Programme

Date: 7 November 2017 (Tuesday)
Venue: Mandarin Oriental Kuala Lumpur

08:00-09:30
Registration
09:30-10:00
"In Style • Hong Kong" Opening Session

10:00–11:00
Main Symposium

Partnering with Hong Kong for Global Business Opportunities

The outlook for Asia remains robust and the strongest in the world. Introduction of the Belt and Road Initiative has further boost the momentum for cross-border collaboration and connectivity. It will bring long-term global development in trade and economies. It is crucial for ASEAN countries to transform and tap into such global opportunities. Hong Kong, with various world-class services and effective trade platform could be the ideal partner to realise these global aspirations.

This main symposium has engaged a panel of Hong Kong business leaders, representing a wide perspective of various businesses. These speakers will share their first-hand experience and practical insights in the region and how Hong Kong service companies could support Malaysian companies to stay competitive and expand their global business, especially for the Chinese mainland market.

Panel Chair/ Moderator:

Speakers:


Q&A Session

11:00–11:15
Coffee Break
11:15–12:45
Thematic Session 1:
Fast Track to E-Commerce – The Logistics Perspective

E-commerce is experiencing explosive growth in Asia, creating huge impact on the retail industry, transaction channels and retail logistics. This session will address the growing trends of e-tailing, cross-border e-commerce and omni-channel retailing as well as their impacts on supply-chain management.

Organiser:

Hong Kong Trade Development Council

Moderator:

  • Mr Don Nazwim
    President, Kuala Lumpur Malay Chamber of Commerce

Speakers:

Smart Logistics for High Volume E-Commerce Logistics Strategies for O2O Business
  • Mr Bobby Liu
    Executive Director, Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Limited 
Integrated E-Commerce Experience through Hong Kong’s Comprehensive End-to End Cross Border Services

Q&A Session

11:15–12:45
Thematic Session 2:
Future of Fintech: Crossover, Convergence, Remoulding

The global economy underwent substantial changes, and the rise of FinTech has brought in new financial institutions providing financial services to a large number of customers and investors, as well as changing the ways banks and corporations interact with their clients and each other.

FinTech, the application of information technology in the context of financial services, is emerging at a time when on the one hand technologies such as the Internet, smartphones, and big data analysis enable low-cost mass distribution of services, while on the other hand incumbents are withdrawing from certain customer segments because of regulatory burdens and unfavourable market dynamics.

With its large financial sector incorporating many regional headquarters operations, Hong Kong can act as a landing pad for FinTechs (a term covering in particular start-ups but also other new entrants) eyeing regional opportunities, as a market for FinTechs providing business- to-business (B2B) services, and as a launch pad for Mainland FinTechs seeking international expansion.

In this session, a panel of distinguished speakers will share views and discuss how Hong Kong’s incumbent financial institutions as well as FinTech companies can seek financial collaboration (such as IPO in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange) and technological collaboration with Malaysian business to expand/upgrade their productivity and efficiency, as well as facilitate the Malaysian Digital Economy Corporation’s initiative on developing Malaysia’s capability in digital economy, e-commerce and FinTech.

Organisers:

Hong Kong Trade Development Council
Financial Services Development Council, Hong Kong

Keynote Presentation:

  • Mr Chung Man Wing
    Investment Director, Value Partners Group Limited; Council Member, Financial Services Development Council, Hong Kong

Panel Chair:

  • Mr Christophe Lee
    Founder, JP Asia Partners Limited; New Business Committee Member, Financial Services Development Council, Hong Kong

Panellists:

  • Mr James Philip Lloyd
    Asia-Pacific Fintech Leader, Ernest & Young; New Business Committee Member, Financial Services Development Council, Hong Kong
  • Dato’ Gan K C, DSPN
    Chairman, The Malaysian Chamber of Commerce (Hong Kong & Macau)
  • Mr Amran Hassan
    Head of Innovation, Corporate Development & Innovation, PCEO’s Office, Maybank Berhad

Q&A Session

11:15–12:45
Thematic Session 3:
Smart City Forum

The global Smart City market is expected to reach US$1.565 trillion in 2020. The increased interdependence of the social, economic and environmental systems, the globalised interconnectivity of people as well as the openness of personal data have opened up new opportunities, as well as challenges for promoting Smart Cities. Fundamental to the creation of Smart Cities is the sharing, analysis and handling of large quantities of data involving different parties across public and private sectors. In this session, experts will discuss the trends, success cases, critical paths and challenges in the development of Smart Cities.

Organisers:

Hong Kong Trade Development Council
Hong Kong Public Key Infrastructure Forum

Sponsors:

Nexusguard Limited
Nexusguard Consulting Limited
Certizen Limited

Supporting Organisation:

Smart City Consortium

Welcome Remarks:

  • Mr Ronald Pong
    Chairman, Hong Kong Public Key Infrastructure Forum; Chief Executive Officer, Nexusguard Consulting Limited

Speakers:

Building Smart City with Blockchain
  • Mr Emil Chan
    Chairman of FinTech Committee, Smart City Consortium
eID Applications in Smart City
  • Mr Gary Yeung
    Chairman of eID Committee, Smart City Consortium;
    Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Techture Limited
Cyber Security in Smart City
  • Mr Jeremy Lee
    Director of CyberSecurity Solutions, APAC, Nexusguard Limited
Opportunities and Challenges for Smart City Development

Moderator:

  • Mr Ronald Pong
    Chairman, Hong Kong Public Key Infrastructure Forum; Chief Executive Officer, Nexusguard Consulting Limited

Panel Speakers:

  • Mr Emil Chan
    Chairman of FinTech Committee, Smart City Consortium
  • Mr Gary Yeung
    Chairman of eID Committee, Smart City Consortium;
    Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Techture Limited
  • Mr Jeremy Lee
    Director of CyberSecurity Solutions, APAC, Nexusguard Limited

Q&A Session

12:45–14:00
Networking Luncheon
14:00 – 15:30
Thematic Session 4:
Innovative Design & Marketing: From Ideas to Business

This session will examine how creative branding strategies and innovative design can support brands to unlock their business in Asia. Renowned Hong Kong speakers with expertise will share their experience and insights on how user-centric spatial and experience design, brand marketing, and digital solutions can upgrade enterprises’ business in Asia.

