TRIZfest 2016 – Day 3

In 2016, there is the TRIZ 60 anniversary and its founder, Genrich Altshuller’s 90 years birthday.  The 12^th International Conference “TRIZfest 2016” was conducted on 28 to 30 July 2016 in Beijing, China which co-organized by the International TRIZ Association (MATRIZ) and China Association for Quality (CAQ).  The last day of the conference was also held in the new building of CAQ headcounter on 30 July 2016.  I took a photo for the whole CAQ Building.

The morning part was TRIZ Master Certification session.  Some applicants needed to present their achievement for MATRIZ Level 4 certification. Mr. Sergei Ikovenko (President, MATRIZ) gave opening remarks.

TRIZfest 2016 – Day 2

In 2016, there is the TRIZ 60 anniversary and its founder, Genrich Altshuller’s 90 years birthday.  The 12^th International Conference “TRIZfest 2016” was conducted on 28 to 30 July 2016 in Beijing, China which co-organized by the International TRIZ Association (MATRIZ) and China Association for Quality (CAQ).  The Day 2 of the conference was held in the new building of CAQ headcounter.  I took a photo in front of CAQ Building.

Before the conference Day 2 program, I met three experts and took a photo for memory.

(Left: Mr. Alex Lyubomirskiy (TRIZ Master & Senior Principal, GEN3 Partners), Dr. Oleg Yu. Abramov (TRIZ Master, Associate Professor, Senior Principal, Algorithm Technology Research Center), I and Mr. Prushinskly Valeriy (Principal Engineer, Manufacturing Core Technology Team, Global Technology Centre, Samsung Electronics))

TRIZfest 2016 – Day 1

In 2016, there is the TRIZ 60 anniversary and its founder, Genrich Altshuller’s 90 years birthday.  The 12^th International Conference “TRIZfest 2016” was conducted on 28 to 30 July 2016 in Beijing, China which co-organized by the International TRIZ Association (MATRIZ) and China Association for Quality (CAQ).  It is my first time to join the conference after my MATRIZ level 2 coures and I would like to summarize it for sharing below.  Before the conference on 28 July 2016, I took a photo with Mr. Sergei Ikovenko (President, MATRIZ).

The first day venue was in International Culture Center of Capital Normal University. I took a photo inside the hall.  

IIE(HK) Innovation Talk on CIEDH & IISEAsia 2016

Dr. Aaron Tong (Former Chairman, HKSQ), Dr. Victor Lo (Vice President, ISIHK) and I (HKSTP) were honor to be invited by Mr. Harry Li (Past President, The Institute of Industrial Engineers (Hong Kong) - IIE(HK)) to give innovation talk on the 7^th Forum for Council of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management Department Heads (CIEDH2016) and the 5^th Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Asian Conference (IISEAsia2016) on 22^nd July 2016 at The University of Hong Kong.  The theme of this forum is “The Opportunities and Challenges of Industrial Engineer Training in the New Era”.  Prof. Fugee Tsung (Exco member of HKSQ; Professor, IELM Dept., HKUST) chaired this session.

Dr. Aaron Tong (Former Chairman, HKSQ; Managing Director, TQM Consultants) was the last speaker in the morning session of the 2^nd day of conference.  His presentation topic named “Process and Innovation: How to Integrate”.  In the beginning, Aaron briefed the history started form Adam Smith theory in 1776.  At that time, every process separated specifically for productivity but it neglected human factors.  

HKSTP TecONE Seminar on drafting partnership agreement on R&D projects

The TecONE seminar entitled “What to Note when drafting Partnership Agreement on R&D Project” was organized by Hong Kong science & Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) on 20^th July 2016.  A neat and solid partnership agreement protects you from potential counterparty risks. No matter your partners are MNCs, statutory bodies, or freelancers, a partnership agreement helps you to kick off a successful and satisfying collaboration.  The invited speaker was Ms. Jade Tang (Senior Associate, Oldham, Li & Nie Lawyers) and she would share the major areas including preparatory stage, structure of the partnership, local law and tax issues, intellectual properties (IPs) and so on.

Post-WSCQ Seminar on Extenics (可拓學) and its application

The Post-World Summit for Chinese Quality (WSCQ) seminar on Extenics (可拓學) was organized by  Hong Kong Society for Quality (HKSQ) and Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management (SEEM), City University of Hong Kong on 9 July 2016.  Before the seminar, I introduced the background of WSCQ and its theme was Quality and Innovation.  Therefore, we invited Prof. Cai Wen (蔡文) and Prof. Yang Chunyan (楊春燕) to be our guest speakers to continue the yesterday keynote for more details introduction.

Then we took a group photo for memory.  Most participants come from industry.

