2024 Main Conference Speakers

Mr Daniel Cheung JP is currently the Deputy Commissioner for Digital Policy (Digital Infrastructure) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.  He supports the formulation of policies and strategic initiatives for driving the development of digital government and smart city in Hong Kong by strengthening local digital infrastructure, fostering the development of local IT industry and facilitating closer collaboration with the Mainland on the connectivity of digital infrastructures and data, with a view to laying a solid foundation for accelerating the development of digital economy.  In addition, he oversees and implements policies and measures relating to project governance and cybersecurity of government IT systems.  As a strong advocate for digital inclusion, Mr Cheung actively promotes wider adoption of digital technologies in the community.  With over 30 years of professional experience in the field of IT, his expertise contributes significantly to the continuous advancement of Hong Kong’s digital landscape.

As the Deputy Commissioner (Data Governance), Mr. Donald Mak has been actively involved in promoting Government’s agenda for innovation, technology adoption and public services improvement. He also played a key role in the implementation of a number of digital government infrastructures (including the government cloud infrastructure, big data analytics platform, shared blockchain platform, consented data exchange gateway, iAM Smart, Digital Corporate Identity Platform) and the formulation and implementation of open data policy.

Mr. Mak joined the Government in 1989. Since then he has assumed various important duties including formulation and implementation of facilitation strategy and initiatives for ICT industry development, data centre development, digital inclusion, ICT co-operation with the Mainland and overseas economies as well as the implementation and management of various government ICT systems and services.

Mr Enoch Fung is currently the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Hong Kong Academy of Finance (AoF).  In this capacity, he also serves as the Executive Director of the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research (HKIMR), the research arm of the AoF.  

Mr Fung joined the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) in 2011, and had worked in various areas including the financial stability surveillance, market development, and international financial cooperation initiatives.  Mr Fung has been on secondment from the HKMA to the AoF to take up the CEO post since July 2023.  Prior to joining the HKMA, Mr Fung was a Senior Economist with Goldman Sachs (Asia), where he specialised in Asia-Pacific macroeconomic and investment research. Mr Fung holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Statistics and a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Economics from the University of Auckland, and a Master of Commerce degree in Advanced Economics from the University of New South Wales.

George Chou has been appointed as Chief Fintech Officer of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) since September 2023, with responsibilities for facilitating the healthy development of the fintech ecosystem in Hong Kong and promoting Hong Kong as a fintech hub in Asia.  He joined the HKMA in 2009 and had since taken up different positions, including overseeing technology risk management of banks, and licensing and supervision of stored value facilities, before being appointed as Chief Manager of the Financial Infrastructure Development Division in 2022.  Prior to joining the HKMA, Mr Chou served various roles in the private sector of financial industry for over 10 years.  Mr Chou holds a Bachelor of Computer Science and Engineering degree and a Master of Business System degree from the Monash University, and a Master of Management degree in Financial Management from the Macquarie University.

Ms Elizabeth Wong is a Director and Head of Fintech unit of the Intermediaries Division of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission.

Her work involves the formulation of the Commission’s policy on fintech matters and leading and supervising the licensing application approval process for virtual asset trading platforms, robo-advisers, virtual asset fund managers and traditional securities and asset management firms. Prior to taking up this role, Ms Wong worked in the Investment Products Division and the Intermediaries Supervision Department and played a key role in Commission-wide policy initiatives including developing and enhancing Hong Kong as an international asset management centre and introducing guidelines for regulating the sale of investment products through online distribution and advisory platforms.

Ms Wong practised as a banking and finance lawyer in Hong Kong prior to joining the Commission.

As the Global Head of Financial Services, Fintech & Sustainability at InvestHK, the department of the Hong Kong SAR Government responsible for attracting Foreign Direct Investment, King’s mission is to enrich the ecosystem and contribute to raising the long term competitiveness and innovation of the financial services, fintech and sustainability sectors in Hong Kong. King achieves this goal through collaboration with a broad range of stakeholders – regulators, financial institutions, investors, fintech and sustainability companies, associations, etc. in Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area, and other major international financial, fintech and sustainability hubs.

Prior to joining the government, King had a diverse private sector background as a serial tech entrepreneur, angel investor, fintech lecturer where his first data-related startup was established through seed investment from Credit Suisse. His startup served numerous world-renowned financial institutions in wealth management, insurance, personal finance, etc. Prior to embarking on his entrepreneurial journey, King was a management consultant at Booz Allen & Hamilton and KPMG Consulting in the US, as well as a venture capitalist at Innovate@, a technology fund jointly run by Booz Allen & Hamilton and Lehman Brothers in the US.

King received his MBA in Finance and Strategy (honors) from the University of Chicago and BSc in Mechanical Engineering (honors) from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Alvin is the Head of Supervisory Technology at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), responsible for implementing Supervisory Technology (Suptech) across different banking functions of the HKMA, facilitating the adoption of Regtech and Fintech in the financial services industry as well as overseeing the use of novel technologies such as Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI). His background includes roles as a management consultant at an international accounting & consultancy firm and a security strategist at one of the major cloud service providers. He holds a master’s degree in Criminal Justice and Cybersecurity.