Quality Alchemist (品質煉金術師): HKIE MIS Annual Conference and Gala Dinner 2025

2025年4月11日星期五

HKIE MIS Annual Conference and Gala Dinner 2025

Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) Manufacturing, Industrial & Systems (MIS) Division organized Annual Conference and Gala Dinner on 11^thApr 2025. The theme of MIS annual conference is “Empowering New Industrialization: The Future is Engineered!”. In the beginning, I met Dr. Augustine Chow (CityU EngD Society Advisor) and took a photo with Dr. YC Chau together.

Then we met the MIS chairman and took a group photo.

(Left: Dr. John Chow, Dr. Eric Liu, Dr. YC Chau, Dr. Vincent Fung and I)

I also took a photo with Dr. Carman Lee and Dr. Sheron Sit. Congratulated Dr. Sheron Sit achieved PolyU EngD degree!

I met Dr. HL Yiu (my old boss in HKSTP) and Dr. Wong Yiu Man (Past Chairman, Logistics & Transportation Division, HKIE).

Very long time no see Dr. Daniel Lau who is guest speaker and we knew each other in CityU EPA centre.

Starting the conference, Ir Dr Eric Liu (Immediate Past Chairman of MIS, HKIE) gave a welcome speech.

And then all guests and speakers took a group photo.

(Left: Dr. Vincent Fung, Ms. Anne Loos, Dr. Benny Drescher, Dr. Eric Liu, Mr. Tiejun Liu, Dr. John Chow and Prof. CY Tang)

The first speaker was Dr. Benny Drescher (CTO, HK Industrial AI and Robotic Centre; Director, Technology AI, INC Innovation Centre) and his topic entitled “Manufacturing GPT and AI Agents: Industry Benefits and Use Cases”. In the beginning, he stated AI for efficiency.

Then he demonstration how GenAI (Google Gemini) identified and classified the defect in Textile.

And then he introduced different type of AI and the last one is Generative AI using Large, General-purpose Language Models. Benny said the key different between traditional AI technologies and Generative AI is that GenAI has the ability to create new content.

After that Benny mentioned Manufacturing GPT using Large Multimodal Model (LMM) that can understand and generate content across various data types to support all facets of manufacturing. He also introduced Retrieval-Augmented Generation model to us.

Finally, he shared some observation before and after using GenAI in manufacturing processes.

Ms. Anne Loos (Executive Director, INC) was the second speaker and her topic named “The AI Maturity Journey”.

Firstly, she demonstrated her AI generated her speech in Chinese eventhough she doesn’t know Chinese.

After that she shared some lessons learned from different AI projects such as Data Quality & Governance and Ethical & Social Alignment.

Anne also demonstrated 4 phases to successful AI use case implementation from strategy level to AI use case level.

Lastly, she discussed AI Readiness Assessment for 0 level to 4 level.

After the first session finished, Dr. Vincent Fung chaired the forum for discussion.

Dr. HL Yiu also participated their discussion.

Then Dr. John Chow presented souvenirs to all speakers first.

The third speaker was Mr. Tiejun Liu (Director, Honeycomb Aerospace Technologies Co. Ltd.) and his presentation entitled “Digital low-altitude intelligent service system construction plan and practice” (數字低空智能服務體系建設方案與實踐).

Firstly, Mr. Liu briefed the development history of low-altitude economy policy.

And then he introduced the low- intelligent service system that included two platforms, one center and N applications.

After that he mentioned the core facilities and technologies including Drones. ICT, etc.

Lastly, Mr. Liu demonstrated different application practices to us.

Dr. Daniel Lau was the last speaker and his presentation was “In Hong Kong for Global” Is HK Ready?. He firstly briefed Low Altitude Economy (LAE) that enabling by Big Multi-data driven, new digital twin, and different technologies.

Then he pointed out the three key concepts and they were P (Precision on Position), N (Beidou Compatible Navigation) and T (Synchronized Time “Sky-Ground”.

Daniel said the major challenges of developing LAE in Hong Kong is ‘HK still chasing Mainland digital advanced roadmaps and seemingly far lagging behind. And then he proposed resilient PNT service.