E-I-C Promote Entrepreneurship

Drive Innovation Nurture Creativity

(Issue No. 16, Jan 2019)

Hello, colleagues and students! A warm welcome back to school and best wishes for 2019! This new semester is surely exciting and fun-filled, let’s read on EIC signature activities and take your pick!

Signature Activities @ EIC

1. Entrepreneurship Seminar Series (ESS)

i) Spike Ventures (29 Jan, Tue) Mr. Leo CHIU is a hands-on practitioner and a tech savvy entrepreneur. He is currently the venture partner/advisor of the Spike Ventures (a venture fund for Stanford University Alumni), focusing on blockchain, AI and big data related ventures. Meanwhile, he is coaching the youths and young adults in the greater bay area of China on the topic of innovation driven entrepreneurship via various mentorship programs and the mainstream media as public speaker and lecturer.

ii) OWN Academy (19 Feb, Tue) OWN Academy Founder and CEO, Ms. Natalie Chan, is on a mission to introduce real-world learning to Hong Kong and the region. OWN Academy is building a new, innovative education ecosystem. Natalie is passionate about the decentralization, democratization and personalization of learning and encourages an open and honest conversation on all things education and career between mentors, professionals, students and their parents alike.

iii) Ogilvy CommonHealth Mind Resource (26 Feb, Tue) Ms. Janet YEUNG founded Mind Resource in 2007. It is a leading firm in the highly specialized field of healthcare communications which includes disease awareness, patient education, and medical education. In 2011, she was approached by Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, a global communications provider and part of WPP, which eventually acquired a majority stake in her business. Mind Resource becomes the Hong Kong arm of Ogilvy's global integrated healthcare communications service group OgilvyHealth.

2. Dean’s Cup Business Innovation Gymnasium4.0 (B.I.G.4.0) April 2019

If you have a unique business idea, get engaged with B.I.G.4.0 to take your idea to the next level! Stay tuned for more details! B.I.G. is a platform aims at cultivating entrepreneurial spirit among students, nurturing their business ideas and enhancing their skill set for turning the idea into a reality! Let's see how HKBU students enjoyed B.I.G.3.0 in last November!

The First Round Competition was held on 17 November (Sat) at HKBU to select the top four teams to compete in the Final Round Competition. Sixteen teams’ performances were evaluated by a judging panel of business veterans. Supported by LimeHK (a local startup accelerator), the Final Round Competition was held in WeWork Causeway Bay (the most popular co-working space around the world) where provided a unique environment for HKBU students, as well as an opportunity for them to gain more real-life experience and to connect with the startup community. To make the competition more exciting, a “Comeback Challenge” was scheduled for the eliminated teams in the First Round Competition to have another chance, 1-minute pitching, to qualify for the Final Round Competition. Teams grabbed this opportunity to showcase their talents and compete for the last place. In the Final Round, five finalist teams of high potential students were pitching their business ideas to a panel of judges, including: 1. Prof. Ed SNAPE (Dean, School of Business) 2. Mr. Leo CHIU (Venture Partner, Spike Ventures) 3. Mr. Michael YIP (Co-founder, LimeHK) 4. Ms. Wendy YUEN (Head of Business Banking, Hang Seng Bank) The Competition attracted other entrepreneurs, venture capital firms, angel investors, incubators and accelerators to get together. After an intense competition, the results are listed below:

Champion Project Name: Facizal CHUNG Lok Him, BBA (ISEM), Year 4; TSANG Yuen Yi, BBA (ACCT), Year 4 1st Runner-up Project Name: Rainbow NG Man Hue, Marketing, Year 3; CHOY Tsun Hang, Marketing, Year 3; TSE Wun Kei, Marketing, Year 3; LAM Yu Fai, Marketing, Year 3; DONG Zi Han, Marketing, Year 4; NG Man Kei, Marketing, Year 4; DAI Ching Man, Marketing, Year 4 2nd Runner-up Project Name: AquaX HO Kin Ting David, BBA (Entrepreneurship), Year 3; LIU Jianzhi, Mathematics and Statistics, Year 2 Consolation Prizes Project Name: Introducing an Automatic Sorting Garbage Machine CHAN Ka Ian, BBA (ACCT), Year 3; CHAN Cho Man, Social Work, Year 3; CHOI Hong Yi, BBA (ACCT), Year 3 Project Name: #PayForward Alexandre Viana de MIRANDA, Exchange; Lennart FALKENBERG, Exchange; CHAN Wing, Luanne, BBA (MKT); Philip Thomas KOERMENDI, Exchange Congratulations to all teams! Has B.I.G.3.0 come to an end? Definitely NOT! We are delighted to help our students validate their idea and put them onto the right track in developing business. Stay tuned! Some Updates about B.I.G.2.0 teams

