Hong Kong will grow tech sector with input from experts like Nvidia’s Jensen Huang: Paul Chan

Financial Secretary has dinner with industry heavyweights at local restaurant, elaborates on border I&T park development with Shenzhen in blog

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Financial Secretary Paul Chan (fourth from right) seated between Nvidia founder Jensen Huang and HKUST president Nancy Ip, among other I&T sector heavyweights. Photo: FS blog

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Published: 2:26pm, 24 Nov 2024Updated: 10:55am, 25 Nov 2024

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This story has been updated to reflect that Andrew Liao Cheung-sing is HKUST court chairman.

Hong Kong will go all out to build an ecosystem for innovation and technology development by gathering talent with innovative perspectives, the financial secretary has said, after a dinner with US chipmaker Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang and other I&T experts on Saturday.

In his weekly blog on Sunday, Paul Chan Mo-po shared a photograph of himself at the dinner with industry heavyweights at a local Chinese restaurant in Sham Shui Po, with bottles of beer and a copy of the South China Morning Post on the table.

Apart from Huang, the attendees included Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) president Nancy Ip, the founder of Chinese venture capital firm HongShan, formerly known as Sequoia China, Neil Shen Nanpeng, and computer scientist and university council chairman Harry Shum Heung-yeung.

HKUST pro-chancellor John Chan Cho-chak, treasurer Stephen Yiu Kin-wah and university court chairman Andrew Liao Cheung-sing and council vice-chairwoman Edith Shih were also present.

“These are the pioneers of the world’s IT sector, local academics and research and development experts, we had exchanges in developing IT and cultivating talent while sharing very local food,” Chan said.

“The combination of Hong Kong’s flavour and IT visions represents the two key elements of an ecosystem: innovative perspectives and the cluster of talent.”