The 1st World Summit for Chinese Quality

The 1^st World Summit for Chinese Quality was organized by Pre-World Alliance for Chinese Quality (WACQ) (全球華人品質聯盟(籌)), co-organized by Hong Kong Society for Quality (HKSQ) and Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management (SEEM), City University of Hong Kong on 8 July 2016.  The founding members of Pre-World Alliance for Chinese included China Association for Quality (CAQ), Chinese Society for Quality (CSQ), Hong Kong Society for Quality (HKSQ) and Singapore Quality Institute (SQI).  This Alliance was established after the 3^rd Chinese Quality Forum (CQF) in Beijing in 2015.

In the beginning, Ir. Dr. The Hon WK Lo (盧偉國) (Representative of the Engineering Functional Constituency of the Legislative Council and Chairman of HKQAA) gave an opening speech.  He reviewed China history and found that Qin Dynasty strong because of focusing on science and technology.  In this Dynasty, the first standardization process had been done including word and road in China.  He also added the tools made by Bronze which was a complicated process at that time and not depended on one man but a team.  So Quality has long history in China Culture and we needed to re-discover it and enhance its spirit again.  

Since Dr. WK Lo needed to attend Legco meeting this morning, we took a group photo with all participants first.

Then HKSQ chairman Mr. Peter Fung (馮光) gave a welcome speech and introduced the 30^th anniversary of HKSQ and briefed our development history.

Dr. KS Chin (錢桂生) (Associate Head and Associate Professor, SEEM Dept., CityU; Former Chairman of HKSQ) gave a welcome speech and briefed the first Quality Degree course named “Bachelor of Engineering in Total Quality Engineering (BENG TQE)” in Hong Kong.

After that Prof. Tang Xiaoqing (唐曉青) (Vice-chairperson, CAQ) gave speech on behalf of Pre-World Alliance for Chinese Quality (WACQ) and held the ceremony of the 1^st World Summit for Chinese Quality (WSCQ).

Each society representative took a photo for established WACQ.

(Left: Mr. Peter Fung (馮光) (HKSQ), Mr. Liu Li Tsung (劉黎宗) (CSQ), Ms. Duan Yihong (段一泓) (CAQ), Prof. Tang Xiaoqing (唐曉青) (CAQ), Mr. Kenneth Liang (梁偉賢) (SQI) and Dr. Lotto Lai (黎劍虹) (HKSQ)).

The Pre-World Alliance for Chinese Quality (全球華人品質聯盟(籌)) Meeting

The first meeting for the pre-World Alliance for Chinese Quality (WACQ) (全球華人品質聯盟(籌)) was organized by Hong Kong Society for Quality (HKSQ) in City University of Hong Kong on 7 July 2016 that is one day before the first World Summit for Chinese Quality (WSCQ) (第一屆全球華人品質峰會). In the beginning, Ms. Duan Yihong (段一泓) (Under Secretary, CAQ) gave a welcome speech and briefed the previous meeting which was held in Beijing on 6 Nov 2015. And She introduced the representative of CAQ included Prof. Tang Xiaoqing (唐曉青) (Vice-President, CAQ), Ms. Wang (王麗林) and Mr. Wang (王海濤).

We booked a meeting design lecture room for the pre-World Alliance for Chinese Quality (WACQ) and representatives of CAQ, CSQ, HKSQ and SQI all together in the morning.

HKSQ Quality Philosophies Series – Deming Workshop

Hong Kong Society for Quality (HKSQ) is celebrating its 30^th Anniversary in 2016.  One of the activities to commemorate this occasion is the first seminar of our Quality Philosophies Series featuring Deming, Juran and Crosby which held on 9 April 2016.  Then we arranged a Deming Workshop on 3 July 2016 and the trainer was Dr. Aaron Tong (Former Chairman, HKSQ) who was the first people I knew in Hong Kong attended Dr. Deming famous 4 Days Training Course named “Methods for Management of Productivity and Quality” in USA in 1987.  Since Deming’s theory established 30 years ago, Aaron would review that theory with us in modern management perspective.

Before the seminar, I (Former Chairman, HKSQ) introduced our flagship event named “The 1^st World Summit for Chinese Quality” and the post-summit innovation seminar entitled “Introduction and Application of Extenics” on 8 & 9 July 2016, respectively.  Extenics was Chinese original innovation methodology developed by Prof. Cai Wen for 30 years. 

1) The 1st World Summit for Chinese Quality (WSCQ) (第一屆全球華人品質峰會) http://www.cityu.edu.hk/seem/wscq2016/

2) The post WSCQ innovation seminar "Introduction and Application of Extenics" (可拓學創新方法的介紹及應用) http://www.hksq.org/Seminar-on_Extenics_9-July-2016_v3.pdf