The Stanford Club of Hong Kong

Join us for our upcoming Annual General Meeting of the Stanford Club of Hong Kong.

In addition to providing club updates and initiatives for the coming year, we will be voting for your SCHK Executive Committee and General Committee Members for 2019/20, as well as voting on changes to the club’s Articles of Association. Nominations are as follows:

Executive Committee Members

President: Andrew Kwan

Co-Vice President: Marc Hubert

Co-Vice President: Kristine Li

Co-Vice President (IT): Kendrick Kwok

Treasurer: Wally Cheung

Secretary: Sandy Wan

General Committee Members

Queenie Lee, Ronald Issen, Diana Ibarra, Simon Mui, David Fan, Lavina Tien, Hill Wang, Dorothea Koo, Jasmine Li

Email us (stanfordhkclub@gmail.com) if you are interested to serve the Club and join our General Committee! The Club Mission and Responsibilities of Executive and General Committee Members can be found at https://stanfordhk.org/about/.

Event Details

Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm (registration starts at 6:45 pm)

Venue: CoCoon, 3/F, Citicorp Centre, 18 Whitfield Road, Tin Hau, Hong Kong

Cost: $150 (includes refreshments)

Event is open to Stanford alumni only.

RSVP: Required. Please RSVP now.

 

The Stanford Club of Hong Kong is delighted to welcome Dr. Andrew Ng as our honorable speaker during his brief and last-minute stopover in Hong Kong.

Dr. Ng is a globally recognized pioneer in online education (as co-founder of Coursera) and thought leader in AI (as former chief scientist at Baidu and former founding lead of the Google Brain team). In 2013, he was named to the Time 100 list of the most influential persons in the world.

In 2017, Dr. Ng built deeplearning.ai, an AI oriented education platform, as well as Landing.AI, a company that aims to help enterprises transform for the age of artificial intelligence.

We hope alumni who are interested in the future of AI and future of education can take advantage of this short-notice opportunity to hear from Dr. Ng.

 

Events Details

Date: Monday, 24 December, 2018

Time: 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm (registration starts at 2:45 pm)

Venue: CoCoon (https://www.hkcocoon.com/), 3/F, Citicorp Centre, 18 Whitfield Road, Tin Hau, Hong Kong

Cost: $150 (Stanford affiliation – alumni, students and parents). $250 for non-Stanford affiliation. Includes refreshments.

RSVP: Required. Please click here to RSVP and pay now if Stanford affiliation. If non-Stanford affiliation, please click here.

Event Contact: Hill Wang, Andrew Kwan and Dorothea Koo at akwan@stanfordalumni.org

 

About the Speaker

Dr. Andrew Ng is a globally recognized leader in AI (Artificial Intelligence). He has helped two of the world’s leading technology companies in their “AI transformation”: He was Chief Scientist at Baidu, where he led the company’s ~1300 person AI Group and was responsible for driving the company’s global AI strategy and infrastructure. He was also the founding lead of the Google Brain team.

Dr. Ng is also Co-Chairman and Co-founder of Coursera, the world’s leading MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) platform, and an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University’s Computer Science Department. In 2017, Dr. Ng built deeplearning.ai, an AI oriented education platform, as well as Landing.AI, a company that aims to help enterprises transform for the age of artificial intelligence.

Dr. Ng has authored or co-authored over 100 research papers in machine learning, robotics and related fields. In 2013, he was named to the Time 100 list of the most influential persons in the world. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, MIT and the University of California, Berkeley.

 

Save the Date: Annual Holiday Dinner on December 18, 2018 (Details to be confirmed)

Thursday, November 29, 2018

From the creators of one of the most popular electives at Stanford, Designing Your Life, comes Design Your Energy, a program focused on helping you thrive in your daily life.  Developed in partnership with d.school faculty Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, this simple program will help you reframe and tackle the wicked problem of energy drain.  

During this video-guided activity, Bill and Dave will guide you and a group of alumni and friends through a brief design-thinking exercise and teach you how to optimize your energy around your weekly routine.

Space is limited to only 24, so sign up today!

 

Event Details:

Target audience: Mid-career Alumni and Friends

Date: Thursday, 29 November 2018

Time: 7:00 pm (registration and networking start at 6:30 pm)

Venue: COCOON, 3/f, Citicorp Centre, 18 Whitfield Road, Tin Hau, Hong Kong

Cost: Inclusive of drinks and canapes. $300 for Stanford alumni | $350 for friends of Stanford

RSVP: Required. Please email Ophelia Ngan at ongan@stanfordalumni.org

Thursday, November 22, 2018

Join us for Thanksgiving lunch to give thanks for the many blessings bestowed on us.

The Stanford Club of Hong Kong is hosting our annual Thanksgiving lunch on Thursday, November 22rd.

Space is VERY limited – so sign up today!

 

Date: Thursday, November 22, 2018

Time: 12-2pm

Venue: McKay’s, The American Club, Floor 48th Floor, Two Exchange Square, Central, Hong Kong

Price: $400

RSVP: Required. Please email Anthony Chang @ achang38@gmail.com for a payment link.  Your space is not confirmed until payment is received.

