Peter ,thank you for coming to AWS Office.
I would like to ask you a few questions here.
The first question is,
we know that Cyberport is working closely with startups in Hong Kong
and has been helping them to find investors.
I would like to know,
what kind of technology does Cyberport focuses on investing?
Owned by the government,
Cyberport is a flagship organization of technology.
We are one of the biggest innovative hub in Hong Kong.
We host more than 1000 startups in Cyberport.
We are committed to a few main aspects
like cultivating talent,
promoting the development of tech ecosystem,
and the most essential one in the past year:
integrating new and traditional economies.
We always talk about new ecosystem,
disrupting the mode of traditional ecosystem.
A lot of traditional business are paying effort to
digital transformation.
Thus we also focuses on their integration.
When it comes to our main focus,
we have 3 main focuses both in terms of
technology and application.
In terms of application,
we focus on Fin-Tech,
Smart living and digital entertainment,
in particular in e-sports.
In terms of technology,
we have 3 main focuses as well,
The first one, AI & big data.
The second one is block chain.
There are lots of application for block chain.
The third one is Cyber security.
We are talking about the development of internet’s security.
You mentioned Cyberport host over 1000 startups.
How do you help them find investment?
And how do you inspire them
to innovate technologically?
we have a lot of venue designated to encourage
the development of startup.
In terms of creativity and interaction among startups,
we have an incubation program in Cyberport
helping different startup to develop.
Besides daily trainings, we organize a lot of meet ups among startups,
industrial experts, end users and enterprises.
This allows the exchange of ideas
and enables startups to have a better understanding
of the industry,
enhancing their innovation
within a practical and feasible parameter.
Furthermore,
we have other co-working venue outside of incubation center,
called Smartspace.
We currently have 8 of these co-working spaces.
in Pok Fu Lam, Tsuen Wan and other places.
we will held different sharing
and brainstorming session daily to stimulate
more innovation and collaboration opportunity.
This sparks collaboration both among startups
and between Cyberport.
Besides, in terms of investment,
we have established a Cyberport Investor Network (CIN).
allowing startups to meetup with interested investor,
to seek for investment during the matching session.
Startups can also gain insight and
learn to improve their pitch
and sale their service at the same time.
AWS was attracted by Cyberport
and has established a Solution Hub there.
What do you think AWS should do
to better support Cyberport?
We have been working with AWS recently.
Not only did we launched the Solution Hub,
we also launched a Cloud Academy
with AWS’s support at the beginning of last year.
a collaborative initiative with HKU space.
Thanks to AWS’s support,
we are also glad that we can collaborate
and help partner recruitment days.
These allow our startups to seek opportunities
to promote their business and utilize AWS platform and tools at the same time.
We also did similar initiatives
with other partnering technology providers.
We have established a IoT solution hub in Cyberport.
We appreciate that AWS have set up a solution hub,
allowing some of our startups that
specialized Smart Living can adapt
and utilize the IoT technology by using your platform and tools,
and get certified through AWS.
They can promote their business
through the web of Amazon
and achieving a global reach.
We mentioned innovation,
May I ask, is innovation a focus of your employees？
And how do you encourage
your employees to be innovative?
As an innovative hub,
we always remind ourselves and
hope to improve the culture of innovation.
We are constantly innovating,
we launched a program last year,
targeted to integrate the application of our startup
into the campus of Cyberport.
Our employees also suggest to launch
self-service stores in Cyberport.
We called it a smart living concept store.
Our startups can apply innovations.
Instead of merely showing demonstrations and exhibitions,
People can use their application and service in the neighbourhood.
We hope to promote these innovative initiatives.
Thus instead of best employees award,
we introduced a C3 award,
namely Cyberport Creativity Competence Award,
to improve the campus of Cyberport.
In cyberport, we have actually have a mall in it.
we hope to incorporate
more innovative experience into the mall,
including digital entertainment,
smart living and smart education.
Employees who can come up with innovative ideas that
incorporates technology into the mall
will be awarded.
Amazing!
Cyberport not only have startups to grow externally
but also integrate their innovation internally.
I would like to ask you one lase question.
What technology would you like to further promote
in Cyberport in the future？
You just have one choice.
It is a tough question,
in terms of technologies,
As I said, we focus on artificial intelligence,
block chain, big data, and cyber security.
I personally believe that the current application of block chain
is rather diverse and innovative.
When we consider the technology to promote or not,
we need to look at the potential of the market.
We believe that block chain is an area
with a lot of potential,
And we aren’t too late to begin our development.
Hong Kong is currently in a decent position,
as it is still a relatively new technology.
Besides, due to the migrate of talents form mainland China,
We also have adequate personnel in Hong Kong.
to further explode block chain.
A third of Cyberport startups are form overseas
Which also includes a lot of talents in block chain.
We recently held a conference for block chain Gamer Connect,
promoting the application of block chain in e-sports,
and digital entertainment.
We hope that through these initiatives
we can have an edge in developing block chain,
compare to other regions.
thank you very much for coming over and share with us
Cyberport’s latest initiatives.
Thank you Peter.