HKSQ Technical Visit to HKPC laboratories

After the cooperation meeting with HKPC, HKSQ arranged a technical visit to HKPC laboratories on 13^th Jun 2025. Dr. Jane Wong (Chairman, HKSQ) and Ms. Angela Wong (Vice-chairman, HKSQ) led us to visit HKPC and we took a group photo in front of the Future Manufacturing Hall. 

In the beginning, Mr. Jerry Cheung (Consultant, Biomedical, New Industrialisation Division, HKPC) introduced HKPC background.

HKPC has long history and they established since 1967 with 1200 staffs and provided different services to Hong Kong industries.

Mr. Jerry Cheung introduced some schemes to assist SMEs in Hong Kong.

And then he led us to visit the Future Manufacturing Hall.

The introductory video was played here.

Then their representative introduced their projects with local industries.

We also visited the microfactory zoom.

Afterwards, we visited the Cradle Zone that they assisted SMEs in expanding their overseas business.

Some products were demonstrated. It is AI Tactile Sensing Matrix.

We then took a group photo in front of the Cradle banner.

We also visit EMC laboratory that is the first EMC laboratory in Hong Kong. I met Mr. John Wu (EMC expert) who worked with Ms. Angel Wong for long time. We cooperated many times when I serviced in CMATCL.

Then John introduced EMC testing for new product design.

Finally, Jerry led us to visit medical devices exhibition from different companies. This product was designed by PolyU for health assessment without blood extraction.

I found CityU session and took a photo for memory.

And then we visited Green Living Laboratory which accredited by HOKLAS and provided different testing including metals, microbiology, inorganics and trace organics.

They had GCMS for TCM testing and authentication.

Lastly, we visited Smart Wearables, Watch and Clock Technology Centre. 

The representative explained their service for smart device especially smart watch.

The videos demonstrated how to test the smart watch simulated user running and walking. 

At the end, we returned to the meeting room and Mr. Bond Chan (Sr. Biomedical Specialist, HKPC) introduced different government funding schemes which were suitable to HKSQ members.

New Industrialisation Funding Scheme (NIFS) was introduced.

Research and Development Cash Rebate Scheme (CRS) is the most popular funding for SME cooperated with HKPC.

After the funding introduction, he showed some real successful cases to us.

At the end, we took a group photo together.

(Left: Mr. Jerry Cheung, Mr. Bond Chan, I, Ms. Angela Wong, Dr. Arvin Zhang (Head, New Idustrialisation Division), Dr. Jane Wong, Mr. Felix Chiu (Bose), Dr. Carlin Chu (HSUHK) and Ms. Kitty Li (Mattel))

After the visit, we joined HKSQ exco meeting in PolyU.

Reference

HKSQ - https://hksq.org/

HKPC New Industrialisation - https://www.hkpc.org/en/our-services/new-industrialisation

20250516: HKSQ and HKPC Cooperation Meeting - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2025/05/hksq-and-hkpc-cooperation-meeting.html

HKSQ and HKPC Cooperation Meeting

Dr. Jane Wong (Chairman, HKSQ), Ms. Angela Wong (Vice-chairman, HKSQ) and I on behalf of HKSQ to discuss cooperation with Mr. Jerry Cheung (Consultant, Biomedical, New Industrialisation Division, HKPC). The cooperation meeting was held in PolyU.

After introduction of HKSQ, Mr. Jerry Cheung briefed their service especially in application of different fundings.

It is very suitable for our corporate members and SMEs. We also discussed different service including training course, seminar, industrial cooperation, etc.  The first seminar would be arranged in Jun 2025.

Reference

HKSQ - https://hksq.org/

HKPC New Industrialisation - https://www.hkpc.org/en/our-services/new-industrialisation

HKPC Lunch & Learn Talk - The Challenges of Generative AI in Intellectual Property Protection

 I attended the HKPC Lunch & Learn Talk named “The Challenges of Generative AI in Intellectual Property Protection” (探討生成式AI在知識產權保護方面的挑戰). Dr. Albert So is the guest speaker and we had joined ANQ Congress together in last year.

Firstly, he briefed the background of IP protection ordinance in Hong Kong. IP included three areas and they were Copyright, Trademark and Patent.  Nature of Copyright included any article, music and art that no need for registration and effective once created.

Then Dr. Albert So stated the ownership of copyright that author is the first owner. If author is employed by company to create the items, employer had the copyright in default. For commissioned work, the contractor is the owner if not stated clearly in the contract agreement.

Restricted act by copyright included copy, distribution in public, open performance, broadcasting, etc. However, some statutory permitted acts had been allowed such as action not affected owner’s benefit and some special purposes (e.g. education, comments & research).

After that Dr. So briefed some legal IP aspects on Generative AI. Who would be responsible to the infringement that included AI Model Developer, AI Model User, Platform Service Provider and End User.

Finally, some cases were discussed. The first case was “Monkey-selfie copyright dispute”. Between 2011 and 2018, a series of disputes took place about the copyright status of selfies taken by Celebes crested macaques using equipment belonging to the British wildlife photographer David J. Slater. In December 2014, the United States Copyright Office stated that works created by a non-human, such as a photograph taken by a monkey, are not copyrightable. In April 2018, the appeals court ruled that animals cannot legally hold copyrights. Non-human is key words that included AI!

