社創系列 - Impact Renaissance: The Emerging Of Purpose Generation 創變未來: 使命為本的人才發展

Mr. Francis Ngai - 香港社會創投基金創辦人及行政總裁

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Guest Speaker: Mr. Francis Ngai - Founder and CEO, Social Ventures Hong Kong
Date: 27 September 2022
Time: 5:30pm
Duration: 30 mins (with Q&A)
Mode: Zoom
Language: Cantonese

About The Talk:
Lots of megatrends are redefining our world fundamentally, but at the same time, we are unified with one clear theme together: PURPOSE! From social entrepreneurship to business with purpose, to impact/ESG investing, etc, the new purpose sector created more opportunities for young people to participate and contribute to our society in a meaningful way. What and how? In this session, Francis will bring a new perspective, with solid showcases.

Speaker’s Bio:
Francis Ngai is the Founder of Social Ventures Hong Kong (SVhk, sv-hk.org). As an Impact Designer of cities of the future, Francis has devoted his career since 2007 to starting and incubating hundreds of social innovation projects. His portfolio of innovations includes Hong Kong’s first venture philanthropic fund, and social start-ups such as Green Monday, Light Be, Playtao Education, co-working factory HATCH, co-caring space COMM,ON, and more.

To empower the social purpose ecosystem with New Urban movements such as “Purpose Business and Start-Ups”, “Exponential Philanthropy” and “Impact Storytelling” and more, Francis co-founded SONOVA (sonova.com.hk) and COSMOS (cosmospartners.co) with co-partners from SVhk. SONOVA and COSMOS provide professional advisory on impact communications, ecosystem capacity building and collaboration support to corporates, foundations, SPOs and the public sector to work towards impact together. To nurture the next generation of changemakers, Francis has actively led impact talent programs to pioneer new models of purpose leadership, such as youth apprenticeship in Creative Beings @ Sham Shui Po, impact holidays in House of Social Innovators, and impactful internships in the Social Leaders Programme.

Francis is a frequent inspirational speaker on various local and international platforms. He believes that in this era of Impact Renaissance, we need to focus on changing the ways that change is made. Francis was recognized as an Honorary Fellow of the City University of Hong Kong and the Education University of Hong Kong. He was selected as one of Hong Kong’s Ten Outstanding Young Persons and a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.

As a vegetarian ultra-runner, Francis completed the 250-km Gobi March of the 4 Deserts race series and in 2013 became the first ever Hong Kong runner to finish the North Pole Marathon.