The Hong Kong Council for Testing
and Certification (HKCTC), the Standards and Calibration Laboratory of the
Innovation and Technology Commission (SCL), Government Laboratory (GL), Hong
Kong Accreditation Service (HKAS) and Product Standards Information Bureau
(PSIB) jointly organized the World Metrology Day (WMD), the World Accreditation
Day (WAD) and the World Standards Day (WSD) Forum on 26 June 2019. Hong Kong Society for Quality (HKSQ) was one
of supporting organizations. This forum organized
in celebration of the World Metrology Day (WMD), World Accreditation Day (WAD)
and World Standards Day
(WSD), would introduce the
pivotal roles of metrology, accreditation and standards in supporting the
Quality Infrastructure (QI). QI new
definition by World Bank is ‘The system comprising the organisations (public
and private) together with the policies, relevant legal and regulatory
framework, and practices needed to support and enhance the quality, safety and
environmental soundness of goods, services and processes.’ Before the start, I
met Ms. Angela Wong (Vice-chairman, HKSQ) to support the forum.
I met many TIC friends and took
photos for memory including Mr. KW Chen (HKAS) and Ms. Brenda Lam (SCL).
I took a photo with Mr. Matthew Tsui who is my old colleague in EPA Centre, CityU.
Photo with Miranda Kwan (Deputy
Director, Certification and Business, SGS)
Photo with Dr. Ka-Sing Leung
(Visiting Associate Professor (Food Science and Safety)
I also met Dr. Andy Parson who is my old colleague in TSC, HKSTP.
I was honor to discuss with Dr.
Walter G. Copan (Director, NIST).
In the beginning, Mr. W.W. Wong (Assistant
Commissioner (Finance & Quality Services), ITC, HKSAR Government) gave
welcoming remarks. He said this forum
started since 2014 and today’s theme focused on Quality Infrastructure that
supported the global supply chain. He added that not only supply chain but
supply network.
Group photo
The first speaker was Dr. Walter
Copan (Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)) and his
topic entitled “The Language of the Universe: Metrology, Accreditation and
Standards Enabling Global Innovation”. Firstly, he briefed NIST mission and it aims
to promote innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement
science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and
improve our quality of life.
Then he briefed their programmatic priorities including Advanced Manufacturing, Cybersecurity, IoT, Quantum Science and AI, etc. NIST research impacts every aspect of Economy he said. Dr. Copan used NIST Atomic Clock as example to explain metrology enabled innovation.
Finally Dr. Copan stated that Standards
are common language to reflect state of technology which is foundation for
technology innovation and market adoption to support protection of health,
safety and environment. He also
mentioned accreditation to be essential to innovation ecosystem. Government, NMIs, Universities, Research
Institutes, Entrepreneurs, Investors are at the heart of innovation ecosystems.
He used formula for economic success as conclusion that was “Measure – Innovate
- Lead”.
The second speaker was Mr. Brahim
Houla (Chairman, Communication and Marketing Committees of International
Accreditation Forum (IAF) and Arab Accreditation Cooperation (ARAC)) and his presentation
named “The Economic Value of Accreditation”.
His talk included Business Benefits of Accreditation, Global System and
WAD 2019.
Mr. Houla mentioned “Quality
Infrastructure (QI) is the system comprising the organziations, the policies,
relevant legal and regulatory framework, and practices needed to support and
enhance the quality, safety and environmental soundness of goods, services and
processes. Then he demonstrated the ILAC
& IAF Conformity Assessment Infrastructure.
After that he briefed accreditation value added in different activities under ILAC and IAF. He added that accreditation roles included cost efficiency, impact on public services, international trade enabled, risk management, commercial benefit and effective market operations.
Finally, he introduced common
aims and roles of IAF and ILAC and one of aims to support world trade by
eliminating technical barriers, realizing the free-trade goal of “tested,
inspected or certified once and accepted everywhere”. Lastly, he reminded the World Accreditation
Day 2019 on 9 June 2019 and the theme named “Adding Value to Supply Chains”.
Mr. Dennis Chew (Director,
International Electrotechnical
Commission (IEC) Asia-Pacific Regional Centre) and his topic was “IEC – Video to
Emerging Technological Trends”. He used
the word “Video” implied to build on algorithms standardized by IEC, ISO and
ITU.
Then he introduced ISO/IEC JTC1
that SC42 was newly created for Artificial Intelligence. Other new study groups included open source
software, quantum computing, autonomous & data rich vehicles and data
usage, etc. A new standard in IEC was
SEG 10: Ethics in autonomous and artificial intelligence applications which was
co-convened by China and Germany.
Finally, he briefed the IEC standards
about 5G, Cyber security, etc. He gave a
whole picture of IEC family included 86 members and 87 affiliates with 207
technical committees and 1430 working groups.
Number of experts are around 20,000 and they had 5 regional offices.
Mr. Basil Wai (CEO, HKEIA) was
the last speaker and his presentation title named “Accreditation: Adding Value
to Ecosystem of Electronics and Technology Sector”.
In the beginning, he briefed the global
trends from three sections and they were Ingredient technologies, Consumers and
in the Market.
Then he introduced the ecosystem
of global electronic supply chain and shared their members challenges including
business operation in different regulatory environments, shorten product
lifecycle, quality, data security, etc.
Finally, he concluded the
benefits of accreditation that were reducing the costs of trade, upgrade and
facilitate global brand image, and confident in supply chain. Mr. Wai used the LED product certificate as
example to demonstrate this benefit.
Q&A Session, Mr. Tsui Cho-man
(SCL) chaired the session.
I wrote two questions about AI
standards that i) What is the challenge of AI standards and how to overcome it?
And ii) How to develop test standard for AI algorithm?
Mr. Dennis Chew answered the first question that IEC formed
different working groups to handle and discuss it such as ethic of AI.
Dr. Walter Copan answered the second question that we needed to
enhance the transparent of the AI development and data so as to avoid unknown
developer and data bias.
Reference:
HKAS – http://www.hkas.gov.hk
20180711: The WMD, the WAD and
the WSD Forum 2018 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-wmd-wad-and-wsd-forum-2018.html
20171027: Metrology Symposium
2017 (Redefinition of the SI Unit) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2017/10/metrology-symposium-2017-redefinition.html
Seminar
on the WMD, the WAD and the WSD 2017 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-wmd-wad-and-wsd-forum-2017.html
Seminar
on the WMD, the WAD and the WSD 2016 (flyer) - http://www.itc.gov.hk/en/quality/hkas/images/Photos/World_Accreditation_Day/WAD_2016_flyer.pdf
Seminar
Celebrating the WMD, the WAD and the WSD 2015 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2015/05/seminar-celebrating-wmd-wad-and-wsd-2015.html
Seminar
Celebrating the WMD, the WAD and the WSD 2014 - http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2014/05/seminar-celebrating-wmd-wad-and-wsd-2014.html
World
Metrology Day 2013 Seminar - http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2013/05/world-metrology-day-2013-seminar.html
World
Metrology Day 2012 Seminar - http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2012/05/world-metrology-day-2012-seminar.html
World
Accreditation Day 2012 Seminar - http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2012/06/world-accreditation-day-2012-seminar.html
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