and his PhD degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), both from The University of Hong Kong (HKU), in 2005 and 2010, respectively. He was a postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences of University of California, Berkeley. He is now the Chief Technology Officer and the Chief Scientist at Fano Labs, a deep-tech startup specializing in speech and language technologies enabled by AI. He also serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in both EEE and Geography at HKU, and a Croucher research fellow. He is a member in the Expert Committee of Shenzhen Artificial Intelligence Industry Association and a Senior Member of IEEE. His research interests include optimization, AI, intelligent transportation system, and smart city. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Mr. Daniel Weitze (Head of Digital Mobility) is helping the world moving forward. Aiming to increase the quality of life for human beings in smart cities. Since August 2018 – after gaining 15 years of experience in transportation around the globe (Europe, North and South America, Asia) in several positions* – Mr. Weitze is leading the Digital Mobility department of Siemens Mobility Ltd. in Hong Kong. His open mind for new solutions and business models, combined with a broad experience in business management, R&D, product management, operations, sales and consultancy, is setting the foundation for exciting discussions and sharing of results around human centric business. *In 2003 he joined Siemens AG in Germany, apprenticeship and study in the area of information technology, engineering and customer service management. September 2011 to January 2013, Operations Manager Software as a Service and Credit Card Clearing.
Dr. Wong is a seasoned professional with multi-disciplinary working experiences covering corporate strategy, business transformation, new growth business and investment, engineering and technology as well as project management. He is currently the General Manager – MTR Lab responsible for leading and managing the development and operation of new growth business anchored on innovation and technology in the areas of smart city, smart mobility, railway technology and green tech supporting ESG. He is also overseeing a corporate venture arm specializing on technology investment. Prior to his current role, he was the Head of Corporate Strategy of MTR Corporation responsible for formulation of business strategy of the group, and took part in and managed the execution of a corporate-wide transformation programme. Henry is also a chartered civil engineering possessing 12+ years working experience on mega infrastructure project management, civil engineering design and R&D in the field of engineering.
Being an experienced professional in IT sector, my tenacious and proactive approach resulted in numerous compliments received the last 10 years with assignments in different IT management projects and various industry associations. My excellent networking skills and ability to develop client relationships have also earned myself opportunities in every segment that I have involved. With my dedication and professional manner at work, I utilize my meticulous attention to detail in each project.
Estyn Chung is the General Manager of Uber for Hong Kong, overseeing local operation and is responsible for growing the business in Hong Kong. Estyn believes that efficient point to point mobility coupled with technology and innovation is not only beneficial to riders in Hong Kong, but is also an integral step to fulfilling Hong Kong’s smart city ambition. Prior to Uber, Estyn spent over a decade in Investment Banking in Asia and Australia with UBS, a Swiss Bank. He then went on to become a Co-Founder and CEO of CANOPY, a career platform for millennials headquartered in Hong Kong. Estyn led CANOPY’s efforts to become a leading career portal for next generation talent, which included overall responsibility for the strategy, product roadmap, team development and customer acquisition. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Melbourne.