19 August 2026
14:40 – 17:00
This session has endedHow Small Businesses Survive — and How They Grow
Professor Cai Baosheng · Senior economist and management specialist
About this session
Ready to dig into how small businesses survive, and where they grow next? This is an in-person session built for conversation — real experience, methods you can use. Whether you are newly out of the gate or have run your business for years, you will leave with substance. Come grow alongside people travelling the same road.
What you'll take away
- Core strategies for surviving and growing a small business
- Real case studies and tools you can actually apply
- A read on economic trends, and where new growth is
- Better contacts — resources and partnerships worth having
- Greater resilience to risk, and a path to sustainable growth
Discussion
- 1.What actually blocks a small business from surviving and growing?
- 2.If operating decisions determine where a company ends up — as the person in charge, how does your own decision-making process work?
About the speaker
Professor Cai Baosheng
Senior economist and management specialist
Brings extensive international academic and practical experience, with a long-standing focus on small-business development and global economic trends, and a working interest in helping companies seize opportunity and grow steadily.
- Professor, Asia Pacific Management Institute, Kaplan University
- Chief Economist, Hong Kong Evergreen Overseas Fund Group
- Professor, University of South Australia and Paramount University of Technology
- Senior Trainer, VISTA International Management Centre (Singapore)