09:30-09:45am     Opening Remarks and Speech by Officiating Guests
09:45-09:50am     Official Opening Ceremony of the Festival
09:50-10:00am     Demonstration of selected students’ works
10:00-10:05am     Presentation of awards to start up teams at CityU
10:05-10:10am     Thank you note by Dr. Ray Cheung
10:10-10:30am     Time for Refreshment

Date & Time: 13/1/2015 (Tuesday) 10-10:30am
The Cyberport Creative Micro Fund (CCMF) Scheme is a seed fund set up to encourage innovation and creativity by sponsoring high potential creative and innovative start-up projects or business concepts in ICT-related areas. In 2014, many CityU teams have been awarded with a grant of HK$100,000 in cash. The awardees will share their business idea and tips to be selected in the CCMF scheme.

Teams to give sharing:

• Coupay
• E-ceipt
• HabiToStep
• Help Around
• PiVoice

“How Mobile Technology Is Being Applied to Every Business?”

Date & Time: 13/1/2015 (Tuesday) 10:30-12 noon
Speakers including:
– Alex Hung, Founder and Managing Director of Crossover International Co., Ltd.;
– Donald Chan, Senior Vice-President (Business Development) of Cherrypicks;
– Keith Li, Co-founder and CEO of Innopage;
– Keith Lie, Founder and CEO of VCast (Asia);
– And more to be confirmed

Date & Time: 13/1/2015 (Tuesday) Lunchtime
The Hong Kong ICT Awards aims at recognising and promoting outstanding information and communications technology (ICT) solutions and applications, thereby encouraging innovation and excellence among Hong Kong’s ICT talents and enterprises in their constant pursuit for creative and better solutions to meet business and social needs. A official briefing session will be given to call for more attention.

“China’s Internet Finance Development and Hong Kong’s Limitation”

Date & Time: 13/1/2015 (Tuesday) 2:30-4pm
Speaker: Mr. Emil Chan, CEO of Firmus Asia Company Limited, and Former Regional Head of IT, Bayern LB
Speaker’s biography: With over 20 years’ experience on IT and back-office operations of foreign banks in Hong Kong, Emil managed and coordinated IT and back office operations of leading international banks like Bayerische Landesbank, Credit Suisse, Banca Commerciale Italiana, Republic National Bank of New York and Bayerische Vereinsbank. Emil is the founder and CEO of Firmus Asia Co. Ltd., an eBusiness consulting firm and a part time lecturer of the Hong Kong University SPACE, Institute of China Business teaching postgraduate programs in emerging technology and eBusiness in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen from time to time. He is also a certified trainer on Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and also a member of the ISACA with a certificate of CISA. Emil is the Chairman of the Hong Kong IBM User Group, a non-profit-making organization for the IBM users in Hong Kong to do networking and idea exchanges and council member of Internet Professional Association.

The representatives of winning team of Joint-School Mobile Application Design Competition 2014, organised by the Hong Kong Joint School Electronics and Computer Society (JSECS), will share the innovative ideas.

Date & Time: 13/1/2015 (Tuesday) 4-4:10pm

“Technology and Healthcare System”

Date & Time: 14/1/2015 (Wednesday) 10:30-12noon
Speaker: Mr. Joe Wong, COO of Sengital Ltd.
Speaker’s biography: Mr. Joe Wong joined Sengital since company startup in 2004. He developed many motion sensing applications and solutions during his B.Eng study and won many local and International academic contests and published many academic papers. He was very active in the R&D team of Sengital and he started to handle R&D and project management management since 2006. With his innovative ideas and strong technical background, he trained up the R&D team to achieve many project goals.

Date & Time: 14/1/2015 (Wednesday) Lunchtime
Technology Start-up Support Scheme for Universities (TSSSU) is a new funding scheme launched by the Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC) to encourage students, professors and alumni of six local universities to start up technology businesses and commercialize their R&D results. The CityU recipients 2014 would like to share their business ideas and give tips to students who may also want to start a business.

Teams to give sharing:

• C4Cat Entertainment Limited
• Clothclip International Limited
• GlobeXchange Co. Limited
• Kung Fu Motion Limited

The Opening of ‘Innovation Commons’ will be held on 14 Jan 2015 (2:30-3pm). With the joint contributions from the Library, KTO, School of Law and EDGE, the ‘Innovation Commons’ has been established for students’ creative minds to come together, to brainstorm or to cross-cultivate ideas. It aims at:

1. Facilitating idea exchange between students from different disciplines in order to promote synergetic innovation
2. Motivating and supporting students to create and formulate innovative ideas
3. Educating students about Intellectual Property (IP)
4. Nurturing student ideas to mature IP and seek appropriate way to protect it
5. Promoting entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial spirit

“Making innovation in education a success”

Date & Time: 14/1/2015 (Wednesday) 3-4pm
Speakers: Mr. Victor Cheng, CEO of Hong Kong Education City (HKedCity), and Former Director of Corporate Services of the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessments Authority (HKEAA)
Speaker’s biography: Mr. Cheng is a seasoned IT professional in Hong Kong. He has more than 20 years of experience in IT infrastructure and the application of IT in education. He has been the Director of IT Services of the Hong Kong Institute of Education for more than 10 years and has led a number of important projects such as developing the first self-learning IT Competency Program for teachers, introducing the online Learning Management System, and initiated the Learning Commons project to facilitate migrating teaching and learning from traditional classrooms to an integrated mobile learning environment. Mr. Cheng has a Master of Science Degree in Electronic Engineering and a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Hong Kong.

“Entrepreneurship: What are you waiting for?”

Date & Time: 16/1/2015 (Friday) 11:30am-12noon
Speaker: Jong Lee, Founder of TEDxHong Kong

Visit to CityU Apps Lab

Date & Time: 17/1/2015 (Saturday) 1-3pm
Gathering Time & Venue: 1pm at Blue Zone
Speaker: Dr. Ray Cheung, Director of CityU Apps Lab

“Technological Impact on Industry – from 2015 to 2025”

Date & Time: 19/1/2015 (Monday) 1:30-3pm
Speaker: Samuel Bourque, Co-Founder of CryptoLaw
Speaker’s biography: Canadian-born long-time software engineer, who has work experience in technology, financial and legal industries in Canada, Japan and Hong Kong. He is also a published legal scholar, writing on topics such as Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies and Smart Contracts. He has recently co-founded CryptoLaw, which is trailblazing the introduction of Smart Contracts as a legally-binding cost-cutting business tool.