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欧阳佩玲在人寿和医疗保险运营方面超过25年的经验，负责率领保诚保险的客务营运部门及健康保障业务。在客务营运方面，欧阳氏致力为客户提供卓越及优化的服务，当中包括核保、健康评估、理赔和保单行政，及客户热线和服务中心等领域。

此外，欧阳氏亦负责制定保诚健康保障业务的发展策略及带领其营运优化，包括优化一站式客户体验、健康保障业务生态系统和合作伙伴渠道、支持开发多元化产品和增值服务，以及拓展医疗网络等领域。

欧阳氏于2013年首次加入保诚并于其八年任期内于营运部门出任多个重要职位。她在2023年再度加入保诚，此前于宏利（香港）出任首席营运总监。欧阳氏曾效力不同保险公司，包括友邦、保柏、大都会人寿及苏黎世保险，在不同要职上累积了丰富的行业经验。

Carmen自 2023 年 12 月起加入恒生投资管理有限公司（恒生投资）担任产品主管，负责领导并推动资产管理业务的投资产品与解决方案策略。

Carmen在金融业拥有逾 20 年工作经验。加入恒生投资之前，曾任职于三星运用（香港）及未来资产环球投资（香港），担任 ETF 及指数投资主管，领导香港 ETF 业务，并统筹投资组合管理、资本市场、产品开发及涵盖亚洲地区的销售策略。 Carmen 早年于荷兰银行从事股票交易相关工作；其后在2007 年加入苏格兰皇家银行负责现金及衍生品平台的股票业务发展，并担任区域股票 Delta One 销售与交易职务，主要聚焦于指数／ETF、演算法电子交易以及合成股票业务。

Cathy Chen leads China investments at TPC Group, where she focuses on backing high-growth technology companies and driving cross-border innovation. She specializes in helping Chinese enterprises leverage technological and supply chain advantages to expand into global markets, while supporting international companies seeking growth opportunities in Asia.

With over 15 years of experience in investment banking and private equity, Cathy has held investment roles at CICC Investment Banking, New Horizon Capital, Meridian Capital, and other leading financial institutions. Her investment portfolio includes companies such as Nanopore New Materials, Sylvan Bio, SenzAI Medical, FansAI, and Dexmate.

Cathy holds a B.A. in Mathematics-Economics from Columbia University.

Dr. Chao He is an AI pioneer, entrepreneur, and educator with over 20 years of experience bridging academia and industry. He is the Founder and CEO of AIVI Technologies, an Adjunct Associate Professor at HKUST Business School, and a Senior Member of IEEE. He holds a Ph.D. in AI and an Executive MBA from Kellogg-HKUST.

With an international career spanning Canada, the UK, and Greater China, Dr. He previously served as Lead Researcher at NCR Corporation and Vice President & Head of AI at Wisers. Notably, he invented the world's first successfully commercialized AI-powered banknote validation technology and holds over 40 international patents.

Passionate about talent development, he has taught hundreds of MBA students and contributed to the 10x1000 Tech for Inclusion initiative, helping train over 800 fintech leaders from more than 70 countries. Today, Dr. He’s work focuses on advancing AI-driven decision intelligence for financial institutions, empowering them to navigate risk, generate alpha, and unlock competitive advantage in a rapidly evolving market.

张纯信教授是宾西法利亚大学的授勋学者，研究超过200家媒体报道发表在the Journal of Financial Economics，the Journal of Corporate Finance等顶级期刊上。 曾获得多项顶级基金，包括国家科学基金和上海国际金融与经济研究院的基金，义乌研究院复旦基地第一批项目立项。

2010-2017年，曾任上海交通大学上海高级金融学院教授并担任金融硕士项目主任，任职期间该项目被《金融时报》评为亚洲最佳金融硕士项目，全球排名前十。在康奈尔大学开始教授生涯后，先后任教于台湾大学、北京大学和香港中文大学。

2019年和2020年，在达沃斯世界经济论坛期间，与联合国数字金融工作组、中国数字金融咨询小组共同主办了金融科技论坛。2026年领导金融科技研究中心举办 UnDavos 分论坛。

Charles is the CEO of the dYdX Foundation, a DeFi derivatives protocol.

Before joining dYdX, Charles served as Global Head of Business Development at ConsenSys. His diverse career includes entrepreneurial ventures, executive roles in FinTech startups, and a stint as Head of FinTech with the Hong Kong government.

In 2021, he authored Block Kong, a book exploring Hong Kong's blockchain leaders. In 2025, he published Arabian Crypto, highlighting the crypto industry's progress and ambitions in Arab countries, with a focus on the UAE.

2021年创立滴灌通以来，他致力于连接全球资本与实体经济。目前，他正推动牛码新市（NUMA）建设，发展合同现金流融资（CBF），以人工智能支持真实世界合同信息的标准化与风险收益分析，推动分散的合同现金流成为专业投资者可识别、可比较、可配置的资产，构建服务真实世界合同现金流投融资的市场基础设施。

在创立滴灌通之前，李先生于2010年1月至2020年12月担任香港交易所集团行政总裁。任内，他推动多项重要战略举措，包括2012年收购伦敦金属交易所，2014年、2016年及2017年分别推出“沪港通”“深港通”及“债券通”，加强国际市场与中国内地市场的互联互通，并于2018年推进上市制度改革，为新经济企业来港上市开辟新路径。

Charles Lu is co-founder and COO of Espresso Systems. Prior to Espresso's founding in 2020, Charles worked in various investment and technology roles at Binance Labs (now YZi Labs), Citadel, Meta, and Amazon, and conducted research as a Ph.D. student in Dan Boneh's cryptography group at Stanford University. Charles holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from Stanford in computer science.

Espresso Systems builds digital asset infrastructure for enterprises that need speed and customizability without giving up architectural control. The company is the lead developer of Espresso, a modern high-performance blockchain that provides real-time settlement with subsecond finality and scales to millions of transactions per second. Institutions use Espresso to run dedicated environments for stablecoins, payments, tokenized assets, and collateral management, each with its own compliance and privacy controls, while staying connected to onchain liquidity. Espresso works with leading teams including Offchain Labs (developers of Arbitrum), Polygon, Celo, Cartesi, LitVM (Litecoin), and beyond. We are backed by more than $50 million in funding from leading investors in technology and crypto including a16z, Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, Electric Capital, Paxos, and Coinbase Ventures.

Dr. Charleston Sin is currently the Head of AI, Data & Physical AI at Hong Kong Science and Technology Park. His vision is to spearhead preparing Hong Kong to be more AI ready.

In addition to 25 years of industry experience across Canada, the United States, and China in the technology sector, he spent five years in academic leadership as Executive Director of the MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node. Since 2018, he has been a part-time faculty member at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and The University of Hong Kong.

Charleston holds a PhD in Engineering from the University of Waterloo.

Charlie Renzoni is VP of Carbon Markets at Deep Sky, where he leads commercialization and financing across the company's carbon removal platform.

His mix of technical, commercial, and capital markets experience lets him work cross-functionally to translate complex technical requirements into high-value, high-trust partnerships with both global enterprises and institutional investors.

Charlie structured the commercial framework behind Deep Sky Alpha, the world's first technology-agnostic carbon removal project, as well as Deep Sky's enterprise product offerings. He is now focused on corporate development and capital formation for Deep Sky's industrial scale facilities.

Before Deep Sky, Charlie was a climate and fintech investor at OMERS Ventures, the venture arm of the $140B Canadian pension fund, building investment strategy across North America from a US$750M fund. He worked with leadership teams across more than a dozen high-growth venture and growth-stage businesses, completed 26 transactions, and executed four exits. He began his career in mechanical engineering.

