Agenda
13.4.2023
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Morning
Visionary Forum
The pandemic supercharges the rise of smart city innovations, and businesses and societies in Hong Kong and globally are pivoting towards smart city developments to spearhead recovery and growth in the wake of COVID-19. Global tech giants and prominent industry experts will exchange insights on how the exponential growth of future technology in metaverse, AI/cloud, 5G, smart city and more will define the new normal of smart economies and re-create future sustainable societies.
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Afternoon
Chambers Forum - Business Transformation via Data Innovation
Co-organisers
We live in a data-driven era, in which technological advancement and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic have drastically changed the landscape under which businesses operate. In this Forum, experts from various industries will discuss the key concepts behind the latest trends such as Big Data Governance and Business Valuation in the digital economy, as well as how businesses can embrace the challenges and capture the opportunities associated with this ‘new normal'.
- Building Big Data Governance for Hong Kong
- Business 3.0: Braving the New Economy
- Business Valuation in the Tech Economy
- Business Venture in the Data Era
AfternoonSmart City Forum - Smart City Clusters in the Greater Bay Area
Co-organiser
Smart City embodies the advancement of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the internet to improve city management and people’s quality of living. While China is at the forefront in smart city initiatives globally to apply ICT technologies to almost every societal and livelihood aspect, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) as a prime growth engine of the mainland is forming a vibrant smart city ecosystem. Similarly, Hong Kong has been devoting substantial resources with speed in the development of a smart city in recent years.
The “Smart City Clusters in GBA” Forum, organised by the Smart City Consortium, will look at the latest smart city initiatives of Hong Kong and international practices, alongside the capitalization of the opportunities in the GBA smart city clusters.
- Geospatial Infrastructure – The Key for Smart City Development
- Smart City Infrastructure – Hong Kong and Overseas
- Critical Building Blocks for a Smart Region – PwC’s thematic session
- Seizing the Opportunities Arising from Smart City Development in the Greater Bay Area
14.4.2023
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Morning
FinTech Forum - Harnessing Disruptive Financial Innovation
Organiser
Fintech and the wider Web3 industry are among the most rapid and impactful game-changers in the growth of smart cities. From the past challenging years, the financial market has embraced intensive digitization where disruptive tech intersects with rising consumers needs for more efficiency, accessibility, security and scalability in financial services and data ownership. With the evolving virtual asset landscape, global capital markets, China’s 14-5 plan and the government’s policy promulgation presenting huge opportunities and cross-border businesses, there is much more we can and must do to stay competitive as an international finance hub and a global virtual asset centre.
This Forum will take you through the next wave and exciting future of Fintech in areas of green finance, virtual assets, talent empowerment and more.
- Hong Kong’s Transition into an International Carbon Market
- Building a Comprehensive Web3 Ecosystem
- Reinventing Green Bond with Tokenization and Carbon Credit
- Keynote Chat with Global Digital Leader
- Banking Innovation
- Empowering Web3 Talent & Workforce
- Institutional & Government Initiatives in Supporting FinTech Industry Development
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Afternoon
AI & Big Data Forum – Data Infrastructure for Building the Smart Economy Potential
Co-organiser
As an international financial center, Hong Kong is now entering a new era of smart economy. In different business sectors, innovators are gradually reinventing different technologies as a digital business, using the latest breakthrough to optimize existing services, re-shape new economy at scale, and cut costs along the value chain.
Artificial intelligence and big data are the key concerns in the age of smart economy. The increasing volume of digital information provides a lot of new business insight opportunities across different organizations and different sectors.
This forum invites experts and industry pioneers in related fields to reveal the new financial order with you.
- The Future Direction of AI and AI Commercialization
- AI in Banking
- AI & Big Data
- Federated Learning and Data Privacy Protection
AfternoonNew Industrialisation Forum – Building a People-oriented Smarter Industry
Co-organiser
To dovetail with the National 14th Five-Year Plan and develop Hong Kong into an international I&T centre at full speed. The Government has formulated the Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Development Blueprint from the perspective of top-level planning and design, and will take forward the Blueprint under four broad development directions, namely "to enhance the I&T ecosystem and promote 'New Industrialisation' in Hong Kong"; "to enlarge the I&T talent pool to create strong impetus for growth"; "to promote digital economy development and develop Hong Kong into a smart city"; and "to proactively integrate into the overall development of the country and consolidate our role as a bridge connecting the Mainland and the world".
The thematic session, “New Industrialisation”, will explore how the industry can further boost its performance as a “Global Recognized Industry Leader” willing to shoulder up its “Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG)” responsibility to respect and protect the planet while putting people at its centre to unleash the full potential with the adoption of integrated technologies like Smartification, Humanification, AI & Robotics…etc for the entire supply chain that to boost the overall economy and GDP contribution.
- i4.0 & Beyond
- Smart Innovations by AI – The Next-Gen Semiconductors
- ESG & Sustainability
- Humanification of i4.0
- Supply Chain Resilience
- New Industrialisation
*The agenda is subject to change without prior notice.