2025 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Join our annual conference, recognised as one of the best governance-related conferences. Learn practical and actionable insights from top speakers, enjoy meaningful networking.

The level of disruptive change is unprecedented. We feature essential trends that shape the future of business risks as well as opportunities- from macro trends, latest developments in regulations and ESG, investor perspectives, to the next wave of AI and governance.

  • Critical macro trends and risks
  • Directors’ duties’ update: enforcement lessons; new internal control rules
  • ESG: backlash or breakthrough?
  • AI at work: from practical insights to what's next




WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Directors, CFO/finance professionals, company secretaries,
legal counsels, internal auditors, sustainability officers, investor relations


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FEATURED SPEAKERS



Conference Chairperson
Co-speaker, regulatory session

Wendy W.Y. Yung
Founder
Practising Governance

MORNING SESSION
(9.00 am -12.30 pm)


Macro overview: Mapping the new business landscape

Macroeconomic overview

Dr Yifan Hu
Chief Investment Officer
Greater China &
Head Macroeconomics APAC
UBS Global Wealth Management

Consumer behaviour trends

David Ko
Senior Vice President
RFI Asia

HKEX regulatory priorities and outlook

Catherine Yien
Managing Director
Head of Listing Regulation
and Enforcement
HKEX

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Regulatory + governance update

Regulatory update/ directors’ duties

Wendy W.Y. Yung
Founder
Practising Governance

Internal control and risk management

Alva Lee
President
IIAHK

"Refreshing materiality"
for risk management

Calvin Lee Kwan
Managing Director
Sustainability & Risk Governance
Link Asset Management

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AFTERNOON SESSION
(2.15 pm -5.30 pm)


ESG: backlash or breakthrough?

Survey on Asian asset owners:
views on ESG investing

William T.K. Ng
Co-chair of Asset Management
ESG Committee
ASIFMA

Practical sharing
Finance-related aspects

Fanny Lung
Chief Financial Officer
Swire Properties

Practical sharing
Our sustainability journey

Kevin Leung
Investor Relations Director
and Company Secretary
China Resources Beer (Holdings)

NetZero journey across
a complex governance landscape

Lucy Newcombe
Chief People and ESG Officer
Computershare

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AI at work: from practical insights to what’s next


Agentic AI journey


Kenneth She
Chief Transformation Officer
Hong Kong Broadband Network


AI for lawyers


Victor Ho
Global Technology Sector Co-Lead
A&O Shearman


“Checklist on Guidelines for
the use of Generative AI
by Employees”

Joanne Wong
Assistant Privacy Commissioner
for Personal Data (Compliance,
Global Affairs and Research)
PCPD

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DETAILS

Event Name: Getting ready for 2026: A New Order?
Event code: AR25
Date: (Fri) 24 Oct 2025 (AM session: 9.00 am – 12.30 pm, PM session: 2.15 pm – 5.30 pm)
Venue: S421, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, 1 Harbour Road, Wanchai (Old Wing)
Language: English
Price:
    (NOTE: EARLY BIRD CLOSED AFTER (FRI) 17 OCTOBER 2025)
    Full day: HK$ 4,000
    (*Discounted: HK$ 3,100)

    (Free lunch time for delegate’s own arrangements)

    AM/PM: HK$ 2,200
    (*Discounted: HK$1,800)
    *discounted for our subscribers and members of supporting organizations
CPD: ACCA, CIMA, HKICPA, IIA (AM: 3 CPD PM: 3 CPD)
HKCGI (AM: 3 MCPD PM: 3 MCPD)
(Members of the above institutes can apply for CPD under the relevant rules. No event accreditation is needed.)

(Accreditation being applied) Hong Kong Law Society (AM: 3 CPD PM: 3 CPD)
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