A Smart City is a connected city, but a smarter city knows how and when to connect. It is time to connect our Smart Citizens with Smart global experts, and contribute to grounding our Smart City. Innovative concepts and ideas can only be made real through real practices, experimentations, and adaptation.

Through an exclusive monthly series of half-day talks/symposiums, conveniently located at H6 CONET, G/F, The Center, 99 Queen’s Road Central, Invotech brings the world to Hong Kong and exposes Hong Kong to the world. Smart Citizens and global experts will be able to co-learn, co-play, co-explore, collaborate, and co-create ways to make Hong Kong into a more competitive city upgrading the quality of living attracting global talents.

Make a real difference by getting involved! Master facilitator will be Prof. Gregg Li, President of Invotech.

February Workshop: Understanding the Myths, Facts, Security and Cryptography for Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. 23 Feb 2018, Friday afternoon, H6 CONET, Central. Cybersecurity Speaker: Jack Poon.

Price:

Member, HKD 280

Supporting Organization with Code, HKD 480

Non-member, HKD 780

Hong Kong potentially can be the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency hub for China and Asia. We stand at the tip of a changing landscape. But does Hong Kong hold the key?

Few are aware that the Achilles’ heel to this technology lies in our mastery of cryptography that we do not own, posses, or even dare to talk about. The advantage of Blockchain and Crypotocurrency technology can be fully exploited through the proper use of cryptography and robust design in software architecture and network topology. Unlike Israel, Finland, Estonia, Russia, China, or the United States, Hong Kong may not have the resource or the capacity to promote and embrace applications using Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Taking granted with what we have been given or allowed to play with, how Smart is in fact our city in dealing with ICOs, cyypotocurrencies, and the likes since cryptography, connectivity and the ability to be truly connected is outside our control? Or does it really matter?

In this half-day sharing by experts, we shall explore what we can do, our roles as smart citizens, given the state of play. Can we truly be a hub for trading of cryptocurrencies?

About Our Main Speaker

Mr. Poon started his career with Intel in Silicon Valley before returning to Asia. He is a serial entrepreneur and has started several startups which were affiliated with Techstars, Accenture Fintech Innovation Lab, and Hong Kong Science Park. He has served as Entrepreneur-In-Residence for the Executive MBA Program for Chicago Booth School of Business and mentor for various startups.

Mr. Poon has over 20 years of experience in technology development and management, business development, corporate finance, and investment. His previous roles included Head of Investment in Asia Pacific and Indian Subcontinent for Global 500, Head of Corporate Finance and Business Development for a U.S. listed company, and Head of Technology Services for a semiconductor company. Mr. Poon held three master degrees: MBA from Chicago Booth School of Business (high honor), Master of Science in Engineering Management with Stanford University, and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering with California Institute of Technology.

About the Fintech and BlockChain SIGs

Special Interest Groups of Invotech are organized by members to investigate realistic adoption of technology and innovation into Hong Kong. The current conveners for Fintech SIG are Richard Leung and Jason Lau; and for the Blockchain SIG are Paul Sin and Adrian Lai.

Agenda

2:00 – 2:15 Meet and Greet, Dr G with Jason Lau
2:15 – 2:45 Background Sharing and Updates on ICOs, Cryptocurrency for Smart Citizens. Adrian Lai and Paul Sin
2:45 – 3:30 Setting the Context for the Curious: The Achilles’ heel of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, Jack Poon.

• Blockchain cryptography

• Public / Private Keys

• Digital Signature

• Hash Function and Merkle Tree

• Consensus Protocol

• BlockChain and Smart City

3:30 – 3:45 Break
3:45 – 4:30 How Secure is Cryptocurrencies, ICOs, Wallets, and Crypto-exchanges? Jack Poon

4:30 – 5:00 Myths, Facts, Limitations, and Potential of Blockchain. Panel led by Jason Lau, Microsoft and Co-convenor of Fintech SIG. Panelists Paul Sin, Adrian Lai, and Jack Poon.

5:00 – 5:30 Building on the Government’s Smart City Blueprint – Co-learning and So What? Dr. G

Refund Policy

No refund but may send a subsititute.

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