Charlotte Wong is Managing Director and Chief Technology and Operations Officer for Hong Kong, Greater China and North Asia (GCNA) at Standard Chartered. She leads the integrated Technology and Operations agenda across the cluster, aligning technology, operations and transformation priorities with the Bank's business strategy, and overseeing the implementation of service delivery strategy.

Charlotte also sponsors strategic transformation and digitisation initiatives to simplify processes, strengthen controls, enhance productivity and improve client outcomes. She champions operational and service excellence, business resilience, agile ways of working, and a culture of client centricity, accountability, diversity and inclusion across Technology and Operations.

Before joining Standard Chartered, Charlotte spent more than 20 years with HSBC in global, regional and country leadership roles, most recently as Chief Information Officer for Hong Kong, where she was responsible for technology strategy and delivery for the Hong Kong business. She is also Chairperson of the FACE Club at the Hong Kong Computer Society, supporting the advancement of women in technology leadership.

Chavalit Frederick Tsao is the fourth-generation steward of TPC (Tsao Pao Chee), a family enterprise with roots dating back more than 120 years to the late 1800s during the Qing Dynasty. Born in Hong Kong and educated at the University of Michigan, he joined the family business at age 20 and became Chairman at 37. He also served as Chairman of Intercargo, fostering global collaboration in the maritime sector.

In 1995, he founded the East-West Cultural Development Centre — today‘s OCTAVE Institute — to bridge Eastern philosophy and Western science. This lifelong inquiry laid the foundation for what he later articulated as Quantum Leadership — a model rooted in oneness, well-being, and holistic systems thinking – a relational model for well-being inspired by the Confucius teaching of The Great Learning (大学).

Chavalit champions the belief that business must be purpose-led — a force beyond profit. This conviction is the heartbeat of his transformation of TPC, anchored in a bold new mission: "To serve the well-being of life and create wealth at the same time." He has brought this vision to life by pioneering OCTAVE — a living ecosystem that supports an integrated life journey toward personal, organisational, and societal well-being. OCTAVE reflects his belief that inner development must go hand-in-hand with systems change.

Chavalit is the author of four books — Quantum Leadership, Dawn of an Era of Well-being, One Choice One World, and Impact Investing for Life Flourishing— and founder of AT ONE IMPACT WEEK, a global convening platform held across Singapore, Suzhou, and Davos. His life's work calls for a shift in human consciousness and invites business to lead the transition toward an economy that serves life.

吴晨，AI 与教育领域内容创作者、教育科技产品实践者，小红书账号「橙橙橙橙橙子」。曾任微软亚洲研究院访问研究员、并创立哇呜阅读（Ollie）AI 互动阅读项目。

拥有逾十年教育科技经验，实践涵盖 AI 产品设计、智能体应用、内容创新与商业化，曾负责微软爱写作产品迭代，主导青少年 AIGC 课程研发，并参与相关科普图书策划。

作为个人 KOL，从产品、学习科学与用户体验的交叉视角，关注 AI 的应用机会与落地挑战，探索技术如何提升人的能力，推动知识与服务的普惠。

Founder of Kalowave Technology, the leading TikTok Insights & Efficiency Platform with 4M+ user globally. 7 years of experience in big data and e-commerce; Senior Product Expert at ByteDance, Alibaba and Ant Financial Group.

Christina Pantin is a seasoned communications leader with more than three decades of experience spanning business journalism, corporate communications, and investor relations. She has held senior roles at global consultancies and Fortune 500 companies, including Brunswick Group, Abernathy MacGregor, Samsung Electronics America, and blockchain pioneers Block.one and Bullish.

Her career began at Thomson Reuters, where she advanced through roles as Correspondent, Bureau Chief, Equities Editor‑in‑Charge, and General Manager, covering corporate news and stock markets from Wall Street to Ho Chi Minh City and ultimately establishing a major offshoring news operation in Bangalore, India.

Christina directed communications strategies for multinational clients and corporations. At Block.one and Bullish, she spearheaded messaging frameworks for media, investors, and partners, including the launch of the $10bn Bullish exchange. A specialist media trainer, she has designed and delivered training for senior executives in financial services, digital assets, global luxury, consumer and hospitality sectors.

She has written for Sandmark, the South China Morning Post, Financial Times’ Ignites Asia asset management specialist publication, and has covered Fortune magazine’s design conference. Her sidelines passions are  hosting podcasts, moderating at conferences and public speaking/media coaching.

She teaches business journalism and financial reporting at the University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist University, as well as strategic communications for HKBU’s Family Office Master’s degree program.

Born and raised in Malaysia, she holds a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from West Virginia University.

Christine Yu is Co-Founder of Sophia, the world’s only B2B-focused financial education platform dedicated to advancing women’s wealth at-scale. With over 20 years of experience spanning impact finance, innovation, venture building, and capital markets, she champions diversity and inclusion in investing through wealthtech.

She is also Head of Innovation at the Sustainable Finance Initiative (SFi), a nonprofit supporting a network of family offices and asset owners. After a global career in capital markets, she co-founded Girls Just Wanna Have Funds, a Hong Kong Section 88 nonprofit closing the gender investing gap.

As an impact investor, startup mentor, and advisor, Christine is devoted to building equity and participation for women in global finance. She serves on the board of HELP for Domestic Workers and is a recognized thought leader on financial inclusion as a catalyst for positive change. She frequently speaks and writes on women and wealth, and her insights have appeared in the World Economic Forum, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Tatler Asia, CNN Philippines, SCMP, and Prestige.

Christine holds a BA (Honors) in Political Science and an MBA, both from the University of Chicago.

Yolanda Yu, Co-founder & CMO of Rabyte Technology, is mainly responsible for the Global market sales and customer operations.

Yolanda has over 10 years of experience in market operation and sales team management in global financial information companies. She once served as the Sales Director of S&P Global China, where she formulated and followed up the strategy of S&P Global's data business line in China. She also worked as the Key Account Manager for the financial sector business of Thomson Reuters (now London Stock Exchange Group), in charge of business development for non-bank financial clients. Additionally, from 2019 to 2021, she held the position of Deputy Director of the Digitalization Team at a leading domestic public fund company, overseeing the digital operation of investment research.

Chenguang leads the ZAN, Anvita, and Jovay product lines, driving the company's overseas Web3 and AI product strategy.

He holds both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Computer Science and Technology from Tsinghua University, specializing in Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence.

Prior to his current role, Chenguang served as Senior Technical Product Manager at Hulu, where he led the Content Intelligence and Advertising Intelligence platform products. Before that, he was General Manager of AI Platform R&D at Megvii Technology, overseeing the product development and engineering of AI (deep learning) training platforms, inference platforms, vector databases, and data mining platforms.

Corey Chen is CEO, Greater China, at Unloq, the global trade finance platform of Linklogis, where he leads strategy, growth and regional commercialization. He brings over 15 years of experience across fintech, payments, financial services, management consulting and retail, with leadership and advisory experience spanning Greater China and the United States. His work combines commercial expansion, technology-enabled financial services and cross-border business growth, with a focus on helping Chinese enterprises grow internationally.

Unloq helps businesses unlock working capital, strengthen supplier relationships and grow across borders. It enables suppliers to get paid earlier and buyers to secure more flexible payment terms, bringing financing directly into the flow of trade. Combining Linklogis’s supply chain finance expertise with digital trade data and international funding partnerships, Unloq connects businesses with capital to fulfil orders, manage payment cycles and pursue new opportunities across markets.

Through SC+, its smart-contract-based trade finance infrastructure, Unloq connects trade obligations, financing and digital settlement in a coordinated workflow. In August 2026, it completed a trade finance transaction in Hong Kong using HKDAP, a regulated Hong Kong dollar-backed stablecoin, demonstrating a practical application of digital assets in financing real commerce.

