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Winton Au is driving the One Month One Art (一月一藝術) campaign with the vision to promote engagement in arts and culture as a habit. He is Associate Professor in Department of Psychology, and also Dean of General Education for Shaw College at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has been teaching and conducting research on performing arts particularly in the area of audience experience. He has been assisting various arts and culture groups in audience research. His other capacity is Director of Industrial-Organizational Psychology and was Past-Chairperson of Industrial-Organizational Psychology in The Hong Kong Psychological Society. He has also been providing consultancy services on the areas of psychometric assessment, program evaluation, and motivation and engagement.

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Mr Timothy Calnin has held senior positions with leading musical and artistic organisations in Australia, Europe and Asia, including the Academy of Ancient Music, the Ulster Orchestra, the Broadcasting Cooperation and the Symphony Orchestra. In 2003, Timothy become Artistic Consultant of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra before being appointed Chief Executive in 2005. During his six years in Hong Kong, Timothy expanded the Orchestra’s education, professional development and community programmes, took the Orchestra on frequent tours to Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. In mid-April 2017, Timothy was appointed as Director of CPS, trading as Tai Kwun: Centre for Heritage and Arts and lead the operations of Tai Kwun at the Central Police Station compound. In April 2020, Timothy became Director of Tai Kwun Arts, a new subsidiary company of Tai Kwun Centre for Heritage and Arts, which has been formed to curate and produce Tai Kwun’s annual program of exhibitions, performances, talks, events and festivals.

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Jason is the founder and CEO of Cherrypicks, a regional leader in smart city, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, eWallet and location intelligence. Cherrypicks’ goal is to make cities smarter. With leading UX solutions and disruptive patent-pending products, Cherrypicks has represented Hong Kong and China on many world stages to win over 100 local and international awards. The early entrepreneurial journey of the company was featured as a Harvard business case (#N9-807-106). In 2014, Cherrypicks was strategically acquired by a China-headquartered, HK-listed Internet powerhouse, NetDragon (HKSE:777).

In the Art and Culture space, Cherrypicks offers thought-leadership and world-class technology platforms to provide O2O mobile user experiences. Its smart city platforms and micro-location/AR/AI services enable personalized visitor experiences and big data analytics for museums, galleries, exhibition venues, cultural districts and multi-functional resorts around the world.

Jason is an IT industry icon whom was named “Young Industrialist of Hong Kong 2014” by Federation of Hong Kong Industries (FHKI) and “Outstanding IT Person of the Year 2014” by eZone. He currently serves as the Chairman of Hong Kong Startup Council of FHKI and is a Director or Venture Partner at a number of startup co-working spaces, incubators and accelerators including The Mills Fabrica, Helix Blockchain Accelerator, Mind Fund and Zeroth.ai. Jason is an active mentor and angel investor for a number of founders and their startups in Hong Kong, Korea, Finland and Silicon Valley. He is also the Vice Chairman of Innovation and Technology Fund – General Support Programme Vetting Committee, a Council member of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), a co-convener of the HKTDC Belt and Road & Greater Bay Area Committee Smart City and Digital Connectivity Task Force and a Fellow of The Hong Kong Institute of Directors.

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Chou Tung-Yen holds a MA in Scenography with distinction from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London and a BFA in Theatre Directing from Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA). Centering around the theatre and moving image, he makes interdisciplinary works of performance, installation and music video. He is the founder and creative director of Very Theatre and Very Mainstream Studio (www.vmstudio.tw), also artist for the 2019-2020 National Theatre & Concert Hall Art in Residency Project.
The latest international co-production with Culture Yard in Denmark, Chronicle of Lightyear –Taipei, Copenhagen was premiered at the Taipei Arts Festival and presented at Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, in 2018.
He is currently working on two new international productions. Virtual Intimacy was premiered at Asia TOPA in Australia, and Facing Cities in Noorderzon Festival in the Netherlands.

