One Belt One Road Development Status Seminar

The seminar named “One Belt One Road Development Status” was co-organized by One Belt One Road Research Institute of Chu Hai College of Higher Education, Institute for Entrepreneurship (IfE) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and Silk Road Economic Development Research Center on 30 Jun 2017. The first speaker was Mr. Joseph N.K. Chan (Chairman, Silk Road Economic Development Research Center; Principal Director & Founding Partner, Oriental Patron Financial Group) and he shared his experience on the business in One Belt One Road countries.

Mr. Joseph Chan said One Belt One Road is not a new thing in China. In 1950s, China supported the third world countries such as Africa for foundation construction. Then he pointed out many weaknesses in Hong Kong and SMEs that no policy or financial organization supported and SMEs short sight requested ROI within 3 years. In China banks and enterprises, they considered on 15 to 20 years development. Then he analyzed Hong Kong role on One Belt One Road policy in the following 3 ways and also pointed the limitation:
i)     Finance (If you have business with One Belt One Road countries, you may not establish account in Hong Kong’s banks because of high risk business)
ii)   Professional Service (The cost is too high for those developing countries)
iii)  Travel (Language problem especially in Africa and Middle Asia)
Finally, he suggested us to use Hong Kong’s One Country Two System advantages for doing business together with China’s companies, and Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (外交部特派員公署) both in Hong Kong and foreign countries, as well as, to employ racial minority(ies) (小數族裔).

Prof. Thomas M.H. Chan (Honorary Professor; Director of One Belt One Road Research Institute of Chu Hai College of Higher Education) was the second speaker and his topic named “New developments in the Belt and Road strategy and the relationship between Pearl Delta region and Hong Kong”.

HKCTC Summer Activity 2017 – Secondary School Student Visit Science Park Laboratories

There were 30 students from four secondary schools visited to Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks (HKSTP) through “HKCTC Summer Activities 2017 for Promotion of Awareness of Testing and Certification in Hong Kong” scheme on 29th Jun 2017. This Activity was arranged by Hong Kong Council for Testing and Certification (HKCTC). HKCTC has been organizing different seminars/talks and visits for students to introduce the concept of and promoting the importance of testing and certification in Hong Kong. They held a series of talk cum visit to laboratories in Government departments and public organizations for secondary students in this summer. In the beginning, my colleague Mr. Alfa Lun briefed the background of HKSTP and demonstrated our corporation video.

After that we separated students into two teams to visit our laboratories. Firstly, I led one team to visit the Probe and Test Centre / 3D System-in-Package (3D SiP) laboratories. I explained how wafer formed from silicon and then how to test the wafer and IC under clean room environment.

We took a group photo for memory in front of the clean room.

CityU Inno-preneurship Mentoring Meet-up Event

I was honor to be invited by CityU Knowledge Transfer Office as Inno-preneurship mentor to assist our junior cohort in this year again and joined the Meet-up Event on 27 Jun 2017.  The Inno-preneurship Mentoring Scheme is exclusive for CityU communities who desire to turn their creative ideas into start-ups.  I was assigned as mentor to Hands Life Science and met the CEO Mr. Marco So who was graduated in BCH Department, CityU (Now named CHEM Department).  Moreover, his company had just moved into Science Park two months ago.  We took a photo for memory.

Mr. David Ai (Director of Knowledge Transfer Office, CityU) gave a welcome speech and he appreciated all participants’ contribution on Inno-preneurship mentoring scheme. He expected the Inno-preneurship mentoring scheme nurture more and more young people to establish successful startups.

HKSTP Lunch & Learn – Accounting 101

HKSTP Lunch & Learn named “Accounting 101”, which was the Finance for Non-Financial people #2, was launched on 27 Jun 2017 for help us to know how to read, analyze and interpret the figures on the financial statements.  The agenda included “Introduction to Accounting”, “Fundamental Accounting Concepts”, “Introduction to Financial Statements” and “Analyzing Financial Statements”.

There four purposes of accounting included 1) Recording, 2) Planning, 3) Decision Making and 4) Accountability.  Who are users of financial statement?  They would be Owners/investors, Management, Lenders, Trade creditors, Customers, General Public and Government.

ESG Seminar – Smart Leadership – Getting Your Staff to Solve Problems “Without” You

The Executive Study Group (ESG) seminar 2017 – Smart Leadership named “Getting Your Staff to Solve Problems “Without” You” was held by the ESG, Asia Pacific Institute for Strategy Limited (APIFS) and the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corp (HKSTP) on 22 Jun 2017.  I would like to summarize the seminar for sharing below.  In the beginning, Dr. Mark Lee briefed the history of ESG establishment and discussed the Corporate Retreat for traditional sunset industries.  He expected that we could get some inspiration through their seminar series.

Before the seminar, he asked two questions to participants and they were “How many of you are small potatoes in your company?” and “How many of you enjoy being a small potato?” Then he briefed the contents included “Business Complicatedness”, “Smart Leadership – six items” and “Group Discussion”.

CityU CSE Discovery and Innovation Gala 2017

I was honor to be invited to join the CSE Discovery and Innovation Gala 2017 organized by the Cooperative Education Centre, College of Science and Engineering (CSE) of CityU on 21 Jun 2017.  The gala would be held from 21 to 22 Jun 2017 and it aimed to showcase CityU research capability to the industrial community, and to open up further opportunities for collaborations, industrial investments or donations, bringing benefit to the University.  The Gala of this year is included in the 20^th Anniversary celebration programme of the HKSAR.  

