On Thursday October 29th, we are glad to partner up with Hawksford, Economic Development Board and The Italian Chamber of Commerce in Singapore to discuss growth and expansion opportunities into the ASEAN region while using Singapore as a hub.

Learn about Singapore’s high growth business sectors, the government’s roadmap for innovation and understand how its business-friendly policies make it one of the easiest places in the world to do business.

Gain informative insights about the attractive tax treaties and regimes, the government support available for Hong Kong companies, IP protection, immigration policies, and the business set-up requirements to effectively grow or expand into this thriving market.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Dario Acconci, Managing Director of South East Asia, Hawksford

Dario is the Managing Director for South-East Asia whilst managing a strategic portfolio of clients in China and Hong Kong. He started his career in Hong Kong in 2003 working for an international law firm and developed a deep experience in assisting foreign investments into China, Hong Kong and South East Asia advising clients in connection to various aspects ranging from corporate, commercial to labour law. He has built a practice of multinational clients and a strong reputation of adviser to the board of several fashion and luxury brands.

Guanyou Chen, Regional Director, Europe, Economic Development Board

Guanyou Chen oversees the UK, France and Italy market in Europe, with a focus on the Consumer, Healthcare and Professional Services industries. This entails working with companies such as Ferrero, Menarini (Italy), Unilever, WPP (UK) and Sanofi, LVMH (France).

Salvatore Di Chiara, Head of Account Management, Hawksford

Salvatore is a qualified Certified Public accountant in Italy and gained substantial experience in strategic, commercial, and operational advice for large European corporations investing in Asia.  Salvatore supervises and coordinates the accounting and tax team, advising local and international clients in Singapore, Malaysia and China, with the main focus on Industrial Investments, Oil & Gas, ICT and Luxury.

Giacomo Marabiso, Managing Director, Italian Chamber of Commerce in Singapore

Giacomo has over 10 years of experience in a management position as Marketing manager, Business development manager and Secretary-General leading business development services for European and Singaporean companies with a focus on the following markets: Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar and Italy. Main sectors covered: furniture, building and construction, consumer goods, green energy. Giacomo also has a strong institutional and business network in SEA and Italy.

The Retail Mixer is back!

Join one of the best networking cocktails in town, and gather together with the retail players in Hong Kong.

Get ready to fully immerse yourself in a sensational wine tasting and experience one of the finest Italian wine, the Franciacorta! Franciacorta is a sparkling wine whose origins go back to the middle age in the area of Brescia, Italy. In the heart of Franciacorta, the Contadi Castaldi winery has specialized in the art of innovation, continuously searching for the finest vineyards.

On Thursday, October 29th, get the chance to mingle with professionals working in the retail industry while exchanging ideas and experience.

The Italian Chamber of Commerce is glad to support The China-Italy Chamber of Commerce Webinar Social Media Marketing in China, which will be held online on the 6th of November.

Starting from a panorama of the Chinese social media, the webinar aims to cover the following topics:

• How digital marketing is an ideal export tool for international brands;
• Why is a cultural mediator useful and how he/she can optimize the digital communication strategy for multinational companies;
• How to leverage social media in Chinese digital environment;
• Tips for setting up an integrated Online to Offline marketing strategy;
• Cases of international companies that successfully entered Chinese market in the digital era;
• What will China’s social media ecosystem look like in five to ten years.

The Honourable Mrs Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, will deliver her Policy Address to the Legislative Council in October.

Every year, the Hong Kong business community hosts a luncheon for over 1 000 executives to hear the Chief Executive elaborate on the Policy Address. Unfortunately, due to COVID-19, this is not possible this year. However, we are deeply honoured that Mrs Lam has accepted our invitation to speak to the Hong Kong business community via Zoom on 9 November. Attendees will be able to hear Mrs Lam explain the priorities of her latest Policy Address, and learn more about her initiatives to support the economy and people’s livelihoods during this challenging time.

Businesses in Hong Kong are facing an increased threat to their cybersecurity. When cyber incidents materialise adversely they have a very costly effect on the firm’s reputation, which is why it is important to know how to react to these eventualities. This webinar in collaboration with 7Cento and Lockton will be focused on the topic of cybersecurity and the way to respond to a cyber incident.

The event will highlight the major cyber threats that businesses face in the present, and it will show what are the most common cyber pitfalls. Our experts will guide the attendees through a simulation of a cyber incident, eventually explaining to them the roles of certain response service providers, the decisions facing the board and the role of insurance.

This experience will allow the participants to learn what to expect after a potential incident and what may be the serious implications for the business’ reputation.

Join this webinar to learn the most effective ways to reduce the damage provoked by a cyber incident, and thus how to protect the firm’s reputation

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Rory Young, AVP, Global Cyber and Technology, Lockton Companies

Rory Young lead’s Lockton’s Cyber and Technology risk transfer solution strategy for the wider Asia Pacific region. Rory has been part of Lockton’s Global Cyber and Technology team since 2015 with experience in both the London insurance market and in Asia. His experience focuses on Global insurance programs placement for a wide range of industries across multiple jurisdictions. Established in 2006, Lockton’s Global Cyber and Technology team are the largest Cyber broking team in London dedicated to providing unparalleled service and bespoke risk solutions to meet client needs, placing over USD100m of Cyber and Technology related Insurance Premium each and every year.

