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Invotech Smarter HK 2018 Series: Digital Transformation - the Why’s and How’s

April 20, 2018, 14:00-17:45
H6 CONET, G/F, The Center 99 Queen's Road
Central
Hong Kong
Member Price: HKD 480
Non-Member Price: HKD 780

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Smarter HK 2018 Series 

Digital Transformation - the Why’s and How’s

A Smart City needs to be a connected city, but a “Smarter” city knows how and when to connect.  Hong Kong is far from being connected. Now is time to connect our Smart Citizens with Smart Global Experts, and contribute to grounding our Smart City.  Through a series of half-day talks each month, Invotech with our supporting partners brings the world of innovation and technology to Hong Kong and exposes Hong Kong to the world. 

Master facilitators of the Series are Prof. Gregg Li and Fletcher Ng.  The April workshop is about digital transformation for Hong Kong’s industries.  
 
Join us, to co-learn, co-play, co-explore, collaborate, and co-create.  Let’s make Hong Kong into a more competitive city, and let’s have fun upgrading the quality of living while we become smarter. 

CanChamHK Members Get HK$300 OFF Regular Ticket Prices!

April Symposium: Digital Transformation, 20 April, H6 CONET, 2:00 pm to 5:45 pm

Keynote: Digital Flow Market Using HK as a Hub?  


Speaker: Dr. Stephen Cheung from Silicon Valley

Prioritising Hong Kong’s smart city ambitions is essential for the city to drive its next stage of development.  Reinventing this city as a digital hub could help achieve this – transforming it into a place that is faster, more aware of itself, and with a higher quality of life and more opportunities for its citizens. Should HK aim to lead in R&D of selected technologies or be a vibrant hub of businesses by leveraging technologies?  There are advocates on both sides. There are obvious strengths for HK to be a digital trading hub, especially given China’s One Belt One Road and the Pearl River Delta Region initiative? 

 
This talk will come from an angle of economic development for a prospective smart city like Hong Kong by looking at the market of Digital Flows-- a framework recently advanced by McKinsey as well as the prolific writer Thomas Friedman.  Both Hong Kong and China have performed superbly in this framework and recorded enormous economic gains. World trends in the 21st century such as the emergence of developing countries and the rise of their middle class and urbanization point to cities and megacities being the norm.  Rapid advent and easy access to information & communication technologies (ICT) make up for the soft infrastructure toward “smart cities”.  But many paths abound for cities to be “smart”.  Now that we have a blueprint for Hong Kong, how best can we walk this path?
 
The Digital Flows market is an expansion from the trade of goods and services that HK is already successful in.  One road ahead for HK is to continue to build the lead in the Digital Flows market as a major hub for both regional and international flows.  This market is suitable for applications-oriented businesses and therefore suitable for entrepreneurial small & media enterprises that can leverage the amply available ICT.  This road is certainly viable as an alternative to the conventional science & technology-based ecosystem model.

About Our Speaker 

Dr. Stephen W. Cheung is VP with a private group that focuses on opportunities in the field of special hazardous wastes.  He received his BS, MS and PhD in the US.  He began his career as a research scientist on a NASA program at Stanford University. He then joined Varian Medical Systems as senior engineer and manager working on radiation therapy systems—use of X-rays to treat cancers.  From 2007 to 2013, he was Director of Microwave Systems at Accuray Inc., a Silicon Valley company using robots to deliver radiation therapy.  He was principal investigator of special projects awarded to Accuray by the Dept. of Homeland Security to develop advanced scanning systems for cargo security. In 2013, he received a national award for successful development and commercialization of the new systems. He holds 5 US patents and is author of two books in microwave technology.
 
Dr. Cheung worked in Hong Kong from mid-1990s to mid-2000s. He was general manager of the Electronics Division at the Hong Kong Productivity Council and later VP of a consumer electronics manufacturer overseeing new products.  He serves as adviser to young entrepreneurs and companies in HK and was consultant for the Hong Kong Science & Technology Park working in the US in 2017.

Specially Invited Commentators and Panelists (Alphabetical Last Name)

  • Dr. Victor Lo, Founding Director and Chairman, Institute of Systematic Innovation
  • Mr. Tytus Michalski, Managing Director, Fresco Ventures
  • Mr. Fletcher Ng, Director of Invotech and Facilitator

About the Smart Community SIGs

Special Interest Groups of Invotech are organized by members to investigate realistic adoption of technology and innovation into Hong Kong.  The current convener for our Education SIG is Fletcher Ng.  Their mission is to investigate how to nurture smarter citizens for a smart Hong Kong?

Agenda
 
2:00 – 2:15       Meet and Greet. Dr G
2:15 – 3:30  Context and Intro, The Digital Flow Market.  Dr. Stephen Cheung
3:30 – 3:45 Break
3:45 – 4:30    Innovation Quality Improvement Model (Received the Gold Award in Systematic Innovation, 2015), Dr. Victor Lo
4:30 – 5:00       The Challenges in Becoming Digital, Dr G and Fletcher Ng
5:00 – 5:45   Myths, Facts, Limitations, and Potential.  Panel led by a digital expert Fletcher Ng.  Panelists include Stephen, Victor, and Tytus.  Question Poser: Max.

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