The triple squeeze of economic pressure (and persistent high inflation), scarce and expensive talent and ongoing supply challenges is heightening the desire and urgency to realise time to value.
Forrester’s research shows that technology executives will tread lightly around its innovation potential while ensuring that the core elements of their operations — operating model, talent, and architecture — taking a front seat and forming the foundation for success in 2024. Also, it indicated that CIOs play a vital role in ensuring technology-driven growth to enable, create and amplify enterprise’s growth by providing a unified technology strategy to help marketing, sales, customer experience, digital, and product teams propel the company’s growth. Therefore, APAC tech spending will grow by 6.8% to 7.3% per year from 2024 to 2027.
In 2024, how should CIOs in Hong Kong plan, execute their game-changing technology strategy and manage transformation initiatives? Taking place on 29 November 2023 from 9 am to 5 pm (GMT +8), at the FutureCIO Hong Kong Conference, leading IT practitioners from multiple industries in Hong Kong will converge to reveal, discuss and share observations and strategies for the year ahead, including:
This event also aims to address CIOs’ pressing concerns and business priorities in 2024, best-in-class IT leadership to scale growth as well as emerging technological and innovation trends to be agile, transformative and resilient amidst the rapidly evolving business landscapes.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
CIOs, CTOs, Directors, Heads, MDs, SVPs, VPs, Leads, involved in:
The FutureCFO Conference aims to give CFOs, who also act as their company’s strategic business partner and catalyst, insights on ensuring corporate growth and successfully mitigating risks and challenges amidst the current economic and political uncertainties in their countries. The conference will also address strategies and best practices on how CFOs can reimagine finance functions and their organizations to survive and thrive in today’s fast-paced and digitally driven landscape.
This by-invitation only one-day event will gather over 120 senior finance leaders from multiple industries and offers the best opportunity to hear from the industry’s leading professionals, contribute questions from the floor, engage in incisive panel discussions that discuss real-life business cases, updates and strategies to meet the most pertinent challenges facing the finance function in 2020.
We gather 20+ industry speakers and experts from leading organizations for keynote presentations and incisive discussions so you can tap on their invaluable insights and best practices important to your finance function management and transformation.
Be part of our interactive panel discussions that address the current hot topics, share ideas and experiences and get the answers to your pressing questions from prominent finance leaders on stage.
Meet new business partners, engage and forge new connections with fellow finance and treasury leaders in the region, solution providers and many more at our event through luncheons, coffee breaks, one-to-one meetings and informal introductions.
8 hours of learning and networking opportunities packed into 10 in depth sessions. Listen to corporate-driven best practices and case studies sharing that are targeted to your profession through the personalized country-specific conferences we crafted for you - FutureCFO Conferences.
09:00
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY
09:15
The recent developments on economic and geo-political landscapes have transformed the objectives of digital investments. Therefore, it is imperative for CIOs to understand the types of financial and business impacts and time frame that other key business leaders from the organisation expect from IT to deliver. This session will investigate the evolution of CIO’s role, leadership, organisational and technology priorities that IT leaders need to lead today and tomorrow.
Moderator:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY
Panelists:
Michael Mok, Director- Head of Infrastructure and Operations, ANGLO-EASTERN
Dr. Crystal Fok, Head of STP Platform, HONG KONG SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PARKS CORPORATION (HKSTP)
Xingyu Chen, Head of IT & Business Information Security Leader, P&G HONG KONG & TAIWAN
09:50
While there is no doubt that every business is going through a digital IT transformation agenda, we are also in a period of disruption owing to a perfect storm of macro and micro challenges facing organisations. In this session, we will explore how fast and effectively you can transform, whilst continuing to deliver on the day to day needs of the business, including every day operational goals and long-term sustainability targets.
Mary McHale, Director, Strategic Accounts, EQUINIX ASIA-PACIFIC
10:15
Interviewer:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY
Interviewee:
Ravel Lai, CIO, UNI-CHINA GROUP
10:35
11:00
According to IDC, ICT spending grew in 2021 by more than 7.1% in APAC to US$ 950 billion, and is expected to reach US$ 1.1 trillion by 2025. Also, Gartner indicates that only 1.8% increase of the global spend will occur in Southeast Asia. This session will highlight the importance of TBM for IT leaders to do more with less and manage the challenges that many have around budgets and financial transparency with the business.
Interviewer:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY
Interviewee:
Steve Dodd, Executive Manager IT Enterprise Applications, THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
11:20
Dealing with legacy systems and technology today and in the coming years is complicated and finding the necessary expertise to deal with legacy technology can be challenging. Enterprises with a lot of legacy technology find that legacy systems are a major inhibitor to stay agile and accelerate their digital transformation initiatives. This session will discuss insights into modernisation drivers, challenges, and best practices.
