As the Covid-19 pandemic has caused widespread concern and economic hardship and disruption for consumers, businesses and communities across the world, advances and innovations in the technology sector have never been more crucial and urgently needed. In a short period of time, the tech industry has risen to the challenge with impressive rapidity to help ailing businesses and economies cope with unprecedented challenges. However, myriad challenges still lie ahead and conversations around how technology, and the way humans interact with it and take advantage of it, have never been more important. 

The Impact Conference will see the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) – as ASTRI celebrates its 20th anniversary – collaborate with the South China Morning Post in bringing together some of Hong Kong’s preeminent business leaders and technology-focused minds to discuss how innovations in the technology sector will impact Hong Kong in the near- and long-term, while considering ways in which innovation and tech can make an immediate impact on Hong Kong life amid a global pandemic.