Dr. Lu Dong is a space entrepreneur, strategist, and researcher with deep expertise in bridging scientific innovation, policy planning, and commercial development across the space industry. He earned his PhD in SAR remote sensing, a radar imaging technology critical to space-based Earth observation and planetary exploration, from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU Munich), supported by a prestigious DAAD scholarship for doctoral research excellence.

Over the past decade, Dr. Dong has played a key role in major strategic and international cooperation initiatives within China’s space sector. He has served as an internal consultant at the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation and held senior positions in space-focused start-ups. His work has spanned coordination with national ministries and the cultivation of partnerships across Africa and Asia in emerging space markets.

As Founder and CEO of NQP Forces Promoting Soc. (HK) Limited, Dr. Dong is committed to harnessing Hong Kong’s innovation potential to support China’s expanding space ambitions—including commercial ventures, lunar missions, and deep-space exploration. He will share insights into China’s space activities and explore how Hong Kong can play a pivotal role in shaping the future of space exploration and commerce.

Professor Stephen W. Cheung served as an Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Hong Kong from 2020 to 2023. During this period, he taught a postgraduate course on the Commercialisation of Space within HKU’s Master’s Programme in Space Science.

Born in Hong Kong, Dr. Cheung pursued his undergraduate and graduate studies in the United States. He later joined a NASA-funded satellite program at Stanford University, where he worked as a Senior Research Associate for seven years.

Following his time at Stanford, Dr. Cheung turned his focus to the development of medical devices employing X-ray technology for cancer treatment. He held senior roles in engineering, manufacturing, and management at two Silicon Valley companies specialising in radiation therapy systems.

In the 1990s, Dr. Cheung served as a Divisional Manager at the Hong Kong Productivity Council, where he participated in government committees on electronics. He also chaired the Electronics Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong during that period.

Dr. Cheung holds six U.S. patents in X-ray technology and is the author of two books on high-power microwave technology. His forthcoming book on New Space: From Low Earth Orbit to the Moon and Beyond is scheduled for publication in November 2025.

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.

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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.

Daniel is an expert in property development and construction, specialized in hospitals, urban renewal and developments above railway stations, depots, and is a practicing arbitrator.  He was the founding Chief Executive Officer of eBRAM International Online Dispute Resolution Centre Limited (2018-2021).

Daniel was the President of the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors in 1986-1987.  He was a Council member of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (1993–2016), Chairman of its Mediators Accreditation Committee (2002-2006); and the Founding Chairman of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators (1997-2000). He was also a member of the International Council of Commercial Arbitration in Hague (2015-2021).  In 2016 he was also appointed as arbitrator by the One Belt One Road (China) Arbitration Court.

In 2000-2007, he was appointed by the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation as their Director, Property. In 2008-2015, he was appointed an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Hong Kong Urban Renewal Authority, and in 2015-2016 he was appointed its Managing Director. He served as member of the Land & Building Advisory Committee (1986-1990), Hong Kong Housing Authority (1993-2001) and Chairman of its Building Committee (1996-2001), and member of the Construction Industry Review Committee.  He was appointed a member of the Board of the Hospital Authority (2016-2022), and Chairman of its Support Services Development Committee and Capital Works Subcommittee.

In 2019-2025 he was appointed Chairman of the Hospital Governing Committees of the Kowloon Hospital and the Hong Kong Eye Hospital.

