Harbour City Hosts Panel Discussion with Social Media Experts in Asia Pacific

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.

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)

Fashion & Beauty Session: The ways how fashion & beauty brands connect with their fans, and stand out from the crowd while maintaining their style

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)

Travel Session: Met the bloggers, airlines, hotels and destination managers who shaped your travel experience

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. Mr. Adrian Wong (PR & Media Manager of Loewe Asia Pacific)
4. Ms. Angelia Teo (Head of Content – Asia Pacific, WGSN)
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)

Food & Beverage Session: Speakers shared their responses to social media, and their own approaches to making sure you are at their top tables.

4) Geek Chic Gadgets: How to influence the tech savvy experts
Moderator: Mr. Rudi Leung (Director, Communication Planning/Tribal Chief, Social Creative Lab at AGENDA Asia

Speakers:

1. Ms. Michelle Au (General Manager of Sony Ericsson Hong Kong & Macau)
2. Mr. Vista Cheng (Managing Editor at Business Next 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)

The new evangelists have a powerful voice when it comes to influencing consumers on what gadgets to buy

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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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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