Empowering Cross-Sector Collaboration for a Sustainable Future with a Strong Sense of Purpose.
COVID-19 has drawn renewed focus on the importance of resilience in Hong Kong as the city struggles to cope with the rapid social swings, changing social-economic patterns and disruptions in food supplies. The city is in desperate need of a new collective medium that enables multiple stakeholders to work together to build a resilient city. What can cross-industry collaboration achieve through creating impact from the ground-up, and how do initiatives like urban agriculture create a platform for actionable, lasting change?
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Mr Wallace Lam is DBS Bank’s Managing Director and Deputy Head of Institutional Banking Group, Hong Kong. He joined the bank in Sep 2021.
Mr Lam is responsible for managing and growing the bank’s franchise in the large corporate and mid-cap businesses in Hong Kong, as well as overseeing the strategic advisory and syndicated finance business.
Before joining DBS Hong Kong, Wallace was the Head of Corporate, Commercial Banking, Hong Kong at HSBC. With over 26 years of experience with HSBC, Wallace has held various senior management positions, including Head of High Yield Capital Markets for Asia-Pacific, Head of Client Coverage for Commercial Banking in China and Co-Head of Global Banking in Hong Kong.
Wallace graduated from the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, USA, with a double emphases in Finance and Marketing.
My Sustainability Goals for 2022:
As a purpose-driven bank, DBS has a role to play in addressing sustainability issues. Our approach to sustainability is guided by a sense of purpose to create value for the long term, by managing our business in a balanced and responsible way.
Speakers
Chiao brings a diversified background and experience, having been trained in civil and environmental engineering before pursuing a career in learning and development at Cathay Pacific. Passionate about nature and sustainability, he believes education and awareness are key drivers towards positive impact. Now, as Project Director at Rooftop Republic, he leads the team to deliver successful urban farm projects that align with our clients’ environmental and social objectives, with the aim of driving greater engagement and awareness around how we as citydwellers engage with our food, our environment and our communities.
My Sustainability Goals for 2022:
Whether it’s for consumption, creation or simple enjoyment, when being tempted by convenience, my goal is to ask myself and see everyone to be more conscious with the daily decisions being made.
Mr Wallace Lam is DBS Bank’s Managing Director and Deputy Head of Institutional Banking Group, Hong Kong. He joined the bank in Sep 2021.
Mr Lam is responsible for managing and growing the bank’s franchise in the large corporate and mid-cap businesses in Hong Kong, as well as overseeing the strategic advisory and syndicated finance business.
Before joining DBS Hong Kong, Wallace was the Head of Corporate, Commercial Banking, Hong Kong at HSBC. With over 26 years of experience with HSBC, Wallace has held various senior management positions, including Head of High Yield Capital Markets for Asia-Pacific, Head of Client Coverage for Commercial Banking in China and Co-Head of Global Banking in Hong Kong.
Wallace graduated from the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, USA, with a double emphases in Finance and Marketing.
My Sustainability Goals for 2022:
As a purpose-driven bank, DBS has a role to play in addressing sustainability issues. Our approach to sustainability is guided by a sense of purpose to create value for the long term, by managing our business in a balanced and responsible way.
Serena’s mission at Veolia is to make Purpose & Sustainability a business as usual in every aspect and everywhere in Asia. With an environmental management background, she focused on waste, urban agriculture, SDGs and in-house sustainability topics along her career journey in a wide spectrum of sectors, including government, social enterprise start-up, academia and MNC.
My Sustainability Goals for 2022:
To nurture a community of active and passionate changemakers at work to amplify their local impact.
Learnings
• How is urban farming helping each sector to find meaningful purposes to fulfil their pledge to build a sustainable, more resilient city?
• What are the concrete solutions that building owners and the private sector can adopt towards a regenerative city?
Post-Event Actions
• Gain insights on leading companies’ sustainability approaches, technical experience, and cross-sector collaboration.
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This Year's Recap
Farm the City 2022 has successfully concluded!
Thank you for supporting yet another successful Farm the City event which was held on 5-6 October 2022 at ReThink HK.
With the theme "Rethinking Urban Resilience and Liveability," this year's programme was able to include people from all walks of life involved in the discussion, practise, and walking the walk, we know we are on our way to achieving a better and more liveable city environment with urban resilience and sustainability.
Furthermore, the Urban Land Institute's Interactive City Food Lab, which was co-hosted with UrbanPlan HK, was a huge success! We were ecstatic to see such a strong interest in redesigning our future city and developing a model of the future food system as part of the planning process.
Stay tuned for our event report and upcoming news about Farm the City!