🕐8.45am
Registration
🕐9.00am - 9.10am
Welcoming Address
Master of ceremonies:
Mrs April Chan FCG HKFCG
Repurposing in Changing Times
Mr Ernest Lee FCG HKFCG(PE)
President, The Hong Kong Chartered Governance Institute;
Technical Partner, Deloitte China
🕐9.10am - 9.20am
Speech by the Guest of Honour
Mr Nicolas Aguzin
Chief Executive Officer, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited
Session One: Tackling climate change
In one way or another, Climate change will affect every country, every organisation and every individual on our planet. In this session, we will examine how our understanding of the responsibilities of the company must be transformed to include an effective response to the threat of irreversible climate change, how governance is essential to delivering, measuring and communicating that response and how governance professionals must be rethinking their own roles as key contributors to tackling climate change.
🕐9.20am - 9.35am
The pressing issue of our times – climate change and harmonising reporting standards
Ms Teresa Ko JP BBS FCG HKFCG
Senior Partner, Hong Kong and China Chairman, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer; Co-Vice Chair, IFRS Foundation
🕐9.35am - 09.50am
Climate change governance - challenging yet rewarding
Mr David Simmonds FCG HKFCG
Vice-President and Chairman, Membership Committee, The Hong Kong Chartered Governance Institute; Chief Strategy, Sustainability and Governance Officer, CLP Holdings Ltd
🕐09.50am - 10.40am
Session One - Panel Discussion
Panel Chair:
Ms Gillian Meller FCG HKFCG(PE)
Immediate Past President, The Hong Kong Chartered Governance Institute; Legal and Governance Director, MTR Corporation Ltd
Mr David Simmonds FCG HKFCG
Ms Megan Tang
Senior Director, Corporate Finance Division, Securities and Futures Commission Hong Kong
Ms Eddie Ng
Partner, Business Reporting and Sustainability, KPMG China
Mr Ben McQuhae
Founder, Ben McQuhae & Co;
Co-founder Hong Kong Green Finance Association
🕐10.40am
Networking Break/Break#
Session Two: Harnessing technology
In the history of mankind, technological advances have never been so rapid, far-reaching or wide-ranging. Amongst those advances have been extraordinary changes in the speed and volume of information flows, the capacity of technology to supplement, even replace, human thought and the extent of the knowledge and data about each of us which is created and released each day. In this session, we will look at cybersecurity, the protection of privacy and the use of artificial intelligence - three aspects of the digital revolution where governance practices must be rethought to ensure that technology is harnessed to deliver both its potential benefits and to manage its accompanying risks.
🕐10.55am - 11.10am
Harnessing technological advances
Mr Adam Stuckert
Group Chief Digital Officer, Tricor Group
🕐11.10am - 11.25am
Managing technology related risks
Mr Kok Tin Gan
Partner, PwC Hong Kong
🕐11.25am - 12.15pm
Session Two – Panel Discussion
Panel Chair:
Mr Mohan Datwani FCG HKFCG(PE)
Deputy Chief Executive, The Hong Kong Chartered Governance Institute
Mr Adam Stuckert
Mr Kok Tin Gan
Ms Ada Chung Lai-ling
Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong, Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong
Dr Jag Kundi
Adjunct Professor, EMBA Program City University of Hong Kong
🕐12.15pm - 1.10pm
Lunch
🕐1.10pm - 1.15pm
Acknowledgement of conference sponsors
Session Three: Welcoming diversity and inclusion
Each of us is unique in our own way. Each of us has particular strengths and weaknesses, but each of us deserves equality of treatment and opportunity. This is not just a basic issue of fairness, but also a means of ensuring that every organisation maximises the potential of all its stakeholders, internal and external, to support its sustained success. As such, welcoming diversity and promoting inclusion is a fundamental component of good governance. In this session, we will consider how the scope of governance, and the work of governance professionals, must be revisited to ensure that all those within an organisation from the board, through management to every colleague, and all those impacted or influenced by the organisation’s business and activities are respected and treated fairly.
🕐1.15pm - 1.30pm
Diversity and inclusion – need to be real and now
Mr Nicholas Allen
Chairman and Independent Non-Executive Director, Link Asset Management Ltd
🕐1.30pm - 1.45pm
A regulatory concern – and achieving practical regulations
Ms Bonnie Y Chan
Head of Listing, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited
🕐1.45pm - 2.30pm
Session Three – Panel Discussion
Panel Chair:
Ms Benita Yu FCG HKFCG
Partner, Slaughter and May
Mr Nicholas Allen
Ms Bonnie Y Chan
Ms Edith Shih FCG(CS, CGP) HKFCG(CS, CGP)(PE)
Past International President, The Chartered Governance Institute and Past President, The Hong Kong Chartered Governance Institute; Executive Director and Company Secretary, CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd
Mr Nicholas Chilton
Head of Board Advisory, South Pacific Region, Nasdaq
Mr Neil Waters
Senior Partner, Egon Zehnder
Ms Shalini Mahtani MBE
Founder & CEO, The Zubin Foundation
🕐2.30pm
Networking Break/Break#
Session Four: Enhancing Hong Kong’s competitive advantage
Over the past seventy years, Hong Kong has transformed and repositioned itself in response to changing times: from a trading port to a manufacturing base and international financial centre. In today’s globalised economy the competition for investment, capital raising and fund management is international. Investors have a wide choice as to where they will place their money. At the same time, structures such as private equity are vying with the listed company as preferred investment vehicles. Hong Kong’s continuing success as a financial hub, in China, in the Asia-Pacific region and globally, means that our competitive edge must constantly be sharpened. This session will analyse how the role of governance, and of governance professionals, can evolve to enhance Hong Kong’s ability to link capital providers with investment opportunities and to provide them with the choices of investment vehicles which they expect.
🕐2.45pm - 3.00pm
The positioning and development strategies of Hong Kong as an International Financial Centre
Mr Joseph H L Chan JP
Under Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, The HKSAR Government
🕐3.00pm - 3.15pm
Hong Kong’s governance leadership - ESG and beyond
Mr Amar Gill
Managing Director, Head of APAC Investment Stewardship, BlackRock
🕐3.15pm - 4.00pm
Session Four – Panel Discussion
Panel Chair:
Professor Frederick Ma Si-hang GBS JP
Chairman, FWD Group Holdings Ltd
Mr Joseph H L Chan JP
Mr Amar Gill
Dr David Wong Yau Kar GBS JP
Chairman, Council of the Education University of Hong Kong
Mr Laurence Li SC JP
Chairman, Financial Services Development Council
Corporate Governance in Conversation: Repurposing company reporting
🕐4.00pm - 5.00pm
Event Chair:
Mr Peter Greenwood MA FCG HKFCG
Professor Mervyn King SC
Chairman Emeritus, The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC)
🕐5.00pm
Conference Ends
[ECPD = 6.5 Points]
Terms and conditions during the booking process apply. All views are those of the sponsors/interviewees and no attribution should be made to the Institute. The Institute reserves the right to change the programme, listed presenter(s) and time, if necessary.
# No ECPD awarded for materials presented during breaks / lunch.