Anyone itching to find out who will be shaping Hong Kong for the future needed cast their gazes no further than the Rosewood Hong Kong’s Pavilion Hall on October 6, when Gen.T held its highly anticipated Leaders of Tomorrow event
Hong Kong’s most innovative entrepreneurs gathered for an effervescent and enlightening evening to celebrate the honourees on the Gen.T List 2022.
Welcomed by a fevered flurry of flashing by Tatler’s senior photographer and resident magic-maker Affa Chan, Gen.T honourees from past and present toasted the inauguration of 32 new honourees from Hong Kong—and a total of 300 across Asia—including Sidhant Gupta, co-founder and CEO of Clearbot, Olivia Chan, co-founder and CEO of BeautyFact, and Terence Hon co-founder of GreenPrice, who were all featured on Tatler Hong Kong’s October cover.
Once guests were seated, comedian and emcee Vivek Mahbubani underlined what a joy it was to be congregating in person once again: “Let me remind you that tonight there is no ‘leave meeting’ button and there’s no screen that’s buffering; we’re here in person and it gives me so much pleasure to be here with you all.”
Read more: In Pictures: The Taipei Gen.T Leaders Of Tomorrow 2022 Event
Sponsored by Credit Suisse, Gen.T’s regional headline sponsor for the fourth year in a row, as well as Le Labo, Hennessy and Armand de Brignac and destination partner Hong Kong Tourism Board, the night was a celebration of Asia’s most promising entrepreneurs who have worked hard over the last 18 months to bring innovative, sustainable, creative and compassionate ideas to the region.
“Looking out into the room right now, I’m reminded why being part of this community is such a buzz,” said Lee Williamson, Gen.T’s regional editorial director. In an onstage address, he laid down the facts: “Our 2022 list of honourees across Asia has a total of 16 unicorn founders and the disclosed funding raised over the last 18 months by this year’s honourees is just shy of US$6 billion,” he said to roaring applause, before shouting out familiar faces in the audience, including previous honourees Tommie Lo, Dee Dee Chan and Aaron Lee.
