The 10 Start-up Express winners, an entrepreneurship development programme organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), represented diverse sectors, ranging from healthtech and greentech to edutech and mechanical engineering.

10 winners were selected as part of the 2024 cohort of the HKTDC’s Start-up Express programme.

Strong showing by healthtech, greentech start-ups

Hong Kong is fast developing into an international I&T hub, one of the eight centres that China’s Five-Year Plan outlines for the city, offering many arising opportunities via its platform.

City’s hub status enhanced, as the region moves up the value chain.

Innovation takes Hong Kong forward

As innovation and technology advance in leaps and bounds across the world, artificial intelligence is having an impact on our daily lives.

Underlying the growing reach of smart solutions, two Start-up Express International winners brought intelligent solutions to the kitchen and factory.

AI makes mark in kitchens, factories

Debate is raging around the ethics and prospects for AI, but the field is proving a boon for at least one group – Hong Kong’s exporters.

Demand for electronics components boosts anticipated growth of 4-6%.

Exporters turn bullish on AI prospects

Hosted by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), the Hong Kong Forum returns on 5 and 6 December , an annual gathering of the Federation of Hong Kong Business Associations Worldwide.

City’s business associations look to the year ahead following an eventful 2023.

Hong Kong Forum

Businesses in the technology-heavy Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) are paying close attention to digitisation and AI, with 29% anticipating they will incorporate AI into their business models.

Companies in the future-focused region are eager to adopt digital solutions, as sentiment strengthens.

Greater Bay Area firms look to AI

Advances in science and technology have created a market hungry for software engineers. Catering to market demand, start-up Rocket Academy has introduced intensive programming education, offering online programming courses to train software engineering talents.

All-online college generates streams of coding talent.

Digital school for digital world

International metropolis Hong Kong, which brings together outstanding innovators and talents from around the world, has launched Kodifly, a start-up developing three-dimensional space perception and computer vision technology.

Transport infrastructure monitoring system makes cities smarter and safer.

Multicultural team keeps track

As technological changes bring prospects for disruption, attention is turning to Hong Kong, a global centre of innovation. The HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Autumn Edition) gathers exhibitors and buyers from every sector in the confident expectation of game-changing technologies.

Autumn edition of the world’s leading showcase for innovative electronics products.

HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair

Innovation and technology (I&T) are important forces driving long-term economic development. The Hong Kong SAR Government has contacted more than 200 companies so far in its drive to attract innovative companies to the city, of which more than 25 had already settled or were planning to settle in Hong Kong, or expand their business scale in Hong Kong, with an investment of more than HK$17 billion (US$2.17 billion).

The government’s drive to bring cutting edge technology firms to the city is bearing fruit.

Innovative Hong Kong draws overseas enterprises

Cyberspace is rapidly supplanting physical space as a business environment. Even successful small firms need to put a lot of effort into navigating this setting, which is not only new, but growing and changing with amazing speed.

Finding spacecraft and maps for cyberspace is a challenge that SMEs can no longer defer.

Cyberspace user’s guide for SMEs

Those who were already in work during the heady 1990s, when simply tagging “.com” to the end of a brand name brought sky-high valuations, will also remember the blowout in the 2000s when most of the “dotcoms” vapourised leaving just a few to soar.

There are many solutions for machine-based marketing but SMEs need to consider their needs and resources.

Intelligent AI choice needs thought

Firms in Mainland China are rapidly moving to expand abroad and regulatory, market and technological changes are paving the way for them.

A green petrochemicals maker picks Switzerland for next step towards worldwide expansion.

Paving way for global launches

The inaugural InnoEX, co-organised by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC, promoted Hong Kong’s strengths in innovation and tech.

Innovations such as ChatGPT are sending the growth in automation into overdrive.

Robots, AI fast-track automation

GoGBA initiative supports businesses to explore technology development collaborations in nearby cities

Technology takes centre stage in GBA’s development

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