August highlight · Study tour & executive learning
Inside Asia’s AI Ecosystem: Hong Kong & Chengdu
A curated innovation study tour and executive-learning program designed to give senior leaders direct exposure to emerging technologies, regional innovation models, and practical opportunities for institutional AI adoption.
Hong Kong & Chengdu
Senior public-sector and enterprise leaders
Four-day program
“A real shift in how I think about applying AI to legislative work.”
— Senior Delegate, National Assembly Office
Leadership Roundtable & Policy Exchange, Hong Kong — the National Assembly Office delegation with HKU Business School and School of Governance and Policy.
Learning themes
What the program covered.
AI governance in practice
How other governments set guardrails, assign accountability, and keep humans in the loop on decisions that matter.
Digital-government transformation
The stages institutions pass through as services move from digitized to data-driven, and what each stage demands operationally.
Commercial AI in the public sector
A faculty lecture on where commercial AI fits institutional work, and where build-versus-buy decisions are actually made.
Applied demonstrations
Live technology demonstrations, including real-time translation running on delegates’ own phones.
Program activities
Leadership Roundtable & Policy Exchange with HKU Business School and the School of Governance and Policy.
Session with the AWS public sector team in Chengdu.
Site visits to Cyberport and Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks.
Visit to the Digital Policy Office’s Smart Government Innovation Lab.
Outcomes
Alignment on responsible AI as a standing operational discipline rather than a one-off project.
A clearer institutional position on what to build and what to buy.
Shared working principles: data quality beats model quality, and humans stay in the loop on decisions that matter.
