Creative Video Design by:
Qianlu Yin Jenner, Guild HK Associate & Designer & Zhiqi Jiang Rayna, Guild HK Associate & Designer
On Saturday, 10 August Ms. Esther Ma, Founder and CEO of Prestique, Ltd. and Harvest Sky, Ltd. moderated a lively conversation at The Executive Centre, inviting three aspiring entrepreneurs, Tiqa Lee, Lucas Lee, and Pinky Wong!
The Keynote delivered by Dr. Page Richards of Guild HK explored the history and new futures of creative entrepreneurship from a rising array of multidisciplinary specialisations.
The passionate rising entrepreneurs, Tiqa Lee, Lucas Lee, and Pinky Wong, shared their visions, including areas of Ethics & Curatorship; Sports psychology & Junior-level infrastructures of institutional support; and Digital transformations & Care leadership.
Ms. Esther Ma catalyzed the powerful and engaging conversations among the participants and among the audience members. Discussions included questions of models for the emerging 21st-century visions; ongoing plans for transitioning creative ideas into widespread practice; and inspirations for activating and expanding new community members to join together at new intersections of technology, psychology, the arts, AI and deep community building.
Together with the Ms. Esther Ma’s expertise and leadership in Creative Entrepreneurship, the passion and research of each of the rising creative entrepreneurs set the stage.
An avid tennis player and researcher, Lucas Lee is mapping an area of focus often underrepresented in the world of professional tennis: namely, the “physiological underpinnings of mental skills,” specifically designed to sharpen and enhance the mental edge, necessary to the adolescent tennis player on the rise.
Much research identifies strategies built to support the mental edge of the professional player at the peak of circuit competition. There remains a gap of focal research on the physiological skills and science that uniquely pertain to the adolescent tennis player on the professional pathway:
As Lucas Lee explores in his own entrepreneurial research and practice, greater support for a key triptych of “mental imagery, self-talk, and goal setting” can already start to identify a homebase for expanded calibrations of support to the young and rising professional player and professional.
Creative entrepreneurship also helps rising explorers to make connections across disciplines, offering unexpected pathways of care.
An artist, entrepreneur, community builder, and researcher, Tiqa Lee explores how contemporary Asian artists, influenced by experiences of migration and displacement, create integrated artworks and community building that can offer therapeutic and somatic benefits of healing.
New approaches of artworks curation offer targeted and inclusive opportunities of direction for all our community members, including those often needing our deepest pivot of attention: such as those recovering from traumatized experience; those members of our community who have disabilities and specialized needs; and those needing extra measures of support during a period of transition.
Key issues of identity, memory, and integrated body experience in her research suggest major entry points of mapping integrated links between the parasympathetic and sympathetic articulation of the whole-body experience, as it relates to the sensory body and art-making. Tiqa Lee’s research on the work of Shou-Kwan, to offer just one example of the many artistic intersections she explores, focuses on the often under-represented intersections of traditional Chinese ink techniques with modernist sensibilities, creating abstract Zen paintings that reflect the artist’s own sensory work with migration and Buddhist meditation.
This integration highlights the unique perspectives and emotional depth that arise from the intersection of art, migration, and displacement, demonstrating how such work serves as a powerful tool for personal and communal therapy.
Where creative entrepreneurship offers unexpected connections and new frames of visibility for innovative insight and development, it also offers a historic link between the urge to see anew and to make new pathways happen. The rising young entrepreneur Pinky Wong offers research and innovative organization in joining technology with sustained support for underprivileged and underserved communities in Hong Kong.
Fusing her passion for 21st-century technological awakenings of human and AI engagement with her ongoing research in computer sciences, technology, and gender studies, Pinky Wong also brings special dedication and innovative streamlining to closing the gender gap in the tech space. She offers a key focus on supporting the replacement of contemporary gender gaps with open invitation to full participation, together with support of under-represented Hong Kong communities.
Exploring emerging paradigms of interconnected space, she draws deeply from research, start-up, and digital transformation. One of the core team of AllStarsWomen AsiaPacific Chapter and expanding new Social Service organizations, she is already identifying and advancing new contexts of online accessibility and an ever inclusive web3. These reveal just a few of Pinky Wong’s compounding and passionate innovations, building an ever strong invitation and digital experience for us all to join and explore for new futures.
What an inspiring afternoon!
Thank you again to Ms. Esther Ma, to each of the remarkable panelists, Lucas Lee, Tiqa Lee, and Pinky Wong, and to our super-engaged audience.
Thank you to all of our inspiring Guild HK Teams, including Georges Hung, Jessica Kok, Aditya Singhal, Daryl Lo, Zhiqi Jiang Rayna, and Qianlu Yin Jenner.
We all join in thanking Clarence Sung of The Executive Centre at 28 Stanley for helping to make this event possible.
Every discussion left us all in the afterglow of impressive possibilities and futures, emerging from the spirited care and vision of these rising creative entrepreneurs.
Credits & Production:
GUILD HK: Georges Hung, Founder, Immersive Design Director; Aditya Singhal, Senior Strategist; Jessica Kok, Senior Executive Officer; Daryl Lo, Guild HK Senior Affiliate; Zhiqi Jiang Rayna, Guild HK Associate & Designer; Qianlu Yin Jenner, Guild HK Associate & Designer
The Executive Center: Clarence Sung, Engagement Manager: TEC Management Team
Location:
The Executive Centre | Central, Hong Kong
Dr. Page Richards
Founder/CEO, Creative Director, Professor Ph.D Harvard University, MA Harvard University, MFA Boston University, BA University of Pennsylvania