Hong Kong IoT Conference 2019 - Connected World Connected Business

Mr Peter Yan joined the Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Ltd. as the Chief Executive Officer in April 2018. As the CEO of Cyberport, Mr Yan will lead the digital technology flagship to focus on fostering industry development, enterprise transformation and talent cultivation to realise Cyberport’s vision to create new impetus for Hong Kong’s new economy through digital technology.

Mr Yan has 32 years of experience in the information technology industry and is a fellow of the Hong Kong Computer Society. Prior to joining Cyberport, Mr Yan was the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of SUNeVision Holdings Ltd.; and had held various senior management positions in large consulting and information technology services companies including Accenture, Tradelink Electronic Commerce Ltd., and Computer and Technologies Holdings Ltd. Mr Yan has been active in public services especially in the areas of talent development and digital technology industry development, serving as advisors to the Chinese University of Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong and University of Hong Kong, as well as serving on the Board of Cyberport from 2011 to 2017.

Mr Yan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and received Executive Education for Global Leadership from the Harvard Business School.

Aaron Wang, Vice President of IoT Cloud Service Product department, Huawei Cloud, has 14 years working experience in Huawei as SE, Sales, Product, Lifecycle Manager, PE in VAS, BSS and Cloud Service Domain.

Dr. Carmen FUNG has more than 15 years of research experience, both in Hong Kong and in USA, in design and fabrication of micro-devices and micro-sensors using nanostructural materials. She is now working as a Senior Manager at the Electronics Cluster at Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation and is working closely with partner companies to drive the Innovation and Technology ecosystem in Hong Kong especially in the area of advanced micro/nano sensors and IoT devices.

She had more than 5 years of applied R&D experience for various industry sectors when she worked in HKPC and Institute of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology at HKUST (it is subsumed into Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Limited (NAMI) in 2006). She conducted contract research on a number of R&D projects in micro/nano sensors.

She was a postdoctoral research associate at Michigan State University, USA and actively involved in various research projects including developing a nano-sensor array and also fabricating a biocompatible and flexible polymer micro-mesh with a high density of small holes to mechanically immobilize living cell junctions and protein structures during AFM imaging. The related research work was nominated as the Best Conference Paper in IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (IEEE NEMS).

She has authored/co-authored more than 50 professional journals, conference papers and book chapters on her research work. Her research findings were nominated as the Best Conference Paper in international conferences. She received a number of awards including CUHK Academic Creativity Award, and MTR Corporation Scholarship.

Ir. Eric Chan is the Chief Public Mission Officer of the Hong Kong Cyberport. Ir. Chan is in charge of building the ecosystem of nurturing start-ups from inspiring the next generation, through nurturing the entrepreneurial spirit, to empowering global ambition, by providing comprehensive entrepreneurship programmes and early stage funding.

Ir. Chan has 32 years of experience in the ICT industry, a chartered engineer, a chartered marketer and a fellow of Institution of Engineering & Technology (UK). Prior to joining Cyberport, Chan was a Director of HGC Global Communication; and had held various senior positions in global telecom and IT services companies including PCCW, PCCW Consulting Services, Cable & Wireless HKT. Ir. Chan has been active in public services, especially in education and industrial training, professional bodies and charitable organisations. Ir. Chan is the Chairman of Knowledge Management Development Center, Vice Chairman of Industrial Training Advisory Committee (ICT) and a member of Curriculum Development Council. He also serves as advisor and mentor at the University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Ir. Chan holds a BSc. (Hon) degree in Engineering from University of London, a Master degree in Business Administration from Manchester Business School, and received Executive Education from INSEAD and IESE business schools.

Billy Lui has over 25 years of experience in Manufacturing & Distribution, CRM and Accounting systems. He is one of the key members of the Epicor Asia team as Director of Epicor’s Business Solutions Group, responsible for developing and supporting relationships with existing and prospective customers as well as contributing to a number of global teams around product and market strategies. Graduated from University of Warwick in UK with a Master degree, he worked for listed companies in Hong Kong covering various industries. Currently, Billy is also responsible for training in Epicor partner community across different countries in Asia.

Abstract:

Preparing and Starting Your Industry 4.0 Journey and the Epicor Connected Enterprise

• Key challenges that manufacturers are faced with, and how the ability to leverage Industry 4.0 technologies is critical for growth and survival.
• What Industry 4.0 strategies top manufacturers have adopted and invested in to automate and streamline manufacturing processes — from receiving an eCommerce order through manufacturing production to tracking performance with business intelligence solutions.

