2025年8月
SpaceBiz Dialogues
Beyond the Sandbox: Scaling Hong Kong’s LAE Frontiers
突破沙盒:開拓香港低空經濟新產業

Our Speakers

Ir. Dr. Angus Cheung
CEO, Aerovision Technology Ltd
Ir Dr Angus Cheung is an aerospace executive and multidisciplinary engineer with over 30 years of experience in aviation, aircraft engineering, and artificial intelligence. A Chartered Mechanical, Electrical, and Industrial Engineer, he is a Fellow of leading professional bodies including the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE).
As former CEO of China Aircraft Services Limited (CASL), Angus led the company’s transformation from a startup into a 1,300-strong enterprise, earning industry recognition for safety, innovation, and operational excellence. He also served as Director of Shanghai Eastern Aircraft Maintenance Limited, a joint venture with China Eastern Airlines.
Currently, Angus is CEO of Aerovision Technology Limited, where he focuses on integrating AI and advanced engineering into aerospace systems. He holds an Engineering Doctorate from Warwick University and a Postdoctoral qualification in Artificial Intelligence from Oxford University, alongside degrees from PolyU, HKU, and CUHK.
Angus plays a pivotal role in shaping Hong Kong’s aviation and innovation landscape. He is President of the Hong Kong Aviation Industry Association, Advisor to Our Hong Kong Foundation, and a member of the HKSAR Government’s Aviation Development and Three Runways System Advisory Committee.
With a deep commitment to advancing aerospace technologies and smart mobility, Ir Dr Angus Cheung brings strategic insight and technical expertise to the future of space-enabled industries.

Dr. Victor Chen
Deputy Dean, Lower Air Space Economy Research (LASER) Institute, International Digital Economy Academy (IDEA)
Dr. Fengwen Chen is Deputy Dean of the Low-Altitude Economy Division at the International Digital Economy Academy (IDEA), based in Shenzhen. He is the chief architect and co-founder of OpenSILAS, China’s first open low-altitude operating system. His work focuses on the design and implementation of intelligent infrastructure for the low-altitude economy, supporting urban-scale drone operations and airspace management. With a Ph.D. in AI and graph neural networks, Dr. Chen has over a decade of R&D experience across telecom, media, and smart city sectors.

Prof. Gregg Li
Coach to NewSpace; Executive Director, OASA
From a summer engineering intern at Pearl Harbor in 1976 to a stint as ICMCI’s ambassador into China, when China opened its doors and invited professional management consulting as an industry in 2002, Gregg has been a bridge builder and a connector. Fixing wicked problems has been his life and forte. He’s been an Internal Consultant at American Express, an External Consultant with Coopers (aka PWC), Consulting Principal of the Management Think Tank at the University of Hong Kong, Member of the HKSAR Government Central Policy Unit, the founder of his regional consulting firm in Family Business Governance and lastly headed up the Global Enterprise Risk Management and Corporate Governance Practice at Aon. Gregg has never turned down any 1,500-plus wicked challenges his clients wanted resolution. What he couldn’t solve alone, he would invite other professionals from ICMCI, IBM, the World Bank, Protiviti, Citibank, and IMC members to join forces. Educated as a systems engineer and governance architect, Gregg has had over four decades of professional consulting experience helping disparate parties find common grounds for mutual gains, navigate hyper-growth, and install resilient governance architectures.
Time permitting, he has shared his know-how as an Adjunct and Visiting professor at local and overseas universities, including the inquisitive ones at universities in Beijing, Bombay, Chicago, Clayton, Haidian, Helsinki, Hong hum, Manoa, Palo Alto, Shatin, and Yangpu. He has enjoyed sharing and researching esoteric subjects like International Corporate Governance, Systems Engineering, Family Business Governance, and Space Entrepreneurship. He has been proud to claim that scores of his students and mentees are now partners at leading consulting firms, global heads at MNCs and family business empires, and founders of disruptive startups (none is in jail so far). They have been co-travellers on his journey of discovery, and many are now changing the world for the better. Many have joined him hitchhiking the galaxy at the Orion Astropreneur Space Academy he founded in Hong Kong, where he is also a voluntary researcher and Ambassador at the Lab for Space Research at HKU.
Gregg is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis (BA), HKU (MPhil), UCLA (MBA), Hawaii (MA), and Warwick University in the UK (Eng. D); and looking to graduate as a Space Global Mentor before 2030. As an “Astropreneur” and a Comprador of NewSpace, he is now connecting entrepreneurs, governments, universities, engineers, and venture capitalists to prepare their livelihood for the arrival of the NewSpace and Digital economy.

Mr. Ryan Ip
VP and Executive Director of Public Policy Institute at Our Hong Kong Foundation
Ryan is the Vice President and Executive Director of Public Policy Institute at Our Hong Kong Foundation (團結香港基金). He leads the think tank to advise the government and private sector organisations on public policy and strategic development. Before joining OHKF, he was an economist at JLL and Hong Kong Monetary Authority. He holds a M.S. degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and is a Chartered Surveyor. He is also an INED at China Merchants Land Limited.
Ryan is active in public service and is a member of the HKSAR Government’s Advisory Committee on the Northern Metropolis, and Land and Development Advisory Committee, the Town Planning Board, the Estate Agents Authority, and the Hong Kong Maritime and Port Board. He is also a VP of the China Real Estate Chamber of Commerce (HK and International Chapter) and a board member of the Hong Kong Proptech Association.

Prof. the Hon William Wong Kam-fai, MH
LegCo Member; Associate Dean (External Affairs) & Professor, Faculty of Engineering, CUHK; Director, Huawei-CUHK Foundation Models and Interactive Intelligence Innovation Laboratory
Kam-fai Wong is the Associate Dean (External Affairs) of the Faculty of Engineering, Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, Director of Centre for Innovation and Technology, and Associate Director of Centre for Entrepreneurship, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Prof. Wong’s research interest focuses on Chinese computing, database and information retrieval. He’s an ACL Fellow and is very active in professional activities and social services. He serves as Member of the 13th & 14th National Committee of the CPPCC, Member of the 7th Legislative Council of HKSAR, Vice Chairman & Secretary General of Hong Kong Alliance of Technology and Innovation, Director of Finance Dispute Resolution Centre, Executive Member of Council for the Promotion of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Cooperation, Member of the Standing Committee of Shenzhen Association for Science and Technology, and Advisor of Guangzhou Association for Science and Technology, etc.
He was awarded the Medal of Honour (MH) by the HKSAR Government in 2011 for his contribution in IT development in Hong Kong.

Mr. Akira Itoh
Head of Business Development, Liberaware Co.,Ltd
Born in Tokyo in 1983, Akira Itoh graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a degree in Digital Media. He has built his career across Japan, the United States, and Singapore in the fields of media production and advertising technology.
In 2018, he founded the Japan subsidiary of Aerodyne Group, a global leader in drone-based solutions ranked No.1 worldwide for three consecutive years, where he served as CEO. Since 2023, he has been engaged in supporting the operational implementation of digital transformation (DX) solutions for public and private infrastructure operators, leveraging advanced technologies such as drones.
Currently, he serves as Head of Business Development at Liberaware, a pioneering Japanese drone startup specialising in confined-space UAVs. He leads the company’s global expansion efforts, with a focus on industrial applications in infrastructure inspection, manufacturing, and disaster response.
