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Ruby O
Chairperson at The Society of Food & Environmental Health (Macao)Ruby’s role at work is to enhance the integration and implementation of environmental-friendly and socially responsible practices into the operations and demonstrate sustainable luxury is achievable.
Ruby has been the pre-opening leadership teams of few integrated resorts and lead multiple organizations to achieve international food safety certifications.
Ruby is regular speaker at conferences on various food safety and sustainability topics. She also regularly hosts seminars and activities in the community in a vision of transforming sustainable local actions into global impacts.
Yao Lu
DIRECTOR OF INNOVATION AND PROJECTS of ORANGELU Yao is Director of Innovation and Projects in Orange Sourcing Consulting in Beijing. He focuses his efforts on Asian ICT ecosystem and provides market insight and partnership opportunity to Orange global footprint. He is leading Orange Open Innovation Center China to help Chinese and overseas startups grow potential business together with Orange. Having a research background in artificial intelligence, he is passionate about high-tech innovation and is willing to share his discovery in Greater China.
Xiaoan Gu
Deputy Dean and Director of Project Funding Department at Maker Institute, C.A.S.Deputy Dean and Director of the Project Fund Department of maker institute, C.A.S. Founding partner of Shenzhen Leading Venture Capital.
Gu mainly engages in technology business incubation and venture capital investment.
He graduated from the Department of Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University with a bachelor's degree in Electronic Science and Technology, and a graduate degree from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences with a major in Computer Application Technology.
With 13 years of experience in research and development, management, entrepreneurship, and investment incubation in the fields of artificial intelligence, image processing, robotics, lidar, and advanced manufacturing, he has invested and incubated dozens of technology companies. The track is mainly distributed in radio frequency chips, autonomous driving, and robots. , Digital governance, medical equipment, artificial intelligence and other fields.
Vincent T.K. Kuo
Programme Director of MSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Co-Director of Incubator at Nottingham University Business School ChinaAs an accomplished researcher and scholar with a diversified, multi-disciplinary background in medicine, psychology, technology & innovation management, Dr. Kuo’s entrepreneurial experience with consultancy in coaching startups would be beneficial to be an excellent instructor in entrepreneurial education and research. His main interests are new venture creation and commercialization of new technology.
ROGER CHEANG
Managing Direction at Neo Genesis Construction EngineeringRoger Cheang is a committed and passionate entrepreneur with over 10 years of experience in structural design and property development. His expertise extends across all areas of building development. His past experience in hotel development, building design and construction tempered him to understand the full cycle of project development and how to turn ideas into reality. As a founder and CEO of Neo-Genesis Engineering, Roger has international exposure in Asia Pacific, the United States, China and South East Asia to provide sustainable building solutions to a wide range of projects including integrated resorts, mixed commercial and residential. In recent years, Roger has turned his attention to helping the young generation of engineers in integrating innovative technology such as Building Information Modeling (BIM), modulus construction and 3D scanning. Being an enthusiast in urbanization, he is happy to share and learn about any state-of-the-art technology innovation.
Roger Cheang holds a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and a Bachelor of Science in Structural Engineering from University of California, San Diego. He is a certified Engineer in the United States. Macau and the CNMI.
Carol Chou
Commercial Director of Impact Hub ShanghaiCarol has many years of experience in cross-industry and multinational organization commercial sales. Now he is responsible for the business development and innovation incubation project of Impact Hub Shanghai. He is committed to empowering the steady growth of entrepreneurial teams and assisting the sustainable innovation of industry partners, and promoting sustainability by means of business for good.
Derek Cowburn
CEO of Shenzhen Intelligent Microgrid Network Company.Derek Cowburn is a values-centered entrepreneur who is passionate about the environment and making bold leaps in energy efficiency through system integration. He is a subject matter expert in building controls and intelligent DC Nanogrids, and contributes to industry working groups to promote efficient building technologies. As founder and CEO of LumenCache, he is leading the collaborative effort to globally change the standard for power distribution and controls in all new buildings, making them smart, safe, efficient, and resilient. Derek resides in Shenzhen, China, the high-tech electronics manufacturing capital of the world where he’s been featured for his innovations and his work with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development.
