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Amid soaring AI investments and valuation scrutiny, global investors share their frameworks for evaluating high-potential ventures and capital realignments in a shifting macro dynamic. Uncover how elite VCs separate hype from true enterprise value - backing breakout founders who navigate scaling bottlenecks, master monetization, and build resilient market leadership.
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As global tech momentum converges on the Middle East, top investors and scale-up leaders share practical strategies for navigating regulatory gateways, tapping regional ecosystem hubs, and building high-impact bridges across the Middle East and new economic corridors.
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Financial institutions, cross-border VCs, and tech founders examine high-growth ventures harness the integrated Hong Kong-GBA financial gateway to accelerate expansion, unlock growth capital, and scale seamlessly across Pan-Asia and beyond.
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Industry leaders explore critical mega tech shifts shaping the next competitive horizon: from embodied AI, advanced computing to commercial aerospace and next-gen tech infrastructure.
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Despite differing geographies and venture investing strategies, these two venture champions share the same goal — find and invest in that breakthrough winner to generate the highest financial results and go on to raise a successive fund — and beat the pack. Does relying on data to identify winners work better than instinct and experience? Which markets, east or west, will be the engines of AI growth?
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This session explores how syndicating strategic capital with private funds de-risks growth-stage deals, fills the vital funding gaps, and accelerates cross-border commercial scale for tech champions. Institutional partners will discuss collaborative funding models that fast-track high-potential ventures to capture global market opportunities.
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Convenes international investors, accelerators, and early-stage venture funds to examine pre-revenue funding pathways and fast-tracked commercialization. Panelists share insights on establishing ASEAN and Central Asia as strategic expansion corridors while providing early ventures with the critical ecosystem support needed to scale cross-border.
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This session explores how forward-thinking corporations are evolving from passive investors into full-stack financial growth engines for AI and high-potential scaleups. Moving beyond traditional funding, panel experts will delve into how corporate venture capital (CVC) and strategic liquidity management work in tandem to unlock capital, provide growth infrastructure, and foster commercial synergies. Attendees will gain actionable insights on how founders can leverage these diverse corporate funding streams to optimize capital structure, extend runway, and scale efficiently in global markets.
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Top AI leaders and enterprise pioneers examine how AI is reshaping traditional business models from the inside out. This session explores how organizations are scaling hyper-efficient "super-talent" teams, transforming operational capacity, and unlocking new market opportunities across the global enterprise economy.
Where Agentic AI Reshapes Business and Digital Assets Redefine How Value Moves
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As assets and money become increasingly tokenised, blockchain is evolving from a technology for digital assets into the financial infrastructure of the Agentic Economy. This keynote will explore how digital identity, tokenised assets, stablecoins and programmable money can connect on-chain to reshape ownership, transactions and value exchange.
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As AI dramatically lowers the cost of execution, individuals can now turn ideas into reality with unprecedented speed. Yet when similar tools and capabilities become widely accessible, productivity alone is no longer enough to create a lasting advantage. This keynote will share how purpose, independent judgement and sustained action enable individuals to remain distinctive in the emerging agentic economy.
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As Hong Kong’s tokenisation landscape moves from experimentation towards real-world implementation, collaboration among regulators, financial institutions and technology innovators will be critical to market adoption. This fireside chat will explore how HKMA’s and Cyberport’s initiatives and ecosystem are accelerating use-case validation and commercial deployment.
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Agentic AI is expanding what an individual founder can build, operate and scale. Yet the journey towards an AI-driven enterprise should begin with a focused, measurable application rather than large-scale deployment. This keynote will share an approach to help companies build agentic AI around one high-value use case, operate it with clear performance and commercial metrics, and scale it with confidence into agent-powered operations across the business.
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As regulated HKD stablecoins progress from issuance towards wider market adoption, their long-term success will depend on trusted distribution, accessible liquidity and commercially relevant applications. This panel will bring together an issuer and digital asset platforms to examine how the ecosystem can support secure access, circulation and redemption, while enabling new use cases across payments, settlement, treasury management and tokenised finance.
