Hong Kong

The current pandemic and social distancing measures has prompted the insurance industry to accelerate their digital transformation. What lies ahead in the development of InsurTech in Hong Kong? We have experts from the regulator, insurance and InsurTech industry to share with you the latest market trends.

Schedule of Events

04:00 PM - 04:05 PM

Welcome/Opening

04:05 PM - 04:45 PM

Expert Panel

04:45 PM - 05:22 PM

Insurtech Startup Competition

05:22 PM - 05:27 PM

Winner Announcement

05:27 PM - 05:30 PM

Networking

Speakers

King Leung

Head of Fintech

InvestHK

King Leung

Head of Fintech

InvestHK

As Head of Fintech at InvestHK, the department of the Hong Kong SAR Government responsible for attracting Foreign Direct Investment, King’s mission is to foster a more vibrant fintech ecosystem in Hong Kong and Greater Bay Area (GBA) where King has the privilege to work closely with major fintech stakeholders – leading financial services institutions, fintech companies, accelerators, innovation labs, investors, regulators, universities, etc. In another complementary role, King also serves as Visiting Lecturer in Fintech at Institute for China Business (中国商学院) of The University of Hong Kong in China in which King has extraordinary exposure to Mainland China fintech and financial services executives. Prior to his Fintech immersion, King’s tech entrepreneurial career included his role as angel investor in startups involving artificial intelligence, Big Data and Insurtech; founder of a data management platform and lead generation startup funded by Credit Suisse; transformed Datatrade from a traditional direct marketing agency into a multiple awards winning CRM and loyalty marketing agency. Recognized for his industry domain experience, King has been invited to serve in leadership roles at Fintech Association Hong Kong (Insurtech Committee), The Marketing Society Asia, [Digital-Direct] Marketing Association, Asia America Multi-technology Association, Young Entrepreneurs Development Council, etc. Prior to his entrepreneurial career, King was a management consultant in strategy, operation and information technology with Booz Allen Hamilton and KPMG Consulting in USA and UK. King was also in technology investment as a venture capitalist at Innovate@ (a tech fund co-managed by Booz Allen Hamilton & Lehman Brothers in USA). King Leung holds an MBA (Hons) in Finance and Strategy from University of Chicago, and BSc (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Tony Chan

Associate Director of the Policy and Development Division

The Insurance Authority

Tony Chan

Associate Director of the Policy and Development Division

The Insurance Authority

Mr Chan is currently the Associate Director, Policy and Development Division of the Insurance Authority, Hong Kong. Mr Chan is in charge of policy initiatives in regulatory reforms, currently focusing on development of Risk-based Capital Regime for Hong Kong and preparation of enabling legislation for Policyholders Protection Scheme. Mr Chan also coordinates with international bodies and handles Mainland affairs. Before Mr Chan joined the Insurance Authority in June 2017, he worked with the then Office of the Commissioner of Insurance for over 27 years and was the Acting Assistant Commissioner of Insurance of the Policy and Development Division. Mr Chan has been involved in the supervision of Hong Kong insurance companies, both life and non-life, in different positions of the Office. The scope of his experience has spanned all aspects of insurance regulation, including prudential supervision of insurers, formulation and promulgation of regulatory policies on the insurance industry, liaison with international and Mainland regulatory authorities. Mr Chan is currently a member of the IAIS Implementation and Assessment Committee. Mr Chan is a qualified accountant and holds a MBA and BA degree.
Tomas Holub

CEO and Founder

CoverGo

Tomas Holub

CEO and Founder

CoverGo

Tomas is the CEO and Founder of CoverGo. CoverGo is the first fully configurable, modular, no-code insurance platform enabling insurance companies and banks to automate their processes and transform digitally. Prior to starting CoverGo, Tomas worked on insurance and banking consulting projects at PwC London and also managed operations of an insurtech startup in Singapore. Overall, Tomas worked in 15 countries across 3 continents and obtained 4 master degrees in risk management, international business, business and public administration. Tomas is a frequent speaker at conferences, mentor of fintech startups and an active contributor to the insurtech and fintech community. He is part of the Insurtech Committee of the Fintech Association of Hong Kong and also Fintech Task Force of the Insurance Authority.
Alvin Kwok

