Social Enterprise Summit 2022:「Bounce Forward Together」

Name for Consciousness: The “New Regular” after the Pandemic Bringing Civil, Enterprise, Authorities, Educational sectors collectively for a Higher Society

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 15 September 2022 – The fifteenth Social Enterprise Summit (SES 2022) will convene from 24 to 27 November 2022. Underneath the theme of “Bounce Ahead Collectively”, the Worldwide Symposium will discover totally different dimensions in rebuilding society within the post-pandemic “new regular” and look into methods of driving cross-sector collaboration to be able to recreate a restorable and renewable society. The four-day worldwide symposium will invite greater than 70 specialists, lecturers and enterprise representatives from throughout the globe to look at current and new revolutionary options, redirect assets by totally different dimensions that attain all ages and sectors, discover how the civil, enterprise, authorities and tutorial sectors can collaborate in response to rising social, financial and environmental challenges.

(From left to proper) Mr Francis NGAI, Deputy Chair of Social Enterprise Summit Organising Committee, Mrs Rebecca CHOY YUNG, Chair of Social Enterprise Summit Organising Committee, Miss Alice MAK, Secretary for Residence and Youth Affairs, Ms Ada WONG, Deputy Chair of Social Enterprise Summit Organising Committee, and Mr Alan CHEUNG, Chairperson of Hong Kong Social Entrepreneurship Discussion board, kick off the occasion with a lighting ceremony, symbolising varied sectors becoming a member of fingers to construct a greater society.

Occasion of the Yr on Social Innovation
Name for Consciousness to Tackle Challenges and Alternatives in “New Regular”
The launch ceremony for SES 2022 passed off immediately. Mrs. Rebecca CHOY YUNG, Chair of Social Enterprise Summit Organising Committee, mentioned “Previously two years, the pandemic has caused drastic adjustments in society and folks’s livelihood. It’s time to be taught from expertise and make use of the power of social innovation and social entrepreneurship, to discover a brand new lifestyle post-pandemic and forge new consensus to drive innovation and alter. As SES hits the 15-year mark this yr, we might take this chance to debate and deepen our understanding of the event and evolution of social entrepreneurship and social innovation in Hong Kong and past. With the theme of ‘Bounce Ahead Collectively’, this yr’s symposium goals to lift public and business’s consciousness in mapping the highway to post-pandemic revival, whereas selling collaboration between civil, enterprise, authorities and tutorial sectors. It additionally conjures up younger folks to hunt revolutionary options that convey optimistic adjustments and encourage totally different events to affix fingers in constructing a future filled with prospects. ”

Ms Anita LEE, Co-founder and CEO, Time To Gold, HK (Proper 1), Mr Francis Ngai, Founder and CEO, Social Ventures Hong Kong & Deputy Chair of Social Enterprise Summit Organising Committee (Left 2), Ms Dorothy LAM, Co-founder and Chief Catalyst, Dream Impression (Proper 2), and Mr Alex WONG, Co-founder of Dustykid and Convener of Dustyland Metaverse (Left 1), expressed their views on the theme of “Bounce Ahead Collectively”, and shared their ideas on challenges and alternative for social enterprises beneath the post-pandemic “new regular”.

The launch occasion was officiated by the Secretary for Residence and Youth Affairs, Miss Alice MAK, with a lighting ceremony. An introductory video for the upcoming SES was unveiled on the occasion, symbolising varied sectors becoming a member of fingers to make adjustments and construct a greater society.

The Secretary for Residence and Youth Affairs, Miss Alice MAK, said that the HKSAR Authorities will proceed to help the sustainable growth of social enterprises by a multi-pronged strategy, together with offering funding help for particular person initiatives, supporting the social enterprise sector in capability constructing, enhancing publicity efforts to lift public consciousness of social enterprise and selling cross-sectoral collaboration for social enterprise growth. She hopes that sooner or later, extra younger folks with creativity and aspirations will be a part of the social enterprise business, realise the spirit of “doing enterprise for good” and inject new impetus into the social enterprise business.

Mr Francis NGAI, Deputy Chair of Social Enterprise Summit Organising Committee, Ms Anita LEE, Co-founder and CEO, Time To Gold, Ms Dorothy LAM, Co-founder and Chief Catalyst, Dream Impression, and Mr Alex WONG, Co-founder of Dustykid and Convener of Dustyland Metaverse, expressed their views on the theme of “Bounce Ahead Collectively”, and shared their ideas on challenges and alternative for social enterprises beneath the post-pandemic “new regular”.

