WCE Summit 2026: Resilience Through Inclusive Leadership
Convening more than 450 global C-suite executives at Hong Kong’s Hopewell Hotel, the second Women Chief Executives Summit delivered a decisive consensus: navigating technological disruption and market volatility requires institutional resilience, and that resilience depends entirely on inclusive, high-performing leadership.
Our keynote speaker, The Hon. Paul M.P. Chan, set the strategic tone, highlighting how diverse perspectives reinforce Hong Kong’s position as a premier international financial centre.
💡Key takeaways from across the day:
Panel 1: Inclusive leadership through disruptionLeaders across private equity, banking, and pharmaceuticals shared their playbooks for growth, emphasising that strong cross-border cultures, executive sponsorship, and active male allyship are essential to building resilient organisations.
Fireside Chat: Operational resilience in volatile markets
A focused exchange on maintaining strategic clarity, entrepreneurial execution, and team resilience in the face of sustained macroeconomic uncertainty.
Panel 2: Building human-AI institutionsPanellists examined how responsible technological transformation requires human-centred governance, active workforce upskilling, and sponsoring women into critical digital and technical roles.
Fireside Chat: Intergeneration capital and wealth stewardshipAsset management executives explored the complexities of balancing multi-trillion-dollar institutional legacy with market volatility, setting out clear pathways for the next generation of portfolio leaders.
Panel 3: Scaling innovation across frontierA great idea is only the beginning. Founders in artificial intelligence and digital assets broke down regional expansion strategies, cross-border regulatory alignment, and securing mission-aligned capital partners.
Executive Panel: Powering Hong Kong’s global statureBringing together trade, healthcare, and transport leaders, our closing discussion explored how balancing resources and public-private partnerships enhance Hong Kong’s global competitiveness.
Thank you to our speakers, sponsors, partners, and WCE HK members for making this exchange possible.
• Keynote speaker: The Hon. Paul Chan Mo-po
• Distinguished speakers: Filippo Gori, Alisa Wood, Theresa Tse, Julia Raiskin, Aileen Taylor, Anette Bronder, Karin van Baardwijk, Richard Oldfield, @, Jody Jonsson, Dominic Maffei, Anna Liu, Christie Pang, Sophia Chong, Dr Libby LEE Ha-yun, and Jeny Yeung
• Our brilliant moderators: Karen Koh, Yvonne Man, Cat Nelson and Fiona Nott
Our deepest gratitude goes to our Co-leads of WCE Advocacy Workstream, Mary Huen and Amy Lo, for their leadership, and to our valued partners for their unwavering commitment to this mission.
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