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Startup Weekend HKUST - Healthcare x BioTech
Friday, March 3 - 5, 2017
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Startup Weekend HKUST - Healthcare x BioTech
Friday, March 3 - 5, 2017
Friday, March 3 - 5, 2017
Event starts at 6:30 pm
The BASE, Room 1520 (Lift 29-30, 1/F)
Hong Kong University Of Science And Technology
Hong Kong,
Hong Kong
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Change the world at the next Startup Weekend HKUST: Healthcare x BioTech!
Startup Weekend, powered by Google for
Entrepreneurs, is a 54-hour weekend entrepreneurial training program to form
a team (Fri), work, learn, build a prototype (Sat), present your startup idea
and network with entrepreneurs (Sun). As you learn how to CREATE
A REAL THING & BUSINESS, you'll meet the very best mentors, investors, cofounders,
and sponsors who are ready to help you get started. Up to
date, 23k+ teams have been
formed in 150 countries in 2.9k+ Startup Weekends! This
round, we are looking for participants who want to SOLVE THE HEALTH PROBLEMS!
What’s included in your ticket?
- A chance to learn from the best and pitch in front of entrepreneurs and industry experts
- A cool working environment @ The BASE with nice foods and drinks (2 breakfasts, 1 lunch & 3 dinners)
- A great reward to winners and participants (Free office desks at TGN and Ooosh; Free professional consultation for your startup development; AND Free use of Skygear, a mobile app development tool)
Special Discount to HKUST members!
Please visit The BASE or check HKUST Entrepreneurship Center Newsletter!
How to go to The Venue (The BASE, HKUST)?
Please click HERE for the transportation tips!
Frequent questions
Q:
May I join alone without a team?
A: Definitely yes! You will find a team and news friends who share the same mission at the first night!
Q: I don’t have an idea, can I join?
A: Of course. You will choose the team with idea that you want to work the first day.
Q: I am not interested in creating my own business. Should I join?
A: Startup Weekend is also a good learning experience for you to turn book-knowledge into a real thing. During this journey, you will learn how to apply your knowledge to the real world!
Q: I don’t have any knowledge about Health-care and Bio-tech. Should I join?
A: Don’t underestimate your talent! What you come across in your daily life might be relevant to this field as well. Most importantly, you can find teammates in the first day that could complement your inadequacy.
A: Definitely yes! You will find a team and news friends who share the same mission at the first night!
Q: I don’t have an idea, can I join?
A: Of course. You will choose the team with idea that you want to work the first day.
Q: I am not interested in creating my own business. Should I join?
A: Startup Weekend is also a good learning experience for you to turn book-knowledge into a real thing. During this journey, you will learn how to apply your knowledge to the real world!
Q: I don’t have any knowledge about Health-care and Bio-tech. Should I join?
A: Don’t underestimate your talent! What you come across in your daily life might be relevant to this field as well. Most importantly, you can find teammates in the first day that could complement your inadequacy.
Any question?
For inquiry, feel free to contact The BASE Team at base@ust.hk.Come and spend the most mind-blowing 54 hours of your life with us at the Startup Weekend HKUST: Healthcare x BioTech! See you there!
EVENT SCHEDULE
Friday March 3rd
6:30 pm
Registration
Arrive at the venue and get checked in
6:45 pm
Dinner & Networking
Eat food, share ideas, practice pitches, get to know fellow participants
7:30 pm
Welcome & Speakers
Review agenda for the weekend and introduce speakers, coaches, and community leaders
7:45 pm
Pitches Start
Optionally line up to give your pitch
9:00 pm
Voting
Attendees vote for the top pitches
9:20 pm
Form Teams
Teams start forming and discussing ideas
10:00 pm
Begin Work
Start to formalize teams and take an inventory of skills. Be honest, and direct about what resources and skills are needed for the weekend. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow
Saturday March 4th
9:30 am
Breakfast
Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
10:00 am
Begin Work
Teams formed and setting up workspace for the weekend
10:00 am
Reminder & Registering Coaches
Provide Tips and Supports to all teams
11:30 am
Market Validation
Free Coach to city center for customer & market validation
4:00 pm
Coach Meetings
Coaches help teams one-on-one. They are here to help!
