Agenda

Time
Topics
09:10 – 09:20
Opening and Welcoming Remarks

Guest of Honor
Mr Daniel Cheung, JP
Acting Commissioner for Digital Policy
The Government of the HKSAR
09:30 – 10:10
Power Panel 1
The Future of FSI: AI, Innovation, and Impact

As financial services accelerate AI adoption, panelists will discuss practical use cases, scaling innovation responsibly, and sustaining regulatory alignment-highlighting AI’s long-term impact on the competitiveness of the financial sector.

Speakers
Mark Arel
Head of Professional Service China, Hong Kong and Macau
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
John Hsu
Group Chief Technology Officer
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing
Tat Lee
Chief Executive
WeLab Bank
Stephen Tsang
Chief Revenue Officer
NTT Com Asia
Tim Ying
Chief Executive Officer
Octopus Holdings Limited

Moderator
King Leung
Global Head of FS, Fintech and Sustainability
InvestHK
10:15 – 10:55
Power Panel 2
AI and Robotics Across Sectors – Boost Productivity or Governance Risk?

AI and robotics are driving significant productivity gains across industries, while also raising new risk challenges. Panelists across industries will share real-world adoption experiences and how organisations can balance innovation, and effective control.

Speakers
Edgar Gehringer
Chief Operation Officer, Asia Pacific
HSBC
Terry Leung
General Manager
HCLSoftware North Asia Region
Leo Liu
Chief Technology Officer
Gammon Construction Limited
Aseem Puri
Digital Chief Executive Officer
Unilever International

Moderator
David Gee
Board Risk Advisor, NED & Author
Former CIO & CISO
11:00 – 11:15
Break
11:15 – 12:00
Power Panel 3
Agentic AI: Redefining Customer Experience and Enterprise Structure

Agentic AI is moving beyond automation to actively shape customer experiences and enterprise operations. This panel explores how AI agents are enabling hyper-personalisation, new operating models, and changes to how work gets done-prompting organisations to rethink roles and workflows for an AI-enabled future.

Speakers
Franky Ho
Field Chief Technology Officer
Red Hat
Albert Li
Head of Commercial
LPS
Louis Mah
Director, Group Information Technology
Maxim’s
Mandy Ng
Chief Business Transformation Officer
AS Watson
Gareth Tranter
Chief Technology Officer
The Hong Kong Jockey Club

Moderator
Akina Ho
Co-Founder & Managing Director
AllStarsWomen DAO
12:05 – 12:25
Fireside Chat 1
透視 2030:中國 AI 應用全景 | A Look at China’s AI Reality in 2030
(Mandarin Session)

This fireside chat will discuss how AI is shaping China’s industries and daily life toward 2030. Speaker will highlight real-world adoption, emerging business models, and key application areas driving innovation.
Speaker
Junjie Wang
Tech Vice President
Rokid

Moderator
Jiang Tao
Founder and Chairman
CSDN
12:25 – 12:30
Lucky Draw
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:20
Fireside Chat 2
The Next Frontier of Smart Cities: Innovations from Roads to Skies

Discover how AI-powered logistics and low-altitude aerial mobility are redefining urban transportation and sustainability, how these innovations are transforming our daily life, society, and the way we work.

Speakers
Darren Xiao
Director, APAC & MEA
EHang
Steven Lam
Co-founder and Chairman
GoGoX

Moderator
Maryann Tseng
Group Chief Strategy Officer
Phancy Group
14:25 – 15:05
Power Panel 4
From Innovation to Cybersecurity: Confronting Agentic AI and Post Quantum Threats

As AI becomes more autonomous, organisations face a critical challenge: enabling innovation without losing control. This panel brings together leaders from FSI and engineering to explore how self-directed AI can be deployed securely and responsibly, as well as Post Quantum Threats.

Speakers
Ludovic Grandclement
Director – AI & Innovation
Hong Kong Monetary Authority
Pallav Kulshrestha
Director, Engineering
I-Sprint Innovation
Suk-Wah Kwok
Chief Information Officer, Asia Pacific
TransUnion
Ricky Woo
Executive Director, CISO
DBS Bank

Moderator
Henry Ng
Master Trainer, KORNERSTONE/Principal Consultant
KRIS
15:10 – 16:00
Closing Debate
The Dependency on AI Agents: Are We Losing Critical Thinking Skills?

This engaging session show how leaders-as-panellists in today’s volatile world must compete, challenge and pitch ideas on how AI agents can make us think sharper and perform better — without weakening critical thinking.

Part 1 features each panellist’s best 4 minute perspective on how AI agents improve industry use cases, productivity, decision quality and user experience. Each panellist will then face a direct peer challenge. While you as the audience real-time scores for the clearest insight, strongest response, and most compelling thought leadership.

