HONG KONG, Feb. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Social Media Week is a multi-city global conference connecting people, content and conversations around emerging trends in social and mobile media. Hong Kong is one of 12 cities participating in this global platform, including Hamburg, London, Miami, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Tokyo, Toronto and Washington DC.
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Social Media Week took place in Hong Kong from 13th - 17th February 2012. Social Media Week 2012 marks the second year the week-long event has been held in the city. This year, Social Media Week brought together over 3,000 attendees across 40 events with online conversation generating over 400,000 tweets.
SMWHK is organised and led by City Partner Cohn&Wolfe-impactasia together with a team of 22 Advisory Board members who have helped to curate the overall event content through the support of a diverse set of events partners across the city. As one of the advisory board members, Harbour City hosted 4 different events during Social Media Week 2012, with the topics of Food & Beverage, Travel, Fashion & Beauty as well as Technology.
With hundreds of tenants and friends from the industry's support, 4 events were sold out quickly. In total, Harbour City had invited over 20 speakers to share their social media journeys including:
1) Building an Appetite for Social: What's cooking in the F&B industry?
Moderator: Mr. Geoffrey Wu (Director of Communications of IHM Group)
Speakers:
1. Mr. Brad Lau (Renowned Singapore Food Blogger, also known as ladyironchef, awarded as the Best Food Blog in the Nuffnung Asia-Pasific Blog Awards 2011)
2. Ms. Victoria Cheng (Editor, Restaurant Consultant and Blogger)
3. Mr. Gourmet KC (Food Blogger, Most Prolific Blogger on Openrice, Columnist at Timeout Hong Kong and Weekend Weekly)
4. Mr. Chan Chun Wai(Columnist at Oriental Daily and Ming Pao Daily)
5. Ms. Hilda Leung (TV Celebrity Chef)
6. Mr. Chef Gregoire Michaud (Head Pastry Chef at Four Seasons Hong Kong Hotel)
7. Ms. Karen Tam (Assistant General Manager - Promotions & Marketing, Harbour City)
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2) Travel SES: How we Search, Experience and Share
Moderator: Ms. Karen Tam (Assistant General Manager - Promotions & Marketing, Harbour City)
Speakers:
1. Vagabond Couple - Mr. Glenn Wong and Ms. Catherine Leung (Lonely Planet 2011 featured blogger)
2. Pu Kai Girls (Karren & Jinyu, Taiwan travel blogger and photographer, ranked 2nd in Taiwan Google's 2011 (first half of the year) "Hot Search" List )
3. Ms. Priscilla Wong (Travel presenter and Travel host of Cable TV & nowTV)
4. Ms. Anna-Kaisa Varamäki (Digital Manager, Finnair)
5. Mr. Frederick Chan (Director of Marketing, Hong Kong Disneyland Resort)
6. Mr. Ricky Too(Assistant Vice President, Digital Marketing of Galaxy Macau)
7. Ms. Shea Stanley (Consultant at Travel + Leisure Southeast Asia and Co-founder of LittleStepsAsia.com)
8. Ms. Karen Tam (Assistant General Manager - Promotions & Marketing, Harbour City)
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3) Social Fashionista
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