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Thomson Reuters exists to solve one of the most critical challenges in professional work: the overwhelming complexity of information that legal, tax, accounting, and media professionals must navigate daily. Every year, professionals across these industries spend countless hours sifting through vast amounts of data, regulations, and news - time that could be spent on higher-value work that truly matters. Thomson Reuters transforms this dynamic by combining industry-leading content with cutting-edge AI and technology, empowering professionals to know now and navigate what's next with confidence. Our mission goes far beyond delivering information - we're fundamentally reshaping how professionals work, enabling them to uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, and report the facts with greater speed and accuracy than ever before. Whether it's a lawyer preparing for a complex trial, an accountant navigating intricate tax codes, or a journalist breaking a critical story, Thomson Reuters provides the intelligent tools and trusted insights that make their work possible. By investing $600 million in modernization and pioneering advances in AI-powered legal assistance with CoCounsel, we're not just improving workflows - we're empowering professionals to tackle the world's most important challenges with information they can trust.

The Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) exists to accelerate Hong Kong's transformation into a smart, innovation-driven economy. Since 1967, HKPC has served as the key enabler and catalyst for productivity excellence, providing integrated support across the entire value chain of Hong Kong enterprises. HKPC's mission addresses a critical challenge: helping traditional industries upgrade while nurturing emerging technology sectors, ensuring Hong Kong remains competitive in an increasingly complex global landscape. Through comprehensive services spanning digital transformation, smart manufacturing, cybersecurity, green living innovation, and new industrialisation, HKPC delivers practical solutions that drive real business impact. The organisation combines cutting-edge R&D in robotics, AI, and advanced materials with hands-on consulting, training through HKPC Academy, and government funding facilitation. By bridging the gap between innovation and adoption, HKPC empowers businesses - especially SMEs - to harness new productive forces, embrace Industry 4.0 technologies, and thrive in the Greater Bay Area era. Whether implementing intelligent automation systems, developing green materials, or building next-generation digital infrastructure, HKPC provides the expertise and resources needed to turn technological potential into sustainable competitive advantage.

At SHI, we believe in solving what's next through personal, concierge-style IT partnerships. Our 7,000-strong team brings global scale with local attention, helping organizations of all sizes navigate complex technology decisions. As the largest Minority/Woman Owned Business Enterprise in the United States, we've grown from a $1 million reseller in 1989 to a $14 billion global provider by building genuine relationships and delivering measurable results. Our culture thrives on collaboration and expertise - whether you're building hybrid workplaces, securing against evolving threats, or optimizing cloud investments. We combine deep technical knowledge with flexible financing and top-tier vendor partnerships to make IT simpler. With offices worldwide and 24/7 support capabilities, we're there whenever and wherever you need us. Success at SHI means balancing technical excellence with human connection, ensuring every solution reflects our customers' unique challenges and goals.

CHEP manages the world's largest pool of reusable pallets and containers, operating in approximately 60 countries with around 13,000 employees. As a subsidiary of Brambles, CHEP pioneered the share-and-reuse model that has transformed supply chain logistics. Their purpose is to connect people with life's essentials every day in a nature-positive way. The company manages approximately 347 million pallets, crates, and containers that are shared and reused by growers, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers worldwide. Through their circular business model, CHEP helps the world's biggest brands transport their goods more efficiently, safely, and with significantly less environmental impact. Their blue pallets and containers form the invisible backbone of global supply chains, moving more goods to more people in more places than any other organization on earth. The company's commitment to sustainability extends beyond their business model - they're actively working to help create a nature-positive economy by reducing waste, CO2 emissions, and costs throughout supply chains.

Kong provides the foundation that enables any company to securely adopt AI and become an API-first company. We built the world's most adopted API gateway, and our easy-to-use cloud API platform delivers fast, reliable, secure digital experiences. With Kong, organizations can increase developer productivity, security, and performance at scale with the unified platform for API gateways, AI gateways, service meshes, and ingress controllers. We're a team of engineers and problem-solvers who understand that APIs are the lifeblood of modern software. Our platform powers hundreds of billions of API calls daily, serving over 700 enterprise customers worldwide. From our origins as Mashape to becoming Kong, we've remained focused on solving the fundamental challenge of connecting services securely and reliably in cloud-native environments.

In 1999, FPT Software's founder Mr. Nguyen Thanh Nam established the company with a vision to propel Vietnamese intelligence to the world stage through technology. What began as a modest software outsourcing operation has evolved into a global technology and IT services provider, recognized as the Largest IT Services Company in Fortune 500 Southeast Asia. The company's journey has been marked by an unending pioneering spirit and lifelong dedication inherited from its founders. Today, FPT Software stands as a subsidiary of FPT Corporation, delivering world-class solutions across 27 countries and territories with 65 global offices and 30 development centers. With over 33,000 employees worldwide and USD 1.22 billion in revenue (2024), the company has transformed from basic programming and software testing into an AI-first enterprise providing comprehensive digital transformation services. From opening its first overseas branch in Japan in 2005 to establishing its Asia Pacific office in Singapore in 2007, FPT Software has consistently expanded its global footprint while maintaining its commitment to cultivating future-ready talents and driving sustainable growth through technology.