Artificial Intelligence (AI) Entrepreneurship in Health Care Industry

Date: 6 December 2021, Monday
Time: 10:10 - 15:15 (Hong Kong Time, UTC+8)
Co-Chairs:

Prof. Tim Kwang-Ting CHENG (Dean, School of Engineering, HKUST) Prof. Bert SHI (Professor, Electronic and Computer Engineering, HKUST)

10:10 - 10:15	Introduction
10:15 - 10:45	The Smart Hospital and Digital Health in the Hospital Authority Dr. Ngai-tseung CHEUNG Chief Medical Information Officer, Hospital Authority
10:45 - 11:15	What is it like working at the world’s largest translational hospital as a computer scientist? How the NIH prepared me to collaborate effectively with physicians Dr. Le LU Head of Medical AI R&D, Alibaba Researcher (Senior Director), Alibaba DAMO Academy, USA
11:15 - 11:45	Transform Healthcare by Combining Knowledge Graph and Machine Learning Technologies, Practice by Ping An Group Dr. Yuan NI Deputy Chief Engineer, PingAn Technology
11:45 - 12:15	Self-supervised Learning for Omics Dr. Meng YANG Head of the MGI AI Lab
12:15 - 12:45	Opportunities of artificial intelligence in transforming Chinese healthcare: A perspective of Tencent Dr. Yefeng ZHENG Director of Tencent Jarvis Lab
12:45 – 13:45	Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00	Panel Discussion Moderator: Prof. Tim Kwang-Ting CHENG / Prof. Bert SHI Panelists: Dr. Ngai-tseung CHEUNG Dr. Le LU Dr. Yuan NI Dr. Meng YANG Dr. Yefeng ZHENG
15:00 - 15:15	Wrap up and Recommendation

Synthetic Biology and Bio-Economy

Date: 6 December 2021, Monday
Time: 10:10 - 15:15 (Hong Kong Time, UTC+8)
Chair:

Prof. King CHOW (Professor, Division of Life Science, HKUST)

10:10 - 10:15	Introduction
10:15 - 10:40	The CoMotion Innovation Hub - Igniting Entrepreneurship at the University of Washington Prof. François BANEYX Vice Provost for Innovation Director, CoMotion Charles W.H. Matthaei Professor of Chemical Engineering Director, Center for the Science of Synthesis Across Scales University of Washington
10:40 - 11:05	The development of Synthetic Biology in the UK as a new discipline at the interface of academia and entrepreneurship Prof. Geoff BALDWIN Professor of Synthetic & Molecular Biology Co-Director, Imperial College Centre for Synthetic Biology Director, EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Bio DEsign Engineering, Imperial College London
11:05 - 11:30	Synthetic Biology in China and GBA Prof. Daniel LEE Associate Vice-President and Chief Innovation and Enterprise Officer, Office of Innovation and Enterprise, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
11:30 - 11:55	Synthetic Biology in Singapore Dr. Cheuh Loo POH Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering , National University of Singapore Co-founder, AdvanceSyn Pte Ltd, Singapore
11:55 - 12:20	Strategic Collaborations between Hong Kong and Shenzhen in Biotechnology – Capitalising opportunities in the Loop for Policy Innovations Mr. Kenny SHUI Assistant Research Director, Head of Economic Development, Our Hong Kong Foundation
12:20 - 12:45	Synthetic Biology in China - from technology development to applications Dr. Youming ZHANG Director of Department of Engineering Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Science, Shenzhen, China
12:45 - 13:45	Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00	Panel Discussion Moderator: Prof. King L. CHOW Panelists: Prof. Geoff BALDWIN Prof. Daniel LEE Dr. Cheuh Loo POH Mr. Kenny SHUI Dr. Youming ZHANG
15:00 - 15:15	Wrap up and Recommendation

10:00 - 10:20	KU Leuven R&D: creating and mobilizing a KT ecosystem Prof. Koenraad DEBACKERE Executive Director, Leuven Research and Development (LRD), KU Leuven
10:20 - 10:40	Creating impact from innovation and entrepreneurship development in the University Dr. Shin Cheul KIM Acting Associate Vice-President (Knowledge Transfer) & Director of Technology Transfer Center, HKUST
10:40 - 11:00	Innovation and Technology for Inclusive Growth Dr. Albert Wing Yin KO Director, Entrepreneurship Initiative Director, Service-Learning, Office of Service-Learning, Lingnan University
11:00 - 11:20	Role of university and local industry in forming entrepreneurship ecosystem in Japan Prof. Kazuyuki MOTOHASHI Professor, Research Center of Advanced Science and Technology Head, Department of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
11:20 - 11:40	Academic entrepreneurship and innovation: a Singapore case Prof. Jue WANG Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Nanyang Center for Public Administration, Nanyang Technological University
12:00 - 12:45	Panel Discussion Moderator: Prof. Xun WU Panelists: Prof. Koenraad DEBACKERE Dr. Shin Cheul KIM Dr. Albert KO Prof. Kazuyuki MOTOHASHI Prof. Jue WANG
12:45 - 13:00	Wrap up and Recommendation

Thematic Sessions

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Entrepreneurship in Health Care Industry

Synthetic Biology and Bio-Economy

A Role of Research Universities in Innovation-led Economic Growth