GBA Technology & Innovation Summit 2021

Event Details

The British Chamber of Commerce Guangdong is hosting GBA Technology & Innovation Summit 2021 event, which is to be held at Renaissance Shenzhen Bay Hotel on 26 August. This will be a perfect opportunity to hear from key industry experts on their insights in a range of technology related industries and sectors.

The Greater Bay Area Summit is one of the British Chamber of Commerce Guangdong's (BritCham Guangdong) flagship events. The event has been held for the past two years in Guangzhou, invited over ten speakers for sharing their insights and welcomed over 100 guests each event, co-branding with media partners with more than 300,000 online and offline exposures.

Through this summit, BritCham Guangdong will establish a platform for tech-related industry members, investors, governments, and so forth in the GBA (i) to hear from key industry professionals on their predictions and outlook for the year ahead across a range of industries and sectors, (ii) to add value to you and your business and to better inform business planning decisions and (iii) to increase awareness amongst our members and business community via sharing insights and predictions.

Event Highlights:

A gathering of well-known and pioneering brands from China and overseas, gain useful advice from experts and business representatives for better business planning decisions

Focus on real networking among startups, enterprises, government and other tech-related organisation; break the barriers between start-ups and other large and medium-sized enterprises through crossover networking, making this event an international technology and innovation gathering in the GBA

Hear from industrial experts who will share insights on technology related industries, provide relevant information for investors who wish to invest or co-invest in the field of technology and innovation involving China and the UK

Opportunities to connect with 12 outstanding speakers, linking 150+ Chinese and foreign corporate executives

Participants come from 10+ industries such as technology, education, consulting, real estate, finance, law and so forth, opportunities to share your predictions and views on industries in GBA during networking and media exposure

Event Informtaion:

Date & Time: 13:00-17:30, Thursday, 26 August, 2021

Venue: Renaissance Shenzhen Bay Hotel (No. 18 Keji South Road, Nanshan District, Shenzhen)

Form: Keynote Speeches & Panel Discussion & Roadshow

Participants: 150+ VIPs from Government, Fortune 500 Companies, UK & Local SME Startups

Language: English and Chinese (Simultaneous Interpretation Provided)

Dress Code: Business Casual

Event Agenda:

13:00 - 14:00 Registration & Networking

14:00 - 14:15 Opening & Welcome Speeches

14:15 - 15:15 Keynote Speeches

15:15 - 15:35 Tea Break

15:35 - 16:35 Panel Discussion & Q&A

16:35 - 16:55 Roadshow

16:55 - 17:30 Networking

17:30 Event Ends

*The agenda may be subject to change

Agenda

August 26, 2021

*The agenda may be subject to change

13:00 - 14:00

Registration & Networking

14:00 - 14:15

Opening & Welcome Speeches

Jeremy Sargent OBE

14:15 - 15:15

Keynote Speeches

Joseph Smith

Wing Fong

Huiyu Li

Musheer Ahmed

15:15 - 15:35

Tea Break

15:35 - 16:35

Panel Discussion & Q&A

Sherry Pan

Dr. Penny Chen

Ivy Liang

Duncan Harrison

Penn Zhao

16:35 - 16:55

Roadshow

Haibin Li

Gareth Christian-Lim

Dr. Keith Tsui

Leigh Purnell

16:55 - 17:30

Networking

Speakers & Panelists

Jeremy Sargent OBE

Chairman, British Chamber of Commerce Guangdong

Joseph Smith

Founder, TrueAI Systems Former Vice President of Global Business Transformation, Huawei

Musheer Ahmed

Founder, Finstep Asia; Co-Founder, Fintech Association of Hong Kong; Co-Founder, Virtual Fintech Fair

Wing Fong

Head of Technology and Life Science of Southern China Region; Capital Market Group Partner of KPMG China

Huiyu Li

Director of Business Development, Zhixin International School; Former Co-Founder and Head of Curriculum Design of CodeMonkey, TAL; Former Strategy Analysis at Bytedance

Sherry Pan

Head of Technology (China) at Department for International Trade

Dr. Penny Chen

Associate Professor in Innovation and Enterprise, University of Central Lancashire; General Manager, UCLan Technology (Shenzhen) Ltd.; Founder of UCLan Online; Member of 2021 University of Cambridge Impluse Programme

