Following from the success of our inaugural Food’s Future Summit 2017, Foodie is back to explore more of the pertinent issues, challenges and advances surrounding the perennial question: What does our Food’s Future hold?

A finalist for The Spark Awards – Best Event, this year’s Summit features an expanded, two-day programme that delves even more comprehensively into current and critical topics. Day 1 (Friday, 21 September), will be packed with keynote speeches and panel discussions from key industry insiders, while Day 2 (Saturday, 22 September) will feature interactive workshops and talks. Both days will feature a Foodie Marketplace, where new, futuristic and innovative products will be on display and even for sale!

Keynote speaker Josh Tetick, CEO and Co-Founder of Silicon Valley’s JUST Inc will kick off the Summit on his vision for a revolutionary food’s future; special speakers from Sweden will fly in to share their country’s insights and innovators.  Plus: find out how leading restauranteurs and investors are thinking about dining in 2030, how to sustain sustainable practices and consumer trends with a special panel on Gen Z dining habits.  Come explore, network and expand your food horizon.  September 21 and 22nd.  Early bird tickets available now.  www.foods-future.com.

Hong Kong, August 9, 2018: Returning this Fall with its 13th anticipated edition, the Asia Contemporary Art Show at the Conrad Hong Kong, opens on September 28th until October 1st. As the longest running and most successful hotel art fair in Asia, the Show will include artwork from countries such as Myanmar, the United States, South Korea, Lebanon, Russia, China, Japan, Hong Kong and many others.

Beginning on Friday, September 28th, arts patrons and select guests will be welcomed at the exclusive UnionPay Private View. This will be followed by an invitation-only UnionPay VIP Collectors Preview. General admission opens on Saturday, September 29th and continues with regular show hours until Monday, October 1st.

Opening Hours:

Friday, September 28th

UnionPay Private View (Invitation only) | 3pm – 5pm

UnionPay VIP Collectors Preview (Invitation only) | 5pm – 9pm

General Admission:

Saturday, September 29th | 1pm – 8pm

Sunday, September 30th | 1pm – 8pm

Monday, October 1st | 11am – 6pm

The Italian Chamber of Commerce is pleased to highlight the opportunity to participate in this unmissable regional food market, featuring original products from Italian region Puglia. Join us on October 5th and 6th and find the goods as below:

See you all at Sheraton Grand Macao Hotel the first Friday and Saturday of the month from 6 to 11 PM.

Asia Pacific is embracing the digital transformation and seizing it to the fullest. The retail industry is not being left behind this wave. The transformation was prompted by the exciting development of new technology such as Artificial Intelligent, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Big Data, and e-Commerce.

The services industry in Hong Kong contributed to more than 90% of its Gross Domestic Product in 2017, retail being one of it. The concept of New Retail from its neighbouring country shakes the core of traditional retail. The rise of the disruptions has become the factor to the need to transform retail.

Reimagining Retail by Zenith Bizness Excellence embraces those disruptions in order to squeeze out the best strategic plans in moving forward towards futuristic retails. Do not miss this opportunity to be a part of transformation leaders that could change the shape of retail forever!

The Italian Chamber of Commerce is glad to support the CICC Guangdong 7° Go Kart Cup was successfully held on 13th October in Shenzhen, more than 60 participants joined the last event and among them, more than 40 racers competed in the race.

We would like to give our special thanks to the sponsors for their support to this event here again:

Our Event Top Sponsor – Maserati

Our Event Official Sponsor – Urbana

Our Event Technical Sponsor – LPR and Wang Jing Law Firm

Thanks also to Caffe’ Perfetto, which sponsored us the authentic Italian coffee and Campo Marzio, which sponsored the winner prizes and gadgets to all the participants.

It has been an amazing outdoor event and team building activity, the perfect chance to meet new friends, and to enjoy a great day of sport, competition and a lot of pure fun all together.

In order to better meet your expectations for further events, we would like to ask for your collaboration in collecting your valuable views and feedback regarding the event.

Finally, we would like to give our sincere thank to all the participants who joined us and look forward to seeing you again in the upcoming events.

“The 23rd Macao International Trade and Investment Fair” is organised by the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM), and co-organised by 15 economic and commercial authorities and trade associations from Macao, Hong Kong and Mainland China, will be held from 18th to 20th October, 2018.

MIF is the first Macao local exhibition awarded by the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry (UFI), and is one of the most reputable annual international economic and trade events in Macao. Under the theme of “Cooperation-Key to Business Opportunities”, MIF leverages on Macao’s advantages as ”World Centre of Tourism and Leisure” and “Commercial and Trade Cooperation Service Platform between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries”, which helps MIF’s participants to facilitate business start-up, development and transformation.

Enterprises from over 50 countries and regions participated in last year’s MIF, with more than 1,500 booths. 2017 Portuguese Speaking Countries Products and Services Exhibition (Macao)” (2017PLPEX) was held concurrently, which generated a cumulative effect and achieved significant results. A total of 67 agreements were signed and 389 matching sessions were held in the Business Matching Area during the events.

