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🕐8.30am

Registration

🕐8.45am - 8.55am

Welcoming Address

The critical need to review, rethink and reset our governance for the new era

Master of ceremonies:
Mr Mohan Datwani FCG HKFCG (PE)
Deputy Chief Executive, HKCGI

icon_3 Mr David Simmonds FCG HKFCG

President, HKCGI; and Chief Strategy, Sustainability and Governance Officer, CLP Holdings Limited
 

🕐8.55am - 9.10am

Speech by the Guest of Honour

icon_3 Mr Carlson Tong GBS JP 

 Chairman, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX)

Session One: Delivering Goods, Services and Value. A Leader’s Perspective.

Governance does not exist in isolation. It exists to serve the needs and expectations of all organisations which deliver goods, services and value. In this session, we ask leaders from across business and the public sector to explain not only the challenges and opportunities presented by a changing world but to look to the horizon and beyond and contemplate the future influences on the ways in which they will serve their stakeholders.

🕐9.10am - 9.25am

The challenges and opportunities on our radar and beyond (transport & infrastructure)

icon_3 Mr Fred Lam Tin-fuk GBS JP

 Chairman, Airport Authority Hong Kong

🕐9.25am - 9.40am

The challenges and opportunities on our radar and beyond (conglomerate)

icon_3 Mr Frank John Sixt

 Group Co-Managing Director and Group Finance Director, CK Hutchison Holdings Limited

🕐9.40am - 9.55am

The challenges and opportunities on our radar and beyond (global franchising)

icon_3 Ms Randy Lai

 Chief Executive Officer, McDonald’s Hong Kong

🕐9.55am - 10.25am

Session One - Panel Discussions

Event Chair:

icon_3 Mr Peter Greenwood MA FCG HKFCG

icon_3 Ms Randy Lai

icon_3 Mr Fred Lam Tin-fuk GBS JP 

icon_3 Mr Frank John Sixt

🕐10.25am

Networking Break/Break#

Session Two: Investing in a Changing World

No business can survive without investment. In this session, we have invited investors and capital providers to describe the changing landscape in which they must assemble capital, choose the sectors in which they invest, the vehicles and structure to receive that investment, their expectations of how their investments will be managed and their returns delivered and how they should exercise their own powers and responsibilities of stewardship.

🕐10.40am - 10.55am

Empowering investors and companies to unlock regional and global opportunities

icon_3 Mr Hailiang Zhang

Business Head & Regional Managing Director, Greater China Region, Vistra

🕐10.55am - 11.10am

The role of private equity and the future of the listed company

icon_3 Ms Kate Richdale

Partner, Head of Global Client Solutions Institutional Sales & Family Capital for Asia Pacific, KKR

🕐11.10am - 11.25am

The evolution of investment decision-making

icon_3 Ms Devyani Daga CFA

Managing Director, Cambridge Associates

🕐11.25am - 11.55am

Session Two – Panel Discussions

Event Chair:

icon_3 Mr Peter Greenwood MA FCG HKFCG

icon_3 Ms Devyani Daga CFA

icon_3 Ms Kate Richdale

icon_3 Ms Flora Wang FCG HKFCG

Head of Stewardship, Asia & Portfolio Advisor, Fidelity International

icon_3 Mr Hailiang Zhang 

Corporate Governance Presentations

🕐11.55am - 12.10pm

The Continued Evolution of the 3 Lines of Defence Model

icon_3 Mr Michael Footman

Partner, PwC Hong Kong

🕐12.10pm - 12.15pm

Developing governance talent in Hong Kong

icon_3 Mr Li Shan Song

Vice General Manager, China Resources Corporate Services Limited

🕐12.15pm - 12.55pm

Lunch

🕐12.55pm - 1.00pm

Sponsors' acknowledgement

Session Three: The Role of Regulations in a Dynamic World 

Global changes, developments in the Chinese Mainland and in the region require our regulators to embrace and encourage change, whilst ensuring that businesses and other organisations continue to conduct their activities in a responsible way and in the interests of all legitimate stakeholders. In this session, we ask the speakers to discuss the implications of change and their ongoing and future initiatives to promote the SAR’s reputation for excellence in regulation and contribute to its longstanding role as an international centre for institutional, individual, family and state investors.

