Could you talk a bit about your background? When did you come to HK and what brought you to HK?

As a Research Assistant at HKUST, you worked on voice-enabled infotainment systems. Why the interest in that area?

You started iVo directly after graduation without working in a big cooperate. What made you want to do that, and do you have any suggestions for fresh graduates who want to start their own company?

You were the Chief UX Officer at iVo Technologies where you tried to build a speaker that would play an appropriate tune based on the mood of the listener. Talk to us about that project

How do you make a speaker recognize the mood of a person?

Talk to us about the experience of using Indigo to raise USD 63k in 3 months for it.

You are currently with EMOS technologies. Tell us a bit about the company. Who founded it and what does it do?

Why the name EMOS? The tagline is AI with heart. What do you mean by that?

Is this facial expression-recognizing system a piece of hardware or software?

How fast is it?

What is empathetic AI?

Talk to us about potential uses of this system

Give us an under-the-hood view of it. How does it work?

What kind of a team is supporting it?

Is it able to detect microexpressions? Can it be used in the airport to screen out suspicious-looking passengers?

When will it be ready?

How do you think AI will evolve in the future?

What do you think of the future of AI companies in HK? Compared to US / China, what are some of the strengths/weaknesses of HK?

How hard is it to find and attract talent for this in Hong Kong?

What kind of advice would you have for budding entrepreneurs in today's tech world?

Where can people learn more about you?

Please tell us about your background

You've worked for large bulge bracket firms like UBS. These firms usually have the reputation of being big and bureaucratic. How much truth is there to that?

When did you start to get interested in the FinTech space and what sparked this interest?

When someone says "FinTech", what immediately comes to mind?

Your interest specifically is in Block Chain (Distributed Ledger Technology) and Machine Learning. Why?

Let's talk about each of these things:

What is Block Chain?

What is DLT?

Why is it so "hot" and what impact is it expected to have?

Can you talk about some of the practical applications of DLT?

Everyone talks about AI and Machine Learning and it seems like it's quite overused now. How much of it is hype?

What are some practical examples of the use of AI?

What about cryptocurrencies? What do you think about bitcoins?

Everyone talks about Big Data and how licensing data is going to be the next big thing. What's your take on that?

You mentor some of the FinTech startups in HK. How do you decide which startups to mentor?

Can you name some of these startups and what they do?

There's a lot of comparison between HK and SG's FinTech scene. Many say the SG government is more supportive of FinTech there whereas the HK Gov could do more. What's your personal opinion on this?

Who are some of the key players when it comes to the FinTech incubating scene? Like Alibaba?

Do you think there's a shortage of tech talent in HK for FinTechs to hire from? How can FinTech firms better attract Tech talent?

Do you think there's a threat to the business model of traditional banks from GAFAs and BATs? Tell us what GAFA and BATs are!

What's your view on cybercrime? Do you think it will become a bigger problem with thieves becoming smarter than cops?

If you could invest in one great FinTech idea and pour most of your investment money into it, which one would it be?

Is there anything different that computer science students need to do now to prepare for the FinTech world ahead of them?

If there's any advice you can pass on to your 20-year-old self, what would it be?

Is there anything else you'd like to say that I haven't asked you yet

Introduce yourself in say 3 sentences or less

Talk about your ultra experience

What lead you to hiking / running?

When did you start hiking / running?

Talk about some of your races and running adventures

Talk about the races for which you a director

How solid was your fitness like in general?

When did you have the feeling that something could potentially be wrong with you physically?

What was the feeling like to know that something might be wrong?

Talk about the experience of having been sent to the hospital

What did it feel like to not know what could be wrong with you?

Were you afraid?

Walk us through the decision to do the biopsy - how difficult was it to make it?

How painful was the "biopsy" experience?

Talk about the procedure

While recovering you sent out frequent updates of your progress. How important was it to engage with the community during the process?

Which aspect of this ordeal was the hardest on you?

Is there a bright side to this whole experience? If so, what is it?

How did you deal with all of this mentally? Did you have negative thoughts?

Contrasting this to the hardest 100km race you've done, how much harder was this physically and on the body and the mind?

How did the biopsy go?

You had to learn to walk better again after the brain biopsy. What did it feel like to know about this?

Talk about the road to recovery. What does that look like and what's the prognosis?

When do you think you'd be ready for another 100km run?

Can you name a few people who really helped you get through this?