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As Chief Executive Officer of Advisory Board for the Arts (ABA), Chris draws upon 30 years of experience in the business world together with 15 years of involvement with a variety of organizations in the arts and broader, non-profit world. In founding ABA, Chris set out to synthesize these parallel tracks in service to arts organizations worldwide by adapting a unique advisory model rooted in shared learning and long-term performance improvements.

Prior to ABA, Chris was Executive Vice President at the Advisory Board Company, a global technology, best practice research, and consulting firm serving the healthcare industry (now a division of United Healthcare) and higher education (now a division of Gartner) based in Washington, DC. Over the course of his 19 years at Advisory Board Company, Chris led its research division, created its leadership development business, and oversaw best practice research on issues ranging from healthcare strategy and nursing to philanthropy and high-performance leadership.

Before that, Chris was a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Co. based out of Washington, DC, and Milan, Italy. During his initial eight years at McKinsey, Chris led projects for a broad spectrum of Fortune 500 companies in industries as diverse as consumer goods, energy, and banking. After leaving Advisory Board Company, Chris re-joined McKinsey in 2018 to lead a portfolio of internal start-up companies focused on data and analytics solutions designed to deepen the impact of McKinsey’s work with clients.

During his business career, Chris has been heavily involved in support of arts and nonprofit organizations. He has been Chairman of the Board of The Washington Chorus and Chairman of Postclassical Ensemble. He is on the board of the Oslo International Arts Festival. He also served on the board of St. Albans School and the Halcyon Foundation and worked in support of the arts programs of numerous other organizations, including Washington National Cathedral and Aspen Music Festival and School.

Chris received his undergraduate degree in art history from George Washington University before completing an M.A. at Johns Hopkins SAIS and an MBA at INSEAD. He has been a resident of Washington, DC, since 1993, where he lives with his wife and youngest of three sons. Prior to his life in U.S., Chris was born in Brussels and grew up in Paris and Rome, where he mostly attended French schools and became trilingual in English, French, and Italian. He is an avid skier, traveler, and food enthusiast.

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Jane Finnis is an entrepreneurial and collaborative digital expert with a successful track record of dynamic leadership, international development and cross sector partnership building. She is CEO of Culture24, an independent charity from the UK that has become an important force in building digital capacity in the arts and heritage sector, nurturing digitally literate leadership and championing an audience driven approach to cultural programming.

She works regularly with a broad range of government, public sector, commercial, educational, charitable and voluntary organisations across the UK and internationally. She leads a team producing such project as Museum Crush (a weekly digest of curious and compelling museum stories), Emerge (the festival of museum lates in London) and Let’s Get Real (the collaborative action research project that has supported 600+ cultural organisations become more relevant, resilient and responsive to digital cultural changes.

Between Feb and Oct 2017 she was on secondment to the UK Department of Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) working on the Culture is Digital policy paper which considered how to use technology to drive audience engagement, boost the digital capability of cultural organisations and unleash the creative potential of technology.

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Byron began his career in Chicago before joining Charcoalblue in London to found the acoustics practice in 2010. His work on notable projects such as St Ann’s Warehouse and Theatre Royal in York set the course for expanding our acoustics offering across our studios and establishing an industry-leading integration of theatre and acoustic design. Byron joined the Charcoalblue partnership in 2017.

Having worked on a number of complex performing arts schemes, he is a specialist in the technical coordination of disciplines required to achieve critical sound separation and noise control requirements. As an experienced listener in concert and opera halls all over the world and as an orchestral trombonist himself, he is sensitive to the requirements of musicians and the expectations of audiences.

With Charcoalblue, Byron’s consultancy work includes the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre’s The Yard, Film / Video Department at Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute, the refurbishment of Sydney Theatre Company, Energy Hall at Expo 2017 in Astana, Kazakhstan, and the Elizabethan Theatre at Chateau d’Hardelot in France. He is the Acoustics Advisor to St Paul’s Cathedral, London.

