The Office of Research and Knowledge Transfer Services (ORKTS) cordially invites you to the webinar on Artificial Intelligence for Good. Mr Kevin Pereira, Managing Director at Blu Artificial Intelligence, will give an overview on key AI concepts and share some use cases on how AI could help to improve our society now and in the future.
Date: 29 November 2023 (Wednesday)
Time: 4:00pm–5:00pm
Format: Online via Zoom
Language: English
Speaker: Mr Kevin Pereira, Managing Director at Blu Artificial Intelligence
Facilitator: Dr Elsie Tsui, Head – Social Innovation, Office of Research and Knowledge Transfer Services; Project Director, Hong Kong Social Enterprise Challenge, CUHK Center for Entrepreneurship
Details and registration: bit.ly/3QTjlnn
About the Speaker:
Mr Kevin Pereira is currently the Managing Director at Blu Artificial Intelligence, a consulting firm that specializes in Artificial Intelligence. Growing up in Hong Kong, he later started his career in Private Banking with Citi in New York. He then moved back to Hong Kong and joined Bank of New York Mellon’s Asset Management business, where he helped to start a new group that specialized in products tailored to High-Net-Worth Individuals. After obtaining his MBA, Kevin worked at a technology startup in Myanmar that was building internet infrastructure which included fiber optic, cell towers and data centers. Kevin is also a part-time lecturer at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), where he teaches an MBA course titled, ‘Artificial Intelligence for Business Leaders’. At The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), he teaches ‘Big Data in Finance’ and ‘AI in Marketing’ to MBAs and other Masters’ students.
Kevin graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Economics with concentrations in Finance, Management and Marketing from the Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania. He also has an MBA from INSEAD.