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Course Content

Industry Outlook: AI-Driven New Industrial Revolution

  • Module 2: Singapore

New Patterns of Asia-Pacific Business Environment and the “Go-Global” Strategies

  • Module 3: Hong Kong

Greater Bay Area Navigation: FinTech, Web 3.0, and AI Investment

  • Module 4: Hong Kong

AI in Medicine

  • Module 5: Greater Bay Area

High-End Equipment, Intelligent Manufacturing, Autonomous Driving & AI Robotics

  • Module 6: Hong Kong

Data Assets – New Business Models Driven by Big Data and Large Models

  • Module 7: Middle East

New Engines of Innovation and Growth

  • Module 8: Beijing or Hefei (TBC)

Quantum Technology

  • Module 9: United States

Landscape of Frontier Technology and AI Waves

  • Module 10: Hong Kong

Energy Revolution: Application of AI in Advanced Materials and New Energy

* The above course content is for reference only. The final course content will be subject to actual arrangements by our academic mentors and HKU IDS reserves the right to changes and amendments.

Programme Details

Start date: January 2025

Locations: Hong Kong / The Greater Bay Area/ Yangtze River Delta

Overseas module: United States / Middle East / Southeast Asia

Duration of study: 26 months, with 20 months of core modules and 6 months for N modules + research report

Course fees: Please send an enquiry to HKU IDS for more details at (atfp@hku.hk)

Medium of instruction: Chinese & English (with simultaneous interpretation) 

Teaching method: Face-to-face  

Target Audience

  • Directors or leaders of large companies in high-tech industries
  • Investors with strategic vision on industrial investment and landscape
  • Traditional entrepreneurs who plan to transition to high-tech industries
  • Financiers who are keen on emerging industrial development and investment opportunities

Fellowship Certificate

  • Upon completion of the Programme, which includes a thesis evaluation, HKU IDS will officially award the HKU Advanced Technology Fellowship Certificate.
  • The list of awarded fellows will be announced on the official website of HKU IDS, as a recognition of their outstanding achievements.
  • As our esteemed Corporate Researcher, the fellow will be given an opportunity to gain additional consultation on research development by collaborating with academic mentors from various faculties at HKU on technology transfer and investment, including priority access to academic resources such as passes to academic activities hosted by HKUIDS.

Academic Team

Leading Instructors

Z. Max SHEN
Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research),
Chair Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Dean, Graduate School, The University of Hong Kong
Yi MA
Director, HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science
Inaugural Director, School of Computing and Data Science
Chair of Artificial Intelligence
The University of Hong Kong
Zexiang LI
Director, Hong Kong Center for Construction Robotics
Professor, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
The list of leading instructors is continuously updated and ranked in no particular order.

Academic Instructors

Chi-Ming CHE
Zhou Guangzhao Professorship in Natural Sciences & Professor
Chair of Chemistry 
Member, The Chinese Academy of Sciences
Foreign Associate, Natural Academy of Sciences (USA)
Founding Member, The Hong Kong Academy of Sciences
The University of Hong Kong
Paul Kwong Hang Tam
Vice President of Macau University of Science and Technology
Chair of Paediatric Surgery, The University of Hong Kong
Member, The Hong Kong Academy of Sciences
Former Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, The University of Hong Kong
Ning XI
Head, Department of Data and Systems Engineering
Chair Professor of Robotics and Automation
Director of Emerging Technologies Institute
The University of Hong Kong
Dongyan JIN
Clara and Lawrence Fok Professor in Precision Medicine
Senior Associate Dean, Graduate School
Associate Director (Grants and Collaborations), School of Biomedical Sciences
The University of Hong Kong
Kaibin HUANG

Department Head, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Philip K H Wong Wilson K L Wong Professor
The University of Hong Kong

The list of academic instructors is continuously updated and ranked in no particular order.

Industrial Instructors

Sheng FU
CEO and Chairman, Cheetah Mobile
Yong RUI
Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Lenovo Group
Qiang WANG
Co-founder of ZhenFund
Xiaogang WANG
Co-founder of SenseTime
Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Xiaodong HE
Vice President of JD.com
Zhengyou ZHANG
Director of Tencent AI Lab
Han FANG
CEO, Kunlun Tech.
Victor JIANG
Co-Director, Deutsche Bank AG Asia Pacific TMT
Ke LIU

Foreign Member of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering

Shaokang LIANG

Founder, Amperex Technology Limited

Kaifu LI

Chairman and CEO, Sinovation Ventures

Feng XIAO

Vice Chairman and Executive Director, China Wanxiang Holdings Ltd.

Xinjun LIANG

Co-founder, Fosun Group

The list of industry mentors is continuously updated and ranked in no particular order.

Emerging Technology Leaders

Chao HUANG
Assistant Professor, The HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science and the School of Computing & Data Science, HKU
Tao YU
Assistant Professor, The HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science and the School of Computing & Data Science, HKU
Yanchao YANG
Assistant Professor, The HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science and the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, HKU
Hongyang LI
Assistant Professor, The HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science
The list of instructors above is continuously updated and ranked in no particular order.