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UBS Live : Tech Series

 

Metaverse & The Future of Money and Technology

Metaverse & The Future of Money and Technology

Date: Fri, 17 June 2022
Time: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Angelina Kwan

CPA, CA ANZ

Angelina is passionate about Technology, Digital Assets and the Blockchain and loves advising start-ups. She is the Chief Executive Officer of Stratford Finance Limited, a consulting company focused on dealing with regulatory and operational issues in the financial services and digital assets space and advises brokerages, fund managers, and technology providers. Most recently Angelina held Senior Advisor and Group Chief Operating Officer roles at the HashKey Group, a regulated digital assets company that recently received the second Approval in Principle from the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission to operate a virtual asset trading platform. She has previously held Chief Operating Officer and Directorate positions with international digital asset exchanges, HKEX, Cantor Fitzgerald, the SFC, and other global financial services companies. Angelina serves on a numberof Hong Kong Government-appointed Boards, and charities including the New Business Committee, Financial Services Development Council, Board of Trustees of the Lord Wilson Heritage Trust, she is the Vice Chair, Company Secretary of The Women’s Foundation, the Ebenezer School for the Blind, and the Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute. She is a Certified Public Accountant in the United States, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand and a graduate of the University of Southern California in Finance and Accounting. Her MBA is from Pepperdine University, LLB from HKU/Manchester Metropolitan University, and LLM from Harvard Law School.

Sebastien Borget

Sebastien Borget

Co-Founder & COO of The Sandbox, decentralized gaming virtual world
President of the Blockchain Game Alliance, advocating for #NFTs & blockchain in games

Sébastien is the Co-founder and COO of The Sandbox, a unique virtual world where players can build, own, and monetize their gaming experiences using NFTs & SAND, the main utility token of the platform.

Sebastien also became the President of the Blockchain Game Alliance in 2020, a non-profit organization of 250 key members of the industry. He was recently named in the Top #100 most influential people in crypto by CoinTelegraph https://cointelegraph.com/top-people-in-crypto-and-blockchain/sebastien-borget
Sebastien holds a Computer Science Engineer Degree from Telecom SudParis, one of France's leading graduate school of engineering in Information and Communication Technology.

Henry Chong

Henry Chong

Chief Executive Officer, Fusang Corp (FSC)

Fusang is Asia’s first fully licensed and regulated digital financial ecosystem for security tokens and assets. Our unique combination of regulatory licences, technology, and services allows us to provide an end-to-end platform to issue, tokenise, list, and trade all forms of securities, assets and cryptocurrencies.

Licensed in two jurisdictions (Hong Kong and Labuan, Malaysia), Fusang operates a fully licensed and regulated digital ecosystem which includes Fusang Exchange, Asia’s first regulated stock exchange for security tokens.

Fusang Exchange is licensed to be a public listing venue for initial public offerings and acts as its market front line regulator. Institutional and retail investors can directly invest in products on the Exchange without brokers or other intermediary firms.

Team Fusang, located across five Asian cities, shares a vision of making it as easy to invest into a company as it is to buy its products online.

Henry is a Member of the Fusang Exchange's Exchange Committee, and is the Chairman of its Listing Committee.

Henry works closely with global institutional investors and financial regulators to bring professionalism and structure to the industry, and is a regular keynote speaker on the subject of digital assets. He is also a member of the University of Oxford’s Digital Assets Project at the Commercial Law Centre.

Henry is a Board Director of Portcullis: The Asian Wealth Manager. Portcullis is Asia's biggest independent group of trust companies, and provides a one-stop shop for corporate, trustee and fund administration services to high-net-worth individuals, family offices, philanthropies, private banks, and investment managers.

Henry holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics & Economics, and a Master of Arts from the University of Oxford. Henry holds a Masters of Science in Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics & Political Science, where he wrote his thesis on the behaviour of family offices. He also holds a Diploma in Information Technology, that he completed at the age of 12, and a Certificate in Chinese Language & Literature from Peking University.

Henry is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), and is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (FRAS).

Josh Du

Josh Du

Senior portfolio manager
Animoca Brands and partner at Symphony Digital

Josh's current web3 engagements spans multiple institutions. He is a partner at Symphony Digital, a crypto asset manager. Josh is also managing Animoca Brand's sizable crypto treasury balance sheet. He is a adviser to family offices on crypto strategies, a prolific writer/analyst on web3, and adviser to crypto startups.

