Victor is passionate about education. He strongly believes that children with learning challenges can discover their true potential if schools provide the right environment and remain relentlessly focused on providing high quality of teaching. He founded Bridge Academy in 2014, a school providing Applied Behaviour Analysis ( ABA) services for children with learning difficulties aged 2 and above. More than 500 special education needs (SEN) children has received ABA services since 2014. Victor has also founded Bridge AI, a company using Artificial Intelligence (AI), big data and video and audio communication systems to support e-learning of SEN children. He is now collaborating with Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) in a project funded by the Hong Kong Innovative and Technology Bureau (ITB) to develop the Integrated Intelligent Intervention-learning system (3i-learning system) that tailors the individual needs of students with SEN. Victor is a Doctor of Education student at The Education University of Hong Kong and holds a master's degree in accounting from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is also a speaker at IEEE conferences about next-generation technologies for people with cognitive and learning disabilities.

Tiffany Fung is an Impact Producer at Social Ventures Hong Kong (SVhk) and SONOVA, the communication arm of SVhk. She is dedicated to empowering next generation leaders and catalysing cross-sector partnerships to accelerate positive social change. This includes leading youth platforms such as Creative Beings @ Sham Shui Po (an apprenticeship programme reimagining the intersections of work, life and community) and Asia Social Innovation Award (a regional platform supporting social entrepreneurs with innovation solutions). She has also worked with the Harbourfront Commission on developing cultural activities to increase public participation at the Wan Chai harbourfront. Besides her work with youth and community, Tiffany also supports the creative direction of impact storytelling campaigns and curation of communication strategies for corporates, NGOs and community partners. Previously, Tiffany worked as an independent art curator and with non-profit art organiszations in New York. She obtained her B.A in Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and M.A in Arts Politics at New York University.

Florence Cheng is the Co-Founder of COSMOS, an impact venture dedicated to corporate social venturing, and the Head of Impact Strategy at Social Ventures Hong Kong (SVhk). She has worked with multiple non-profit and business partners in their strategic review and development of innovative cross-sector partnerships to address urban social challenges, through the likes of community making, holistic wellbeing, and inclusive employment. She also leads platform building and impact management for portfolio ventures including Community Resilience Fund (award-winning bridging loan facility for social enterprises) and Business with Purpose (impact movement to advance and equip businesses as a force for good). Florence graduated from the London School of Economics and previously worked as a management consultant.

Ellen is the Director of Nomad Management at Preface. Co-founding Preface, Ellen is a people-focused leader who delivers talent selection, training, retention and motivation solutions. She has built the Nomad Community - the Tech Instructor Community, which empowers tech talents to harness their full potential, bridging learners from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0, with trainable and digestible knowledge. She is dedicated to creating robust cultures that live the Preface motto “There isn’t a thing that cannot be learnt”, cultivating a love of learning among the instructors’ and learners’ community.

Mingles Tsoi is currently the CXO (Chief eXploration Officer) of ParticleX, an early stage to Pre-A round institutional investment fund aiming at startups with hands-on technology initiative, proven customer-problem-fit and problem-solution-fit achievements. His leadership in providing unique post-investment support services has gained much reputation from the portfolio companies. Mingles was an entrepreneur owning his own consultancy company since 1997. He is also a pioneer in startup education. He had been working with the CUHK Center for Entrepreneurship as Project Director since 2007. Some of his major accomplishments including the “Hong Kong Social Enterprise Challenge", the first CU Alumni Entrepreneur Census to investigate the success factors of leading entrepreneurs from local university education and the Google’s Empowering Young Entrepreneur (EYE) Program. He was invited to join KPMG China as the Director since 2015, to set up the Innovation and Startup Centre in Beijing. Mingles is also enthusiastic in youth development. He contributes his experience and knowledge in providing voluntary mentoring and business training services to various non-profit organizations. He was the Co-opted Members of the Working Group of Youth Development Fund of the Commission on Youth, and as Non-official Member of the Social Enterprise Advisory Committee respectively. He is currently serving on several boards and committees, including Hong Kong Business Angel Network (HKBAN), Cyberport Investors Network (CIN), DIT Committee of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, Vice Chairman of the Startup Council, Executive Committee Members of HKITIC and HKPSC of the Federation of Hong Kong Industries (FHKI), Member of Product & Technology Development Panel of the Hong Kong Medical and Healthcare Device Industries Association Limited (HKMHDIA), Founding and Council Member of the Lions Club HK IFC, and the Chairman of the Academic and Accreditation Advisory Committee of the Institute of Financial Technologists of Asia (IFTA). He is a CFT® holder, a GCDF, and fellow members of accountancy qualifications of IFA, IPA and CMA.

Justin is the co-founder and CEO of Gense Technologies, a medtech startup offering an affordable and portable self-help medical imaging device for in-depth health monitoring and preventive screening at home and clinics. The device targets some of the most prevalent and costliest diseases’ early detection and chronic disease management for liver, lungs, kidney and more. As co-founding CEO, Justin is leading a team of 20 PhDs and researchers from Stanford, Cambridge, and Hong Kong. He is also coordinating over 8 partnerships with professors on clinical trials, machine learning, biomedical imaging, and mathematical modelling. He has also led the start-up in winning the Jumpstarter Global Competition, and the Grand Award at Hong Kong ICT Startup Awards. Justin is collaborating with healthcare distributors from over 20 markets globally to set up local deployment pipeline, including hospital network, clinic chains, health insurers, and multinational conglomerates. Justin received his MPhil in Finance and Economics from the University of Cambridge and bachelor’s degree from the University of Warwick. He is also a Forbes 30 Under 30 and Tatler GenT recipient.