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Mr Jayasekera joined the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority in January 2013. He was formerly Director of Communications and Digital Strategy at London's Sadler’s Wells Theatre where he managed the marketing, press, publications, ticket office and digital teams across the venue’s three theatres. Prior to this he worked for the theatre and entertainment advertising agencies Dewynters, McCabes and M&H Communications for a wide variety of clients including the Royal Opera House, National Theatre and Barbican and on numerous West End musicals and plays. In the digital arena in 2012 he worked on the creation of the Space, a new BBC/Arts Council digital broadcast platform, building on his extensive digital experience which began in 2001 when he worked for onlineclassics.com, one of the world’s first websites offering full-length streamed arts content. He has also served on the boards of East London Dance, Dance East and the Gate Theatre and Audience London (now the Audience Agency) in the UK and is a regular international speaker on Arts Marketing, Branding and Digital.

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Erin Lively Koppel works globally with Tessitura member organizations to advance their business and help them connect more visitors and patrons to the art they produce. As Vice President, Enterprise Consulting for Tessitura Network, she leads a highly skilled team of industry experts who create revenue-generating strategies, deliver meaningful insight via Tessitura Analytics, and provide fundamental CRM guidance which deepens engagement with constituents, and improves operational efficiency using Tessitura.

Known for her ability to inspire and ignite organizationally-inclusive teams, Erin is a highly sought conference speaker and workshop facilitator in Europe and North America. She has personally worked in all genres of arts and culture, from major metropolitan museums and aquariums to regional theatres. Prior to working for Tessitura, Erin spent nearly twenty years fundraising for Lyric Opera of Chicago, one of North America’s largest opera companies, and using Tessitura herself to support multi-million dollar fundraising campaigns she directed. She resides in southwest suburban Chicago.

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The Collective is an integrated production team of artists, technologists and makers for all media, working at the intersection of visual art and technology. Led by Technical Director Andy Stokes and Curator Anita Lam, The Collective creates digital and living art forms, ranging from installations to stage performances. Merging art and technology, our works combine varying disciplines including lighting, animation, interaction design, and sculpture that are developed and customised specifically for each project. Our approach puts human experience at the centre of technological development, with a strong visual impact and unique bespoke technologies created in-house. Our work has been exhibited in various festivals from Porlwi light festival in Sri Lanka to Appolonia Art Exchange in France.

Heidi Lee has served as a professional arts administrator for more than 20 years, working for various Hong Kong arts organisations on their management, planning, programming, marketing and branding, including PIP Cultural Industries Ltd., Hong Kong Dance Company, Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, Hong Kong Cultural Centre and Hong Kong Fringe Club, among others.

In 2010, Lee was appointed Executive Director of Cheung Kong School of Art and Design at Shantou University. She became the Associate Dean in 2014 and Director of Arts & Cultural Development of STU Arena in 2018. During her eight years at Shantou University with the support of the Li Ka Shing Foundation, Lee founded the STU Art Season, which she later transformed to the New Wave Arts Festival in 2018. She became Chief Executive of Intercultural Dialogue, the organiser of Matteo Ricci, when she returned to Hong Kong in 2019.

Lee is an Assessor for the Hong Kong Arts Development Council on Arts Administration, Dance, Arts Education, and also a Fixed Assessor for the Council on the Hong Kong Dance Alliance (2017-2019). Additionally, she was a core member of the Producers’ Network Meeting & Forum of West Kowloon Cultural District of Hong Kong (2015-2018), Management Consultant of the Hong Kong Arts Administrators Association (July-December 2019), and has been a member of the Advisory Board of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Dance School since 2019.

In 2014, Asian Cultural Council awarded Lee a scholarship to visit the United States, where she interviewed more than twenty arts leaders about their management and operation models. Organisations included Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, The Public Theater, B.A.M and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She also researched the content and direction of cultural management programmes at Columbia University, New York University and Yale University.