Dr. Charm has over 30 years of management, marketing, entrepreneurship, consulting and executive education experience in innovation and technology industry. He held senior management positions in leading multinational, Hong Kong and mainland enterprises including Cyberport, HSBC, IBM, Oracle, Kingdee and Jardine Pacific. Dr. Charm is the Chairman of OpenCertHub – a globally recognized platform to authenticate AI/Big Data talents in open sources environment. The mission of OpenCertHub is to democratize data literacy to everyone in Asia. He also chairs and advises a few other elite AI/Big Data, FinTech and eCommerce start-ups in Asia. Dr. Charm is currently an associate professor in the CUHK Business School where he nurtures digital talents and cultivates the next generation of digital leaders.

Dr. Charm has been actively cultivating the start-ups ecosystem in Hong Kong and Asia. When he was the Chief Public Mission Officer of Hong Kong Cyberport, Dr. Charm led his team to establish and cultivate a world-leading digital tech ecosystem in Hong Kong with 1,200+ digital tech companies from 30+ countries where 300+ are FinTech companies and at least 3 are unicorns now. Dr. Charm specializes in AI/Big Data, FinTech, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Digital Strategy, Leadership and Transformation. He has been empowering enterprises to transform to the digital economy. Dr. Charm serves the community and industry through participating in professional and business associations. It includes Hong Kong Institute of Bankers, Hong Kong GS1, Hong Kong Retail Management Association, Hong Kong Consumer Council, and so on. He is the founding chairperson of FinTech SIG and Big Data SIG of Hong Kong Computer Society.

Dr. Charm received 2018 Outstanding Doctor of Business Administration Alumni Award from the City University of Hong Kong and 2015 Best Teacher Award from Institute for China Biz from HKU SPACE. Dr. Charm also completed senior executive programmes from Harvard, UC-Berkeley and CEIBS, and AI/Big Data programme from MIT.

Abstract

AI is going to be the key driver for our economy in the next decade. More importantly, what does it take for individuals, enterprises and societies to be successful in the AI Economy? Would that be the same as the last decade? IQ and EQ are used to be the core competence for success. To be able to perform well in the AI economy, citizens, employees and leaders need to build up a high DQ (Data Quotient) on the top of just IQ and EQ. A wide range of data-savvy professionals from Citizen Data Scientists to AI Experts will be on high demand in the AI economy.

OpenCertHub aims to democratize data literacy to everyone in the AI economy and authenticate the data competence of leaders and professionals through examination and certification. Globally recognized and open sources-based Certified Professionals for Apache Projects (CPFA) is the first qualification that OpenCertHub has launched to the market. Dr. Toa Charm, Chairman of OpenCertHub, will share with the audiences on the algorithm for success in the AI economy.

Zdravka Paskaleva Newman is a 15 year veteran at Cisco. She held various roles within the company expanding between sales, strategy and consulting.

Zdravka started her professional career within Cisco in the Netherlands as a sales executive for education sector. She quickly then supported various customers in complex ICT projects including Connected Real Estate for new mega educational campuses such as Amsterdam Community College, The Hague Community College and Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences.

After 5 years serving education market Zdravka took a year off to complete a dual MBA at Nyenrode Business University and Kellogg School of Management defending her master thesis on Engagement Models for Smart Cities.

Upon returning at Cisco she took ownership of the Smart and Connected Communities (S+CC) charter for The Netherlands. Her most recent work in that role was developing strategy around the role of technologies for sustainable urban development. Applying new methodology to Dutch urban development, Zdravka orchestrated a complex PPP project between City of Eindhoven, VolkerWessels (top tier real estate developer) and Cisco to deliver smart and connected community on the premises of Strijp-S – leading development within the Netherlands. City of Eindhoven has been voted the Smartest Region in 2011 by ICF.

In addition Zdravka has played central role in other smart urban development projects such as Smart Work Centres in Amsterdam, Metropolitan Amsterdam Network as well as Smart Society Almere.

In 2012 Zdravka moved to Hong Kong as senior consultant within Cisco Consulting Services for ASEAN. Exporting her European knowledge, her primary focus was providing strategy and advice to transform cities, communities and developments in the ASEAN region into Smart and Connected Communities. She worked closely with major real estate developers and government authorities to embed ICT master planning methodology into new and existing developments, infrastructural projects and regulation policies.
Currently Zdravka is leading Cisco Smart and Connected Communities business development in APJC. In this role she engages with city officials, governments and urban service providers across the region to define, orchestrate and execute smart city projects.

Zdravka is from Bulgarian origin.

