To keep up with our efforts in alumni engagement, HKUST Business School is presenting the Ideas Lunch Series, an online lunchtime chit-chat session featuring successful alumni from different industries.

On Sep 29 (Tue), our BSc alumnus, Lawrence CHAU, Head of Marketing Communications at Midland, will share and interact with the alumni community online. Property Technology, commonly known as “PropTech”, can be dated back to the early 2000s. However, the real estate industry in HK remained operating in a very traditional way until recently, especially during these pandemic months, PropTech has seen its exponential growth in popular use by both the real estate brokerage companies and the general public. As one of the major players of the local property market, Midland has been very active in utilizing technologies like big data, AI, VR to deliver safe, accurate and convenient customer experience through e-calculator, virtual house viewing, online mortgage offerings and Midland Confidence Index, etc. Lawrence will share with us his experience at the core of this proptech wave, as well as his takeaways from his double career shifts – from finance to real estate industry and from derivatives trader to marketing role.

What makes this event even more special – this webinar will be moderated by Lawrence’s Finance teacher, Professor Veronique LAFON-VINAIS.