Date: 29 May 2025 (Thur)

Venue: : Happiness Cuisine, 1/F Core Building 2, Science Park, Shatin, N.T.

Time:  7:00pm – 9:30pm

Dinner fee: $350/ person (member) , $400/person (non member)

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Theme: Scaling Innovations into the Global South

Overview: With the Sino-US trade conflict showing no signs of abating, tech industries are already pivoting toward the Global South—and gaining traction. In this month’s dinner, we will learn from ESG Pioneers and AIGC Innovators as they decode practical, cost-effective strategies for penetrating emerging Global South markets, with a special focus on the Middle East.

PROGRAMME RUNDOWN

6:45 pm                       Registration and networking

7:00 pm                       Networking sharing starts

7:35 pm                       Dinner starts

Speaker 1: Mr. Edmund Chan
Co-founder & COO, Meat the Next (Tiga Milk) Co. Ltd., Awardee of Hong Kong Spirit Award and active start-up mentor
Winner of over 10 innovation and entrepreneurship awards, Edmund will present a case study on balancing human and environmental well-being—offering actionable insights into sustainable branding across both Developed and Global South markets.

Speaker 1: Professor Martin Zhu
Adjunct Professor, Department of Management, College of Business, CityU; Co-founder & CEO, i2Cool Ltd.
A recipient of the HKSAR Government’s prestigious RAISe+ funding, Martin will share how his climate-tech venture successfully entered the Middle Eastern market—and what it takes to thrive in this culturally rich, innovation-hungry region.

Speaker 3: Dr. Howard Lam
Co-founder & CEO, Word Book Ltd which uses GenAI to lower access barrier for Chinese wisdom Former CUHK EMBA Program Director and senior executive at Coca-Cola China; He will explore how generative AI can enable agile, low-cost content creation for brands operating in fragmented and resource-constrained markets.

9:25 pm      Dinner and networking

9:30 pm      End of the event