Join us at CVCF 2023 to explore emerging trends in Web3, AI and GreenTech, and spearhead your startup towards a future of sustainable success.
Thinking about launching a startup or expediting your business? The stage is set for the annual hybrid Cyberport Venture Capital Forum (CVCF), returning on October 31 to November 1, 2023, at Hong Kong’s esteemed Cyberport, the apex tech hub of the Asia-Pacific region. This year’s CVCF promises a two-day spectacle, illuminating the path to financial prowess and unbridled technological innovation.
Your ambitions and ideas find a dynamic platform at CVCF, where Cyberport not only opens up avenues to display your innovative thoughts but also crafts an exclusive meeting ground for investors and startups, focusing on deal sourcing and fundraising. Annually capturing significant attention across the Asia-Pacific startup ecosystem, the event has continuously achieved remarkable milestones. To illustrate, the 2022 CVCF captivated 120,000 viewers, engaged 300 investors and showcased over 50 power pitches, attracting 2,500 participants and orchestrating above 300 deal flows.
This year, with the theme “Venture Forward: Game Changing through Innovation”, Cyberport is all set to shine a spotlight on the boundless possibilities of Web3, AI and those up-and-coming technologies. Navigating the terrain of market uncertainties and geopolitical hurdles, the Forum is engineered to transform stumbling blocks into strategic stepping stones to success.
Hybrid experiences at CVCF 2023: Engage, Connect and Innovate
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Whether you opt for in-person participation, live-streaming or a blend of both, CVCF 2023 ensures you immerse in a fertile ground for networking and knowledge sharing. You can relish the chance to weave into the startup community fabric, interacting with fellow entrepreneurs and influential business figures. What’s more, you can unlock the freedom to revisit insight content post-event, accessible on-demand, anytime and anywhere.
Here are some highlight programs at CVCF 2023:
Investor Matching: Fueling your startup’s ascent
Secure that crucial funding via the Investor Matching service at CVCF 2023! Leverage its exclusive online scheduler, MatchEasy, for pivotal one-on-one meetings—virtual or physical—with potential investors. Here, the seeds of future deals are sown, propelling your startup into its next growth phase. Physical meetings are available on the main forum day (October 31), with virtual meetings spanning mid-October to late November.
Startup Clinic: Navigating the path to business prosperity
For startup attendees, the Startup Clinic is your ticket to boosting business growth through workshops and individual guidance, offering a reservoir of free consultation and practical operational tips for startups.
Founder Stage: Harnessing wisdom from pioneers
Launching a startup comes with its fair share of obstacles. The best way to tackle them? Soak yourself in insights from those who’ve trodden the path! At Founder Stage, you can explore innovative tech solutions from promising tech start-ups, learn from pioneering entrepreneurs and arm yourself with critical knowledge through project presentation videos on the CVCF online platform.
Innovator Showcase
Immerse in a virtual marketplace spotlighting the globe’s most enterprising tech solution innovators! Engage with exhibitors through video and P2P messaging, delve into their groundbreaking products and perhaps, find the spark for your next big idea amid onsite showcases designed for physical interaction and collaborative opportunities.
Exclusive sessions to propel your start-up journey
Over 16 luminary speakers will grace the occasion with their insights and experiences to facilitate your startup journey. Among them include Arnoldo Concepcion, Co-Chief Operating Office of Animoca Brands, Stephanie Choi, Sustainable & Impact Investing Strategist of UBS Global Wealth Management Chief Investment Office, Indria Vergis, Editor of AsianInvestor, and Philip Yung, Director-General of Office for Attracting Strategic Enterprises of the Hong Kong Financial Secretary’s Office.
The topics for discussion will span across three primary themes:
- Macro Trends & Global Stage: A dissection of AI’s future role in finance and work, geopolitical investment implications, and tech venture landscapes in the Greater Bay Area and beyond.
- Venture Track—Investor Strategies & New Venture Voyages: Dive into Web3 investment landscapes, the growth potential of taking your business public and the pivotal role of family offices through a sustainability lens.
- Inno Track—Sectors Spotlight & New Growth Engine: Featuring the Elite Innovators Dialogue, Investor-Investee Dialogue and Web3 Demo Day.
Spotlight event—GreenTech and Sustainability Venture Day
In an era where advanced techs like AI and blockchain weave into our daily lives seamlessly, the dialogue inevitably turns to their environmental impact. For startups, it’s especially crucial to take eco-friendly practices and sustainability into consideration, whether it’s in product development or day-to-day operations. The GreenTech and Sustainability Venture Day, thus, emerges as CVCF’s highlight. It invites various stakeholders to explore and embrace the intersections of green tech and finance in burgeoning startups.
The GreenTech and Sustainability Venture Day underscores the imperatives of reducing carbon emissions, championing sustainability, and commemorating the innovations of green technologies. It extends a warm invitation to investors, entrepreneurs, startups, scholars, businesses, and government representatives to explore the vital role of green tech and green finance in nascent startups. Discussions during the event will revolve around:
- Green FinTech and the evolution of data-driven, SDG-aligned impact investment
- The role of technology and data in navigating extreme weather events and facilitating the development of Transition Finance (which pertains to financing solutions that assist businesses in transitioning toward more sustainable operations and practices)
- Emerging GreenTech trends and building solutions
- Practices for sustainable living
In collaboration with notable entities like Friends of the Earth and HK Green Finance Association, this focal event promises to be a beacon during International GreenTech Week, a noteworthy feature of the 2023-24 Budget Speech.
Secure your spot at CVCF 2023 now!
With a palette of opportunities to explore, insights to glean and potential investments to secure, CVCF 2023 stands as an unmissable milestone in your startup journey. Register now and propel your venture forward through innovation and strategic connections!
Registration link: https://bit.ly/3Fcec2Q
Also read:
- Navigate the Changing Startup Landscape with Cyberport Venture Capital Forum 2022
- Cyberport Venture Capital Forum (CVCF): The Event to Boost Your Startup
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