Hoi-Kwong LO is a Chair Professor of Physics at the University of Hong Kong and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics at the University of Toronto. He is also a co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Quantum Bridge Technologies, Inc. (QBT) He received B. A. in Mathematics from Cambridge University in 1989 and Ph.D. in Physics from Caltech in 1994. After spending time at the Institute for Advanced Study(IAS), Princeton, he became a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Hewlett-Packard Labs from 1997 to 1999. He was the Chief Scientist and Senior VP at a quantum start-up, MagiQ Technology, Inc from 1999 to 2002. From 2003 to 2020, he worked full time at the University of Toronto and has been a tenured Full Professor there since 2009. He became a Chair Professor of Physics at HKU in 2020. He co-founded the start-up QBT in 2019.

He is a pioneer in the field of quantum information and quantum cryptography, and was among the first in the world to establish three fundamental results: 1) to prove the information-theoretic security of QKD, 2) to co-invent quantum secret sharing and 3) to prove the impossibility of quantum bit commitment. His research group at the U. of Toronto was the first in the world to implement experimentally the decoy state QKD protocol in 2005 and successfully hack commercial QKD systems (around 2008-2010). In 2012, he co-invented the novel protocol measurement-device-independent (MQI-QKD), which is widely regarded as a breakthrough in the field. Recently, his research group and collaborators invented and experimentally implemented a proof-of-principle demonstration of all photonics quantum repeaters and experimentally implemented the novel twin-field QKD protocol.

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), an Optica Fellow (OSA), and has been awarded the 2022 CAP-INO Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Applied Photonics.

Mr Esmond Kin-Ying LEE

Chief Executive Officer

Euroclear Bank Hong Kong Branch

Mr Esmond LEE Kin Ying (李建英) is now employed by Euroclear.

Before joining Euroclear on 1 November 2017, Mr LEE was the Senior Advisor of the Financial Services Development Council (FSDC) between 22 August 2016 and 21 August 2017. FSDC was set up by the Hong Kong Government to develop financial services.

Before joining the FSDC, Mr. Lee served as the Executive Director in charge of the Financial Infrastructure Department at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) from 1 February 2008 to 7 August 2016. Mr LEE has played a key role in the development and operation of the financial infrastructure, especially clearing and settlement systems, in Hong Kong since joining the HKMA in 1993. He served as Chief Representative in the HKMA's New York Office from 1998 to 2000.

Before joining the HKMA, Mr LEE was working in the Hong Kong Government as Principal Economist.

Christine Huang Yuan is the Technology Transfer Director of Hong Kong Quantum AI Lab and was selected as one of Forbes China 2020 “30 Under 30 (Healthcare and Science)”. Christine obtained Doctoral of Medicine from the Southern Medical University and now she is an Honorary Senior Research Associate at the University of Hong Kong. She has vast experience in the biotechnology field,  and shares her professional insights as a biomedicine investment consultant for China Internet Investment Finance Holding Limited (stock code: 0810.HK) and as a consultant to Insilico Medicine. She is also a member of the Advisory Board of Wing Wah Charity Foundation Hong Kong, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine(UK). Christine is a translational medicine expert especially in the fields of AI-driven medicine, neurodegenerative disease and longevity medicine.

Dr Paul SIN

Director – Technology & Transformation

New World Development Company Limited

Dr Paul SIN is now leading the group technology function of New World Development, a conglomerate covering property, retail, healthcare, infrastructure, etc. with 20+ years of IT management and consulting experience.  Prior to this role, Paul established the FinTech consulting practice and Asia Pacific Blockchain Lab in Deloitte.  Paul had also incubated and served as CEO and Executive Director of a FinTech startup before, as well as led the IT functions of different multinational financial institutes.

Competencies and experience Mr CHING, aged 46, was appointed as Group Chief Technology Officer in September 2021 to lead the development and dissemination of technology across all business groups within TVB. He was also appointed as President of MyTV Super Group in January 2022 for overseeing the business, operations and technology development. Mr CHING also holds directorships in certain subsidiaries of the Company. He joined TVB as Head of Technical Engineering in October 2014. Before joining TVB, Ir CHING worked in PCCW Solution to lead the IT development for nowTV. He has 24 years of extensive experience in OTT, IT and Telecommunication industries. Ir CHING holds a Bachelor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Master of Economics from The University of Hong Kong. He is also the Corporate Member of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers.

Ir LEUNG received his B.Sc. (Eng) in Civil and Structural Engineering from the University of Hong Kong in 1989.  Later in 2000, he received his M.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the same institution.  After graduation, he joined the Government of the Hong Kong SAR as Civil Engineering Graduate.  He obtained the professional qualification as members of the Institution of Civil Engineers and Hong Kong Institution of Engineers in 1993 and 1994 respectively.  He then worked in Highways Department and undertook various different posts responsible for district administration and project management.  One of the projects that Ir LEUNG involved is the Stonecutters Bridge which is one of the cable-stayed bridges with the longest main spans in the world.  Ir LEUNG joined the Water Supplies Department (WSD) in 2018 and is currently the Chief Engineer heading the Development (1) Division responsibles for administering the Asset Management Section, the Planning Policy Section, the Training and Grade Management Section and the Water Loss Management Section.

Kok-Tin is a Partner in PwC’s Cyber Security & Privacy practice with over 17 years of experience.  Kok Tin is also the founder of PwC’s Darklab, Hackaday and Hackbot. Kok Tin is currently the Vice Chairman of ITSMf HK Chapter and the member of security committee of Fintech Association of HK.

Kok-Tin’s key areas of expertise and experience include Cyber security strategy, framework, IT security framework (ISO27001, NIST, Multi Level Protection), application security (OWASP, OWASP Mobile) and data security (e.g., PCI DSS), secure development life cycle, DevSecOps, Cloud security, IT risk, security / technology architecture and white hat hacking. 

Kok-Tin has co-authored a number of cyber security and technology risk related guidelines for the Regulators in the Asia Pacific Region.

Kok-Tin has led ~300 small to large size of security assessment / transformation engagements and has worked across different continents including, Asia, America, Europe and Africa.

Kok Tin is a TED talk speaker and he also founded a dot.com company during his early days of his career.