At Hong Kong FinTech Week, Corey brings a commercial and operational perspective on the future of cross-border finance. His focus is on translating fintech capabilities into business value: expanding access to working capital, bringing stablecoins into everyday trade, and strengthening Hong Kong’s role as a bridge between Chinese enterprises, international markets and global capital.

Cynthia Siantar is General Manager of Dyna.AI, a Singapore-headquartered enterprise AI company that builds conversational AI for banks, insurers and other regulated industries. She leads the company's sales, partnerships, delivery and investor relations across Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia.

Cynthia has spent more than 15 years in banking, fintech and digital banking. She began her career in investment banking at HSBC, working on equity capital markets deals across Southeast Asia. In 2014 she co-founded Call Levels, one of Singapore's early fintech startups. She went on to hold senior roles at ING, then helped build Bank Jago, one of Indonesia's first digital banks. This gives her experience from both sides of the table - as the bank buying technology and as the operator building it.

At Dyna.AI, she works closely with banks across the region to deploy AI agents in customer service, lending and operations.

Cynthia was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 (Finance) list in 2016. She holds a BSc in Actuarial Science from the London School of Economics and an MSc in Financial Mathematics from Stanford University, and is currently completing an Executive MBA in the Belt and Road programme at Tsinghua University's PBC School of Finance.

Mr. Daniel Hong joined Tencent in 2016 and currently serves as Vice President of Tencent Fintech & Chief Executive of WeChat Pay HK. He oversees the international and cross-border businesses of Tencent Fintech, building upon Tencent's extensive experience in mobile payments and the unique advantages of Tencent's ecosystem. Mr. Hong also leads business analytics and strategic planning for Tencent Fintech, driving strategic partnerships with external financial and commercial institutions.

Prior to joining Tencent, Mr. Hong was with Bain & Company and Accenture. He holds a bachelor’s from Fudan University and an MBA from Chicago Booth, combining global perspective with deep local expertise.

Danielle Tichner is a seasoned investor, venture builder and operator, with experience building, scaling and commercializing technology ventures across Europe, Asia, the US and the Middle East. She is the Founder & GP of W-SOURCE / FuturaeX Ventures, a deeptech venture builder and micro fund investing in and actively building companies at the intersection of AI, Web3, cybersecurity, and other exponential technologies. W-SOURCE has recently expanded into a full Venture Studio, where Danielle and her team build and launch high potential deeptech ventures.

Her operating background spans CMO, COO, strategy, sales and business development, including leadership roles across AR, new space and enterprise technology.

Her edge is combining the investor lens with hands-on operating and venture-building experience, bringing capital, strategy and execution together to build companies, not just fund them.

Dan Roberts is Managing Director, Growth & Change, Commercial Banking Hong Kong at HSBC.

Dan is responsible for delivering business and technology change to improve client banking experience across the commercial banking space at HSBC HK.

Previously he was Global Head of Business Banking at HSBC responsible for the USD5-50m turnover business customer segment in 21 markets globally.  Prior to joining HSBC, Dan was Global Head of Transaction Banking at Barclays.  He has wide experience in commercial banking across coverage, products, treasury, risk and technology.

Dan has an MBA from the University of Chicago and an MA in Maths from the University of Oxford.  He is based in Hong Kong.

目前负责微众银行金融科技产品商业化及 saas 业务，重点领域包含ekyc、跨境数据验证、供应链 saas 等；同时负责微众科技香港及海外相关业务。加入微众银行前，先后在腾讯微信、华为从事移动互联网和移动支付相关领域的工作。

David Wu is Managing Partner for Hong Kong Financial Services leading Deloitte's Consulting, Audit and Tax services for clients in the banking & capital markets, insurance and investment management sectors. In addition, David serves as Asia Pacific Financial Services Market Activation Leader. With more than 28 years of consulting and financial services industry experiences across the Asia Pacific region, David specializes in advising clients and leading large-scale, multi-disciplinary business, finance and regulatory transformation programs.

David also oversees regional Consulting Businesses operations to drive execution excellence, enhance operational effectiveness and supports the delivery of strategic priorities as Asia Pacific Consulting Businesses Chief Operating Officer.

Dax D. ZHENG is the Co-founder and Executive Director of BUBIX. He is a Harvard Business School alumnus and holds an EMBA from Peking University.

With extensive experience in technology investment, business incubation, and capital markets, Zheng has focused on the digital economy, emerging technologies, and artificial intelligence.

He has advised and invested in startups as well as listed companies

including Egls and Xunyou Technology in mainland China, as well as Wanka Online and Innoscience in Hong Kong.

Since 2016, Zheng has focused on blockchain entrepreneurship and investment, becoming one of China's early investors and advocates in the sector. In addition to co-founding BUBIX, he has participated in establishing and investing in technology ventures, including Yimeng Xinke and Wulian, supporting blockchain innovation, infrastructure development, and industry ecosystem growth.

At BUBIX, Zheng is committed to bridging blockchain technology with the real economy through the development and adoption of Digital Trust and Intelligence Infrastructure (DTI). His work supports the company's expansion from foundational blockchain technologies to national-level and cross-border digital infrastructure, covering digital identity, trusted data, stablecoin payments, real-world asset tokenization (RWA), and cross-border digital finance. Through its Build & Operate model, BUBIX aims to connect digital assets with real-world business applications and enable sustainable digital economic ecosystems.

Devendra Verma is the Business Lead for Digital Assets at Swift, where he leads strategic client engagement for the Shared Digital Ledger initiative. In this role, he works with global financial institutions to advance the integration of digital assets into the global financial ecosystem, with a focus on interoperability, strategic alignment, and practical industry adoption.

Previously, Devendra served as Head of Global Strategic Relations for Asia Pacific, where he managed high-value partnerships with leading global banks. He brings more than 20 years of leadership experience across the UK, Hong Kong, and India, with deep expertise in payments transformation, strategic relationship management, and cross-border financial services.

Devendra spent a significant part of his career at HSBC, where he served as Senior Vice President and led large-scale international payment and currency clearing initiatives across APAC. He began his career at Kotak Mahindra Bank in India, focusing on e-banking innovation. He is currently based in Hong Kong.

Devendra holds a master’s degree in business administration from NMIMS Mumbai.

何伟文领导中银信用卡（国际）有限公司，积极推动移动无感支付体验、创新跨境支付互联互通、以至数字人民币应用。何伟文现管理卡公司辖下信用卡、BoC Pay+ 流动支付应用程式、BoC Bill 综合服务以及数字货币产品，更涉足大湾区以及东南亚地区之支付服务。打造全新支付及大湾区跨境营销推广的品牌，重塑年轻人、高端客户的重点支付产品，参与多个政府支付收款项目，成功推动多个东南亚机构 QR支付的互联互通。

何伟文拥有超过 25 年的银行业经验。在担任现任职务之前，他曾在不同领域担任过重要职务，包括产品和客层管理、客户关系体验、数据策略、市场营销、销售管理、数字化转型、手机银行等。他亦推动了许多关键项目，例如银行数字化转型、RM Chat、Digital Hub、以及支付生态系统，是银行变革的推动者之一。

他是银联国际东北亚理事会理事长及银联国际理事会会员。

Dicky Wong is the CEO of Syber Couture, a consulting company that provides cybersecurity advisory services, primarily to critical infrastructure organizations. He specializes in cybersecurity and technology risk and has extensive experience across corporate security operations and major infrastructure projects.

Previously, Dicky served as Head of Cyber Security and Technology Risk for New World Development Group, where he oversaw security operations across Hong Kong and mainland China. He also served as Principal Consultant of Cyber Security for Kai Tak Sports Park in Hong Kong.

