The StartmeupHK Festival 2020 will be returning from 6-11 July this year and is going virtual!

It’s time to celebrate the best of tech innovation virtually. The festival will be transformed from an in-person event to a fully virtual experience. InvestHK’s decision to bring this annual event into the rapidly developing virtual realm is a timely precaution in light of the current Covid-19 situation worldwide.

We’re excited to invite you to join our Connected Cities Conference on 6 July during the Festival and learn more about how smart and connected cities around the world are using the latest technologies and finding more innovative solutions for city living.

The Connected Cities Conference will showcase innovations for the next generation of city living. We will feature global and regional speakers from academia and business to showcase a number of smart technologies from around the world including IoT, AI, and data analytics to enhance a city’s liveability, workability, and sustainability.

Connected Retail Experiences will be the definitive omni-channel customer experience event for all retail stakeholders across the region. Contrary to what you might have read in the newspapers over the past few weeks, shopping is not dead and the act of buying things that we want or need is not going to disappear ever. However, the way in which we discover products, evaluate their value and ultimately buy and receive them may have now changed in ways we could not have previously imagined.

On July 7^th – 8^th we will explore some of these changes and discuss what we have learned and where the opportunities lie in this brave new world ‘driven by data, powered by people’.

US and China are the two largest economies of the world, the two countries trade and invest globally with geo-economic influence in every region. US has the world’s largest GDP, while China has the top GDP based on purchasing power parity (PPP), the two countries have a similar territorial extension but different size in terms of population. Washington and Beijing have signed double tax treaties, free trade agreements, and regional partnership agreements with most of the world’s nations. The course highlights key macroeconomic data, trade agreements and duties policies between China, US and the world to show main geo-economic trends.

1) Macroeconomic data

2) Trade, duties and free trade agreements

3) International organizations and regional partnerships

4) Trade and FDI global influence

5) Future geo-economic trends

China, US and the World is a course focusing on macroeconomic data on trade between Beijing, Washington and other countries in every continent. The course highlights main business partners, trade agreements and future economic trends for investors interested in China and the global market.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Lorenzo Riccardi, Managing Director of RsA Asia

Lorenzo Riccardi is the Managing Director of RsA Asia (rsa-tax.com); he lecturers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and has been Adjunct Associate Professor of Taxation at Xian Jiao Tong Liverpool. He is a CPA specialized in international taxation and has covered roles in the governance of non-profit organizations and multi-national companies including the largest Italian groups in luxury, food and mechanical sectors.

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.

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