7:00 pm
Dinner
10:00 pm
Wrap-Up
Finished for the day. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow
Sunday March 5th
9:30 am
Breakfast
Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
10:00 am
Begin Work
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
Presentation Prep & Tech Check
Final hours of worktime should be focused on perfecting your presentation, tech-check for final presentations also takes place
4:00 pm
Final Presentations
6:30 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm
Judging & Awards
8:30 pm
Wrap-Up
9:00 pm
Go Home!
Speakers
Prof. Gary Chen
Director at HKUST Entrepreneurship Center
Dr. S.-H. Gary Chan is
currently Professor in the Department of Computer Science and
Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST),
Hong Kong. He is also the Director of Entrepreneurship Center,
and Chair of the Committee on
Entrepreneurship
Education Program, Center for Education Innovation. Professor Chan has
co-founded several startups deploying his research results. Due to
their innovations and commercial impacts, his projects have received
local and international ICT awards (2012-2015).
He is the recipient of
Google Mobile 2014 Award (2010 and 2011) and Silver Award of Boeing
Research and Technology (2009). He has been a visiting professor and
researcher in Microsoft Research (2000-11), Princeton University
(2009), Stanford University (2008-09), and University of California
at Davis (1998-1999).
Event Judges
Dr. Frank Filser
Director and Founder at Nexpaq
Dr. Frank Filser is an inventor who invents new products that never existed before and makes them reality. His inventions span across various fields among them ceramic teeth for dental technology and modular cases for smartphones and modular power banks for Internet of Things, smart homes and smart cities.
Frank has resided in Hong Kong since 2008 where he started three companies and is currently serving as director and member of the board in Nexpack Limited and is engaged as consultant in Health Builder London Limited at the Centre for Signal Therapy. Since 2012, he also serves as director at The Gifts of the First Fruit Foundation (United States), a non-profit organization.
Frank has received numerous awards, among them is the prestigious “International Ceramics Prize” by the World Academy of Ceramics in 2004. Frank graduated in design, mechanical, and production engineering from the Technical University Kaiserslautern (Germany) in 1992 and earned his PhD in materials science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) in 2001.
Dr. Alex Kwong
Associate Director at HKUST Technology Transfer Center
Dr. Kwong completed his Ph.D. specialized in Biosensor and Bioelectronics with the support of Croucher Foundation Scholarship. He then started his career with MAXX Bioscience in 2000 to manage various biotechnology projects, acting as Senior Biotech Analyst before he left. He joined Tianda Pharmaceuticals in 2004 as the Project Manager in the R&D Dept, responsible for the monitoring of research collaborations with universities, hospitals and companies. After serving in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, he moved to the medical device manufacturing industry by joining Automatic Manufacturing Ltd. (AML) in 2005 as the Senior Biomedical Manager and Medu-Scientific Ltd. as V.P., Business Development. Meanwhile, he was also serving as the Executive Board Member in the Hong Kong Medical & Healthcare Device Industry Association in 2006-2007. In 2010, he joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as Development Manager in the Technology Transfer Center, particularly for the commercialization of traditional Chinese medicine, biotechnology, biomedical and pharmaceutical-related research projects.
Roy Yuen
Co-founder at Oursky
Roy Yuen is one of the co-founders of Oursky,
a HK-based app dev studio that helps startups turn their ideas into reality and
contribute to open source developer project. With his strong technical
background and management skills, he led different startup products to
world-class level.
Coaches and Mentors
Tim Chan
Founder at HelloReporter & Growth Marketer Academy
Tim Chan is founder of HelloReporter & HelloPR, leveraging technology to do PR for Startup & SME. He also founded Growth Marketer Academy to promote Actionable Growth Tactics in APAC startup ecosystem. Tim joined various Incubations & Accelerators including: Appworks, Cyberport, Google EYE, HKFYG SIC etc. He also initiated various projects & communities relating to technology, marketing, community etc with other buddies e.g.：CMX HK, Influencer Insider, TEDxHKBU and Code4HK
Lucas Fong
Co-founder & CEO at Simplus
Lucas is the co-founder and CEO at Simplus, a HTML interpreter with a marketplace for SaaS and developers. Lucas started coding since 10 and familiar with over 10 coding languages. He has provided software development, system administration and security services over 8 years, and involved a lot of large scale projects for government, famous organizations and competition events. Lucas is also an active contributor for promoting information technology. Answers will never come if we don't ask questions. Asking "WHY" is always the key for becoming a wise.