What lessons did you glean from this experience?

What were the most grueling points during this whole ordeal? How did you cope with it?

Was there some element of dietary influence in your suffering from this?

Were there those "why me?" times? If so, how did you deal with them? How did you deal with negativity in general?

Is there anything in this experience that can help you become a better person/runner?

Knowing what you know now, how could you have handled this experience better?

Is there anything I should have asked but did not?

Can you talk about the transition from your studies in Materials Engineering and Physics and and working as an Application Engineer for Jordan Valley semiconductors to what you do today which is mainly in the blockchain space? Why the interest in this space and how did this transition come about?

Could you please talk about the two firms you co-founded Bitfwd and Tenzorum? What do they do?

Everyone is talking about it as the new revolutionizing piece of tech but what exactly is blockchain?

What's the difference between blockchain and the hyper ledger or distributed ledger?

How does crypto feature in all this? What's the relationship between blockchain / hyper ledger and cryptocurrencies?

Is it as revolutionary as everyone makes it out to be? How much of it is hype vs reality?

What are some of the top applications of it?

Where do you think investment money will go to harness the power of blockchain in the future?

What do you want to do in this place in particular?

What is a decentralized web and why are you so passionate about it?

If the web is now centralized then who controls it?

In layman's terms, what does Tenzourum do?

What is the business model for Tenzourum?

Please talk about Bitfwd. What kind of competitions do you hold?

In terms of countries like Australia, Singapore, and New Zealand which country is taking the revolution of blockchain more seriously? What are they doing about it?

Can you talk about your journey as an entrepreneur? How easy or difficult has it been for you so far and what are some of the most memorable moments?

How will the future of crypto and blockchain in your opinion?

For someone interested in being ahead of his blockchain curve, where should they start?

Had you not gone down the road of being focused on Blockchain what else do you think you might have been involved with?

What kind of advice would you have for budding entrepreneurs in today's tech world?

Also, what kind of suggestion might you have for investors? Where should they park some of their money?

Where can people learn more about you?

Why should you write a Technical CV

What is a Technical CV

Meat of the podcast

CLEAR - Clarity, Length, Explanation / Expansion, Accuracy, Relevance

Common Mistakes people make on their CVs

Should we put a photo on the CV?

PDF or Word Format?

Including table or not?

One size fits all CVs or different versions of CVs for different roles

NOT including certain jobs on the CV

including bad academic grading

Please introduce yourself in your own words and say a few words about your background. Where are you from?

You've had many senior leadership roles in IT in your career, you were the CIO of PWC Consulting, then in the CIO Office IBM and then SFC. Was being in the CIO Office always your passion?

We have listeners are various levels so could you tell us what the difference is between a Head of Technology, a CIO, a CTO and a CDO?

How did you rise to the level of becoming part of the senior leadership within technology?

In your opinion, what are the attributes of a good CIO?

After working as the CIO for PWC Consulting and then in a senior role with IBM, you moved to Hong Kong to become the Deputy CIO for SFC. How did that happen?

Would you describe your role as the Deputy CIO of SFC to be a political one? How important are political relationships and how does one go about cultivating them?

What is the move from being the Deputy CIO of SFC to starting a Data Analytics group within SFC?

What is Data Analytics and why is it important to SFC?

Other than data analytics, can you speak about cyber security? Would you describe that as another topic of interest for SFC?

What can firms do now to strengthen their cyber security?

Can you talk about FinTech in Hong Kong? How much hype is there vs what's really happening?

When someone says "FinTech" to you what immediately comes to mind?

Can you talk about certain companies that come to mind immediately when you hear FinTech and Hong Kong?

We sometimes hear of comparisons between Hong Kong and Singapore FinTech with some proclaiming that SG FinTech has a better vibe. What are your thoughts on this?

What can techies do to learn and build their communication skills and networking skills?

In your opinion, how should today's computer science students prepare for work in the FinTech world of tomorrow?

What books do you read? Is there a pattern and what are some of the top books you'd recommend?

Has there been a key mentor or a significant person in your life so far that has enabled you to achieve the success you have had in your career?

Knowing what you know now, if you could travel back to when you were 20 years old, what advice would you give yourself?

Is there anything else you would like to say that we haven't asked you?

Let's go back to the time when Scott the 20-something-year-old was an avid traveler. Tell us about that story and what made you leave the comfortable USA and get into Asia

You won a competition that paved the way for a career in finance. Tell us about that competition involving Mexican stocks

What did you know about Finance when you first got into it?

