CityU EngD Society Lunch Talk for HK TECH 300 and Startup

The CityU Engineering Doctorate (EngD) Society in the Department of Advanced Design and Systems Engineering (ADSE) was organized the lunch talk in Faculty Lounge in CityU 9/F (Bank of China Complex) on 26^th Nov 2022. It aims to introduce CityU HK TECH 300 program to cohorts and HKSQ TID funded project for startup, as well as, discussing EngD Society future development. Firstly, we took a group photo for memory. 

(Left: Dr. Danny Tang, Dr. Szeto Wing Hong, Dr. Herbert Yeung, Dr. YC Chau, I, Dr. Rocky Lam and Dr. Albert Tam)

I invited Dr. YC Chau (Adjunct Professor, ADSE; CES TECH 300 representative) introduce CityU HK TECH 300 project to us. CityU launched the project with HK$500m funding to incubate 300 start-ups in 3 years since 2021.

Dr. YC Chau briefed the different amount of funding in different stages through the program.

Until now, more than 1000 participants joined the entrepreneurship training program. (Remark: I also led two AP students joined the training last year.) 

The seed fund teams distributed in different technology areas including Deep Tech, ICT & AI, FinTech, Biotech & Health and EduTech.

After that I briefed HKSQ TID funded project (upto 1M) for quality startup sustainable business growth. 

We performed online survey and received 149 valid response and I introduced analysis method to group different questions.

After using Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), I identified six key factors which are important to the startup. Finally, we selected 50 out of 149 startups for in-depth interview and further identified constitutes of challenge factors that startup faced to. 

Lastly, we published a practical guidelines for good management practices for startup and would be available in HKSQ website for free download at the end of 2022. I thank Dr. Sunny Chai’s fully support and also Dr. David Chung for early-stage consultation.

Finally, we discussed the development of EngD Society. We found that number of candidates in EngD program is small (few per year) and it was one of our membership number problems. Another issue is the society financial sustainability. Some cohorts suggested to arrange MEng class or training courses, etc. Finally, we decided to focus ESG field for some project initiative.

Reference:

CityU Engineering Doctorate Society - https://engds.org/

Engineering Doctorate (Engineering Management) - http://www.cityu.edu.hk/seem/prg-engd.htm

CityU HK TECH300 - https://www.cityu.edu.hk/hktech300/

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20210329: CityU EngD 1st Committee Meeting 2021 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2021/03/cityu-engd-1st-committee-meeting-2021.html

20191217: CityU EngD Annual Dinner and Meeting 2019 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2019/12/cityu-engd-annual-dinner-and-meeting.html

20190330: CityU EngD Society Annual Dinner cum Prof. Bieng Chuah Retirement Celebration 2019 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2019/03/cityu-engd-society-annual-dinner-cum.html

20171216: CityU EngD Society AGM and Annual Dinner 2017 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2017/12/cityu-engd-society-agm-and-annual.html

20170610: CityU EngD Society AGM Seminar “Education & Innovation” 2017 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2017/06/cityu-engd-society-agm-seminar.html

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20160618: CityU EngD Society Discovery & Innovation Seminar and AGM 2016 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2016/06/cityu-engd-society-discovery-innovation.html

20151121: CityU EngD Society 10th Anniversary Dinner 2015 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2015/11/cityu-engd-society-10th-anniversary.html

20150123: CityU EngD Society AGM Seminar & Dinner 2015 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2015/01/cityu-engd-society-agm-seminar-dinner.html

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EngD Program Future Discussion Meetings:

20201203: CityU EngD Society Meeting with Dean of College of Engineering - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2020/12/cityu-engd-society-meeting-with-dean-of.html

20181119: CityU EngD Society Meeting with Acting Dean, School of Data Science - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2018/11/cityu-engd-society-meeting-with-acting.html

20180724: CityU EngD Society Meeting with Provost - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2018/07/cityu-engd-society-meeting-with-provost.html

20180621: CityU EngD Society Lunch Meeting with Prof. Dang and Dr. Alan Chan - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2018/06/cityu-engd-society-lunch-meeting-with.html

20180419: CityU EngD Society Lunch Meeting - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2018/04/cityu-engd-society-lunch-meeting.html