Tommy Lok Man

Scientist, Student

I am a PhD student of Chinese University of Hong Kong. I have experience in organizing various activity, and conference is among one of them. My previous study and work experience required me to connect with many people around the globe and from different disciplines. I love traveling and meeting new friends. Took a long 3-year-long gap year(s) to live and work in USA and Australia before coming back to school.

I want to live the life to the fullest. And to accomplish it I want to develop many hobbies and skills which may not have anything to do with my expertise or career. I do not demand myself to be very good at all of these areas, but at least to a level of "know how to do it myself single-handed"

I am a very optimistic person, but I very believe in the power of negative feelings that can make oneself more motivated to achieve success when aided with forward-thinking minds. 1. Fear - being afraid of failure motivates one to really think and using different approaches to achieve a goal. 2. Disbelief - Being skeptical and even doubtful. This actually encourage one to actively look for various angles to look at issues, collect advise from others. 3. Greed - Hunger for success / payback is realistic and powerful. It stimulates oneself to set up higher achievable goals than when being modest. 4. Laziness - Quote from The superfreakonomics, "Good solutions are cheap and easy". The desire to be lazy guides one to think of easy, time-saving, cheap, simple ways to tackle problems.

I have been watching TED and TEDx talks over the Internets for years now. In 2014 I had an idea of organizing TEDx in CUHK since it is fun and beneficial to my career in term of skills and personal network. I then worked with the Curator of last year, Daphne Ng, to lead the last TEDxCUHK in March 2015. In 2016 I work with a few other fellow schoolmates for another full-day TEDxCUHK. This year (2017), my focus to TEDxCUHK organization will be the organization itself, much effort will be put on team building and training for TEDxCUHK organization team. My goal is to build a sustainable team for future TEDxCUHK events after my graduation in 2017.

Music. DipABRSM level in piano performance. Some degree of team building event organization, have been an senior event helper (and occasionally host) for an international team building company.