Program Schedule

  • Business Summit
  • Academic Conference
Business Summit

9 December 2025

The Hong Kong Jockey Club Hall,
Asia Society Hong Kong Centre, Admiralty, Hong Kong

Time Rundown
9:00 – 9:30 Registration
9:30 – 9:45 Opening Remarks
  • Dr. William Fung
    Advisory Board Chairman, HKUST Li & Fung Supply Chain Institute
9:45 – 10:00 Welcoming Remarks
  • The Honourable Paul CHAN Mo-po, GBM, GBS, MH, JP
    Financial Secretary, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
10:00 – 10:05 Group Photo
10:05 – 10:35 Keynote – The Future of Global Trade in a Dynamic Macroeconomic Landscape​ ​
  • Prof. Keyu Jin
    Professor of Finance, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
10:35 – 11:05  Keynote – Reconfiguration of Global Supply Chain
  • Dr the Hon Victor FUNG Kwok-king, GBM, GBS
    Chairman, Fung Investments 
11:05 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 11:55 Hong Kong’s Role in China’s Global Expansion 
  • Ms. Sophia Chong
    Executive Director, Hong Kong Trade Development Council
11:55 – 12:20 Release of Global Supply Chain Report 2025
  • Ms. Helen Chin
    Head of Research, HKUST Li & Fung Supply Chian Institute
12:20 – 13:30  Networking Lunch 
13:30 – 14:00 Business case presentation – Schneider Electric
  • Mr. Mourad Tamoud
    Chief Supply Chain Officer, Schneider Electric
14:00 – 14:30 Business case presentation – JD.com
  • Dr. He Xiaodong
    Senior Vice President, JD.COM
14:30 – 14:50 Break
14:50 – 15:20 Business case presentation – Tencent
  • Dr. Yanxin Yu
    Managing Director of Consulting, Tencent Cloud
15:20 – 15:50 Business case presentation - LFX
  • Mr. Ed Lam
    Chief Executive Officer, LFX
15:50 – 16:00 Closing Remarks
  • Prof. Qing Li
    Director, HKUST Li & Fung Supply Chian Institute

 

Academic Conference

10 December 2025

The Hong Kong Jockey Club Auditorium,
Hong Kong Palace Museum

Time Jockey Club Auditorium
8:45 – 9:00 Opening Remarks
Prof. Qing Li – HKUST
9:00 – 9:45 Keynote I
Prof. David Simchi-Levi – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
How Generative AI Improves Supply Chain Management
09:45 – 10:30 Keynote II
Prof. Jian Chen – Tsinghua University
Combating Plastic Pollution: Consumer Engagement in Reusable Packaging Models
10:30 – 10:35  Group Photo
10:35 – 11:00 Break
  Jockey Club Auditorium Magnus Hall
11:00 – 11:30

Parallel I
Prof. Xiaole Wu - Fudan University 
SPOT: A Network Framework for Resilient and Sustainable Supply Chains

 Parallel I
Prof. Ying Ju Chen – HKUST 
(Un) justified Trade Protectionism For Local Suppliers to Climb the Value Chain
11:30 – 12:00

Parallel II
Prof. Zhenyu Hu - National University of Singapore
Gacha: A Simple Mechanism to Screen a Budget-Constrained Buyer

 Parallel II
Prof. Yulan Amanda Wang - Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Regionalization of Global Supply Chain Network
  King Lung Heen
12:00 – 13:45 Luncheon Talk
Dr. William Fung - Fung Group
  Jockey Club Auditorium Magnus Hall
13:45 – 14:15 Parallel III
Prof. Ying Rong – Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Theory-Guided Deep Learning for Perishable Inventory Systems with Random Lead Times		 Parallel III
Prof. Jing Wu – The Chinese University of Hong Kong  
Supply Chain Restructuring in the Age of AI
14:15 – 14:45 Parallel IV
Prof. Shilu Tong – The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen
Platform Financing under Seller Competition

Parallel IV
Prof. Stephen Shum – City University of Hong Kong
Ex-ante or Ex-post Pricing? Balancing Flexibility and Commitment in Agricultural Contract Pricing
14:45 – 15:15 Parallel V
Prof. Onur Boyabatli – Singapore Management University
Capacity Investment in the Presence of Correlated Demand and Production Resource Uncertainties and Its Implications for Financial Hedging		 Parallel V
Prof. Jiheng Zhang - HKUST
OR for AI and AI for OR: Queueing Analysis for LLM Inference, and Reinforcement Learning for OR Automation 
15:15 – 15:45 Break
  Jockey Club Auditorium
15:45 – 16:30 Keynote III 
Prof. Christoph Loch - IESE Business School 
Market-Side Measures of Supply Chain Diversity and of Innovation Explain Focal Firm Success Better Than Technology-Side Diversity and Innovation
16:30 – 17:30

Panel Discussion
Moderator
Prof. Albert Ha – HKUST
Panellists
Prof. Christoph Loch – IESE Business School
Prof. David Simchi-Levi – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Prof. Hau Lee – Stanford Graduate School of Business