In previous life, Josh is a senior investment professional with over 15 years of investment and research experience spanning across institutions such as Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, Ninemasts and Horizon Asset Management. An experienced portfolio manager across major asset classes such as equity, credit and crypto.

A Deep Dive into the Metaverse

A Deep Dive into the Metaverse

Date: Thu, 28 April 2022
Time: 4:30 pm – 5:15 pm

Ms Amy Lo

Co-Head Wealth Management Asia Pacific, UBS GWM

Amy Lo is Co-Head of Wealth Management Asia Pacific, Head and Chief Executive of UBS Hong Kong. Amy has over 30 years of experience in the banking industry. Since joining UBS in 1995, she has held a number of senior management positions including Regional Head of Ultra High Net Worth in Asia. Today, the ultra-high net worth business is the leading wealth manager for ultra-high net worth individuals in the region.

Actively involved in the development of the private banking industry in Hong Kong, Amy chairs the Executive Committee of the Hong Kong Private Wealth Management Association (PWMA), and is a Board Member of the Hong Kong Financial Services Development Council (FSDC). She is also a member of the Banking Industry Training Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Education Bureau, and a member of the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee Financial Infrastructure Sub-Committee of Hong Kong Monetary Authority.

A passionate supporter of youth education and technological innovation in Greater China, Amy is a member of The Court and the MBA Advisory Board at The University of Hong Kong, and a member of the Advisory Committee of the Department of Social Work at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is also a Board Member of the UBS Optimus Foundation, the independent grant-making foundation that helps UBS clients improve the education and welfare of children globally.

In recognition of her contribution to the wealth management industry, Amy was named Best Private Banker in the Asian Private Banker Awards for Distinction 2020. She also received the Executive Award at the DHL/SCMP Business Awards 2018 for her efforts in building UBS as a corporate citizen in Hong Kong. She was also named by a top-tier Chinese media, China Business News, as one of the "Hong Kong Top 20 in the next 20 years" for her contribution to innovation developments in 2017

Ms Evelyn Liu

Corp. Finance, CEO Office, Nreal

Evelyn (Wenrui) Liu joined Nreal in 2021, and served as Director of Corporate Finance. Prior to joining Nreal, she worked in two separate teams at Xiaomi from 2018 to 2021. She first led Xiaomi Overseas Fintech team and built the overseas financial services product from 0 to 1. Later she joined Xiaomi Corporate Finance team, majorly responsible for all various capital market initiatives, investor relations, and business and operating analysis. Before that, she worked with Credit Suisse under Chief Risk Office line at the New York office.

Evelyn received Master of Public Administration in the Bush School of Government and Public Service from Texas A&M University, and Master of Science in Statistics at Baruch College City University of New York.

Binnie Wong

Head, New Economy Strategy Business Development, UBS

Binnie Wong spearhead our New Economy Strategy Business Development Team. She has more than 15 years of experience covering the TMT industry, most recently at HSBC and BAML as one of the Street’s highly ranked analyst. With her extensive industry knowledge and vast network, she is well positioned to leverage UBS one-bank capabilities to identify business opportunities and provide connectivity to our clients and prospects in the New Economy sector.

Mr Thomas Shao Zhong

MetaMedia Group, Chief Executive Officer, Founder of MetaMedia

Thomas Shao founded MetaMedia in 1993: a leading innovative and high-end media group in China and internationally. MetaMedia owns various types of media platforms in business, culture, art, fashion and lifestyle. The group has launched several leading publications, including Modern Weekly, Life Magazine and City Magazine, among others. MetaMedia has partnerships with many influential international media groups, such as Bloomberg News and Time Inc in the US, Numéro and IDEAT in France, The Art Newspaper in the UK, and also co-publishes their Chinese versions. MetaMedia has ventured into digital publishing in recent years, notably with Nowness, the world’s first creative digital video platform. With the Shao Foundation and the ZiWU and Modern Art Base art spaces, Thomas Shao becomes the first Chinese entrepreneur operating in the fields of publishing, digital technology and art space in China. In 2019, Thomas Shao acquires ArtReview and ArtReview Asia; international revues specialized in contemporary art.

Mr Michel Lee

Executive President
HashKey Group

Michel leads the Group’s activities and has spearheaded the growth of HashKey across Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo and other locations since its inception. With more than 25 years of international investment banking experience, he brings deep expertise in capital-raising, new product developments and M&A transactions to the digital asset management business. Having worked in London, Tokyo, Beijing and Hong Kong, he joined HashKey Group from UBS, where he was Head of APAC Capital Markets, Head of China Investment Banking and a Board Director of UBS Securities. At UBS he pioneered numerous new derivatives and alternative investment products and business models.

Michel holds an MSc in Computer Science from Imperial College London.

Prof. Xinge Yu

Chairman, U Touch Technology

Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
City University of Hong Kong
Chairman
U Touch Technology

Mr Robert Cai

Chief of Staff & Head of Strategy, 
Minovate

Mr. Robert CAI has served as Chief of Staff & Head of Strateg since June 2021 in Minovate. Prior to joining the company, he worked at China Renaissance in investment banking division, mainly covering the consumer internet sector. 

Disruptive Innovation in Healthcare – Mar 2022

Tech Series: Disruptive Innovation in Healthcare

Date: Thu, 10 March 2022
Time: 4:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Danny Yeung

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Prenetics Group

Danny Yeung, serial entrepreneur, is the Chief Executive Officer/ Co-Founder of Prenetics Group, a leading global genomics and diagnostics testing company with a team of over 700 across 10 countries. Prenetics recently made global headlines as the first Hong Kong Unicorn to exit via a merger on the Nasdaq with Adrian Cheng’s Artisan Acquisition Corporation, valuing Prenetics at an equity value of US $1.7B.

Prenetics’ multi-product healthcare ecosystem strategy is driven by prevention-focused genomic testing, rapid diagnostics for COVID-19 and infectious diseases, and colorectal cancer screening. To date, Prenetics has performed more than 6m tests globally.

Prior to Prenetics, Danny was Founding Partner at SXE Ventures, having led multiple investments in genetic testing companies. Danny had also founded uBuyiBuy in 2010, which was subsequently acquired by Groupon. Prior to Danny leaving Groupon in early 2014, he served as CEO of Groupon East Asia, leading it to be the largest e-commerce company in the region.

 

Danny received his BS in MIS from the University of San Francisco. Danny’s life motto is “Play Hard, Work Harder”. 

Lachlan Towart

Equity Analyst, Healthcare, Global Wealth Management, UBS

Lachlan joined the UBS Chief Investment Office in 2015 in Zurich, prior to relocating to London and then Hong Kong. His responsibility is coverage of the healthcare and chemicals sectors. Lachlan originally joined UBS Investment Bank in 2000 as a corporate finance analyst, before moving to equity research where he covered biotechnology and medical technology stocks. He subsequently covered European pharmaceuticals as a sell-side analyst at HSBC, and global healthcare as a sector specialist salesperson at Societe Generale and Kepler Capital Markets. Lachlan re-joined UBS in March 2015 in the CIO. He holds a Master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Nottingham, the CFA Certificate in ESG Investing, and is a CFA charterholder.

Binnie Wong

Head, New Economy Strategy Business Development, UBS

Binnie Wong spearhead our New Economy Strategy Business Development Team. She has more than 15 years of experience covering the TMT industry, most recently at HSBC and BAML as one of the Street’s highly ranked analyst. With her extensive industry knowledge and vast network, she is well positioned to leverage UBS one-bank capabilities to identify business opportunities and provide connectivity to our clients and prospects in the New Economy sector.

Logistics Tech – July 2021

Logistics Tech

Digital disruption is transforming the landscape of the logistics industry, causing both new entrants and existing companies to adapt and respond to changing consumer demands and integrate technological solutions into their day-to-day operations.

Curious to learn more? Watch our Tech Connect Series Event, where our panel of experts discussed how the logistics industry is leveraging technology to enhance the customer experience, fuel growth and enable efficiencies.

Mr KK Chiu

Co Founder and CEO, Zeek

KK Chiu is the Co-founder and CEO of Zeek, an innovative intelligent logistics start-up established in 2019. Leveraging artificial intelligence, logistics technology, big data and crowd-sourcing model, Zeek quickly evolves into an Asia-based Quick Commerce and last-mile logistics proprietor.

KK has a proven executive management track record and over 20 years of experience driving sales growth and product development in the IT and Digital Marketing industry. Prior to Zeek, KK served as the General Manager in SINA Hong Kong and established the multimedia department of New Media Group, primarily focusing on new media marketing experience.

