Cities & Mobility
Overview
Despite growing policy support for accelerating low-carbon transportation and fleet electrification in Hong Kong, numerous barriers and risks continue to impede progress at meaningful scale. Some of these barriers are technological in nature, such as the suitability of battery range to fleets’ duty cycles. Others relate to the financing of electrification projects, such as concerns on ownership costs and residual value.
Getting to scale will therefore require entirely new approaches. In this session, speakers will share innovations in business models and financial strategies that are key to de-risking adoption and unlocking needed levels of deployment growth.
Learnings
- Why transformation of business models and the value chain is key to unlocking deployment growth towards low-carbon mobility in Hong Kong
- How decision makers can best address barriers and risks of transformation, and unleash private market capital at the scale and speed needed
Post Event Actions
- Gain insights on current challenges and approaches that are being adopted to transform business models, such as the internalisation of external costs of carbon.
- Rethink how your company and industry can support the acceleration of fleet electrification and Hong Kong’s low-carbon mobility ambitions.
Speakers
MODERATOR
Lawrence Iu
Executive Director
Civic Exchange
Lawrence Iu
Executive Director
Civic Exchange
Lawrence Iu is Executive Director at Civic Exchange. As a professional environmental strategist, he has profound experience in crafting climate change models and impactful public policies. His current focuses are on policy action in Energy, Building Energy Efficiency and Mobility. He has successfully built a platform with public, corporate and government stakeholders to craft an inclusive transition plan with strong buy-in.
In his previous roles in a multinational corporation and a higher institution, Lawrence led environmental sustainability and occupational health & safety projects across Asia Pacific and coordinated emerging technology management, circular economy and green chemistry research.
My Sustainability Goals for 2023:
Despite these difficult times, we must remain forward looking and anticipate the time of recovery. Even more so, we are now in a favourable position to make fundamental policy decisions to rethink our economic model, making it fit for a low carbon missions world, and to set course for a better, sustainable, and more liveable future for Hong Kong.
Speaking at:
Day 1
Cross-Sectoral Approach to Overcome Decarbonisation Challenges: A Case Study by Cathay Pacific Accelerating Business Transformation Towards the New Mobility Paradigm – Financing Solutions and Barriers Civic Exchange Reports: The Zero Emissions Mobility Project Synergising for Energy Efficiency and Demand Management: A Case Study on our Built Environment
Jens-Peter Brauner
Chief Executive Officer
Siemens Mobility Limited Hong Kong
Jens-Peter Brauner
Chief Executive Officer
Siemens Mobility Limited Hong Kong
Jens-Peter is an expert in the transportation sector for 30 years and a Fellow of IET. He holds degrees in electrical engineering and economic psychology, because for him, technology and people belong together, especially when it comes to digital transformation. As the CEO of Siemens Mobility in Hong Kong, he is working with business partners to make this city smarter and more sustainable.
My Sustainability Goals for 2022:
To accelerate the adoption of sustainable mobility and energy-optimized operations for mass transit and properties
Adam Leishman
Chief Executive Officer
Bravo Transport Services Limited
Adam Leishman
Chief Executive Officer
Bravo Transport Services Limited
Adam is a dynamic leader and influencer, with a proven track record of delivering transformational changes to bus systems around the world including London and Singapore when he was CEO of Tower Transit. Off the back of these award-winning, high-profile successes, Adam established Ascendal Group, with a vision of bringing cities to life by re-thinking public transport systems in the world’s leading cities. With operations currently across three continents, advisory projects in over 50 cities globally, Adam is redefining standards as to what good public transport looks like. He is currently leading one of Hong Kong’s primary bus operators, Bravo Transport, the owner of Citybus and New World First Bus which serves more than 1 million passengers on over 300 routes a day.
My Sustainability Goals for 2022:
We are active in working with Government to fast track zero emission buses to Hong Kong. We also believe there is a tremendous opportunity to transform public transport in Hong Kong to generate further modal shift which will have a substantial impact on the sustainability of Hong Kong.
Dr Henry Wong
General Manager - MTR Lab
MTR Corporation Ltd.
Dr Henry Wong
General Manager - MTR Lab
MTR Corporation Ltd.
Henry is a seasoned professional with multi-disciplinary working experiences covering corporate strategy, business transformation, new growth business and investment, engineering and technology as well as project management. He is currently the General Manager – MTR Lab responsible for leading and managing the development and operation of new growth business anchored on innovation and technology in the areas of smart city, smart mobility, construction technology, railway technology and green technology supporting ESG. He is also overseeing a corporate venture arm specializing on technology investment.
Prior to his current role, he was the Head of Corporate Strategy of MTR Corporation responsible for formulation of business strategy of the group, and took part in and managed the execution of a corporate-wide transformation programme. Henry is also a chartered civil engineering with experience on mega infrastructure project management, civil engineering design and R&D.
My Sustainability Goals for 2022:
Continuous development of a society with equality that takes care all walks of life balancing environmental, social and economical needs.
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