Panel discussion pictured in the IEC 2025–26 year-plan retrospective
IEC 2025–26 · Previous event
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Corporate Innovation

Transform with Impact: Leading Change in Corporate Innovation. Real leaders, real obstacles, and the practical lessons in between.

Date
Late October 2026
Capacity
Up to 40
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Proposed event. Date, speakers and registration details are to be confirmed.

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Overview

Introduce IEC to the cohort, raise its visibility, and connect students with the people who lead change inside industry.

Corporate innovation rarely stalls for lack of ideas. It stalls in the gap between strategy and delivery, where a transformation programme meets legacy systems, competing priorities, and the ordinary work of running a business. This flagship session looks straight at that gap. We are less interested in what leaders achieved than in how they did it: who resisted, what failed the first time, and how they brought people along. Speakers walk through real change efforts inside established Hong Kong enterprises, covering digital transformation, customer experience, and operational change, and the seminar is followed by open networking so questions from the floor can carry into longer conversations. The evening also marks IEC's public start to the year, a chance for the wider cohort to see what the club does. Speakers are being confirmed. The sectors we hope to represent are listed below.

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Industries we hope to engage

  • Themed entertainment and hospitality
  • Banking and financial services
  • Aviation and airport operations
  • Property and mixed-use development
  • Technology platforms
  • Hong Kong food and beverage groups

These are sectors we are approaching for this session. They are not a confirmed line-up of speakers.

03

Who should come

Audience
All CUHK MBA students
Capacity
Up to 40 places
Eligibility
Open to all CUHK MBA students. Capacity is roughly 30 to 40 places, with registration details to be confirmed.
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Practical details

Venue
To be confirmed
Language
To be confirmed

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