Dicky has held various roles within the Hong Kong Police Force, including management positions in the Information Systems Wing and the Cyber Security & Technology Crime Bureau. He led the Cyber Security Centre (CSC), which provides round‑the‑clock cybersecurity protection for Hong Kong's critical infrastructure. Dicky was also involved in major cyber‑attack cases in the region.

马飞为碇点金融联合创办人、董事会成员兼行政总裁。碇点金融由渣打银行(香港)、香港电讯及安拟集团合资成立,为香港首批持牌稳定币发行人。

马飞于银行、金融市场、金融科技及数字资产领域拥有逾十五年经验。加入碇点前,他负责领导渣打香港的数字资产业务策略,并参与推动集团 2025 年金融科技策略,主导多项有关代币化货币、数字资产基建
及新兴金融科技的重点项目。

此前,马飞曾先后领导渣打集团英国及香港 SC Ventures 团队,推动创新业务孵化、金融科技合作及新业务模式发展。早年曾于渣打银行及摩根大通出任金融市场、资金管理及业务管理等职务。投身金融业前, 马飞于美国矽谷执业,为初创企业、投资者及科技公司提供法律顾问服务,亦曾参与早期企业商业模式规划及融资工作。

马飞持有工商管理硕士及法律博士学位,为美国加州执业律师(现为非执业状态)。

Doug has worked across most aspects of investment and the AI that increasingly supports it. He spent 15 years in institutional markets at Citi, JPMorgan and Nomura across London, Tokyo and Singapore, then four years at an applied-AI firm building and deploying predictive equity and credit risk frameworks for large asset managers and sovereign wealth funds. As CIO of a UK family office, he used AI to manage global multi-asset allocation across public and private markets - sitting on the buy-side as the end user of these tools, not just their builder.

This path has given him an unusually complete view of the field: as a practitioner on both the buy- and sell-side, as a vendor deploying enterprise-scale AI projects, and as a designer, builder, investor and first-hand user of the technology itself.

His core focus is the application of AI to decision intelligence in investment, risk and asset allocation. He now co-manages the DART Fund, an AI-native global thematics fund, and is CIO & Chief Product Officer at Ice Brook AI, which builds neuro-symbolic systems for investment decision-making.

Drew Propson is the Head of Technology and Innovation in Financial Services at the World Economic Forum. She leads a portfolio of initiatives focused on advancing innovation while maintaining financial system stability. Current research areas include the deployment of AI and emerging technologies in financial services, technology-driven systemic risks, and fintech developments. Drew has additionally presented and authored work on financial inclusion, regulatory dynamics, and entrepreneurship.

Drew holds MBAs from Columbia Business School and London Business School, a PhD in Spanish literature from UC Berkeley, and a BFA in Painting from the University of Washington. Her experience prior to joining the Forum includes private equity research, development finance, and international strategy and operations. Drew is also a Research Affiliate at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at the University of Cambridge.

王亚盛负责推动微众银行全行人工智能能力建设与规模化应用，工作涵盖AI基础设施与工程化能力、重点AI应用研发，以及前沿技术和创新场景探索，致力于推动人工智能在银行业务与内部运营中的持续落地与规模化应用。

Edison Sam is the Chief Digital & Technology Officer of CTF Life, where he leads the company's technology, digital, data, AI and transformation agenda. He is responsible for advancing the strategic capabilities that support sustainable growth, innovation and operational resilience, while elevating customer and distribution partner experiences.

With over two decades of leadership experience across the insurance and financial services sectors, Edison has a proven track record of driving business transformation through technology, digital innovation and data-driven strategies. His expertise spans Generative AI, enterprise technology, digital transformation, cybersecurity, and operational excellence.

Prior to joining CTF Life, Edison held senior leadership positions at leading insurers, including AIA Hong Kong, YF Life, Ping An Insurance, Chubb, New York Life and Sun Life. Throughout his career, he has spearheaded large-scale transformation initiatives, strengthened organisational capabilities, and delivered measurable business outcomes through technology and innovation.

Known for his strategic foresight and collaborative leadership style, Edison is passionate about harnessing emerging technologies to accelerate innovation, create long-term value and support sustainable business growth.

三悦科技 cfo，cpa、esg 专家，前四大会计师事务所合伙人。深耕金融业与金融科技领域，拥有丰富上市筹划、融资并购实战经验，擅长企业战略规划、投融资、资本化路径设计及财务合规体系建设。曾主导多家金融科技企业 ipo、年审、债券发行及各类资本运作。作为跨境资本运作与离岸金融资深专家，精通港股、美股上市筹划与资本运作，在数字信用、实体资产可信交易平台落地方面积累深厚实践。当前聚焦搭建以 ai 垂类技术底座为核心的基础设施，重构真实资产可信流通体系，打造全球领先的 ai 产融数字基础设施独角兽企业。

Mr. Emmanuel Andrew Hui is a biomedical entrepreneur and investor with a decade-long track record spanning clinical care, scientific innovation, and venture capital. Starting as an EMT while completing his Senior Fellowship in Chemistry at Dartmouth College, he went on to co-found Moogene Medi, a gene therapy company now listed on the Korean stock exchange (322970.KS). After listing, he returned to Hong Kong to join Sagamore Investments, managing a portfolio of over 2,000 companies in China private equity.

In 2021, he founded the Tiger Jade Pebble Accelerator (“Pebble”), a company dedicated to i.) incubating and investing in Hong Kong biotech startups, ii.) bringing global innovations into China, and iii.) bringing Chinese innovations to the world through Hong Kong. Pebble is backed by Tigermed, China’s largest clinical CRO and other major institutions such as Morningside and Nan Fung. Through Pebble, he has done multiple deals and projects with Saltagen, and he officially joined Saltagen as a Partner in 2025; representing Saltagen on various Board Seats and contributing significant venture building capabilities to the fund’s overall portfolio.

Adjacent to venture capital work, Mr. Hui has served as a Senior Advisor to the Chairman of HN Group, Macau’s oldest (since 1896) and only integrated provider of medical and healthcare products and services – spanning pharmacies, clinics, beauty salons, insurance, and medical distribution. His significant access to the healthcare ecosystem in the Greater Bay Area supports our portfolio companies to unlock meaningful cross-border opportunities.

Mr. Hui also has strong ties to academia in Hong Kong, sitting on the investment committee of the Chinese University's (CU) innovation fund and teaching weekly as a Lecturer for CU’s School of Life Sciences. Mr. Hui additionally serves on several governance boards including the Hong Kong Hospital Authority Central Institutional Review Board (Paediatrics) and the Hong Kong Life Sciences Society.

王雅君的职业发展与学术路径兼具国际化视野与本土落地经验。本科毕业后，她在外企工作六年，熟悉跨国企业运营与商务沟通。之后赴澳深造，聚焦国际管理与市场营销方向，并以航空运营为核心研究议题，完成多篇相关学术论文，与南航、东航、国航、澳航及dnata等机构均有深入交流。

目前她任职于亿航智能，任高级总监，并担任仪征市低空经济顾问。作为第十五届全运会火炬手，她始终以持续、务实的态度推动低空经济行业建设。

Ir Eric Chan is the Chief Public Mission Officer of the Hong Kong Cyberport. Chan oversees the public mission operation at Cyberport, building the ecosystem of nurturing start-ups from inspiring the next generation, through nurturing the entrepreneurial spirit, to empowering global ambition, through comprehensive entrepreneurship programmes with funding and other value-added services.