Moderator:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY
Panelists:
Dave Chen, Vice President (Cutting-Edge Technologies), HONG KONG COMPUTER SOCIETY
Sean Zhou, Regional IT Head, APAC, PRADA GROUP
Dr. Peter Wong, CTO, PRENETICS
Ash Shah, Head of IT, Asia, RGA REINSURANCE GROUP
11:55
At the World Economic Forum 2023, cybersecurity was named a top concern as there are acute shortages of IT security professionals who are able to tackle the cyber security issues.
On top of this, every employee of companies in today’s digital economy inherently comes with risks and security concerns. Therefore, other than the organisation’s IT and IT security personnel, they are key in keeping the organisation’s safe from digital threats.
Interviewer:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY
Interviewee:
Fuller Yu, CISO, HOSPITAL AUTHORITY HONG KONG
12:20
13:20
There is one thing in common between cyber security resources and breaches: Both cost money. However, recovering from the latter can be extremely stressful, challenging and costly for businesses. Lack of preparation in a response plan, if incidents were to occur, leaves organisation at risk of being unable to handle an attack effectively and even being vulnerable to further attacks.
Antoine Yang, Country Manager, SYNOLOGY
13:45
Paul Tsang, Cybersecurity Architect – Greater China, CISCO SYSTEMS (HK)
14:10
IDC predicts that by 2026, 75% of large Asia Pacific enterprises will reply on AI-infused processes to enhance asset efficiency, streamline supply chains and improve product quality across diverse and distributed environments. Also, Lavanya Jindal, Market Analyst, Customer Experience and Enterprise Applications at IDC Asia Pacific notes that Gen AI holds immense potential for Customer Experience (CX). Experimenting with this technology will also help determine which use cases – customer facing or employee facing constitute the greatest value for a specific business model.
This session discusses how AI will reshape businesses in 2024 and how best business leaders should leverage AI for the future of work or operations, digital innovations and customer experience.
Interviewer:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY
Interviewees:
Henry Leung, Head of Data Management, NEW WORLD GROUP (NEW WORLD CORPORATE SERVICES LIMITED)
Prof. Andy Chun, Regional Director, Technology Innovation, PRUDENTIAL
14:35
Interviewer:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY
Interviewees:
Allan Wong, Director of Information Technology, HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
Keith Ip, CTO, LI & FUNG
15:00
15:25
A 2022’s IDC survey found that 83% of respondents agree sustainability is the most important criteria in IT buying decisions. As technology continues to take a larger role in corporate sustainability practices, purpose-driven CIOs need to create and implement a comprehensive sustainable technology strategy.
Interviewer:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY
Interviewee:
Patrick Stewart-Blacker, Technology Project Director, AIA
15:45
Workplaces in 2024 will be more diverse, flexible and distributed than ever before. As enterprises in Asia adapt to the new way of working, to cater the shifting employees’ expectations, IT leaders in Hong Kong need to find ways to ensure productivity across organization while keeping employees happy and engaged in the hybrid working world.
Moderator:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY
Panelists:
Kelvin Chan, IT Director, Asia, CREE LED
Kent Lam, CTO, DECATHLON HONG KONG
Ken Shum, Head of Technical Services, MyTV SUPER LIMITED
16:20
This session delves into three critical predictions that will shape your technology strategy in 2024. These insights will guide tech leaders in navigating the ever-evolving landscape, ensuring their organisations thrive in the year ahead.
16:45
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY
17:00
Group Editor-in-Chief
CXOCIETY
Director of Information Technology
HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
Country Manager
SYNOLOGY
Head of IT, Asia
RGA REINSURANCE GROUP
Vice President (Cutting-Edge Technologies)
HONG KONG COMPUTER SOCIETY
Director of AI Applications, AISC Project Team
CYBERPORT
CTO
PRENETICS
VP, Senior Research Director
FORRESTER
Exco Member of Cyber Security Specialist Group
HONG KONG COMPUTER SOCIETY (HKCS)
Head of Data Management
NEW WORLD GROUP (NEW WORLD CORPORATE SERVICES LIMITED)
CTO
LI & FUNG
IT Director, Asia
CREE LED
Head of Technical Services
MyTV SUPER LIMITED
CTO
DECATHLON HONG KONG
Director, Strategic Accounts
EQUINIX ASIA-PACIFIC
Director- Head of Infrastructure and Operations
ANGLO-EASTERN
Technology Project Director
AIA
Cybersecurity Architect – Greater China
CISCO SYSTEMS (HK)
Regional Director, Technology Innovation
PRUDENTIAL
CIO
UNI-CHINA GROUP
Regional IT Head, APAC
PRADA GROUP
Executive Manager IT Enterprise Applications
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
Head of IT & Business Information Security Leader
P&G HONG KONG & TAIWAN
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