It is my distinct honor to welcome your participation in the 2018 CityU Digital Business Innovation Festival. With a variety of activities, including symposium, forum, exhibition, and App Innovation Contest, this festival is held by the CityU MBA programme from 23rd to 27th January 2018.
Recent decades have seen a rapid advancement in technology. Technology advancement creates no value without applicable business innovation. Business innovation, on the other hand, is meaningless without resulting in any benefit to the society. While technology advancement and business innovation boost each other, the progress cannot be made without the function of education, which facilitates knowledge discovery and transmission. Indubitably, bridging education, technology, and business is critical for the continuous improvement of our well-being, social welfare, and quality life. It is to this end that we organize this festival with three relevant themes: one health, digital society, and smart city.
We are thrilled to be able to involve thriving business executives, prominent government officials, prestigious scholars, inspiring entrepreneurs, and renowned experts to spread insightful ideas and stretch boundaries of evolving issues through series of forums and symposiums. We are also pleased that the App Innovation Contest has attracted a considerable number of participants across different Asia countries. Together with various companies invited to exhibit their innovative business solutions and novel technology, the shortlisted teams of the contest are enthused to demonstrate their creative ideas. I hope you find this five-day festival exciting and fruitful.
Last but not least, I would like to express my deep appreciation to all the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors for their contributions and involvements. I must also place on record my sincere thanks to the members of all the festival committees. It is their effort that makes this event happen. I look forward to personally greeting you during the festival.