Keynote & Plenary Session

Dr Jane Barratt, Global Advisor and former Secretary General of the International Federation on Ageing, has led efforts to address population ageing for over three decades. Her work spans sectors and intergovernmental agendas, including the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing and WHO's Immunisation Agenda 2030. Among her numerous positions she is an expert on various WHO, UN and industry advisory committees, Director, Baycrest Health Sciences, and Sinai Health System. Renowned for her leadership and advocacy, Jane has earned numerous awards the WHO Health Ageing 50, the Queen Elizabeth Jubilee Medal and Churchill Fellowship. She continues to shape age-related policies, promote dignified ageing worldwide and at the forefront of pioneering innovations.

Sr CHAN possesses over 20 years professional experiences covers engineering surveying, hydrographic surveying, cadastral surveying and geospatial data analysis and management. 

Over the past few years, Sr CHAN has been actively involved in the smart city and CSDI development.

Dr Chalermpon Punnotok is the Founder and CEO of CTAsia Robotics Co., Ltd., which produced the first commercial service robot in Southeast Asia in 2009. He has been actively involved in various prestigious roles, including serving on the Innovation Committee at the Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, and acting as an advisor to the Prime Minister on the National Strategic Committee from 2019 to 2022. Dr Punnotok is renowned for his pioneering work in multiple fields: he developed and became the market leader in contact center software in Thailand in 1997, built an elderly care robot that has been exported to Japan since 2016, and created a medical AI-nose that detects cancer from breath odor, for which he received a patent in 2023. He holds honorary doctorates in mechatronics engineering, an MBA from the University of Southern California, and a BBA from Chulalongkorn University. Additionally, he has valuable experience as a project manager at GE Capital in Chicago, USA, where he participated in the Global Leadership Development Program at Harvard University.

Dr Jess Chan has devoted over two decades to rehabilitation work and currently serves as a professional consultant or advisory committee member for several universities' early childhood education or speech therapy programs. Dr Chan has been actively promoting innovative technology services in the social welfare sector in recent years. For instance, a decade ago, she spearheaded the use of digital system management in pre-rehabilitation services and introduced VR for infant educare professional training to minimize caregiving risks. Lately, she is working on combining biomechanics and AI to create pre-rehabilitation intervention systems. Under Dr Chan's guidance, various groundbreaking projects have garnered multiple awards in both the local and Asia-Pacific regions. 

Dr Pang is a Professor of Engineering, and an expert in robotics and artificial intelligence. He serves as the Vice President and Vice Dean of Research Center at UBTECH, Director of the Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Robotic Localization and Navigation Technology, and a Standing Committee Member of the CCF Technical Committee on Intelligent Robots. He has led dozens of national and provincial level scientific programs and has been granted over 300 domestic and international patents. Dr Pang has received numerous awards, including the First Prize of Guangdong Province Science and Technology Progress Award, and the First Prize of Technology Invention Award.

Professor Zheng Yong-ping is the Henry G. Leong Professor in Biomedical Engineering and Chair Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He directs the Research Institute for Smart Ageing and the Jockey Club Smart Ageing Hub. He was the Founding Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering from 2012 to 2020. His research focuses on biomedical ultrasound and smart aging technologies. Recognized as a top 2% citation scholar in AI and Image Processing by Stanford University, he is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers and President of the Guangdong Hong Kong Macau Chapter of the International Society of Gerontechnology. 

As the Chief Officer of Elderly Services at The Hong Kong Council of Social Service (HKCSS), Katie Wong brings extensive expertise in policy advocacy and project management to the forefront of eldercare initiatives. She has been instrumental in implementing innovative strategies that promote sustainable development and enhance stakeholder engagement within the sector.