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Prof Lena Lee served in the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) for 29 years as Head of Arts, Event and Stage Management. She is now the Visiting Professor of the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing and the Arts Specialist of Arts with the Disabled Association Hong Kong (ADAHK) where she dedicates to the development of arts accessibility. She has substantial project management experience for theatrical productions, international events and community arts projects. Before her theatre career, she has worked in the mass media such as Radio Television Hong Kong, Hong Kong Television Broadcast Ltd, and Video Film Productions Co Ltd. Her community services include Chairman of Hong Kong Association of Theatre Technicians & Scenographers (2004-2008), Council Member of HKAPA (2003-2009), Consultation Panel member of West Kowloon Cultural District Authority since 2015, Founder Chairman of the Board of Four Gig Heads, Theatre Noir Foundation and Vice Chairperson of Hong Kong Arts with the Disabled (1988-2014) and has joined the Board of HKAAA since early 2020.

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Hong Kong-born artist Leung Kei-cheuk aka GayBird was graduated with master degrees in creative media from Hong Kong City University (MPhil) and music composition and electro-acoustic music from Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts (MA). GayBird’s prolific career in the music world is reflected by his versatile roles as music director, composer and producer with several hundreds of works in music, concert and theatre produced since 1996.

In 2011, GayBird started to examine the formats of performing electronic music and widen its possibilities in relation to ‘performativity’ and ‘liveliness on stage’ by creating Digital Hug (2011) and CouCou on Mars (2013) which were granted Bronze Award for new media experiment/performance in Hong Kong Design Award 2011, Best Electronic Music Artist in Chinese Music Media Awards 2012 and 2014, as well as Ten Outstanding Designers 2014. Both works were toured in major festivals worldwide.

GayBird went on to explore the interrelationship between theatre space, media installation, surround-sound system, video and live music by delivering two commissioned works, One Zero presented by Hong Kong New Vision Arts Festival in
2016 and 18 Scenes in a Cage presented by Hong Kong Visual Art Centre in
2018. One Zero is a visual-music assemblage in collaboration with award-winning film director Tsai Ming-Liang whose moving images were designed to highlight the interdisciplinary mechanism in the production. 18 Scenes in a Cage is a site-specific work set in a hundred-year-old cultural heritage in which definitions of architecture, media art and live performance were refreshed with new insights.

In recent years, GayBird has shown a significant interest in sound installation and has gained critical success with extensive appearance in international exhibitions such as Ars Electronica Festival (Linz), OzAsia Festival (Adelaide), Digital Art Festival (Athens), EXIT Festival (Paris), Technology Art Festival (Taipei), IFVA Everywhere (HK) and Detour (HK). His innovative work Fidgety has received the 3D/Interactive Award in the renowned Lumen Prize (UK) in 2018.

GayBird’s skillful and wide-ranging practice of cross-boundary creativity has been a distinguished visionary in reinterpreting music-making over the years. By dissolving the traditional framework of understanding music, elevating the media from a singular platform for hearing and expanding audio culture in connection with visual art, mechanical engineering, electronic programming, instrument crafting and installation art, the artist continues to make music as a comprehensive, integrated and total experience for all to enjoy.

At 25 years old, Albin landed in Hong Kong with little more than ambition and a business idea. One week after his arrival, Digital Business Lab was born…
Learning and observing the unique Asian trends in social media, Albin believed the evolving landscape was a great opportunity for an agency to offer something different.
Once business ramped up, Albin began meticulously constructing the pillars of his one-stop, performance-driven creative social media agency to operate with both the left and right brain. What started out as a one man-band working from home has grown organically to a team of over 20 in Hong Kong and Singapore with 12 different nationalities.
DBL is now a prominent player in the Social Media sphere, creating valuable experiences in 11 languages and for different markets around the world.

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Patrick Mok received the doctorate degree in History, The University of Hong Kong. He has a wide range of research interests from history, heritage and cultural study, cultural policies, cultural/creativity indicators to cultural-creative economy in Hong Kong and China.