Patrick Yu, General Manager, SVP and Senior Partner, Head of Asia Pacific Financial and Professional Services Sector, FleishmanHillard

Patrick Yu is the general manager, senior vice president and senior partner at FleishmanHillard Hong Kong and the head of financial services, the Asia Pacific for the Company. Mr. Yu has a broad range of experience in strategic communications including reputation management, corporate marketing, senior media relations, and international communications program for financial institutions in the Asia Pacific. Mr. Yu is also an adjunct lecturer at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at The University of Hong Kong.

Simone Rapizzi, CEO / CTO, Whetu S.r.l.

Simone Rapizzi, CEO and Co-Founder of Whetu, is a white hat hacker that specialises in breaking into protected systems and networks to test and assess their security, exposing vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can detect and exploit them. Unlike malicious hackers, white hat hackers like Simone intervene only after explicit authorisation from the organisation that has hired them. As a specialised hacker, Simone has extensive international experience in projects such as Insider Threat Simulations, Security Assessments, Phishing Simulation, Security Awareness Training, Incident Response and Threat Analysis in several industries, including pharmaceuticals, finance, fintech, telco, energy and automotive.

Fabrizio Rosina is CEO at 7Layers, recently acquired by Fastweb and one of FT1000’s fastest-growing companies in Europe and the Italian leader in Managed Security Services, SOC and Managed Detection and Response (MDR). With over 20 years’ experience in cybersecurity, Fabrizio has designed and implemented security solutions for some of the most successful fashion, infrastructure, manufacturing and financial firms in Europe. His experience ranges from SOC and MDR development to compliance and information security management, forensic analysis and cyber incident response plans, advanced persistent threat (ATP) researches, cyber security AI and ML, as well as ICS and SCADA security.

On November 12th join us for this webinar in collaboration with Hawksford, InvestHK and the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Singapore, on the unique opportunities for companies in the Greater Bay Area.

The Greater Bay Area (GBA) is a Chinese Government initiative aimed at promoting closer cooperation and economic integration between 11 cities of the Greater Bay Area among which Hong Kong, Macao, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou will serve as core hubs for driving economic growth.

In May 2020, the People’s Bank of China and financial regulators unveiled a plan to further open up and accelerate the development of the GBA into one of the world’s largest economic regions. In terms of scope, the GBA will represent one of the largest urban areas both in terms of size and population. It represents 12% of China’s national economy (equivalent to US$ 1.4 trillion), generated by only 5% of the country’s population.

Register now to discover the latest updates and learn from our experts the key drivers to succeed in the region.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Dario Acconci, Managing Director, Asia, Hawksford

Dario is the Managing Director for South-East Asia whilst managing a strategic portfolio of clients in China and Hong Kong. He started his career in Hong Kong in 2003 working for an international law firm and developed a deep experience in assisting foreign investments into China, Hong Kong and South East Asia advising clients in connection to various aspects ranging from corporate, commercial to labour law. He has built a practice of multinational clients and a strong reputation of adviser to the board of several fashion and luxury brands.

Mr Jimmy Chiang, Associate Director-General of Investment Promotion, Invest Hong Kong, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Dr Jimmy Chiang is Associate Director-General of Invest Hong Kong, the government department responsible for attracting and facilitating foreign direct investment into Hong Kong. He joined Invest Hong Kong in August 2003 and was promoted to Head of Tourism and Hospitality in September 2010.

He took up the ADG position in April 2015, in which he oversees the Department’s investment promotion strategies in the areas of Business and Professional Services, Consumer Products, Creative Industries, Financial Services, Tourism and Hospitality and Transport and Industrial. Prior to joining Invest Hong Kong, Dr Chiang worked with a HongKong-based multinational transportation company in a number of different managerial roles for five years.

Luca Cico, President of The Italian Chamber of Commerce

Luca Cico, Director at LC Consulting Asia Pacific Ltd. In his current role Luca works shoulder-to-shoulder with his Clients to unlock growth and create value by defining and implementing sharp and actionable Go-To-Market strategies, Commercial capabilities building programs and tools, Commercial organizations efficiency and effectiveness improvement interventions.

Luca has in his backpack more than 25 years of diversified businesses and multicultural environments experiences across Europe and Asia Pacific in leading FMCG (Mars, Colgate Palmolive, Ferrero, Bacardi, Coty) and Industrial (Pirelli) multinationals, with direct responsibilities for Asia Pacific since 2000.

Francesco Montonati, Associate Director,

The Belt and Road Summit is a premier international platform for promoting business collaboration along the Belt and Road. The Summit gathers senior government officials and business leaders from countries and regions along and beyond the Belt and Road to exchange insights on multilateral co-operation and explore concrete business opportunities.

This winter the 5th edition of the summit will be held. The event will include thematic breakout sessions, project pitching sessions, business matching and virtual exhibitions.

Due to the current situation related to COVID-19, the summit will adopt a combination of online and physical formats.

Italian Chamber Members can register for the Online Conference with an exclusive 30% discount. Please contact icc@icc.org.hk to get the registration code.

For more information, please visit the website here.