Breakfast Briefings

BUSINESS CLASS FOR ENTREPRENEURS 

EVOLUTION OF BUSINESS: DISRUPTION IN HONG KONG

Innovation and technologies – social, mobile, analytics, cloud, Internet of Things - continue to disrupt the business world and our daily lives. 

Join us as we hear from a panel of successful Hong Kong based business pioneers changing the landscape of their industries. Steve Monaghan, the Chairman and CEO of GenLife will talk about how technology is changing the insurance industry, Duncan Wong from CryptoBLK will be discussing the impact of blockchain technology, and LalaMove’s Blake Larson will talk about his experience in disrupting app-based on-demand logistics in Hong Kong. 

Along with our punchy moderator, Web Wednesday’s Napoleon Biggs, the panel will share their experiences on breaking traditional industry barriers and also give practical tips on how to build a solid business case.

About the speakers 

Steve Monaghan is Chairman and CEO of GenLife, a Limited Partner and investment committee member in True Global Ventures, Vice Chairman of Borderless Healthcare Mobile China, Co-Chairman of HK HealthTech Association, a Board Member of Pulse Global and a private investor in Artificial Intelligence, Life Sciences, Healthtech and Fintech.

Dr Duncan Wong is the Founder and CEO of CryptoBLK, a Hong Kong based technology company which strives to revolutionize the IT systems of the global financial services industry using Cryptography and Blockchain technologies. Before founding CryptoBLK, Dr Wong was in charge of the Financial Technologies (FinTech) initiative of the largest R&D Center in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI), and was leading the Security and Data Sciences technology division. The FinTech Initiative focused on Cybersecurity, Blockchain or Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Analytics, and Machine Learning. Before joining ASTRI, Dr Wong had been a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, then the City University of Hong Kong, and tenured in the Department of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong. Dr Wong has authored over 200 publications in Cryptography and Information Security, and has served as a member including the chair of the program committee for over 100 international conferences in cryptography and information security.

Blake Larson is currently the Managing Director, International for lalalmove. Blake has spent his career founding companies, leading teams and overseeing operations during periods of exponential growth for both Fortune 500 companies and tech start-ups across four continents. Previously, Blake has taken on strategic, senior executive and founding roles at Rocket Internet’s Easy Taxi, Air Crew Club, the Clinton Foundation and Walgreens. Blake is also a proud alumnus of the ESADE Business School, NUS (MBA), and the University of Iowa (BBA, Finance and Marketing).

Napoleon Biggs is a reputed digital marketing specialist and senior advisor on emerging communications and ecommerce practices in Asia. He is well-known as the hard-hitting host of “Web Wednesday”, a community of 6,000 internet entrepreneurs and digital media executives. He has over 17 years’ experience in the Internet in Asia and speaks Cantonese, Mandarin and Japanese.