Programme
Wednesday 27 March
Venue: The Armoury, Pedder Arcade, 501 Pedder Building, 12 Pedder Street, Central, Hong Kong
18.00 – 20.30 | Welcome cocktail and registration hosted by the Monocle team
Thursday 28 March
Venue: The Fullerton Ocean Park Hotel, 3 Ocean Drive, Aberdeen, Hong Kong
09.00 — 09.05 | Meet the Monocle team
09.05 — 09.25 | This is Hong Kong
Speakers: Joyce Wang, founder of Joyce Wang Studio,
and Gerald Li, co-founder, Leading Nation
09.25 — 09.50 | Talking shop
Speakers: Jennifer Woo, chairman and CEO, The Lane Crawford Joyce Group
09.50 — 10.15 | The road ahead
Speakers: Noni Purnomo, chairperson, Blue Bird Group
10.15 — 10.45
Coffee break
10.45 — 11.00 | Art Basel preview
Speakers: Angelle Siyang-Le, director, Art Basel Hong Kong
11.00 — 11.30 | Top of the shops
Speakers: Supaluck Umpujh, chairwoman, The Mall Group
11.30 — 11.55 | Building a brand
Speakers: Carlos Granon, founder of Topologie,
and Mark Cho, founder of The Armoury
11.55 — 12.20 | What’s your Vietnam strategy?
Speakers: Tran
Quyet Thang, chairman and founder
of Refico,
and Tran Thi Hoai Anh, founder
and president of GlobalLink
12.20 — 13.30
Lunch is served
13.30 — 13.40 | Welcome back
13.40 — 14.00 | A dispatch from Tokyo
Speakers:
Vítor Sereno, Portugal’s ambassador
to Japan
14.00 — 14.25 | Staying the course
Speakers: Yuta
Oka, founder and CEO of Staple
and co-founder of Naru Developments
14.25 — 14.50 | Tall stories
Speakers: Kevin Mark
Low, founder
of Small Projects
14.50 — 15.00 | Monocle - How can we help?
15.00 — 15.45
Coffee break
15.45 — 16.00 | Things we like
Places, ideas and designs that have caught Tyler Brûlé’s eye
16.00 — 16.30 | Spotlight on Southeast Asia
Speakers: Dian Sastrowardoy0, actress
16.30 — 16.55 | Machine learning
Speakers: Thomas Morrison
, chief technology officer,
Forth Vending (Tao Bin)
16.55 – 17.00 | Goodbye – until dinner
19.30 | Evening cocktails and sit-down dinner
Hosted by the Monocle team
22.00 | Late-night drinks
* Programme subject to change
