RUNDOWN:
18:50 Registration and Private Drinks Reception
19:30 Private Dinner
21:30 End

Members Reception and Dinner Tickets: HKD 2,100 per person

Join Asia Society Hong Kong Center for a private reception and dinner with Mr. Antoine Blondeau, co-founder and managing partner of Alpha Intelligence Capital, Dr. Harry Shum, Council Chairman of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Professor Helen Meng, Patrick Huen Wing Ming Professor of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. With Mr. Ronnie C. Chan, Chairman of Asia Society Hong Kong Center, they will continue the important discussion on AI and how it will impact our future in an exclusive, off-the-record setting.

Operating out of Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Antoine Blondeau is a visionary technology entrepreneur and investor. He is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Alpha Intelligence Capital (AIC), a venture capital firm investing in deep algorithmic science-based Artificial Intelligence companies worldwide. AIC’s investments include OpenAI; AI Music, acquired by Apple; Reaqta, acquired by IBM; Instadeep, acquired by BioNTech; cybersecurity insurance company Envelop Risk; healthcare leaders Aidoc and Proscia; security solutions providers Lassen Peak and ZeroEyes; quantum computing pioneer Rigetti; and computer vision firm SenseTime. Over the past 25 years Antoine has dedicated himself to the development of Artificial Intelligence. He was the Chief Executive Officer of Dejima, the company that powered DARPA’s foundational CALO project that evolved into Apple’s Siri and also Chief Operating Officer of Nasdaq-listed Zi Corporation. He was the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sentient Technologies. Antoine has held senior leadership positions at Good Technology, Salesforce, and Sybase.

Antoine started to code at age 11. He holds an MBA from the Paris Graduate School of Management (ESCP) and has studied at Chuo University in Tokyo. He is the author of four patents.

Harry Shum is a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He currently serves as the University Council Chairman of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

He was previously Executive Vice President of Microsoft Corporation, responsible for driving the company’s overall AI strategy and overseeing AI-focused products including the multilingual web search engine Bing and AI chatbot Xiaoice. He also led Microsoft Research, one of the world’s premier computer science research labs.

Helen Meng is the Patrick Huen Wing Ming Professor of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at CUHK and the Founding Director of the Centre for Perceptual and Interactive Intelligence, an InnoHK Centre on AI. In 2019, she received Hong Kong’s first Research Grant Council’s Theme-based Research Grant in AI to develop AI-enabled spoken language technologies for screening and monitoring dementia. As Co-PI and Curriculum Development Lead of the CUHK Jockey Club AI4Future Project, she created Hong Kong’s first pre-tertiary AI education curriculum, adopted by the Education Bureau in 2023 to be taught in all local secondary schools. She founded the CUHK Stanley Ho Big Data Decision Analytics Research Centre in 2013.  She also founded the Microsoft-CUHK Joint Laboratory for Human-Centric Computing, which has been recognized as a Ministry of Education Key Laboratory since 2008.

Helen was the first female Department Chair in the CUHK Faculty of Engineering and has served as Associate Dean (Research). She has served as elected Editor-in-Chief, Member of the Board of Governors, and Awards Board Member at IEEE and currently serves on its Fellows Evaluation Committee. Recently, she was appointed to the HKSAR Government’s Digital Economy Development Committee and contributed to recommendations for developing a sustainable talent strategy. Helen received her degrees from MIT and is a Fellow of IEEE, ISCA, HKCS, and HKIE.

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Spanish Octopus Salad
Fennel, Olives, Potatoes, Dill Lime Honey Dressing
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Roasted Butternut Squash Salad (V)
U.S. Kale, Raisin, Almond, Tahini Tofu Dressing

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Pan-Seard Sea Bream Fillet
Ratatouille, Celeriac Potato Mashed, Puttanesca Sauce
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Eggplant Parmigiana (V)
Sauteed Spinach, Roasted Potato, Rustic Tomato Sauce

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Citrus Loaf Cake
Served with Orange Jam & Vanilla Ice-Cream
Coffee / Tea

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