The Industry Forum is an integrated event designed for executives and professionals seeking inspirations for growth and innovation in key industries in Hong Kong like Financial Services and Retail. You will be able to reconnect in person and hear winning stories from one of your own, topping off with the latest and hottest cloud technologies and trends, all the more to get you ready for a successful new year!

Key Industries

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April 9, 2024 (Tue) | 9:00AM - 4:30PM (HKT) (Check-in starts at 8:30AM)| JW Marriott Hong Kong

The AWS Industry Forum Hong Kong - Financial Services is an event dedicated to bring together the Financial Services community to talk about the latest and hottest technology trends, use cases that revolutionize customer experience, accelerated innovation and how AWS is helping Financial Services organizations to transform the way they do business.
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April 9, 2024 (Tue) | 9:00AM - 4:30PM (HKT) (Check-in starts at 8:30AM) | JW Marriott Hong Kong

The AWS Industry Forum Hong Kong - Retail is an event that brings together retail industry leaders to talk about the latest and hottest technology trends, innovative use cases, and strategies for driving transformation in the retail space.

Key Topics

The content in this series has been carefully curated around topics that are of key interest to business leaders and decision makers from Financial Services and Retail industry.

Enabling learning continuity and student success
Hearing latest and hottest technology trends in two industries
Delivering access to virtual learning and working solutions
Connecting with a vibrant community of industry leaders
Building resilient education institutions
Experiencing the industry's transformation with cutting-edge technologies

Ulf Carlsson

Managing Director, Head of Asia Pacific & Japan, Nasdaq

Robert Wang, Managing Director, AWS Hong Kong & Taiwan

Till Rosar

Partner & Head of APAC Financial Infrastructure, Technology & Services, Oliver Wyman

Tammy Tse, SVP, Fubon Bank

Tammy Tse

SVP, Head of Information Technology, Fubon Bank

Robert Wang, Managing Director, AWS Hong Kong & Taiwan

Ray Leung

Technical Lead, Cloud Infrastructure, CSOP

Kelvin Lee, Head of IT Architecture and Data Management, Ping An OneConnect Bank

Kelvin Lee

Head of IT Architecture and Data Management, Ping An OneConnect Bank

Yali Zhu, General Manager, Micro Connect

Yali Zhu

General Manager, Micro Connect Macao Financial Assets Exchange (MCEX)

Dr. Kim Kuen Tang, Senior Kdb+ Solutions Architect, KX

Dr. Kim Kuen Tang

Senior Kdb+ Solutions Architect, KX

Jimmy Au, Product Lead, Bowtie

Jimmy Au

Product Lead, Bowtie

Libby Yim, Senior Product Analyst, Bowtie

Libby Yim

Senior Product Analyst, Bowtie

Ten Tang, Product Manager, FormX, Oursky

Ten Tang

Product Manager, FormX, Oursky

Terence Fung, Engineering Director, CASETiFY

Terence Fung

Engineering Director, CASETiFY

Roger Chan, Chief Operating Officer & Chief Technology Officer, Cobalt Fashion

Roger Chan

Chief Operating Officer & Chief Technology Officer, Cobalt Fashion

Alfred Kam, CIO, EGL

Alfred Kam

CIO, EGL

Elice Lau

Chief Strategy Officer, AlikeAudience

Robert Wang, Managing Director, AWS Hong Kong & Taiwan

Paul Vixie

Deputy CISO & VP, Security, AWS

Nelson Chan, Head of Banking Go-To-Market, Asia Pacific & Japan, AWS

Nelson Chan

Head of Banking Go-To-Market, Asia Pacific & Japan, AWS

Hasan Rauf

Head of Capital Markets, Business Development, APAC & Japan, AWS

Vince Koh

Global Head of Digital Commerce, AWS

More speakers to come, stay tuned!

Agenda

Check out the latest agenda below and join us for a day of immersive learning!

AWS industry forum Hong Kong Agenda at a Glance

AWS for Financial Services

 08:30 - 09:30

Check-in & Exhibition Opens

Network with your peers, AWS experts and industry leaders

 09:30- 10:30 | English

Opening Keynote: Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI/ ML for Financial Services

Ulf Carlsson, Managing Director, Head of Asia Pacific & Japan, Nasdaq
Till Rosar, Partner & Head of APAC Financial Infrastructure, Technology & Services, Oliver Wyman
Nelson Chan, Head of Banking Go-To-Market, Asia Pacific & Japan, AWS
Hasan Rauf, Head of Capital Markets, Business Development, APAC & Japan, AWS

 10:30 - 11:00 | English | Level 100

Secure by design: How AWS builds Foundational Security into Our Services?

