Hong Kong Social Media Week 2012 Success
HONG KONG, Feb. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Social Media Week is
a multi-city global conference connecting people, content and
conversations around emerging trends in social and mobile media.
Hong Kong is one of 12 cities participating in this global
platform, including Hamburg, London, Miami, New York, Paris, San
Francisco, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Tokyo, Toronto and Washington
DC.
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Social Media Week took place in Hong Kong from 13th - 17th February
2012. Social Media Week 2012 marks the second year the week-long
event has been held in the city. This year, Social Media Week
brought together over 3,000 attendees across 40 events with online
conversation generating over 400,000 tweets.
SMWHK is organised and led by City Partner
Cohn&Wolfe-impactasia together with a team of 22 Advisory Board
members who have helped to curate the overall event content through
the support of a diverse set of events partners across the city. As
one of the advisory board members, Harbour City hosted 4 different
events during Social Media Week 2012, with the topics of Food &
Beverage, Travel, Fashion & Beauty as well as Technology.
With hundreds of tenants and friends from the industry's support, 4
events were sold out quickly. In total, Harbour City had invited
over 20 speakers to share their social media journeys
including:
1) Building an Appetite for Social: What's cooking in the F&B
industry?
Moderator: Mr. Geoffrey Wu (Director of Communications of IHM
Group)
Speakers:
1. Mr. Brad Lau (Renowned Singapore Food Blogger, also known as
ladyironchef, awarded as the Best Food Blog in the Nuffnung
Asia-Pasific Blog Awards 2011)
2. Ms. Victoria Cheng (Editor, Restaurant Consultant and
Blogger)
3. Mr. Gourmet KC (Food Blogger, Most Prolific Blogger on Openrice,
Columnist at Timeout Hong Kong and Weekend Weekly)
4. Mr. Chan Chun Wai(Columnist at Oriental Daily and Ming Pao
Daily)
5. Ms. Hilda Leung (TV Celebrity Chef)
6. Mr. Chef Gregoire Michaud (Head Pastry Chef at Four Seasons Hong
Kong Hotel)
7. Ms. Karen Tam (Assistant General Manager - Promotions &
Marketing, Harbour City)
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2) Travel SES: How we Search, Experience and Share
Moderator: Ms. Karen Tam (Assistant General Manager - Promotions
& Marketing, Harbour City)
Speakers:
1. Vagabond Couple - Mr. Glenn Wong and Ms. Catherine Leung (Lonely
Planet 2011 featured blogger)
2. Pu Kai Girls (Karren & Jinyu, Taiwan travel blogger and
photographer, ranked 2nd in Taiwan Google's 2011 (first half of the
year) "Hot Search" List )
3. Ms. Priscilla Wong (Travel presenter and Travel host of Cable TV
& nowTV)
4. Ms. Anna-Kaisa Varamäki (Digital Manager, Finnair)
5. Mr. Frederick Chan (Director of Marketing, Hong Kong Disneyland
Resort)
6. Mr. Ricky Too (Assistant Vice President, Digital Marketing of
Galaxy Macau)
7. Ms. Shea Stanley (Consultant at Travel + Leisure Southeast Asia
and Co-founder of LittleStepsAsia.com)
8. Ms. Karen Tam (Assistant General Manager - Promotions &
Marketing, Harbour City)
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3) Social Fashionista
Moderator: Ms. Angelia Teo (Head of Content (Asia Pacific) of
WGSN)
Speakers:
1. Mr. Han Huo Huo (Stylist, Fashion Blogger, Columns & Fashion
TV VJ)
2. Mr. Lin Jian (Mainland Fashion Blogger and influencer)
3. Ms. Angelia Teo (Head of Content 每 Asia Pacific, WGSN)
4. Mr. Adrian Wong (PR & Media Manager of Loewe Asia
Pacific)
5. Mr. Alex Tang (Head of Sales and Marketing of MCM)
6. Mr. Eugene Chan (Supervisor, Head of Digital Communication of
Water Oasis Group)
7. Ms. Janet Chong (PR & Marketing Manager of Benefit
Cosmetics)
8. Mr. Tony Mei (Digital Director of Nike Greater China)
9. Ms. Karen Tam (Assistant General Manager - Promotions &
Marketing, Harbour City)
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4) Geek Chic Gadgets: How to influence the tech savvy experts
Moderator: Mr. Rudi Leung (Director, Communication Planning/Tribal
Chief, Social Creative Lab at
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Speakers:
1. Ms. Michelle Au (General Manager of Sony Ericsson Hong Kong
& Macau)
2. Mr. Vista Cheng (Managing Editor at Business Next( http://www.facebook.com/pages/Business-Next/101002006608291
) Taiwan)
3. Mr. Hok Ming (Web film personality of UMOVIE)
4. Mr. Stone Ip (Associate editor Engadget Chinese/China)
5. Mr. Jansen Lu (Tech Blogger)
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Interested parties can now visit Harbour City's USTREAM channel to
recap Social Media Week's events.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/harbour-city-get-social
About Social Media Week
Social Media Week (http://socialmediaweek.org) is one of the
world's most unique conferences, providing global perspectives on
emerging trends in social and mobile media. In 2011, the conference
was hosted in eleven cities worldwide and attracted more than
18,000 attendees with hundreds of thousands connecting online and
through mobile media. Currently city partners and their local
advisory boards are creating programs which collectively will
consist of more than 500 free to attend events worldwide this
February 2012. Social Media Week is owned and operated by
Crowdcentric Media LLC.
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Twitter: @SMWHK, #SMWHK
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Blog: http://www.socialmediaweek.org/hongkong/blog
About Harbour City
As the largest shopping mall in Hong Kong, Harbour City has always
been the first mover in different aspects. We started to build our
social media network in 2009 and have achieved a very encouraging
result in YouTube, Facebook and Sina Weibo. With successful
experience in building up these strong social media platforms,
Harbour City keeps going further in the social media road through
the launch of Twitter, Tencent weibo, Youku, Instagram, Twylah and
Tumblr in 2010 - 2011. Harbour City also launched several digital
and mobile phone apps, including the iPhone, iPad, Andriod and
Nokia Ovi App, letting customers get the latest monthly offers,
event details and shop information with just one click.
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