The
APAC Innovation Summit series was a flagship innovation conference of Hong Kong
Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTPC) and the topic in September
was entitled “Smart City Connected City” which was held on 7-8 Sep 2017. The summit aimed to explore the Smart City Blueprint
for Hong Kong and how smart resilient planning could successfully be realized
in neighbouring countries. Before the
summit, I met Mr. Peter Fung (Immediate past chairman, HKSQ) and took a photo
for memory. I had only attended the
first morning session and summarized as follows.
In
the beginning, Mr. George Tee (CTO, HKSTP) gave welcome remarks. He said it was the 3rd year in the
topic of Smart City. Hong Kong is a good
place for Smart City Solution. HKSTP collaborated
with CUHK to develop the Smart Region and Smart Solution.
Dr.
David Chung (Under Secretary for Innovation and Technology, HKSAR Government)
was our guest-of-honour and gave an opening speech. He said government had
developing the Smart City Blueprint through consultant. One of recommendations was to start smart
city development early. Moreover, we
would cooperate with Shenzhen for developing Innovation and technology loop. He asked us to build Hong Kong to be Smart
City together.
Prof. Benjamin Wah (Provost/Wei Lun Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, CUHK) gave an introduction speech. Prof. Wah briefed the collaboration with HKSTP for Smart Region project. He said CUHK identified environmental, sustainability and smart city as strategic area for teaching and research.
Group
photo taken
The
first keynote speaker was Mr. Allen Yeung (Government Chief Information
Officer, HKSAR Government) and his topic entitled “Smart City Blueprint for
Hong Kong”. He would like to share the
latest development of consultancy study on smart city blueprint and introduced
some proposed initiatives as well as open data in Hong Kong.
The
public consultation for Smart Hong Kong had started and completed at the end of
Sep 2017. You are welcome to submit your
view at www.smartcity.gov.hk . Then Mr. Allen Yeung briefed the urban
challenges and trends included Ageing Population, Economic Shift, Rapid
Urbanization, Climate & Resource Scarcity and Technological
Breakthroughs.
Mr.
Allen Yeung gave Hong Kong Smart City Vision as “Smart Hong Kong – Embracing innovation
and technology to build a strong economy, enhance quality of living and make
Hong Kong a well-known Smart City”. Then
he mentioned the Smart City Development Plans included Smart Mobility, Smart
Living, Smart Economy, Smart Environment, Smart People and Smart
Government.
He also described each smart initiatives using relation diagram as follows.
Finally,
Mr. Allen Yeung explained the current open data policy and objectives in Hong
Kong as follows:
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Make
government information released for public consumption machine-readable in
digital formats
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Facilitate
innovation in the industry
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Promote
the development of the digital economy
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Open
public sector information through a one-stop portal (data.gov.hk)
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Public
sector information is a raw material of big data analytics for promoting the
development of smart city.
At
the end, some pilot projects were introduced.
The
second keynote speaker was Mr. Jong-Sung Hwang (National Information Society
Agency, Republic of Korea) and his presentation named “Smart City – New Platform
for the Fourth Industrial Revolution”. Firstly,
Mr. Hwang introduced how hot the topic of the fourth industrial revolution in
Korea through google search trends.
Then
he briefed the history of industrial revolution as follows:
First
industrial revolution (1760 – 1840) – railroad, steam engine, mechanical
production
Second
industrial revolution (late 19c – early 20c) – electricity, assembly line, mass
production
Third
industrial revolution (1960s – 1990s) – semiconductor, computer, internet,
automate production
Fourth
industrial revolution (now) – fusion of technologies, blurring lines between
physical, digital and biological spheres
The
following diagram pointed out four meanings of revolution included Connectivity,
Intelligence, Platform and Social.
After
that Mr. Hwang introduced Korea’s strategy for the Fourth Industrial
Revolution. Smart City was one of
strategies and focused on “People-centric”.
He said the first generation was digital city in 1994 through internet
technology. Second generation was in
Songdo and Incheon in 2004 which key technologies included Sensor plus
Internet. Then many cities were belonging
to Third Generation which employed Big Data + Sensor + Internet. Singapore (2015) and Pittsburgh Colombus city
(2016) belong to Fourth Generation that they used AI + Big Data + Sensor +
Internet.
Mr.
Hwang said “Smart City is not a product!” because “City is the most complex
system”.
It
could be distinct cities with or without platform. Smart City Platform had three layers and they
were Infrastructure layer, Data layer and Service layer. IoT was platform of platform! New Approach to Smart City Platform would be “Data
Hub” + “Standard API”. Data Hub enables
to use data for smart city services from a variety of sources and with
different formats. Standard API makes
API of different cities standardized.
Finally,
Mr. Hwang briefed some actions for People-centric Smart City included “New
Approach to Smart City Platform”, “Stepping up Innovation” and “Investment for
Old Cities”. For stepping up Innovation,
Korea employed “Small Technology – Big Innovation Strategy” to get the high
effectiveness and efficiency results using Open Innovation.
Reference:
APAC
Innovation Summit (“AIS” in short and formerly known as InnoAsia)
20081210:
Innoasia 2008 Conference: Renewable Energy - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2008/12/innoasia-2008-conference-renewable.html
20091203:
InnoAsia 09 Conference (Sustainable City) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2009/12/innoasia-09-conference-sustainable-city.html
20091204:
InnoAsia 09 Conference (Sustainable Transportation / Energy) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2009/12/innoasia-09-conference-sustainable.html
20101124:
InnoAsia 2010 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2010/11/innoasia-2010.html
20111115:
InnoAsia 2011 - Energy Efficiency, Sustainable Future - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2011/11/innoasia-2011-energy-efficiency.html
20121116:
Hong Kong Venture Capital / Angel Investment Conference - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2012/11/hong-kong-venture-capital-angel.html
20141203:
HKSTP APAC Innovation Summit 2014 - http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2014/12/hkstp-apac-innovation-summit-2014.html
20150642:
HKSTP APAC Innovation Summit 2015 - Robotic - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2015/06/hkstp-apac-innovation-summit-2015.html
20160407:
HKSTP APAC Innovation Summit 2016 Series – Internet of Things - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2016/04/hkstp-apac-innovation-summit-2016.html
20160825:
HKSTP APAC Innovation Summit 2016 Series – Sensors - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2016/08/hkstp-apac-innovation-summit-2016.html
20170605:
HKSTP APAC Innovation Summit 2017 Series – Robotics - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2017/06/hkstp-apac-innovation-summit-2017.html
Other Smart City related seminars:
20141013:
CityU Big Data Forum - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2014/10/cityu-big-data-forum.html
20151017:
CityU EngD Open Forum – Innovation and Entrepreneurship - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2015/10/cityu-engd-open-forum-innovation-and.html
201603018:
ASTRI – HPE Conference on Big Data and Analytics for Smart City -
20160405:
HKSTP TecONE Seminar on Smart City – Impact and Opportunities for Hong Kong - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2016/03/astri-hpe-conference-on-big-data-and.html
https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2016/04/hkstp-tecone-seminar-on-smart-city.html
20160905:
CityU & HKIE Smart City Workshop 2016 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2016/09/cityu-hkie-smart-city-workshop-2016.html
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