Chan has over 30 years of experience in the ICT industry, a chartered engineer, a chartered marketer, and a Fellow of Institution of Engineering & Technology (UK). Prior to joining Cyberport, Chan held various senior positions in global ICT companies. Chan has been active in public services, especially in education and industrial training, professional bodies, and charitable organisations. Chan is the Chairman of Knowledge Management Development Center, Chairman of Industrial Training Advisory Committee (ICT Sector) and serves on a number of advisory committees under Education Bureau and Culture, Sports & Tourism Bureau. He also serves on advisory boards and mentorship programs at the University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the City University of Hong Kong.

Chan holds a BSc. (Hon) degree in Engineering from University of London, an MBA in Finance from Manchester Business School and received Senior Executive Education from INSEAD (France) and IESE (Spain) business schools.

Eric Chen is the ceo of injective foundation. eric has worked within the crypto industry for over six years with his latest project, injective, garnering interest from leading professionals across hedge funds, venture capitals and blockchain projects, including but not limited to pantera capital, mark cuban, hashed and binance. 

Eric was featured in forbes 30 under 30 in 2024 for his work on injective.

Mr Eric Kwok joined the eMPF Platform Company in 2022 and his current position is Director (Digital and Information Technology).

Eric is a technology and digital transformation leader with more than 25 years of experience in the financial services sector. He holds both a BSc in Information Engineering and an MSc in Information Technology Management from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Throughout his career, he has led major transformation programmes, modernized critical technology platforms, and strengthened governance frameworks to support innovation, resilience, and sustainable growth.

Eric setup Happiness Capital, the global venture capital arm of the Lee Kum Kee Group with the mission to create global impact and make the world a happier place. The investment portfolio covers US, UK, Europe, Israel, Japan, Korea, mainland China and Hong Kong, from seed to growth stage. Environment (both Earth and Space), Sustainable Food Systems, Health and Trust are the main investment areas. Happiness Capital is a Certified B Corp, which is not common among global Venture Capital firms. He is a member of the Policy Research Committee of the Financial Services Development Council HK, and a board member of Hong Kong Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (HKVCA).

Prior to joining the Lee Kum Kee Group, Eric co-founded AGENDA in 2000 and grew it to the largest independent digital marketing agency in Asia, which was acquired by WPP. Stayed with WPP after the acquisition as the Chief Client Officer (Asia Pacific) of the WPP Wunderman network. Eric’s first venture was an AI cancer diagnostic and treatment planning startup in the US, which was acquired. He was with Cap Gemini US, a global consulting group, as Director of e-Business in late 90s to help Fortune 500 companies on digital innovations. Eric was an AI research scientist and university lecturer in the UK in early 90s.

Mr Eric Or is a veteran in the information and technology industry with over 30 years of experience in organisational management, business development and major account engagement. He leads the HKSTP team in driving the development of Hong Kong's innovation and technology ecosystem through collaboration with corporate clients, business channels and system integrators.

Prior to his tenure at HKSTP, Eric served as the Managing Director, Greater China for Jardine OneSolution (HK) Limited from 2015 to 2020. He also spent over 10 years at Atos in various senior positions and his last role there was Country Managing Director for Hong Kong & Taiwan. Eric holds a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Toronto and has previously served in sales leadership roles at renowned companies including IBM, EMC, HP, and NCR.

Dr. Wang Fengyu has almost 20 years of investment management experience, specializing in bonds, stocks, and private equity, with deep expertise in asset allocation, multi-strategy investing, and quantitative investing. Dr. Wang possesses extensive practical experience in capital markets, having managed investment portfolios through multiple economic cycles while consistently delivering steady and outstanding performance.

Dr. Wang has received numerous international investment awards. In 2014, a fund he managed was named "Best Greater China fund" by Hedge Fund Manager  Week (HFM). In 2016, another fund he managed was nominated for "Best New Comer fund of the Year" and "Best New Fund of the Year" by both Hedge Fund Manager Week (HFM) and AsiaHedge.

Dr. Wang founded Oakwise Capital in 2018. Dr. Wang also serves as the 7th President of the Tsinghua PBC School of Finance Hong Kong and Macao Alumni Association.

Chief Writer at ChinaVenture’s Greater Bay Area Desk, based in Shenzhen. With years of experience in business reporting, she has long covered commercial industries and capital markets. Her current focus is on key developments, policy shifts, industry trends, and emerging business models in the venture capital and private equity sectors across the Greater Bay Area.

Through independent, in-depth reporting, she seeks to uncover the underlying dynamics of industrial evolution and capital flows, delivering stories that combine news value, industry insights, and thoughtful analysis.

Esther is a digital transformation leader who has helped shape the evolution of banking in Hong Kong, from building a virtual bank from scratch to reinventing digital banking within one of the world's leading international banks.

Currently Managing Director and Head of Digital Banking, Client Experience & Analytics at Standard Chartered Hong Kong, Esther is responsible for driving the bank's digital strategy, customer experience transformation, and data-led growth agenda. Her career spans Digital Banking, Operations, Risk Management, and Innovation, giving her a unique perspective on how technology, people, and customer needs intersect.

A founding member and former Chief Operating Officer of Mox Bank, Esther played an instrumental role in launching and scaling one of Hong Kong's leading virtual banks.  Since rejoining Standard Chartered in 2023, she has led major digital transformation initiatives, including the launch of the bank's next-generation mobile banking platform, and currently, the transformation of the client contact centre.  Esther’s work has contributed to industry recognition including The Asian Banker's Best Mobile Banking Service and Euromoney's Hong Kong Best Digital Bank awards.

Passionate about using technology to make banking simpler, more accessible, and more human, Esther champions innovation that delivers real value to customers while creating sustainable business impact.

Ethan Luo is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Beijing Shengshu Technology Co., Ltd., overseeing the company's research and development, product strategy, commercialization, and team management. He joined the company on March 12, 2025.

Ethan graduated from the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University and has over a decade of experience in cloud computing and artificial intelligence. Prior to joining Shengshu Technology, he served as Head of the AI Applications Product Line at ByteDance's Volcano Engine, where he led a team of several hundred employees and was responsible for strategy, product development, and commercialization.

Since joining Shengshu Technology, Ethan has driven the adoption of the company's AI video generation model, Vidu, across industries including film and television, education, and advertising, accelerating the commercialization of AI technologies and their real-world applications.

Fiona Murray

Vice President and Managing Director of APAC, Ripple

Based in Singapore, Fiona Murray is Vice President and Managing Director of APAC for Ripple,  leading the company’s strategy and business operations in the Asia Pacific region.

During her tenure she has played an instrumental role in onboarding key partners and products  critical to digital asset trade across the region, including building out payment rails for on/off  ramping and overseeing the growth of OTC in APAC.

She drives Ripple's efforts to scale enterprise blockchain and crypto adoption in this region's  fast-growing digital asset hubs, including working to secure the company's landmark Major  Payments Institution (MPI) license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

Fiona joined Ripple in 2018 and has led the APAC sales team since 2020. Prior to Ripple, Fiona  held business development positions within large enterprises, including Oracle, Fiserv and  Misys (now Finastra), helping financial institutions innovate in payments across Europe and  Asia. Fiona holds a Master of Arts in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of  Oxford.

Forrest Chai joined the HSBC Group in 2000 and has over 26 years of experience in banking technology and digital transformation. Over the years, he has held a number of leadership roles across the Group, with responsibilities spanning multiple core business lines—from developing the very first internet banking services in the industry, to building the global Wealth Management technology platforms serving international Wealth markets—he has led global teams across Hong Kong, UK, Mainland China, Canada, US, India, Poland and Mexico. In the past three years, he has led Hang Seng Bank’s technology function of over 1,800 professionals and drove strategy and innovative application of emerging technologies.