During the cocktail, I met the honour guest Dr. David Chung who is EngD cohort and Dr. Winnie S.M. Tang (Founder and Chairman, esri).  I told her I used her GIS software in PolyU long time ago.

I also met my first boss Mr. Dominic Lam (CEO, CMATCL) (Left 2), my degree final year project supervisor Prof Lawrence Wu (Professor, AP Dept., CityU) (Left 3) and my good research friend Prof. Michael Lam (Professor, BCH Dept., CityU) (Left 1).

HKTIC Seminar on ISO 17025 Revision

The Seminar on ISO 17025 Revision was organized by the Hong Kong Association or Testing, Inspection and Certification (HKTIC) on 14 Jun 2017. The seminar aims to share the last review of ISO/IEC 17025:2005 in 2010 and some key changes in ISO/IEC DIS 17025 in this year.  Before the seminar, I took a photo with speaker Dr. John Ho.

I met Mr. SL Mak (OUHK) and also took a photo for memory.

In the beginning, Mr. K.L. Tsang (HKTIC representative) gave an opening speech and introduced the speaker Dr. John Ho.

Grand Opening of hyper[in] and visit to GP Reliability Lab

Today, we congratulated a new startup named “hyper[in]” during their Grand Opening, which Mr. Peter Fung (Chairman, HKSQ) is one of partners of owners. hyper[in] is our incubatee in Science Park incubation program.

hyper[in] brings a game-changing solution for people who MANAGE shopping malls. We provide all the tools for multi-channel communication, collaboration and integration between you and the tenants.  We took a group photo for memory in the beginning.

(Left: Ms. Kitty Liu (GP), Mr. Larry Lee (GP), I, Dr. Raymond Leung, Mr. Quentin Tsang (EVP, hyper[in]), Quentin’s daughter, Mr. Chris Or, Mr. Peter Fung and his friend)

CityU EngD Society AGM Seminar “Education & Innovation” 2017

The CityU Engineering Doctorate (EngD) Society in the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management (SEEM) was organized AGM seminar entitled “Education and Innovation” on 10^th Jun 2017. It is a great honor to have four cohorts as speaker of the seminar.  The aim of the seminar is to dissemination more information about the innovation and education opportunities and to discover the creative initiatives from alumni of CityU EngD. Before the seminar, we took a group photo for memory.

(Left 1 row: Dr. Amie Lai, Dr. Joseph Leung, Dr. Herbert Yeung;

Left 2 row: I, Dr. Rocky Lam, Dr. TW Liu, Dr. Walter Fung, Dr. Ray Kong, 

Dr. Samuel Fung and Dr. Albert Tam)

The WMD, the WAD and the WSD Forum 2017

The Hong Kong Council for Testing and Certification (HKCTC), the Standards and Calibration Laboratory of the Innovation and Technology Commission (SCL), Government Laboratory (GL), Hong Kong Accreditation Service (HKAS) and Product Standards Information Bureau (PSIB) jointly organized the World Metrology Day (WMD), the World Accreditation Day (WAD) and the World Standards Day (WSD) Forum on 6 June 2017.  Hong Kong Society for Quality (HKSQ) was one of supporting organizations.  This forum aimed to celebrate the WMD, WAD and WSD and introduce to participants various aspects and benefit of the quality infrastructure.

In the beginning, Ms. Annie CHOI Suk-han, JP (Commissioner for Innovation and Technology, ITC, HKSAR Government) gave welcoming remarks.  She said quality infrastructure that established and implemented standardization, metrology, accreditation and conformity assessment services.  A sound quality infrastructure is the cornerstone of a smart, modern city.  The she introduced themes for the World Metrology Day (WMD), World Accreditation Day and World Standards Day (WSD) forum below:

WMD: Measurements for Transport

WAD: Accreditation – Delivering Confidence in Construction and the Built Environment

WSD: Standards Make Cities Smarter

HKSTP APAC Innovation Summit 2017 Series – Robotics

The APAC Innovation Summit series was a flagship innovation conference of Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTPC) and the topic entitled “Robotics” was held on 5-6 Jun 2017.  APAC Innovation Summit (“AIS” in short and formerly known as InnoAsia) aimed to provide an exchange platform on the trend of specific technology sectors.  Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) rarely has a physical format but it penetrates into wide segments of our daily lives, with huge implications for a wide range of industries, such as industrial automation, services, transportation and wellness.  Any robotics without A.I. is just a tool; only solutions embedded with A.I. would become intelligent.  It is pity that I was busy today and only attended one of keynote speakers and summarized his speech below.

HKAS Seminar on Common Findings related to Management Requirements for Medical Testing Laboratories

The Seminar named "Common Findings related to Management Requirements for Medical Testing Laboratories" was organized by the Hong Kong Accreditation Service (HKAS) on 2 Jun 2017.  Ms. Bella Ho (Senior Accreditation Officer, HKAS) hold the open forum and then Dr. Alex Chan (Accreditation Officer, HKAS) was the speaker for discussing the assessment findings.

HKSTP Seminar on Marketing Strategy through Transient Advantage

HKSTP Seminar named “Marketing Strategy through Transient Advantage (瞬時競爭優勢)” was hold on 1 Jun 2017.  The guest speaker was Dr. Jeffrey Hui (Founder and Principal, Dr. Phoenix Education; Chairperson of Hong Kong Institute of Marketing (HKIM)).  He said the term Transient Advantage was from an article of Harvard Business Review.