Joseph Gui
General Manager at Anew Global ConsultingJoseph has more than 20 years of experience in environmental consulting, engineering service and sustainable program innovation. Since 2000, Mr. GUI has provided environmental, health and safety (EHS) consulting services to multinational clients at numerous industrial facilities in China, Hongkong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Malaysia. Mr. GUI has an in-depth understanding of EHS laws and regulations at national and provincial levels, and he is experienced with sustainable program design and development, industrial wastewater treatment process, water saving, hazardous waste disposal and minimization technology, environmental site assessment (ESA), environmental impact assessment (EIA) and EHS compliance audits. Mr. GUI graduated from Tongji University and holds professional certificates of China Senior Environmental Protection Engineer, Registered EIA Engineer, Registered Environmental Protection Engineer, and is a certified industrial hygienist (CIH) of ABIH.
Chris Howes
Vice President, Revenue and Strategy at NexPCBChris started his professional journey over 25 years ago and has had the opportunity to work with some of largest and most successful companies around the world. Whether as a consultant, technologist, architect, trusted advisor or executive, Chris has been able use his diverse experiences to guide decisions at all levels of the corporate structure -- from the trenches to the boardroom. He has now turned his attention to helping hardware startups in their journey from idea to great, global business as the leader of customer teams at NexPCB as well as guiding the growth of the company as the chief strategist.
Winsdon Lam
Chief Information Officer at WhAir Green TechWhAIR Green Tech is a startup based in Macau that aims at solving environmental problems with cutting-edge technology and creates efficient solutions to sustainable development. By utilizing AI solutions to waste sorting, WhAIR Green Tech cooperates with the administration and the education institutes in Macau to raise the public awareness of recycling. Meanwhile, we will cooperate with the partners in the recycling industry to invent smart recycling bins to incentivise the citizens to sort garbage conscientiously.
Aaron Leung
Founder of AARON PUBLIC SPEAKING STUDIOAaron Leung is a Public Speaking Trainer, TEDx Coach & Founder of Aaron Public Speaking Studio. With 13 years in the public speaking sector, he has given over 700 public speaking workshops globally in 15 different countries & in Fortune 500 companies. He is frequently invited as speaking coach & judge for business pitchers, contestants, TEDx speakers & corporate trainers.
Linka Lin
Youth Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Consultant, at UNDP Bangkok Regional HubYouth Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Consultant, UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub
Linka joined the UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub on December 2016. Since then, she has been coordinating national youth entrepreneurship and innovation activities with more than 20 countries under Youth Co:Lab in Asia-Pacific region.
Before joining UNDP, she worked as the business development manager for a social enterprise in Hong Kong called Inter Cultural Education for 2 years. She ran programmes such Social Innovation Trip and Asia Pacific Youth Exchange with young people from all over Asia. She has been playing an active role in grass-root led entrepreneur ecosystem in China and Thailand as the facilitator of Startup Weekend and Asia Pacific Youth Exchange.
She has a master degree in Interpreting and Translation in Hong Kong Polytechnic University (English and Chinese).
Since June 2020, together with two of her friends, she co-founded a community based tourism startuped, Storius.
Bingjian Liu
Assistant Professor at University of Nottingham Ningbo ChinaBingjian is a professional industrial designer and design academic. He received his BEng, MSc and PhD (Full Scholarship, Loughborough University) in the area of industrial design. He was the founding member of the department of industrial design at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) and the Program Director of BEng Industrial Design. In September 2018, he joined Ningbo Nottingham University (UNNC) and acts as the course director of Product Design and Manufacture. Apart from design education and research, he also has close collaborative relationship with industry, including Hisense and CRRC which he designed the 500KM/H high speed train concept for in 2018.
Pietro Mincuzzi
Mentor and Consultant at Trouble MakerCross-border application technology inventor, automation expert, large enterprise SCADA and MES specialist, PLM (UGS) expert, within 30+ years professional life, he continues inventing new applications for edge technologies with a transversal approach across industries and competences.
In China he has designed and developed a solution for live handwriting capture and recognition to track the production in the fully manual largest leather sofa factory, troubleshooted the automation of large steel mills and electronics plants securing multi M$ contracts, mentored and supervised SCADA and MES projects in Heathrow airport, steel mils, logistics, electronics and car/motorbike industry from 2000.
In March 2019 joins the team of TROUBLEMAKER as resident mentor and consultant offering advise to members and consulting services.