Part 2 pivots to 3 minute investment pitches, where each panellist proposes ideas that use AI agents to strengthen, not weaken, critical thinking. See how leaders fiercely compete not to prove who is right, but which idea is best as fellow panellists allocate simulated funding that enable smarter decisions and stronger human-AI collaboration.

Moderated by Deacon D.K. Wan, this closing session brings Gartner’s world authority on AI, business and technology insights, and practical Do’s and Don’ts to the executive stage.

Speakers
Joel Lam
Chief Digital Officer, Asia
KGI
Michelle Mak
Leader, Head of ESG and Enterprise Learning
Dun & Bradstreet
Louis Shun
Regional Chief Information Officer
IHH Healthcare North Asia / Gleneagles Hospital
Tim Taylor
Chief Technology Officer
The Tech Consultancy

Moderator
Deacon D.K. Wan
Senior Director Analyst, Conference Chair
Gartner
16:00 – 16:10
Lucky Draw
Note : Lucky draw timing may vary subject to the actual programme schedule

Time
Topics
10:00 – 11:00
Wan2.6 Masterclass Empowered by Alibaba

This masterclass explores the capabilities of Alibaba’s state-of-the-art visual foundation model, Wan2.6. Working with an interactive notebook, learners can call HTTP APIs to try out Wan2.6 capabilities in generating videos and images.
Speaker
Raymond Tsang
Global Training Advisor in AI
Alibaba Cloud
11:25 – 12:25
Cloud Native OpenClaw: Build, Deploy, Scale on AWS

One hour hands-on workshop focused on cloud native deployment. Attendees set up AWS compute resources, configure IAM for secure access, and run OpenClaw workloads using ECS or EKS. The workshop highlights container orchestration, monitoring with CloudWatch, and cost efficient scaling, giving participants practical experience in running OpenClaw within AWS infrastructure.
Speaker
Carson Chan
Partner Solutions Architect
AWS
14 :00 – 15:30
Building Agent-Native AI on Tencent Cloud ADP

Unlocking enterprise productivity with scalable and professional agents.
Speakers
Lorence Liao
Head of International AI Architecture
Tencent Cloud
Leon Zhang
Senior AI Architect
Tencent Cloud

Note : Participants of Workshop A are encouraged to bring their own devices for the best learning experiences.

Time
Topics
10:00 – 11:00
Atlassian AI-Driven Product and Software Development: From Idea to Impact with Togetha

Experience how Atlassian Cloud and Atlassian Intelligence (including Rovo) turn service complexity into speed, clarity, and measurable outcomes. In this workshop, Togetha demonstrates an end-to-end “idea to impact” flow that connects intake to delivery across Loom, Jira Product Discovery, Jira, and Confluence. See AI in action as it auto-create Product Requirements, summarises business requirements and user knowledge, drafts high-quality responses and content, and answers questions across fragmented information using secure, permission-aware search. You’ll learn how to select high-impact use cases, design practical guardrails for data and roles, and launch a low-risk pilot in weeks with lightweight KPIs. We will close the loop with automation so insights become actions with AI Code Development and Testing. Leave with a repeatable product development life cycle (PDLC) blueprint to apply Atlassian AI safely and measurably, improving speed, consistency, and customer experience while maintaining enterprise governance.
Speaker
Andrew Wong
Executive Director
Togetha Group Hong Kong Limited
11:10 – 11:55
CompTIA SecAI+ Prepares You for AI‑Driven Cybersecurity

Hands-on showcases of how CompTIA SecAI+ bridges a critical gap between traditional security practices and the realities of AI‑driven systems helping professionals understands how AI works, but how to defend it, govern it, and safely use it to enhance security outcomes.
Speaker
Paul Wan
Convenor, Cybersecurity Specialist Group, HKCS / Former Managing Director
Standard Chartered
12:00 – 12:30
AI-Native Leadership: Direction, Value and Critical Thinking

How leaders in today’s volatile world move AI beyond experimentation to measurable enterprise value, while preparing for a future where AI agents become part of how organizations perform? Boards and executives no longer need more AI hype — they need sharper answers: where to pivot, where to persist, where to pull the plug, and where to double down.
CIOs and digital leaders are now on an AI journey that requires more than speed. It requires direction, discipline, and a clear view of how to prepare the organization for an AI-native workplace powered by agents — one that strengthens human judgment rather than weakens critical thinking.
Presented by Deacon D.K. Wan, this keynote brings Gartner’s world authority on AI, business and technology insights, and best practices to help leaders benefit from stronger human-AI collaboration.
Speaker
Deacon D.K. Wan
Senior Director Analyst, Conference Chair
Gartner
14:30 – 15:30
Tech Talk : 7-min Pitching in the AI Era

Whether you’re pitching a product, a solution, or a vision, you often have just a few minutes to make an impact. This Tech Talk, “7-Minute Pitching in the AI Era,” demonstrates how AI is reshaping the way we communicate, persuade, and tell compelling stories.