Hide Sato is a veteran international businessman with over 30 years of rich experience and achievements in global technology business development: SaaS, Cloud platform, IT hardware, software, services He pursued various leadership management roles at major multinational corporations: General Manager - Sales, at Nortel Networks (Canada), Director - Professional Services at Motorola (USA), Sr. Director - Sales at AXA Technology Services (France), and Director - Business Strategy at Novell (USA). Hide holds Bachelor of Science degree majoring in Economics from Trent University, Canada.

Ghislain is the Co-Founder and CTO of Sparkmate. He’s always had a knack and passion for building with technology and engineering, with an expertise in Software and Cloud Computing. Since 2016, he’s built and led over +60 projects from 0-1, and aims to create a global tribe of engineers who are building exciting, fulfilling lives with Sparkmate.

Current Responsibilities Andrew is a highly regarded Business Leader, Technical Consultant and Project Manager for Technology Solutions and Data Centre’s, with proven experience managing complex projects and initiatives, delivering outstanding results and working to challenging deadlines and expectations. Andrew is highly experienced in Data Centre’s, Critical Environments, IT Infrastructure and Physical Security. Educated as a surveyor, Andrew spent the first 20 years of his career in Financial Services Corporate Real Estate functions including responsibility for site acquisition, disposal, and leasing. It’s here that Andrew grew his passion for mission critical and Data Centre environments. Andrew applies his experience and knowledge to any critical environment. Andrew was a founding member and Board Director for the Data Centre Alliance and is currently a member of the British Chamber of Commerce I&T Committee. Recent Experience CITI BANK Andrew acted as Technical Consultant in support of the JLL Transactions team in Sydney, Australia to run a colocation Data Centre site selection and RFP process for Citi. Assisting the bank for the relocation of their secondary Data Centre. Andrew technically reviewed the vendor responses, noting their compliance to the Citi technical requirements and advised on areas of non-compliance working with the Citi Corporate Real Estate and IT teams regionally. PRINCETON DIGITAL GROUP (PDG) Andrew acted as Project Director for two Technical Due Diligence studies for PDG for site selection and ‘build to suit’ powered shells by local land-owning developers with PDG undertaking their own fit out. One site is in Saitama, Japan, 120MW, and the second in Incheon, South Korea, 80MW. Andrew led a JLL Technical Due Diligence team made up of local and regional JLL colleagues from Project & Development Services, IFM, Leasing and Capital Markets. The scope included a review of the site characteristics and surrounding environment risks, peer review of the Concept Design, review of the contractual negotiations with Japanese and Korean power utilities, construction cost benchmarking, project programming, review of the legal documents appertaining to construction matters and budgetary estimates for the lifecycle Facilities Management costs. MICROSOFT Acting as Project Director Andrew led a JLL Indonesia team to oversee the design management for three 10MW Data Centre’s in metropolitan Jakarta. The client team was APAC regional, and US based and the Design Team APAC regional. The target design phase from zero to 90% design as satisfactorily achieved within the 12-week programme. HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB Andrew is the Technology Project Management Lead for the two new build Data Centre’s at the Shatin Racecourse, New Territories, Hong Kong. Andrew has been constantly involved in this project for nine years since its strategic inception with the project due to complete in April 2023. Prior Experience Before joining JLL, Andrew was the Managing Director of PTS Consulting with total responsibility for all the firm’s business in APAC, including HK, China, Singapore, Japan, Philippines, and Australia with 150 full time staff. This included full responsibility for the financial performance of the business and P&L accountability

CEO of Mezzofy from Jul 2016 to present ➢ Managed a project to build the coupon system for Maxim’s which needs to integrate with 2,600 stores, POS and also the ERP of Maxim’s and also involves about 200 millions coupon data migration between 2016 and 2018 Logistics Director of Sasa Cosmetics Company from Nov 2014 to Jul 2016 ➢ Managed a project to do system integration between Sasa e-commerce site and China custom and 3rd service providers for the cross border e-commerce for Sasa between 2015 and 2016 Regional Supply Chain Manager of Bausch & Lomb from Sep 2009 to Nov 2014 ➢ Managed a project to create a lot trace system in Asia to track and trace every single contact lens for Bausch & Lomb between 2012 and 2013 ❖ Asian Distribution Operation Manager of Timberland from Oct 2008 to Jun 2009 ❖ Logistics Manager of Charbroil from Dec 2005 to Aug 2008 ❖ Regional Logistics Manager of Cass Jewelry from Dec 2003 to Dec 2005 ❖ Senior Account Manager of Uplink Communication from Oct 2001 to Dec 2003 ❖ Customer Service and Logistics Manager of CP1897 from Dec 2000 to Sep 2001 ❖ Customer Services and Logistics Manager of Lawson’s from Dec 1996 to Dec 2000