{"id":16650,"date":"2021-07-30T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/07\/30\/2021-deloitte-hong-kong-technology-fast-20-rising-star-program-open-for-applications\/"},"modified":"2021-07-30T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T07:30:00","slug":"2021-deloitte-hong-kong-technology-fast-20-rising-star-program-open-for-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/07\/30\/2021-deloitte-hong-kong-technology-fast-20-rising-star-program-open-for-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Deloitte Hong Kong Technology Fast 20 &#038; Rising Star Program open for applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\"><!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p class=\"subheadline\">\n                               Rekindling Hong Kong&#8217;s economic growth through innovation                            <\/p>\n<p>HONG KONG SAR &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n&#8211; 30 July 2021 &#8211; The 2021 Deloitte Hong Kong Technology Fast 20 &amp; Rising&#13;<br \/>\nStar program (Deloitte Hong Kong Tech Fast Program) is open for applications. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>This year, Deloitte is pleased to join forces with Strategic Partners&#13;<br \/>\nHong Kong Cyberport (Cyberport), Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks&#13;<br \/>\nCorporation (HKSTP) and Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund; Official Knowledge Partner,&#13;<br \/>\nThe Business School of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology&#13;<br \/>\n(HKUST); and Diamond Sponsor, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation&#13;<br \/>\n(HSBC).\u00a0Other supporting organizations include Beyond Ventures, City&#13;<br \/>\nUniversity of Hong Kong&#8217;s HK Tech 300, Greater Bay Area Homeland Investments,&#13;<br \/>\nHKUST&#8217;s Entrepreneurship Center, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nInstitute for Entrepreneurship, the Hong Kong Venture Capital and Private&#13;<br \/>\nEquity Association, Hong Kong X-Tech Startup Platform, and SQ Capital.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Deloitte Hong Kong Tech&#13;<br \/>\nFast Program Lead Partner, Philip Law<\/b>\u00a0says, &#8220;Fast-growing technology companies are key drivers of&#13;<br \/>\nHong Kong&#8217;s economic recovery and status as a transformation hub in the Greater&#13;<br \/>\nBay Area development blueprint. The program is one of the most objective&#13;<br \/>\nrankings, recognizing the effort, dedication, and resilience of technology,&#13;<br \/>\nmedia, telecommunications, life sciences, fintech, and energy tech companies. Since&#13;<br \/>\nthe launch of this year&#8217;s program in mid-June, all of Hong Kong&#8217;s new unicorns&#13;<br \/>\nand many remarkable tech companies have submitted their applications. We expect&#13;<br \/>\nmore nominations to come in before the enrolment deadline.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>HSBC&#8217;s Managing&#13;<br \/>\nDirector, Head of Client Coverage, Commercial Banking, Hong Kong, Thomas&#13;<br \/>\nElliott<\/b> says, &#8220;HSBC is committed to supporting the next&#13;<br \/>\ngeneration of high-growth and innovation businesses. It is our pleasure to&#13;<br \/>\nrecognise these Hong Kong enterprises with strong potential through Deloitte&#13;<br \/>\nTech Fast, and help them capture the opportunities presented by the new economy&#13;<br \/>\nin the GBA.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Now in its 3rd year in Hong&#13;<br \/>\nKong, Deloitte Tech Fast identifies fast-growing companies, recognizing their&#13;<br \/>\ncreativity, innovation, and high business potential; while providing a platform&#13;<br \/>\nto promote their market eminence, meet successful peers, and connect with&#13;<br \/>\ninvestors.\u00a0Past winners include WeLab, SenseTime, GOGOX, Klook, unicorns&#13;<br \/>\nin Hong Kong and companies from vanguard segments including internet, software,&#13;<br \/>\nnew media, new energy, life sciences, and robotics.\u00a0With its extensive&#13;<br \/>\ncoverage of technology companies and Deloitte&#8217;s stringent evaluation&#13;<br \/>\nmethodology, Deloitte Tech Fast Program is known as &#8220;the Oscars for high&#13;<br \/>\ntechnology companies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Deloitte Tech Fast welcomes applications from fast-growing companies and&#13;<br \/>\ntechnology firms in Hong Kong and Macau with at least three years of business&#13;<br \/>\noperations and operating revenue of at least HKD1,200,000 for the 2018 fiscal&#13;<br \/>\nyear. With a shorter business history, companies can join Deloitte Hong Kong&#13;<br \/>\nRising Star by providing a written description of their backgrounds, management&#13;<br \/>\nteams, core competencies, business models, products, technologies, industries&#13;<br \/>\nand market recognition.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>For more details about Deloitte Tech Fast and how to enrol, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.deloitte.com\/cn\/en\/pages\/technology-media-and-telecommunications\/events\/technology-fast-hongkong-2021.html\"><b><i>here<\/i><\/b><\/a>. The deadline for&#13;<br \/>\nenrolment is 15 August 2021.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-07-30\/88362\/2021-deloitte-hong-kong-technology-fast-20-rising-star-program-open-for-applications\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rekindling Hong Kong&#8217;s economic growth through innovation HONG KONG SAR &#8211; Media OutReach&#13; &#8211; 30 July 2021 &#8211; The 2021 Deloitte Hong Kong Technology Fast 20 &amp; Rising&#13; Star program (Deloitte Hong Kong Tech Fast Program) is open for applications. &#13; &#13; \u00a0 &#13; &#13; This year, Deloitte is pleased to join forces with Strategic &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}