Ms Crystal Pang

CEO & Founder, Pickupp

Crystal Pang is the Co-founder & CEO of Pickupp, a technology platform focused on logistics optimization and supply chain management, providing affordable cross-border or intra-city solutions for 3PL, e-commerce and retailers.

Prior to Pickupp, Crystal gained expertise scaling platform & driving growth as a Senior Operations Manager at Uber (2014-2016). She acquired critical product development experience from Chinascope Financials, a Shanghai-based fintech startup where she served as Deputy CEO (2012-2013), and from MathWorks, where she served as Software Engineer (2004-2006) focusing on optimization algorithms for fixed income and currency hedging in Boston. Crystal was a former investment banker at BofA Merrill Lynch (2008-2012) and Credit Suisse (2007) with extensive cross-border M&A and capital markets experience.

Crystal holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and MS in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Mr Steven Suh

Co-Founder & CEO, Floship

Steve is CEO & Co-Founder at Floship, a tech driven cross-border eCommerce logistics company headquartered in Hong Kong. Floship was recently awarded 2020 APAC’s 97th Fastest Growing Companies per the Financial Times and the 13th Fastest Growing Company in the Greater Bay Area according to the South China Morning Post. Prior to Floship, Steve served as Vice President at 4PX - China’s largest cross-border e-commerce logistics company - where he led the development of JMWant, a B2B2C sourcing and dropshipping solution supporting international merchants. Steve’s first startup exposure had him involved with APAC business development for MyLuxBox, a Sequoia Capital backed cosmetics subscription box startup, later acquired by Jumei.com.

Ms Eva Lee

Head Hong Kong Equities, UBS GWM CIO

Eva Lee is the Head of HK Equity at UBS Global Wealth Management Chief Investment Office in Hong Kong. She joined UBS in Sept 2011 and led a team covering HK/China property research sector. Eva built up and held up the top 3 positions in Asia Real Estate research in the Institutional Investors poll of 2016/17/18. Eva has covered the HK/China property sector for the last 21 years at UBS, before that, at Macquarie, ING, Credit Suisse and HSBC. Eva is a member of Chartered Financial Analysts, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Hong Kong Certified Public Accountants.

Property Tech – April 2021

Mr Aaron Lee

Founder, Dash Living

A serial entrepreneur redefining how millennials rent affordable premium, all-inclusive serviced accommodation through Dash Living, which currently operates a line of Dash branded products: coliving, suites, and a home-sharing platform.

Starting his first business at age 17, Aaron is a Forbes 30 Under 30 entrepreneur, investor & philanthropist with a string of successful startups in his track record such as uBuyiBuy.com (acquired by Groupon in 2010), Mydress.com, Snapask, and Time Auction.

On a personal level, Aaron is a white-collar boxer, a regular mentor for our next generation entrepreneurs at Time Auction, and is a supporter of a more sustainable future by practicing “Green Mondays.”

Dr. Vincent Chow

CEO and founder, En-trak

Dr. Vincent Chow is the founder and CEO of En-trak, the award-winning Proptech startup. Founded in 2013, En-trak designs and markets a cloud solution to help building owners make their commercial buildings smarter and more efficient. The hardware-agnostic platform with advanced machine learning algorithms learns individual preferences to prevent over-heating and cooling, thus helping to improve comfort, satisfaction, productivity and NOI.

Used and proven by hundreds of world-class clients, including Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Keppel Land Singapore, City Developments Limited, and many more in Asia, En-trak solution helps building owners attract and retain quality tenants by enabling every occupant to control and personalize their office temperature and lighting using their smart phone. The company is backed by Alibaba and CLP.

Prior to this, he was the Asia-Pacific GM for OOCL where he was responsible for driving business performance and building a new cold chain business in China. A civil engineer by training, Dr. Chow was awarded the UK DFT scholarship where he received his Ph.D. from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.  

Mr Simon Yeung

President & Co-founder, Table.co

Mr Simon Yeung is a seasoned entrepreneur with diverse global business experience and had experiences from Startups to big multinational organizations. 

He is currently the major investor, President & co-founder of TABLE.co offering a cutting edge collaboration platform for the company to seamlessly collaborate with their customers across all engagement stages, over various online and offline platforms. Simon served as the Executive Director of the Board and the President of Comba Telecom Limited from 2004 to 2017. Since joining the company, Comba has transformed from a small company to one of the global top Wireless Telecom Equipment providers with revenue close to US$1B and more than 25 direct subsidiaries around the world all reporting to Simon. 

