The 5th International Conference on Digitalization and Management Innovation (DMI2026)

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Biography: Prof. Sun has been working for 27 years in the Department of Systems Engineering, City University of Hong Kong. He is an adjunct professor in Shantou University. He is the programme director of the Engineering Doctorate programme in Engineering Management, EngD(EM). His teaching and research areas include the management of technological innovation, supply chain management, manufacturing/operations strategy, quality management, and innovation education. He resides on the editorial board of TECHNOVATION, the International Journal of Learning and Changes and International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management (IJQRM). He has published about 100 papers in international journals, google citation=7666, h-index=47 and i10-index=95.
Prof. Sun was listed in the Stanford global top 2% full career in Business and Management. He has twice been the winner of the Teaching Excellence Award at the City University of Hong Kong, European Excellence award in innovation and entrepreneurship education, IEOM global engineering education award, etc. His cross-disciplinary PIPE model, 3333 model, BMMB model, VIP model etc. motivate students to actively acquire a broad range of new knowledge along the innovation and entrepreneurship process. His teaching methods and models, reported in academic conferences and journals, have become widely recognized. He has become a regular speaker on innovation education and management workshops and conferences.

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Biography: Dr. Adela Lau is the Deputy Director of HKU SAAS Data Science Lab, Division of Statistics and Actuarial Science, School of Computing and Data Science of the University of Hong Kong. Dr. Lau published over 60 journal and conference papers and funded over 50 research and industrial collaboration and consultancy projects in the area of machine learning, business intelligence, text analysis, network analysis, social media and big data analytics, AI and Mixed Reality in metaverse, intelligence applications, risk management, information system adoption, ontology/taxonomy building, business process re-engineering, portal design, knowledge management, e-learning, public/community health studies, healthcare systems and nursing clinical quality control & assessment. She gained several awards including NANDA Foundation Research Grant Award (USA), Faculty Merit Award in Services (HK), and Inaugural Teaching and Learning Showcase Award (HK). She was the former director of Center for Business Development at Madonna University in USA, and the co-director of the Center for Integrative Digital Health at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and leaded the IT team for healthcare product innovation. Dr. Lau was an active committee member of Knowledge Management Research Center at PolyU and Data Science Center at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), in which she initiated and developed industrial applied-research consultancy projects. She was also the UG coordinator of the Risk Management and Business Intelligence Program at HKUST, and was responsible to lead, execute, and coordinate the program works including curriculum design, enrichment programs, and administration across three schools of business, science, and engineering.