The second case was Edmond de Belamy that is a generative adversarial network (GAN) portrait painting constructed in 2018 by Paris-based arts-collective “Obvious”. In this case, Obvious received USD $432,500. Dr. Albert So mentioned that it could be employed the Doctrine of “Authorship Transfer” that person behind the AI who had control over the creative process if no infringement. Since the teaching draw were long time ago, it is not covered by copyright (more than 50 year after author pass away).

The last case was that a user requested Ultraman-related images from the AI platform, which was not named in reporting, the outputs were extremely similar to the plaintiff’s original creation. The Guangzhou Internet Court ruled that an AI company infringed on the plaintiff's "copyright and adaptation rights" to the Ultraman works while providing generative AI services, ordering the defendant to pay 10,000 yuan (about USD$1,389) in compensation to the plaintiff for the economic loss.

At the end, Dr. Albert So concluded that AI generative texts or diagrams may infringe copyright. So we needed to consider the context owner and country related ordinances, as well as, AI derives product.

Reference

20231019: ANQ Congress 2023, in Phy My, Ba Ria Vung Tau, Vietnam – Day 2 (Part A – Parallel Session) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2023/10/anq-congress-2023-in-phy-my-ba-ria-vung_19.html

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HKPC Webinar: Automated Business Continuity & Data Protection in Smart Manufacturing

Webinar named “Automated Business Continuity & Data Protection in Smart Manufacturing” was organized by HKPC on 10^th Jun 2022. They invited two speakers to introduce cyber resilience and the first rule of business continuity. 

The first speaker was Mr. Lawrence Law (Security Consultant, HKCERT) and his topic entitled “Embracing Cyber Resilience in Smart Manufacturing”. Firstly, he introduced HKCERT that coordination of information security incident response for local enterprises and internet users.  He also briefed the global operational technology (OT) security incidents increasing in manufacturing segment.

Then Mr. Law explained four factors causing OT sectors’ vulnerability. They are “Human Operated Ransomware”, “Pandemic drives”, “Digital Transformation” and “Unpatched Systems”. Most of hacker attack IT first and then went to OT that cause Industrial control system (ICS) vulnerability.

After that he mentioned to build cyber resilience withstands cyber-attacks. 3 key strategies are “Adopt Network Segmentation”, “Data Backup and Recovery” and “Enhance Network Security Visibility”. For segmenting OT network, De-militarized Zone (DMZ) was employed to separate IT and OT.

The Purdue Model, formally the Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture (PERA), is a structural model for industrial control system (ICS) security, concerning physical processes, sensors, supervisory controls, operations, and logistics. It separated from Level 0 to Level 5. Some critical data stored in level 3 under OT and level 4 under IT.

Finally, Mr. Law stated implementation of network security through “enforcement of strict access control to OT network”, “establishment of visibility to all OT communication”, “Conducting baseline of device asset and setting” and “On-going monitoring and detection”. Lastly he introduced IoT security best practice guideline in HKCERT website.

The second speaker was Mr. Chris Wong (Regional Channel System Engineer, HK & Taiwan, Veeam).  In the beginning, he introduced the history of ransomware since 1981.

Then he briefed Advanced Ransomware Attach in six stages and they are “Observation”, “Setting up Shop”, “Preparation”, “Cripple recoverability” and “Ransom Declared”.

After that Mr. Wong introduced three-part defense approach and they are protection of immutable backup, alert for visibility and reliable recovery.

Finally, he suggested 32110 best practices for ransomware protection. An immutable backup should be employed for protecting data that ensures the data is fixed, unchangeable, and can never be deleted, encrypted, or modified. Recovery should consider Scale, Recure Restore and Disaster Recovery Orchestration.

Reference:

HKPC - https://www.hkpc.org/en

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HKPC SME Index Conference – SenseTime AI Sharing

HKPC held SME Index Conference 2020 (渣打香港中小企領先營商指數 - 中小企智囊論壇2020) on 11th Nov 2020.  I would like to summarized one of speakers who was from SenseTime (商湯科技) for sharing AI application in SME.  The guest speaker was Mr. Shang Hailong (尚海龍) (GM, SenseTime) and his topic named “Human-machine concentric and swimming upstream (人機同心, 逆流而上)”.

 

Firstly, he said our behavior change because of Covid-19 such as wearing face mask, online office and public temperature measurement, etc.  How AI could help SME to create opportunities? Then he introduced the SenseThunder-E mini functionality and characteristics.  Mr. Shang added customer didn’t like to be pointed (like by gun) for temperature measurement.

One of business cases was the shopping mall application that identified crown characteristics to understand its distribution and movement paths.  Another case was intelligent hotel which employed in Singapore.

Then he showed a video “How SenseTime Reinvented Your Hotel Experience?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCIQXJiSQVU

And then he briefed Intelligent Construction from auto data collection, data processing and analysis, finally to prediction that employed AI techniques. 

Finally, he introduced their other applications included AI+AR for landmarks, AI for advertisement and AI education which cooperated with HKPC for Hong Kong SME.

Reference:

HKPC Academy – https://www.hkpc.org/en/hkpc-academy/rttp

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