In July 2026, Forrest took on a new role as Chief Information Officer for Hang Seng Bank and HSBC Hong Kong. In this role, Forrest brings the technology teams supporting Hong Kong Business together to deliver best-in-class products and services to customers.

Forrest is also active in Hong Kong and the Asia-Pacific technology leadership community, passionate about driving innovation, and works closely with organisations including the Hong Kong Science Park, Cyberport, and many of the tertiary education institutions.

Dr. Frank Pun serves as the head of insilico hong kong at insilico medicine, a pioneering global biotechnology company dedicated to integrating ai and automation technologies to accelerate drug discovery. he leads a team of r&d and application scientists focusing on ai-powered biological target discovery, indication expansion, drug repurposing, and ai biomedical platform development. his team has recently introduced targetpro, a disease-specific machine learning model for therapeutic target discovery, as well as pandaomics agent (for biological science) and inclinico agent (for clinical science) to biomedical professionals worldwide, empowering them to accelerate drug discovery and development.

Dr. Frank Pun received his ph.d. in biochemistry from the hong kong university of science and technology in 2010. following his graduation, he served as a visiting scholar and led a team dedicated to studying human central nervous system diseases and cancer for several years. in 2019, he obtained an mba from rutgers business school in the united states. throughout his career, Dr. Pun has made significant contributions to the fields of target discovery, drug repurposing, and ai-powered biomedical platform development. his work has appeared in numerous industry collaborations and peer-reviewed publications.

Frank Tsui was appointed as the Head of Responsible Investment Development for Asia ex-Japan at Amundi in January 2025. Based in Hong Kong, Frank leads the implementation of responsible investment strategies, as well as advocacy initiatives across the regional, encompassing all business segments and client units.

Prior to joining Amundi, Frank spent over 9 years at Value Partners Group, where he was the Head of ESG Investment and Client Portfolio Management.  Frank led the group’s ESG investment functions, including ESG portfolio management, established and integrated ESG investment process, research, stewardship and strategic developments etc.  He was the Chairperson of the group’s ESG Committee to oversee the group’s ESG governance and practices.

With over 24 years of experience in asset and wealth management, Frank has held positions at UBS, Julius Baer, Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan Asset Management.  

Frank has a Bachelor’s degree in Finance and Economics from The Max M. Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University and he is a Certified ESG Analyst (CESGA).

Prof. Frederik Anseel is Dean of Business and Management and Chair Professor in the Department of Management at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).

He is a senior academic leader with over 15 years of management experience in globally leading business schools and social science faculties of higher education institutions in the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and Asia. His key expertise lies in designing cross-disciplinary collaborations and partnerships with the industry to solve societal challenges.

Before joining HKUST, Prof. Anseel served as Dean of the University of New South Wales Business School. Under his leadership, the school was ranked the number one business school in Australia for three consecutive years and achieved continuous top-ten rankings in the Financial Times for its Online MBA.

His prior global leadership roles include Vice Dean at King’s College London in the UK, Head of Department and Talent Management Advisor to the Rector at Ghent University in Belgium, and Visiting Professor positions at École Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (ESSEC) Business School in France and Bocconi University in Italy.

An acclaimed scholar in leadership, learning, and feedback in organizations, Prof. Anseel is ranked among the world’s top 2% of scientists by Stanford University and serves on the editorial boards of seven journals. His work has won several academic awards, including multiple Best Paper awards at the Academy of Management.

He is also a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology in the US, and the International Association of Applied Psychology, and served a five-year term as President of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology.

Prof. Anseel holds a PhD in Organizational Psychology from Ghent University, Belgium.

Fred is the Co-Founder & Director of Bowtie Life Insurance Company, a mission-driven life and health insurer in Hong Kong.

Fred believes insurance is fundamentally a force for good and that healthcare protection should be accessible to everyone. With a mission to close the health protection gap in Hong Kong, he co-founded Bowtie, Hong Kong’s first virtual life insurer, to challenge the traditional insurance model and provide simple and affordable insurance to everyone through modern technology.

Bowtie has delivered HK$150 billion in protection coverage and secured HK$1.0 billion in funding from esteemed investors, including Sun Life and Mitsui & Co. It proudly leads Hong Kong’s direct insurance channel with a customer base of approximately 150,000.

Fred is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for innovation and disruption. Before launching Bowtie, he also co-founded Coherent Capital Advisors and Seasonalife. He previously practiced in Chicago, London, Toronto, and Hong Kong as a consulting actuary for over 10 years at reputable global advisory firms.

Fred is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA), Honorary Fellow of the Financial Technologists (FFT), a Member of the Insurance Authority’s Future Task Force and a Member of the Market Development Committee of the Financial Services Development Council (FSDC).

Ganesh Rengaswamy is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Quona Capital, one of the leading fintech-focused venture funds investing in the intersection of developed and developing markets. Based in Singapore, he leads Quona's India and Southeast Asia investment strategy and has spent over two decades backing financial inclusion and fintech innovation across the region.

Before co-founding Quona, Ganesh led Accion Frontier Investments' Asia work and served as General Partner at Lok Capital, a venture growth fund focused on financial inclusion and social enterprises. Earlier in his career, he led Greylock Partners' entry into the Indian market, directed Unitus Inc.'s Asia operations, and co-founded Travelguru.com, which was acquired by Travelocity. He began his career at Infosys, driving growth engagements for Fortune 1000 clients.

His investment track record spans category-defining companies including IndiaMart (IPO), Coins.ph (acquired by Go-Jek), and Shubham (acquired by Premji Invest), as well as institutions such as Ujjivan, Equitas, Bandhan, and IFMR/NorthernArc. Ganesh is a frequent speaker at Singapore Fintech Festival, SuperReturn, the Asia Investment Conference, GIIN, and LendIt, and has been featured in Bloomberg, CNBC, The Economic Times, and Mint.

Gary Liu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Terminal 3, a deep tech company building cryptographic solutions for some of the world’s most pressing privacy and security challenges. Terminal 3 powers cross-border identity verification, secure data computation, and privacy and governance for AI agents.

Gary is also Chair of W3H, Hong Kong’s Digital Economy Association, and Co-chair of GDF’s APAC Committee. Both organizations work toward the responsible growth of blockchain and digital assets. He sits on the Technology and Digital Innovation Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and serves on a subcommittee of the Hong Kong Government’s Web3 Task Force.

Before Terminal 3, Gary was CEO of the South China Morning Post. There he led a major transformation of the century-old publisher: he grew its global audience, built new revenue streams, and made SCMP Asia’s leading news media company. Earlier, he was CEO of Digg and Head of Labs at Spotify, and he also worked at AOL and Google.

Gary is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and an Aspen Institute Global Fellow. He previously chaired the WAN-IFRA Asia Pacific Committee and sat on INMA’s global board. His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, The Business Times, and Nikkei Asian Review, and Tatler Asia has named him one of the region’s most influential leaders.

Born in the United States, Gary grew up in Taiwan and New Zealand, then spent 20 years living and working in America. He now lives in Hong Kong with his wife and sons. He holds an Economics degree from Harvard University.

Gavin is the Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of SNZ Holding and SNZ Capital, based in Hong Kong. He also serves as a subcommittee member of the Hong Kong Government’s Web3.0 Task Force, OAT Board Member of Arbitrum DAO, Senior Advisor to FUTU (Nasdaq) and leads Chainlink ecosystem investment.

With over a decade of experience across blockchain and fintech, Gavin has built an extensive network in both Web2 and Web3 industries. Gavin has completed more than 200 deals (from angel investment to IPO and M&A) and the total transaction value is more than 20bn USD.

Prior to SNZ, Gavin was Director of Business Development and Strategic Investment at FUTU, Great China Business Lead of UBS Private Capital Markets, and Vice President of EOSVC at Block.one.

