Yahoo Finance Invest Asia

The year of 2023 will go down as one of headline-grabbing, portfolio-rocking surprises for investors all over the world. The rise of generative AI came out of left field, lighting an inferno under tech stocks reminiscent of the late 1990s tech bubble. When integrated with Fintech, what impact will it have on the investment landscape? The Federal Reserve has remained steadfast in raising interest rates to stomp out inflation at the detriment of the economy, how can investors identify the best investment opportunities? Given the vast business potential of the Asia-Pacific and ASEAN, how can enterprises capture the opportunities and what are the potential risks they should be cautious of? Enter Yahoo Finance’s ‘Invest’ conference, the pre-eminent wealth-building event for investors worldwide. Engage in enlightening discussions with leading figures from the realms of business, finance and politics. Impactful interviews and breakout sessions on markets, the economy and politics. Above all else, context from Yahoo Finance’s highly trusted newsroom that is tailor-made to think up big ideas, and take bold actions.

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SPEAKERS

  • Anthony Capuano

    Anthony Capuano

    Marriott International Pres. & CEO

    Anthony Capuano presides over the world’s largest hospitality company and some of the most iconic brands in travel. With nearly 8,600 properties across 139 countries and territories and over 30 brands, Marriott’s customer loyalty program of more than 186 million members is the industry’s largest. Capuano joined the company in 1995; he has been president and CEO since February 2021.

  • The Honourable Bernard Charnwut Chan, GBM, GBS, JP

    The Honourable Bernard Charnwut Chan, GBM, GBS, JP

    M+ Museum Ltd, Chairman

    A graduate of Pomona College in California, Bernard Charnwut Chan is the Chairman and President of the publicly-listed Asia Financial Holdings and Chairman of Asia Insurance. Bernard has a long record of public service. He was a Hong Kong Deputy to the National People’s Congress of The People’s Republic of China (2008-2023) and the previous Convenor of the Non-Official Members of the Executive Council (2017-2022). A patron of the arts, he is Chairman of M Plus Museum Ltd. In 2020 Bernard received Hong Kong’s highest honor, the Grand Bauhinia Medal.

  • Jason Chen

    Jason Chen

    Acer, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

    Jason Chen has been Chairman and CEO of Acer since 2017. From 2014 to 2017 he served as Corporate President and CEO, and played a pivotal role in driving Acer’s corporate transformation and diversification into new business areas. Before joining Acer, Chen served at TSMC from 2005 to 2013 where his last assignment was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing. From 1991 to 2005 he enjoyed a 14-year career at Intel during which his last position was as Corporate Vice President of Sales and Marketing Group based at Intel’s U.S. headquarters.

  • Stuart Duguid

    Stuart Duguid

    EVOLVE and Hana Kuma Co-Founder

    A tennis agent since 2010, and an advocate for advancing women’s sports, Stuart Duguid played a pivotal role in managing Naomi Osaka’s meteoric rise to global superstardom and the first female athlete to exceed $50 million in annual earnings. He and Osaka are the co-founders of the talent management agency EVOLVE and the Emmy Award-nominated production company Hana Kuma.

  • Jim Hung

    Jim Hung

    InnoLux, Chairman

    Jim Hung is Chairman and CEO of Innolux. He has been serving the office since June 2018 to strengthen company’s corporate governance and oversee long-term strategic development. Together with the management team he aims to usher in a new era for the company. Before joining Innolux, he had over 20-year management experience in a variety of sectors including financial investment, traditional industry in international and domestic markets.

  • Vivien Khoo

    Vivien Khoo

    Asia Crypto Alliance, Chairwoman & Co-founder

    Vivien is the Chairwoman and co-founder of the Asia Crypto Alliance, an industry association that promotes growth and sustainable development of virtual assets providers in Asia. She is also the Senior Advisor of StashAway, a digital wealth management platform. Vivien moved into the digital industry in 2019 where she was the Global Chief Operating Officer and Interim CEO at a leading crypto derivatives exchange. Prior to that, Vivien spent close to two decades at Goldman Sachs where she was the managing director of Goldman Sachs’ Asia Pacific Ex-Japan Compliance division.

