RISE, one of Asia’s largest tech conferences, is returning to Hong Kong in March 2022 as an in-person event, and will be held there for at least five years.
The event was launched in Hong Kong in 2015, where it has already been successfully hosted five times, according to CNBC, it has become “Asia’s largest tech event”.
Over the years, the event has gathered many thousands of global tech founders, start-ups, investors and members of the media to the city. RISE has become an important opportunity for eastern and western companies to make connections in new markets. Past speakers have included Alibaba Co-Founder and Executive Vice Chairman Joseph Tsai, Stripe Co-Founder and President John Collison, Magic Leap CEO Peggy Johnson and Sequoia Capital Founding Managing Partner Neil Shen.
“We are extremely grateful for the support the city of Hong Kong has given RISE over the last five years, and we could not be more excited to return in-person in 2022. We have seen the region’s tech and start-up economy grow from strength to strength since we launched RISE in 2015,” said Paddy Cosgrave, Co-Founder and CEO of RISE conference and Web Summit.