Sean Leung
Co-founder & Chief Architect at Simplus
Sean is a Network Engineer, Front-end Developer and UI / UX Designer. Sean studied and worked in Information Technology field with around 5 years and specially focus on UX design of mobile & web application in the past one year. Until now, Sean created over hundred design works including graphic, logo, mobile and web interface design. One of the mobile application is awarded in Hackathon.I founded Simplus.IO with my college classmate, who share the same vision with me - provide better development experience to developer. That's why Simplus.IO is founded and empower HTML - the world simplest language as the medium to simplify the development process of integrating SaaS with user interface. As a Chief Customer Officer, I’m responsible to walk with customers, collect feedback and provide better user experience. As an UX designer, I love interact with people and try to find out people’s conceptual model.
Wing Kwong
Patient Engagement & Access Manager at Pifzer
Kwong has been with the healthcare industry for 5 years and is currently with Pfizer Corporation as patient engagement & access manager. Prior to this role, she was the brand marketing manager for the Inflammation & Immunology therapeutic unit, taking care of both Hong Kong and Macau markets. Kwong joined healthcare as a public relations practitioner with Ogilvy & Mather, and moved on to the worldwide pharmaceutical GlaxoSmithKline. Kwong holds a Bachelor in Education Studies in the University of Exeter, UK, and a Masters in Integrated Communication Management with The Hong Kong Baptist University.
Cyrus Chan
Assistant Manager at HKSTP
Dr. Cyrus Chan is the assistant manager at Hong Kong Science and Technology Park (HKSTP). After obtaining BSc in Biochemistry in CUHK, he spent six years as a postdoctoral researcher at Ohio State University and HKU, before joining the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) as a senior biomedical engineer. Throughout his career Dr. Chan published 18 research papers in international peer-reviewed journals with h-index 13, got 3 research grants (2 as principle investigator and 1 as co-investigator) and successfully filed one patent.
Kit Shum
Project Director at IceHealing Health&Pro
Miss Kit Shum is the project director of IceHealing Health and Pro Ltd. She is an expressive arts therapist-in-training, registered teacher, yoga teacher and hypnotherapist. She provides psychotherapy and training services to different organisations.
Patrick Lam
Diabetes scientist / Management consultant
Patrick is a diabetes scientist-turned-management consultant with over 10 years of translational drug discovery experience in metabolic disorders. He is author of 17 high-impact articles and a filed drug utility patent to the USPTO for one of his many innovations. He is recipient of over 20 national and international merit awards, including the prestigious CIHR national doctoral award and served as project lead for a social business challenge hosted by the Clinton Global Initiative. As a management consultant in Canada and Hong Kong, Patrick has been advising commercial, public, and institutional clients in strategy and operational excellence in Pharmaceutical, Life Sciences and Healthcare. He is a member of the British Chamber of Commerce Healthcare Committee.
Davie Chen
Strategy & Planning Manager at GSK
Prior joining GSK, Davie has obtained his PhD within the normal study period with 10 publications in international peer-reviewed journals, paper presentations, and invited keynote speaker in international optometric conferences, and fellowships awarded by AAOpt and BCLA. After graduated from his doctoral degree, he worked as an experienced marketer specialised in expert marketing and product management in both pharmaceutical and healthcare product in GSK and Bausch and Lomb respectively, and led the record breaking mega integration between GSK and Novartis in 2014, also similar integrations with Pfizer, Amgen, STADA and Stiefel business.
Ben Cheng
Co-founder of OurSky
Ben Cheng is a young entrepreneur in IT industry, Co-founder of Oursky, and Vice President of
Internet Society Hong Kong.
His award-winning team Oursky have launched a number of apps with over 3 Million downloads
on both iOS and Android platforms. Their apps have also been featured as Best of the week /
Best of 2013 by Apple, among other prestigious apps.
