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Event Highlight | Metaverse x CUHK Student startups : How “2” be innovative (15 Dec 2022)

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The 1st ever Metaverse experience at CUHK InnoPort “Metaverse x CUHK Student startups : How “2” be innovative “was held successfully on 15 December 2022 (Thu). The event was co-hosted by InnoPort and Pi Centre, participants joined the event via metaverse platform and enjoyed face-to-face networking time at UGA, InnoPort.

The co-founders of student startup Depths, Mr Desmond HO and Mr. Jonathan CHEE (Head of PI Centre & Venture Acceleration Team,ORKTS, CUHK) discussed the trend of online leaning. They talked about the problems, pain points, and future development of online learning, Depths’s story (pivoting from Savvy to Depths), and shared how student startups go-to-market to a global audience.

Highlight video will be published on ORKTS’s youtube very soon, stay tunned!

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Undergraduate students and their mentor talked about CUHK startups’ entrepreneurship journey on the Metaverse platform. (Photo: ORKTS)

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The speakers discussed that there are multiple ways to use the Internet to learn today. (Photo: ORKTS)

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Student showed interest on metaverse. (Photo: ORKTS)

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Participants created the lightblub avatar to interact with others on the metaverse stage.(Photo: ORKTS)

 

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Participants and organizers’ group photo.(Photo: ORKTS)

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