🕐1.00pm - 1.15pm

Keynote speech

icon_3 Ms Julia Leung Fung Yee SBS JP

Chief Executive Officer, Securities and Futures Commission

🕐1.15pm - 1.30pm

Emerging international regulatory concerns Hong Kong 
need to address

icon_3 Dr Kelvin Wong SBS JP FCG HKFCG

Chairman, Accounting and Financial Reporting Council

🕐1.30pm - 1.45pm

Meeting investor expectations on sustainability, climate disclosures and more to come 

icon_3 Ms Teresa Ko BBS JP FCG HKFCG

Senior Partner, Hong Kong and China Chairman, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer; Vice-chair, IFRS Foundation

🕐1.45pm - 2.30pm

Session Three – Panel Discussion

Event Chair:

icon_3 Mr Peter Greenwood MA FCG HKFCG

icon_3 Ms Teresa Ko BBS JP FCG HKFCG

icon_3 Ms Julia Leung Fung Yee SBS JP

icon_3 Mr Laurence Li SC JP

Chairman, Financial Services Development Council

icon_3 Dr Anthony Francis Neoh QC SC JP FCG HKFCG

Head of Chambers, The Chambers of Anthony Francis Neoh, QC, SC, JP

icon_3 Dr Kelvin Wong SBS JP FCG HKFCG

🕐2.30pm

Networking Break/Break#

Session Four: Highlighting Change – Highlighting Governance

The changes, some evolutionary, some potentially revolutionary, which all businesses, statutory corporations, private companies, NGOs and social enterprises need to address, give rise to some specific and major governance issues. This session will highlight some of the issues that we need to identify, understand, and then matter, be they around corporate resilience, ESG and climate change, AI, digital transformation, AI or the implications of the Greater Bay Area concept.

🕐2.45pm - 3.00pm

Key challenges and opportunities in governance

icon_3 Ms Cally Chan MH

General Manager, Microsoft Hong Kong and Macau

🕐3.00pm - 3.15pm

Governance for resilience

icon_3 Mr Andrew Weir MBE JP

Regional Senior Partner, KPMG in Hong Kong; Vice Chairman, KPMG China; Global Chair, Asset Management and Real Estate, KPMG International

🕐3.15pm - 3.45pm

Session Four – Panel Discussion

Event Chair:

icon_3 Mr Peter Greenwood MA FCG HKFCG

icon_3 Ms Cally Chan MH

icon_3 Professor Christine Loh SBS JP OBE 
         Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite

Chief Development Strategist, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

icon_3 Ms Gill Meller FCG HKFCG(PE)

International Vice President, The Chartered Governance Institute; Past President, HKCGI; and Legal & Governance Director, MTR Corporation Limited

icon_3 Mr Andrew Weir MBE JP

Session Five: The Governance Skillset

Throughout this Conference we have discussed the incoming, ongoing and emerging trends in business and society which will influence corporate governance standards, demands and processes. This session will discuss the new skillsets and mindset that practitioners will need to be able to contribute to the rethink and reset of corporate governance in a new era.

🕐3.45pm - 4.45pm

Event Chair:

icon_3  Mr Peter Greenwood MA FCG HKFCG

icon_3 Mr Nicholas Charles Allen

Independent Non-executive Director, CLP Holdings Limited; and Independent Non-executive Director, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX)

icon_3 The Honourable Bernard Charnwut Chan
         GBM GBS JP

Chairman and President, Asia Financial Holdings Limited and Chairman, Asia Insurance Company Limited

icon_3 Ms Katherine Ng 

Head of Listing, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX)

icon_3 Ms Edith Shih FCG(CS, CGP) HKFCG(CS, CGP)(PE)

Past International President, The Chartered Governance Institute; Honorary Adviser to Council and Past President, HKCGI; and Executive Director and Company Secretary, CK Hutchison Holdings Limited

🕐4.45pm

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.