Sunday, November 18, 2018

Please mark your calendars for the 121st Big Game!!

The Stanford Club of Hong Kong is proud to co-host this viewing with the Berkeley Club of Hong Kong. Please join us next Sunday, November 18, back in Central at the American Club’s 49er sports bar.

Come root on our boys in Cardinal as we keep alive our historic Big Game winning streak, now 8 years and counting!

DETAILS:

Game: Stanford vs. Cal

Date: Sunday, Nov. 18

Time: 8:30am kickoff

Venue: 49er at the American Club, 49/F, Exchange Square 2, 8 Connaught Place, Central

Cost: Per-consumption only / no minimum spend. CASH ONLY so please come prepared and with plenty of small bills.

RSVPs: None required, more the merrier!

 

See you then, Go Card!! #fearthetree

URGENT: Stanford vs. OSU Football Viewing CANCELLED!

Sunday, November 10, 2018

It is with regret that we have to cancel the viewing — the game is only shown on the Pac12 Network and we could not find a venue that has access to that network.  

Apologies for any inconveniences.  

Please stay tuned for future viewings.

Saturday, November 3, 2018

DETAILS

Date: Saturday, November 3, 2018

Time: 9am to 10:30am

Location: The Hong Kong Club, 1 Jackson Road, Central, Hong Kong

Cost: HK$250 for Stanford Alums; HK$350 for Guest of Stanford Alums

 

To RSVP and Pay for Alums:

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To RSVP and Pay for Guest of Alums:

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For questions, please email: Sandy.wan@simandian.com

Please note the dress code of the Hong Kong Club

Julie Lythcott-Haims is the author of the New York Times best-selling book How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success (2015) and Real American: A Memoir (2017). She is deeply interested in what prevents people from living meaningful, fulfilling lives.
How to Raise an Adult emerged from Julie’s decade as Stanford University’s Dean of Freshmen, where she was known for her fierce advocacy for young adults and her fierce critique of the growing trend of parental involvement in the day-to-day lives of college students. She received the university’s Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for creating “the” atmosphere that defines the undergraduate experience, and toward the end of her tenure as dean she began speaking and writing widely on the harm of helicopter parenting. How to Raise an Adult has been published in over two dozen countries and gave rise to a TED talk that became one of the top TED Talks of 2016 with over three million views, and counting, as well as a sequel which will be out in 2019. Real American details Julie’s personal battle with the low self-esteem that American racism routinely inflicts on people of color. The child of an African-American father and a white British mother, Julie shows how microaggressions in addition to blunt-force insults can puncture a person’s inner life with a thousand sharp cuts. Real American expresses also, through Julie’s path to self-acceptance, the healing power of community in overcoming the hurtful isolation of being incessantly considered “the other.” Julie is a graduate of Stanford University, Harvard Law School, and California College of the Arts. She lives in Silicon Valley with her partner of thirty years, their two teenagers, and her mother.

Please join the Stanford Club of HK for a very special lunchtime discussion with beloved Professor Ming K. Chan on the Greater Bay Area regional integration scheme amid current US and PRC discord.

DETAILS

Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Time: 12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location: Shanghai Fraternity Association, 1/F, South China Building, 1 Wyndham Street, Hong Kong

Cost: HK$250 for Stanford Alums; HK$350 for Guest

 

To RSVP, please email: achang38@gmail.com

 

Prof. Ming K. Chan is Distinguished Practitioner, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University, where he was a Hoover Institution Research Fellow, 1976-80/1999-2009 & ran its Hong Kong Documentary Archives project. Also Visiting Professor of Chinese History at Stanford’s History Department, where he got his PhD in 1975 at age 25. Born and K-12 schooled in HK, he obtained his three degrees in the USA.                                                                  

He taught 1980-97 at University of Hong Kong where he was twice elected “Best Teacher” by the HKU Students Union. Holder of endowed chairs at Swarthmore College and Grinnell College, he taught at UCLA, Duke University, Mount Holyoke College, and El Colegio de Mexico-Mexico City. He was twice visiting fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford University. He is Adviser to University of Toronto Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, and International Advisory Board member of Instituto do Oriente, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.

Dean Widom has been a pioneering computer scientist in databases and big data before the term big data was coined. Her research group’s contribution to software in the public domain has had a large impact on industry in both data management and analysis tools.

In an age where not just engineering disciplines but practically all disciplines are being transformed by AI and big data, Dean Widom will share with us the latest happenings and strategic direction of Stanford’s School of Engineering.

This event should be interesting not just to folks working in technology and engineering, but also to folks from business or any field interested in AI, big data and the future of technology.

Date: November 9th, 2018

Time: 6pm to 8pm

Venue: Member’s Bar, The Hong Kong Club

Address: 1 Jackson Road, Central

Contact: Diane Ibarra or Kendrick Kwok

Please note that The Hong Kong Club has a strict dress code policy. Please refer here for details