What was it like working for a big corporation? (RBS)

What was it like working in Japan?

When did the realization come to start your own company and why did you want to start one?

Why the name "Hanpa" in Hanpa Trading?

What is Market Making? Please give us a 101

What is High Frequency Trading? Please give us a 101

Can there be a "low frequency" market making?

nano seconds and milliseconds are some of the terms thrown it to determine how good market-making systems are. Is speed everything in the market making?

Talk to us about the infrastructure that one needs to be a "market maker". Can anyone become a market marker?

How has market-making changed since the time you started the company?

Does technology make all the difference between a good market maker and a bad one?

How important are strategies and can a HFT firm with good strategies and relatively inferior tech still make it big?

Would you describe yourself as a tech guy or a business guy?

What would it take, in your opinion, for an IT developer to stand out when building these market-making systems?

Is there a particular language like C++ or Java or C# that lends itself better to building these systems?

It seems like it's so easy to trade these days. Anyone can do it and there are so many 1-man bands out there. Do you think this space is now saturated?

How do you see this industry changing in the future?

Are there any particular countries or places that have an advantage when it comes to having these trading firms established there?

Everyone is talking about Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and Big Data. What do these mean in the world of market Making? How much of it is hype?

What are you doing at Hanpa to embrace the future of Market Making?

What career advice would you give to young ambitious IT professionals climbing up their career ladders now and wanting to do something in the world of Market Making?

Do you have a special routine that you follow that has enabled you to achieve success in your career?

What books do you read? Is there a pattern and what are some of the top books you'd recommend?

Has there been a key mentor or a significant person in your life that has enabled you to achieve the success you have had in your career?

Knowing what you know now, if you could travel back to when you were 25 years old, what advice would you give yourself?

Is there anything else you would like to say that we haven't asked you?

Please introduce yourself in your own words and say a few words about your background. Where are you from?

You started your career with Rothschild (one of the largest independent Financial advisors) in M&A. Did you always want to do M&A after graduation?

Talk about what life was like in M&A. In many books on Wall Street, they talk about how the poor Analyst stays in the office all day & night long doing pitch books. Is that what it's really like?

You moved from Rothschild to HKEX in Hong Kong in Corporate Finance. How did that move come about and what is an exchange and why work for one?

What is the difference in culture between working for an advisory in M&A and working for an exchange in corporate finance?

Everyone has heard about different exchanges like Singapore Exchange, Hong Kong Exchange and so forth. What are some metrics one can use to determine the complexity and success of an exchange?

After a year in corporate finance, you moved to Group Strategy in HKEX. What does Group Strategy do and how did this move come about?

Does HKEX have a start-up-like environment to pave the way to go after new business ideas and execute them?

You've helped deliver major projects, like Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect and Bond Connect. Can you talk about those projects briefly? How did the idea come about and how was it vetted? What was your role in these projects?

How important is relationship building, i.e. to make friends with investors, regulators and government officials in your job? How do you build that skill?

In March 2018, you became co-head of the Innovation lab at HKEX. Please talk about that move. Why the interest in that and how did this transition come about?

What is an Innovation Lab?

Why is it important for companies to innovate and why is it important specifically for HKEX to do so?

Your role in this Innovation Lab is to "Explore and accelerate creative new solutions for HKEX's business, using modern technology" - what are some of these modern technologies?

What got you interested in technology? Is it the technology as such or the value that comes from deploying the tech?

Would you describe yourself as a tech person or a business person?

Which technology do you think will become a big game changer for HKEX within the next 5 years?

Could you talk about blockchain specifically and how that might change the way HKEX does things?

What about Machine Learning / AI? How are they expected to influence what HKEX does differently?

Everyone seems to compare the Singapore Exchange and the HKEX and I hear about how the SGX is more advanced in some ways. First of all, is this sort of comparison fair?

How much truth is there to the statement that SGX is ahead of HKEX in many ways? Like their Sandbox for FinTech firms?

How do you see the world of exchanges changing in the future?

What is HKEX doing differently to get ahead of its competition and embrace all these new technological changes?

What career advice would you give to young ambitious IT professionals climbing up their career ladders now and wanting to do something in high tech?

Do you have a special routine that you follow that has enabled you to achieve success in your career?

