HKUST Annual Report 2019-2020

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS The School of Business and Management arranged the first joint alumni seminar on family businesses, together with New York University and University of Southern California. The event featured a sharing session by HKUST alumnus faculty and family business expert Prof. Roger KING, Founding Director of the Tanoto Center for Asian Family Business and Entrepreneurship Studies, followed by a panel discussion. HKUST, in collaboration with Toolbox Percussion of Hong Kong, presented the GRAMMY award-winning Third Coast Percussion ensemble in a Music Alive! evening celebrating contemporary percussion music. 2020 JAN 2020 MAR HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies held an online seminar focused on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The seminar, entitled “BRI Regulatory Transformation: Taming the Chinese Investors’ Risks” discussed the regulations shaping the BRI investment environment and explained their significance for Chinese investors. 2020 APR The School of Business and Management organized a series of online talks in China, featuring 10 of HKUST’s past and present deans, who offered valuable insights into what the future holds. The talks attracted more than 30,000 views. 2020 MAY HKUST initiated its first virtual Career Fair to connect students with prospective employers providing graduate jobs and internship opportunities. 2020 JUN Renowned business technology executive and venture capitalist Alfred CHUANG shared his insights into the development of tech startups during and post COVID-19 in a virtual fireside chat arranged by the School of Engineering, in collaboration with the Entrepreneurship Center. 2019 AUG A groundbreaking ceremony for HKUST(GZ) was held on site in Nansha, Guangzhou, after the State Ministry of Education approved the establishment of the new campus. 2019 SEP A Leadership and Public Policy Executive Education program on Big Data and Public Policy: Opportunities, Challenges, and Strategies was organized for the Civil Service Training and Development Institute. As part of the program, speakers shared their insights into how to effectively apply big data and evidence- based governance practices in the public sector. 2019 OCT The University’s 27th Congregation conferred 2,405 bachelor’s degrees, 2,860 master’s degrees, and 285 doctoral degrees, bringing HKUST’s alumni network to 82,493. 2019 NOV The first Hong Kong-France Joint Symposium on Skeletal Muscle Stem Cells, Regeneration, and Disease was held together with Université Paris-Est Créteil. 2019 DEC Prof. YAU Shing-Tung, winner of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2010, delivered a talk on the “Origin of Classical General Relativity and Gauge Theory”, drawing more than 170 participants. The Distinguished Lecture was organized by the HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study. 2019 JUL HKUST ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 47 Event Highlights 46