CxO Forum
THE RISE FROM THE ASHES

What’s to become of your business in the aftermath of one of the impactful pandemic in recent years.

Find your way to your rebirth at The 3rd CxO Forum on 2 December 2021!

2 Dec 2021 (Thu) | Cordis, Hong Kong

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CxO Forum 2021

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Sixth months after the outbreak of the COVID-19, we’d made hundreds of executives become aware of how to be future ready at The 2nd CxO Forum. More than a year later, there are too many businesses scorched by the impact of business + customer isolation. With the dying down of infection numbers and the advent of vaccines, the business community is ready to be reborn, rising out of the ashes. Can your business be the same?

Come join the handful of inspiring speakers at The 3rd CxO Forum, learn from them so that you won’t need a time machine in the future to anticipating and to act upon global scale pandemic.

Themes

Meeting Growth Challenges
in a Digital Age

Think like a Technology Company - Innovation and Transformation

Reinvent the Organizational Model

Data-centric Business Strategies

Success in the Customer Experience Economy

In Sequence of panel

Speakers

Conference chair

Dr. William Lo

Founder & Chairman
Da Z Group Co. Limited

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Dr. William Lo

Dr. William LO, JP the Founder & Chairman of Da Z Group Co. Limited. 

Dr Lo in the past had held various top management posts at HK Telecom, Cable & Wireless plc, Citibank, WPP plc, China Unicom, I.T Limited, South China Media Group and Kidsland International Holdings Ltd. Dr Lo serves as an independent non-executive director on the board of a number of publicly listed companies in HK.

Dr. Lo has held numerous government appointments and is currently a member of the Cyberport Advisory Panel and was a board member of the Broadcasting Authority, the ASTRI and the Science Park. He was also a founding member of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong’s Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) Listing Committee 

Recently, Dr Lo has been invited by the United Nations ESCAP to lead a task force for its Sustainable Business Network Committee to look at financial inclusion leveraging fintech in the region.

Speaker

Dr. Hong Fung

Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer
CUHK Medical Centre

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Dr. Hong Fung

Dr Hong FUNG is the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the CUHK Medical Centre (CUHKMC). CUHKMC is the private teaching hospital wholly owned by The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).

Dr FUNG is also Professor of Practice in Health Services Management at the Jockey Club School of Public Health & Primary Care , CUHK, where he teaches health services planning, healthcare innovation and technology management, healthcare financing, communications and marketing, and decision making in the School’s master and leadership programs.

Speaker

Mr. Girish Jhunjhnuwala

Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Ovolo Group

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Mr. Girish Jhunjhnuwala

Girish Jhunjhnuwala is the Founder and CEO of Ovolo Group, which owns and operates hotels in Australia, Hong Kong, and Bali. Founded in 2010, he has led Ovolo to continuously challenge industry conventions, bringing on new approaches aimed at the modern traveler.

Since then, Ovolo Hotels has grown into a diversified group with an international collection of thirteen designer properties across these regions, and plans to keep growing. The Ovolo experience is driven by his desire for all-inclusivity, which is a promise to guests that once checked-in, all key touch points of the hotel are truly free. This is joined by another of Ovolo’s signature characteristics, which steers away from the traditional “cookie cutter” approach: each property has its own story, design, and touch.

It’s these personalized touches that Girish wished for during a lifetime of travel, that make the Ovolo brand standout amongst a legion of hospitality brands.

Speaker

Mr. David Yeung

Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Green Monday Group

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Mr. David Yeung

David Yeung is the Founder & CEO of Green Monday Group, a multi-faceted social venture dealing with climate changes, food insecurity and public health. Through Green Monday Foundation, OmniFoods, Green Common and Green Monday Ventures, Mr. Yeung has pioneered a one-of-a-kind integrated platform that engages and empowers millions of people, along with public and private sectors, towards green awareness, action and economy.

His work earns him numerous honours and accolades including Social Entrepreneur of the Year” by the World Economic Forum and Schwab Foundation. Fortune’s “Change the World” Company, “EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Award”, “Roddenberry Prize”, “Cathay ChangeMakers”, “Ten Outstanding Young Persons Hong Kong” and “Company of the Year” by PETA Asia. Receiving these acknowledgments of his work led to local and international media coverage.

Mr. Yeung is a graduate of Columbia University, an Ashoka Fellow and the author of a number of best-selling books on Zen wisdom and mindfulness

Speaker

Mr. Michael Chan

Co-founder & Co-Chief Executive Officer
Bowtie Life Insurance Company

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Mr. Michael Chan

Michael Chan is Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Bowtie, Hong Kong’s first virtual insurance company. Michael is an actuary by training and believes that while insurance is a fundamentally good product for society, the industry has much to improve upon. Along this mission, Michael has been a serial entrepreneur and previously co-founded Coherent and Seasonalife, two insurance technology companies.

Michael is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA), a member of the Actuarial Society of Hong Kong (ASHK) and a holder of the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) qualification.

Speaker

Mr. Nelson Choi

Group Chief Executive Officer
G2000

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Mr. Nelson Choi

Nelson is the Group CEO of G2000, a privately owned retail fashion business with footprint across Asia. He is a veteran management executive with over 20 years’ experience driving growth and transformation for companies in Asia Pacific and Europe. Prior to joining the G2000 group, he held senior management positions with Fidelity International and UBS Group. He was also an experienced management consultant with Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey & Co.

Speaker

Mr. Danny Shum

Founder
Ztore

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Mr. Danny Shum

Danny founded his first tech-based company, which specializes in R&D in e-commerce software after graduating from the university. With a decade’s worth of experience in the e-commerce business, Danny established an e-commerce platform, Ztore.com which was acquired by TVB in 2021. Danny was later appointed as the President of TVB e-Commerce Business Group, in charge of all e-commerce platforms of TVB, including Big Big Shop, Ztore and Neigbuy.

Speaker

Ms. Jennifer Tan

Chief Executive Officer
Alipay Financial Services (HK) Limited

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Ms. Jennifer Tan

Jennifer is the CEO of Alipay Financial Services (HK) Limited as well as assuming the role of EVP at the Ant Group in charge of strategic development and government affairs in the GBA.

Before joining the Ant Group, Jennifer worked at Hutchison Telecommunications for overs 20 years, reaching the post of COO. She has extensive experience working with Fortune 500 MNCs as well as other global conglomerates.

Jennifer is a qualified account with an MBA. She is a fellow of several professional accounting bodies including the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Hong Kong where she is the current Vice Chairman after serving as council member for several terms.

Moderator

Mr. Henry Ng

Master Trainer
KORNERSTONE Institute

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Mr. Henry NG

Henry Ng is an IT and cybersecurity veteran for 30 years. He has held various senior management positions managing and growing cybersecurity businesses in the APAC region.

He was the former managing director of Thales, which helps APAC customers from different industry sectors including banking and finance, insurance, telecommunications, transportation and utilities, manufacturing and higher education institutes to address cybersecurity.

Henry was appointed as the adjunct professor for University Malaysia of Computer Science and Engineering, and serves in a number of cybersecurity professional bodies including the director of Cloud Security Alliance Hong Kong and Macau Chapter and member of the Hong Kong Expert Group on Cloud Security and Privacy. He has been invited frequently as speakers and panelists in many Cybersecurity and risk seminars in the region.

Henry holds numerous renowned IT and security certifications as well as Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

Speaker

Mr. Eric Cheng

Regional Director
Cato Networks

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Mr. Eric Cheng

Eric Cheng is a Regional Director at Cato Networks responsible for Asia & Pacific. He works in the field of cloud networking and security as a service, helping Enterprises’ optimise and secure their wide area networks. Prior to Cato he spent 15 years in senior roles at Telstra, Superloop, and Inabox Group serving clients and partners across various sectors with their global connectivity needs. Eric has a MBA from the University Of Technology Sydney.

Speaker

Mr. Richard Cheung

Executive Director
Hong Kong Jockey Club

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Mr. Richard Cheung

Mr. Cheung is responsible for the wagering business of Hong Kong Jockey Club - including wagering operations of racing, football and lottery, all digital and physical touch points and customer experience. Total turnover of the business is about 250 Billion from Hong Kong and Overseas。Customer digital experience is one of the key components of the wagering business. Since 2014 Richard’s team has been driving a digital and AI transformation journey with over 70 of transactions happening online now.

