2023/24 Virtual Entrepreneurship and Digital Economy with AI in HKU Campusland Metaverse Innovation Competition
HKU SAAS Data Science Lab of the Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science, The University of Hong Kong is organizing a Virtual Entrepreneurship in HKU Campusland Metaverse Innovation Competition for secondary school/undergraduate/graduated students, and companies. HKU Campusland in Metaverse has already been implemented since 2022 with some AI tools such as AI chatbot, social media analytics, video analytics and mixed reality. The current users of HKU Campusland include HKU students and students of 10 secondary schools, and the upcoming target users are HKU alumni, communities, and companies. The aim of this competition is to promote innovation and digital economy in Hong Kong and worldwide. Participants can use our existing AI Chatbot, social media analytics, video analytics, and mixed analytics tools to develop your virtual entrepreneurship and digital economy with AI in the Enterprise Building of HKU Campusland. A short course of virtual entrepreneurship is available for participants with a small individual or institutional fee to nurture entrepreneurship theories and methods in HKU Campusland metaverse environment, and to provide hands‐on experience to develop a virtual entrepreneurship for this competition. This competition encourages students and companies to develop new business idea in metaverse for driving next century’s metaverse business experience for companies, and shopping experience for metaverse shoppers, which aims to boost up the innovative digital economy in Hong Kong and worldwide to echo HKSAR Government’s Digital Economy Development in 2022. The competition also serves as a platform for local secondary schools, institutions, and industries to share knowledge, innovation and experience on the application of AI and mixed reality technologies in metaverse for social science, smart city, healthcare, education, and Internet of Things (IoT)’s business.
For details, please download the competition flyer here.
For newsletter of the last year's competition, please download here.
Please submit the competition application by Nov 26, 2023 and Jun 30, 2024 respectively via the link of register. If you have questions, please email to Dr Adela Lau at email adelalau@hku.hk.
Requirement of Submission and Schedule
| Number of Participates in Each Team | 2‐4 people |
| Format of Project Report | Number of words: Case Writing Format: Prototype Format: |
| Pre‐registration Deadline | Date: Sep 30, 2023 |
| Webinar on Introduction of HKU Campusland Metaverse | Date: Oct 7, 2023 Venue: Lecture Theatre (TBA) and Zoom |
| Workshop for students/companies to pitch idea | Date: Dec 1, 2023 Venue: Zoom (TBA) |
| Competition Application Deadline | Date: Jun 30, 2024 |
| Project presentation video record in YouTube (unlisted), and report submission | Date: Aug 31, 2024 Submission: Email URL to Dr Adela Lau at adelalau@hku.hk |