  • Alvin Kwock

    Alvin Kwock

    OneDegree Group, Co-Founder

    Alvin Kwock is Co-Founder of OneDegree Group, part of a new generation of InsurTech that is reimagining the industry with design thinking and digital innovation. Prior to starting OneDegree, Alvin was the Asia-Pacific Head of Emerging Technology and Taiwan Head of Research at JPMorgan. Under Alvin’s leadership, JPM’s Asia Tech Hardware team has been received multiple accolades. He is a member of United Nations ESCAP’s Banking and Finance Task Force, Hong Kong Insurance Authority’s Future Task Force.

  • Gary Liu

    Gary Liu

    Terminal 3, Co-Founder & CEO

    Gary Liu is the Co-Founder & CEO of Terminal 3, a company building decentralized user data infrastructure that replaces centralized solutions which deprive users of privacy and saddle enterprises with compliance and security issues. In his previous role as CEO of the South China Morning Post, Gary oversaw an extensive transformation of the century-old publishing group, expanding its global audience reach and influence, establishing new revenue channels, and cementing SCMP as Asia’s leading news media company.

  • Jamie Lin

    Jamie Lin

    Taiwan Mobile, President & AppWorks, Chairman & Partner

    Jamie now serves as President at Taiwan Mobile and Chairman & Partner at AppWorks, the Greater Southeast Asia leading startup accelerator and venture capital firm founded by Jamie in 2009. Taiwan Mobile and AppWorks formed a strategic alliance in January 2019, resulting in Jamie taking over as the President of Taiwan Mobile. His blog, MR JAMIE, has provided inspiration to millions of readers in the startup community since 2009.

  • King Leung

    King Leung

    InvestHK, Head of Financial Services and Fintech

    As the Head of Financial Services and Fintech at InvestHK, the department of the Hong Kong SAR Government responsible for attracting Foreign Direct Investment, King’s mission is to enrich the ecosystem and contribute to raising the long-term competitiveness and innovation of the financial services sector in Hong Kong. King achieves this goal through collaboration with a broad range of stakeholders – regulators, financial institutions, investors, fintech companies, associations, etc. in Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area, and other major international fintech hubs.

  • Irene Lee

    Irene Lee

    Board Member of Fintech Association of Hong Kong

    Irene is a multifaceted compliance professional with a diverse range of skills and experiences that have propelled her to the forefront of the financial industry; with extensive compliance experience in financial sectors including private bank, commercial bank and insurance. Prior to her current position, Irene served as a leader in Regtech, Global Wealth Management and GBA Compliance in UBS AG. She has made a significant impact on the Fintech community as a Board member and Head of GBA of the Fintech Association of Hong Kong.

  • Michael Lee

    Michael Lee

    FWD Hong Kong & Macau, Chief Operations Officer

    Michael leads the operation arms of FWD Hong Kong & Macau as Chief Operations Officer, driving operational excellence and enabling sustainable growth through forward thinking strategies and proactive resilience planning with a customer-led approach.Throughout his career spanning over two decades in life insurance managing local and regional operations, Michael has pushed forward various impactful initiatives to achieve organisational agility, resilience and operational transformation for a digital world.

  • Andini Makosinski

    Andini Makosinski

    Inventor, Writer & global keynote speaker

    Andini is a 26 year old Filipina-Polish Canadian inventor, writer and global keynote speaker. An all round 21st century Renaissance woman, Andini is best known for her invention of the Hollow Flashlight, a flashlight that runs off the heat of the human hand, as well as the eDrink, a coffee mug that harvests the excess heat of your hot drink and converts it into electricity to charge your phone. Andini has given 5 TEDx talks, one of Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30, Time Magazine’s 30 Under 30 World Changers.

