Wednesday, 16th December 2020
Lark Suite Virtual Community
| 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
Homecoming: the city with psychological resilience
The founders of the Good City Foundation will commence the Summit by welcoming our delegates, alumni and partners to celebrate together the 5th anniversary of Good City Foundation (formerly known as Future City Summit). This is also an important occasion to present how we understand the resilience of Hong Kong after stressful/traumatic events and set it as an example for other emerging cities in a conference context.
Speakers  Andre Kwok Founder & Chairman  Lawrence Yu Executive Director |
| 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM |
Moonshot of Hong Kong, and Good Cities Diplomacy of Asia and the Emerging World Keynote I puts its focus on the interaction between commerce and culture. Recent development in Hong Kong has seen the integration of culture, art and commerce, such as the K11 Brand, The Mills, Tai Kwun. The business model and the long-term impact it brings to Hong Kong could be explored in Keynote I. In particular, a comparison with mainland China, such as its development of the 798 Art District in Beijing, or the M50 Art District in Shanghai, could offer more insight on the interaction and development of art in a commercial context. Speaker  Stephen Phillips Director General, Moderator  Zabrina Lo Associate features editor |
| 11:00 AM - 12:00 AM |
The Next Generation of Humanity, Capitalism and Planning for Good With the surge of impact brought by the pandemic, economic shift and dividing inequality gap among cities, are we seeing different flaws and consequences brought by the insufficient city planning in the last century? Now that we have learnt more about our cities through big data, cross-disciplinary policies and designs with social experiments and rising awareness of humans, are we able to rewind the clock, and retrofit our cities to be more liveable, sustainable and resilient in the long run?
Speakers  Dwinita Larasati Founder  Saibal Das Chowdhury Founder  Richard Hsu Founder  Karuna Gopal President Moderator  Dr. Eric Li Associate Professor |
| 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM | Lunch Break |
| 02:00 PM - 03:20 PM |
Reinvent Resilience through Social Innovation and Three Zeros Master Class in Integrated Urban Economics Planning is a series of development economics workshops in Future City Summit 2020 with selected development partners in the regions of Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia to distillate and crystalise knowledge and experience of pandemic shocks and our entrepreneurship responses. Facilitator  Shadman Sadab Director of Public Private Partnership,  Tazin Shadid CEO |
| 03:30 AM - 04:30 PM |
How do environmentalists in different stages imagine the next 50 years for Hong Kong?
With daunting figures of wildlife loss, unlimited information of the rise of sea level and diverse awareness campaigns, sustainability has integrated into our lives from recycling, BYOB to the change of diet. Just as how the concept of sustainability has enriched our understanding of remedial actions we can take, environmental activists being at the frontiers are also experimenting in their own endeavours: from pioneering a shift in diet and lifestyle, bringing forth the beauty of wildlife through local eco-tourism, to rolling up sleeves calling for actions in an elementary school and bringing environmental protection an item into the agenda of local community forum. Speakers  Natalie Chung Co-founder and Director of V’air  Laurel Chor Freelance Visual Journalist  Bobsy Gaia Founder Of Mana! Moderator  Dr Winnie Law Deputy Director |
05:00 PM - 06:30 PM |
Maximising the “value” of land: exit plan for Hong Kong’s housing crisis? Hong Kong is the world’s most expensive place to buy property. According to UBS’s Real Estate Bubble Index, it rates Hong Kong with the highest risk of a housing bubble as well as the highest price-to-income ratio, forcing urban dwellers to move to satellite towns or micro-properties within city centers. With the rise of blockchain technologies for tokenization and AI for spatial analysis, can we utilise these technologies in a human and community-centric way to empower private & public stakeholders to create affordable solutions for lower income groups for upward mobility and a better living environment? Speakers  Dr Tat Lam Founder & CEO  Clement Tien CEO  Kitman Mok Director Moderator  Dorothy Lam Co-Founder & If the city that we all live in serves a great deal of memory, it shall be a compose of art, culture and all sensations of humans and environment. Against the industrial stereotype of technological removal of human touch, it takes artisan senses and designer hearts to cook the culture and memory with right technology that makes humanity matter. These values and vehicles of cultures especially hold a crucial role in defining our memories and histories in the time of challenges and pandemic. It tells a story of a generation of Asian. Speakers  Karl Kongkham Managing Director  Chiko Wirahadi Founder  Alvin Yip Founder and Curator Moderator  Lee Williamson Editor Grassroot communities of resilience and evolutionary purposes
Many business and government-driven initiatives are striving to create innovation in society by changing systems, structures, or processes. Nonetheless, grassroots communities start with people because they believe that the future should be resilient and inclusive for all; thus, we have to create it together. Still, it's rare to do something truly together as a collective of equal peers. Can entrepreneurial communities support both individual and collective evolution? What does it take to share the risk of building a business, or working together to achieve a meaningful goal for society? How can we design next-generation networks that are resilient and future proof? These are just some of the million-dollar questions we're going to discuss with our guests.
