HSBC Prosperity Hall

SPECIAL Hall Night Talks

Presented by the Student Residence Office (SRO), HSBC Prosperity Hall (Hall 2), and supported by Jockey Club Humanity Hall (Hall 1), Alumni Civility Hall (Hall 3), Jockey Club Academy Hall (Hall 4), Chan Sui Kau Hall (Hall 5), Lee Shau Kee Hall (Hall 6), Jockey Club Harmony Hall (Hall 7), Yip Yuen Yuk Hing Hall (Hall 8) and CityU Apps Lab , SPECIAL Hall Night Talks (業昕之夜) are special monthly talks providing a dynamic and quality learning platform to student residents to meet and talk with renowned elites in the society. Guests will share with you their Keys to Success on the SPECIAL areas of:

S - Serve the world
P - Passion
E - Entrepreneurship
C - Coding
I - Innovation
A - Aspiration
L - Life and career

List of Talks


Exploring the World of Ophtalmology

21 March 2024 (Thursday)

Speaker: Dr. Pong Chiu Fai, Jeffrey, MH
  • Specialist in Ophtalmology of Asia Eye Institute.
  • Consultant of Hong Kong Adventist Hospital.
  • President of Hong Kong Federation of Societies for Prevention of Blindness.
  • Sham Shui Po Distric Councilor
  • Honorary Assistant Professor at Department of Ophtalmology of Faculty of Medicine at CUHK & HKU.
  • MBChB Medicine - University of Auckland
  • Master of Science & PhD Medical Science - CUHK
Language: English

Why so Difficult to Identify Misinformation and Scams Online?

14 March 2024 (Thursday)

Speaker: Mr. Lester Ip Chek Yu
  • 15-years' experience in cyber security, intelligence, investigation, digital forensic and training
  • Founder of CyberDefender campaign and Scameter, the one-stop scam and pitfall search engine
  • MSc in Computer Science in HKU, interested in misinformation detection, AI and cryptocurrency
Language: English

Prospects for the Accounting Profession in Hong Kong

20 February 2024 (Tuesday)

Speaker: Ms. Marina Chan
  • Executive Director of MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node
  • Foster the entrepreneurial mindset through the venture creation process
  • Build career-ready skills for young people
  • Bachelor of Commerce in Finance, McGill University
  • Master of Education, Harvard University
Language: English

Prospects for the Accounting Profession in Hong Kong

25 January 2024 (Thursday)

Speaker: Mr. Parco Wu
  • 2022-2023 President of Society Chinese Accountants and Auditors (SCAA)
  • National Convention Director of the 54th National Convention of JCI Hong Kong
  • Expertise in the accounting profession
Language: English

Run the Sustainable Impact Start Up Venture

20 November 2023 (Monday)

Speaker: Mr. Edmund Chan
  • Co-founder and Chief Operation Officer of Meat the Next, which aims to use diet change to deal with climate change by developing New Generation Food.
  • HK Tech 300 Angel Fund awardee
  • Possesses more than 15 years of experience in Sales & Marketing, Operations, and Business Strategy within the F&B industry
  • B.B.A., Executive MBA at CUHK
Language: English

Mind Matters: Nurturing Student Mental Health

19 October 2023 (Thursday)

Speaker: Dr. Lok Chi Wing
  • A Psychiatrist and Clinical Assistant Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Expertise in Psychiatry, Consultation Liaison Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine, and Eating Disorders
  • Medicine (MBChB) Programme at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Language: English

HK Tech 300: Go Green & Stay Cool

14 September 2023 (Thursday)

Speaker: Dr. Martin CHU
  • Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Founder of i2Cool Limited
  • i2Cool was the award-winning start-up team in the initial idea stage of the “Climate Action Recognition Scheme (CARS) 2020-2021”
  • The i2Cool team also won first prize in the Hong Kong Chapter of the “Maker in China” SME innovation and Entrepreneurship Global Contest 2021 in August
  • BEng, MSc, PhD in Energy & Environment
Language: English

Finding a Mission by Helping the World and Nature

20 April 2023 (Thursday)

Speaker: Mr. Rex Sham
  • Co-founder of the company Insight Robotics, which specializes in robotic systems that monitor and detect forest wildfires
  • His company was one of the World's Most Innovative Robotics companies in 2016 by Fast Company
  • Over 100 wildfire detection robots have been deployed over 4 continents
  • Advisor at Our Hong Kong Foundation
  • B.S. in Computer Science from CUHK
Language: English

