HKETA Symposium on Innovation & Technology 2020 (Online)

Hong Kong Electronics & Technologies Association (HKETA) Symposium on Innovation & Technology 2020 (Online) was co-organized with HKTDC on 16^th Nov 202.  The symposium frame was “A New Connected World beyond the New Normal”.  I attended the afternoon session and summarized below for sharing.

The first speaker was Mr. Timothy Tam (Head of Public Policy and Government Affairs (HK), Google) and his topic entitled “Smarter Digital City – AI for Everyone Whitepaper”.  He introduced the whitepaper named Smarter Digital City – AI for Everyone.

Firstly, he briefed the study of the smarter digital city journey.  The research mainly covered AI Readiness Indices of HK Residents and Businesses, Perception of AI included motivation and barriers for adoption from both Residents and Businesses, as well as, recommendations for policymakers and businesses to foster the AI ecosystem in Hong Kong.

Then Mr. Tam briefed 5 components in th eAI Readiness Indices for Residents & Businesses and they were Know-how, Confidence, Setup, Usage and Spending with score from 0 to 100.  Overall mark for Residents AI readiness index was 50 and Businesses AI readiness index was 56.

After that he briefed the report which identified four industries to be AI’s positive disruption in perception and they were Finance, Technology & Innovation, Travel & Logistics, and Retail. 

Finally, Mr. Tam introduced Google HK service and some AI product for education such as website and Apps (e.g. Ho Jeng Ar).

The second speaker was Mr. Olivier Kein (Lead Technologist, Asia-Pacific, AWS Solutions Architecture, Amazon Web Services) and his presentation named “Reimagining the customer experience”.  Firstly, he briefed AWS enabled customer innovation included rapid experimentation, democratization of capabilities, focus on what matters and scale ideas quickly.

Then he mentioned to cooperate with different industry leaders and shared some cases including health information technology service through telehealth solutions. And then he shared the Omni-channel platform under AWS.

Finally, Mr. Kein discussed data insights and machine learning.  He concluded that Omni-channel and remote experiences would be the new normal; data and machine learning built better customer experiences and could improve operational efficiency.

Prof. K.J. Ray Liu (2021 IEEE President-Elect / Distinguished University Professor & Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Maryland, College Park; and Origin Wireless) and his presentation entitled “Wireless AI: A New Sixth Sense to Deciphering our World”.  Firstly he briefed his research idea through wireless sensing / tracking without wearables.

Then he explained relationship between multi-paths and bandwidth. As bandwidth increases, more multi-paths can be resolved.  (Multi-paths = degrees of freedom)

After that Prof. Liu introduced some application cases of Origin Wireless (OW) tracking system (using Wi-Fi) and briefed four key advantages.  The most key one is real-time and high accuracy.

Finally, Prof. Liu demonstrated some applications including Sleep Monitoring, Elder Care Facility – wellbeing monitoring, Lifelog-as-a-Service (LaaS), Fall-down Detection, RF Imaging, Multi-Person Passive Tracking, Radio Microphone, etc. Lastly, Prof. Liu concluded the Wireless AI – Making Sense Ambient Radio Waves through Time-Reversal Machine to provide different service; and introduced his new book named “Wireless AI: Wireless Sensing, Positioning, IoT and Communications” which published by Cambridge University Press.

The last speakers were Dr. Ruth Huard (PhD, Dean, College of Professional & Global Education, San Jose State University) and Dr. Alan Wong (PhD, Director, Silicon Valley Center for Global Studies, San Jose Stat University) and their topic was “2020: (En)vision Higher Education beyond COVID-19”.

Firstly, Dr. Ruth Huard briefed the impacts of COVID-19 to university and introduced their campus emergency response to the Pandemic.  Then she explained their strategic plan and responsiveness.

Then Dr. Alan Wong mentioned the university digital transformation.  They arranged national cybersecurity career awareness week from 9 to 13 Nov.

At the end, he shared the collaboration journey in SJSU to us.

Reference:

HKETA - http://www.hketa.org.hk/

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