Prior to founding XCap Partners, Ken was the Asia-Pacific Head of Capital Markets Origination at Citigroup which includes all ECM, DCM, Acquisition Financing, and Structured Financing activities in the region.​

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Ken has nearly 30 years of experience in Asian Capital Markets and has completed transactions in every active market across the region. ​

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In 2014, Ken played a key role in advising on the NYSE listing of Alibaba which raised US$25 bn and is the second largest IPO in the world.​

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Ken’s landmark equity deal experience includes: AIA’s US$20.4bn IPO, Sands China’s US$2.5bn IPO, Global Logistics Property US$3bn IPO, China Railway Construction’s US$2.3bn IPO, Melco’s US$1.3bn Nasdaq IPO, Sun Hung Kai Property’s US$1bn equity placement, LG.Philips LCD’s US$2.2bn equity offering, Hynix’s US$2.2bn equity follow on offering, over US$1bn of secondary equity placements for Esprit, and REIT IPOs for GZI, Suntec, and Champion from PRC, Singapore, and Hong Kong respectively.​

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Ken has also advised on the structuring and distribution of a large number of equity-linked issuances which include: Exchangeable bond offerings for Hutchison into Vodafone raising over US$6bn, Korea Telecom's exchangeable bond offering for US$1.3bn, one of the first convertible offerings from a PRC company China Mobile raising US$690mm, Chartered Semiconductor’s US$575mm convertible issuance. Finally, he has pioneered the issuance of the first negative yield CBs in Asia for Quanta Computers in Taiwan.

Ken has advised Asian Governments on a number landmark privatizations including the US$1.3bn IPO of China Netcom, the US$7.377bn simultaneous placement of equity and convertibles for China Mobile, Temasek's US$1.5bn simultaneous equity and exchangeable bond offer into Singapore Telecom, US$1.6bn Privatization of Chungwha Telecom in Taiwan, and over US$2bn of TSMC ADR issuance for the Taiwan Government and Philips.​

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Ken is presently the Co-Sponsor, President and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Summit Healthcare Acquisition Corp (Stock Code:  SMIHU) which listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange in June 2021 raising US$230 million.

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He holds a Bachelor in Commerce (Finance) from the University of British Columbia, and an Executive MBA Joint Degree between Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management and Peking University Guanghua School of Management.​

Mr. Winson Tai is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Luxence Capital, with over 20 years of experience in equity research and portfolio management across Asia and global markets. Prior to founding Luxence, he was a Portfolio Manager at AIA, where he oversaw Hong Kong and China equity investments and led a team managing multi-billion-dollar assets across absolute and relative return strategies.

Before AIA, Mr. Tai served as a Senior Research Analyst at Asset Management One (formerly DIAM), advising portfolio managers in Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Singapore on regional equity opportunities. He also worked at Alliance Trust Asset Management, one of the UK’s oldest investment trusts, covering Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) markets from its Hong Kong office.

Mr. Tai began his career at Piper Jaffray Companies, first in investment banking and later in equity research, focusing on China’s industrial sector. He holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT).

Fluent in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese, Mr. Tai brings a cross-cultural perspective and deep regional insight to his investment approach. His career reflects a commitment to disciplined research, strategic foresight, and navigating complex markets with clarity and conviction.

Donald currently serves as the Deputy Chairman and Managing Director of the Urban Renewal Authority (URA), Hong Kong. Prior to leading the URA, he was CEO at Chinachem Group and Managing Director at Nan Fung Group as well as a Director at Foster and Partners, and was the Authorized Person for the CLK HK International Airport, voted one of the Top 10 construction projects of the 20th Century.

With over 40 years of experience working across real estate investment, property development, and worked as a professional architect globally, Donald believes in the power of people-centric design and technology to create economic value and enhance the quality of life for all. Throughout his illustrious career, he has received numerous prestigious awards, recognising his leadership and innovation in the industry. He was awarded the Executive of the Year Award 2021 by DHL-SCMP and won the CEO of the Year Award 2022 given by Real Estate Asia.

In addition to his professional roles, he actively participates in various NGOs and professional organisations, focusing on design, community well-being, and sustainable development. He was the Chairman of Architects Registration Board, HKSAR, Past President of the Hong Kong Institute of Architects, the Hong Kong Institute of Urban Design and the Hong Kong Institute of Real Estate Administrators. Donald had served as the Board Vice President of the Real Estate Developers Association of Hong Kong, the Chairperson of the Construction Innovation and Technology Application Centre, and a Board Member of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation.