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TECH TALK: UNVEILING FACULTY TECHNOLOGIES FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP (2025 SPRING)
19/02/2025 2:30 - 5:00 pm
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Session Details
19 Feb 2025 14:30 -
17:00
Program Details
Deadline :
18 Feb 2025 23:59
Enquiry Email :
ecenter@ust.hk
Organised by :
HKUST Entrepreneurship Center
HKUST Entrepreneurship Center & OKT
As part of the Tech-Ship Program, which is a platform leveraging the wealth of research talents and outcomes at HKUST to bridge together faculty technologies and student entrepreneurship, the "TECH Talk: Unveiling Faculty Technologies for Entrepreneurship" (TECH Talk) will invite faculty members to introduce their technologies to students who are passionate about exploring technology entrepreneurship opportunities.
1. "TECH Talk" Details
- Date & Time: 19 Feb 2025 (Wed), 2:30pm - 5:00pm
- Format: Each faculty member will give a 15-minute presentation about his/her technology
- Venue: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/99894115871?pwd=SNcz5hfiYyPf7t0OszPxalJaaaAobu.1
- Meeting ID: 998 9411 5871
Passcode: 191494
Techtalk 2025 schedule
| No. | Time | Name of Professor | Topic |
| 2:30-2:35 | Prof. Carrie Ling | Tech-ship introduction | |
| 1 | 2:35-2:55 | Prof. Long CHEN | Multimodal Understanding and Generation with Efficiently Trained Foundation Models |
| 2 | 2:55-3:15 | Prof. Dan XU | Large-Scale Scene Modeling and Editable Generation |
| 3 | 3:15-3:35 | Prof. Jun HAN | Machine Learning for Large-Scale Data Management and Visualization |
| 4 | 3:35-3:55 | Prof. Jinqing HUANG / Present by Dr. Vince St. Dollente MESIAS | Making Gardening and Agriculture Management more Intelligent, Affordable, and Sustainable |
| 5 | 3:55-4:15 | Prof. Sai Kit YEUNG | AI and Systems Design for Marine Challenges & Building Foundation Models |
| 6 | 4:15-4:35 | Dr. Bo TANG | Tracing AI Contributions with Bitcoin Virtual Machine |
| 7 | 4:35-4:55 | Prof. Fan SHI | TBC |
| 05:00 | End of Event |
If you are interested in joining, please complete the form by 17 Feb 2025 (Mon) 23:59 HKT. Limited quotas only. The Zoom link will be sent to successful registrants on 18 Feb 2025 (Tue).
To apply tech talk you can click Register Now or click register button on right
other question you might contact Ms. Tammy Lee - ectammy@ust.hk
2. Who should take part?
- Faculty members of any discipline who wish to:
> commercialize their technologies/ research output developed or being developed and
> invite passionate, capable and entrepreneurial students to form startup teams
- Students of any discipline - undergraduates/ postgraduates (taught/ research)- who wish to:
> explore business and entrepreneurial possibilities to merge faculty research with new or existing entrepreneurial development and
> partner with faculty/ research teams for commercializing faculty's technologies/ research output
3. How does it work?
- Faculty members introduce their technologies via a 15-minute presentation in "TECH Talk", in order to inspire students for potential entrepreneurial development.
- After TECH Talk, interested students shall approach faculty members on their own, in order to share and discuss entrepreneurial potential and partnership opportunities; students may also seek the assistance of EC & OKT in connecting with the respective faculty members if necessary.
- Faculty members who have successfully teamed up with students for technopreneurship development will receive a Technopreneurship Award of up to HK$200,000.
- Both the faculty and students will:
also have access to the financial resources and other support provided by Office of Knowledge Transfer (OKT) and Entrepreneurship Center (EC) to facilitate their technopreneurship development and growth