The Briefing Session of “Bank of China Trophy – One Million Dollar Macau Regional Entrepreneurship Competition” was held in E4-G051 at 13:00 on 16 January. Mr. Li Yang, Customer Director of Cotai Strip Sub-branch, Bank of China (Macau Branch), Mr. Cheong Meng Wai, Branch Manager of UM Sub-branch, Bank of China (Macau Branch), and Prof. Jerome Yen, Interim Director of Institute of Collaborative Innovation as well as participated in the briefing session
During the briefing, Mr. Elvo Sou, Head of Student Counselling Section, explained the schedule, judging process and other important points of the competition.
As a new initiative this year, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology-University of Macau (HKUST-UM) Joint Team Award has been set up in order to strengthen the collaboration between the two universities. The audience showed interest and raised a lot of questions. The representative of champion team of last year’s edition also shared the experience.
This briefing aimed to allow the participating teams to have a more comprehensive understanding of the Competition this year in order for better preparation.