From 2008 to 2014, Dr. Mok served as consultant and manager in the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HKU) for the development of the “Hong Kong Memory Project”, a digital and research project for the preservation of Hong Kong’s historical and cultural heritage.

He was investigator of a number of projects on digital library, copyright research and policy studies on creative economy, including: “A Review Study on Cultural Audit” (2009-2010) commissioned by the Central Policy Unit of HKSAR Government; “A study on Hong Kong Design Index” (2010) by the Hong Kong Design Center. Recent work includes the “Study on Macau’s Cultural and Creative Industries Index” (2011-12) and its follow-up studies (2013-15), both commissioned by the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macau SAR Government.

He was also involved the research of the “Development Plan for Cultural Industries in the 12th Five Year Plan” (2009-2010), a project led by China National School of Administration in Beijing and commissioned by the Ministry of Culture of the PRC; “Strategic Development of Cultural Industries in China”, a collaborated work with China National School of Administration (2008-2009); and “Study on Hong Kong’s Cultural Creative Industries in the Pearl River Delta” (2006) for the Central Policy Unit, HKSAR Government; “A Study on Creativity Index” (2005), for Home Affairs Bureau, HKSAR Government; and “Baseline Study on Hong Kong’s Creative Industries”(2003), commissioned by the Central Policy Unit.

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Professor Jeffrey Shaw has been one of the leading figures in new media art since the 1960's. In a prolific body of widely exhibited and critically acclaimed works he has pioneered and set benchmarks for the creative use of digital media technologies in the fields of virtual and augmented reality, immersive visualization environments, digital cultural heritage and interactive narrative. He has also curated seminal international art exhibitions such as Future Cinema (2000) and Kung Fu Motion (2018).

From 2009 to 2016 Shaw was Dean of the School of Creative Media, the City University of Hong Kong (CityU). He is currently Endowed Chair Professor of Media Art and Director of the Centre for Applied Computing and Interactive Media (Hong Kong, Chengdu) of CityU. Shaw was also founding director of the ZKM Institute for Visual Media Karlsruhe, Germany (1991-2002), and co-founding director of the University of New South Wales Australia iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research (2003-).

Shaw’s recent awards and honors include: Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship 2003; Oribe Award, Gifu, Japan 2005; Honorary Doctorate in Creative Media, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia, 2013; Lifetime Achievement Award, Society of Art and Technology, Montreal, Canada, 2014; Ars Electronica Golden Nica for Visionary Pioneer of Media Art, Linz, Austria, 2015.

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Kevin Sher is a proven, people-focused leader with more than 28 years of experience setting marketing and sales strategy, defining brand direction, motivating teams, ensuring performance, driving revenue and standing accountable for results. He has spent the past 12 years with Blackbaud in Asia Pacific, where he has led sales, marketing, services and customer support and built Blackbaud's Asia Pacific operations to be one of the most recognised and highly regarded software companies in the region. Prior to joining Blackbaud, Sher worked with social good and technology companies including a 10 year period in New York where he led regional sales teams for Berlitz Global Solutions.

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Talented saxophone and piano player Joe graduated with a degree in music and sound recording (Tonmeister) from the Institute of Sound Recording at the University of Surrey, acquiring a sharp skill set that ranges from spatial audio design and computer programming to acoustic design.

Joe originally developed his audiovisual experience in studio recording and has engineered, produced, mixed and mastered a number of professional bands’ EPs and singles for public release. He also has experience recording and editing orchestral and chamber music recordings, including engineering symphony orchestra concerts.

Following a placement year at Charcoalblue in 2013, Joe joined us full-time and has developed design experience beyond traditional theatre spaces, with work on event and public spaces as well as developing virtual reality tools and experiences. Outside of Charcoalblue Joe continues to build up his experience in theatre and live sound, including for university events and crew work at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford. Joe also undertook work experience at the Soho Theatre, and Theatre Royal Drury lane.

Joe’s projects with Charcoalblue include worldwide work with technology clients such as Google, and design for Colston Hall and Brighton Dome.

