2025/26 AI Innovations in HKU Campusland Metaverse Competition
HKU SAAS Data Science Lab of the Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science, The University of Hong Kong is organizing a AI Innovations in HKU Campusland Competition for secondary school/undergraduate/graduated students, and companies. HKU Campusland in Metaverse has already been implemented since 2022 with some AI tools such as AI chatbot, social media analytics, video analytics and mixed reality. The aim of this competition is to promote innovation and digital economy in Hong Kong and worldwide. Participants can develop innovative AI Chatbot, social media analytics, video analytics, and mixed analytics tools in the Enterprise Building of HKU Campusland. A short course of AI Innovations is available for participants with a small individual or institutional fee to nurture AI theories and methods in HKU Campusland metaverse environment, and to provide hands‐on experience to develop AI tools for this competition. This competition encourages students and companies to develop new AI application idea in metaverse for driving next century’s metaverse business experience for companies, and shopping experience for metaverse shoppers, which aims to boost up the innovative digital economy in Hong Kong and worldwide to echo HKSAR Government’s Digital Economy Development. The competition also serves as a platform for local secondary schools, institutions, and industries to share knowledge, innovation and experience on the application of AI and mixed reality technologies in metaverse for social science, smart city, healthcare, education, and Internet of Things (IoT)’s business.
For details, please download the competition flyer here.
For newsletter of the past year's competition, please download here.
Please submit the competition application by Nov 30, 2025 respectively via the link of register. If you have questions, please email to Dr Adela Lau at email adelalau@hku.hk.
Requirement of Submission and Schedule
| Number of Participates in Each Team | 2‐4 people |
| Format of Project Report | Number of words: Case Writing Format: Prototype Format: |
| Workshop for students/companies to pitch idea | By School appointments Venue: Zoom (TBA) |
| Competition Application Deadline | Date: Dec 30, 2025 |
| Project presentation video record in YouTube (unlisted), and report submission | Date: Dec 30, 2025 Submission: Email URL to Dr Adela Lau at adelalau@hku.hk |
