HKUST Annual Report 2018-19

32 ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19 Beyond the Campus FINTECH MOVES AND MANAGING CHANGE Widening Business Perspectives The School of Business and Management and Fintech Association of Hong Kong jointly hosted a seminar on “Fintech in the Greater Bay Area” as part of Hong Kong Fintech Education Week 2018, organized by the Hong Kong government’s InvestHK. Over 120 alumni and industry representatives attended. Further seminars were presented under the School’s BizInsight@HKUST Presentation Series and by the Tanoto Center for Asian Family Business and Entrepreneurship Studies. The former featured external and faculty speakers and panel discussions on topics ranging from AI and deep learning to consumers and online information. The latter focused on topics such as “Working across Cultures”, sponsored by EY, and “Cross-Generational Wealth Planning”, supported by Bank Julius Baer. Media Moves In a new venture, the School launched a joint training program with the Journalism Education Foundation in January 2019 for middle to senior management working in the local media. The 40 participants covered essential topics such as digitalization of the media and social media applications, leadership and negotiation, financial and accounting practices, and how to apply innovation. The program was supported by the Hong Kong News Executives Association and the Newspaper Society of Hong Kong. CREATING CARING AND ENGAGED CITIZENS Cultural Heritage and Musical Creativity The South China Research Center, under the School of Humanities and Social Science, delivered a series of events related to Hong Kong’s intangible cultural heritage that inspired hundreds of university and secondary school students, members of different local communities, and the general public to take part. Among the activities were field trips and workshops related to the traditional dragon boat water parade of Tai O on Lantau Island, the Hang Hau unicorn dance, Long Ping fishermen’s lament songs, and heritage conservation of Yim Tin Tsai Village, Sai Kung. The Center has played a significant role in research, collection, conservation and awareness-raising of local and South China intangible heritage since it was set up under the Division of Humanities in 1997. The Humanities faculty continued their popular public lectures at the Hong Kong History Museum over the year, with 16 lectures on subjects ranging from Pokfulam Village’s Fire Dragon to reading classical Chinese poetry today and Russian literature in modern China. In notable presentations of a different kind, the School’s music faculty participated in the MusicAlive! concert series, which saw the launch of an initiative involving young local instrumentalists, aged from eight to 13 years, in 2019. The Intimacy of Creativity workshops and performances returned for another successful season, working for the first time in partnership with Curtis Institute of Music. The renowned event brings together young composers and established musicians, providing a rare inside view of the creative working process between composer and musician. Guest artists for 2019 included Grammy award- winning violist Roberto DIAZ, President and CEO of Curtis Institute, and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer HIGDON, also at Curtis. Socially Aware and Involved HKUST Connect is a University community engagement platform dedicated to developing a global service- oriented mind-set and strengthening civic awareness among students. In 2018-19, the platform celebrated its 10th anniversary with a series of special programs. The kick-off event in November 2018 brought together President Wei SHYY and Mr. Peter MAURER, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in an open dialogue on the challenges and opportunities that technology could bring to humanitarian work. A public exhibition on campus, together with virtual reality equipment used in ICRC staff training, enabled viewers to experience crisis situations on the battlefield in a direct way. School activities to deepen understanding of community issues also saw the School of Science’s student-led SCI/ NUCLEUS social service teammobilize their peers, alumni and staff to work on projects with the Street Sleepers Action Committee, Hong Kong Blind Union, and other welfare groups. Commencing September 2018, a dedicated column in the English-language Standard newspaper has offered faculty across the University the opportunity to share their views and expertise on topical issues with general readers. Aging, AI ethics, electronic road pricing, and drone-mounted sensors for detecting shipping emission pollutants were among the subjects tackled over the year. The School of Business andManagement also contributed some 50 Chinese-language articles to a column in the Hong Kong Economic Journal newspaper, offering insights into areas including fintech, global investment market, macroeconomic issues, and innovation and technology development.