Digital World Conference: AI STR Forum (Artificial Intelligence: Safety, Trust, and Responsibiility Forum) 

The 3rd Global AI Action Summit 2025, hosted by the French government and co-organized by the Indian government, will take place in Paris on February 10-11, 2025. The summit will bring together leaders from nearly 100 countries to reach a consensus on the secure development of artificial intelligence.As a subforum of the AI Action Summit in Hong Kong, the Artificial Intelligence Safety, Trust, and Responsibility Forum (AI STR Forum) will be held at Cyberport, Hong Kong. The forum will gather academicians, executives from leading tech companies, and representatives from international organizations to directly address the security concerns arising from large AI models such as ChatGPT, Sora, and DeepSeek. Discussions will focus on how to balance technological innovation with security risks in the AI era and promote the secure implementation of AI in industries.

 Basic Information：

• Forum Name:AI STR (Safety, Trust, and Responsibility) Forum
• Co-organizers: World Digital Technology Academy（WDTA）,  International Academician Science & Technology Innovation Centre (IASTIC)，Cyberport Hong Kong，Invest Hong Kong
• Date:February 27, 2025, 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM
• Location: CyberArena,Cyberport
• Languages:Putonghua, Cantonese, English

 Proposed Agenda：

 09:30-10:00 Registration

 10:00-10:12 Welcome Remarks

• Simon CHAN Sai-ming, BBS, JP Chairman, Cyberport
• Prof Yale Li, Executive Chairman of WDTA
• Prof. C.C. Chan, GBS, Founder, International Academicians Science & Technology Innovation Centre（ IASTIC）, The first Academician, Chinese Academy of Engineering, H.K., Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering, U.K., 2022 Touching China Character
• Peter Major, Vice-Chair of the United Nations Commission on Science & Technology for Development

 10:12-10:18 Keynote Remarks

• Luo Yonggang - Deputy Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the HKSAR (TBC)
• Prof Sun Dong, JP, Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry, HKSAR 

 10:18-10:25 Official Landing： WDTA Asia-Pacific Research Institute (In Preparation)

• GoH: Prof Sun Dong, Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry, HKSAR | Ir Tony Wong, Commissioner for Digital Policy, HKSAR (TBC) 
• Witness: Mr Simon Chan, Chairman, Cyberport and Dr Rocky Cheng, CEO, Cyberport
• WDTA and IASTIC representatives: Prof Yale Li, Executive Chairman of WDTA | Prof. C.C. Chan, GBS, Founder of IASTIC

 10:25-10:30 Trustworthy AI - A perspective by HKGAI

• Prof Guo Yike, Director, The Hong Kong Generative AI R&D Center (HKGAI), the Provost of the HKUST 

 10:30-10:55 MoU Signing

• GoH: Prof Sun Dong, Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry, HKSAR | Ir Tony Wong, Commissioner for Digital Policy, HKSAR
• Cyberport x WDTA x IASTIC
• Cyberport x City University of Hong Kong
• Cyberport x Hong Kong Metropolitan University
• Cyberport x The Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong
• Cyberport x The University of Hong Kong
• Cyberport x Hong Kong Institute of Information Technology

 10:55-11:00 Guest Sharing：The Principle of Boltzmann Machines and AI in FinTech

• Dr. Deng Li, A main collaborator of Hinton's Nobel Prize-winning research, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, former Chief AI Scientist at Microsoft, and CAIO of Vatican Investments.

 11:10-11:25 Guest Sharing：AI Security

• Academician Gao Wen, Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Director of Pengcheng Laboratory

 11:25-11:40 Guest Sharing: Trustworthy practice of Large VLMs and their implication

• Mr. Weiqiang Wang, General Manager of the Machine Intelligence Department, Ant Group

 11:40-11:50 WDTA Work Announcement

 11:50-12:15 Panel Discussion: Balancing Development and Risk in AI

• Meng Shusen, Chairman and General Manager of China Unicom International Co., Ltd., Dean of China Unicom (Hong Kong) Innovation Research Institute
• Cai Mingjie, President and Chief Executive Officer of China Everbright Bank (Hong Kong Branch)
• Zhao Haitao, Professor of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

(Moderator: Du Lan, Expert of the WDTA AI Committee, Founding President of the Guangdong Artificial Intelligence Industry Association)

 12:15-13:45 Luncheon @ Le Meridian Cyberport

 13:45-14:15 Registration

 14:15-14:20 Welcome Speech

• Dr Rocky CHENG Chung-ngam CEO, Cyberport

 14:20-14:35 Keynote Presentations (AI Landscape)

• Zhang Bo, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Honorary Dean of the Institute for AI International Governance (I-AIIG) at Tsinghua University.

 14:35-14:50 Keynote Presentations (AI Application)

• Yang Qiang, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

 14:50-15:05 Keynote Presentations (Risk Management for AI Implementation)

• Alvin Li Head (Supervisory Technology), Banking Supervision Department, Hong Kong Monetary Authority

 15:05-15:30 Panel Discussion 1(Trustworthy AI Transformation with Security at the Core)

• Hui Yee-wai Rachel, Superintendent of Cyber Safety and Technology Crime Bureau, Hong Kong Police Force
• The Hong Kong Federation of Insurers representative
• Dicky Wong, Head of Cyber Safety and Technology Risk, New World Corporate Service 
• Donald Pang, Sales Manager, Baidu Inc 
• Moderator: Cyberport

 15:30-15:40 Break

 15:40-15:55 Balancing innovation with responsible AI development 

• Herbert Chia, JP , Convener, Institute of Big Data Governance (IBDG)  

 15:55-16:10 Keynote Presentations (AI Ethics)

• Professor Janet Hui-Wen Hsiao, Co-Director, Ethics and Governance Lab, HKUST (CAiRE) 

 16:10-16:45 Panel Discussion 2(Balancing Innovation and Risk in the AI era)

• Joanne Wong, Assistant Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (Compliance, Global Affairs and Research) 
• Nick Chan, BBS, MH, JP, Member of the National People’s Congress of the People's Republic of China, Board Member of Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited 
• Sabrina Chan, Senior Executive Director, The Hong Kong Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry (HKAPI) 
• Prof Guo Yike, Director, The Hong Kong Generative AI R&D Center (HKGAI), the Provost of the HKUST
• Moderator: Cyberport

 16:45 onwards Event End / Networking