Paul Vixie, Deputy CISO & VP, Security, AWS

 11:00 - 11:30 | English | Level 100

Executive Panel Discussion - Banking in the Cloud: Unlocking Innovation and Efficiency

This executive panel discussion explores the transformative power of cloud computing in the banking industry. Industry leaders will share their insights on cloud adoption strategies, architectural considerations for resilient, compliant and secure systems, and leveraging AWS services for operational excellence and innovation. The panel will also delve into the potential of generative AI and emerging technologies to revolutionize banking operations, enhance customer experiences, and unlock new business opportunities. Attendees will gain valuable perspectives on how banks are navigating the journey to the cloud and staying ahead in the rapidly evolving financial landscape.

Tammy Tse, SVP, Head of Information Technology, Fubon Bank (Hong Kong) Limited
Kelvin Lee, Head of IT Architecture and Data Management, Ping An OneConnect Bank
Peier Wu, Business Development Manager, Financial Services, AWS

 11:30 - 11:50 | English | Level 100

From Micro to Macro: Reinventing Globalization and Financial Sustainability for Fintech Businesses

Yali Zhu, General Manager, Micro Connect Macao Financial Assets Exchange (MCEX)
Peier Wu, Business Development Manager, Financial Services, AWS

 11:50 - 12:20 | English | Level 200

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for Responsible AI

Join us to explore the integration of knowledge retrieval techniques with generative AI models to enhance accuracy, transparency, and ethical decision-making in AI systems.

Odin Wang, Senior Industry Solutions Architect, Financial Services, AWS

 09:30 - 12:30

Morning Track

  • Opening Keynote & Sessions
  • Opening Keynote & Sessions

    Time: 09:30 - 12:10

     09:30- 10:50 | English

    Opening Keynote

    Ulf Carlsson, Managing Director, Head of Asia Pacific & Japan, Nasdaq
    Till Rosar, Partner & Head of APAC Financial Infrastructure, Technology & Services, Oliver Wyman
    Hasan Rauf, Head of Capital Markets, Business Development, APAC & Japan, AWS


     11:00 - 11:30 | English

    Executive Panel Discussion - Banking in the Cloud

    AWS & Customers


     11:40 - 12:10 | English

    Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for Responsible AI

    Join us to explore the integration of knowledge retrieval techniques with generative AI models to enhance accuracy, transparency, and ethical decision-making in AI systems.

    Odin Wang, Senior Industry Solutions Architect, Financial Services, AWS

    Ritesh Vajariya, Principal Business Development Manager – Generative AI, AWS

    Ritesh Vajariya

    Principal Business Development Manager – Generative AI, AWS

  • Table-top Exercise (By invitation only)
  • Table-top Exercise (By invitation only)

    Time: 09:30 - 12:30

 13:30 - 16:00

Afternoon Track

  • Business Track
  •  13:30 - 14:00 | English | Level 100

    Unleashing Data-Driven Innovation with AWS Data Analytics and Amazon Quicksight for Transformative Business Intelligence

    Cashless payment systems on AWS leverage modern data architecture services to build data analytics pipelines, enabling easy creation of business intelligence dashboards and reports in a pay-as-you-go manner, without expensive on-premises BI licenses or scalability constraints. Data visualisations empower businesses to make informed decisions, drive innovation, and enhance customer experiences. With Amazon Q in Quicksight (Preview), users can self-serve using natural language querying, automated summaries, and generated narratives, eliminating dependency on BI teams for data updates.

    Billy Han, Product Manager, Spectra Technologies
    Ken Cho, Solutions Architect, Financial Services, Hong Kong


     14:10 - 14:40 | English | Level 200

    AI & Machine Learning Across the Trade Lifecycle

    Financial Services companies continue to leverage traditional applications of AI/ML in areas like customer onboarding, credit decisioning, and next-best-action recommendations, while also seeking new ways to apply Generative AI across the value chain. Generative AI creates opportunities to enhance the capabilities of traditional AI/ML, such as for call center intelligence, fraud prevention, and document processing, but also in entirely new areas, like hyper-personalized customer messaging, AI-powered chatbots, and code development. In this session learn how FSI customers leverage AI/ML to transform their enterprise in ways never before possible.

