Navigating the Future of Work in the Age of AI

Mr Peter Yan is an industry leader with more than 38 years of experience in the information technology industry. As the CEO of Cyberport, Mr Yan leads the digital technology flagship to focus on fostering talent cultivation, industry development and the integration of new and traditional economies. He champions Cyberport’s vision to create new impetus for Hong Kong's economy through digital technology. Mr Yan is a member of the Election Committee (the Technology and Innovation Subsector). He is also an official member of the HKSAR Task Force on Promoting Web3 Development, a member of the HKSAR Northern Metropolis Advisory Committee, and various industry or professional organisations in the I&T sector. Mr Yan holds a BBA Degree from CUHK and was conferred the Honoree of the Year by the CUHK Chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma in 2020, he had received Executive Education from the Harvard Business School.

Ms Jennifer Zhu Scott is the Founding Partner of IN. Capital, focusing on AI and deep tech. She was the Executive Chairman of The Commons Project, a non-profit public trust established to build global digital infrastructure as a public good. She was among the Forbes World's Top 50 Women in Tech in 2018 and co-chair of the Fortune Global Tech Forum in 2019. She was named one of The Most Influential Businesswomen in China by Fortune in 2021. She is a China fellow of the Aspen Institute and has a dual fellowship at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) under the Asia-Pacific Programme and the Digital Society Initiative, and a council member at the Data Policy Council of the World Economic Forum, where she served for the China Council and the Future of Blockchain Council. WEF named her a Young Global Leader in 2013. She is a board trustee of Web Science Trust. Ms Scott majored in applied mathematics at Sichuan University and holds an MBA in finance from Manchester Business School. She completed the public policy and leadership programs at Yale University in 2013, Harvard Kennedy School in 2016, and Oxford University in 2017. In 2018, she joined Princeton University’s inaugural executive education program focused on energy sustainability and leadership. She is a frequent public speaker and published writer on AI, data ownership, and China’s digital monetary strategies. Her TED Talk on data ownership reached 3.3m views.

Prof Pascale Fung is a Chair Professor at the Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST), and a visiting professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. She is an elected Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), an elected Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), an Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and an elected Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association. She is the Director of HKUST Centre for AI Research (CAiRE), an interdisciplinary research centre on top of all four schools at HKUST. She is an expert on the Global Future Council, a think tank for the World Economic Forum. She represents HKUST on Partnership on AI to Benefit People and Society. She is on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. She is a member of the IEEE Working Group to develop an IEEE standard - Recommended Practice for Organizational Governance of Artificial Intelligence. Her research team has won several best and outstanding paper awards at ACL and NeurIPS workshops.

Prof Naubahar Sharif is the Acting Head and Professor of the Division of Public Policy (PPOL) at HKUST. His research interests include science, technology and innovation (STI) policy in Hong Kong and within the ‘Greater Bay Area’ of Southern China; automation in China; and the ‘Belt and Road’ initiative. He has been awarded both ‘Public Policy Research’ (PPR) and ‘General Research Fund’ (GRF) grants by Hong Kong’s Research Grants Council (RGC). Currently, Prof Sharif is a co-investigator for two ‘Strategic Public Policy Research’ (SPPR) grants awarded by Hong Kong’s Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office (PICO) as well as a cross-institutional ‘Collaborative Research Fund’ (CRF) grant awarded by the RGC. From 2006–2010, he consulted for Hong Kong’s Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC). His research has had a demonstrable impact on business and his research was one of HKUST’s few ‘impact case study’ submissions (sole-authored) for its 2020 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).