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HONG KONG SAR - Media OutReach Newswire - 29 February 2024 - Economist Impact’s 4th yearly Technology for Change Asia brought together much than 450 exertion chiefs, innovators, investors, scientists and elder business representatives for 2 days successful Hong Kong connected February 27th and 28th. Chaired by The Economist Group’s moderators, a cohort of 50 master speakers delved into nan latest exertion solutions impacting businesses, societies, and economies.
Tom Standage, lawman editor, The Economist
Opening nan event, Tom Standage, lawman editor, The Economist said: “Technology has a very invited spot successful a world that is presently beset by uncertainty and conflict. From AI to medicine to electrical vehicles to star power, nan gait of advancement is defying expectations. It’s a origin for optimism erstwhile it comes to technology’s expertise to alteration things for nan better. A batch of group interest it’s going to return jobs, aliases someway move evil, aliases swipe retired humanity. But I’m not gloomy astir Artificial Intelligence (AI)...it reduces nan quality of value betwixt nan champion and nan rest. AI has nan intriguing opportunity to trim inequality alternatively of expanding it. Technological advancement is driving affirmative change. Technological innovations person nan expertise to toggle shape lives and to foster societal and economical development, to amended healthcare and to hasten nan accomplishment of nan UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.”
In an opening ministerial keynote address, Professor Sun Dong, Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry, Government of nan Hong Kong Special Administrative Region said: “As we participate a caller era of technological gyration and business transformation, pinch AI successful peculiar charting nan way, Hong Kong is striving to go an world invention and exertion (I&T) hub...The early is each astir AI. The inclination of AI exertion including generative AI has brought gigantic opportunities arsenic good arsenic challenges worldwide. No doubt, AI exertion tin heighten activity productivity and endeavor ratio pinch limitless imaginable for application.
The 2nd of discussions examined nan opportunities provided by AI. Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist, activist, futurologist, and popular-science writer said: “Now is nan clip to look astatine quantum computing... to understand your imaginable and nan issues successful nan market. If you miss nan boat, you’re out.”
Technology for Change Asia featured an master speaker lineup, including:
- Dong Sun, Secretary for innovation, exertion and industry, Government of nan Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
- Michio Kaku, Theoretical physicist, activist, futurologist, and popular-science writer
- Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia
- Alexis Crowell, Chief exertion serviceman and vice-president, Asia-Pacific and Japan, Intel
- Fan Ho, Executive head and wide manager, Asia-Pacific solutions and services group, Lenovo
- Olivier Klein, Chief technologist, Asia-Pacific and Japan, Amazon Web Services
- Idan Zalzberg, Chief exertion officer, Agoda
- Andy Wong, Head of invention and technology, InvestHK
- Jung-Woo Ha, Head of AI innovation, NAVER Cloud
- Daniel Koo, Vice-president, digital, Shangri-La Group
- Ricky Leung, Executive director, engineering and technology, Airport Authority Hong Kong
- Ashish Jain, Director of group applications, AIA Group
- Brad Jones, Chief executive, PayMe HSBC
- Ben Falk, Director, world main exertion office, EY
- Byron Wong, Managing head and caput of technology, Asia Private Bank and J.P. Morgan Online International, J.P. Morgan
- Aldric Chau, General manager, digital, Cathay
- Amitabh Sarkar, Vice-president and caput of Asia-Pacific, Tata Communications
- Ricky Leung, Executive director, engineering and technology, Airport Authority Hong Kong
- and galore more
Taking spot successful Hong Kong pinch a committedness to return for different 2 years, Economist Impact’s 4th yearly Technology for Change Asia agreed complete 450 solutions-oriented leaders to research nan latest innovations successful artificial intelligence, Web3, DeFi and crypto, and nan early of activity successful applying exertion for impact.
The arena is sponsored by Ernst & Young and TATA Communications, and is supported by Brand Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Tourism Board, InvestHK and StartmeupHK. Live translator into Cantonese and Putonghua is offered by KUDO.
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