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
April 9, 2024 (Tue) | 9:00AM - 4:30PM (HKT) (Check-in starts at 8:30AM)| JW Marriott Hong Kong
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.
Featured Speakers
Ulf Carlsson
Managing Director, Head of Asia Pacific & Japan, Nasdaq
Till Rosar
Partner & Head of APAC Financial Infrastructure, Technology & Services, Oliver Wyman
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Tammy Tse
SVP, Head of Information Technology, Fubon Bank
Ray Leung
Technical Lead, Cloud Infrastructure, CSOP
Kelvin Lee
Head of IT Architecture and Data Management, Ping An OneConnect Bank
Yali Zhu
General Manager, Micro Connect Macao Financial Assets Exchange (MCEX)
Dr. Kim Kuen Tang
Senior Kdb+ Solutions Architect, KX
Jimmy Au
Product Lead, Bowtie
Libby Yim
Senior Product Analyst, Bowtie
Ten Tang
Product Manager, FormX, Oursky
Terence Fung
Engineering Director, CASETiFY
Roger Chan
Chief Operating Officer & Chief Technology Officer, Cobalt Fashion
Alfred Kam
CIO, EGL
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Elice Lau
Chief Strategy Officer, AlikeAudience
Paul Vixie
Deputy CISO & VP, Security, 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 for Financial Services
08:30 - 09:30
Check-in & Exhibition Opens
Network with your peers, AWS experts and industry leaders
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
Secure by design: How AWS builds Foundational Security into Our Services?
Paul Vixie, Deputy CISO & VP, Security, AWS
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
From Micro to Macro: Reinventing Globalization and Financial Sustainability for Fintech Businesses
Peier Wu, Business Development Manager, Financial Services, AWS
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
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Opening Keynote & Sessions
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Table-top Exercise (By invitation only)
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Opening Keynote & Sessions
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Opening Keynote & Sessions
Time: 09:30 - 12:10
09:30- 10:50 | EnglishOpening 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 | EnglishExecutive Panel Discussion - Banking in the Cloud
AWS & Customers
11:40 - 12:10 | EnglishRetrieval-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
Featured AWS Speaker
Ritesh Vajariya
Principal Business Development Manager – Generative AI, AWS
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Table-top Exercise (By invitation only)
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Table-top Exercise (By invitation only)
Time: 09:30 - 12:30
13:30 - 16:00
Afternoon Track
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Business Track
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Technical Track
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Policy, Security, Risk & Compliance Track
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Business Track
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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 200AI & 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 100Transforming 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 100Using Amazon SageMaker to Fine Tune Algorithm Model
Wayne Ng, Founder, Forex Forest (Cantonese)
Jacky Wu, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS (English)Featured AWS Speaker
Ritesh Vajariya
Principal Business Development Manager – Generative AI, AWS
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Technical Track
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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 200Cross-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 200-300Unlocking 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 | EnglishTransforming 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
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Policy, Security, Risk & Compliance Track
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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 200Design 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 200Amazon 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 200ISO 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
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Cross Border and Geo Expansion Track
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Digital Transformation Track
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Hands-on Workshop (By RSVP only)
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Cross Border and Geo Expansion Track
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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 100Navigating 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 200How 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 100How 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
Featured AWS Speaker
Ritesh Vajariya
Principal Business Development Manager – Generative AI, AWS
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Digital Transformation Track
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14:00 - 14:25 | English | Level 200
Driving Performance with Content Hyper-Personalization
King Lai, Solutions Architect, AWS
14:25 - 14:55 | English | Level 100Transforming 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 100Panel 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 100How 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
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Hands-on Workshop (By RSVP only)
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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
Highlights
Frequently Asked Questions
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What is the registration fee for this event?
The AWS Industry Forum Hong Kong is a free event.
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I can’t make it that day. Would your content be available online after?
Content will be made available after event for registrants. Please make sure you register now to have access after event.
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What language will be used?
The event itself and content sessions will be conducted in mainly English.
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How technical is the content?
The content is business outcome-oriented and is not designed for in-depth technical learning. However, there will be opportunities to connect with AWS solutions architects and subject matter experts to gain a deeper understanding of each solution.
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How can I contact the event organizer?
If you have questions that have not been answered here, please contact us at aws-hk@amazon.com.
