Alternative Investment
[Webinar] Venture Investing in the Deep-Tech Era: Principles & Practice
Overview
Venture capital is being transformed by deep-tech frontiers with potential to redefine (and sometimes upend) entire industries. This session offers an expert-led journey into various deep-tech topics, including nuclear energy, quantum computing, space technologies, and artificial intelligence. Participants will gain insights into some of the intricacies of the underlying technologies (from a layman perspective) and ways to assess the viability of emerging innovations (from the vantage point of a venture investor).
By evaluating deep-tech opportunities and risks, this session offers modern day investors a strategic approach to integrate a deep-tech investing mentality into sophisticated portfolios, thereby aligning capital with the breakthroughs that are shaping the future global economy. This shift in perspective is crucial for capitalising on the next wave of economic growth. All is essential for finance professionals who seek to lead in an era defined by and permeated with technological disruptions.
Content
1. The New Investment Paradigm: How and Why Deep-Tech is Redefining Venture Capital and the Broader Investment Landscape
2. Deconstructing the Deep-Techs: Nuclear Energy, Quantum Computing, Space Technologies, and Artificial Intelligence
3. The Investor's Toolkit: Assessing Technological Viability via Analogical Reasoning vs. First Principles
4. Balancing Opportunities & Risks: Strategically and Tactically Integrating Deep-Tech Investments into a Modern Portfolio
Who should attend
Asset and wealth managers, private bankers, private equity investment advisors/managers, relationship managers, and other financial services practitioners interested in this topic.
Speaker/Course Instructor
He started his career at top-tier investment banks and then moved on to become a venture capitalist focusing on artificial intelligence.
He was formerly a researcher at Harvard Business School. He is a holder of the following certifications: Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Financial Risk Manager (FRM), and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA). He has completed the Ph.D. program at the Faculty of Education of The University of Hong Kong. He has also earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Harvard Business School, Master in IT in Education (Distinction) at The University of Hong Kong and B.S. in Business Administration (summa cum laude) at University of California, Berkeley.