創業家及創投論壇

It has been ten years since the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) established strategic partnerships with the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI), Cyberport, and the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP), laying the foundation for a transformative collaboration to supercharge Hong Kong’s fintech ecosystem. This panel underscores the power of collaboration by highlighting their decade-long achievements in areas such as joint researches, ecosystem funding, and talent development, while looking ahead to deeper partnerships in emerging areas such as AI, tokenisation, and quantum technologies.

As innovation shifts toward AI platforms, advanced materials, and capital-intensive hardware, building frontier tech requires specialized capital and global infrastructure. This session pairs leading Gulf investors with deep-tech operators to explore the realities of funding complex technologies, the role of institutional free zones, and how founders scale resilient international supply chains from the GCC.

Every growth story gets softened in the retelling, the near-death moments smoothed into strategy, the lucky breaks made to look inevitable. This conversation goes under the hood of two technology businesses, straight to what actually almost broke them, the numbers that didn't work, the model that had to change, and whether what got them here still holds up for what's next.

As agentic AI moves from pilots to production, enterprises must design workflows that are reliable in operations, safe in physical environments, and trustworthy across organisational boundaries. This panel brings together Farmio, MEGAROBO Technologies and ValoraEX to explore how agentic workflows are scaling across food supply chains, laboratories and manufacturing, and multi-party asset ecosystems. The discussion will cover practical deployment challenges, human oversight, robotics-enabled execution, evidence and governance, and the opportunities for agent-to-agent collaboration across sectors.