Speakers  Jeffrey Andrews Social Worker  Sonalie Figueiras Founder and Editor-in-Chief  Jan Smejkal Ex-Director  Jeff Rotmeyer Founder and CEO Moderator  Jessie Huang Curator
The post-pandemic world implies a deeper connectivity between human and nature than ever. Resilience of human society and natural environment at sustainability has become the fundamental core benchmarking for business, investing, policy design and education. The larger movement begins with the new normality of urban planning and the way we consume and conserve our natural resources, meaning energy, materials and space. The following panel of Sustainability, Environment and Humans looks into a larger imagination of cities and environment where the pandemic has taught us, especially in the case of energy planning in the rapidly urbanised cities. What shall be the new or reinforced principles of sustainability and resilience measurement in business, policy and governance?
Speakers  Ryan Jin Lead (Smart Cities and Future Mobility)  Colin Tam Chairman  Gonzalo Portellano Head of Portfolio Design Asia Pacific  Christie Fernandez Founder and CEO Moderator  Max Song CEO |
| 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM | 5th Anniversary Celebration Session of Future City Summit. Location: Cyberport HK & Livestream |
Thursday, 17th December 2020
Lark Suite Virtual Community
| 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM |
Digital Experiential Tour at Sham Sui Po District, Kowloon (Hong Kong)
The second day will end with a deep-dive into one of the most iconic neighbourhoods in Hong Kong in a well-curated guided tour. The virtual tour experience will offer participants a chance to walk into the everyday lives of the local dwellers in that area, understand and rethink the different social issues from a flipped perspective as insiders.
Sham Shui Po is one of the districts in Hong Kong facing complex social issues. On the other hand, it's unique cityscape creates fascinating experience for visitors.
Hosted by 
Kaifong Tour is a social enterprise dedicated to promoting community engagement in Hong Kong. We provide alternative and experiential learning experience catered for schools, corporates and non-governmental organizations. With guided tours, community docent training, community exploration workshops and other community projects, we wish to bring forth a first-person perspective of a Kaifong to community lovers, educators and people from all walks of life, so that they will start to explore and appreciate the local communities, open up imaginations and reflect on various social issues.
Facilitated by 
Dream Impact is a social minded community located in Hong Kong where we aim to provide the right resources to socially-minded entrepreneurs. In the meantime, we help to bridge communities and opportunities across sectors to widen our community's circle of influence and both scale and deepen social impact through supporting the growth of a spectrum of social startups, businesses and innovations.
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| 01:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Lunch Break |
| 02:00 AM - 03:00 AM |
Cities of the 2nd Tier; New Normal; New Shocks and New Resilience Master Class in Integrated Urban Economics Planning is a series of development economics workshops in Future City Summit 2020 with selected development partners in the regions of Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia to distillate and crystalise knowledge and experience of pandemic shocks and our entrepreneurship responses. In the Master Class II: Integrated Urban Economics Planning “Cities of the 2nd Tier; New Normal; New Shocks and New Resilience”, the workshop would provide the latest food for thoughts and development economics knowledge in urban economics planning. Pandemic shocks have been considered a long term impact to the socio-economic landscape not just in capital 1st tier cities but also the 2nd and 3rd tier cities in Southeast Asia due to the massive labor migrations and young workforce relocation to the provinces.