Hong Kong is Asia’s lifestyle trendsetter with a long history of cross-cultural dynamics, which has nurtured a pool of creative professionals and business consultants well versed in both Western and Asian cultures together with business best practices. The steady rapid growth of the economies in Asia, particularly the Chinese mainland consumer market, offers Malaysian companies a promising prospect for new business opportunities.

Organiser:

Hong Kong Trade Development Council

Moderator:

  • Ms Cecilia Yau
    Entertainment and Media Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers Hong Kong

Speakers:

Design: From Innovation to Customer Experience Marketing: From Local to Global

Q&A Session

14:00-15:45
Thematic Session 5:
Legal Risk Management: Key to International Trade and Investment

Session 1: International Dispute Resolution Mechanism
Overwhelming responses in International Arbitration Surveys by the Queen Mary University of London in recent years indicated that international arbitration remains the corporations’ choice of preferred dispute resolution mechanism, either as a stand-alone method or together with other forms of dispute resolution. 

This panel will discuss changes and trends in international dispute resolution process such as contract drafting of dispute resolution clauses, dispute avoidance, management and resolution of cross-border disputes through arbitration and mediation as part of the multi-tiered dispute resolution mechanism. 

Eminent speakers will share with audience the advantages in choosing Hong Kong as the venue for resolving international commercial, investment and shipping disputes, such as the new legislation on third party funding for arbitration and related proceedings (including mediation).

Session 2: International Protection of Intellectual Property Rights
In this session, Hong Kong based IP experts will share their experience with audience on the protection of IP rights, with particular regard to the “Belt and Road” Initiative.  They will also provide an update on Hong Kong’s initiatives on IP dispute resolution, including the recent amendments to the Arbitration Ordinance (Cap. 609) to clarify the arbitrability of IP rights disputes. 

In the 2016 survey of “An insight into Resolving Technology, Media and Telecoms (TMT) Disputes”, it was found that 92% of respondents indicated that international arbitration is well suited for TMT disputes.  As a premier IP trading hub, Hong Kong lawyers and dispute resolution advisers are well-placed to provide one-stop service of cross-border dispute resolution by arbitration and mediation (including evaluative and facilitative mediation) for Malaysian corporations and state entities.

Session 3: Hong Kong - Where Legal Business Goes to Grow
Hong Kong is home to 884 local solicitors’ firms and 82 foreign law firms.  At least 70 of the 100 largest global law firms by revenue have a presence in Hong Kong.  This is the result of the very favourable environment, including an independent judiciary based on common law jurisprudence, a solid and transparent regulatory framework and a clean government for legal and dispute resolution services providers.  The speaker will explain why Hong Kong, as the international law capital of Asia, is an ideal location to do business across the region.

Organisers:

Hong Kong Trade Development Council
Department of Justice, Hong Kong

Welcome Speech:

  • Mr Rimsky Yuen, SC
    Secretary for Justice, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China

Opening Speech:

Session 1: International Dispute Resolution Mechanism

Moderator:

  • Dr William Wong, SC
    Barrister-at-law and International Arbitrator, Chairman of Committee on Arbitration and Chairman of Committee on International Laws, Hong Kong Bar Association

Speakers:

  • Mr Denis Brock
    International Arbitrator, Council Member, The Law Society of Hong Kong
  • Dr Wang Wenying
    Secretary General of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) Hong Kong Arbitration Center and the China Maritime Arbitration Commission (CMAC) Hong Kong Arbitration Center
  • Mr Li Lianjun
    Solicitor, Maritime Arbitrator and representative of CIETAC (HK) and CMAC(HK)
  • Mr Ronald Sum
    Solicitor, International Arbitrator, Accredited Mediator, Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce Hong Kong, Arbitration and ADR Committee
  • Ms Mary Thomson
    Barrister-at-law, Chartered Arbitrator, Accredited Mediator and Adjudicator, the Chair (also Regional – non-PRC and Institute Communications Chair) of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (East Asia Branch)

Q&A Session

Session 2: International Protection of Intellectual Property Rights

Moderator:

  • Mrs Cecilia Wong
    Senior Solicitor, Arbitrator and Mediator, Council Member, The Law Society of Hong Kong

Speakers:

  • Mr Peter Cheung
    Barrister-at-law and Arbitrator of the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration
  • Dr Benny Lo
    Barrister-at-law, Arbitrator and Mediator, Member of the Hong Kong Group of the Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA)
  • Dr Christopher To
    Barrister-at-law, Chartered Arbitrator and Mediator, Council Member of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC)

Session 3: Hong Kong - Where Legal Business Goes to Grow

Speaker:

Q&A Sessions 2&3



*The programme is subject to further change without prior notice.