Angus Tsang is an Assistant Manager, Research and Investment at The Mills Fabrica, a go-to solutions platform accelerating techstyle (the combination of technology and lifestyle) and agrifood tech innovations for sustainability and social impact. He is responsible for conducting industry research and sourcing and evaluating early-stage investment opportunities in the textiles and agri-food sectors. He also assists in research publications on circularity and sustainability to support The Mills Fabrica in building a wider innovation ecosystem.

Josh is Animoca's Head of Digital Assets Portfolio, responsible for managing Animoca Brands' digital asset treasury, balance sheet optimization and yielding activities, as well as group market making and trading operations.Josh brings over 15 years of experience in the asset investment management industry across multiple asset classes including crypto, equities, and credit. He is an experienced money risk manager having been entrusted with discretionary portfolios of upward of a billion dollars in his previous portfolio manager roles at multiple tier-1 hedged funds including Horizon Asset LLP and Nine Masts Capital. He was a partner at crypto investment manager Symphony Digital where he directed research and capital allocation. Josh also previously dabbled in entrepreneurship and co-founded an onchain DEX, but started his career in a more traditional way at Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank’s principal investment desks.

Maxime is a senior Recruiter at GoodNotes, one of the most loved apps for Productivity and Education, growing a 30+ team locally to 150+ globally. Former Engineer, he has been helping fast-growing start-up and scale-up companies to hire passionate Tech talent for over 7 years.  

Andy began his career in finance as a venture investor with SIG Capital (now part of GGV Capital) in Shanghai and as a dotcom 1.0 technology banker with firms now known as Credit Suisse and BofA Securities in London, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Andy is an active alumni of UC Berkeley where he studied International Business and East Asian Studies. Outside of work, Andy serves as a mentor for numerous accelerators and early stage investors, supports non-profit causes and volunteers as a foster parent, youth baseball coach and Sunday school teacher.

Andy has extensive experience across operational, international expansion and strategic partnership in the US and APAC in both management roles and startups. He worked in China for 20 years for Uber, Mapbox and Kabam as well as NBA China and STAR TV /News Corporate.

Andy began his career in finance as a venture investor with SIG Capital (now part of GGV) in Shanghai and as a dotcom 1.0 technology banker with Credit Suisse and BofA Securities in London and the US. 

10+ years extensive experience in Supply Chain Management and Blockchain solutions. After founding a supply-chain blockchain solutions company in Singapore in 2018, Alvin saw the opportunity of how blockchain technology and the increasing adoption of NFTs together could potentially disrupt the gaming industry at the time.  Therefore he founded Digital Games Lab in 2021, an NFT gaming studio.

Background in traditional finance, and crypto trading in the secondary market, a senior investor in cryptocurrency, and an investment expert in the DeFi. He has cooperated with Polygon, Coinbase, CoinMarketCap, and CoinGecko, and maintained a good business friendship.

Dr. Frank Pun is the Head of the Hong Kong Office of Insilico Medicine. He is leading a team of application scientists in Hong Kong working on the AI-enabled biological target discovery platform - PandaOmics. His goal is to deliver the latest AI technology to scientists, medical doctors, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical companies around the world to help find actionable therapeutic targets, and accelerate drug discovery and development. Before joining Insilico, Frank was the CEO of PharmacoGenetics Ltd., a biotechnology company in Hong Kong focusing on genomic sequencing and diagnostic product development. Frank received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2010. Upon graduation, Frank served as a visiting scholar, leading a team to study human CNS diseases and cancer for years. Afterward, he received his MBA from Rutgers Business School in the US.

With solid experience in corporate sales and team management, Matt’s career expands several industries across Financial Technology, Marketing Technology and E-Commerce. Currently as the Vice President of Business Development at Omnichat, Matt has spearheaded several ground-breaking strategies that propelled the company’s business growth to new heights.  With a deep understanding on business models in different industries, Matt has demonstrated great performance in planning go-to-market strategy.

Louis Lor has been the Senior Vice President in IT and Engineering at YOOV since 2022. He has over 20 years of experience developing software, including project management, architecture design and technical leadership. He co-founded Julojo Studio and Airtiser Limited and held various development and management roles at Nova Dynamic Media, Mad Head, and Frenzoo.

ARDGO is a venture investor in deep technologies, especially in the artificial intelligence, fintech, and blockchain spaces. We strongly believe in the decentralized nature of blockchain for the best security, transparency, and efficiency. Our team is professional in both technologies and financial institutions with seasoned experience in Asia. Investing and nurturing innovation to turn it into commercial success. ARDGO focuses on the digital platform, protocol, and infrastructure investments at various stages to optimize performance and risk.