Ivy Liang

Director of Gowling WLG LLP (UK)

Duncan Harrison

Executive Director - Head of Asia, Hamlyn Williams

Haibin Li

Founder & CEO, Anlan Technology; Member of Shenzhen FinTech Association

Dr. Keith Tsui

CEO & Co-Founder, Medwise AI Ltd

Gareth Christian-Lim

Founder & CEO, Recii

Leigh Purnell

Founder & CEO, Petalite Limited

Penn Zhao

IT Risk and Control Manager, Fortune 500 International Bank

Jeremy Sargent OBE is a seasoned China lawyer and entrepreneur with over 20 years' experience living and working in China. He is a fluent Mandarin speaker who completed his first degree in Chinese at Leeds University in the UK. In 2009 Jeremy established "The Happy Monk", a gastro pub concept in Guangzhou in 2009, which has grown to become an award-winning brand in the hospitality industry, with a team of 180 employees operating five busy downtown locations. In 2019 he obtained his executive MBA Degree from a joint programme offered by Columbia University Business School, London Business School and Hong Kong University Business School. In 2012 Jeremy was awarded an OBE by Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of his services on behalf of British businesses and legal services in China.

Joseph Smith has 22 years experience in China and was the first foreigner from IBM to live and work with Huawei from 1999 to lead Huawei's global transformation. He worked with Huawei for 22 years as VP Global Business Transformation and as consultant to Guo Ping the CEO of Huawei, and Liang Hua the Chairman of Huawei, to lead their globalization and dominance of ICT with current revenues of over USD125BN.

Joseph led Huawei's Global Business Transformation PMO which managed every major transformation project in Huawei's history. He was responsible for Business Transformation Methodology, Governance & Transformation alignment with Strategy, Value Realisation, Consultant Management and internal Transformation Training. Projects managed and led by Joseph include: Integrated Product Development (IPD), Integrated Supply Chain (ISC), Integrated Financial Services (IFS), Global Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Global Human Resources Management (HRM). Joseph was also responsible for the transformation Public Affairs & Communications Department and Global Government Affairs (PACD) and was responsible for being the 'public face' of Huawei and build relationships with senior visitors from the UK including: British Royalty and Senior Government Cabinet Ministers.

Joseph has been working with AI for the last 7 years and has a Patent Pending on a new AI chip architecture for a Hybrid Digital-Analog Zero Instruction Set Computer. Joseph acts as a strategy consultant to several large consultancies including McKinsey, Accenture, Bain, and PwC.

Musheer is the Founder & Managing Director of FinStep Asia, which is building Asia’s next generation of businesses and providing advisory on Fintech & Digital ecosystems in Asia.

Musheer is one of the main contributors in building the Fintech ecosystem in Hong Kong as the Co-Founder of Fintech Association of Hong Kong, having led the Association as inaugural General Manager in its first 2 years. He has over 16 years of extensive experience in financial services and technology, having been a global markets trader for a decade, and a management consultant following his MBA from University of Hong Kong and London Business School.

Musheer has a keen interest in technologies impacting/disrupting investment banking such as artificial intelligence, Digital Banking, RegTech, WealthTech and Blockchain and is a reputed keynote speaker at industry events across Asia. Musheer is a guest lecturer on topics of Fintech, Digital Banking, Investment Management, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence at University of Hong Kong, HKUST, HKU Space, CUHK, PolyU, CityU among others.

He has regular contributor and author of articles on Fintech, Digital Banking, Blockchain and Investment Banking and been quoted in various media channels, including on CNBC, Bloomberg, SCMP, IFLR, CGTN, Financial Times, Asian Investor, Medici, Economic Times, S&P Global etc., He has been a Keynote and speaker at 100+ events, including Singapore Fintech Festival, Hong Kong Fintech Week, London Fintech Week, India Fintech Festival, Money 20/20, Seamless Asia, Rise Conference, Economic Times Asian Leaders Conclave, China Fintech Summit, and Islamic Finance Summit.