A serial entrepreneur, Simon was one of the original founding teams and VP of Strategy and Business Development of LGC Wireless Inc, a successful Silicon Valley startup with a successful exit. Simon is a leader who possesses well-rounded experience with strategic and hands-on experience from startup to leading a multinational public company with truly global experience and mindset. Simon enjoys cycling and constantly joins long distance cycling events around the world.

Property Tech

Are you curious about how technology is affecting the property industry?

Have you been thinking about ways in which to manage your facilities more cost effectively, whether it's energy, people or other resources? Do you wonder whether you could be adding revenues from other streams? Watch our Tech Connect Event Series around Property Tech to hear from experts, big and small on how the property industry is changing due to technology.

Staying resilient in the new tech world – November 2020

Staying resilient in the new tech world

This event, in collaboration with AngelHub, brings you 3 tech startups from the HealthTech, ArtTech and FoodTech industry.

During this event, our panelists share their story of what it takes to stay resilient in times of uncertainty, adapting to the accelerated digital transformation and how their industry has transformed because of it.

Our panelists also touch upon the tech trends they are seeing within their industry, the investment landscape and much more.

Speaker - FoodTech

Carrie Chan

CEO & Co-Founder, Avant Meats

Speaker - HealthTech

Gary Blowers

CEO, Switch & Co

Speaker - ArtTech

Timothy Shin

President & Co-Founder, TESSA

Speaker - VC

Karen Contet

CEO, AngelHub


Moderator

Karena Belin

CEO of WHub and COO/CFO of AngelHub

Insights from industry experts

HealthTech

CEO and Co-Founder

Shahar Figelman

Selfit

Selfit Medical is a digital therapy startup focusing on the aging population. The company is based in Israel with early operations in the UK.

Selfit has developed a unique human-machine interaction for the booming aging market focused on physical and cognitive health for common brain and heart conditions.

Some of the applications are rehabilitation related (Neuro, Cardiac, Geriatrics, Orthopedics) others are designed for wellness and prevention phases (elderly falls, cognitive impairments).

The company’s tech is based on Neuroscience and AI incorporated with Augmented Reality interaction.

Founder and CEO

Vishal Doshi

AUM Bioscience

AUM Biosciences is at the forefront of disrupting R&D in oncology, rapidly delivering innovative medicines and technologies to patients.

Founder and CEO Vishal Doshi will discuss how it is employing a portfolio model of developing next generation targeted oncology and immuno-oncology therapies, particularly for cancers with a clear genetic markers and undruggable targets and what’s over the horizon.

Co-founder & CEO

Dornoosh Zonoobi

Medo.ai

Medo.ai is a health tech startup company dual-headquartered in Singapore and Edmonton, Canada. Medo envisions transforming ultrasound into the stethoscope of the 21st century.

 

Ultrasound is cheap, harmless and truly portable imaging modality. Medo augments ultrasound with artificial intelligence and cloud computing to radically simplify its use for common and critical conditions. This eliminates the need for an expert to perform and analyze ultrasound scans, allowing a wider range of front-line caregivers to perform the procedure.

Founder and CEO

Dr. Kamran Khan

BlueDot

BlueDot uses human and artificial intelligence to detect, assess, and respond to infectious disease threats. From Ebola to Zika to COVID-19, this intelligence empowers governments and businesses to safeguard lives and livelihoods.

CEO & Co-Founder

Luis Valente

iLof

iLoF is a Porto and Oxford-based company, working to enable a new era of personalized medicine, by using AI and photonics to build a cloud-based library of diseases biomarkers and biological profiles.

It is providing screening and stratification tools in an affordable, fast, portable way, saving up to 40% of cost and 70% of the time spent screening for clinical trials. Supported by leading institutions like Microsoft Ventures, Mayfied or the Oxford University, iLoF is currently focusing a validated platform technology in one of the biggest epidemics of our times: Alzheimer's, while maintaining ongoing verticals on Oncology, Stroke and Infectious diseases.

