CUHKMBA x IBM – Business Leaders “Shaping” the Future [Talk 2]

The second talk of the Speaker Series is presented by Mr. Barry Chan, Partner, Financial Services Sector, IBM China/Hong Kong Limited on Feb 22 in our MBA town Centre. Mr. Chan has 20+ years of business strategy and transformation consulting experience. He is responsible for multinational banking project engagement with regional deployment across Asia Pacific leveraging IBM global delivery capabilities. He also has a proven track record in delivering technology led transformation projects to the financial services sector and have been counselling clients on digital banking, business operation and IT strategy.

On the day, Mr. Chan explained what is meant by Cognitive and Cognitive technology and stressed that by “Becoming a Cognitive Business”, organizations needs to converge digital business with a new level of digital (artificial) intelligence to form a new cognitive business model. He also shared examples on how Business leaders of tomorrow’s world are leveraging cognitive to increase competitiveness or to transform their future business model.

“Business Leaders Shaping the Future” is a series of speaker events in collaboration with IBM, which will be held throughout the first half of 2017. There will be a total of four talks organized monthly from January onwards. This Speaker Series features distinguished Business and Technology Executives from IBM to share about the most impacting and disrupting technologies that are re-shaping the world, the industries, and how people-device-business interact.