Mr. Chua Hoi Wai is the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service (HKCSS), which represents over 500 non-governmental social services organisations. The HKCSS aims at building a socially sustainable society through enhancing the development of social services and policies. The HKCSS provides a joint platform for cross-sectoral collaboration and social innovation, and has championed gerontechnology and transitional social housing in recent years.

Mr. Chua has participated in a number of advisory or statutory bodies of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. He is currently a member of the Advisory Committee on Mental Health, the Elderly Commission, the Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Fund Task Force, and the Steering Committee on Primary Healthcare Development.

Mr. Chua is a graduate of the University of Hong Kong in Mechanical Engineering. He studied Master of Social Work at University of Illinois at Chicago and is now a social worker by profession. He was the President of the Hong Kong Social Workers Association (2004 – 2008).

Mr Edwin Keh is the CEO of The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel. He also teaches supply chain operations in the Operations, Information and Decisions Department of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Edwin had a career as senior executive with several international consumer goods and retail companies. He was granted a number of awards, including the Medal of Honor in 2020 by the HKSAR Government for his research work during the pandemic, one of the best of Top 50 Innovative Retail Leaders by Inside Retail Hong Kong in 2019. Edwin holds multiple IPs which won global invention awards.

Kalie Lam is the leader of the Hong Kong Construction Association Young Members Society (Professionals Connection Committee) and a chartered civil engineer in Gammon Construction Limited.

Upon graduation from university, Kalie joined the male-dominated industry and spent six years on-site participating in various construction projects. Kalie is one of the very few ones who wishes to break the stereotypes and works her magic as a site engineer. She enjoys the process of turning ideas into reality through knowledge and creativity with her team and workers, especially the sense of achievement she gained after overcoming day-to-day challenges.

Kalie is also a strong believer in design thinking. She embraces human-centered design and whacks at adopting unconventional approaches to problems.

Cintia Nunes is the Co-Director of The Mills Fabrica and focuses on leading Fabrica to become the go-to platform for sustainability, impact and innovation in the techstyle (technology x lifestyle) and agrifood tech space.

Prior to joining Fabrica, Nunes worked in strategy, insights and marketing at Procter & Gamble where she focused on consumer behavioral assessment and formaliszing business strategies for more than 10 brands in Hong Kong and Taiwan. She then pivoted to startups and became the Hong Kong Market Lead at Grana, a Series A online fashion start-up where she helped drive brand awareness, customer acquisition, retail and customer experience. Subsequently, she joined Dream Impact as the Chief of Strategy & Growth, where she helped to pivot their business model and soon became one of the prominent social impact ecosystem builders in Hong Kong through advocacy, bridging of resources and strategic partnerships.

With strong passion in driving social impact and systemic change, she is a strong advocate in cross-sector collaborations and has supported numerous social businesses in their growth strategies and social innovation competitions as judge, mentor and advisor. She holds a BSc Economics degree from the University College London.

Vincent Wu is the HR Digitalization & Projects Lead, North East Asia at Richemont, the world’s leading luxury retail group. In his current role, he plays a key role in developing the vision, strategies and roadmap for the evolving HR model and services. He also leads the team to drives HR efficiency and employee experience through HR digitalization and process improvement projects.

Before joining Richemont, Wu had extensive regional HR business partnering and consulting experience at several technology giants, including Microsoft and HP. Wu is passionate about advocating employee centric and future-ready HR practice; he is now the volunteer HR Consultant at InspiringHK Sports Foundation and the member of HR Journal Taskforce at HKIHRM.