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The Collective is an integrated production team of artists, technologists and makers for all media, working at the intersection of visual art and technology. Led by Technical Director Andy Stokes and Curator Anita Lam, The Collective creates digital and living art forms, ranging from installations to stage performances. Merging art and technology, our works combine varying disciplines including lighting, animation, interaction design, and sculpture that are developed and customised specifically for each project. Our approach puts human experience at the centre of technological development, with a strong visual impact and unique bespoke technologies created in-house. Our work has been exhibited in various festivals from Porlwi light festival in Sri Lanka to Appolonia Art Exchange in France.

Paul Tan is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer at the National Arts Council (NAC) which champions the arts by nurturing creative excellence and supporting broad audience engagement. Through comprehensive support from grants and partnerships to industry facilitation and arts housing, the NAC ensures that the arts inspire Singaporeans, connect communities and position Singapore internationally.

Paul joined NAC in 2011 as the Festival Director of the Singapore Writers Festival and Director, Literary Arts, and helmed four editions of the successful literary festival, while overseeing the development of the national literary arts landscape. He currently sits on the boards of the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, the Singapore Symphony Group and the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre.

Paul has also published five volumes of poetry; the most recent “When the Lights Went Off” was launched in August 2018.

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Wilson Tang is the co-founder of 撲飛 POPTICKET, an innovative platform providing full ticketing service from pre-event, during the event to post-event. The platform strives to get the tickets more accessible to the audience via advanced booking technology and tackle all the complicated and tedious ticketing issues for organisers. He believes organiser should concentrate on the programme itself, not ticketing. His team served over 1400+ events in Hong Kong and Macau. HKADC, HKPhil, HK Sinfonietta, HKTDC, HKU, MOVIE MOVIE, PMQ and Zuni Icosahedron are using the platform now.

After graduation from the School of Communication at the Hong Kong Baptist University in 1998, he worked as an art/creative director in DDB Digital, Icon MediaLab, Lane Crawford and Towngas. In 2005, he established gardens&co. A design firm specialised in graphic and web design. His works have been cited for excellence by DFA Awards, Trnava Poster Triennial, HK Designer Association Awards, HK Independent Short Film & Video Awards and Internationales Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg. Besides, his works have also been featured in many international publications, including TASCHEN and Laurence King. In March 2019, he explored beyond the design field. He extended the design thinking to the ticketing industry and launched 撲飛 POPTICKET in Hong Kong.

He is enthusiastic at involving in local art and design happenings, as well as sharing with the younger generations. He has also participated in various design seminars and exhibitions in Hong Kong. He was the School Course Advisory Committee of Digital Graphic Communication (B. Soc. Sc. (Hons.) Degree in Communication) Hong Kong Baptist University during 2009 and 2010.

Prof Tseng held a number of senior arts management positions in Hong Kong, including Executive Director of the Hong Kong Arts Festival Society, Secretary-General of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and Head of Radio 4, RTHK. He served as Chair and Professor of the Arts Administration Department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music from 2005 to 2008. In 2012, he joined the Education University of Hong Kong as Adjunct Professor. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and SPACE, University of Hong Kong, Guest Professor of the Central Academy of Drama, Beijing Dance Ac0ademy and Xing Hai Conservatory of Music.
Prof. Tseng has served as board and committee members in many local and international organizations. He was Chairman of the Hong Kong Arts Administrators Association (1991-94), Chairman of the Committee on Venue Partnership of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (2012-17), a member of the Hong Kong Government’s Advisory Committee on Arts Development (2012-17) and a board member of the Association of Arts Administration Educators (AAAE) in the USA (2014-19). Currently he is a member of the Artistic Board of the Macau International Music Festival, a director of the Arts Committee of the Shenzhen Belt & Road International Music Festival, an examiner of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, as well as board members of the Hong Kong Dance Company, Hong Kong Children’s Choir, Tang Shu Wing Theatre Studio, Hong Kong Gaudemaus Dunhuang Ensemble.
His book “Principles of Arts Management” (in Chinese) has sold more than 10,000 copies and a revised edition was published in 2018.

