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

University of British Columbia

Joanna Batstone

Director, Monash Data Futures Institute

Monash University

Tony Chan

Former president

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Simon Chesterman

Vice-provost (educational innovation)

National University of Singapore

Mark Daley

Chief AI Officer

Western University

Simone Dilena

President (APAC)

THE

Dawn Freshwater

Vice-chancellor and president

University of Auckland

Wen Gao

Boya chair professor and director of faculty of information and engineering sciences

Peking University

Yike Guo

Provost

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Xiangen Hu

Director, 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 and professor, College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences

University of New Mexico

Miranda Lou

Executive vice-president

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Jie Lu

Director, Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute

University of Technology Sydney

Peter Mathieson

Principal and vice-chancellor

University of Edinburgh

Susan McCahan

Vice-provost, innovations in undergraduate education

University of Toronto

Julie McMahon

Regional director (APAC)

THE

Iman Megahed

Associate vice-president for digital transformation and chief strategy and knowledge officer

The American University in 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 (education) and professor of information systems (education)

Singapore Management University

Harry Shum

Council chairman

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Jason Si

Vice-president of Tencent Group and dean

Tencent Research Institute

Yonghua Song

Rector

University of Macau

Michael Spence

President and provost

University College London

Jin-Guang Teng

President and chair professor of Structural Engineering

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Rocky Tuan

Vice-chancellor and president

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Alex Wai

President and vice-chancellor

Hong Kong Baptist University

Yonah Welker

Public technologist

EU Commission projects

Wong Wing Tak

Deputy president and provost

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Hongxia Yang

Professor, Department of Computing

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Xiang Zhang

President and vice-chancellor

The University of Hong Kong

Ya-Qin Zhang

Chair professor of AI science and dean of Institute for AI Industry Research

Tsinghua University

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