Hong Kong’s Flagship Event For Sustainable Business #OnlyWayForward

ConTech & PropTech Stage

ConTech & PropTech Stage

Day 1 – Thursday 11 Sept AM

11:10 – 11:50

PropTech’s Role in Decarbonizing the Real Estate Value Chain

11:10 – 11:50

With buildings generating 40% of global emissions, PropTech is becoming essential for greening the real estate sector. This session examines how innovative technologies are cutting emissions across the property lifecycle – from AI-powered energy management to circular construction solutions.

PropTech founders and investors will share practical solutions being deployed today, while discussing key challenges like adoption barriers and policy needs. Discover how Hong Kong’s tech ecosystem can drive regional transition to sustainable buildings.

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12:40 – 13:20

Rethinking Real Estate Finance: Green Bonds and Sustainable Investment in APAC

12:40 – 13:20

As ESG priorities reshape capital markets, green bonds and sustainable financing are transforming real estate development across Asia Pacific. This session examines how innovative financial instruments are accelerating the sector’s decarbonization while delivering competitive returns.

Join this engaging session to hear from leading banks, developers, and bond issuers as they share their key trends in APAC’s green real estate debt market as well as best practices for structuring credible green financing deals.

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15:30 – 17:30

Green Buildings for a Sustainable Future

15:30 – 17:30

Green construction plays an essential role in the transition to a sustainable future. By adopting architectural practices consistent with sustainable development, we can reduce our carbon footprint and minimize our impact on natural resources. Green building design is based on several key principles that help reduce environmental impact and maximize resource efficiency.

At the time of its bid to host the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, France pledged to halve the Games’ carbon footprint compared with previous editions. To achieve this goal, the use of wood has become a must. Wood is by nature a material that captures carbon from the atmosphere, and is renewable. Its use in buildings reduces greenhouse gas emissions over their entire lifecycle, and stores
carbon over the long term. The Olympic Village, the Porte de la Chapelle Arena, the ephemeral Grand Palais, the Olympic Aquatic Center etc. These emblematic buildings, erected for the Games, all feature wood. The French government wanted the wooden buildings to be used not just for the Games, but for the long term. They were designed to be reversible, meaning that at the end of the Games, the
Olympic Village were transformed into residential housing and offices. For the Olympic swimming pool, the wooden elements were prefabricated by a Bas-Rhin company supported by the French government as part of the “Industrialization of wood products and construction systems” call for projects under the France 2030 budget.

SOLIDEO’s missions were to work on the legacy of the Paris Games with the delivery to the inhabitants of the Olympic and Paralympic sites as part of a sustainable urban project, in close cooperation with local authorities including the realization of reversibility works in the housing of the Village des Athlètes, but also the adaptation of public facilities so that they can be used by sports clubs, associations and
communities, as well as the realization of complementary works and necessary to the heritage, such as the Ampère park in Saint-Denis, the Saint-Denis school group or the Dugny school group.

Co-organised by the Consulate General of France in Hong Kong and Macau, and the Research Innovation Office (RIO) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the sixth edition of the Sustainability Lecture Series will bring together a mix of speakers from the academic and business communities to share their views, experiences and good practices towards sustainability.

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Day 2 – Friday 12 Sept AM

10:40 – 11:20

Technological Innovations To Achieve a Net Zero Building Environment

10:40 – 11:20

Buildings are the foundation of our communities, but their emissions are also driving the climate crisis. The building sector contributes nearly 40% of all global greenhouse gas emissions. To continue to thrive, society needs net zero buildings. A net zero building is simply a building that has no net carbon emissions during its construction and operation. Emissions are reduced and what’s leftover is balanced by renewable energy or carbon offsets. Innovative façade design is the key to achieve a net zero building such as incorporating BIPV panels in the façade design and consider adopting modular construction methods in lieu of traditional ones.

Now is the time to implement net zero carbon for buildings, both new and existing. Achieving net zero carbon will require us to transform how we design, build, and operate buildings of all types and scales.

Learnings

  • Understanding Net-Zero Transition
  • Science-Based Target for Buildings
  • How to Deliver the Practice by Technological Developments
  • Our Green Vision to Global Mission

Post-event Actions

  • Follow Up with Contacts: Actively connect with fellow attendees and speakers via platforms like LinkedIn or email to solidify networking opportunities. This helps maintain relationships and opens doors for future collaborations.
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Speakers

Michael Leung

Hilti

General Manager

Michael LEUNG
General Manager, Hilti (Hong Kong) Limited

Experienced Managing Director with a demonstrated history of working in the construction industry in Australia, Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China. Skilled in Sales, Engineering, Construction Technology, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Account Management. Strong business development professional graduated from Ivey Business School at Western University, Imperial College London and HKUST. Before joining Hilti, Michael is a chartered structural engineer who involved in commercial, educational and infrastructure projects.

My Sustainability Goals for 2025:

  1. Embodied carbon saving to be regulated in new building design
  2. More examples in solid waste reduction in construction by considering Circularity
  3. First structural timber building to be built in HK

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14:30 – 16:00

The Mills Pitching – ConTech & PropTech

14:30 – 16:00

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All sessions are subject to change.