Redesign and Re-engineering the Notion of Education and Classrooms

23 March 2023 (Thursday)

Speaker: Mr. Tommie Lo
  • Founder and CEO of Preface AI, a company to teach 21st-century tech skills in a non-traditional way
  • The company has more than 30,000 students worldwide with over 120,000 hours of learning on it
  • UNESCO and TedX Talk speaker
  • BA at the University of California, and MSc at the London School of Economics
Language: English

The Secret Keys to A Fruitful University Life

3 Feb 2023 (Friday)

Speaker: WONG Ho Yin
  • Founder of GABES Limited, a fire emergency system company
  • His startup got an Angel fund from HK Tech 300 and raised over 1.8 million HKD in total
  • 2021 CityU graduate with BEng in Architectural Engineering and former SR Resident
  • PhD student in Fire Safety Engineering
Language: English

Whole Person Development

16 Nov 2022 (Wednesday)

Speaker: Philip S K Leung
  • At retirement, founded 2 nonprofit organizations and 1 social enterprise
  • Former multinational managing director
  • Co-founded China first outdoor advertising media company; IPO in 2002
  • Co-founded several resource-based startups in Canada
  • BSc, MSc University of Manitoba; MBA CUHK; two tours of senior management programs at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France
Language: English

Diversity and Opportunities in HK to Scale Successfully

18 Oct 2022 (Tuesday)

Speaker: Ms. Karena Belin
  • CEO and co-founder of WHub
  • COO, responsible officer, and co-founder of AngelHub
  • A serial founder, investor, and tech-ecosystem accelerator, whose work has yielded more than 10 unicorns
  • One of the 10 Best Female Entrepreneurs of the World by True Global Ventures and has been a Women of Hope awardee
  • ESSEC Business School and the University of Mannheim
Language: English
Zoom Recording

Anti-Scam Talk

28 Sep 2022 (Wednesday)

Speaker: Ms. Wendy, Sze, Sergeant in Hong Kong Police Force
Language: Putonghua, supplemented with Cantonese

Opportunities in Silicon Valley and GBA

20 Sep 2022 (Tuesday)

Speaker: Dr. Patrick Hung
  • Co-founder of CPO Technologies Corporation in Silicon Valley, California (2000)
  • Co-founder of Velosti Technologies Limited in Hong Kong (2009)
  • Consulting Assistant Professor, Computer Systems Labs, Stanford University (2003 - 2009)
  • BSc in EE from HKU, MSc & PhD in EE from Stanford University
Language: English

Asset Management Digitalization

10 February 2022 (Thursday)

Speaker: : Ms. Fiona Wong
  • Co-founder of Hong Kong Digital Asset Society
  • Senior Director, EBSHK Private
  • 2016 Hong Kong Ten Outstanding Young People, Junior Chamber International
  • BA Marketing at PolyU
Language: English
Zoom Recording

Anti-Scam Talk 2

5 Jan 2022

Speaker: Ms. Wendy, Sze
  • Sergeant in Hong Kong Police Force
Language: Putonghua, supplemented with Cantonese
Zoom Recording

Anti-Scam Talk

24 Nov 2021

Speaker: Ms. Wendy, Sze
  • Sergeant in Hong Kong Police Force
Language: Putonghua, supplemented with Cantonese
Zoom Recording

Our Journey to Democratising Global Access to Knowledge

17 Nov 2021

Speaker: Ms. Peggy Choi
  • CEO and founder of Lynk, a global knowledge sharing company. Lynk raised $24 million in January 2021
  • On the Gen.T list 2021 of Hong Kong
  • Before starting Lynk, she worked in banking and investments in the US and UK for several leading firms
  • Bs in Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania and Finance at The Wharton School
Zoom Recording

From Telco to Techco

27 Oct 2021

Speaker: Dr. Chung Ng
  • a SVP at Group CTO Office of the HKT/PCCW Group, where he’s responsible for leading the group’s product and technology roadmap and strategic development
  • a supervisor in machine learning/ artificial intelligence at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • 11+ years of hands-on strategy and business development experiences in the Tech/Internet sector
  • management consulting experiences of McKinsey & Company in business strategy, VC-level due diligence and market analysis
  • BEng and MPhil in Information Engineering from CUHK
  • PhD in Information Engineering from the University of Oxford
Zoom Recording

