BEC Business Transformation Theatre
Opening Welcome: Rethinking Communities 開幕演講：重新思考社區
Day 2 : 10:30 – 10:40
In Hong Kong, Cross-sector stakeholders are investing into under-resourced neighbourhoods, such as Kwun Tong and Sham Shui Po to uplift residents and the communities. Apart from nonprofits, public agencies and philanthropies, businesses and residents themselves have also taken the mantle up to become neighbourhood contributors, forming public-private-people partnerships (4Ps) in creating thriving communities. How might businesses operating in these neighbourhood play an active role in energizing neighbourhood development, thereby reinforcing their commitment to the “S” in ESG?
Rethinking Communities will highlight the role of unusual partnerships in anchoring a co-creation and co-caring spirit in neighbourhoods, as well as developing innovative social solutions to tackle urban challenges across Asian cities.
在香港，來自不同界別的持份者通過投資一些資源相對匱乏的社區，例如觀塘及深水埗，以提振居民及社區的活力，躍向美好生活。除了非政府組織、公共機構和基金會外，越來越多企業和居民開始變得更樂於成為社區貢獻者，以4P多方協作（public-private-people partnerships）的模式，共創更好生活。對在不同社區營運各自業務的企業而言，企業怎能積極促進社區發展，以實踐自身在環境、社會和管治（ESG） 中對「社會」的承諾？
社區再造將揭示如何透過跨界協作，鞏固社區內共創和共享好生活的精神，建立創新的社會方案，以應對亞洲城市共同面臨的挑戰。
Speakers
Florence Cheng 鄭樂雯
Chief Impact Strategy Officer 創效策略主管
Social Ventures Hong Kong
Florence Cheng 鄭樂雯
Social Ventures Hong Kong
Chief Impact Strategy Officer 創效策略主管
Florence Cheng is the Head of Impact Strategy at Social Ventures Hong Kong (SVhk) and Co-Founder of COSMOS, its corporate impact consultancy arm. She is an experienced social leader dedicated to driving business and community partnerships, including the Community Resilience Fund (award-winning bridging loan facility for social enterprises) and Business with Purpose (an impact movement to advance businesses as a force for good).
CF Leung
Director – Operations
Business Environment Council
CF Leung
Business Environment Council
Director – Operations
C F Leung is the Director – Operations at the Business Environment Council. With over 25 years of experience, CF has played a pivotal role in driving sustainability initiatives across the city.
In his current role at BEC, CF oversees a diverse portfolio of projects that span green building consultancy, energy and carbon auditing, waste management and auditing, award programs, funding initiatives, ESG strategy development, and stakeholder/tenant engagement. He is also a frequent speaker, delivering training to a wide range of audiences, from university students to senior management of corporations.
CF’s technical expertise and strategic leadership have been instrumental in guiding both public and private sector organisations towards environmentally responsible practices and net zero goals.
My Sustainability Goals for 2024:
Together, we are strong in the net zero journey.
Supported by
Social Ventures Hong Kong
Founded in 2007, Social Ventures Hong Kong (SVhk) is an Impact Purpose Organisation that innovates social change by re-imagining the city. We focus on inventing and incubating pioneering sustainable business solutions to urban social and environmental challenges, and partners with communities and businesses alike to design and build cross-sector partnerships towards realising our dreams for New Urban 2030 in Hong Kong.
Our sustainability goals for 2023:
- Design New Urban prototypes through building impact ventures, cultivating movement of good, and orchestrating impact capital
- Redefine talent engagement and investment in the future of work to promote inclusive economic and social growth
- Activate purpose-driven cross-sector partnerships and collective action platform
Our initiative in accelerating sustainable development in Hong Kong:
SVhk is dedicated to innovating social change through impact capital, impact strategy, impact community and impact storytelling. Key initiatives in 2023 includes:
- Business with Purpose: an Impact Partnership between The Hong Kong Management Association (HKMA) and SVhk to support corporate and social leaders in redefining sustainability, while reinforcing a shared mission to embed PURPOSE in action for a better collective future for HKMA’s members and the wider business community
- Community Making: a software-centric approach and series of activities to innovate social change in urban neighbourhoods under transformation
- Jobcation: a talent investment platform that bridges businesses and mothers with young children to venture back to the world of work after a career break of 5+ years
