WHERE CROSSOVER OF IDEAS HAPPENS

E2: Entrepreneurship Square is the 1st HK Tech X Social platform, where entrepreneurs from various fields can pitch and dialogue with angels, insiders, and other entrepreneurs.

Experts and innovators from tech and social fields will share their experiences whereas innovative ideas and projects will have a chance for meeting other insiders, and receive capacity-building support.

More infomation www.e2x.org

Incu-lab is the official organizer and E² is the official event of IT Fest 2014.

Joey Lam (Deputy Government Chief Information Officer (Policy and Community), OGCIO) and Charles Ng (Associate Director-General of Investment Promotion, Invest Hong Kong) were Guest of Honour of E² @ IT Fest 2014

Kim Salkeld (Head, Efficiency Unit, HKSAR Government) was Guest of Honour of E², which is co-organized with Cyberport and is part of “2013 Global Entrepreneurship Week China – Hong Kong”

Florence Hui (Under-Secretary for Home Affairs) was the guest of honour in E² Apr 2013.

Idea sharing marathon, about innovation and creative entrepreneurship

Incu-Lab ICE Days (Innovation and Change-Making Entrepreneurship) is an idea sharing marathon, about innovation and creative entrepreneurship. Local and international audience of innovators and entrepreneurs will understand more about the situation.

A wide range of topics will be included: open source, open data and social media development; trends of creative media industry; innovations in agriculture, social economy and city planning; the stories of tech startups, companies and social enterprises; techs that can help the underprivileged and all sorts of ideas that can change the society in an innovative way.

The Incu-Lab ICE Days is supported by InvestHK of HK government, and is part of the Startmeup Week of InvestHK.

ICE Days, idea sharing marathon, about innovation and creative entrepreneurship.

How to Build a Digital Strategy for the Biggest Online Newspaper in HK and Monetize IT by Mo Chung (General Manager, Digital Sales at Next Mobile, Apple Daily) and Christina Lo (Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Apple Daily)

The Entrepreneur Scene and How Incubators Think What a Good Startup Should be ICE by Felix Lam (Managing Director, Red Chapel Advisors)

Innovation in Social Enterpreneurship of the Past 3 Years by Francis Ngai (Founder and CEO, Social Ventures Hong Kong)

My Experience as a Cross Midia Expert and Being an Entrepreneur in Media Industry Development by Chip Taso (Best-selling Author, Columnist and a Former Producer for BBC)

EMPOWER THE UNDERPRIVILEGED

More information www.cpnhk.org

Community Power of Narrative (CPN) is a social enterprise that enables under-privileged people and community neighbours to voice out their life experience. It also enables artists and the other communities/public to engage and interact with people having special needs, in order to create deeper understanding, thus energizes social change and social impact.

Major Project of CPN

Power of Narrative (PN) is an art creation and education project aiming at revealing the authentic lives of the underprivileged by art.

●   22 site visits to interview SEN students, hearing and visually impaired, new immigrants and people living in cubicles

●   11 picture books with unique stories and illustrations

●   Travelling exhibition @ HKBU Kai Tak Campus, Science Park, Kwai Chung, JCCAC, Tin Hau and TaiPo

●   Supported by corporation partners like CLP Group and Science Park, academic partners like HKBU, and various community partners

Exhibition at Incu-Labspace

Exhibition at Hong Kong Science Park

Exhibition at Tai Po

Exhibition at Kwai Chung

Exhibition at JCCAC

Exhibition at HKBU

Visiting subdivided units at Sham Shui Po

A small gathering with new immigrants and artists at Kwai Chung

促進「平等文化權利」，讓不同群體也有機會接受文化、藝術、創作和生命教育!

EWB作為連結藝術與社區的平台，透過遊說藝術及文化團體撥出一定比例的門票，贈予學生、青少年、長者、弱勢社群以至社區街坊，使不同群體亦可接觸並參與藝術及文化活動，讓文化啟迪無分群體與障礙。

「Engage without Barrier 無障‧文化啟迪」@好戲量《女兒紅》

「Engage without Barrier 無障‧文化啟迪」@伍庭發慈善基金會《伍庭發紀念音樂會》

「Engage without Barrier 無障‧文化啟迪」@非常林奕華《梁祝的繼承者們》

MAKES GREEN CITY A REALITY

GreenCity is an online media platform which concerns and focuses on environmental, conservational, ecological and technological issues that lead to a sustainable development.

Greencity produces high-quality episodes on various issues related to sustainable development and shares latest news and information on environmental protection, ecological and historical preservation, and green and biotechnology that improves people’s living.

3D printer that can “print green”

INCU-LABSPACE IS A PLATFORM TO SYNERGIZE THE TALENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES OFFERED BY THE CITY FOR ENTREPRENEURS, INNOVATORS, AND PIONEERS ALIKE.

More information www.incu-labspace.org

Incu-Labspace is the 1st HK non-government creative co-working space for change-making entrepreneurs and innovators from various innovative fields to cross-over, work, mingle and create things together.

Incu-Labspace is not just a 4,000 sf space – as the founders have worked on digital, bio, social and design innovation for years and understand that startup growth needs more than space – but also about knowledge transfer, know-how mentoring and community building.

Incu-Labsapce itself is a social enterprise that links up the various growth and incubation components in the space in order to cultivate more change-making entrepreneurs. It works closely with various partners like incubators, industry associations, government departments and overseas angels in enabling more change-making to happen and to create impact.

Industry Dialogue – 「資訊及通訊科技」講座@ Incu-Labspace

「做個快樂的情緒主人」工作坊@ Incu-Labspace

Tips on Stress Management@ Incu-Labspace

Setting & Tracking Smart Business Target Using XMIND @ Incu-Labspace

A design studio @ PMQ for mindful living

More information www.home-works.org

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known

Tian Jing Di Yi Lifestyle is a social enterprise ideas hub co-organized by Social Economy Alliance and Incu-Lab. It is situated in B/oundary, which is part of the Prince Edward Road / Yuen Ngai Street Conservation Project (MK-02) of the URA and is being developed by the HKCSS.

Tian Jing Di Yi Lifestyle is a unique platform where products of natural, healthy living style and total customer experience of fair trade and social innovation integrate and cross-over. Seminars and guided tours will be organized to let the visitors understand the stories behind the products and more importantly, to experience and create a world with just economy and more social innovations with vision and impacts together.

The building is near “Flower Market”(花墟) and is part of the renovation project of largest “Tong Lau”(唐樓) Complex in HK.

A thinktank platform for community and social development

More information www.cdiorg.hk

Community Development Initiative is a non-profit organization which focuses on nurturing community and social development. CDI provides an open platform for other NGOs and thinktanks by sharing technological and media resources. CDI aims to boost community and social development by initiating policy research and education projects. We synergize various forces in the society and support advocacy works of other civil society partners.

An e-public boardcasting service for public e-engagement

More information www.ourtv.hk

Pioneering in e-Public Broadcasting Service (ePBS), OurTV envisions to provide an open and community-based online media platform. We strive to reflect the interests and concerns of a diverse society to audience in the community. Through our high quality public broadcast, members of the community are encouraged to interact on this platform with each other in a rational and deliberative manner. We hope to stimulate cohesion within civil society in order to contribute to the social development of Hong Kong.

In light of the technological advancement, OurTV promotes equal and all-rounded public participation through e-engagement. It is our strong conviction that with these efforts, the foundation for civil society development and creating public consensus is laid.