Wizpresso was honoured to be featured at the Corporate Innovation Index (CII) 3.0 Executive Seminar “From Insight to Impact – Best Practices & The Way Forward,” held on 1 April 2026 at the CUHK Business School Town Centre in Central Hong Kong. Our founder and CEO, Calvin Cheng, joined the first panel “The Digital Frontier: A Dialogue on AI & Corporate Venturing” to share practical perspectives on how AI is reshaping innovation, governance, and leadership in today’s enterprises.
Innovation in the age of AI
During the session, Calvin highlighted how the rapid mainstreaming of AI—now being actively explored or adopted by the majority of corporates—creates both unprecedented innovation opportunities and new layers of complexity for decision‑makers. He discussed how intelligent automation, generative AI and data‑driven workflows are enabling completely new product categories, business models, and efficiency gains across compliance, governance, and investor communications.
At the same time, he emphasised that innovation is no longer just about deploying more technology, but about orchestrating people, processes, and data in a way that is responsible, auditable, and resilient. Drawing on Wizpresso’s experience partnering with listed companies and financial institutions, Calvin shared examples of how AI can unlock value when embedded into core regulatory and reporting workflows rather than treated as a stand‑alone experiment.
Regulatory headwinds and AI governance
A key theme of the discussion was the growing regulatory headwinds facing innovation as AI adoption accelerates past critical mass, with more than four out of five companies now looking to integrate AI into their operations in some form. Calvin outlined how emerging rules around AI governance, data protection, and privacy—from internal model risk frameworks to external supervisory expectations—are reshaping how organisations design and deploy AI solutions.
He stressed that compliance cannot be an afterthought when experimenting with AI, particularly in regulated sectors such as financial services and capital markets. Instead, organisations need to build governance into the entire AI lifecycle, from data sourcing and model development to monitoring, audit trails, and human‑in‑the‑loop controls. For Wizpresso, this means architecting products that are transparent by design, with clear explainability, access controls, and traceability that help clients meet both current and anticipated regulatory expectations across multiple jurisdictions.
Startup best practices: speed with discipline
Calvin also shared how Wizpresso approaches innovation as a high‑growth RegTech and AI company, translating CII’s “Insight to Impact” philosophy into day‑to‑day execution. He described Wizpresso’s product development playbook: start from concrete compliance and governance pain points, co‑design with customers, and ship small, frequent iterations so that new use cases in areas such as listing compliance, ESG reporting, and document verification can be tested and refined quickly.
This startup discipline allows Wizpresso to move fast without compromising robustness or regulatory readiness. By combining rapid experimentation with structured risk assessments, strict data governance, and continuous feedback from regulators, partners, and end‑users, Wizpresso has been able to scale AI‑powered solutions that are both innovative and enterprise‑grade. The company’s recognition in CUHK’s Corporate Innovation Index underscores its continued investment in R&D, culture, and governance as core pillars of sustainable innovation.
Partnership with CUHK and the CII community
Wizpresso is proud to support the broader mission of the Corporate Innovation Index 3.0 in advancing Hong Kong’s innovation landscape through benchmarking and best practices. We would like to extend our sincere thanks to The Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School and the Asia‑Pacific Institute of Business for hosting the Executive Seminar and for their continued leadership in promoting corporate innovation across the region.
We are especially grateful to Professor Dominic Chan for moderating a thoughtful and forward‑looking discussion on AI and corporate venturing, and to the fellow panellists for their candid sharing of experiences from across industries. Wizpresso looks forward to deepening our collaboration with CUHK and ecosystem partners as we help organisations navigate the next wave of AI‑driven innovation with responsibility, transparency, and impact.