RESOLVING TECH TALENT SHORTAGE WITH FEMALES TALENT PROGRAMME

CeCe Choi is a SheLeadsTech Convener of ISACA China Hong Kong Chapter and a Member of the Fintech Association of China Hong Kong. CeCe is also a Chartered Accountant (FCA) and a Partner within the Information Risk Management practice at one of the Big 4 Global Professional Services Firms.

CeCe has a strong proven track record as a leader in assurance, compliance and advisory services with in-depth knowledge of the prevalent IT risk and internal control issues faced by a broad portfolio of client sectors, including Investment Banking, Asset Management, insurance, Property Development, Telecommunications and Government Bodies. She specialises in IT Attestation Services (e.g., ISAE3402 / SOC), IT Independent Assessments, IT Process and Control Reviews, Systems Auditing, IT Regulatory Compliance and Technology Risk Management for a range of complex international organisations.

Grace Lai is the Global Head of Liquidity & Regional Head of Global Payments Solutions Technology ASP of HSBC.

Grace joined HSBC Hong Kong November 2018, and has taken on various roles in Payments, Liquidity and Core Banking.

Grace is a senior IT Director with extensive experience in global payments, delivering end-to-end payments processing solutions. Grace joined HSBC from ‘The Clearing House’ in New York, where she was responsible for the delivery of RTP – the Real Time Payments Systems. Prior to that Grace worked for JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank in the US as an IT Director.  Her focus at DB and JPMC had been on program management and governance on large Payments business strategy and technology architecture projects.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Grace moved to New York to receive her degree. She started her career as a hands-on application developer, and held other roles include business analyst, project manager, program manager and strategy development in the COO office.

Diversity and Talent Management have always been her passion. With HSBC, Grace runs the “Balance IT” initiative for Asia to promote gender diversity in the workplace, focusing on developing female talents, drive female career progression, and unlock the balance culture in the workplace.  Prior to this, she co-chaired a Women Diversity group in the US, and drive various activities to support female interns and graduate trainees.  She taught Financial Literacy to underprivileged students and worked with a local community school to attract and assist the students to obtain internship with the bank, and eventually for them to qualify as a target school for bank recruitment in the US.

Helen Li is Group Chief Auditor of The Bank of East Asia, Limited.  She is currently serving as a Board Governor (Immediate Past President) of The Institute of Internal Auditors Hong Kong China, and a member of The IIA Global’s Professional Certifications Board.  She is a Past President of The Asian Confederation of The Institutes of Internal Auditors.

Helen previously worked as a Partner of KPMG Risk Consulting practices and senior audit executive in other listed group in Hong Kong.  She has extensive consulting and commercial experience in public and private sector companies including large listed groups in China, the US and the UK.   Helen is a regular speaker at professional conferences and writes article on governance and internal audit. She is a fellow member of The Hong Kong Institute of Directors, The Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, and a Certified Internal Auditor.

Wenting Chiu is Head and Sr. Director of North Asia Marketing, Palo Alto Networks.

Wenting is an influential leader working with leading companies in the Global Network, Cloud Security, and Endpoint Security Industry for over 20 years. At Palo Alto Networks, she has been leading the business of JAPAC Partner Marketing, JAPAC Cortex GTM, and North Asia Marketing. As a woman tech leader, she is a proven champion of disruption and a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion in the industry. Wenting is committed to promoting the values of inclusion, mentorship and empowerment amongst women, to equip them to break barriers and rise to the top. She has spearheaded major initiatives around these themes to influence more than 10,000 women in the JAPAC region. Her most recent event was the very first Palo Alto Networks Women’s Leadership Summit, Asia Pacific in 2022. Her work has been featured in the IWD Podcast #choosetochallenge Asia Pacific, and other publications. With a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the University of Sheffield, Wenting is also the recipient of several awards and accolades. During her spare time, she is a keen tennis player, and her team participates in national tournaments regularly. She has an appetite for adventure and travel, and has lived in Africa for two years to experience their culture first-hand.

In this webinar, we are inviting tech leaders to share their thoughts on empowering women in tech as one of the answers to address the Tech Talent Shortage problem. Following are key discussion topics which we will cover:

1.        Recruitment challenges & situation – impact to you and your team

2.        Diversity & Inclusive (D&I) – helpful initiative to solve the tech talent shortage issue

3.        Challenge – Recommendations on any enterprise which is planning an D&I initiative

4.        Successful Criteria – what is a reasonable KPI

5.        Alignment to Company Sustainability – helpful staff attrition and retention measures

6.        Attracting Next-Gen – Inspiring next generation community to join tech industry

The Last 10 minutes of the webinar are reserved for answering “Ask Me Anything” questions, for example, how did the panelist join the industry; how to start a career change to tech industry; which female talent initiatives are most popular, etc.  Feel free to send your question in advance to vp-membership@isaca.org.hk.

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