From Black Hole to the Real World: A Chat with a Researcher Turned CEO

29 Sep 2021

Speaker: Dr. Wai-mo Suen
  • Founder, Chairman of the Board, and CEO of ClusterTech, a company providing advanced computing solutions
  • PhD (Physics), California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
  • Professor of Theoretical Physics at Washington University and an honorary professor of the CUHK
  • Over 30 years of experience in advanced computing technologies
  • Led multi-national supercomputing projects on relativistic astrophysics starting in the 90s
  • Asia Pacific Entrepreneur Awards 2017 Hong Kong, InnoStars Award 2019, IFTA Fintech Achievement Award 2019 - Iconic Star awardee

How to Plan Your Career from Day One at University

2 July 2021 (Friday)

Speaker: Kowshik Balaji Thiagarajan
  • Incoming JP Morgan Graduate Analyst
  • CEO of Microcent Limited, A Fintech startup based in Hong Kong Science Park
  • Internships at top investment banks such as JP Morgan, HSBC, and ICBC
  • Winner of several competitions and funding, including Cyberport and HKSTP
  • CityU BBA Finance (Minor in CS) and Resident Tutor of CityU HSBC Prosperity Hall (Hall 2)
Language: English

Chinese Triad Society

21 April 2021

Speaker: Prof. Wing Lo, AVP (SA)
  • CityU Associate Vice-President (Student Affairs) and Professor, Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences
  • PhD (Criminology), University of Cambridge
  • Chairman of Social Work Services, Caritas-Hong Kong
  • Advised government departments (e.g. Singapore) on youth justice and youth crime prevention
  • Prolific international keynote speaker (e.g. addressed UN delegates at the 2010 Palermo Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime)

Era of Technology Everywhere: How Innovations will Disrupt your Career Plan

25 Feb 2021

Speaker: Mr. Allen Ma
  • Over 30 years of contribution to the development of Hong Kong’s innovation and technology industry
  • Former CEO of Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP)
  • Chairman of Medera Biopharmaceutical Ltd, a biomedical company
  • Independent Non-Executive Director of Mox Bank Ltd, a virtual bank majority owned by Standard Chartered
  • Held multiple senior executive positions in MNCs (e.g. British Telecom Plc, C&W Hong Kong Telecom Plc, Motorola Inc.)

The Future of Cybersecurity, and my Career Journey

6 Jan 2021

Speaker: Mr. Kok Tin Gan, PwC
  • Partner at PwC Hong Kong (Cyber Security & Privacy practice) with over 16 years of experience
  • Founder of PwC’s Darklab, HackaDay, Hackbot
  • Vice Chairman of ITSMf HK Chapter
  • Led over 300 security assessment/transformation engagements across different continents (e.g. North America)
  • Professional Certifications include: CCA, CISA, CISM
  • Co-author of multiple cybersecurity-related guidelines

Bridging From Academia To Entrepreneurship

20 Nov 2020

Speaker: Dr. Miles H.F. Wen
  • CEO of Fano Labs:
    • An AI startup working on speech recognition and natural language processing technologies to help enterprises with their customer services.
    • Over USD 10 million investment from investors such as Horizons Ventures (the private investment arm of Sr. Li Ka-shing) and Alibaba.
  • PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (HKU), Fulbright Scholar (UC Berkeley).
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) at HKU.
  • An expert in information and communication technologies, optimization algorithms, big data, machine learning and holds numerous academic publications and patents.
  • Dr. Wen also actively contributes to the technology ecosystem. He is an active mentor at the iDendron Incubation Program at HKU, Founding Vice President of HKSTP Startups Alumni Association, and EEE Industry Advisory Committee Member, School of Engineering, RMIT University.

In Blockchain We Trust: When, Why, How?

12 October 2020

Speaker:
  • Dr. Lawrence Ma
  • Co-Founder & CEO of eMALI.IO, an HK company focused on blockchain technology for Fin/Insur/LegalTech industry.
  • Founder and President of Hong Kong Blockchain Society, a non-profit organisation educating about blockchain technology to the public.
  • Over 20 years in academia, fintech development, and entrepreneurship.
  • B.A. of Mathematics (Yale University), M.S. of Mathematics (Stanford University), and Ph.D. of Mathematics (Cornell University)

Reinventing A Traditional Industry

6 April 2020

Speaker:
  • Mr. Fred Ngan, Co-EO and Co-Founder of Bowtie Life Insurance Company
  • Co-Founder of Seasonalife and Coherent
  • Fellow of Financial Technologist of Institute of Financial Technologists of Asia(IFTA)
  • Board Member of Academy Advisory Group for Fintech at Cyberport Hong Kong
  • Counsil Member and Chair of Insurtech Committee of IFTA

Entrepreneurial Spirits & Innovation Transformations

18 Mar. 2020

Speaker:
  • Mr. Alex Chung, CEO and Co-Founder of NEXSTGO Company Ltd
  • Within 3 years, Alex was able to expand NEXSTGO in more than 15 countries including: UK, USA, USA, SG and China.
  • Fellow member of the Chartered Institution of Marketing (UK)
  • Ex Country General Manager at Lenovo HK Ltd.
  • Held multiple senior management positions at Samsung Electronics, Sony Corporation Ltd. and Sony Marketing Asia Pacific.
  • EMBA from University of Western Ontario, Canada

Do what the giant companies cannot!

27 Nov. 2019

Speaker:
  • Mr. Alex Chung, CEO and Co-Founder of NEXSTGO Company Ltd
  • Within 3 years, Alex was able to expand NEXSTGO in more than 15 countries including: UK, USA, USA, SG and China.
  • Fellow member of the Chartered Institution of Marketing (UK)
  • Ex Country General Manager at Lenovo HK Ltd.
  • Held multiple senior management positions at Samsung Electronics, Sony Corporation Ltd. and Sony Marketing Asia Pacific.
  • EMBA from University of Western Ontario, Canada

Identifying Hong Kong in the future world

08 Oct. 2019

Speaker:
  • Prof. Simon Shen, International Relations Scholar in HK
  • Former co-ordinator of the International Affairs Research Center of the Chinese University of HK
  • Former associate professor of the Department of Social Sciences of the HK Institute of Education
  • Yale University, Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and History
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Oxford University (Politics and International Relations)
  • Professor Shen regular participates in minland exchange and cooperation project

My Entrepreneurial Journey

26 Sept. 2019

Speaker:
  • Mr. Kinni Mew,Founder and NLP Engineer at Mindlayer
  • Google Developer Expert (Machine Learning)
  • Former General Manager of CityU Apps Lab
  • Technology Startup Support Scheme for Universities (TSSSU) Awardee [Up to HK$ 1.5M per year for maximum of 3 years]
  • Cyberport University Partnership Program (CUPP) Awardee [HK$ 100K + Stanford Boot Camp]
  • CityU EE 2012 Graduate

Career Path Exploration

May. 2019

Speaker:
  • Mr. Albert Hui,Head of Corporate Development, Tencent Financial Technology
  • Former Global Head of Family Office, Noah Holdings
  • Former Executive Director, Morgan Stanley
  • Former President, The Harvard Club of Hong Kong
  • Double-degree Harvard graduate

Social Technological Entrepreneur

Apr. 2019

Speaker:
  • Prof. Erwin Huang,Associate Professor & Senior Advisor, HKUST
  • Vice-Chairman, Junior Achievement Hong Kong
  • Co-Founder, DreamStarter
  • Founder, Agent of Change
  • Chairman, Social Career
  • Chief Consultant, Business Planning & Non-executive Director - Sky Light Holdings Limited

Social Responsibility in Science and Arts

Mar. 2019

Speaker:
  • Dr. Paulina Yenbic Chan,Principal & CEO, Global Mutual Innovation Consortium (multiple countries)
  • Champion, Imperial College London Mentoring Programme
  • Imperial College Ambassador, Imperial College London (2014-2016)
  • Chair, IEEE – Women In Engineering HK
  • Chairman of the Board - Chartered Management Institute Hong Kong

Social Responsiblity

Feb. 2019

Speaker:
  • Mr. Simon WONG,Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer, LH Group,
  • President, Institution of Dining Art
  • Chairman, Catering Industry Training Advisory Committee
  • Convenor, Business Facilitation Advisory Committee - Food Business and Related Services Task Force
  • Member, Minimum Wage Commission

My journey

Jan. 2019

Speaker:
  • Mr. Wilson YUEN, Member of School Advisory Committee, CityU, Founder and CEO of TFI Digital Media Limited, Founder and Managing Partner of SW Global Consulting, Founder and CEO of OpenSkyTV, Global Design Ambassador of Interaction Design Foundation (IDF), Professor of Practice, Academy of Film at Hong Kong Baptist University

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Vision Hong Kong

Dec. 2018

Speaker:
  • Mr. Thomas CHEUNG, Council member of CityU, Deputy to the 13th NPC, Chairman of KOL Project, Chairman of Chinagrowth Group Ltd

My transition from an engineer to vice president of engineering to techno-entrepreneur to businessman

