Asia is the world’s most dynamic region, accounting for 60% of global economic growth. Building on the region’s strong consumption power and accumulated wealth, Hong Kong is uniquely positioned as a gateway to the dynamic Asian market. A panel of prominent business leaders will discuss the economic outlook and share their experience on how they have successfully leveraged Hong Kong’s platform and international business network for their global success.

This session will feature business leaders from various sectors to highlight the promising opportunities arising from the new economy. Speakers will share their views on the evolving digital and economic landscape in Asia, and experiences in leveraging Hong Kong as a hub for start-ups and entrepreneurs to succeed. Practical tips on how US businesses could capture the new wave of innovation in the fast-growing Asia market will be examined.

Given the continuing global economic shift to the East and rise of Asia’s emerging markets, Hong Kong is perfectly placed to help American companies sell their goods and services in Asia. Prominent business leaders will share their experiences and insights into realising opportunities in the booming markets of Asia, by utilising Hong Kong’s distribution, marketing and professional expertise. Speakers will also speak on how they leverage Hong Kong’s advantages to start their businesses successfully.

In an ever more connected society, the synergy between design and technology has become ever more relevant to our daily life. Empowered by tech, design is progressively adopted as a co-creative strategy to tackle urban, business, community and sustainability issues. What are the challenges facing designers and their design practices? Can we embrace design thinking as a user-centric methodology to bring forth meaningful human values, experience and impact? How design will play a more centric role in Hong Kong that better connects global business opportunities and facilitate further collaboration with key business partners like mainland China and the U.S.? As global citizens, let's co-design a bright future together.

If one has to tell what sets Hong Kong apart from the rest of Asia, robustness of its financial services always emerges as key. Hong Kong as an international financial center presents a wide array of investment opportunities satisfying different risk appetites, be them in the public or private markets. The financial services sector has been one of the city's key economic pillars. Without control over capital movement, capital gain and dividend income tax, Hong Kong boasts one of the most active and liquid securities markets globally.

• As the leading IPO fund formation center in the world, Hong Kong raised US$36.7billion of funds through IPOs in 2018. Its stock market ranked 3rd in Asia and 5th in the world by market capitalization as of end of 2018.
• Private equity market continues to flourish. As of mid-2018, Hong Kong's private equity players managed US$152 billion in Hong Kong. During the first half of 2018 alone, private equity funds raised in Hong Kong already recorded US$12 billion, about 20 per cent of the total funds raised in Asia.

The panelists will walk you through how businesses can capitalize on the opportunities and services made available by the vibrant financial services sector in the city.

1. What is the investment outlook for Asia in the short and long terms?
2. How is Hong Kong positioned as the investment gateway for international investors, offering products and opportunities in both public and private markets satisfying different risk appetites?
3. How can Hong Kong and its financial and professional services help realize your investment aspirations?
4. What are the new dimensions that regional development strategies like the Belt and Road Initiative and the Greater Bay Area can offer to Hong Kong's uniqueness and future role in the world?

According to the Global Financial Centres Index, Hong Kong is ranked the third leading global financial centre. This panel will bring into discussion, with some of the key fintech stakeholders in Hong Kong, the competitive advantage of Hong Kong as a global fintech hub. Panelists will also share how technology has brought structural and operational advancements in the financial industry, how the HKMA's smart banking initiatives have reshaped the fintech landscape and helped the banking sector to rise to a higher level.

The release of Smart City Blueprint by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative region with a vision to build Hong Kong into a world-class smart city. Hong Kong Cyberport is playing an important role to foster smart living and fulfilling Cyberport's mission to drive robust growth of the regional esports and digital entertainment industry to develop digital economy in Hong Kong.

Cyberport will bring together with promising community companies to share how their solutions and creativity shape a better future for lifestyle by harnessing Smart Living and Digital Entertainment.

Digital technologies are re-defining the daily lives of consumers. Hong Kong's tech-savvy urban lifestyle, robust ICT infrastructure, business creativity and strong innovation-driven manufacturing capabilities provide an incubating space for innovative smart living solutions.

Wearable electronic devices which are backed by IoT technologies can bring immense convenience. Beyond that, smart living solutions can reshape manufacturing workflows and promote sustainable consumption. Physically challenged people have also benefitted from advanced healthcare prostheses.

With an aim to exchange ideas with US innovation clusters about the application of smart living solutions, the session highlights various trends driven by Hong Kong entrepreneurs and illustrate new developments in the smart living landscape in Asia.

Creativity knows no bounds in the next era of digital entertainment. By bringing new immersive experiences to consumers, gamers and users, technopreneurs in Hong Kong are unleashing a whole new dimension at the forefront of Hong Kong's digital entertainment industry. Simulative gaming software for motorsports, customized robots with AI and visual recognition for combat, and novel marketing tools with VR/AR interactive technologies and 3D video production are just some of the newest trends. Our panel of speakers will share their perspective on why Hong Kong is the ideal collaborator for U.S. partners to scale into Asia.

Hong Kong plays a pivotal role in the global realm of biomedicine constantly fuelling the healthcare industry with innovations. This session covers the extensive translation support in Hong Kong for disruptive breakthroughs in healthcare research, including the applications of next-generation genetic sequencing and medical AI to identify at-risk populations, target-oriented precision medicines, point-of-care diagnostics and the use of biosensors and trackers which improve care and treatment outcomes. We will also discuss the opportunities for investment and the potential of biomedical development in Hong Kong and Greater Bay Area.

As a leading centre for legal and dispute resolution services in the Asia Pacific region, there is plenty that Hong Kong can offer to US enterprises wishing to harness opportunities arising from the Belt and Road Initiative and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Bay Area Development. In this session, speakers will share their experience and views on what makes Hong Kong the ideal choice as a neutral venue for making deals and resolving cross-border trade and investment disputes, and how US enterprises can make use of Hong Kong’s legal services platform to tap into the Asian market.

Hong Kong is promoting the development of lawtech, including the creation of an efficient, cost-effective and secure online platform for the resolution of disputes as well as an interface for cross-border deal-making between enterprises. In this session, a panel of legal experts will share their insights into how technological innovation will reshape the landscape for deal-making and dispute resolution, and discuss how enterprises in the US and beyond can benefit from this pioneering development, particularly in protecting their intellectual property rights when doing cross-border business.