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Mr Andrew Wong is currently the CEO of EngagePlus, a leading all in one ed tech solution for learning centres across Asia. Andrew started his career as a former trader at J.P. Morgan where after several years he pivoted out solo as a serial entrepreneur into the world of technology and started several firms across various industries. His last venture as managing partner at a world leading cryptocurrency exchange platform was bought out in 2018 where ever since he’s been focused on disrupting the education, including art education sector in Asia.

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Chi-yung Wong is a cross-disciplinary artist-curator whose work covers experiential installation, light installation, creative education, and cultural exchanges between the arts and sciences. Chi- yung’s specialization in light has led him to create and install exhibitions involving interdisciplinary collaborations across the fields of theatre lighting and architecture lighting.

Chi-yung’s interest in cross-cultural partnerships and his desire to expand his leadership skills have led him in pursuit of various goals on his path to become an artist-curator, such as creating and leading projects between Europe and Hong Kong; fostering communication and collaboration between artists and scientists; developing artistic-initiatives for mental health awareness; and helping to implement creative education proposals for underprivileged teenagers.

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Graduated from Masters of Arts in Arts and Cultural Enterprises of the University of the Arts London (Central Saint Martins). and European Studies Programme of the Hong Kong Baptist University, Raymond Wong started his career in various arts organizations, namely Hong Kong Arts Centre, Chung Ying Theatre and The Hong Kong Children's Musical Theatre, among others. Wong joined City Contemporary Dance Company in 2006, and was appointed as Company's Managing Director. He is also curator of the Jumping Frames International Dance Video Festival and produced a number of programmes under "CCDC Media Lab Scheme".

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Multi-disciplinary artist Samson Young was trained as a composer, and graduated with a Ph.D. in Music Composition from Princeton University in 2013. In 2017, he represented Hong Kong in a solo project at the Hong Kong Pavilion of the 57th Venice Biennale. Other solo exhibitions include the De Appel, Amsterdam; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; SMART Museum, Chicago; Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art in Manchester; M+ Pavilion, Hong Kong; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; and Ryosoku-in at Kenninji Temple, Kyoto, among others. Group exhibitions include Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Gropius Bau, Berlin; Performa 19, New York; Biennale of Sydney; Shanghai Biennale; National Museum of Art, Osaka; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; and documenta 14: documenta radio. He was the recipient of the BMW / Art Basel Art Journey Award, Hong Kong Arts Development Council Artist of the Year Award, Prix Ars Electronica, and the Bloomberg Emerging Artist Award. In 2020, he was awarded the inaugural Uli Sigg Prize. His works are held in the collections of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; M+ Museum, Hong Kong; Mori Art Museum, Japan; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; and Kadist, among others.

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Over 20 years, Wilson has established himself as an expert in Cryptography, Information Security, User Experience Design, Ludology and a pioneer in Game Design & Development education. His passion towards innovative technology is well-recognized and was named one of Debrett’s Hong Kong 100 Most Influential People in 2015 (one out of ten individuals under Technology and Digital category), and received the Hong Kong Young Industrialist Awards in 2017.

Wilson is the founder and CEO of TFI Digital Media Limited, a HK-based technology company specializing in video-related technologies. He also provides advisory services to multiple family offices on venture capital investments. Prior to his role at TFI, he was the Chief Information Officer at Commercial Radio Hong Kong, and taught post-graduate courses at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, City University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist University. Wilson obtained his BSc in Applied Computing with First Class Honours from the University of Hertfordshire, UK and an MSc in Information Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Wilson is currently the External Advisor of Departmental Advisory Committee for Electronic Engineering, CityU and Mentor of HKUST Entrepreneurship Centre. Wilson also serves as an Honorary Advisor to the Professional Information Security Association and Global Design Ambassador of the Interaction Design Foundation.