Gavin holds bachelor’s degrees in Economics and Law from Tsinghua University.

Geoff Kot is responsible for developing digital platforms for the Corporate and Investment Bank, as well as leading innovation initiatives in AI across the Group.

In September 2022 Georgina joined the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) as Managing Director, Head of FinTech and Digitalisation. In line with ICMA’s mission to promote well-functioning cross-border capital markets, essential to funding sustainable economic growth, promoting resilient and well-functioning international debt capital markets, Georgina’s role is to oversee and provide guidance on all of ICMA’s work and engagement on FinTech and Digitalisation topics Globally.  The team supports market stability and consistency whilst driving the safe and secure adoption of innovative and transformational technologies such as AI and DLT. Georgina works in close conjunction with the regulatory and legal communities and strives to design and deliver common and open standards supporting data and lifecycle events in order to encourage interoperability and efficiency across the primary, secondary, repo and collateral markets. ICMA also provides education on all of these topics which is offered to ICMA’s membership and the wider Global community.

Prior to ICMA Georgina worked for HSBC for 17.5 years (16 years as an internal member of staff and 1.5 years as a consultant) running large scale transformation programmes in Global Markets (building a new Equity Prime Services business) and then delivering all change for the Global Banking and Markets business (a budget of $1.2Bn a year). She spent 4 years transforming the Global HR function, building the HSBC University and driving the wholesale transformation of the function putting the technology platforms into the cloud across 64 countries and 285,000 staff Globally. This was one of the biggest ever undertakings of its type, and certainly the only one ever delivered in the Financial Services industry at this scale. Her final role before leaving HSBC was to lead the Transformation, Digital and Innovation team for the Group’s Private Banking business covering regulatory change, Business growth and cost reduction initiatives as well as the pivot to digitalisation.

Prior to HSBC Georgina spent 13 years with Accenture as a Management Consultant joining the technology division as a graduate and working across a range of different industries before moving into Financial Services in 1997.

Georgina holds a BSc Honours in Ergonomics and an MSc in Information Technology. She is a fully qualified NED and has held several school Governor and trustee positions and is currently a NED on the Board of the Blind Veterans UK Charity.

Glenn Hou is a Founding Partner at China Insights Consultancy (CIC), a leading Industry Consulting and Expert Network company. Glenn oversees CIC's overall operations and business development. He leads CIC’s consulting services, commercial due diligence, financing and IPO advisory services.

Mr. Hou possesses 20 years of consulting experience, having managed and participated in over 1,000 consulting projects. As an experienced industry consultant, Mr. Hou has indepth insights into the high growth industry sectors in China. Glenn also maintains strong collaborative relationships and close communication with stock exchanges around the world.

Mr. Hou serves as an independent Director for two listed companies:  OBIO (688238.SH) on the STAR Market of the Shanghai Stock Exchange and  Hualan New Pharmaceutical Material (301093.SZ) on the ChiNext Board. Glenn is also a Member of the Academic Committee of the China Association for Public Companies.

Yung is the Head of Global Payments Solutions at Hang Seng Bank, bringing over 20 years of extensive experience in corporate and transaction banking. Her expertise spans a diverse range of clientele, including Large Corporates, Middle Market, SMEs, and Financial Institutions, focusing on their digital transaction banking needs.

Yung holds a Master of Science in Accounting from Monash University and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from Hong Kong Baptist University. She is a fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA) and a member of CPA Australia. Additionally, Yung has earned the International Cash Management Certificate from The Association of Corporate Treasurers.

Grace Cheung is General Manager Sustainability at Cathay. Leading the Group Sustainability Department, Grace oversees sustainability strategy and ESG performance of the whole Cathay Group. Under Grace’s leadership, sustainability has changed from a standalone specialist function to an integrated strategic and operational imperative in the airline group.

During Grace’s tenure, Cathay Pacific has committed for its net zero carbon emissions goal by 2050, supported by its mid-term target for using 10% sustainable aviation fuel and 12% carbon intensity improvement by 2030. The airline has also launched the first major Corporate Sustainable Aviation Fuel Programme in Asia in 2022.

Grace has also led Cathay’s effort in circular economy, reducing its environmental footprint on materials and waste. The airline has reduced its customer-facing single-use plastic items from an average of 7.7 pieces per passenger in 2019 down to 3.1 in 2023. A new target is set to bring it down further to 1.5 pieces per passenger by 2025, supported by additional targets on recycled plastics usage and recycling rate.

Grace represents Cathay in a number of industry working groups advocating for supportive policies and best practices sharing for further development of sustainability in the airline industry. Grace was the Chair of the Environment & Sustainability Board at the oneworld alliance and the Vice Chair of the Sustainability & Environment Advisory Council at the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and currently the members.

Grace Shao is an analyst and writer covering AI and technology, with a focus on Asia-Pacific and China. She publishes AI Proem, an independent subscription research publication read by thousands (13k+) of investors, executives, and industry professionals worldwide. Drawing on a decade of experience across tech journalism and strategy, including roles at CNBC and Alibaba, and advisory work with PayPal and Kuaishou. She provides in-depth analysis on how AI is reshaping companies, industries, competition, and society.

Gracy Chen is the Chief Executive Officer of Bitget, the world’s largest universal exchange, a category she helped define. Bitget serves more than 125 million users globally. Appointed CEO in 2024 following two years as the company's first Managing Director,  she has overseen Bitget’s expansion into a broader financial ecosystem integrating crypto assets, tokenized equities, commodities, and AI-native trading infrastructure.

Under Gracy’s leadership, Bitget has become one of the industry’s fastest-growing platforms, with strong institutional growth across futures liquidity, tokenized assets, and automated trading technologies. She is particularly focused on the convergence of AI, decentralized finance, and traditional capital markets and coined the term “Universal Exchange” to describe Bitget’s ambition to offer tokenized access to any asset class in the world. In parallel, Gracy serves as a lecturer at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), where she teaches Crypto Finance to graduate students and researchers. Her course explores Bitcoin, Ethereum, DeFi, stablecoins, RWAs, institutional adoption, and AI-driven crypto protocols through practical market case studies and strategic analysis. She is also a columnist for Forbes where she publishes articles on blockchain and digital finance. She was also named a WEF Global Shaper in 2015. Gracy founded the #Blockchain4Her and #Blockchain4Youth initiatives, programmes aimed at advancing gender equality and access to blockchain education.

Guillermo Ginesta is Managing Partner, Asia Pacific at Brinc, a Hong Kong-headquartered global venture accelerator and investor backing founders solving major challenges through technology. Based in Hong Kong, Guillermo leads Brinc's APAC operations across venture acceleration, corporate innovation, portfolio development, partnerships and investment activity. He works with startups, corporates, government partners and investors to move emerging technologies from pilot to adoption, with a focus spanning AI, climate and sustainability, clean energy and mobility, hardware and robotics, and impact-led venture building.

Guillermo has over a decade of experience in startup investing, accelerator operations and corporate innovation, including work with multinational companies across automotive, luxury, consumer electronics, food technology and financial services. At Brinc, he has helped build and run programs supporting startups from markets across Asia and globally. He is also an active angel investor with two exits and a regular speaker, host and moderator across Hong Kong's innovation ecosystem, including Asia Health Innovation Summit, StartmeupHK Festival, LEAP East Hong Kong and Hong Kong FinTech Week.

His perspective for HKFTW x StartmeupHK sits at the intersection of fintech, venture capital, AI and real-world technology adoption: how founders can access capital, corporate partners and cross-border pathways to scale from Asia to global markets.

