CityU EngD Society AGM and Annual Dinner 2023

The CityU Engineering Doctorate (EngD) Society AGM and Annual was held on 30^th Nov 2023 at Faculty Lounge. In this year, I completed my leadership role – President 2022-2023 and invited Dr. Sunny Chai to give use a talk. The group photo was taken for memory.

(Left first row: Ms. Sammi Sin (PolyU), Ms. Kelly Liu, Dr. TW Liu, Dr. Albert Tam, Dr. Walter Fung, Mr. Alex Ho, Mr. James Ning, Mr. Lee Kwok Pong, Dr. Amie Lai;

Left second row: Ms. Sabrina Ip (PolyU), Mr. Alan Cheung, Dr. Samuel Fung, Dr. Gao Siyang, Prof. Dang Chuangyi, Dr. Andy Wong, Dr. Lotto Lai, Dr. Danny Tang, Dr. Sunny Chai, Dr. Leung Wing Hung, Dr. Sun Hongyi, Dr. YC Chau, Prof. Kwok Chi-Wai Ron, Dr. Rocky Lam, Dr. Herbert Yeung, Ms. Liu Shan Laura, Mr. Lee Kwok Pong)

Before the talk, we arrived venue early for setup.

Dr. Walter Fung brought two four wine (2x Australian & 2x USA) and two champaign, and I brought one Whiskey from Thailand and one Vodka from Vietnam.

Professors arrived and we took a photo for memory.

Dr. Sunny Chai (Chairman, HKSTP) was our guest speaker and his talk named “Future Development of Innovation and Technology in Hong Kong”. He said central government fully affirmed HKSTP’s continuous drive to forge I&T success over the past 20 years.

Then he reviewed 2023 Policy Address related topics to develop HK into an international I&T Hub. And then he briefed the background of HKSTP such as more than 1500 Tech companies from 24 countries and regions, more than 960 startups, 12 unicorns, etc.

After that Dr. Chai briefed three I&T advantages in Hong Kong including R&D (R), Innofacturing (I) and Financial Centre (F). He said HK is only one city have 5 universities ranked within 100 from QS.

Finally, he mentioned many collaborations between HKSTP and CityU especially CityU HK Tech 300.

Lastly, Dr. Sunny Chai foresighted the future development for science park Shenzhen branch so as to attract more enterprises and talents to cross the border. 

After the talk, I selfie with Dr. Sunny Chai and Dr. Rocky Lam.

Sunny said he studied in CityU for EngD program because of Dr. Sun and Rocky. And took a photo for memory.

Before he left early for his son birthday, we took a group photo for memory.

Since Dr. Rocky Lam (Our new President) needed to left early for a university talk, so he presented his vision for coming society committee. The topic named “Empowering”. He raised the mission of our society to empowering HK as smart solutions marketplace and the Society to be leading CityU alumni association helping HK solutions providers exploring the foreign markets.

Then he reviewed the latest IT technologies including cloud computing, IoT, Big data, AI, RPA, 5G and digital transformation. We focused on the wave of digital transformation. He also said we needed role models.

Finally, Dr. Rocky Lam proposed empowering through collaboration with different parties such as universities in both HK and mainland, startups, HKSTP, Cyberport, etc. We also needed to create more value for CityU, students and Alumni such as raise funding, physical & web-based platform from innovation to commercialization, and act as mentors for startups, etc. Lastly, he proposed Great Bay Site visits, OBOR/BRIC Countries Opportunities seminars, Commercialization seminars, and social activities such as Sailing led by Sunny!

Then the Annual General Meeting (AGM) was started and I briefed some history to different years cohorts and new EngD students. Our EngD (EM) programme started since 2001.

The CityU EngD Society had been established since 2005 after the residential workshop in 2004.

And then I briefed EngD Society activities in 2022 that included different seminar and forum, as well as technical visit.

We also supported CityU activities such as ARO event and new books publication.

Many of EngD cohorts shared their stories to ARO for sharing to alumni.

Finally, we adopted the new committee members and new advisor in the Society.

President: Dr. Rocky Lam (Cohort 2006)

Vice President: Dr. Ray Kong (Cohort 2003)

Secretary: Dr. Lotto Lai (Cohort 2005)

Treasurer: Dr. Herbert Yeung (Cohort 2004)

Advisor: Dr. Sunny Chai (Cohort 2007), Dr. Raymond Leung (Cohort 2005) and Dr. Augustine Chow (Cohort 2003)

Directors: Dr. Amie Lai (Cohort 2004), Dr. Albert Tam (Cohort 2005), Dr. Joseph Leung (Cohort 2003), Dr. T.W. Liu (Cohort 2004) and Dr. Samuel Fung (Cohort 2005)

The second part is video by our Vice Chairman – Dr. Ray Kong who interviewed to Prof. Dang Chuangyi and Prof. Liu Cheng about intelligent manufacturing.

Dr. Ray Kong proposed for the joined CityU Alliance Projects and to form Affiliated Research Center.

That center would be located in Guangdong Blitech Ltd. So that research project integrated among Industry, CityU and EngD.

Lastly, Dr. Herbert Yeung (Treasurer) reported the Society financial status.

Before end of dinner, Prof. Ron Kwok introduced ARO gift that is a seed indicating growth like CityU.

At the end, Dr. Sun took a photo with EngD students.

(Left: Mr. Alex Ho, Mr. James Ning, Dr. Sun, Mr. Chiang Chum Kong Kingsley, Mr. Lee Kwok Pong and Ms. Liu Shan Laura)

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

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