HKBN Networking Seminar: How AI will impact your business – everything a business owner needs to understand
Date: Wednesday 29th November 2023
Time: 6 – 9pm (6.30-7.30pm seminar; 7.30-9pm networking canapés and drinks)
Venue: EY, One More London Place, SE1 2AF
Early adopters often have the advantage over competitors in an era of fast technological change.
AI is likely to provide the fastest change of all, little understood by most CEOs and employees alike – is it a boon or bane? We have assembled a panel of leading experts in strategic thinking, practical application and entrepreneurship around artificial intelligence to discuss how CEOs and employees should embrace the coming change or risk being overtaken by those who do.
Written using ChatGPT (or maybe not!)
PANELLISTS
John Jeffcock, CEO at Winmark, Chair of C-Suite AI Board
Cecelia Liao, Consultant at Microsoft
Mark Lunt, Member of Digital Advisory Committee at HKSTP - Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation
MODERATOR
Harvey Lewis, Partner at EY, Member of techUK’s leadership committee for Data Analytics and AI (& former rocket scientist)
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
JOHN JEFFCOCK John is Chief Executive of the award winning C-Suite network business Winmark. As CEO of Winmark he has oversight of 16 C-Suite networks, with 700 multinationals, across 18 countries. He also chairs the C-Suite AI Board and leads on Winmark’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) network. In 2020 he published a book on the C-Suite with Bloomsbury. “The Suite Spot” is described as ‘coolly analytical’ by the BBC and ‘indispensable’ by the CIPD.
John’s lectures at leading business schools in London and Hong Kong, is an Industrial Fellow at the University of East London, a Board member of the Chartered Management Institute and on the Court of the Worshipful Company of Marketors.
HARVEY LEWIS Harvey is a senior technology leader, with a diverse background spanning rocket science, data science and research. He has 30 years of experience in artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. He is a strategist, innovator and thought leader focused on applying technology to solve problems for clients in the public, private and charity sectors. He currently leads AI across the firm in the UK and Ireland.
Harvey is an accomplished writer and public speaker, winning the 2017 Management Consultancies Association Award for the best use of thought leadership investigating the impact of AI on the UK’s economy.
Harvey is a former member of the Open Data User Group, the Public Sector Transparency Board and the Advisory Committee to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on AI. He is a member of techUK’s leadership committee for Data Analytics and AI, on the editorial board for the ‘Real-World Data Science’ platform of the Royal Statistical Society and is also an Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow at The Bayes Business School in London.
CECILIA LIAO Cecilia has over 15 years of professional services experience across financial services, market intelligence and strategy consulting. As an Employee Experience Specialist at Microsoft, she helps customers shape ways of working strategy supported by Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft Viva employee experience platform and generative AI to empower employees and teams to achieve more.
MARK LUNT Mark runs his own consulting business working with start-up and early-stage companies on a retained or project basis, advising and actively engaging in strategy development and implementation, capital raising and corporate development.
With over 30 years’ experience as a CEO and/or director of listed and private companies ranging in size from start-ups to organisations employing over 3,000 people, he has worked in high growth and turnaround environments in Hong Kong, China, SE Asia, Australia, New Zealand, the US, the UK and Europe. He is a regular speaker/panelist/moderator at business and technology conferences.
Please contact communications@hkas.org.uk to register your interest.