Hangyu is an award-winning senior financial journalist and television host, serving as Hong Kong Bureau Chief and Chief Correspondent of Yicai Media Group. Specializing in international reporting, she has covered top global agendas including the World Economic Forum in Davos and Abu Dhabi Finance Week.

Her interviews have included senior officials from international financial institutions and influential policymakers and business leaders. She created and hosts Global Bourse Talks, China's first professional dialogue programme focused on chief executives of global exchanges, and has moderated numerous top-tier international conferences.

Hanna Raftell is a fintech and digital finance investor, advisor and entrepreneur with more than 30 years of international experience across banking, capital markets, fintech and emerging financial infrastructure.

Based in Stockholm, Hanna is Founding Partner of Stratum 3 Ventures, where she works with early-stage companies building the infrastructure connecting traditional finance with the next generation of digital financial markets. Her focus spans tokenisation, digital assets, digital identity, payments, compliance and the evolving infrastructure underpinning institutional adoption of digital finance.

Hanna spent a decade in London and a decade in Hong Kong, holding senior roles across investment banking, capital markets and financial information businesses, including Citigroup and Copal Partners. She subsequently moved into fintech entrepreneurship, including as Co-founder and CEO of Fimento, where she built a B2B embedded-finance platform connecting financial services and technology.

She is a Board Member of Blockchain Sweden Association, contributing to discussions around digital assets, regulation and the development of Sweden and Europe's digital financial ecosystem, and Senior Advisor to Trust Anchor Group, which develops infrastructure for tokenisation, digital identity and payments.
Hanna combines deep institutional finance experience with hands-on experience in fintech and digital assets, giving her a practical perspective on how traditional financial institutions can navigate—and participate in—the transition toward more programmable, interoperable and digitally native financial markets.

Harald Eltvedt is an Operating Partner at SC Ventures, a dynamic division of Standard Chartered launched in March 2018. SC Ventures spearheads innovation, invests in disruptive fintech companies and pioneers groundbreaking business models.

SC Ventures has made strategic investments in over 25 companies, including unicorns like Instabase and Ripple. The team has also incubated more than 30 ventures, such as Mox and Trust (the world's fastest-growing digital bank), Solv, Olea, Zodia and Libeara.

A serial entrepreneur and investor, Harald brings over two decades of unparalleled experience in building and scaling technology startups from the ground up to successful exits. Before joining Standard Chartered, he served as Managing Director at Havas and co-founded RevSquare (acquired by Pentalog, NYSE: GLOB) and healthme (acquired by WMD - Internet Brands).

Harald holds a MBA from INSEAD and is deeply passionate about swimming and sustainability, driving forward-thinking initiatives that harmonize with his personal and professional values.

Helen Chen is the Chief Strategy Officer of FGA Trust, with many years of experience in traditional and digital finance. Her expertise includes licensing business, brand promotion, marketing, fundraising and investor relations, payment solutions, and strategic partnership building. Chen also has 8 years of experience in financial auditing and consulting, including regulatory consulting, risk management, and tax consulting. She has provided auditing and consulting services to banks, asset management companies, public and private equity, MPF, and hedge funds, and has experience in taxation and listing of cross-border enterprises.

Henry Chen 现任 SNZ Holding 首席商务官（CBO）及 BlockUnion 合伙人，拥有逾16年金融及金融科技行业经验，过去8年专注于数字资产机构化、Web3 大规模应用，以及传统金融与链上金融的融合发展。他长期连接传统资本市场、金融科技与数字资产生态，在现实世界资产（RWA）、稳定币、机构级区块链基础设施及链上金融创新等领域，积累了丰富的产业、投资及生态合作经验。

目前，Henry 在 SNZ 负责生态合作及金融机构创新业务，同时亦为 Web3 业务生态平台 BlockUnion 的合伙人。 2026年4月，他牵头 BlockUnion 与以太坊基金会在香港合作落地亚洲首个线下以太坊社区中心及孵化基地——Ethereum HK Hub，致力于推动香港及亚洲地区开发者、创业者、机构与全球以太坊生态之间的深度连接，并支持中国创新企业拓展海外市场。

加入 SNZ 前，Henry 曾任职于瑞银及高盛资本市场部，其后曾担任一家金融科技私募基金的管理合伙人，以及一家全球领先加密资产交易所的资本市场负责人。凭借横跨传统金融、金融科技、数字资产及 Web3 生态的行业经验，Henry 持续推动传统金融机构与链上生态在战略投资、基础设施、产品创新及市场协同等方面的合作。

黄一耕，现任佳都科技集团股份有限公司副总裁、公共事务中心总经理。拥有北京大学英国语言文学及国际政治与外交学双学士学位、英国谢菲尔德大学国际政治学硕士学位及香港中文大学工商管理硕士（MBA）学位。目前，他全面主导公司政府关系、政策对接、公共事务体系及市场品牌建设，通过构建高效的政企沟通机制与整合品牌传播体系，为公司在人工智能、智慧大交通等核心赛道争取到关键政策与产业资源，并持续提升公司行业影响力和品牌知名度。

黄一耕同时担任广东省外商投资企业协会理事及青年企业家工作委员会副主任、广州市海珠区政协委员，致力于组织粤港澳青年企业家交流活动，促进内外资企业融合发展，为优化区域营商环境持续贡献力量。同时担任香港中文大学（深圳）校外导师，热心投身教育事业，为学生提供职业规划与行业实践指导，积极推动校企联合人才培养。

Henry Zhang is the Founder and Group CEO of DigiFT, a licensed digital asset platform focused on institutional-grade tokenized real-world assets. He brings more than two decades of senior leadership experience across global banking, financial technology, and regulated market infrastructure.

Before founding DigiFT, Henry held senior executive roles at major international financial institutions, including Deputy CEO of China at Citibank and Standard Chartered Bank, and CEO of Greater China at East West Bank. His career spans banking leadership, risk management, franchise development, cross-border finance, and financial technology innovation.

In 2020, Henry founded DigiFT in Singapore to build regulated infrastructure for the tokenization, issuance, distribution, and trading of real-world assets. Under his leadership, DigiFT became the first on-chain RWA exchange to be licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, with its Hong Kong entity licensed by the SFC for Type 1 and Type 4 regulated activities. The platform supports institutional-grade tokenized assets across money market funds, fixed income, private credit, real estate, gold, and other real-world asset strategies.

Today, Henry works closely with regulators, asset managers, banks, and Web3 ecosystem partners to advance the adoption of compliant tokenized finance. He is a frequent speaker and commentator on the convergence of traditional finance and digital asset infrastructure, with a focus on how blockchain can improve distribution, settlement, transparency, and access within regulated financial markets.

Dr. Hongjuan Liu is the Chief AI & Data Officer for Hong Kong and Macau at Manulife (International) Limited. As a member of Manulife Hong Kong’s senior management team, Dr. Liu plays a key role in advancing the company’s AI and data agenda. He leads Manulife Hong Kong and Macau’s cross‑functional AI & Data team, driving the development and execution of advanced analytics, AI deployment, and data platform strategies, while ensuring strong governance and operational excellence. He also represents Manulife Hong Kong and Macau in external AI and data‑related forums and industry dialogues.

Dr. Liu brings over 20 years of experience in AI, data strategy, analytics, and digital transformation across multiple industries and geographies. Before joining Manulife, he served as Vice President, Data at McDonald’s China, and previously held senior data and analytics leadership roles at a few global technology and automotive organizations. He also has extensive experience in the insurance industry, having served in data, CRM, and analytics leadership roles at major insurers such as Ping An Insurance, Ageas, Cigna, and Prudential.

Dr. Liu holds a PhD in Management Science and a Master of Science in Operational Research from Lancaster University, as well as a Bachelor of Science degree from South China Normal University.