Nov. 2018

Speaker:
  • Mr. Ian HUANG, Chairman, President & CEO of Digital Transaction Limited Chairman President & CEO, XNET Technology in Silicon Valley, Vice President of Engineering, Hughes Network Systems, Co-Inventor of SCSI, RISC and FDDI, Chairman of Silicon Valley Chapter, ACM

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My Journey with Asian Games

Oct. 2018

Speaker:
  • Mr. Herman HU, Former Chairman of CityU Council, Hong Kong Deputy to 12th and 13th National People's Congress, Chairman of Ryoden Development Limited, Past President of Hong Kong Professionals and Senior Executives Association

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How did I start my career as a forensic psychiatrist?

Sep. 2018

Speaker:
  • Dr. Ho Mei Yee, psychiartist (mental health)

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Road to Harvard and Columbia

May. 2018

Tips to equip yourself for getting into the world's most prestigious universities!

Speaker:
  • Dana He, Hall 2 RT, Mathematics, Master Student at Havard University in 2018/19
  • Archit Choudhury, Hall 2 IT Team, CS, CityU/Columbia Joint Bachelor's Degree Program

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Insider Story: Rethink Everything You Know About Consumer Goods & Health After Knowing The Work Of Vitargent 為何這麼任性在香港做生物科技?

Apr. 2018

Speaker: Mr. Jimmy Tao
  • Managing Director & CEO of Vitargent International Holdings Limited

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Comfort Zone vs. Risk Taking

Mar. 2018

Speaker: Mr. Arnold Chan
  • Founder and CEO of Teach4HK

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Understand Your Own Superpower?

Feb. 2018

Speaker: Dr. Eric Chu (朱君璞脊醫博士)
  • Founder of New York Medical Group and Spine Central
  • Chairman of Chiropractic Doctors Association of Hong Kong

The road from engineering student to serial entrepreneur

Jan. 2018

Speaker: Dr. Alan Lam (林曉鋒博士)
  • Chairman and CEO of Sengital Group
  • Awardee of 2015 Hong Kong Ten Outstanding Young Person

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Data and Your Future

Nov. 2017

Speaker: Mr. Herbert Chia Pun Kok 車品覺先生
  • Venture Partnet of Sequoia Capital China (Sequoia controls $1.4 trillion USD stock market value)
  • Deputy Head of Big Data Standards Work Group
  • Former Vice president and head of data committee of Alibaba Group

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Serve Above Self & Reconstruct Human Body

Oct. 2017

Speaker: Dr. Peter Pang Chi Wang, Plastic surgeon, Awardee of 2011 Hong Kong Humanity Award, and Past District Governor of Rotary International District 3450

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How can music help you to become successful in languages, education and life!

Sep. 2017

Speaker: Mr. Mahmood Rumjahn (林慕德先生), Music Composer, Educationist (Language Development) and CEO of MnS Language Academy

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Creating a HK Unicorn

Apr. 2017

Speaker: Shing Chow, Founder & CEO of Lalamove

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Achieving the top of the World

Mar. 2017

Speaker: Mr. Kwok Ho-Ting Marco, world champion Hong Kong cyclist
Language: Cantonese, English

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A New Kung Fu Culture in HK and the World

Feb. 2017

Speaker: Hing CHAO, CEO of Hong Kong International Kung Fu Festival and International Guoshu Association

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Making a Better World

Feb. 2017

Speaker: Cesar Jung-Harada, Founder of MakerBay and Former MIT Project Leader

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Age 27: from an Idea to a $100,000,000 Business

Jan. 2017

Speaker: Timothy Yu, Founder, Snapask

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Ideas that Can Rock the World

Dec. 2016

Speaker: Jong Lee, Co-curator of TEDxHK and Founder of Code Club HK

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How Can We Create New Opportunities Using Space?

Nov. 2016

Speaker: Kevin Chan, Founder & Chairman of StoreFriendly Self Storage Group 儲存易迷你倉集團
Moderator: Nicolette Tong, Executive Vice President, The Wave

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Should All University Students Learn How to Code?

Oct. 2016

Speaker: Miss Michelle Sun 辛婥琳, Founder & CEO of First Code Academy
Moderator: Mr. Lau Ming Wai 劉鳴煒, BBS, JP, Chairman of Commission on Youth, CityU Council Member, & CityU Honorary Fellow

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A World Leading Startup Journey

Sep. 2016

Speaker: Ray Chan, CEO & Co-Founder of 9GAG

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