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MADE IN HONG KONG

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About Made in Hong Kong.

General Assembly is turning three years old, and we're inviting you to celebrate with us!


Made in Hong Kong Week showcases all the creativity and innovation the city has to offer by bringing like-minded thinkers together, where collaboration and education go hand-in-hand. Hong Kong's most exciting and forward-looking companies across fitness, food, music, and travel will be sharing their expertise throughout our weeklong series of panels at Garage Society.


We'll be ending the week with a Wrap Up Party, so don't miss out, sign up below and show off your Hong Kong pride!


TRAVEL COMPANIES THAT ARE TAKING-OFF!

A discussion on the hacks, habits, and hustles of travel entrepreneurs leveraging digital, social and technology to build their brands in Hong Kong.


MONDAY 5TH SEPTEMBER

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THE BUSINESS OF HEALTH

Join us for an interactive conversation and FREE YOGA session with a of panel of experts in the healthcare, nutrition, & fitness industry in Hong Kong.

 

TUESDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER

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MUSIC MAKERS

 An exciting evening with some of Hong Kong's most influential music proponents & creators. Find out how to make it in the Hong Kong industry, and what's in store for the future.


WEDNESDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER

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FOOD FOR FUTURE - MAKING IT IN F&B

We'll be chatting with some of Hong Kong's legendary food & liquor industry rule breakers, creators and innovators and finding out how to cook up a storm in the very competitive Hong Kong F&B industry.

 

THURSDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER

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WRAP-UP PARTY!

Come help us celebrate a fantastic week of events and GA's third birthday with Garage Society in our fabulous city of Hong Kong! Drinks and entertainment on us!

 

FRIDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER

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About our partners


Speakers

Raphael Cohen

Co-Founder and CSO at HotelQuickly

Before joining HotelQuickly as its Chief Sales Officer, Raphael worked for Rocket Internet as Managing Director of Foodpanda Vietnam and DropGifts Singapore. As an entrepreneur, he previously founded the online graphic design outsourcing company Corporate Edesign, as well as CGHK Export, a China-focused trading company.

Cecilia Yee

Director of Marketing, Flight Centre 

Cecilia Yee is the Director of Marketing at Flight Centre Hong Kong. Cecilia has over ten years of marketing experience specialising in digital marketing. Cecilia has led the marketing team at Flight Centre for over four years, positioning the brand as a leader in the travel industry.

Amy Wei

Director, Greater China, Kayak

Amy is the Director, Greater China for KAYAK and is based in Hong Kong. She has been with KAYAK since early 2015, and previously worked with the Estée Lauder Companies in New York, Hong Kong and Shanghai, where she launched the Jo Malone London brand in China.

Eric Gnock Fah

Founder, Klook

Rachel Cheung

Founder, Rent-a-Suitcase

Founder of Rent-a-Suitcase, providing travel equipment (suitcases, action cameras, 360 cameras, wifi devices and more...) sharing platform based in Hong Kong. Rachel built and structured Rent-a-Suitcase with her vision in introducing Hong Kong residents the concept of “Own less. Travel more” 

Sarah Fung

Publisher, Liv Magazine

The publisher of Liv, Hong Kong's wellness magazine, Sarah Fung has a ringside seat to the wellness startup scene in Hong Kong. She has 10 years' experience working with city magazines in Hong Kong, and launched Liv in October last year to cater to a growing demand from the city's wellness community for news and information about Hong Kong's health scene.

Alex de Fina

Founder & CEO, Bikini Fit & Pherform 

After a successful career as an elite trainer in Australia - Alex set his sights on developing niche concepts in the expanding Asian marketplace.
He is committed to creating new gateway concepts for women to enter previously male-dominated fitness arenas.
Alex's quest is to continue encouraging more women into strength training and taking control of their health. He intends on expanding both brands regionally within the next 18 months.

Karen Holt

Founder, The Health Seed

Karen Holt is the certified holistic health & wellness coach, RYT 200 Yoga teacher and writer behind the Hong Kong based wellness brand, The Health Seed, a concept based on conscious training and conscious living.

Karen takes the experience from years working in fashion retail in marketing, brand management and business strategy and applies that knowledge to The Health Seed Concept. After experiencing the stresses of corporate life, Karen works towards showing her clients how to work towards achieving inward balance in their lives.



Sonalie Figueiras

Founder, Ekowarehouse + Founder and Publisher, Green Queen

Sonalie Figueiras' mission in life is to make it easy for consumers and businesses to make green choices every day using smart data. Sonalie is the founder of Ekowarehouse, the first global B2B platform for certified organic products. She is also the founder and publisher of Green Queen, Hong Kong’s most popular healthy living online platform and the organizer of #StockYourStore.

Steven Wu

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Locofama Group

Steven Wu’s goal is to inspire people to eat healthier through his restaurants and to become their own superheroes through his new platform initiative. His restaurant concepts Locofama and Sohofama aims to prove that when it comes to eating healthy food, you shouldn’t have to sacrifice in tastiness, and choices should not only be limited to vegetarian focused menus. His newest concept Supafood is dedicated to bringing healthy fast food to everyone, making it more affordable, convenient and delicious at the same time.

Gianni Melwani

Co-Founder and Director, IRIS

Gianni is co-founder of the IRIS brand, and Hong Kong’s largest health and wellness festival Your Escape. An avid yogi, history as a professional soccer player and a background in psychology, it comes as little surprise that Gianni is a multi-faceted individual with a unique perspective on life.

Justin Sweeting

Music Director, Magnetic Asia

Having established the pan-regional, cross media platform AMP (Asia’s Music Platform) for Channel [V], Justin has been focused on the live music scenes of the territory.  He is a co-founder of Magnetic Asia (www.magneticasia.com) whom run the annual Clockenflap Music & Arts festival in Hong Kong and further brands including YourMum (a regular touring series), www.ticketflap.com, Sonar Hong Kong and more.  