Wing Fong is currently an audit partner of KPMG which she serves as the Head of Technology and Life Science of Southern China Region and the Capital Market Group Partner of KPMG China. Equipped with ample experiences, Wing is familiar with the capital market regulations of Hong Kong, the United States and Chinese Mainland ("PRC") capital markets with in depth understanding of the PRC GAAP, Hong Kong Financial Reporting Standards and International Financial Reporting Standards.

Equipped with more than 20 years of audit experiences, Wing had accumulated extensive professional and industrial experiences by leading audit engagements for local and multinational businesses in Hong Kong and PRC across various sectors including life science technology, electronics, IT services and telecommunications, E-commerce and others.

Following her leadership on various A Share / Hong Kong IPOs and her familiarity with the capital market requirements, Wing had successfully assisted Nayuki Holdings Limited (HK.2150), Mobvista (HK.1860) and Friendtimes (HK.6820) in their listings in the Mainboard of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. She also assisted Dynagreen (HK.1330) in their dual listing plan for A Share (SH.601330) in the PRC capital market as well. Furthermore, she added another success story as the lead audit partner to Chipscreen Biosciences (A Share) which is the first of its kind to be listed under The Science and Technology Innovation Board. On top of that, she is also the current lead partner for MGI Tech which had filed their A Share IPO submission in early 2021.

Apart from the capital market experiences, Wing plays considerably important role as the Asia Pacific regional lead partner in the coordination of various cross boarder and multinational audit and advisory engagements across the Asia Pacific region.

Huiyu Li, graduated from Peking University and Stanford University, is currently the director of business development, Zhixin International School. He is responsible for international cooperation, market and enrollment, teaching product design and strategic analysis. Zhixin International School enjoys good teaching quality and healthy operations, with 97% of previous graduates successfully applying for the top 50 universities in the United States and across the world.

In 2017, Li joined TAL, a co-founded kids coding education brand “CodeMonkey”, which has the health and financial health of courses and products that lead the subdivision of the track. Li presided over the design of CodeMonkey programming course products, created a twelve-level system, and developed more than 200 courses. Li participated in the framework construction of the “The Youth Artificial Intelligence Coding Level Test”, established by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and People's Posts and Telecommunications Press.

In 2020, Li joined ByteDance as an educational business strategy analyst, responsible for the construction of financial models, the improvement of the conversion rate of the tutor team and also the development of the promotion and performance appraisal plan.

Penny has been working in the UK higher education section for over 10 years. Following the completion of a PhD degree in Business and Management from the University of Manchester in 2014, Penny has joined the University of Central Lancashire as a Lecturer. Penny is currently working at UCLan as an Associate Professor in Innovation and Enterprise. Penny is also the General Manager of UCLan Technology (Shenzhen) Ltd. which is wholly owned by the University of Central Lancashire. Penny is overseeing the university incubator and acceleration in China, which has over 500 start-ups.

Penny has been helping individuals especially women and children to make changes and do personal development and improvement in the past seven years. Penny initiated the Youth Incubation Programme in Shenzhen, China, which aims to create the next generation of innovators and changemakers.

Ivy obtained her master’s degree from City University of Hong Kong, as well as Southwest University of Political Science and Law, which equipped her with the horizon of both civil law and common law. Ivy has very extensive and practical experience of all aspects of the judicial system in Mainland China, and understands the operations of the administrative organs from all levels well.

Ivy joins Gowling WLG from her former role as presiding judge in the Chinese court, where she also served as the deputy director of its IP division. She has worked in the judiciary for more than 15 years and has experience in all areas of contentious IP matters, with a particular focus on trademark, anti-counterfeiting, unfair competition and patent. Ivy is now the chair of the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Working Group within the European Union Chamber of Commerce (South China chapter). She provides clients with strategic advice on IP enforcement and IP company arrangement.

Duncan Harrison heads up the Asia Pacific region for the international recruitment firm, Hamlyn Williams. Originating from the UK and majoring in Political Science from the University of East Anglia, Duncan has 15 years of working in the recruitment industry in Asia. Prior to relocating to Shenzhen to join Hamlyn Williams, Duncan was the leader of the Finance & Accounting team in Tokyo for a large multinational recruitment firm before then heading up the Korean office of the same firm where he helped grow the office from 5 to 60 employees during his tenure.

