CityU EngD Society Lunch Talk for Funding cum Dr. KS Chin Retirement Celebration

The CityU Engineering Doctorate (EngD) Society in the Department of Systems Engineering (SYE) was organized the event named “Lunch Talk for Sharing experience of ITF & TID Funding cum Dr. KS Chin Retirement Celebration” in Faculty Lounge, CityU 9/F (Bank of China Complex) on 29^th July 2023. We took a group photo of all guests and participants for memory. 

(Left: Dr. TW Liu, Dr. Rocky Lam, Dr. Andy Wong, I, Dr. KS Chin, Dr. Szeto Wing Hong, Dr. KM Yeung, Mr. James Ning, Dr. Barry Keung and Mr. Samuel Chui)

In the beginning, we introduced CityU EngD Society to all cohorts and potential candidates. When Dr. Chin arrived, we took a photo before seminar started.

Dr. Szeto Wing Hong was the first speaker and he introduced his experience on applying ITF funding. Firstly, he briefed different types of Innovation and Technology Fund.

Then he gave overall view of different funding statistics and shared his view on each fundings.

After that he shared experience on different stages of the funding application.

Mr. Samuel Chui was the second speaker who had serviced in the incubation team in HKSTP. He shared his experience on some key points for incubatees to apply different fundings.

He now established a consultant company to assist enterprise to apply ITF for innovation and technology transformation, moreover, he would provide one-hour free consultancy for each company who are interested in applying ITF.

I was the last speaker to share the HKSQ TID funded project for startup. I led HKSQ to apply the TID SME support funding and successfully grant $1M in 2019.

Then I briefed the funding activities timeline including survey 150 startups and in-depth interview 50 selected startup, workshops, announcement event, guidebook, etc.

The project supported by HKSTP, Cyberport, HK Startup Council (FHKI), InvestHK, etc. I especially thanks Dr. Sunny Chai and Dr. David Chung for their support.

Finally, I shared some tips for the application such as using Chinese, clear budget for activities. 

Lastly, all cohorts under Dr. KS Chin supervision took a group photo for memory.

After the talk, we had lunch and continued our discussion. I need to thank Mr. Alfa Lun (Left 1) for our photo taking who is my HKSTP colleague.

We had a good lunch and planned AGM in Nov 2023.

Reference:

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

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

ITF - https://www.itf.gov.hk/en/home/index.html

TID fund - https://www.smefund.tid.gov.hk/english/tsf/tsf_objective.html

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