The objectives of the workshop serve to analyze the economics of such demand and labor supply shock to the 2nd tier cities. The workshop encourages the participating entrepreneurs, technologists, investors and policymakers(town planners) to take reference of their own cities to rethink or transform the shocks into urban growth opportunities through advanced policy designs and public private partnership.
Facilitators  Retnam Shanmuga Board of Management  Calvin Chua Founder |
| 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM |
Afrofuturism Down The Road, Where Next? The surge of Afrofuturism especially since the global release of Marvel movie “Black Panther” has aroused a deeper debate of the self-identity, future position and culture of youth in Africa. While entrepreneurship has become an economic means to propel from poverty level for African continent, the Black leadership movement has surged to a level of identifying how far the next generation of African youth and its diaspora can go.
The special panel Frontier Urban Economic Planning Outlook on Africa will look into a dynamic conversation among young African scholars, entrepreneurs and government leaders. The dialogue aims to explore the latest thought and perspectives on the role of young African professionals and leaders in technology entrepreneurship and global policy development agenda.
Speakers  Isaya Yunge CEO  Shem Ayegba PMP CP3P-F  Jacob Afwata Managing Director  Petrider Paul Diplomat Moderator  Alexander Ljungström Strategic Advisor |
| 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM |
Our Hong Kong, Where Does it Lead?
What makes Hong Kong unique? The environment, the capital, the culture or the people? In the aftermath of the social movement in 2019, how does Hong Kong carry on despite all the hardships? What is the “core” value that differentiates Hong Kong from other cities in Mainland China? This keynote speech may provide an insight into how Hong Kong people recover and re-discover their city’s value following the tensions left behind after a series of “trauma”.
Speaker  Prof. Rana Mitter Director of the University of Oxford China Centre Moderator Lawrence Yu Chief Executive |
| 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM |
From Hub of Spice Trade to Global Lead in Tech and Entrepreneurship: Challenges and Success Stories from the South Asia The Indian sub-continent has been a historical hub of trade and commerce. For centuries, businessmen and explorers from all across the world have ventured for South Asia to explore the region’s unique assembly of spice, cultural practices, art, cuisine, industries and people. Throughout the course of history, the region has been divided into nations like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and much more. But the sense of South-Asian-ness connects people throughout the region.
Speakers  Usama Tauqeer Founder  Vaibhav Gogia Founder  Er. Bikash Gurung President Moderator Shadman Sadab Director of Public Private Partnership, Since the outbreak of Covid-19, all walks of leaders in the cities have strived to create initiatives or take professional emergency measures to respond to Covid-19. In response to the public health in the urban cities, it comes to the crucial engagement and preventive measures before the scenario goes further out of control. For entrepreneurs, how have they taken their enterprises beyond the pandemic since then? How could they use their resources to support other meaningful causes which are in need of attention in society? Young entrepreneurs can put their heads together in this session to discuss creative solutions to sustain their current operations, and create more value throughout and beyond the Covid-19 response period. Meanwhile, for medical professionals and policy planners, how would they respond collectively and in alignment with the private sector to ensure stability in the city and long-term sufficiency and consistency of public health planning, policy design and governance with digital technologies?
The following panel aims to explore deeper the lesson learnt in Covid-19 and draw some new knowledge that long-term potential planning and response to the new normal and development of their own cities. The panel would be especially a centre of the Summit to crystallize public health emergency and preventive planning for reference of other emerging cities that are prone to other waves of pandemic in future.
Speakers  Jessie Chung Founder  Karen Lau United Nations Volunteer  Rebecca Choy Yung Founder and Chair Moderator  Rohit Kumar Verma CUHK Public Health Graduate, HKU MBBS Final Year Student Pandemic shock, movements, global shift and disparity of economic landscape and inefficiency of digital transformation in all layers of society, are the multiple leading factors driving 2020 one of the most challenging years ever. According to a latest report by the International Labor Organisation(ILO), Covid-19 has caused the global labor working hours to fall 14 per cent during the second quarter of 2020, equivalent to the loss of 400 million full-time jobs. When much of our structural inequalities and city fragility are revealed at the time of the pandemic, how do we envision our future workforce to be part of the solution and what exactly does it take to build a workforce that is both agile and resilient to more uncertainties and complicated challenges?
