Webinar: In the age of AI, how do we prepare ourselves? AI浪潮中, 人如何做好准备？ by LIGHTHOUSE

In the age of AI, how do we prepare ourselves? AI浪潮中, 人如何做好准备？

About

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming how businesses understand and engage consumers, creating new opportunities at the intersection of technology, data, and marketing. Using developments in recommendation systems and AI-powered advertising as a backdrop, this panel explores how these innovations are shaping the skills, roles, and career paths emerging across the industry.

Designed for university students and early-career professionals interested in interdisciplinary careers, the discussion will provide practical insights into what employers are looking for today, how technical and business expertise increasingly complement one another, and where opportunities are growing in an AI-driven landscape.

As the 2026 Tencent Advertising Algorithm Competition (TAAC) comes to a close, the panel also highlights the value of industry-backed competitions as a gateway to real-world problem solving, hands-on experience, and career development. Beyond prize pools, initiatives like TAAC give participants exposure to authentic business challenges and opportunities to connect with leading industry teams.

Bringing together experts from both technical and commercial backgrounds, this conversation offers a grounded view of how AI is being applied in practice—and what the next generation of talent can do to prepare for careers where technology and business increasingly converge.

When

Wednesday, 08/07/2026 · 3:00 p.m. HKT (GMT +8:00)

Agenda

Where AI is Headed: The Big Picture of Technological Evolution
How Recommendation Systems Enter Marketing: Global Platform Pathways and Tencent Practice
The Age of Accelerated Technology: Human Preparedness

Presenters

Karen Wong

Editor - North Asia, MARKETING-INTERACTIVE

Karen Wong is the editor of North Asia for MARKETING-INTERACTIVE where she focuses on North Asia regional news and trends in advertising, marketing, business and economy.
Wong has over seven years of experience in the media industry, covering a slew of verticals from politics to current affairs and business. She has extensive experience working on both print and online platforms. Wong is in charge of driving editorial and social media content for MARKETING-INTERACTIVE’s North Asia audience.
Wong also represents the MARKETING-INTERACTIVE brand at many leading industry events and interviews high profile industry players across North Asia. As a multi-lingual journalist, Wong also worked for Hong Kong Economic Journal and East Week before joining Lighthouse Independent Media. In her previous experience, she gained considerable knowledge of the Hong Kong market, where she harnessed her passion for writing and creating in-depth content for readers.

Irwin King

Professor, Vice-President, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Professor Irwin King is a globally recognized scholar in the field of machine intelligence, currently serving as the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education) and Professor at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His extensive research interests encompass a wide range of areas, including trustworthy AI, machine learning, social computing, AI, and data mining. Professor King is a Fellow of esteemed societies and associations, such as the ACM, IEEE, AAAI, and INNS. Throughout his career, he has assumed various leadership roles in numerous prominent conferences and societies.
Professor King has received numerous prestigious awards for his contributions to the field of machine intelligence. Notable accolades include the 2021 INNS Dennis Gabor Award for engineering applications of neural networks, the 2020 APNNS Outstanding Achievement Award, and several Test of Time Awards from ACM conferences such as CIKM2019, SIGIR 2020, and WSDM 2022.
Presently, Professor King is the Director of the Centre for Learning Innovation and Technology (ELITE), dedicated to promoting eLearning through education technology. Additionally, he oversees the Machine Intelligence and Social Computing (MISC) Lab, which conducts research in machine learning-related fields.

Dr. Chao Zhou

Technical Lead for Commercial Recommendation, Tencent Marketing Solution

Dr. Chao Zhou currently serving as Technical Lead for Commercial Recommendation at the Tencent Marketing Solution Technology Team, Dr. Zhou has over 10 years of industrial experience in R&D and technical management across recommendation systems, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing.He has published numerous papers in leading conferences and journals including AAAI, SIGIR, KDD, VLDB, MM, ACL, and TOIS. He holds more than 60 patents granted in China and the United States, and has delivered over 10 technical talks in industrial settings. Dr. Zhou received his PhD from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and serves as an External Supervisor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong(Shenzhen).
He currently leads technical workstreams for Tencent Marketing Solution in recommendation model scaling, generative recommendation, and agent-augmented recommendation. Previously, he was responsible for the R&D of Tencent Cloud AI Platform, AI speech and natural language understanding, enterprise AI-to-B applications, as well as advertising data mining and applied data solutions.

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