2015年11月18日星期三

ASTRI Industry and University Consultation Forum 2015

The Industry and University Consultation Forum (IUCF) is ASTRI’s major event held annually in Hong Kong. ASTRI organizes the IUCF to inform current and potential partners from industry and academia about the institute’s latest technical developments solicit suggestions for future R&D projects and cultivate opportunities to establish collaborations. I attended the morning part and meet CityU classmates. We took a photo for memory.

(Left: Dr. CC Cheung (VP, Business Development & Operations, Aviton Care Limited), I and Mr. Alan YM Au (Manager, Aviton Care Limited))


I also met TRIZ classmate – Prof. Gregg Li (Chairman at Invotech; Vice Chairman of Business and Professionals Federation of Hong Kong)).


In the beginning the forum, Mr. MY Wong (Chairman of the Board, ASTRI) gave a welcome speech. He introduced ASTRI mission and leave technical part to Dr. Frank Tong. Mr. Wong shared his favorite slogan was from Philips “Innovation and You”. He also mentioned how important of collaboration among Industry, University and Research Institution for technology commercialization. Finally, he foresaw that One Belt One Road would be demanding advance technology.


The Hon. Nicholas W. Yang (Advisor to the Chief Executive on Innovation and Technology cum Member of the Executive Council, HKSARG) gave an opening remark to us. He said Innovation and Technology (I&T) was about sharing value and improving People Quality of Life. Then he reviewed Hong Kong economic development history from 1967, 1970, 1980 (manufacturing era) to 2000 (internet era). Hong Kong economic changed from manufacturing to servicing industry (said HK 2.0). It was the time to enhance Innovation and Technology ecosystem and upgrade to HK 3.0.


Then kick-off Ceremony


Dr. Frank Tong (CEO, ASTRI) gave us a talk named “An Overview of ASTRI’s Latest Development”. Firstly, he briefed ASTRI’s Vision, Mission and Goals.


The following diagram demonstrated the overview of ASTRI strategy and R&D capability. Then Dr. Tong introduced ASTRI Innovation Runway (AIR) which aimed to nurture tech entrepreneurs and talents. Moreover, ASTRI planned office consolidation in Photonics Centre for enhancing operational efficiency.


After that Dr. Tong introduced ASTRI’s technology divisions and core competence groups and how these combination to service different R&D cluster. For example, FinTech was supported by IC Design Digital, Software & System, as well as, Cyber Security, Data Analytics, Cloud Computing and Video Analytics. What is 4+1? There were four key technologies to be focused such as FinTech, Intelligent Manufacturing, Next Generation Network and Health & Medical, plus Chinese National Engineering Research Center (CNERC).


Panel Discussion topic was “Discussion on Collaboration with Industries, Universities and Government organizations.”
Dr. Jack Lau (Chief Marketing Officer, ASTRI) was the moderator and the panel members were (Left):
- Dr. Enboa Wu (Associate VP for Knowledge Transfer, HKUST)
- Ms. Cally Chan (Managing Director, HP Hong Kong)
- Mr. Francis Chan (CCB Senior Superintendent (Technology Crime & Intelligence), Hong Kong Police Force)
- Ms. Winnie Ho (Deputy Head, Energizing Kowloon East Office)
- Mr. Raymond Ng (Senior Manager, Financial Infrastructure Development Division, Hong Kong Monetary Authority)


Dr. Lau initiated the discussion and said Hong Kong was quite unique with different culture background. He questioned why HK? Ms. Cally Chan said HK has strategic location and gateway between China and international, as well as our good infrastructure and legal system. Cally also introduced their co-lab with ASTRI and said “Innovation” is DNA of HP.
Then Ms. Winnie Ho discussed many opportunities in Smart City. Apart from hardware, we could make use of the information and technology for City Management through open data.
Mr. Francis Chan shared some physical and cyber-crime data and he alerted us about fishing program in public wifi.
Mr. Raymond Ng said that they supported FinTech but we needed to consider security and protection in the cyber-tech.
Finally, Dr. Enboa Wu introduced that he serviced ASTRI for ten years and now joined HKUST to enhance R&D commercialization and talent training.

Reference:
HKSTPC - http://www.hkstp.org/
ASTRI - http://www.astri.org/main/
20140903: ASTRI Industry and University Consultation Forum 2014 - http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2014/09/astri-industry-and-university.html
ASTRI Hosts Industry and University Collaboration Forum 2015 - http://www.astri.org/blog/news/press-releases/enenastri-hosts-industry-university-collaboration-forum-2015-share-latest-technological-research-development-facilitate-collaboration/


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