The following panel gathers a group of young leaders of different sectors in Hong Kong, and together we explore what is pressingly needed to be fixed in the system, how they see the shifting meaning of workforce in the future and most importantly, how the new generation of Hong Kong leaders, the 80s and 90s, can take a more proactive role to nurture such agile and resilient workforce in and for the future.
Speakers  Ben Yu Business Director  William Chiu Head of Future Skills  Brian Cheng CEO Moderator  Victor Kwok Head of Education and Youth Research Washing Away Our Pandemic Woes: Improving Water and Sanitation through Innovative Financing Situated at the crossroads between environmental sustainability and health and hygiene is that issue that refuses to go away: Water and sanitation. With more than 2.2 billion people - almost 30% of the world’s population - lacking access to safe water, and twice as many to safely managed sanitation services, we face a fight against time to build a sustainable water and sanitation system that ensures equitable and just access that safeguards the lives of many. And COVID-19, beyond being a public health crisis, once again has us staring at the systemic water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) issues right in the face. Perhaps a silver lining throughout the pandemic is the increased attention that impact-focused projects and funding have gained, as a way to make use of global markets to bring about systemic change. Besides impact investing, the Development Impact Bond (DIB) has risen in prominence as an alternative option that delivers a more rigorous, sustainable and substantial impact to local communities affected by WASH issues.
In this second panel within the Sustainability, Environment and Humans track, we will dive deep into the process of DIBs in the WASH context, and learn from investors and local partners on how synergies can take shape in local communities. From the experiences, lessons and challenges on delivering and assessing impact shared from both project owners and investors, we look forward to pushing the conversation forward on systematically improving WASH issues from the ground up.
Speaker  Jack Sim Founder  Sikai Chen Senior Project Leader  Sanjay Banka Executive Chairman Moderator  Johnson Kong Researcher |
| 06:00 PM - 6:15 PM | Closing Remark |
Monday, 21 December 2020
Hangzhou City, Mainland China
| 09.30 AM - 06.30 PM |
Transit to Hangzhou with High Speed Rail at Kowloon West Station Check-In Hotel |
| 07.00 PM - 08.30 PM |
Hangzhou Belt and Road Networking Dinner |
| 08.30 PM - 09.30 PM | Buddy Program (1) Ice-breaking at West Lake (tbc) 小伙伴计划 夜游西湖破冰 (暂定) |
Tuesday, 22 December 2020
Hangzhou City, Mainland China
| 08.30 AM - 11.30 AM | Urban Horizon (1) The Data-made Town in Yunxi 从城市出发 (1） 用数据科技打造的云栖小镇 |
| 11.30 AM - 01.30 PM | Buddy Program (2) Project Roadshow 小伙伴计划 (2) 闪电路演 |
| 01.30 PM - 04.30 PM | Urban Horizon (2) One Thousand and One Nights of Smart City Ecosystem 从城市出发 (2) 创造101个独一无二智慧城市生态圈 |
| 04.30 PM - 06.30 PM | The Deep Learning (1) Reborn of Hospitality and Tourism 深入垂直领域 (1) 化危为机的酒店旅游业转型战略 |
| 06.30 PM - 08.30 PM | Buddy Program (3) Dinner Cross-Learn 小伙伴计划（3） 学习晚餐 |
Wednesday, 23 December 2020
Hangzhou City, Mainland China
| 08.30 AM - 10.30 AM | The Deep Learning (2) The Secret Recipe of Alibaba 深入垂直领域（2） 阿里巴巴的致胜之道和铁军文化 |
| 10.30 AM - 02.30 PM | The Deep Learning (3) Inception of FinTech Business 深入垂直领域（3） 金融科技的业务和用户场景创新 |
| 02.30 PM - 04.30 PM | The Deep Learning (4) Fast and Furious of MedTech 深入垂直领域（4） 医疗科技平台的激情与速度之争 |
| 04.30 PM - 06.30 PM | Wrapping Up of Program 活动总结 办理退房手续 |