Duncan has a very extensive knowledge of the Asian culture and the recruitment markets in both Japan and South Korea as well as China. In every market he has worked, Duncan has managed large Technology recruitment teams where his team's clients have ranged from start-ups going through their first rounds of funding through to large global multinationals and has witnessed firsthand the rapid pace of Technology innovation impacting the hiring needs and requirements of his clients.With a strong understanding of Asian cultural and business practices, he has managed and grown diverse Tech recruitment teams and assisted hundreds of Tech candidates with their career changes.

Dr Keith Tsui is a medical graduate from the University of Hong Kong and a Jardine Scholar, completing an MPhil in Bioscience Enterprise from the University of Cambridge. Dr Tsui previously worked as a management consultant to improve the productivity of NHS hospitals, generating £20M productivity saving in a year for a group of hospitals across the South East of England. Before founding Medwise.ai, Dr Tsui was a clinical product manager at Huma, a remote patient monitoring scale-up with partners such as Apple and Tencent AI Lab. At Huma, Dr Tsui led client discussions and secured deals with Johnson & Johnson and Smith+Nephew. He co-founded Medwise.ai to support clinicians in providing the best care to patients. Medwise.ai uses state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technology to answer clinical questions for clinicians.

Gareth started his career as a software developer within the web industry. After setting up his first company immediately from University, he quickly developed successful relationships and solutions with some of the world biggest ecommerce and payment providers. With now over 15 years experience across ecommerce, payments, web and software, Gareth is passionate about developing, and progressing internet technologies and innovation.

With a focus on Artificial Intelligence, Voice Commerce, Voice Biometrics and Blockchain Technologies, Gareth has successfully architected and developed multiple online solutions including two successful online recruitment platforms.

Gareth founded Recii to combine his passion for voice technology and further innovation, and online recruitment, process optimisation and data security. With his expertise in online recruitment and software applications, Recii has already developed and shown signs for significant growth and value to a multitude of industries and companies. Additionally, with two successful awards for innovation and global recognition for innovation by various nominations, Recii is positioned as a market leader in Voice Technology.

Recii is an automated candidate engagement platform utilising the latest innovation in voice technology. We use voice technology, conversational AI and programmatic engagement funnels to significantly increase operational efficiencies, capacity and productivity within recruitment firms and in-house HR teams. In addition, we improve candidate engagement, experience and improve equality, diversity and inclusion.

The vision is to make Recii the central hub for all engagements and interviews for the recruitment and HR industries, utilising the latest voice technology to bring more value from conversations and automating more of the manual tasks associated to existing processes.

Leigh Purnell is a clean technology enthusiast, an innovator and highly skilled engineer at heart. He is the driving force behind Petalite which he founded in 2014. His aim was to develop a revolutionary, individual movement within the electric vehicle charging industry that innovatively break down technology and infrastructure barriers within the EV charging industry.

His engineering mindset has enabled him to develop Petalite's SDC Technology, which answers many of the issues energy companies, CPOs, fleet management companies, and EV drivers all experience daily via full bridge technology, a technology hastily adapted to suit a fast-moving electric vehicle industry.

He has a passion for energy solutions that support and improve environmental sustainability while providing efficient, low-cost charging infrastructure with high reliability for consumers. The modular 'PowerCore' super-fast charging system was created through dedication and commitment to this idea and has now expanded to a strong elite team of engineers and business development specialists who are all inspired by Leigh's vision and enthusiasm.

Leigh continually aims to shake up the EV charging industry for the better and to make charging easier.

Penn Zhao graduated from the University of Sheffield, majoring in finance. After graduation, Penn joined an international bank with a focus on bridging IT and the business in this fast-pace moving technology landscape. Currently serving as the IT risk & control officer in the organisation, Penn is now overseeing more than 70 applications across 2 different business departments, focusing upon in audit/regulatory related issues, IT service management and IT security. Penn has also been heavily involved in Diversity & Inclusion initiatives, especially in the area of gender equality. Having founded the women’s forum in the organisation - which currently has nearly 200 active members, Penn is passionate with building up a platform where female colleagues have access to superior resources to be able to network, mentor, and participate in various events geared towards helping them rise in their careers.