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“Technology becomes part of our everyday life.” Technological innovation matters more than ever if we want to stay relevant in the coming decades. Since the pandemic, we have witnessed how technological innovation transforms the way we work, live and study, and how technology reaches new heights.  This innovation will accelerate even more post-pandemic and will penetrate through every aspect of our lives. To name a few, Art-Tech, blockchain, big data, RegTech, Fintech, Healthtech are revolutionizing the arts, business, social sciences, law, real estate, finance and medicine. AI and big data are being deployed into more fields from medicine to transportation. Technological innovations are reshaping and redefining our society. While it is important for us to rethink whether it is ourselves that use technology or vice versa, technology has gradually seeped into the very fabric of our society. With the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, old jobs will disappear and new jobs will be created. To prepare to take on all these emerging exciting opportunities, every university and industry are now already leveraging and incorporating technology in their programs to stay up-to-date and competitive. Technology will no longer be limited to those who are interested in engineering and sciences. It will be part of the basic skills for our young generations.  How can we better prepare our next generation for STEM education? How are the higher education institutions equipping their students for a career that would likely be impacted by technological innovation? What are the key trends of technological innovation and future job opportunities in different industries? What advice would industry leaders give to future generations? What opportunities are available in Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area and on the international level?

Danny Lee is a Senior Advisor to Blue Pool Capital where he was a partner in charge of private equity investment globally since 2015. He has over 24 years investment experience spanning venture, growth capital, and buyout globally. Before Blue Pool, Danny was a Managing Director at Bain Capital and Vice President at Investor AB, the largest industrial holding company in the Nordic region. He started his career at Lehman Brothers in NY. Danny has a BA in Economics from Columbia University.
He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst, Aspen Finance Fellow and Edmund Hillary Fellow. Danny sits on the investment committee for New Zealand Elevate Venture Fund, on the board of HK Venture Capital Association, and the board of Seed Foundation, a youth development education NGO led by Alibaba Entrepreneur Fund.
Danny further serves the education community through his role as an independent director at Hong Kong Chinese Women Club College and as a guest lecturer at Columbia Business School, HK University of Science and Technology and Lingnan University. He also donated scholarships to Columbia College, United World College and Brooklyn Technical High School.

Helen Meng is Patrick Huen Wing Ming Professor of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is recognized scholar for her distinctive contributions to multilingual, multimodal human-computer interaction and language learning technologies.  She established the Human-Computer Communications Laboratory in her department in 1999.  She is the Founding Director of the Microsoft-CUHK Joint Laboratory for Human-Centric Computing and Interface Technologies in 2005, which has been recognized as a Ministry of Education of China (MoE) Key Laboratory since 2008. In 2006, she founded the Tsinghua-CUHK Joint Research Centre for Media Sciences, Technologies and Systems and has served as its Director. In 2013, she helped establish the CUHK Stanley Ho Big Data Decision Analytics Research Center and serves as its Founding Director. She served as former Associate Dean (Research) of Engineering (2006-2010), and first female Department Chairman of the Faculty (2012-2018).  In 2019, her interdisciplinary research team was awarded the first Theme-based Research Scheme Project in Artificial Intelligence from HKSAR Government’s Research Grants Council.  She helped establish the Centre for Perceptual and Interactive Intelligence (CPII) Limited in 2020 – this is a CUHK-led InnoCentre on AI.  She is Co-Principal Investigator and Chair of Curriculum Development of the CUHK-JC A14Futrue Project to develop the first comprehensive pre-tertiary AI education curriculum in Hong Kong.

Ken Yeung has been the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of TOM Group since March 2008.  Prior to joining TOM Group, Yeung was the Director of Horizons Ventures Limited and Chief Executive Officer of ChinaCare Investments Holdings Limited respectively.  Yeung previously worked for McKinsey & Company in Sydney, Melbourne and Greater China,  as well as for Coca-Cola China Limited and General Electric Asia Pacific.
Yeung is currently a director on the Board of MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node, Li Po Chun United World College School Council and St Paul’s College Foundation Board and is currently the Chairman of United World Colleges Hong Kong Committee.  He also previously served as board director for MIT Alumni Association.
Yeung holds a Bachelor and Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States (moderator).

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