Rethinking Female Carers in the Workplace

11 Sep (Thur) Day 1 : 10:00 – 11:30

Full Programme
Roundtable A

As the employment landscape evolves, how might we design and realize a future-proof workstyle that creates shared value for both businesses and talents? Female carers in Hong Kong eager to make their return to the workforce after career breaks can serve as helpful inspiration for us, given their first hand experience in navigating the balance and transitions between work and family. At this roundtable, we are bringing together industry experts and talents for an intimate conversation on common engagement gaps and how to break them. By connecting with industry peers and returning talents, this is an opportunity for you to make your headstart in tapping into a future-ready talent pool and create an agile talent bank for the organization.

Learnings

  • Hear from returning talents and industry experts about their first hand experiences in the workplace
  • Exchange notes on common barriers in engaging returnees from a business standpoint and how to break them
  • Co-create solutions and playbooks with industry peers to realise more future-ready workstyles opportunities catering to diverse talent needs

Post-Event Actions

  • Discover ways to design carer-friendly engagement practices to create shared value
  • Join a peer network of organizations to promote best practices for future workstyle

Speakers

Florence Cheng 鄭樂雯

Social Ventures Hong Kong

Chief Purpose Officer

Ms Florence Cheng is the Chief Purpose Officer of SVhk and Co-Founder of COSMOS, dedicated to designing impact solutions across business and community. She has advised 10+ companies, startups, social-purpose organisations (SPOs), and public bodies on inclusive employment, family wellbeing, and community empowerment—turning strategy into partnerships and measurable results. She spearheads cross‑sector platforms including the Community Resilience Fund and Business with Purpose, mobilising capital and corporate action. She also develops place‑based social innovations in Sheung Wan, Sham Shui Po, Kwun Tong, and the Northern Metropolis, integrating capital deployment and community-making.

An LSE alumna and a former consultant, she serves as a Member of the SIE Fund Task Force.

 

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Harmony Li 李端儀

Social Ventures Hong Kong

Chief Community Officer

Harmony Li is the Chief Community Officer at Social Ventures Hong Kong (SVhk), she is also the Chief Empowerment Officer of HATCH (合廠) and COMM,ON (安所), two impact ventures dedicated to unleashing talent potentials in becoming change agents at workplace and in community. She possesses 15+ years of experience working in for-purpose sector, devoted to driving bottom-up participations and cross-sectoral collaborations in addressing social issues.

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Francis Ngai

Social Ventures Hong Kong

Founder and CEO

Francis Ngai is the Founder and CEO of Social Ventures Hong Kong. Since 2007, he’s been dedicated to impact design for the future urban city. His social innovation portfolio includes Hong Kong’s first venture philanthropy fund, Community Resilience Fund, Green Monday, Bottless, RunOurCity, LightBe affordable housing, Playtao Education, HATCH women empowerment initiative, COMM-ON co-caring space, Institute of Community Making, and COMSMOS impact consultancy, among others. Through impact strategy consulting and building collective platforms for corporates, family foundations, and government departments—including Airport Authority HK, Urban Renewal Authority HK, Swire Trust, Rosewood Hotel, Cathay Pacific, Standard Chartered, HK Management Association and Energizing Kowloon East Office—SVhk is committed to creating integrated impact solutions across all sectors in the city.

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