What books do you read? Is there a pattern and what are some of the top books you'd recommend?

Has there been a key mentor or a significant person in your life who has enabled you to achieve the success you have had in your career?

Knowing what you know now, if you could travel back to when you were 25 years old, what advice would you give yourself?

Is there anything else you would like to say that we haven't asked you?

Please introduce yourself in your own words and say a few words about your background

This story never gets old and is always inspiring - you have a Bachelor degree from McGill University in Canada and you were working during night times as a security guard to pay for tuition. Talk about that. What were those times like and how did you manage to keep the drive to study while not sleeping?

You worked for two great tech companies after graduation, Teradyne and Microsoft. Without your time at McGill University do you think this would have been possible?

What was it like getting in to Microsoft? And, how does that compare to landing a Finance Tech job at an Investment Bank?

Why did you decide to move to Beijing from America?

How did the HK job come about and were you actively looking at jobs in Finance in HK?

You entered the finance world in 2007 and worked for Goldman. For a "tech" guy entering the finance world in 2007, what was it like in terms of technology and culture?

Did you always want to rise up the ranks of Investment Banking when you joined?

You worked on Cash Equities Trading systems in Goldman. What was the learning curve like in terms of learning the domain?

In your opinion, what would it take for a tech developer to do well in the Finance world?

Coming from a Microsoft and Windows background, was it harder for you at an Investment Bank because of the systems are Unix based?

what did you do to learn the finance domain?

can you talk about communication skills and relationship building skills and its impact on a developer’s success in the Finance world?

you have changed your job every couple of years and you even changed your location. How important were these role changes to the overall success of your career? Would you recommend that as a strategy for quicker growth?

after your Morgan Stanley role you switched to becoming more of a people manager while remaining technical but not as hands on. Was this a strategic move?

Is it harder for developers who want to stay hands on all the way and do not want to manage anyone else to still rise to the top in the technology space?

You moved into the business side with Parry. Why the move?

Would you now describe yourself as a tech guy or a business guy?

What's the biggest tech change you have witnessed in Electronic Trading since 2007 when you first entered finance

How do you see this industry changing in the future?

Everyone is talking about Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and Big Data. What do these mean in the world of Electronic Trading? How much of it is hype?

What career advice would you give to young ambitious IT professionals climbing up their career ladders now and wanting to do something in the world of finance?

Do you have a special routine that you follow that has enabled you to achieve success in your career?

What books do you read? Is there a pattern and what are some of the top books you'd recommend?

Has there been a key mentor or a significant person in your life that has enabled you to achieve the success you have had in your career?

Knowing what you know now, if you could travel back to when you were 25 years old, what advice would you give yourself?

Is there anything else you would like to say that we haven't asked you?

Please introduce yourself in your own words and say a few words about your background

You got into the world of Finance in 2005 by joining ITG. Why the interest in Finance at the time you entered it?

You've since done so well in your career - and you have carved out a niche for yourself in Algo Trading. Did you choose to do so or was it the way that events unfolded?

Since, we have listeners at all levels, could you talk about what Algo Trading is?

What did you find that was so fascinating about it?

nano seconds, milli seconds are some of the terms thrown it to determine how good algo trading systems are. Is speed everything in algo trading?

Would you describe yourself as a tech guy or a business guy?

What would it take, in your opinion, for a developer to stand out when building these algo trading systems?

Is there a particular language like C++ or Java or C# that lends itself better to building these systems?

What's the biggest tech change you have witnessed in Electronic Trading since 2005?

It seems like it's so easy to trade these days. Anyone can do it and there are so many 1-man bands out there. Do you think this space is now saturated?

How do you see this industry changing in the future?

Are there any particular countries or places that have an advantage when it comes to having these trading firms established there?

Everyone is talking about Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and Big Data. What do these mean in the world of Electronic Trading? How much of it is hype?

Are you able to talk about what Daiwa is doing in this space?

What career advice would you give to young ambitious IT professionals climbing up their career ladders now and wanting to do something in the world of Electronic Trading?

Do you have a special routine that you follow that has enabled you to achieve success in your career?

What books do you read? Is there a pattern and what are some of the top books you'd recommend?

Has there been a key mentor or a significant person in your life that has enabled you to achieve the success you have had in your career?

Knowing what you know now, if you could travel back to when you were 25 years old, what advice would you give yourself?

Is there anything else you would like to say that we haven't asked you?