Latest launching project : www.raredram.io

Jerrel Leung is the Chief Architect and Co-Founder of ubiZense and he is responsible for designing AI-based analytics leveraging on IoT-enabled big data. Prior to joining ubiZense, Jerrel was a Research Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and he has taken upon several project management positions at renowned international organizations. Recently, Jerrel led the development of AS2, which captures IoT data to real-time show and predict airport performance. AS2 garnered a grand and gold award at the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2019 and an award at the WITSA Global ICT Excellence Award 2019. 

Cindy joined Gobi as a Senior Investment Director in 2020. Prior to joining Gobi, Cindy held positions in the investment banking division of Guggenheim Securities in New York. Cindy received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree from the University of Waterloo in Canada.

Joe joined HKSTP in 2019 as the Promotion and Community Development Manager responsible for managing the startup community to foster collaboration among entrepreneurs. Over the past few years, Joe has advised more than 50 early stage startups to drive the business success and technological innovation. He has a strong interest in technological applications in AI and ICT.Prior to joining HKSTP, Joe worked in the Corporate Strategic team for a family-owned business in the elderly industry, conducting the business innovation in Hong Kong and Southern China.

Agnes Wun comes with 16 years of corporate and startup experience. Her career started with A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research as Research Student and ABB as Marketing Engineer for the ASEAN market after graduating from the National University of Singapore under the Singapore Government Scholarship for Hong Kong students. She worked for the Labor and Welfare Bureau of HKSARG for a recurring government funding for social inclusion of PwDs. Agnes studied at Imperial College London for MSc in Applied Mathematics. She worked as software engineer at Accenture UK. Before founding Neufast, Agnes worked in Portfolio Management for a listed infrastructure fund of USD 12Bn market cap and an USD 200m energy company HKEx IPO while completing MBA at HKUST. She is a Chartered Engineer with CPA (Aust.) and FRM. Agnes is serving as a faculty member of the Hong Kong Baptist University and the Head of Artificial Intelligence for SOEHK.

In the years as the Executive Director of the HKAI Lab, Timothy has supported and coached many startups in the journey to become a successful business, including areas in fund raising, product and business development, and team management. He leveraged his own experience as a startup co-founder and network in the startup ecosystem. Timothy has accumulated over 20 years of experience in the Information and Internet field. He worked in esteemed companies such as Alibaba, Apple, and PCCW. He is now the Executive Director of the HKAI LAB, which is a not-for-profit initiative fully funded by the Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund and SenseTime focused on advancing the frontiers of AI with cutting-edge technologies and expertise, and empowering startups to commercialize their new inventions. Timothy is strong at business strategic planning and implementation. He had managed direct sales team and channel partners for technology products and internet services, such background equipped him with comprehensive experience in sales, marketing, product development and senior management. He had many successes in government and private sector partnership development and management.

Kevin is the CEO at InnoBlock Technology Limited. Since 1st April 2020. InnoBlock focus on Blockchain as a service, especially in the supply chain industry, ESG and Green finance. Establish business across Asia, such as Hong Kong, China and Cambodia. Kevin is the Vice President of Financial Services Industries Global Sales at Huawei Technologies Limited (Head Office). His responsibilities encompass developing Huawei’s global FSI sales and channel addressing the financial markets and retail banking sectors including branding, channel development, Huawei’s overall Go to Market messaging, and campaign management programs, as well as leading a new client innovation and transformation analysis team. Kevin has 26 years’ experience in the fields of Blockchain Fintech, telecom network infrastructure and operations, and networking vendors in the Global Enterprise sector. He is a leading global sales team focused on global retail banking, insurance and securities client, and establish a global channel to support retail and insurance clients. He is a subject matter expert in retail banking branch transformation; financial markets low latency trading, and technical and is a frequent speaker and panellist at major retail banking and financial markets conferences in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America.  

Jason Chan is the Co-Founder & CEO at Areix Analytics Limited with a profound belief in democratizing intelligence for good. He has developed his professionalism in Digital Assets and FinTech, and is a qualified SAS® Certified Data Scientist and a US patent owner in P2P network authentication. Before founding AREIX, Jason worked in Binance and SAS Institute, covering the building of analytics-driven solutions for the financial services industry, digital banking and risk management.  

Carla is the CEO and Co-Founder of CHOMP, Hong Kong’s food saving app which aims to change the way people feel about food consumption. The platform connects F&B businesses (like restaurants, cafes, bakeries and more) to customers who can purchase a discounted Mystery Box of unsold food items directly from them. Launched in 2021, Carla hopes to reduce how much perfectly edible food gets thrown into Hong Kong’s landfills. Before founding CHOMP, Carla worked in various F&B roles from banqueting to restaurants to the kitchen and has a Hospitality degree from Glion Institute of Higher Education in Switzerland. CHOMP currently works with over 95 F&B partners across Hong Kong and has been featured in SCMP, NowTV, Ming Pao and earth.org to name a few.

Louis Yau is the Chief Software Architect at Omnichat with over 10 years of experiences in software development and architecture design. Currently, he is leading the development team in building chat commerce SaaS product that handles over 10M messages per month.