Founder & CEO

OneDegree

Alvin Kwok

Founder & CEO

OneDegree

Alvin Kwock is the Founder & CEO of OneDegree. OneDegree's mission is to set new standards for insurance that put customers first. It runs both B2B and B2C business. It is one of the first virtual insurers in Hong Kong. It also partners with forward looking insurers and eCommerce biz around Asia Pacific. Alvin is a member of United Nations ESCAP's Banking and Finance Task Force, Hong Kong Insurance Authority's Future Task Force, and CUHK Business School's Advisory Committee in several programs in the Department of Finance. Alvin was JPM’s Asia-Pacific Head of Emerging Technology and Taiwan Head of Research. Under Alvin’s leadership, JPM’s Asia Tech Hardware team has been consistently rated in the Institutional Investors Poll, Financial Times/ Starmine and Asiamoney. He advised a number of global technology powerhouse and venture capitals, and served as a guest lecturer at universities. He was the co-founder and Chief Business Officer at an Augmented Reality start-up.   Alvin holds a MA degree in Social Science and a BA degree in Economics, both from the University of Chicago.
Karim Hirji

Senior Vice President and Managing Director

Intact Ventures

Karim Hirji

Senior Vice President and Managing Director

Intact Ventures

Karim Hirji is Senior Vice-President and Managing Director of Intact Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Intact Financial Corporation, which is deploying $400m investing in emerging technology businesses that may disrupt property and casualty insurance long-term. Since 2015, Intact Ventures has deployed over $240m across 17 investments globally, including Metromile in US, Acko in India and Minuto Seguros in Brazil. Karim moved to Hong Kong in October 2019 to form and lead Intact Financial (HK) Limited, a company formed to hire local AI talent to develop solutions for Intact’s customers back in Canada and the US. Karim has an Executive MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance (Honours) from the University of British Columbia and is a Chartered Insurance Professional.
Haibin Li

Founder and CEO

Anlan

Haibin Li

Founder and CEO

Anlan

Haibin has worked on data analytics and Machine Learning techniques across academic, public and private sectors in UK and China. He has PhD in Electronic Engineering and Master in Finance. Haibin is passionate about bringing Machine Learning and advanced data analytics to insurance industry.
Fairy Yu

PR Manager

Qibot Technology

Fairy Yu

PR Manager

Qibot Technology

Qibot Technology is the pioneer of global insurance robots. Aimi, an insurance robot independently researched and developed by Qibot Technology, is the first real intelligent robot in the world who can read and understand insurance liabilities, answer related questions professionally, and is self-evolvable. Aimi’s intelligent services cover insurance products such as sales, customer services, underwriting, claims management, call center, etc.
Pravin Budhdev

Regional VP, Asia

FINEOS

Pravin Budhdev

Regional VP, Asia

FINEOS

Mr. Pravin Budhdev is FINEOS’ Regional VP of Asia, bringing FINEOS’ well developed InsurTech admin system from Dublin to Hong Kong and Asia market. Mr. Budhdev has profound knowledge in InsurTech area and he was the industry and domain leader on InsurTech in Accenture and IBM before joining FINEOS.
Byron Pei

Founder & CEO

Dowsure

Byron Pei

Founder & CEO

Dowsure

Being the founder and CEO of Dowsure, Byron had sufficient experience in insurance, banking, payment fields. He worked in technology development in China Pingan and IBM before founded Dowsure in 2016.
Mark Wales

CEO and Co-Founder

Galileo Platform

Mark Wales

CEO and Co-Founder

Galileo Platform

Mark is the CEO and Co-Founder of Galileo Platforms, an InsurTech company focused on Asia. He has over 30 years’ experience in Information Technology in the financial services industry, substantially in Life Insurance, Wealth Management, Funds Management and Investment Banking. Mark has held senior executive positions in leading banks, insurance companies and consulting organisations. He has a strong track record in IT strategy and architecture and a reputation for working with businesses to create transformational IT projects that deliver real business value and results.
Bernard Lee

Founder & CEO

HedgeSPA

Bernard Lee

Founder & CEO

HedgeSPA

Our CEO Bernard Lee (PhD, CFA) is a former Managing Director in BlackRock's Portfolio Management Group (NYC) and former finance professor (US, Singapore), who founded HedgeSPA that won the 2019 European Financial Markets Association (EFMA)-Accenture Global Insurtech Award. He is author of "Investment Analytics in the Dawn of Artificial Intelligence".
Manuel San Miguel

CEO

Ignatica

Manuel San Miguel

CEO

Ignatica

Manuel San Miguel is the CEO and Co-Founder of Ignatica. Mr. San Miguel has been pioneering the digital transformation of the global insurance industry for the past 15 years, most recently as the CTO – Asia Pacific of Manulife. He is a proven leader in transformational change and implementation of leading edge technology for financial services, with expertise in digital, big data, machine learning & artificial intelligence, mircoservices and APIs. Over the past few years, Mr. San Miguel has developed viable blockchain solutions for optimizing product management and policy administration of the insurance industry.

Hong Kong

Schedule of Events

Speakers

King Leung

Tony Chan

Tomas Holub

Alvin Kwok

Karim Hirji

Haibin Li

Fairy Yu

Pravin Budhdev

Byron Pei

Mark Wales

Bernard Lee

Manuel San Miguel