Fueling AI entrepreneurship: Cyberport unveils OPC Hub and Web4.0 & Agentic AI Security Alliance

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping business models worldwide. The widespread adoption of agentic AI has significantly lowered the barriers to entrepreneurship, enabling innovative ideas to be rapidly transformed into tangible products. To precisely address the needs of next-generation entrepreneurs, the inaugural Web4.0 & Agentic AI Innovation Summit, organised by Cyberport in conjunction with the OPC Hub @ Cyberport Launch Ceremony, concluded successfully on 13 July. At the event, Cyberport officially unveiled OPC Hub @ Cyberport, Hong Kong's first dedicated innovation and entrepreneurship platform for One-Person Companies (OPCs). Cyberport also announced the establishment of the Web4.0 & Agentic AI Security Alliance (the Alliance), marking a new chapter for Web4.0 and AI agent adoption within Hong Kong's innovation and technology ecosystem.

Anchoring Web4.0: Hong Kong’s unrivalled AI and industry synergies

To seize emerging entrepreneurial opportunities, it is essential to understand the direction of technological evolution. Cyberport views Web4.0 as an "agentic and programmable internet" that converges agentic AI and Web3.0. As a key anchor and pioneer in Web4.0 development, Cyberport is committed to advancing Hong Kong’s position as a global Web4.0 hub. 

Dr Rocky Cheng, CEO of Hong Kong Cyberport, believes Hong Kong possesses unique advantages and resources to advance AI development. The HKSAR Government has committed HK$3 billion to launch the AI Subsidy Scheme, which is open to universities, research institutes and commercial enterprises, while Cyberport is  home to Hong Kong's largest AI Supercomputing Centre. 

Beyond computer power and financial support, Hong Kong offers a rich environment for AI application and commercialization. As an international business hub with strong financial, insurance, banking and construction sectors, the city provides abundant real-world use cases for innovation. Industry professionals who encounter operational challenges in their daily work can now leverage AI to transform these pain points into practical solutions and bring them to market more efficiently.

Low-barrier AI disrupts traditional start-up models to fuel the global OPC trend

Traditional start-ups typically require the establishment of a complete team, encompassing business planning, financial arrangements and organisational structures. Even with a brilliant idea, entrepreneurs must invest substantial time and capital to assemble IT teams, write code, and develop systems. As AI agents and tools continue to advance, individual entrepreneurs can increasingly overcome traditional resource and scale constraints, rapidly transforming innovative ideas, professional expertise and industry insights into impactful products and services. This paradigm shift is fueling a global boom in OPCs. 

Benefiting from the rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) over the past two years and the recent rise of AI agents, next-generation entrepreneurs no longer need to write extensive code. By leveraging AI tools, they can build systems capable of handling complex tasks and operate them through a token-based subscription model. 

Dr Rocky Cheng described these next-generation entrepreneurs as "surfers": "Unlike in the past, when corporate strength was measured by massive scale and hierarchical structures, the most explosive growth in the AI wave often belongs to the 'surfers'. They use AI as their ‘surfboard’ to execute complex tasks with precision, breaking through the growth bottlenecks of traditional organisations with minimal friction."

An OPC does not necessarily mean working alone; it can be a single individual or a small, agile team. Its core strength lies in responding quickly to market pain points with extremely low trial-and-error costs.  

The Summit brought together industry leaders, next-generation entrepreneurs, and representatives of the innovation and technology ecosystem to explore how the Agentic AI era is reshaping business productivity, entrepreneurial models and organisational structures.

OPC Hub empowers founders to turn ideas into commercial success

In the AI era, where tools are readily available, execution has become the decisive factor. Dr Rocky Cheng shared an investor’s advice to founders: "When an idea strikes, you should put it into practice immediately, as the necessary AI tools are already in place. If you hesitate and fail to take action, others might move ahead and become your competitors just a few months later." 

Therefore, OPC Hub @ Cyberport is positioned not merely as a physical space, but as a dedicated platform to help entrepreneurs translate every AI application into a sustainable business model. This ensures that AI agents can genuinely serve industries, create social value, help founders explore sustainable business models, industry applications and commercialisation opportunities. 

To precisely address the development needs of OPCs, OPC Hub @ Cyberport draws on Cyberport's community and networks to provide eligible OPC members with one-stop support. This comprehensive support encompasses AI inference and computing resources, model usage credits, cloud services, cybersecurity support for agentic AI, AI agents, and blockchain-related applications, as well as co-working space, investor matching, industry connections, marketing and showcasing opportunities, together with training and networking programmes.

OPC Hub @ Cyberport offers three core advantages that set it apart from conventional co-working spaces:

• Cyberport partners with international industry leaders, including Alibaba Cloud, AWS, BytePlus, Cobo, Dell Technologies, FizzDragon, iFLYTEK, Lenovo,ME Group and NVIDIA. Together with technology companies within the Cyberport campus, these partners offer OPC members discounted tokens, AI agent models, and various planning and marketing tools, significantly reducing their operational and development costs. 
• Leveraging the robust digital technology ecosystem built by Cyberport over the years, OPC members can directly participate in regular investor matching sessions, business matching, industry meetings and forums upon admission. Through these established networks of enterprises, investors and professional  service providers, OPCs can rapidly attract market resources and capital. 
• Cyberport provides a high-quality office environment and practical training programmes. Entrepreneurs need only bring a laptop to immediately begin work using the Hub's facilities, such as large monitors, allowing them to focus entirely on innovation. 

New Security Alliance builds a robust cybersecurity net for OPC products

When OPCs develop innovative AI agent products and prepare to promote them to banks, NGOs, or the broader society, security is often the primary concern. To address the emerging cybersecurity risks in the Web4.0 era—particularly those arising from the convergence of AI agents and blockchain—Cyberport also announced the establishment of the Web4.0 & Agentic AI Security Alliance. 

The Alliance brings together 12 leading security and infrastructure service enterprises as founding members, including industry leaders such as 360 Digital Security Group, Beosin, BlockSec, CertiK, DAS-Security, FORMS HK, Integrity Technology Group, Hillstone Networks, NyxLab, Qing Teng Cloud Security, Sangfor Technologies and SlowMist, with the Hong Kong Cybersecurity Professionals Association serving as the Alliance Advisor. The Alliance will dedicate itself to fostering cross-industry collaboration, advancing security principles and industry framework guidelines, and establishing a repository of real-world use cases to build a robust security foundation for the responsible adoption and deployment of AI and Agentic AI by OPCs, enterprises and the wider innovation ecosystem.. This not only bolsters the industry's confidence in adopting new technologies but also alleviates founders' cybersecurity concerns. 

 The Web4.0 & Agentic AI Innovation Summit brought together core members of the Web4.0 & Agentic AI Security Alliance, Cyberport’s strategic partners and industry leaders to explore opportunities arising from Web4.0 and Agentic AI.