Is FinTech the fourth industrial revolution? Will our future banks be called WeChat, Uber and Facebook? Can RegTech combined with AI replace courts of law? The 2016 FinTech Forum arranged by the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong made us all think…

DevOps may sound like some hard-to-understand technical terminology, related to software development and programming, but I was surprised to find that the rationale behind it allows it to be implemented in many non-technical companies as well. We can all learn and benefit from DevOps.

Are you getting ready to develop an app for the future or are you hesitating when to release your MVP (Minimum Viable Product) to the public? Have you included the intellectual return in your investment calculation? We can all learn from Yat Siu, CEO of Outblaze.

It’s hard not to be “super excited” after having listened to the thoughts and experiences of Brian Wong from KIIP. In short, it’s all about “being able to execute”, “sometimes using your gut feeling”, because as Brian said, “if the data is available to you then you may be too late…”

Have a lot of CRM data, but can’t make heads or tails of what makes one customer buy and another not? Perhaps IBM’s “Watson” can help you solve the mystery. You might be surprised what the cognitive system will be able to tell you – and help turn “chaotic data into business decisions”.

Virtual reality for real-estate agents, a market place for trucking companies, a mobile coupon system for shopping malls, a QR code virus scanner – the competing startups at the Alibaba Cloud Startup Contest showed us what you can build with Alibaba Cloud today.