HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – May 23, 2023 – Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced that it is supporting Han Seng University of Hong Kong (HSUHK) to establish Hong Kong’s first Cloud Innovation School (CIS). Promote the development of the startup community and prepare tech talent for the job market. The school will focus on four areas. Cloud Computing Training and Education, cloud course development, academic researchand Employment and fostering entrepreneurship It also provides HSUHK students with comprehensive, hands-on training in cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), and data analytics using AWS cloud courses and resources and HSUHK’s multidisciplinary financial technology expertise. provide.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced today at AWS Summit 2023 its support for Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (HSUHK) to establish Hong Kong’s first Cloud Innovation School. Pictured (from left) Professor Simon Ho, President of the University of Hong Kong. Undersecretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Lillian Chung (Japan) and Robert Wang, Managing Director of AWS Hong Kong and Taiwan.
CIS is a systematic collaboration model between AWS and educational institutions. Educational institutions lead the definition of educational frameworks, and AWS is responsible for providing cloud technologies and related educational resources. The model aims to help educational institutions develop academic programs and research capabilities, foster entrepreneurship and innovation.
“Higher education is the cradle of talent and has helped create a powerful impetus for Hong Kong’s growth. In line with the policy direction, we are pleased that HSUHK and AWS are working together to establish the Cloud Innovation School, with the aim of fostering more innovation and technology talent.”
“In this digital age, AI and data science are the new trends that will usher us into the future, and the demand for tech-savvy talent will grow exponentially. , offers students diverse, up-to-date and innovative programs,” said HSUHK Dean Professor Simon SM Ho. “By establishing the first ‘Cloud Innovation School’ in Hong Kong, students can take advantage of AWS cloud technology and educational resources to learn how to use the world’s leading cloud technology. We strongly believe that with our classroom teaching model and highly qualified faculty, the Cloud Innovation School will greatly enhance the effectiveness of education and prepare our students to better prepare for the future and embrace more opportunities.”
“AWS has always been committed to helping develop digital talent through various education and training resources. We have trained over 100,000 cloud computing talents in Hong Kong,” said AWS Hong Kong and Taiwan Managing Director Robert Wang said. “We are honored to work with HSUHK to bring the CIS model to Hong Kong. We look forward to providing students with more hands-on cloud skills training.”
The collaboration between AWS and HSUHK will focus on four key areas:
Cloud Computing Training and Education: AWS provides HSUHK students with over 600 digital skills courses. In addition, AWS will offer the industry-acclaimed AWS Cloud Essentials course, free of charge, to his HSUHK fintech students. This course covers a wide range of topics from AWS Cloud basics to Machine Learning (ML). As part of the Bachelor of Business Administration degree program in Financial Analytics and Financial Technology, HSUHK’s Business School studies and teaches knowledge in Fintech data collection through a bank data platform developed by AWS partners. These efforts aim to comprehensively improve HSUHK students’ practical knowledge and skills in fintech, enabling them to apply their classroom-learned knowledge and cloud technologies to real-world applications. . Additionally, HSUHK has joined the AWS Academy program specifically designed for higher education institutions. As a member institution, HSUHK has several professors who are her AWS Certified Educators and are authorized to teach students using AWS Academy courses and resources.
cloud course development: To cultivate a new generation of cloud professionals in data science and AI, AWS collaborated with HSUHK to design a new subject for the master’s degree program in data science and artificial intelligence. This course incorporates AWS’s world-leading cloud courses and educational resources to provide students with professional training in ML and AI, using data science and AI techniques to solve real-world problems. allow it to be resolved. The course will be jointly taught by the three departments of Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics and Insurance, and Supply Chain and Information Management of the Faculty of Decision Sciences at HSUHK. Subjects include topics such as cloud fundamentals, distributed systems and cloud computing, and big data management. AWS and HSUHK also plan to collaborate on designing undergraduate-specific cloud computing foundation credit courses across the university.
Academic research: AWS provides cloud resources and technical support to HSUHK’s academic and research teams to help them achieve research results faster and more accurately. Several faculty members of the Faculty of Intentional Sciences at HSUHK have also developed demonstrations of their blockchain and AI research results on the AWS Cloud and are leveraging their research results for educational purposes.
Employment and fostering entrepreneurship: HSUHK and AWS leverage their respective strengths and resources to establish productive industry-academia collaborations and nurture startup teams. HSUHK leverages its extensive industry network to facilitate talent matching with various companies. Meanwhile, AWS will continue to support HSUHK’s various entrepreneurship and innovation competitions through the AWS Activate program, which provides students with technology training, judging assistance, and prize sponsorship. AWS also offers customized innovation courses that leverage existing resources in Amazon Culture of Innovation courses to meet the needs of various departments.
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About Han Seng University of Hong Kong
Han Seng University of Hong Kong (HSUHK) is a private, non-profit, liberal arts-oriented university with five faculties (Business, Communications, Decision Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, Translation and Foreign Languages) and more than 6,000 full-time students. student. Adopting a unique “liberal + professional” education model, HSUHK aims to develop young talents with critical thinking, innovative minds, caring attitudes, moral values and social responsibility. increase.
Aspiring to be a leading private university in the region, HSUHK offers undergraduate teaching, top-quality faculty, award-winning campus facilities in lush green spaces, innovative degree programs, a unique residential college system that combines life and learning, interactive It is characterized by a small number of classes. , exceptionally close student-teacher relationships, impactful RGC-funded research, and excellent student development/support services. According to his 2023 AppliedHE ASEAN+ Private University Rating by Singapore-based AppliedHE, HSUHK ranks 7th (overall) in the ASEAN+ region, 1st in Greater China and 1st in employability . Also, in the Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings 2021, we are ranked in the top 200 in the world for “quality education” and “decent work and economic growth”.