Outside the Hong Kong Jockey club Mr. Cheung is the Co-President of the World Tote Association as well as Vice president of the World lottery Association, both based in Europe. Leveraging his previous private equity and consulting experience, he is also an angel investor and advisors to multiple technology start-ups.

Speaker

Mr. Paul Loo

Chief Operating Officer
Lalamove

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Mr. Paul Loo

Two years in as the Chief Operating Officer of Lalamove, Paul is responsible for the global operations, strategic planning and business development of the company. Paul has been instrumental in the rapid growth of the Lalamove business. Paul brings more than 28 years of global management experience to Lalamove, in particularly his focus on delivering business services and solutions, providing outstanding client services, and driving profitable and sustainable revenue growth. Before joining Lalamove, Paul held several senior executive roles at Cathay Pacific Airways, the most recent was being the Chief Customer and Commercial Officer. Paul graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Engineering Science, and the University of Michigan with a Master of Business Administration. He also graduated from the Senior Executive Program at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Speaker

Ms. Kris Lui

Asia Chief Human Resources & Communications Officer
Sun Life

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Ms. Kris Lui

Ms. Kris Lui is a passionate, seasoned and business-oriented Human Resources global executive with two decades of dynamic international leadership in building Employer of Choice to deliver business results across industries and geographies.

Kris developed her career at Procter & Gamble, which had been awarded as being No.1 for “Fortune’s Most Admired for HR Globally, subsequently her global experience through significant time spent in China, Taiwan and United States. When Kris was at Vertiv Company, she was responsible for transforming the technology infrastructure global market leader with advanced organization practices, culture change and a sizable business-oriented HR team.

Kris is committed to nurture HR, leadership capability and future talents in the society. She is an HKIHRM Executive Council member and has diligently served the association through many roles. She’s had numerous speaking occasions at conferences, training classes and corporate events as well as having sat on the judging panel for “HR Innovation Awards”

Moderator

Ms. Akina Ho

Head of Digital Transformation & Innovation
The Great Eagle Company

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Ms. Akina Ho

Akina has over 20 years of experience in change management, innovative technology, consulting, finance, hospitality and global sales operations management experience starting from the Silicon Valley to worldwide. She is now leading a new department at Great Eagle to execute digital transformation and innovation at the group level and across all subsidiaries globally. She is also part of the Investment Committee that evaluate start-ups in cutting-edge technology and disruptive business model across different industries. In the short time she has been with Great Eagle, she has been able to push for IoT deployment, drone technology, ERP, HR and other transformation projects that resulted in receiving rewards like the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards 2019 and other awards for great leadership, digital transformation & innovation, social innovation and etc. She was one of the Executive that helped a startup in Hong Kong to become one of the Unicorn in 2017 with investors from FoxConn and Softbank. She is a respected guest speaker, panel specialist and guest professor with notable media appearances on Bloomberg and Fox International. Her appearances as keynote speaker and panelist can be found at esteem summits around the world covering various topics, such as leading technology, digital transformation, big data, security, digital marketing, HR, IoT, Customer Experience, and others. Akina is the board member of HKPTA. She holds an GEMBA from USC and a Bachelor’s degree from UCLA.

Speaker

Ms. Anita Varshney

Global Vice President
Strategy SAP S/4HANA Sustainability

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Ms. Anita Varshney

Anita spearheads SAP’s strategy on Sustainability Management across SAP’s product portfolio and drives collaboration with SAP’s partners and wider ecosystem, accelerating innovation and delivering customer success on their sustainability ambitions. Anita leads SDG Ambition for SAP, launched at World Economic Forum 2020, aims at developing and implementing innovative and ambitious business strategies that significantly increase companies’ positive impact on the UN SDGs. Anita has a strong dedication to working with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and has previously led the strategy behind building a global innovation with purpose space at SAP New York, Hudson Yards and ecosystem. Anita has been a key contributor to the books “SAP Next-Gen: Innovation with Purpose” and “SAP Next-Gen: Using Science Fiction as a Starship for Enterprise Innovation”.