Since 2008, Ben and his team create quality web and mobile apps for small businesses and
consumer users through consultation, design and agile coding. They also develop in-house
products such as Pandaform.com, Retain.cc, FileSQ.com with great passion.
Ben have been actively engaged in various community / government organisations including
Creative Commons Hong Kong and Elected Member of the Election Committee (IT sub-sector)
of HKSAR. In addition, he is on a mission to help promote entrepreneurship in Hong Kong and
share his startup experience with young adventurers.
Jack Kong
Investment Director at Hong Kong X-Tech Startup Platform
Mr. Kong graduated from Professional
Accountancy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and he is a chartered
accountant of HKICPA. Before joining Hong Kong X, Mr. Kong worked in the Merger
& Acquisition Department of E&Y, Sequoia Capital China and Investment
Monitoring Department of Tencent.
Dr. Jian Sun
Director of Internal Operations at Hong Kong X-Tech Startup Platform
Doctor of HKU (Computational Chemistry),
Master and Bachelor of Nankai Univ., has extensive experience in computational
chemistry/biology and material simulation. Worked in HKU as a Research
Officer and the Project Manager of Area of Excellence on “Theory, Modeling, and
Simulation of Emerging Electronics” (funding: 150M HKD)
Dr. Nicholas Chan
Healthworks
Wayne Tsui
Multi-Channel Marketing Manager at GlaxoSmithKline
Wayne is an experienced professional in the pharmaceutical sector who has 14 years experience in the industry and in academic research (drug discovery), and possess solid cross function experience in sales, management, medical and marketing with GlaxoSmithKline, with experience in multiple disease franchise at different product life cycles. Thrive in cross cultural working environment and have lived/worked in both Canada and Hong Kong
Event Sponsors, and Partners
The Startup Weekend HKUST - Healthcare x BioTech team is grateful for the support of local community partners without whom this event would not be possible.
Learn how to become a sponsor here.
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Techstars Startup Weekend Hong Kong is 100% led by volunteer community leaders.
Learn how to get involved here
Facilitators
Felix Wong
Community Manager, Greater China at Techstars
Felix is a young entrepreneur, community builder and growth hacker in Hong Kong, Greater China and Asia Pacific. He is the Community Manager of Greater China at Techstars, a worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed. Since 2015, he has facilitated over 50 Techstars Startup Programs regionally, including Startup Weekend, Startup Week, corporate innovation program and regional summit.
He started his career at Ricoh as a Data Scientist working with many multi-national companies in data strategy and digital transformation. As part of his startup passion, he co-founded and led 3 fast growing startups prior to joining Techstars. He co-founded Cloudbreakr aiming to bridge the gap between influencer marketing, data analytics, social media and advertising agencies. He also held position leading growth strategy at The Wave’s integrated startup platform in terms of growth marketing, user acquisition strategy and for-purpose event management. After that, he joined Abtitu as the Director of Growth leading product strategy, UI/ UX design and technical project implementation.
Felix graduated from The University of Bath in Mathematical Science and received a master degree in Marketing from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
He is deeply involved in helping both young founders and the startup community thrives. He always put forward new ideas if only more time to implement them. In his spare time he loves playing football, cooking pasta and transform his imaginations into reality by Lego.
He started his career at Ricoh as a Data Scientist working with many multi-national companies in data strategy and digital transformation. As part of his startup passion, he co-founded and led 3 fast growing startups prior to joining Techstars. He co-founded Cloudbreakr aiming to bridge the gap between influencer marketing, data analytics, social media and advertising agencies. He also held position leading growth strategy at The Wave’s integrated startup platform in terms of growth marketing, user acquisition strategy and for-purpose event management. After that, he joined Abtitu as the Director of Growth leading product strategy, UI/ UX design and technical project implementation.
Felix graduated from The University of Bath in Mathematical Science and received a master degree in Marketing from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
He is deeply involved in helping both young founders and the startup community thrives. He always put forward new ideas if only more time to implement them. In his spare time he loves playing football, cooking pasta and transform his imaginations into reality by Lego.
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