Founder and CEO

Richard Statham

NMES Group

NMES Group is a Swedish company founded in 2018 to drive innovation and world leading technology across multiple markets. The company has incorporated extensive experience in Neuro Muscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES) development from Switzerland, with unique innovations from Sweden. Exploiting the best of Swiss technology, which is well known for reliability, precision, and high quality we have merged this with the safety, innovation, and efficiency the Swedes are renowned for.

NMES Group is creating a new standard in muscle stimulation and performance enhancement. 


Co-Founder/ Deputy Group CEO

Zen Koh

Fourier Intelligence

Fourier Intelligence is a technology-driven company, infusing creativity into the development of exoskeleton and rehabilitation robotics since 2015. Together with researchers, therapists and patients, we aim to excel in developing and redefining rehabilitation robotics solutions with interconnectable intelligent robotics technology by elevating user experience with an intuitive, easy-to-use system to enhance the lives of both patients and therapists.

CEO

Mark Szeto

Ecgocare

Ecgocare is an app enabling users to teleconsult with Chinese medicines doctors. Users can book an appointment for teleconsultation or in-person consultation.

The platform offers doctor's profiles along with doctor ratings and reviews. The app can be used to store, manage and share the medical records with doctors. The prescriptions are sent to the pharmacies and the medicines are delivered to the user.

Chairman & CEO

Ricky Chiu

PHASE Scientific

PHASE Scientific is a high-growth biotech company founded by bioengineers from UCLA. We build tools that empower people by giving them better information about their health.

Now headquartered in Hong Kong, our global footprint includes R&D and manufacturing facilities in Southern California and offices in Mainland China.


Founder

Ada Yu

OK CARE

OK CARE defines a new lifestyle through our brand new healthcare platform. We wish to extend medical and rehabilitation beyond traditional medical institutions, providing the best healthcare service to our clients.

OK CARE aims to create quality time for our clients and their family members by taking the burden off regular visits to medical institutions and perform minor operations and procedures themselves. At the same time, OK CARE is creating a whole new working and income opportunity for healthcare professionals in the market.

Co-Founder & Executive Director

Kow Ping

WBD101

Well Being Digital (WBD101) is a Hong Kong based company that aims to enable affordable & accurate underlying technologies for mHealth/wearable devices.

The accuracy of the underlying technology depends on the software algorithm that WBD101 can provide as much as the reference hardware designs and off the shelf sensors, and the Human Body IoT (Internet of Things) vision of big data analytics will depend on highly accurate information that WBD101 software algorithm calculates, otherwise it would be a case of rubbish-in-rubbish-out.

They have successfully implemented their algorithms onto Infra-red sensors, accelerometer and gyroscope, they target to help brand owners add value to their wearables/hearables/sensorhubs.

With more than 21 patents filed/granted, they are in development of other software algorithms using other sensors.

CEO

Ivan Ng

FindDoc

FindDoc is an app offers the most comprehensive & updated information on Doctors & Dentists.

FinTech / InsurTech

CEO & Co-Founder

Jeremy Tan

Liquid Group

Liquid Group is a fintech company specialising in digital payments; we provide domestic and cross-border corporate payment solutions for B2B and B2C segments.

They also operate XNAP, a cross-border C2B QR payment network.

Liquid Group is a Non-Bank Financial Institution participant of Singapore’s PayNow and FAST network. They are regulated as a Major Payment Institution by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

Founder & CEO

Greg Krasnov

Tonik

Tonik is the first purely digital neobank in the Philippines, and one of the very few neobanks globally that is operating on the basis of its own full digital bank license granted by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). 

The neobank believes that the existing Filipino banking customers and the 70% of the Filipinos that remain unbanked deserve a better choice - a digital-only bank that is simple, not intimidating, helps them save, all at the click of a button.

Co-founder

Justin Choo

Knorex

Knorex is a technology company that provides programmatic advertising products and solutions to marketers.

With its cross-channel marketing cloud platform, Knorex XPO unifies advertising across a variety of paid media (e.g. social and search) and open media (e.g. OTT/CTV, video, audio, display/native) in one platform. XPO enables marketers to deliver personalized marketing messages at the right moment to the targeted audience whether they are on mobile or on the Web powered by AI/machine-learning.

Through a multi-layered data-driven approach, XPO simplifies the execution and optimization of marketing campaigns, while delivering measurable and attributable performance.

CEO and Co-founder

Michael Chan

Bowtie

"The Bowtie Life Insurance Company Limited is an authorized life insurance company and Hong Kong’s very first virtual insurer approved under the Fast Track pilot scheme. 