Abstract:

IoT Devices are everywhere! Typical ways to secure the IoT network is securing IoT end devices.
It is definitely not enough. A holistic approach to secure the IoT infrastructure is a MUST!
If you want to know how to protect IoT infrastructure in a holistic approach, please come and join this session.

Solace provides the only unified advanced event broker technology that supports publish/subscribe, queueing, request/reply, message replay and streaming using open APIs and protocols across hybrid cloud and IoT environments. The company’s smart data movement technologies rapidly and reliably route information between applications, devices and people, as well as across public and private clouds. Established enterprises such as SAP, Barclays and the Royal Bank of Canada as well as high-growth companies such as VoiceBase and Jio use Solace to modernize legacy applications and successfully pursue analytics, hybrid cloud and IoT strategies.

Abstract

Embrace innovation and technology to build a world-famed Smart Hong Kong characterised by a strong economy and high quality of living. Multiple agencies are embracing the Internet of Things to automate activities and monitor the equipment, infrastructure or people they’re responsible for. Smart Government is one of the key area in Smart City Blueprint.

Dr. Lam joined GS1 Hong Kong in 2016 and serves as the Chief Operating Officer. He oversees its operations in solution delivery and professional services and business development, and facilitates industry adoption of GS1 standards.

Prior to GS1 Hong Kong, Dr. Lam had spent more than 20 years in IT industry, servicing as senior product management and business development leader for several renowned hi-tech companies including IBM, Akamai, WebEx and Coremetrics in Hong Kong and the US. He has proven records in leading complex business adoptions in cloud computing, AI and data analytics.

When he was in the Silicon Valley, he joined a number of NASDAQ companies, such as CICI, Excite@Home and Cambridge Technology Partner and assumed both product development and management roles. He also worked for a number of VC funded startups, like Internet Travel Network – the first online travel reservation portal.

Dr. Lam graduated from the State University of New York with PhD in Computer Science and specialized in Artificial Intelligence, Data Pattern Analysis and Computer Vision. He had authored more than 30 refereed publications.

Jerrel Leung is the Chief Architect of ubiZense and he is responsible for designing AI-based analytics leveraging on IoT-enabled big data. He has over 10 years of experience in the IoT field. Prior to joining ubiZense, Jerrel was a Research Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His ambition is to bring academic innovations into the the industry.

Abstract

To strengthen airport management, Airport Authority Hong Kong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and ubiZense, jointly developed the Augmented Airfield Service System (AS2), a managed cloud-based service-oriented system, which utilizes and integrates a multitude of existing disparate data sources such as corporate systems and IoT networks. The integrated data is leveraged to bring real-time operations visibility with descriptive and predictive AI-enabled analytics to the Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) community.

AS2 allows the HKIA community to better manage the aircraft turnaround, which includes the processes that need to be performed between an aircraft arrival and departure, such as baggage handling, catering, etc. An aircraft turnaround involves coordination and cooperation of different companies on the apron to ensure the timely arrival and departure of flights (i.e. On-Time-Performance OTP). Descriptive analytics are available to monitor the current operations and predictive analytics are available to detect any anomalies from preparatory stage to completion stage to allow coordination and rapid remedy during normal operation and in times of contingency respectively.

Kelvin KO is currently the Group Vice President and Head of Logistics Technology of the BPS Global. Kelvin is a seasoned professional in logistic operations and process innovation. Throughout his 25+ years serving the logistic industry, he has planned, set up and managed a number of state‐of‐the‐art logistic facilities focusing on automation and process innovation, including the Cathay Pacific Cargo Terminal, the DHL Central Asia Hub, and a number of key express sorting hubs and logistic facilities for SF Express and DHL Express.

Kelvin holds a bachelor degree in Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering from the University of Hong Kong. He is a founding member of the Logistic and Transport Division of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, and is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Transport and Logistics. He is also the Chairman of the Logistics Industry Training Advisory Committee, under the Education Bureau of Hong Kong SAR Government, and is the subcommittee member of Hong Kong Logistics Development Council.

Abstract
Combating high rental, high labour cost and latest enactment of fire services regulations, BPS Global introduced a new concept of total solution alongside the adoption of Autonomous Guided Vehicle (AGV) for StoreFriendly. In addition, this solution has enhanced their customer experience.

By applying this logistics technology, a “no-man zone” operation concept can be realized to ensure the highest level of security. The solution which provides customer’s personal storage appointment by processing the request ahead of time. This eliminates the waiting time of patrons at the shop. It also realizes the concept of “Cabinet to Person” which provides a superior enjoyment to end users. It is thus a self-storage service of StoreFriendly provided to its customers rather than a conventional facility rental.