Speakers
Sean Lin
DTM, National Champion of Public Speaking, China
Toastmasters International
Wilson Yau
FCRP, DTM, PMP, PMI-CP, HKYCAC Public Speaking Champion
Silvia Ihensekhien
Charter Vice President Education
Tech Talk Toastmasters
Emil Chan
Visionary Leader in FinTech, Web3, and Digital Ecosystem Development
15:35 – 16:00
Fireside Chat – A Day in the Life of a CISO
David Gee’s new best-selling book distils more than 740 years of collective CISO wisdom and battle scars, offering invaluable lessons for current and aspiring cyber leaders. In this keynote fireside chat, David sits down with leading Hong Kong CISOs :
Speakers
Krzysztof Kostienko
APAC Head of Security
Qube Research
Silvia Lam Ihensekhien
Charter Vice President Education
Tech Talk Toastmasters
David Gee
Board Risk Advisor, NED & Author
Former CIO & CISO
They will share their stories and personal lessons from their chapter from this new book. During this engaging and interactive session, both leaders will share the pivotal moments, practical insights, and hard-earned lessons that have shaped their careers.
Key discussion highlights include:
– How I got to be CISO
– The Journey to CISO
– Career lessons from 24+ CISO leaders
This is a must-attend session for CISOs, cybersecurity practitioners, and emerging leaders seeking real-world guidance from two of the industry’s most respected voices.

Time
Topics
10:00 – 10:20
Challenges in Securing ICS/OT Systems with OSINT

Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) has become a vital tool for identifying and evaluating cybersecurity risks by leveraging publicly available data from the internet, social media, and public records. In the field, OSINT supports everything from tactical operations and strategic planning to active threat detection—particularly within ICS/OT environments.

However, relying on OSINT presents unique challenges, especially regarding the timeliness of vulnerability disclosures and mitigation details from ICS/OT vendors.

In this session, we will explore the primary information sources for ICS/OT vulnerabilities and discuss the critical issues surrounding the quantity and quality of data within the OSINT landscape.

Speaker
Jerry Khan
Presales Manager
Kapersky
10:25 – 10:45
Your AI Agents Write Code. Who Verifies It?

Every enterprise is betting big on AI-powered software development. The promise: build faster, ship more, win the market. The reality: most organisations are seeing single-digit productivity returns on that investment — and accumulating hidden risk at scale.

AI now writes nearly half of all new code in the average enterprise — yet 96% of developers say they do not fully trust that output. Your teams adopted these tools months ago. But the verification systems designed for a world where humans wrote every line have not kept up. The result is a widening gap between the speed of code creation and the ability to ensure it is secure, reliable, and compliant.

The consequences are already here. Enterprises have seen AI-generated code expose customer data, take down production systems, and introduce vulnerabilities that traditional review processes simply missed.

This session introduces a practical framework — the Agent Centric Development Cycle (AC/DC) — built for a world where AI agents are primary contributors to your codebase. Learn how AC/DC’s four-stage cycle — Guide, Generate, Verify, Solve — enables your organisation to capture the velocity and scale AI promises while maintaining the quality, security, and compliance your business demands.

In this session, we will explore the primary information sources for ICS/OT vulnerabilities and discuss the critical issues surrounding the quantity and quality of data within the OSINT landscape.

Speaker
Harvey Lee
Partner Development Manager APJ
Sonar
10:50 – 11:10
Enterprise Adoption of AI – The First Security Question: Balancing Innovation and Data Protection

Generative AI is no longer an experiment – it is enterprise infrastructure. Employees are pasting sensitive data into chatbots, developers are calling AI APIs directly from code, and Copilot is reading documents far beyond what was ever intended. Most organizations cannot answer a basic question: how many AI tools are actually running inside the company right now? This invisibility is the defining security risk of the AI era.

This session explores the real risks of unmanaged AI adoption – data leakage to third-party models, lost audit trails, regulatory exposure, and the false comfort of blanket blocking. Ray Pai will explain why “block everything” only defers the problem and “fully open” guarantees compliance failure, then walk through a practical third path: governing the data flow itself rather than the tools.