Bounce Ahead Collectively: Cross-sector Collaboration on Modern Options

As instability looms giant on a world scale, SES has been advocating cross-sector to provide you with revolutionary options to the present issues. Keynote speaker Mr Cliff PRIOR, CEO, World Steering Group for Impression Funding (GSG), UK, will deal with impression investing and expound the journey of bringing collectively influential stakeholders from the personal and public sectors to shift economies in the direction of optimistic outcomes, collaboration to sort out points from sustainable growth targets pushed by international warming to the Covid pandemic. One other keynote speaker, Ms Peggy LIU, Chairperson of the Joint US-China Cooperation on Clear Power (JUCCCE), will discover how social adjustments can speed up the institution of a inexperienced future with the viewers.

Numerous Programme That includes Influential Audio system from Across the World

The four-day Worldwide Symposium will deal with three fundamental tracks, particularly “meta-good: Exploring Web3 Parts for Impression”, “Intercity Alliance: Reshaping the Way forward for Work” and “Channelling Assets for Resilience”. Moreover, Day 3 will showcase a Youth Summit, which is able to instil the spirit of social innovation to our younger group and on the identical time, present a chance for budding social innovators to share their concepts and initiatives. This get-together acts in synergy with the Youth on Youth Neighborhood Carnival to be held on 8 October 2022, poised to nurture and allow younger folks as brokers of change, empowering them to cleared the path ahead in the direction of a sustainable society.

The worldwide symposium may also characteristic Coverage Dialogue, Asia Youth Entrepreneurship Change, Social Enterprise Discussion board and Social Innovation Visits, and so forth.. The programme will give attendees a chance to expertise, focus on and deepen their understanding on the newest tendencies in social innovation and social entrepreneurship, in addition to inspiring examples of cross-sector collaboration.

Open for Registration
SES 2022 is open for registration ranging from immediately. Early-bird supply is accessible till 31 October. Register now: https://ses.org.hk/registration

Appendix 1: Biography of Particular Visitors at Social Enterprise Summit 2022 Launch Ceremony

Mr Francis NGAI
Founder and CEO, Social Ventures Hong Kong
Deputy Chair, Organising Committee of Social Enterprise Summit, HK

Mr Francis Ngai is the Founder and Chief Govt Officer of Social Ventures Hong Kong (SVhk). He’s additionally Founding father of Hatch co-working manufacturing unit, Playtao Schooling, BottLess, and SONOVA, and Co-Founding father of Inexperienced Monday and RunOurCity. Being an impression function organisation, SVhk is devoted to innovating social change by pioneering impression ventures, cultivating motion of products and orchestrating impression capital.

Previous to establishing SVhk, he was the Head of Technique in a listed expertise conglomerate in Hong Kong. He was conferred as an Honorary Fellow by the Schooling College of Hong Kong in 2018 and by the Metropolis College of Hong Kong in 2013. He was chosen as one of many 100 Asia Pioneers by The Objective Economic system in 2014, a Younger World Chief of the World Financial Discussion board in 2012 and certainly one of Hong Kong’s Ten Excellent Younger Individuals in 2011. As a veteran runner, he has completed North Pole Marathon and Gobi Desert 250km Extremely Marathon.

Ms Dorothy LAM
Co-founder and Chief Catalyst, Dream Impression, HK
Member of Organising Committee and Neighborhood Chair of Sham Shui Po District, Social Enterprise Summit, HK

With a multi-dimensional background and expertise in rising expertise, social innovation and humanities in New York Metropolis, Hong Kong, Berlin & Abu Dhabi, Ms Dorothy Lam integrates varied disciplines of wellness, resilience and innovation of how companies can combine community-driven and human-centric options to unravel immediately’s urgent social points. Having efficiently constructed a community of 140+ social startups, NGOs, universities, impression buyers and corporates to work on cross-sector collaborations, Dream Impression is the main impression ecosystem builder in Hong Kong.

Mr WONG Shung Kin, Alex
Co-founder, Dustykid, HK
Convener, Dustyland Metaverse, HK

Mr Alex Wong is the co-founder of Dustykid and convener of Dustyland Metaverse. Based in 2005, his advertising firm Breeze Manufacturing facility focuses on licensing and intimate commercial options that are liked by his shoppers far and large. When he met artist Dustykid in 2013, his long-cherished dream of adjusting the world through manga was rekindled. With gentle and dirt, he seeks to wander the world, sowing seeds of positivity everywhere in the actual and digital actuality.

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About Social Enterprise Summit (SES)

Social Enterprise Summit (SES) is a cross-sector platform to encourage and empower social innovation and social entrepreneurship.

The flagship Worldwide Symposium builds on the experiences of over 70 audio system and attendances from 10 areas to encourage, innovate, join and collaborate with delegates from the civic society, companies, authorities and tutorial sectors from Hong Kong, China; Asia Pacific area and past to advance optimistic societal adjustments.

Neighborhood engagement actions are held in ten totally different districts in Hong Kong in the course of the yr to broaden the participation and attain past the convention rooms, making use of information, social entrepreneurship and revolutionary mindsets to varied everyday life settings. Official Web site: http://www.ses.org.hk