Through the use of modern technology and medical expertise, Bowtie offers an agent-free, commission-free and more convenient online platform for customers to quote, apply and claim for health insurance plans certified by the Food and Health Bureau under the Voluntary Health Insurance Scheme (VHIS) anytime anywhere. Bowtie is backed by Sun Life Financial and supported by leading international reinsurers. "

CEO & Founder

Tomas Holub

CoverGo

CoverGo is an award-winning insurance technology company providing enterprise software solutions to insurers, banks and brokers in Asia and beyond.

CoverGo is the first fully configurable, whitelabel, modular, no-code insurance platform for omni-channel distribution, policy admin and claims.

It is an end-to-end solution including dynamic pricing and underwriting engine, core admin system, insurance roboadvisor, analytics and whitelabel frontend for all lines of insurance.

CoverGo’s platform is powered by hundreds of open insurance APIs to increase connectivity and automate all insurance processes. We offer the most comprehensive set of insurance APIs in the market. Insurance companies can integrate with distribution partners, create a robust insurance ecosystem and distribute the right products at the right time.

We are the market leader in insurtech and fintech as recognized by a number of awards including:

  • HKICT Fintech Grand Award & HKICT Gold Award in Banking, Insurance and Capital Markets 2019 The official HK government fintech award. CoverGo was recognized as the best fintech solution in the market across all categories. We are the only tech company that has ever won this Grand & Gold Award.
  • Grand Prize at the Financial Innovation Business Conference (FIBC) 2019 FIBC is the longest established FinTech Conference in Japan. CoverGo was recognized as a fintech and insurtech market leader in the region.
  • International Finance Technology Award – The Most Innovative Insurance Technology Service Provider 2019 International Finance Awards recognize technology and industry leadership and capability on an international scale.
  • FinTech Award 2018 & 2019 for the Best B2B Insurance Integration Solution FinTech Awards recognize excellence and innovation in the use of IT in financial services in Hong Kong and Greater Bay Area.

CoverGo is also supported by:

  • Monetary Authority of Singapore Global Fintech Hackcelerator
  • Accenture Fintech Innovation Lab APAC
  • Cyberport HK Government Incubation Programme
  • Mizuho Crowd Brain Accelerator
  • DBS Bank Startup Xchange
  • Global Accelerator Malaysia
  • AppWorks Accelerator Taiwan
  • Microsoft for Startups
  • Create@Alibaba

CEO & Founder

Calvin Cheng

Wizpresso

Torrents of terabytes produced every day by web searches, social media, e-commerce and satellites can be turned into insight for investment professionals.

Research analysts spend on average 6 hours a day searching online for relevant information - why not automate this process?

Wizpresso is a technology company that specializes in organizing alternative data for financial professionals using cutting-edge NLP technology. Our search and analytics platform helps researchers find relevant insights from terabytes of unstructured data in seconds.


Co-Founder

Pierre Trecourt

PremiaLab

PremiaLab’s platform provides the essential statistics, graphical analysis, and visualization tools to objectively asses the numerous risk premia strategies deployed in the market.

Co-Founder & COO

Victor Lang

Gini

In 2018, gini officially launched their personal financial management (PFM) app with the mission of making it easy for anyone to be great at managing their finances.

gini automatically syncs 3,000 banks in 60 countries, and to empower close to a hundred thousand users around the world to have a stress-free financial life.

With this unique experience, gini has extended their footprint to B2B sector by helping financial institutions understand their customers better, using data. Banks, lenders and other FIs are using gini’s data enrichment technology to provide engaging experiences to their customers - increasing loyalty and sales. The cutting edge data-driven solutions help banks and businesses better understand unstructured big data, gain greater insight into customers’ lives and deliver a personalised digital banking experience.

Co-Founders

Justin Chiu, Hardy Liu, Cheney Cheng

APOIDEA

APOIDEA Group is a technology company which focuses on identifying and presenting valuable business information supported by artificial intelligence.

At Apoidea, they believe that the right understanding and technological edge can lead financial content towards a new stage. Contact us today to set up a meeting with one of their sales representatives or request a demo.


Founder & Chairperson

Samuel C.H. Wan

StockViva

StockViva is a leading financial social platform with instant trading ideas from fund managers, analysts and top traders. StockViva is currently managed by a team from UBS, KPMG, JP Morgan, Tencent, 9gag, HK01 and Talkbox.