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Agentic AI is changing how businesses create and deliver services, while Web3 provides infrastructure for digital ownership, payments and value exchange. Bringing together representatives from universities, venture capital, technology platforms and regional innovation communities, this panel will explore how talent, technology, capital and market access can be connected to support the Agentic Economy. Speakers will discuss the skills and partnerships needed to turn AI and Web3 innovation into viable businesses and help emerging ventures reach customers and grow.
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As Agentic AI evolves from task-based assistance into always-on, autonomous execution, demand for real-time inference is entering a period of explosive growth. AI agents must continuously understand context, reason, make decisions and take action across everyday business and consumer scenarios. This keynote will explore how advances in computing infrastructure, AI chips and efficient inference are turning intelligence into an accessible, on-demand utility.
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AI agents are evolving from information assistants into active participants in commerce, helping users discover products, compare options, complete purchases and settle payments. As agents transact on users’ behalf, secure payment authorisation, user control and merchant trust become essential. This fireside chat will explore how stablecoins, programmable payments, card networks and on-chain identity can work together to support secure, seamless agentic commerce in everyday life.
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As tokenisation moves beyond issuance, the focus is shifting to how tokenised assets can create lasting value in the financial system. Secondary trading, collateral mobility and on-chain lending are key to improving liquidity and capital efficiency, and to building broader market confidence. This panel brings together leaders from blockchain infrastructure, real-world asset platforms, market development and venture investment.
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Tokenisation is entering a new landscape, as institutions look to move from early use cases towards broader adoption across products and markets. This panel will explore what it takes to drive institutional adoption at scale, from a clear business case and regulatory clarity to governance, custody, settlement and interoperability. Asset managers, financial institutions and infrastructure providers will discuss how to connect traditional and on-chain systems, build repeatable operating models and broaden institutional participation in tokenised markets.
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Businesses increasingly need to collect, hold, convert and settle funds across currencies, markets and payment systems. This panel will explore how banks, payment networks, stablecoin issuers and fintech platforms are connecting traditional and digital rails to simplify cross-border commercial flows.
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As AI agents take on research, production and delivery tasks, individual founders can assemble business capabilities that extend beyond their own time and expertise. Featuring one-person company (OPC) founders, this panel will explore how AI-native ventures find their place in the wider economy through platform ecosystems, partnerships and commercial exchange. Speakers will discuss how they package specialised capabilities, reach customers, collaborate across businesses and build repeatable revenue models. The discussion will also consider where digital payments, ownership and on-chain infrastructure could help these ventures exchange value and participate in broader economic networks.
Interactive workshops provide actionable advice for starting and managing startups, offering essential insights and tools for entrepreneurs. These focused sessions cover effective foundations and ongoing business management, equipping participants with practical knowledge to build, launch, and run successful ventures with confidence and competence. Valuable networking with investors.
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Building Institutional Conviction: Turning Innovation into Investor Backing
Technical excellence alone does not guarantee investment—investors buy into aligned execution and strategic vision. This workshop provides founders and executive leadership with actionable frameworks to synchronize engineering roadmaps with core business goals. Participants will learn how to articulate deep product value, optimize capital burn, and build institutional conviction to successfully navigate high-stakes fundraising rounds and secure long-term backing.
* Ms Christine Keung, Advisor, Capital6
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Live Pitch Lab
In this dynamic session, founders can pitch live and receive unvarnished VC feedback. Through real-world tear-downs, discover what captures funding and avoid critical deal-breakers.
Whether you pitch live or learn from the audience, this masterclass decodes how to future-proof your tech strategy by showing you exactly how investors audit a pitch—from testing real-world AI value and corporate commercial viability to checking if your product can withstand Big Tech disruption.
Come prepared to pitch, learn, and sharpen your strategy to win investors.
* Mr Jeremy Dalton, Advisor, FOV Ventures & SXSW Pitch
*Programme is subject to change without prior notice
*All programme are conducted at GMT + 8