  • Naomi Osaka

    Naomi Osaka

    Four-Time Grand Slam Tennis Champion, EVOLVE and Hana Kuma Co-Founder

    Naomi Osaka’s extraordinary tennis triumphs combined with her off-the-court activism make her one of the biggest global names in all of sports. In 2021, she added entrepreneur to her résumé, launching KINLÒ, a line of sun protection products for melanated skin. In 2022, Osaka and her longtime business partner Stuart Duguid launched sports management agency EVOLVE and Hana Kuma, a media company telling stories that tackle important issues in society.

  • Scott Sperling

    Scott Sperling

    Thomas H. Lee Partners, Co-CEO

    Scott Sperling is co-CEO and a co-chair of the management committee of Thomas H. Lee Partners (THL), a private equity firm investing in middle-market growth companies. For more than a decade prior to joining the firm in 1994, Sperling was managing partner of the affiliate of Harvard Management Company that managed alternative asset classes for Harvard University’s endowment fund.

  • Hans Vestberg

    Hans Vestberg

    Verizon Chairman & CEO

    Hans Vestberg was appointed CEO of Verizon in 2018 and became chairman in 2019. He has transformed Verizon’s business, leading the company to be the first in the United States to deploy 5G home and mobile technology, followed by the launch of 5G ultra wideband and fixed wireless access. Vestberg chairs the World Economic Forum’s EDISON Alliance, a global movement of public and private sector leaders committed to digital inclusion.

AGENDA

Asia Session: Tuesday November 14, 2023 10am to 1pm (Singapore Time)
    • 10:00AM

      Welcome address

      by Brian Sozzi, Yahoo Finance Executive Editor

    • 10:02AM

      The Economic Vibe Check

      Just because the U.S. economy has averted a long-talked about recession and the stock market is hovering around records, it doesn’t mean all is fine and well. Interest rates are much higher thanks to inflation-fighting actions from the Federal Reserve, serving to dampen economic growth. Inflation remains high despite those efforts, putting the squeeze on household finances. The return of student loan payments is weighing on consumer spending. Talking to top CEOs and experts, this panel will go inside the state of the U.S. economy at its current crossroad and help shed light on where things could be headed in 2024.

      by Hans Vestberg, Verizon Chairman & CEO

    • 10:10AM

      The Economic Vibe Check Part 2

      Just because the U.S. economy has averted a long-talked about recession and the stock market is hovering around records, it doesn’t mean all is fine and well. Interest rates are much higher thanks to inflation-fighting actions from the Federal Reserve, serving to dampen economic growth. Inflation remains high despite those efforts, putting the squeeze on household finances. The return of student loan payments is weighing on consumer spending. Talking to top CEOs and experts, this panel will go inside the state of the U.S. economy at its current crossroad and help shed light on where things could be headed in 2024.

      Anthony Capuano, Marriott International President & CEO

    • *agenda subject to change

MODERATORS

  • Brian Sozzi

    Brian Sozzi

    Yahoo Finance, Executive Editor

    Brian Sozzi is Yahoo Finance’s Executive Editor. He also hosts executive interviews for Yahoo Finance's 'All Markets Summit' conference and 'Yahoo Finance Presents' digital series. Sozzi was previously the Executive Editor of publicly traded financial media company TheStreet. He was a member of TheStreet's executive management team and reported directly to the founder, CEO and chairman. Sozzi began his career on Wall Street as a sell-side stock analyst covering retailers, banks and numerous other sectors. He won the 2011 FT | StarMine Analyst Award for No. 3 Earnings Estimator in the Textiles Apparel and Luxury Goods Industry.

  • Isabel Wong

    Isabel Wong

    Business Journalist

    Isabel Wong is a TV presenter and business journalist who has extensive experience interviewing international business leaders and policy makers. She was the lead anchor of Hong Kong International Business Channel, a free-to-air English news channel operated by i-Cable News, and launched its weekly flagship financial programme 'All About Money' as the show host and producer. Isabel has also worked at Bloomberg TV, and her works are featured on Travel Channel, Asia Tatler, RTHK, Young Post and more.