Beyond the Pilot: Turning AI into Sustainable Business Value

 Beyond the Pilot: Turning AI into Sustainable Business Value

Hi everyone Everyone is running AI pilots. Very few are turning them into real business value. On 7 December, our Chapter is teaming up with the Yale Club of Hong Kong and HKUST Business School to get three practitioners in a room and talk about what actually happens in between  Monday, 7 December 2026 · 12:45pm – 2:00pm (registration from 12:15pm)
 HKUST Business School Central · Level 4, United Centre, 95 Queensway, Admiralty
 Bring your own lunch — light beverages are on us
 Register: https://luma.com/cv3y51d9 or via the QR code on the leaflet
 45 seats for HEC (135 across the three schools) — first come, first served!

The panel will dig into the practical obstacles to adoption — governance, compliance, people, culture and data — why successful pilots so often fail to scale across markets and business units, and how leaders can close the gap between strategy and frontline execution. Expect real war stories, not slideware

 Our panellists

• John Liu  HEC Paris — John advises Neuron Digital, an Arup spinout, on strategic business development and AI solutions for smart cities. He previously held roles as Head of Digital Service and Segment Lead at Schneider Electric, and Associate Director of Digital Transformation at HKBN. He holds an MSc in Innovation & Entrepreneurship from HEC Paris and is completing an MSc in Major Programme Management at Oxford.

• Shaun Xue  Yale — Co-founder and Chief Product & AI Officer of aulius.ai, where he helps enterprises turn AI from strategy into solutions that sit inside real workflows and create measurable business value. Before Aulius, Shaun spent more than a decade at JPMorganChase in strategic investments and investment banking. MBA from Yale, BA from Fudan.

• Philip McManus  HKUST — Director of Strategic Planning at NTT Com Asia and Chair of Innovation & Technology at the British Chamber of Commerce in HK. An HKUST BBA graduate and doctoral candidate at CityU, he invests in the digital infrastructure that strengthens Hong Kong's role as a leading AI and financial centre.

 Our moderator

• Prof. Joon Nak Choi — Adjunct Associate Professor at HKUST Business School, whose work in AI, analytics and innovation spans academic research, award-winning teaching, corporate advisory and AI startup leadership. He has held appointments at Stanford and NYU Shanghai, and holds an AB from Brown and a PhD from Stanford.

Seats are shared across the three communities, so don't wait too long to sign up See you there!