Mr HUNG graduated from the University of Birmingham, England with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and he further obtained a Master of Science degree in Computer Science in the same University. Mr Terrie KC HUNG is now the Chief Highway Engineer of the Highways Department heading its Research and Development Division.

Mr Hung has been practising civil engineering and at time with application of his IT knowledge since he first joined the government as engineering graduate. Before his appointment as the Chief Highway Engineer of the Research and Development Division of the Highways Department, he had been managing the design and construction of a number of civil engineering projects, including the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Western Corridor and the Deep Bay Link which form the Shenzhen Bay Port (深圳灣口岸）today.

With his drive to explore the use of technology to enhance safety of road works workers, Mr. Hung initiated and co-invented with the Hong Kong Productivity Council the robot system for placing and collecting traffic cones and lanterns for road works – one of the high risk operations on public roads with live traffic.

Abstract:

Prototype of Robot System for the Placement and Collection of Traffic Cones and Lanterns in Road Works

The Highways Department (HyD) always attaches highest priority to the safety of road works workers. Setting up traffic cones and lanterns to fence off works area on roads manually at nighttime for road works with live traffic is always a very dangerous operation for the workers. Minimizing their risk of exposure to live traffic in this operation is therefore extremely important.

Now, HyD and Hong Kong Productivity Council have successfully conceptualized, designed and developed the world’s first robotic system with full cognitive abilities to understand its surrounding to automate this dangerous operation on the roads.

It is no longer a dream. The system is expected to operate on the roads in the near future.

Dr. Poon is the General Manager of Hong Kong Productivity Council and Automotive Parts and Accessory Systems R&D Centre. Dr Poon took lead a team of professional Engineers and researchers with rich experiences in EV and Autonomous technology development. The most representative R&D results include a series of pure electric and hybrid-electric commercial vehicles, EV chargers, active safety systems and big data analytic platform for automobile. In addition to automotive R&D, Dr. Poon and his team also conducted many technology and market study with focus on EV, EV charging infrastructure and connected vehicles.

Dr Poon is also serving as Hon Secretary of SAE HK and Section-Chair of HK Bio- & Eco- Energy Industry Association and Fellow of Green Strategy Association. He has been appointed as Technical Expert by the HK Council for Accreditation and Academic & Vocational Quality since 2015. His major research interests focus on the development of energy storage systems, electrical vehicle control systems and EV charging infrastructure.

Dr Poon graduated with first class honor degree from HKPolyU Mechanical Engineering Department. He got the doctoral degree in 2004. In addition to the duty in HKPC and APAS R&D Centre, he is also a visiting lecturer in HKPolyU for number of subjects related to Automotive Safety and Reliability, and Product Design.

Abstract:

Prototype of Robot System for the Placement and Collection of Traffic Cones and Lanterns in Road Works

The Highways Department (HyD) always attaches highest priority to the safety of road works workers. Setting up traffic cones and lanterns to fence off works area on roads manually at nighttime for road works with live traffic is always a very dangerous operation for the workers. Minimizing their risk of exposure to live traffic in this operation is therefore extremely important.
Now, HyD and Hong Kong Productivity Council have successfully conceptualized, designed and developed the world’s first robotic system with full cognitive abilities to understand its surrounding to automate this dangerous operation on the roads.

It is no longer a dream. The system is expected to operate on the roads in the near future.

Connie Cheung is the Head of GCG Watson Solutions (Supply Chain, Marketing and SaaS) at IBM. She is responsible for leading to bring AI to Supply Chain, Marketingand Commerce profession in Greater China area with Watson Customer Engagement Solutions – one of the leading AI-embedded Solutions in the industry. Previously, she was the leader of channel and ecosystem for IBM’s Cognitive Solutions and Cloud, responsible for GTM strategy and special initiatives in building IBM’s GCG innovation and business partner community. She also drove IBM and Apple Mobile and SaaS business in the US before moving to China. Prior to IBM, Connie started her career as investment banker and investment management. She had extensive experience in banking industry. Connie holds Master degree in Business Administration from MIT Sloan School of Management.

Dr. Peng is the Head of Blockchain Technology in Big Data and Blockchain R&D Center in SF Technology. He received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2018. He obtained his BSc degree in Communication Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University, and MSc degree in Electronic Engineering and Information Science from University of Science and Technology of China, in 2010 and 2013 respectively. He was a visiting scholar at State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2017. His research interests include blockchain system, machine learning, mobile computing, and information security. He has published 2 patents and more than 20 technical papers in top international journals and conferences.

