Speakers
The people in the room.
Founders, builders, and investors who have done it — here to help the next generation do the same.
The Organisers
Organiser
Angel Lui
Community Builder
From law school and VC to organising 400+ dinners, hackathons,
and events across 17+ cities. Builds spaces where education,
community, and tech intersect.
Organiser
Chinat Yu
AI Researcher & Strategist
Johns Hopkins CS + Stanford MA graduate. MLH Top 50 honoree.
Expert in high-impact hackathon ecosystems and AI builder
community development.
Organiser
Jeffrey Zhou
AI Systems Builder
Works at the intersection of AI, biotech, and applied
engineering — focused on global execution and making complex
technical ideas accessible to real-world builders.
Organiser
Jovy Yu
Growth and Educator
Builder and community organiser shaping how Hong Kong's next
generation learns, ships, and grows.
Speakers
Keynote
Quincy Larson
Founder, freeCodeCamp
Built the world's largest free coding education platform from
scratch. 11.3 million YouTube subscribers. A former school
director who taught himself to code and built the resource he
wished had existed.
Keynote
John Whaley
Founder, Inception Studio · Adjunct Professor, Stanford CS ·
Technology Adviser, Votee AI
Forbes AI 50. Three-time cybersecurity founder. Built Inception
Studio as a zero-equity nonprofit accelerator — 27+ companies
formed, 12+ funded by top-tier VCs.
Keynote
Pak-Sun Ting
Co-founder & CEO, Votee AI
Co-founder and CEO of Votee AI, the Toronto-Hong Kong enterprise
AI company behind the world's first open-source Cantonese large
language model. Former Head of Fixed Income Sales and Syndicate
at Bank of China (HK) (prev. J.P. Morgan, Standard Chartered).
Leads Votee's mission to build Sovereign AI that enterprises own
and run on their own infrastructure.
Panelist
Clement Pang
EIR, Sutter Hill Ventures
Born in HK. Co-founded Wavefront, acquired by VMware for US$400M.
Google Founders' Award. Co-founded GLMX, which processes over $1
trillion in daily trading volume.
Panelist
Karin Ann
Co-founder, International Montessori School of Hong Kong
Stanford BS/MS '91. Built HK's first accredited Montessori primary
school — 4 campuses, ~1,000 students. Twenty years rethinking how
children develop the intrinsic motivation to learn.
Panelist
Sarah Tong
Co-founder & CEO, Big Bang Academy
Forbes 30U30. Reinventing how children learn science, technology,
and AI — hybrid classes, hands-on kits, and Big Bang Lab. 30,000+
students across Hong Kong, Singapore, and beyond.
Panelist
Ernest Kam
Co-founder & CEO, InstaAgent (YC P26)
Ex-Tencent. Co-founded InstaAgent — an AI marketing platform in Y
Combinator's P26 batch. Hit $1M ARR in 10 months. Currently in the
arena.
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Panelist
Heatherm (黃何) Huang
Co-founder, Measurable AI & MailTime
YC W16. MailTime — Apple Best App 2015. Measurable AI — largest
alternative data panel for emerging markets. Measurable Data Token
listed on Coinbase and Binance.
Panelist
Seth Lim
Vice President, Tower Capital Asia
Started at Goldman Sachs in New York. Moved to private credit at
ADM Capital in Hong Kong. Now VP at Tower Capital Asia — backing
mid-market, category-leading companies across Asia.
Panelist
Tom Ho
AI Product Strategist, Wonderful
15+ years in Product, including award-winning Anichess Puzzles at
Animoca Brands, and led product teams at Binance.US and
Crypto.com. Currently building AI Agents for HK enterprises with
Wonderful.
Panelist
Jimmy Ng
Senior Director, Gobi Partners
Senior Director at Gobi Partners — the Asian VC behind Airwallex
and WeLab. $30M+ deployed across a dozen Hong Kong and mainland
China startups, including seed cheques into PanopticAI and
isBIM. Board member at PanopticAI, isBIM, and RushOwl.
Panelist
Rachel Cheng
Vice Secretary General & Chairperson of International Affairs
Committee
Chief of Staff at Pollock Capital. Former head of e-commerce and
supply chain at KFC Hong Kong & Macao, with a background spanning
venture building, operations, and scaling digital businesses.