Head of Sales & Marketing

Kenneth Shih 

Aqumon

Aqumon is a algorithm-driven, technology-based investment platform.

Sustainability Tech

Founder & CEO

Vikas Garg

abillion

abillion is a digital platform that assists people that want to make sustainable choices. Using the abillion app, members can discover vegan food and vegan and cruelty-free products. abillion, launched in 2018 by CEO Vikas Garg, is unique in harnessing the power of social media for social good. Whenever a member chooses sustainably and shares a review, abillion donates $1 to a life-saving cause which the member can choose through the app.

The abillion app has been downloaded by nearly one million people around the world and has donated more than US $680,000 to life-saving causes around the world. Consumer reviews, along with consumer insights, are shared with business owners, influencing nearly 100,000 brands worldwide to offer more sustainable options.

We’re social media for social good.

Retail Tech

CEO & Founder

AJ Mak

Chain of Demand

Chain of Demand uses AI and big data to track and predict sales demand for fashion brands.

Their intuitive and beautiful dashboard highlights winning products and drives purchase optimization to reduce inventory risk, positively impacts markdowns and increases overall cash flow.

Gaming Tech

Robotics

COO / GM

Rhaime Kim

Rice Robotics

Rice Robotics is automating the service industry and building the infrastructure for next-generation corporates to deploy fleets of robots. Their robots are autonomous and can operate elevators and turnstiles, charge, and navigate in crowded areas without help. The delivery robot Rice, disinfection robot Jasmine and security robot Portal help to free up employees to focus on more meaningful tasks in Hong Kong, Japan and Thailand.

Aerospace

President

Richard McCammon

C6 Launch Systems Inc

C6 Launch is a global space technology company developing a dedicated, responsive, and flexible launch capability for small satellites. Unlike any time before, space is not limited to wealthy countries and military. NGOs, commercial businesses, and academia can access a truly democratized space.

Using a launch vehicle specifically designed for small satellites, C6 Launch places these satellites in orbit on time and on target enabling the applications and data these satellites provide to save the World.

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Chief Investment Office

Investing in digital transformation

Disruption is everywhere. Digital data. Automation and Robotics. Smart mobility. In the investing landscape, the changing face of industries and companies should not be overlooked. Technology, resource constraints and social pressures are all potentially disruptive forces for investors. What’s next, and which trends should investors watch closely?

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Food revolution

With available resources and arable land dwindling, farmers are facing a predicament. Technology holds the key, and investment opportunities are opening up as a result.

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Consumer experience

A structural shift is occurring in consumer behavior, in our view, with spending on experiences increasing. People want to belong to a community and share their experience.

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Automation and robotics

Smart automation will power the fourth industrial revolution, combining the innovation in industrial and IT processes.

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Digital data

Rising urbanization and population growth with increasing devices per capita should continue to fuel data growth.

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E-commerce

Smartphone penetration has dissolved boundaries of time and place, enabling consumers to buy products whenever and wherever they want.

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Enabling technology

Tech devices and advances have disrupted every aspect of our lives, and spending on the underlying enabling technologies.

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Fintech

The global fintech industry is at an inflection point and set to drive a major digital transformation in the financial services industry.

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Smart mobility

Global urbanization will call for structural changes in technology that will alter the way we “consume” mobility in the coming decades.

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Genetic therapies

Genetic therapies use genes and cells to treat serious diseases. Replacing defective DNA can remove the cause of an illness and restore health.

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HealthTech

An aging population is putting more pressure on healthcare budgets, spurring healthcare providers to explore adopting new technologies.

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Medical devices

An aging population and growth of the over 65 year age group will create more opportunities for companies selling medical devices.

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Oncology

Advances in cancer therapeutics will create new multi-billion dollar opportunities for successful drugs.

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Emerging market healthcare

An aging EM population will require public healthcare investment in EM to grow sharply to prevent an impending healthcare crisis.

Head over to CIO to access the latest views and financial market coverage.


China 360

Insights from the ground up

China 360 provides a direct window into one of the world’s most dynamic economies, connecting the dots across macro and industry themes to navigate a rapidly-evolving landscape. We also offer our clients access to local China knowledge and insights from established and emerging players, experts, entrepreneurs and everyday consumers to help them make better investment decisions.

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