[Start Up Talk] Empowering Frontier Technology Entrepreneurship will be held on Sept 13, 2023 (Wed) 6:00pm-8:00pm at Choh-Ming Li Basic Medical Sciences Bldg G18, CUHK.

In this session, we are honoured to have Dr. Xiaoyong SHEN (Co-founder & CEO, SmartMore Co. Ltd.) and Mr. Victor WANG (Co-founder, ZhenFund) sharing the power of entrepreneurial mindset as the foundation of business success.

【Content highlights】

Keynote by Victor Wang: "The Courage to Rule the Future"

• Mental Preparation for Entrepreneurship - In the rapidly changing age of "Liquid Modernity", what mindset should we have before starting a business?

• Cultivating an Entrepreneurial Mindset - An independent, youthful, aesthetic and creative way of thinking is essential prerequisites for the continuous growth and success of any enterprise.

Keynote by Dr. Xiaoyong Shen "Frontier Technology Entrepreneurship - From Zero to Unicorn"

• Takeaways on the transition from a computer scientist to a successful entrepreneur

• How to navigate through cycles and overcome the "darkest moments" in entrepreneurship?

• How generative AI influenced the AI industry? Any potential opportunities for startups?

Speakers

Mr. Victor WANG, Co-founder, Zhen Fund

Prior to ZhenFund, Victor co-founded New Oriental Education & Technology Group (NYSE: EDU), the largest provider of private education in China. Victor is not only a respected entrepreneur, but also a renowned enthusiast and collector of ancient Western books, and a well-known humanities scholar. He has authored and translated influential works such as "Reading Reconstructs Me," "A Bookworm's Summer in Oxford," and "The Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller."

Victor is now an executive council member of the Centre for China & Globalization (CCG), a leading Chinese independent think tank based in Beijing. He is also a donor of the Future Science Prize. In 2015, Victor was honored as a Foundation Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford University.

Dr. Xiaoyong SHEN, Co-founder & CEO, SmartMore Co. Ltd.

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Vision and Computer Graphics, CUHK (2016)

Dr. Xiaoyong Shen, Co-founder and CEO of SmartMore Co. Ltd., has more than 10 years' expertise in computer vision. He received PhD degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and founded SmartMore Co. Ltd. with his PhD supervisor Prof. Jiaya Jia. Prior to founding SmartMore Co. Ltd.. Dr. Shen worked in various research institutes like Tencent Youtu Lab, Huawei, Microsoft and Google. His ground-breaking achievements include but not limited to multi-modal image processing, image and video understanding, and 3D point cloud analysis.

SmartMore Co., Ltd is a fast-growing high-tech unicorn company specialized in providing comprehensive products & solutions for smart manufacturing and digital innovation, which combines five leading capabilities of "optical", "machine", "electrical", "arithmetic" and "software". After more than 20 years of technology accumulation, combined with unique business thinking, SmartMore Co. Ltd. continues to build a more scalable and intelligent industry and digital innovation platform, promoting the exploration of intelligent upgrading and digital transformation of industrial manufacturing.

Official Website of SmartMore Co. Ltd. : https://global.smartmore.com/

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