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Christoph Burgdorfer (Swiss Tech Entrepreneur)

Christoph Burgdorfer

Swiss Tech Entrepreneur

Christoph Burgdorfer is a Swiss tech entrepreneur working in Hong Kong, London and Tokyo. He specializes in the creation of digital connected platforms and started with building telecommunications billing platforms in Zürich/Switzerland and London/UK. With his own company, he created platforms for the pharma, automotive, marketing, global supply chain shipping and retail industry. He exited his company in 2017 to publicly listed Asteria Corporation in Tokyo, with which he is now building the next generation Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning powered IoT (Internet of Things) Edge Computing platform called Gravio (Gravio.com).

Christoph has been a startup mentor at the University College, London (UCL), spoke at various public events including TEDx and holds a Master of Art degree from the Zurich University of the Arts and the University of Sussex each.

Kevin Pereira (Managing Director of Blu Artificial Intelligence)

Kevin Pereira

Managing Director of Blu Artificial Intelligence

Kevin Pereira is currently a Managing Director at Blu Artificial Intelligence, a consulting firm that specializes in Artificial Intelligence. After growing up in Hong Kong, he started his career in Private Banking with Citi in New York. He then moved back to Hong Kong and joined Bank of New York Mellon’s Asset Management business, where he helped to start a new group that specialized in products tailored to High Net Worth Individuals. After obtaining his MBA, Kevin worked at a technology startup in Myanmar that was building internet infrastructure which included fiber optic, cell towers and data centers.

Kevin is also a Part-time lecturer at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), where he teaches an MBA course titled, “Artificial Intelligence for Business Leaders”. At the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), he teaches “Big Data in Finance”. Kevin graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Economics with concentrations in Finance, Management and Marketing from the Wharton School at the University of
Pennsylvania. He also has an MBA from INSEAD.