    Hasan Rauf, Head of Capital Markets, Business Development, APAC & Japan, AWS


     14:50 - 15:20 | English | Level 100

    Transforming Business: Unveiling the Role of Generative AI in Driving Sales Revenue Growth and CSOP Migration Journey to AWS

    Ray Leung, Technical Lead, Cloud Infrastructure, CSOP
    Anson Wong, Business Development Manager, Financial Services, AWS

     15:30 - 16:00 | Cantonese & English | Level 100

    Using Amazon SageMaker to Fine Tune Algorithm Model

    Wayne Ng, Founder, Forex Forest (Cantonese)
    Jacky Wu, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS (English)

    Ritesh Vajariya, Principal Business Development Manager – Generative AI, AWS

    Ritesh Vajariya

    Principal Business Development Manager – Generative AI, AWS

  • Technical Track
  •  13:30 - 14:00 | English | Level 200

    Powering Quant Research by Amazon FinSpace with Managed KDB Insights

    We'll explore how FinSpace with Managed kdb insights enhances quant research on AWS by enabling fast data ingestion and utilizing cloud functionalities for auto scaling computation. Through a practical example, we'll also demonstrate how quants can now conduct research using a Python interface tapping into FinSpace with Managed kdb insights for improved performance making it more accessible and efficient than ever.

    Dr. Kim Kuen Tang, Senior Kdb+ Solutions Architect, KX
    Jacky Wu, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS


     14:10 - 14:40 | English | Level 200

    Cross-Chain Infrastructure for Resilient and Scalable Decentralized Applications on AWS

    ITACHA is an (DeFi) option trading protocol that encompasses an algorithmic market maker, a verifiable collateral optimisation and liquidation engine, a risk trenching methodology, and, finally, protocol governance.

    Aaron Baideme, CISO, ITACHA
    Benjamin Hui, Solutions Architect, AWS


     14:50 - 15:20 | English | Level 200-300

    Unlocking Quant Potential: A Conducive Research Platform

    ActusRayPartners, a Quantitative Hedge Fund, will share how they have accelerated their business growth by harnessing AWS cloud orchestration technologies to construct their quantitative data pipeline. Alongside AWS's proprietary dynamic autoscaling and infrastructure automation framework, this pipeline not only meets the computational demands of the firm's expansion with reliability and scalability, but also enhances speed and extensibility in delivering quantitative research infrastructure. This creates a versatile and conducive platform for ActusRayPartners's researchers to explore, develop and implement new modelling ideas.

    Ken Poon, Associate Director, ActusRayPartners
    Arthur Yan, Senior Research Analyst, ActusRayPartners
    Alvin Cheung, Senior Analytics BD Specialist, AWS


     15:30 - 16:00 | English

    Transforming Finance with FormX: AI Data Extraction & Document Integrity

    Jimmy Au, Product Lead, Bowtie
    Libby Yim, Senior Product Analyst, Bowtie
    Ten Tang, Product Manager, FormX, Oursky

  • Policy, Security, Risk & Compliance Track
  •  13:30 - 14:00 | English | Level 100

    Transforming Regulations into Tailwinds: How AWS Supports the Financial Services Industry to Adopt the Cloud

    This session examine how the rapidly evolving regulatory landscape in financial services presents AWS and AWS customers with a distinct pathways and requirements in their cloud adoption. In this session, learn how AWS engages with financial services regulators and customers to co-create enabling regulations for cloud adoption and how AWS helps customers to meet these evolving security, resilience, and compliance requirements.

    Daniel Wu, Head of Financial Services, APJ Public Policy, AWS


     14:10 - 14:40 | English | Level 200

    Design and Deployment of Resilient Workloads on the Cloud

    Present on key operational resilience concerns of customers from the FSI and Critical Infrastructure industry. Share design strategies, mechanisms and tools to deploy critical services on AWS cloud that are resilient against impacts of the evolving threat environment.

    Alan Yang, Head of Resilience, APAC, AWS

     14:50 - 15:20 | English | Level 200

    Amazon Web Services Security Services Overview

    Overview and introduction to relevant AWS incident response related security services to support an advanced threat and incident response scenario. AWS security services introduced include Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub, Amazon Inspector and AWS Security Lake.

    Brad Dispensa, Principal Security Specialist Solution Architect, WWPS, AWS

     15:30 - 16:00 | English | Level 200

    ISO 27001 ISMS Implementation Quickstart on AWS

    Streamline your ISO 27001 ISMS implementation on AWS with our quickstart architecture. This comprehensive session provides step-by-step guidance, best practices, and AWS security service recommendations to ensure a secure and compliant information security management system across your cloud infrastructure.