Attendees will learn a governance framework built on three interdependent capabilities – visibility, controllability, and sustainability – and leave with a starting plan that folds AI governance into existing DLP and web security policies, not a separate stack. AI won’t wait, but governance can start today.
Speaker
Hinson Hui
System Engineer
Forcepoint LLC
11:15 – 11:35
Turning Data Readiness into Scalable AI Value

Most AI initiatives don’t fail because of weak models – they fail because organisations can’t trust or activate the data those models rely on. As AI moves from experimentation to autonomy, fragmented data, static governance, and disconnected systems quietly become the real blockers to scale.

In this session, Nathan Gower, APAC Managing Director- Boomi explores the shift required to move beyond pilots and unlock measurable AI value. Drawing on real-world examples and emerging best practices, he will show how data readiness, integration, and governance must evolve to support agentic AI operating safely inside core business processes.

Speaker
Nathan Gower
Managing Director APAC
Boomi
12:05 – 12:25
Taming the Wild: Securing Unmanaged Workloads with Hardened Foundations

Modern environments are often cluttered with “ghost” containers, workloads that bypassed standard hardening processes and now operate in the dark. Without a clear lineage or a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), these containers represent a massive, unmanaged attack surface that threatens enterprise scalability and complicates regulatory compliance.

Visibility is only half the battle. In this session, we explore the risks of runtime configuration drift and show you how to move away from “hope-based security.” Learn how to systematically replace high-risk, unmanaged containers with minimalist, zero-CVE alternatives that ensure audit-ready compliance and robust security from source to runtime.
Speaker
Tarun Gupta
Solution Architect
CleanStart
14:15 – 14:50
Securing the agentic workspace, from humans to agents

AI agents are now embedded in everyday work, often operating as shadow AI beyond traditional controls. As the agentic workspace evolves, risk is no longer limited to users, it extends to the intent and behaviour of AI agents as they access, share, and act on data.

In this demo session, see how Proofpoint secures the agentic workspace with a unified, human-centric approach. Learn how to uncover shadow AI, gain visibility into agent intent and behaviour, and apply context-aware controls to govern how information is used across your environment.

We will also highlight the latest innovations in AI security and data governance, helping you reduce risk, maintain control, and enable AI adoption with confidence.
Speaker
Jennifer Cheng
Director of Cybersecurity Strategy, APJ
Proofpoint
14:55 – 15:15
From Edge to AI: Rethink the Frontiers of Data

Edge data is the critical fuel powering AI and ML workloads, yet managing it across a distributed Edge-Datacenter-Cloud architecture remains one of the biggest challenges for CIOs today. In this session, Synology Sales Account Manager Angie Leung addresses four key pain points: keeping storage close to the edge, ensuring efficient data exchange, optimizing TCO across storage tiers, and enforcing end-to-end data protection with a 3-2-1-1-0 backup strategy. Drawing from real-world deployments across maritime, media, and AI research, attendees will leave with a concrete framework for building a storage foundation ready for the AI era.
Speaker
Angie Leung
Solution Consultant
Synology Inc.
15:20 – 15:40
From Idea to App in Minutes: Meet Nocoly HAP, the All-in-One No-Code Platform

Very business runs on processes – yet most teams are still stuck between rigid off-the-shelf software and costly custom development. In this session, Nocoly introduces HAP, an all-in-one no-code platform that enables anyone to build powerful business applications without writing a single line of code.

Through a live demo, we’ll show how HAP combines databases, workflow automation, dashboards, and approval processes into one unified environment – allowing business teams to design CRM, project management, procurement, HR, and operational systems tailored to their exact needs. We’ll also share real-world customer stories from across Asia, demonstrating how organizations are replacing fragmented tools with a single, flexible HAP-powered workspace.

Whether you’re a startup looking to move fast, or an enterprise seeking agility at scale, this session will show how Nocoly HAP can help you turn ideas into working apps – in minutes, not months.

Speaker
Alice Yan
Regional Sales Manager (Hong Kong, Macau & Taiwan)
Nocoly
15:45 – 16:25
AI without Boundaries

AI success goes beyond experimentation—it requires the right strategy and partner. In this session, HAND Enterprise showcases how we serve as a trusted AI ally, helping organizations transform AI vision into measurable business value.

Our representative will highlight how enterprises unlock impact across three high‑value areas to begin: Intelligent workplace, AI for finance operations, and Intelligent supply chain operations. Through real business samples, attendees will see how agile AI boosts productivity, streamlines financial processes, and enables smarter supply chain decisions.

This session also reveals a practical adoption journey-from small, low-risk AI initiatives that deliver quick wins to building a scalable AI Factory. Join us to discover how HAND Enterprise turns AI potential into sustainable competitive advantage.
Speakers
Christy Yeung
Business Development Director
Baro International
Shawn Tam
Sales Manager
HAND Solutions HK Limited

Remarks: The Organisers reserve the right to modify the Event program, schedule, speakers, and activities without prior notice.