Speakers

Speakers are listed in alphabetical order.

Our high-quality speakers are essential to ensuring our events engage audiences and provide relevant, up-to-date and innovative content for our delegates. If you are an innovator or influencer in your field, or know someone who is, please apply below.

Simon Bates

Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President

The University of British Columbia

Joanna Batstone

Director of the Data Futures Institute

Monash University

Tony Chan

Immediate Past President

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Simon Chesterman

Vice-Provost of Educational Innovation

National Universtiy of Singapore

Mark Daley

Chief AI Officer

Western University

Simone Dilena

President (APAC)

THE

Dawn Freshwater

Vice-Chancellor

University of Auckland

Yike Guo

Provost

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Ambassador George Hara

Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

DEFTA Partners

Xiangen Hu

Director of the Institute for Higher Education Research and Development

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Marcus Im

Rector

Macao Polytechnic University

Gerd Kortemeyer

Member of the Rectorate and AI Centre

ETH Zurich

Chi-Kin John Lee

President

The Education University of Hong Kong

Christoph Lindner

President

Royal College of Art

Leo Lo

Dean of the College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences

University of New Mexico

Miranda Lou

Executive Vice-President

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Jie Lu

Director of the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute

University of Technology Sydney

Tim Lui

Chairman

University Grants Committee

Peter Mathieson

Principal and Vice-Chancellor

The University of Edinburgh

Susan McCahan

Vice-Provost of Innovations in Undergraduate Education

University of Toronto

Julie McMahon

Regional Director (APAC)

THE

Iman Megahed

Associate Vice-President of Digital Transformation

American University of Cairo

Peggy Oti-Boateng

Executive Director

African Academy of Sciences

S Joe Qin

President and Wai Kee Kau Chair Professor of Data Science

Lingnan University

Venky Shankararaman

Vice-Provost of Education and Professor of Information Systems (Education)

Singapore Management University (SMU)

Harry Shum

Council Chairman

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Yonghua Song

Rector

University of Macau

Michael Spence

President and Provost

University College London

Jeff Sze

Acting Secretary for Education

Hong Kong SAR Government

Jin-Guang Teng

President and Chair Professor of Structural Engineering

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Rocky Tuan

President and Vice-Chancellor

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Alex Wai

President and Vice-Chancellor

Hong Kong Baptist University

Wing-tak Wong

Deputy President and Provost

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Hongxia Yang

Professor in the Department of Computing

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Liqun Zhang

President

Xi'an Jiaotong University

Xiang Zhang

President and Vice-Chancellor

The University of Hong Kong

Ya-Qin Zhang

Chair Professor of AI Science and Dean of the Institute for AI Industry Research

Tsinghua University

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