时间：2026年7月10日 10:00-11:00

地点：东校区财科馆317会议室

题目Title: From Hardware to AI Orchestration: Designing the Future EV Charging Marketplace for Global Megacities

摘要Abstract: The global transition toward carbon neutrality relies heavily on the electrification of urban transport. In Hong Kong, aggressive demand-side policies have driven the electric vehicle (EV) penetration rate of new private cars to an astonishing 71%. Over the coming decades, the Hong Kong government has set ambitious green transition targets for the commercial vehicle fleet, including substantial subsidies for electric taxis and franchised buses, striving for a completely zero-emission fleet before 2050. To sustain these ambitious goals, there is an urgent need to study and improve the supply side of the market—specifically the independent Charge Point Operators (CPOs)—to ensure adequate, efficient, and well-utilized charging infrastructure.

To unpack these structural bottlenecks, this speech provides a comparative analysis of global EV charging paradigms, contrasting the Chinese Mainland's integrated model with Western models and approaches from other megacities. It reviews the relevant operations and transportation literature, and subsequently proposes a research agenda exploring the critical shift from passive hardware expansion to AI-driven market orchestration. The keynote concludes with a "Smart Policy Toolkit" that empowers policymakers to actively shape the digital charging marketplace and build a sustainable urban mobility ecosystem.

主讲人简介Short bio: Zhixi Wan is a professor in the HKU Business School in the University of Hong Kong. His research areas include supply chain management, value chain strategies, and marketplace economics and operations. He received his Ph.D. in Operations and Management Science from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2009. He obtained his Bachelor of Engineering degree from the Tsinghua University in Beijing, and studied in the area of Automation Engineering (1999-2003). Before joining the University of Hong Kong in 2019, he was on an academic leave in 2017 and 2018 and worked in Didichuxing, the largest ride-hailing platform firm in China, and led the company’s research center of Innovation and Operations Management. Currently, he serves as the Area Head of the Innovation and Information Management area, which homes three academic groups: Operations Management, Information Systems, and Business Analytics, and he is an Associate Editor of the journal Management Science. He won twice Teaching Award in the HKU-Fudan IMBA program in the recent five years.