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Crafting and Delivering Killer Startup Pitches
October 2 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Date: October 2, 2024 (Wed)
Time: 18:00 – 19:30
Location: Academic Building, Room 6558, 6/F, LIft 25/26, HKUST
Registration: https://ust.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_aWtguFcigeu0rbM
About the workshop:
Every startup needs to pitch to investors, customers, and potential employees. Yet, the art of pitching remains a mystery to many first-time founders, who must learn how to pitch on the fly. In this session, you will learn a tried and tested Silicon Valley approach towards pitching startups to key stakeholders.
Speaker: Prof. Joon Nak CHOI
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Management
Joon Nak CHOI (JC) is Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Management; Advisor to the MSc in Business Analytics Program, Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics, and Operations Management; and Faculty Associate, Institute for Emerging Market Studies at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. In addition to his academic appointments at HKUST, Professor Choi has also held professorships at Stanford University and NYU Shanghai. He is a member of HKUST’s Task Force on the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence and formerly was a member of the Task Force on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, heading the Subcommittee on Incubation and Funding; he is also an Expert Delegate in Artificial Intelligence to the Digital Education Council, representing HKUST. He graduated from Brown with an AB in International Relations, Urban Studies, and Economics and from Stanford with an MA and a PhD in Sociology.
Professor Choi’s current work focuses on the intersection of business and technology, encompassing AI, data science, business analytics, management consulting, innovation, and business ethics; he is currently co-teaching HKUST’s new undergraduate common core course on understanding and leveraging AI. His research has been published in academic outlets including Stanford University Press, Routledge, and the American Journal of Sociology as well as newspapers of record including the South China Morning Post and Maeil Kyungjae Daily; his work has also been cited in the MIT Technology Review and Sina.com in addition to the South China Morning Post. He serves as a member of the Urban Land Institute Hong Kong Technology and Innovation Committee and has been an invited speaker at events hosted by JLL, EY, the British Chamber of Commerce, the German Chamber of Commerce, the HK Institute of Human Resource Management, and various other corporate and industry entities.
Professor Choi has been involved with several startups. He was Chief Data Scientist for AssertID, which was spun out from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He made angel investments in friends’ startups in Silicon Valley, which left him poorer in wealth but richer in experience. After he returned to Hong Kong from a visiting professorship at Stanford, Professor Choi co-founded Zectr, which applied machine learning to automate survey-driven market research. More recently, he founded Learnovate, which is applying AI to education.