    Sharon Lam, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

AWS for Retail

 08:30 - 09:30

Check-in & Exhibition Opens

Network with your peers, AWS experts and industry leaders

 09:30 - 10:25 | English

Opening Keynote: Digital Commerce in the Age of Generative AI

Vince Koh, Global Head of Digital Commerce, AWS

 10:40 - 11:30 | English

Executive Sharing on Retail Digital Transofrmation

Session 1: Unleashing the Potential of Generative AI with Casetify | Level 200

Terence Fung, Engineering Director, Casetify

Session 2: Unlocking the Future of Health in Asia: Enhancing Healthspan Through Technological Advancements | Level 200

Vincent Wong, Chief Digital Officer, Humansa

 11:30 - 11:55 | English | Level 200

Driving Retail Business Growth: Utilizing LLM (Large Language Model) and Recommendation Strategy Optimization

Josie Cheng, Industry Solution Manager & Generative AI Solutions Architect, AWS

 11:55- 12:10 | English | Level 100

Fireside Chat: Empowering Local Businesses Through the Digital Transformation Pilot Program (DTSPP)

Alfred Wong, Programme Manager, Cyberport
Rachel Wu, Business Development Manager, AWS

  • Cross Border and Geo Expansion Track
  •  14:00- 14:25 | Mandarin | Level 100

    Cross-border Possibilities with Generative AI

    Cindy Shen, Senior Industry Business Development, Retail and CPG, AWS


     14:25 - 14:50 | English | Level 100

    Navigating the Retail Landscape: Insights into HK/GBA Retail Outlook in 2024

    Michael Cheng, Mainland China & Hong Kong Consumer Markets Leader, PwC Asia Pacific


     15:05 - 15:35 | Mandarin | Level 200

    How We Transform Knitwear and Manufacturing with Digitalization and AI

    Roger Chan, Chief Operating Officer & Chief Technology Officer, Cobalt Fashion


     15:35 - 16:00 | English | Level 100

    How ThinkCol Works with Retail Customers for Their Digital Transformation Journey in AI and Machine Learning

    During the session, ThinkCol would share the industry trends on AI and how that helps a lot of retail customers transform their business using the state of the art technology. Kane will help to share some case learnings from him and what fuels the engine of success.

    Kane Wu, CEO and Founder, ThinkCol

    Ritesh Vajariya, Principal Business Development Manager – Generative AI, AWS

    Ritesh Vajariya

    Principal Business Development Manager – Generative AI, AWS

  • Digital Transformation Track
  •  14:00 - 14:25 | English | Level 200

    Driving Performance with Content Hyper-Personalization

    King Lai, Solutions Architect, AWS


     14:25 - 14:55 | English | Level 100

    Transforming Retail Chain and Mall with Data Analytics and GenAI

    Matthew Li, Founder, NOVA
    Carson Chan, Business Development Manager, AWS


     15:05 - 15:35 | English | Level 100

    Panel Discussion - Staying Ahead of the Innovation Curve in Retail and Travel with Digital Transformation

    Alfred Kam, CIO, EGL
    Steve Ng, CEO, Offbeat (HKTV Group Subsidiary)
    Vince Koh, Head of Digital Commerce, AWS
    Moderator: Vicky Lee, Business Development Manager, AWS


     15:35 - 16:00 | English | Level 100

    How AWS x AURAR Enable the Success of Retailers as a Data Collaborator

    During the session, AlikeAudience would share for their new Data Clean Rooms Solution, Aurar, a solution which targets to unlock the value of data assets by removing the barriers that hinder data collaboration and innovation. With a joint sharing with AWS Team, AlikeAudience and AWS team will also share how the partnership between the two companies helps to enable the success of the solution, and also in turn to retailers as a data collaborator.

    Elice Lau, Chief Strategy Officer, AlikeAudience

  • Hands-on Workshop (By RSVP only)
  •  14:00 - 16:30

    Personalized Marketing Content with Generative AI & Amazon Personalize (By RSVP only)

    In this workshop you will learn how to combine the predictive power of personalized recommendations from Amazon Personalize with the generative capabilities provided by foundation models (FMs) available through Amazon Bedrock, for generating personalized marketing content to address high unsubcribe rate, low click through rate and conversion rate issue from email marketing efforts.

    Hei Chow, Solutions Architect, AWS

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