HKIE Conference "Technology for Smart Logistics: towards 2030+"

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The conference “Technology for Smart Logistics: towards 2030+”, is held in Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on September 13, 2017. It is jointly organized by the HKIE Logistics & Transportation (LT) Division, Manufacturing & Industrial (MI) Division, and Control, Automation & Instrumentation (CA) Division. The sponsor of this event is the BPS Global Group, a leading provider of warehousing and logistics infrastructure, which spares no effort to introduce state-of-the-art technology from all over the world for 25 years. Together with support of 20 industry-related professional bodies and industry groups, our conference focuses on latest issues related to the advanced logistics equipment and technology sharing, automation technology applications, etc., to provide new insights for the industry, as well as finding new opportunities regarding Hong Kong's overall logistics and supply chain management.

A number of government officials show their support by delivering welcoming speeches as our guests of honours. They are Louisa Yan, acting Deputy Secretary for Transport & Housing Bureau, the HKSAR, The Hon Frankie YICK Chi-ming, SBS, JP, Legislative Councillor for Transport Constituency, the HKSAR and Ir Wai-leung TANG, acting Commissioner for Transport Department, the HKSAR. Our conference followed by keynotes sessions, we are delighted to have the most knowledgeable researchers from all over the world as well as leaders in the industry to explore these important topics, including Dr. Linning CAI, associate professor, Industrial Engineering Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing, Dr. Masaki RYU, senior director, Mitsubishi Electric Automation China, Ir Kelvin KO, group vice president, BPS Global Group, Ir Alex KWAN, executive director, Airport Authority Hong Kong and Mr. Simon WONG, managing director, LSCM R&D Centre (under HKSAR ITC).

More than 350 senior executives and professionals from logistics, information technology and engineering industry attended our conference and a Q&A session is arranged for further discussion in-depth on our conference topics. A robot exhibition sponsored by BPS Global Group is set to add highlights to this event, with onsite demonstration and professional staffs presenting automation technology showcase. The exhibition includes the well-known picking systems with highly reliable performance which can effectively increase production flexibility and help enterprise achieve industry 4.0. By manipulating advanced technology and equipment, this can help enterprise to save labour cost, as well as overall budget cut down and data accuracy enhanced.

Our Guests of Honours, speakers and logistics conference committee members took a group photo on stage. (From Left: Ir Alain Tang, HKIE CA Division Representative. Ir Dr. Y.M. WONG, Chairman of HKIE LT Division. Ir Kelvin KO, group vice president, BPS Global Group. Mr. Simon WONG, managing director, LSCM R&D Centre (under HKSAR ITC). Dr. Linning CAI, associate professor, Industrial Engineering Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing. The Hon Frankie YICK Chi-ming, SBS, JP, Legislative Councillor for Transport Constituency, the HKSAR. Louisa Yan, acting Deputy Secretary for Transport & Housing Bureau, the HKSAR. Ir Wai-leung TANG, acting Commissioner for Transport Department, the HKSAR. Dr. Masaki RYU, senior director, Mitsubishi Electric Automation China. Ir Dr Daniel Ng, Chairman of HKIE MI Division. Ir Dr KK LAI, Committee Member of HKIE MI Division.)

Mr. Lit Fung, General Manager - IT & Automation of BPS Global Group introduce the stock picking function of the robots imported from China to our audience.