Speaker

Mr. Mike Luk

Senior Solutions Manager
SAP

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Mr. Mike Luk

Mike Luk, he is the Senior Solution Manager in SAP Hong Kong. He is a functional professional on supply chain solution experience having worked in IT Industry and End user environments since 1997. Experienced in digital transformation, process redesign & business consulting. Presently Mike has solution consulting role where in SAP as Senior Solution Manager in Retail, High-Tech, Services, and Healthcare. Prior to join SAP, Mike worked for Luxury Fashion Retail as APAC Senior Supply Chain Project Manager and other multi-national software vendors. Mike got the MSc. in Engineering Business Systems and BSc. in Computing in UK.

What's going on

Program

2 Dec 2021 (Thu)

08:50 - 09:00

Opening

09:00 - 09:10

Welcoming Remarks by conference chair

Dr. William Lo, Founder & Chairman, Da Z Group Co. Limited

09:10 - 09:50

Power Panel 1: Growth Factors in a Post-COVID World - East and West

Dr. Hong Fung, Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer, CUHK Medical Centre
Mr. Girish Jhunjhnuwala, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Ovolo Group
Mr. David Yeung, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Green Monday Group
Moderator:
Dr. William Lo, Founder & Chairman, Da Z Group Co. Limited

09:50 - 10:30

Power Panel 2: Reinventing Business Models to Out-evolve the Competition

Mr. Michael Chan, Co-founder & Co-Chief Executive Officer, Bowtie Life Insurance Company
Mr. Nelson Choi, Group Chief Executive Officer, G2000
Mr. Danny Shum, Founder, Ztore
Ms. Jennifer Tan, Chief Executive Officer, Alipay Financial Services (HK) Limited
Moderator:
Mr. Henry Ng, Master Trainer, KORNERSTONE Institute

10:30 - 10:50

Roundtable Discussion 1: Major Digital Transformation Challenges

Facilitator: Mr. Henry Ng, Master Trainer, KORNERSTONE Institute

Networking Break (10:50 - 11:05)

11:05 - 11:25

Keynote: Rise your Digital Transformation and Sustainability

Ms. Anita Varshney, Global Vice President, Strategy SAP S/4HANA Sustainability
Mr. Mike Luk, Senior Solution Manager, SAP

11:25 - 12:10

Power Panel 3: The Power and the Blindspots of CxOs in Times of Agility and Digitalization

Mr. Eric Cheng, Regional Director, Cato Networks
Mr. Richard Cheung, Executive Director, Hong Kong Jockey Club
Mr. Paul Loo, Chief Operating Officer, Lalamove
Ms. Kris Lui, Asia Chief Human Resources & Communications Officer, Sun Life
Moderator:
Ms. Akina Ho, Head of Digital Transformation, Great Eagle

12:10 -12:30

Roundtable Discussion 2: Bridging the ABCD Skills Gap

Facilitator: Ms. Rebecca Chan, Managing Director, KOS International

Designed For

Who Should Attend?

The CxO Forum is a perfect event for the innovative business executives and decision makers. If you are responsible for taking your company forward in the face of the business innovation, whether in the offence or the defence, you will take away something useful from our event.

Take a look at the profile of delegates from our past events:

Job Titles

Business Management

  • CEO – Chief Executive Officer
  • CAO – Chief Administrative Officer
  • CFO – Chief Finance Officer
  • CHRO – Chief Human Resource Officer
  • CMO – Chief Marketing Officer
  • COO – Chief Operation Officer
  • CSO – Chief Sales Officer
  • CRO – Chief Risk Officer
  • Other C – Suite Executives

IT Management

  • Chief Information Officer (CIO)
  • Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
  • Chief Security Officer (CSO)
  • Head of IT
  • VP/AVP – IT
  • Director of IT 
  • Other Senior IT Management

Industry Segment

30% Finance, Banking, Investment, Insurance
10% Government, Public Services, Military
9% Manufacturing
9% Retail, Wholesale, Import/Export
7% Transportation
6% Business, Professionals, Consultants
5% Healthcare
5% Education
5% Media, Entertainment, F&B
4% IT
4% Telecommunications
6% Others

Job Levels

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Address: 7/F, 555 Shanghai Street, Cordis, Hong Kong

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