#CoCoonPitch Night enables entrepreneurs to present their products or services to a variety of audience and seek potential investors, co-founders, team members, customers, corporate partners or publicity.
Pitch Night in Numbers:
http://www.hkcocoon.org/pitch-night.html
- 270+ pitch teams have showcased
- CoCoon entrepreneurs have raised HKD3.4+ billion since 2012
Agenda:
6:30 Registration
7:00 Event start
8:30 Voting
8:45 Networking
** Please note that voting codes will not be distributed after the first pitch has begun.**
Judges:
Anna Kwan
Ventures Partner
CoCoon Ignite Venture
First Honour in Bio-Molecular Chemistry and minor in Environmental Chemistry from Queen’s University, Master in Actuarial Sciences and Statistic from University of Western Ontario, Master in Public Administration from Baptist University.
Professional: Valuation actuary, Asia & Pacific, AIG; Pricing Actuary, Regional Asia & Hong Kong, AXA; Asset & Liability Management, ING / FWD. Member of Society of Actuaries, Member of HK Actuarial Society
Member of All-China Youth Federation (ACYF), Committee member of Y.Elite Hong Kong
As an actuary for many years, Anna’s expertise is in quantitative finance & investment. Her investment philosophy is to invest in people that are cautiously optimistic about their goals. Anna is also an avid traveller.
Bert Shi
Head of Electronic and Computer Engineering Department
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Bert is Professor and Head of the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He has held visiting faculty positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania. He received the B.S. and M.S. Degrees in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley in 1994.
His interests lie in the areas of neuromorphic engineering, robotics, human machine interfaces, computational neuroscience, with a particular focus on visual information processing and visually guided control.
Duke Malan
Partner
Africa Works Ventures
Duke’s expertise is investment promotion, Sino-Africa relations and strategic communications.
Duke is a partner at Africa Works Ventures an advisory firm with offices in Hong Kong and Johannesburg. High potential, high growth businesses in Africa work with his firm to access strategic partnerships that help fuel their sustained growth.
He was previously Vice President: Corporate Affairs at global communications consultancy FleishmanHillard in Hong Kong. Before exploring the East, he was Head of Reputation Management at Johannesburg listed insurer Discovery Limited – recognized by Fortune magazine as one of the leading Companies Changing the World.
Duke is a sought-after keynote speaker and has delivered talks at TEDx Hong Kong, LinkedIn, Nelson Mandela Bay Leadership Summit and guest lectured at various universities including The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
He is passionate about youth empowerment, mentors several dynamic young leaders in Africa and Asia, and served as a board member of Young Business South Africa. Duke worked in Washington D.C at a leading youth development organization – Presidential Classroom.
Moses Tse
Managing Director
Accenture Technology Hong Kong
Moses is a Managing Director in Accenture Technology Hong Kong, is responsible for building & developing new businesses. He has more than 25 years of experience working in all aspects of Business & Technology transformation projects. In his role with Accenture he is responsible for the developing and growing businesses through building of solutions ecosystem & businesses ventures. He has wealth of experience in entrepreneurship, business development and complex technology project implementation for public services and governments. Moses graduated from the Australian National University with Bachelor of Science degree.