Daifu Capsule and Siu Sik have been selected as Top 40 out of 100 in Student Startup Teams in 2019 JUMPSTARTER IdeaPOP (a pitching competition, curated by Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund, for all HK university students). Pitch Day was held in early Jan 2019. >>>

Daifu Capsule also enrolled in Qianhai - Guangdong - Hong Kong - Macao Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition in Sep 2018. Team entered in the semi-final game and was selected as Top 14 out of 130 HK teams as well as Top 150 out of 1,100 teams from Shenzhen, Macau and HK.

News @ EIC

1. Pitching Night and Gathering with China Startup Community (3 Dec 2018)

Invited by Entrepreneur Times, Dr. YM WONG, Director of EIC, served as the judge of the Pitching Night for Zhongshan Overseas Students Pioneer Park of China. Audience also grasped the opportunity to share the latest development of China startup ecosystem.

News @ School of Business

1. Entrepreneurial Internship in HK Hottest Startups Learn, explore and network in hottest startups

Why intern at startups? What do past interns say?

- Awesome experience I never had - Precious chance to work with great people - Remarkable experience not learnt in classroom - Greatly contribute to my future career - Great mindset and creative training - Enrich my like, skills and mindset

2. UC Berkeley’s Startup Semester Programme (Aug – Nov 2018)

Welcome back, Eve!

We believed you had a fruitful and memorable time during “Startup Semester Programme” at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), from Aug to Nov 2018. Let’s see what Eve says as below:

"During my study at UC Berkeley, I luckily received a developer ticket of San Francisco Blockchain Week, which costed 250 US dollars! This allowed me to attend the workshops about the latest trend of this leading technology - Blockchain. The event broadened my horizons and gave me insights and imagination of this new industry, which was valuable for my entrepreneurship practice." Eve LIU Yi-Hsuan, a year 3 BBA Entrepreneurship student of the School of Business from Taiwan, had been selected to participate in this exclusive “Startup Semester Programme” in UC Berkeley with other 6 HKBU students.

3. Business students win HK$100,000 Cyberport Creative Micro Fund for fintech startup (Oct 2018)

Thomas HUANG (MSc in Applied Economics) and Zakson FENG (BBA Finance, Year 4) of the School of Business and another HKBU student were selected to participate in the Cyberport University Partnership Programme 2018. The team stood out from 19 teams at the demonstration, and won a seed funding of HK$100,000 and a fast-track interview opportunity to the signature Cyberport Incubation Programme to achieve their startup dreams. >>>

4. HKBU "Regeneration Warrior" develops easy-to-use software enabling severely disabled people to use computers (Dec 2018)

Jointly collaborated by the School of Business, the Department of Computer Science and the Centre for Innovative Service-Learning, CHEUNG Sai-ho, a Master of Science in Advanced Information Systems student, has developed

voice-control computer software for severely disabled people in spite of his own physical and speech disabilities. The software, named "Cerebral Palsy to Joy (CP2Joy)", is the first human-computer interface for severely disabled people in Hong Kong. It will enable those with severe disabilities to use the internet on their own, thereby reducing the digital divide. >>>

5. Prof. William LEUNG, Chairman of the School of Business Advisory Committee, will join WeLab

港產獨角獸Welab委任「卡王」梁永祥

為虛擬銀行候任行政總裁 梁永祥加盟WeLab掌虛擬銀行 金管局發牌在即

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