MIF is covering exhibition, forum/conference, business matching and SMEs cooperation in one event.

As an official partner of the 2018 EU-China Tourism Year, GTEF will present the European Union (“EU”) as the Official Partner Region in its 7th edition on 22-24 October, 2018 in Macao to promote EU’s immense collective tourism offerings to China, the fastest growing and number one source market in the world since 2014. Under the theme of “Strategic Partnership in a New Era, Rising Momentum for a Shared Future,” GTEF will continue to play its strategic role as a pragmatic exchange platform to create a year-round series of important campaigns and events from roadshows and trade visits, and a 2-day program of keynote and panel sessions, bilateral meetings, business matching, exhibitions, workshops and cultural activities,to drive high-level dialogues on increasing tourism flows between China and Europe, enhancing EU countries’ understanding of Chinese visitors when traveling in Europe, and strengthening cooperation between the Chinese and EU authorities in the field of tourism and its related economy.

In addition, GTEF 2018 will present Guangdong Province as the Featured Partner Chinese Province and highlight the megalopolis of the Guangdong Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, home to 11 cities (9 in Guangdong Province), over 68 million people and a regional GDP of over US$1.39 trillion. Highlighting Guangdong in GTEF 2018 supports the Central Government’s plan to develop a city cluster in the Greater Bay Area to elevate regional development, drive economic growth efficiency in the entire hub, and give full play to the distinctive strengths to each of the 11 cities.

SMEs face the same cyber-security threats as larger organizations but without the luxury of their budgets or technology teams.  Yet, the risks of suffering a cyber-security breach are perhaps even higher and more damaging to an SME organization.  This is especially true given recent regulations making businesses responsible for breaches occurring in the data they store.

This panel discussion will summarize the biggest risks to watch out for and give practical tips on how to protect against cyber-attacks and what to do in the event of an attack in terms of:

• Staff education
• Company responsibilities about clients’ data and consequences
• The dark web – what it is and what you need to know
• The basics of handling a cyber-attack

The exposition will be accompanied by the sharing of ‘war’ stories and case studies in an anonymous way.

Please be reminded that for this event, all visitors have to be registered with the Concierge Desk located in the IFC lobby at the G/F of Two IFC. Visitors may also be asked to provide a Hong Kong ID Card or Passport when registering to visit the UBS office.

About the Speakers

Kevin Bowers, Partner / Solicitor Advocate, Howse Williams Bowers 

Kevin specialises in commercial, insurance and employment litigation and dispute resolution both in Hong Kong and internationally. He handles complex multi-jurisdictional commercial cases acting both for employers and employees in a wide range of contentious and advisory employment matters and is experienced in advising upon and handling internal disciplinary investigations and proceedings.

Grégory Mauguin, Security Business Unit Director, LinkByNet 

Grégory, as “Global Director of the Security Business Unit” of Linkbynet, is in charge of the development of our ISS (Information Security System) consulting offer and steers the operational excellence of our managed services in terms of security.

He has more than 15 years of experience in ISS: holding the position of CISO in a company specialized in dematerialization and electronic archiving of sensitive data and subsequently being a consultant in ISS and director of a centre of expertise. He performed many technical and governance audits, provided support to reach legal or normative compliance, defined strategic security roadmaps, particularly in the banking sector.

Daniel Schneersohn, Vice-President Asia-Pacific & Japan, Arxan Technologies Inc. 

Seasoned Executive with over 20 years of regional experience in the IT industry with multinational corporations and local startups. He holds a proven track record in establishing and leading full-functions businesses from the ground up across multiple Asian countries including

Our annual flagship event Elevator Pitch Competition (EPiC) is once again around the corner, and we are inviting great startup teams from around the world to join us in this fun-filled event. Here, 100 teams will spend 60 seconds pitching their innovative ideas to investor judges literally in an elevator in one of the tallest building in HK, for a grand prize of US$ 120k investment and multiple cash prizes!

We cordially invite you to be our global partner, and as a token of appreciation for your support in spreading the words, we can guarantee a number of teams from your nomination into the 100 finalists. Simply ask the teams to register online, and make sure you let us know who they are so we can identify them from the database.

For more information, please refer to the attached information deck or click here. Please mind that applications close on September 14!

The Asian Logistics and Maritime Conference (ALMC) brings together a wide variety of logistics service providers and users, from manufacturers and distributors to retailers and brand owners, to discuss the latest trends and opportunities in Asia’s logistics, air cargo, maritime and supply-chain management industries.

2018 Edition will feature the participation of over 2,000 participants all over the world and forecast a series of seminars and talks along with networking luncheons and coffee breaks. The two main forums will focus respectively on the role of connectivity within the developing process of the Asian-pacific economy and on the revolution in logistics and supply chain management brought in by online shopping.

The event will also see the participation of Hon. Mrs Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.