Florian Simmendinger

CEO, Soundbrenner

Founder and CEO of Soundbrenner, makers of the world’s first wearable smart device for musicians. It's called Soundbrenner Pulse and aims for the ambitious goal to help every single musician on the planet to achieve rhythmic perfection.

Ed Rollo

Creative Director/Co-Founder, Sol Passion Music

Undertaking studies in advanced music production from registered trainers in Sydney as well as mentoring from Ableton Certified Trainer, Simon Stokes (Soma Records) in the UK has lead to his debut release on well known house label Cutting Records (NY), which was released globally in 2014. He is also the Co-founder & Creative Director of Sol Passion Music, Hong Kong’s leading DJ & Music Production School.

Lily Ng

CEO, Foodie

Lily Ng, CEO of Foodie Group Limited, is no stranger to building fast growing businesses and charting new frontiers. Prior to her current role to lead Foodie’s transformation, Lily has built an impressive career in the hospitality and real estate sectors. She was the President of Caesars Global Living Asia at Caesars Entertainment Corporation and the Executive Vice President at Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels, China.

Brian Lo

General Manager, Deliveroo

Brian joined Deliveroo in October 2015 and is leading Deliveroo’s scaling efforts and managing the company’s presence in Hong Kong. Prior to Deliveroo, Brian spent 4 years at McKinsey & Company where he was a core member of the Recovery & Transformation Services (RTS) practice specializing in delivering radical full-scale transformations

Joshua Chu

F&B Director and Partner, Homegrown Foods

He joined Todd Darling for the opening of Wagyu restaurant in 2006, as Sous Chef. Joshua worked his way up the ranks performing Head Chef and General Manager roles throughout the organization. Today Josh is Partner and Food and Beverage Director for Homegrown Foods, which owns Posto Pubblico, Linguini Fini, and Stone Nullah Tavern.

Jonathan Glover

Managing Director, The Butchers Club International.

Jonathan has been in Hong Kong for almost 20 years and is a seasoned F&B and marketing professional, having worked in the industry operating restaurants and retail operations since even before moving to Hong Kong. Jonathan is a self-taught butcher and fish monger and was the main inspiration behind The Butchers Club, professing to have brought together “all of the best bits” of his past experiences and putting them into a concept that he and his team thoroughly enjoy operating

Wesley Tang

General Manager, Chope

Wesley has always been involved in startups one way or another. Previously Wesley was Director of Sales and Marketing at Bindo and Head of Marketing at foodpanda HK. He is currently the General Manager of Chope HK.

James Bernardo

 Community Manager, Garage Society

James is the Community Manager at Garage Society, a collaborative entrepreneurial community in Hong Kong. He focuses on building events and training for the HK startup community as part of the Garage Academy platform.Description of person representing this event or brand. 

Schedule

MONDAY 5TH SEPTEMBER


7-9PM

Garage Society 

19/F 299 Queens Road Central

Travel Companies that are taking-off

Panelists: 

 

Rachael Cheung - Founder, Rent-a-suitcase

Raphael Cohen - Co-Founder & CSO, Hotel Quickly

Cecilia Yee - Director of Marketing, Flight Centre

Amy Wei - Director, Greater China, Kayak

Eric Gnock Fah - Founder, Klook

TUESDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER


Room 508-520,

Hutchison House,

10 Harcourt Rd,

Central

The Business of Health

Panelists: 

 

Sarah Fung - Publisher, Liv-Magazine

Alex De Fina - CEO & Founder, BikiniFit & Pherform

Karen Holt - Founder, The Health Seed

Sonalie Figueiras - Founder, Ekowarehouse + Founder and Publisher, Green Queen

Steven Wu - Co-Founder & Managing Partner - Locofama Group

Gianni Melwani - Co-Founder & Director, Iris

 

WEDNESDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER

7-9PM
Garage Society
19/F 299 Queens Road Central

Music Makers

Panelists: 

 

James Bernardo - Community Manager, Garage Society

Justin Sweeting - Music Director, Magnetic Asia

Ed Rollo - Creative Director/Co Founder, Sol Passion Music

Florian Simmendinger - CEO, Soundbrenner

 

THURSDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER


7-9PM
Garage Society
19/F 299 Queens Road Central

Food for Future

Panelists:

Lily Ng - CEO, Foodie

Wesley Tang - General Manager, Chope

Jonathan Glover - Managing Director, The Butchers Club International.

Joshua Chu - F&B Director and Partner, Homegrown Foods

Brian Lo - General Manager, Deliveroo


FRIDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER

7-9PM
Garage Society
19/F 299 Queens Road Central

Wrap-up Party

We will be celebrating all that is made in Hong Kong - with food from Deliveroo, beer from Hong Kong Beer Co, Wine from Wine Brothers HK, and music by local DJ Sol Passion!


Come drink, dance, and chat the night away with us!

The 2016 Mobile Ad Summit will take place in the Penthouse suite of The Georgia Center Hotel, which is conveniently located in the heart of Atlanta. Sign in at the registration desk and head up to the top floor.

About General Assembly

General Assembly (GA) is a global educational company. Focusing on the most relevant and in demand skills across data, design, business and technology, General Assembly is empowering a global community to pursue work they love through best-in-class instruction and access to opportunities. GA works with students online and in person across 15 campuses around the world and thousands of companies as partners in course development and graduate placement as well as through GA’s corporate training and development business. Additionally, GA’s focus on affordable and accessible education combined with our education-to-employment approach is helping to create a diverse talent pipeline.

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