Fion Leung is the co-founder and CEO of Time Auction, a charity that advocates volunteerism, . a mindfulness enthusiast, as the co-creator of Mindfulness Movement, and most importantly, a CIS alum. Fion graciously sat down with Xiao Hua to discuss what entrepreneurship and service means to her. 2006. And then I went to arts school for a bit and did my undergrad in Hong Kong, at HKUST, for a business degree, then went into banking. I started Time Auction I’m Fion. I run a charity called Time Auction. It’s a charity as a side project, then started doing it full time. with a mission to advocate volunteerism, basically to get more people to volunteer. What we do mainly Entrepreneurship has been a new spirit for is two things. The first one is we have a lot of great change and creation, how did you kickstart and educational opportunities and incentives that people grow your tech innovation in Hong Kong?Where can redeem with a certain number of volunteer hours. did you get your inspiration to initiate Time For example, they can redeem say 10 volunteer hours Auction? to redeem let’s say a mentorship dinner with someone really inspiring or a creative workshop. So hopefully all How we started was my friend and I used to work in these great incentives will get more people to volunteer finance, and we used to go to a lot of startup events, more, and then they enjoy those experiences and so we were really interested in how technology can they go out and volunteer even more. That’s the first scale so fast and change the world in so many different ways. So one night after a startup event, we just program that we run. thought, “Hey! Why don’t we try to do this idea by The second program is because a lot of the people hosting inspiring leaders for a meal. Anyone can join who join the first program are actually students and if they volunteer a certain number of volunteer hours working professionals, they’re all really educated and through any charity”. So, in a way we can help many talented. So, the second program we run is to help young people learn from many different leaders and other charities to find skilled volunteers. So, any also get more people to volunteer. So, it really started volunteer who can help them with a bit of design as a side project, as a hobby. For the first two years, work, translation, teaching yoga, any kind of skill, you we just did that during lunch time on the weekend name it. So on our platform they can apply to these and then over those two years, doing outside of our full time job, we hosted something like sixty events. projects to help other charities. And people have volunteered 6000 something hours And, a bit about myself, I graduated from CIS class of to join these events. We literally only spend a couple Can you give us a little introduction about yourself?
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