We at Speakers Connect are most thrilled for the opportunity to engage Brett King, leading banking futurist, and Alex Osterwalder, founder of Business Model Generation, to speak at the HKSTP Corporate Innovation Summit; as well as innovation veteran Guy Parsonage and Vincent Vaucelle to facilitate the corporate innovation workshops! Tremendous reviews from the audience and […]
Tag Archives: Blockchain
24
May
May
Brett King, leading banking futurist, and Alex Osterwalder, founder of Business Model Generation, will be speaking at the HKSTP Corporate Innovation Summit in May 2021. Brett will be sharing insights on “Bank 4.0 – Who will be the Winners and Losers in the Smart Bank Account Wars?” with banking senior executives, and Alex Osterwalder will […]
28
Apr
Apr
Angie Lau, award winning journalist, has recently launched “The Daily Forkast”, which is a wrap-up of all the day’s happenings in crypto and blockchain, from Asia to the world, in 4 minutes. Angie Lau is an award-winning former Bloomberg TV anchor, 20+ year veteran of journalism and is currently Founder and CEO of Forkast.News: a digital media platform […]
21
Apr
Apr
Brett King, renowned fintech futurist explained how banks could achieve digital innovations in the pandemic era in his recent virtual presentation. Brett King is a bestselling author and the founder of a breakout new retail banking concept, Moven. Voted as American Banker’s Innovator of the Year in 2012, King initially achieved recognition for his bestselling book ‘BANK 2.0′, […]
22
Mar
Mar
Renowned futurist Mike Walsh believes that the next generation of consumers will not only be radically different to anything we have known, they will reshape the future in their own image. He further emphasizes “Forget Millennials. It is their kids we should be worrying about.” The next generation of consumers will not only be radically […]
19
Feb
Feb
Angie Lau, renowned journalist, recently moderated a virtual event and has got rave reviews from the participants. Here are some of the screenshots. Angie Lau is an award-winning former Bloomberg TV anchor, 20+ year veteran of journalism and is currently Founder and CEO of Forkast.News: a digital media platform for all things blockchain. Her flagship morning show “First […]
10
Feb
Feb
In his recent keynote, futurist Mike Walsh discusses why transformation is so hard for big organizations. Why is transformation so hard for big organizations? It is not about their size. One of the most dangerous traps for corporations is to consume the idea of disruption, without actually internalizing it. They redesign their offices and add […]
01
Feb
Feb
Dr Mark van Rijmenam thinks about how technology changes organisations and society. He is the digital speaker and the author of three best-selling management books on big data, blockchain and AI. His latest book – The Organisation of Tomorrow – details how AI, blockchain and analytics turn your business into a data organization. He is […]
Asia, China, Speakers
Winston Ma, Former Managing Director of China Investment Corporation (CIC), Joins Speakers Connect
29
Jan
Jan
We are delighted to share that Winston Ma , former Managing Director of China Investment Corporation (CIC), joins Speakers Connect. Winston Ma is an investor, attorney, author, and adjunct professor in the global digital economy. He is one of a small number of native Chinese who have worked as investment professionals and practicing capital markets […]
18
Jan
Jan
Renowned futurist Chris Riddell believes that this is the time to reset, for your new future and asks an important question—-“What will be your next move?” Chris explains “This is not the new normal. This is constant change. This is a world moving faster than ever before. This is the beginning of an incredible, reimagined future. […]
25
Dec
Dec
Due to the pandemic, suddenly everything is digital. Futurist Dr Mark van Rijmenam decided to reinvent himself to meet the trend. Clients can now book Dr Mark van Rijmenam for a (virtual) keynote as an avatar, hologram or a combination of both. Take a look at some snippets of The Digital Speaker below: Dr Mark […]
Speakers
Steven Hoffman Publishing New Book Surviving a Startup: Practical Strategies for Starting a Business, Overcoming Obstacles, and Coming Out on Top
18
Dec
Dec
Steven Hoffman, CEO of Founders Space is publishing a new book called “Surviving a Startup: Practical Strategies for Starting a Business, Overcoming Obstacles, and Coming Out on Top”, available on paperback in April 2021. Steven’s new book aims to prepare entrepreneurs to avoid disastrous mistakes, surmount sizable obstacles, and master the skills necessary to make the right […]
07
Dec
Dec
What if the next great leap in technology was not systems that ran faster and more efficiently, but we’re capable of anticipating our every need? We are just at the beginning of a radical transformation of life as we know it. The starting point, according to futurist Mike Walsh in this excerpt from one of […]
04
Nov
Nov
Rudy Lim, former Head of Fintech DBS, who is currently venture capitalist and digital transformation expert, shared his insights on the big tech business trends that will boom after the pandemic in his recent article. Everything digital, from e-commerce, online collaboration tools to digital marketing etc, all sees accelerated growth because of the COVID-19 pandemic. […]
16
Oct
Oct
Mike Walsh, futurist, in his recent Harvard Business Review article argues that AI should change what you do, not just how you do it. In the article, he quoted examples from Goldman Sachs and UBS on how the traditional banks harness the tremendous potential of artificial intelligence. The high unemployment numbers of the Covid-19 recession […]
Asia, China, Speakers
Andrew Work Research on China’s forthcoming Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DC/EP)
07
Oct
Oct
Andrew Work is the author of the only report on China’s forthcoming Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DC/EP) system, also known as People’s Bank of China’s digital currency. Published by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, it is titled “Crypto RMB: Finance Innovation or New Tool for Control?” Mr Work a Hong Kong-based policy analyst and a co-founder […]