Presentation abstract:

This presentation will introduce many blockchain-based applications in smart supply chain developed by SF Technology. In this presentation, the speaker will first present the pharmaceutical tracing background and many problems to be solved. Then, he will describe an integrated pharmaceutical tracing solution developed by SF Technology, which has been successfully employed in practice. Finally, some other SF blockchain based applications will also be introduced, including food tracing solution, cross border goods tracing solution, and supply chain finance solution.

David has been in healthcare supply chain for more than 20 years. He has held various key roles during this time including serving as Logistics & Supply Chain Head at DKSH, Emerging Market (Myanmar) Logistics Country Head for 2 years and over the last 4 years serving as HK & Macau General Manager then heading up the entire regional (Asia Pacific) for DCH Auriga operations as Vice President for Logistics. David oversees the logistics operations of DCH Auriga for Hong Kong, China, Macao, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines and Indonesia.

Charles Tse advises on digital transformation and industry solutions in the APAC and Middle East regions. With over 23 years of industry experience working as data analyst, technical lead, PMO manager, Principal Consultant, head of IT, business director, and COO, he has a holistic view on how digital transformation and strategies can help the different roles and business functions of a company.

Started 2007, Charles worked on online digital solutions for a prominent aggregated O2O retail brands in USA. Since then, he has helped start-ups, medium sized, and multi-billion USD retail companies to mature digitally.

Abstract:

Digital transformation in China is literally translated as “Number Transformation”. From a first glance, this can seem to be a weird translation. However, in reality, being able to numerically quantify real-world phenomenon makes it possible to measure and comparable, which in turn allows standardization and most importantly comprehension and communication. In this session, Charles will share how Alibaba classify information, and how such classification can be useful in conceptualizing new retail. He will also share with you some practical examples of why data, and most often numbers, can facilitate new retail in many fronts.

Billy Fung is a IoT Business Development Director of Cisco Systems. Billy is responsible for digital transformation business of various industries in Greater China region. He has been working for Cisco for over 21 years and with more than 25 years of experience in IT and telecommunications industry. In addition to business development, Billy worked as an IoT Architect for Asia Pacific and Greater China region for five years and also had been a Sales Manager for Hong Kong public sector.

Abstract:

Cities today are challenged with Rapid Urbanization, Economic Constraints, and Environmental Sustainability. In order to stay ahead of this urbanization, cities worldwide are becoming digital—or evaluating strategies for doing so— making use of the unprecedented opportunities possible from rapidly expanding connectivity around the globe.

Digital transformation (or digitization) requires city leaders to rethink how their agencies operate—and interoperate—to maintain city infrastructures and deliver citizen services efficiently. They should understand that a host of new technology strategies are available to help them do that.

Digitization necessitates a combined understanding of government, citizen, and business processes in order to apply the appropriate technology strategies and architectures that will connect everything—people, data, actions, devices, machines—as well as embrace analytics and take a holistic approach to data security and privacy that spans technology, operations, and culture.

Vivek Chudgar is a Senior Director of Mandiant Consulting Services, responsible for managing client relationships and owning delivery of all Mandiant services in the APAC region.

Vivek has over 18 years of hands-on experience across various cyber security and technology disciplines. Vivek’s primary areas of expertise and interest include enterprise-scale incident response, strategic security program and cyber defense centre development, secure network and systems architecture design and advanced penetration testing. Over the years Vivek has also served as a trusted advisor to CISOs of several blue chip enterprises in APAC and USA.

At Mandiant, Vivek established the APAC consulting practice five years ago. Over the last five years, Vivek has responded to many complex and high profile incidents for large APAC enterprises involving advanced cyber-attacks impacting tens of thousands of computers.

Simone is currently an Executive Consultant and the Global OT Security Assessment Global Lead based in the United States. Simone’s main interests today are in OT and Industrial IoT security tests, detection architectures, Attack Simulation Analysis, Threat Modeling and Adversarial Artificial Intelligence.

He is working closely with various university institutions in the networking and web security research field. He collaborated with the European Union and ENISA on Smart Grid security (Expert Group on Security and Resilience of Communications Networks and Information Systems for Smart Grids).

Dr Frederick Yip is currently an executive director from Goldjoy Group and leading the organisation’s digital transformation strategy. He has over 18 years of experience in the IT industry and extensive consulting engagements with banking and financial organisations with core focus in electronic payments. He received his Software Engineering PhD from the University of New South Wales in Australia and has published widely in the areas of compliance management and semantic web applications. He is also an active investor and advisor in startups and early-stage ventures in Hong Kong.