{"id":17765,"date":"2021-09-28T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/09\/28\/hong-kong-convention-ambassadors-tech-event-wins-underline-the-citys-position-as-a-pivotal-it-hub\/"},"modified":"2021-09-28T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T04:00:00","slug":"hong-kong-convention-ambassadors-tech-event-wins-underline-the-citys-position-as-a-pivotal-it-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/09\/28\/hong-kong-convention-ambassadors-tech-event-wins-underline-the-citys-position-as-a-pivotal-it-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Convention Ambassadors\u2019 Tech Event Wins Underline the City\u2019s Position as a Pivotal I&#038;T Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>HONG&#13;<br \/>\nKONG SAR &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>\u00a0-&#13;<br \/>\n28 September 2021 &#8211; Further to the announcement the return of RISE, one of&#13;<br \/>\nAsia&#8217;s largest tech conferences, in March 2022, Hong Kong also recently secured&#13;<br \/>\ntwo major technology events to be held next year \u2013 the very first Greater Bay&#13;<br \/>\nArea Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Conference 2022 (GBAAIR Conference),&#13;<br \/>\nand IEEE Region 10 Conference 2022 (TENCON), which was last held in the city in&#13;<br \/>\n2006.<\/p>\n<p>The&#13;<br \/>\ntwo conferences are expected to act as a magnet for leading industry experts,&#13;<br \/>\nstrengthening the city&#8217;s position as a pivotal innovation and technology&#13;<br \/>\n(I&amp;T) hub. Conference organisers paid tribute to the Hong Kong Convention&#13;<br \/>\nAmbassador (HKCA) programme initiated by the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB),&#13;<br \/>\nwhich helped them decide on the best location. <\/p>\n<p>HKTB Executive Director Mr Dane Cheng&#13;<br \/>\nsaid: &#8220;Since starting the HKCA programme, we have received tremendous support&#13;<br \/>\nfrom more than 100 ambassadors, who are all prominent leaders of business and&#13;<br \/>\nprofessional bodies in Hong Kong. Their concerted efforts will lead to a new&#13;<br \/>\nera of opportunity for both Hong Kong tourism and the city&#8217;s multi-sector&#13;<br \/>\ndevelopment. We are confident we will achieve further success with our&#13;<br \/>\nambassadors and make Hong Kong the world&#8217;s meeting place for business events.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Greater Bay Area Artificial Intelligence and Robotics&#13;<br \/>\nConference 2022 (GBAAIR Conference)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Artificial&#13;<br \/>\nintelligence and robotics experts from Hong Kong, Mainland China and around the&#13;<br \/>\nworld are expected to flock to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre&#13;<br \/>\nfor the GBAAIR Conference, the first large-scale conference of its kind to take&#13;<br \/>\nplace physically in the Greater Bay Area since the pandemic. A rich programme&#13;<br \/>\nof cross-border exchange and excursions will take place, thanks to the city&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nsupreme connectivity to Mainland China, with its extensive road and rail&#13;<br \/>\nnetwork. The conference will be hosted by the Hong Kong Society of Artificial&#13;<br \/>\nIntelligence and Robotics, in tandem with the Hong Kong Productivity Council&#13;<br \/>\n(HKPC), which is part of the HKCA programme. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>HKPC&#13;<br \/>\nChairman Mr Willy Lin Sun Mo, GBS, JP said: &#8220;Playing host to this event will&#13;<br \/>\nunderscore Hong Kong&#8217;s first-rate research capability in artificial&#13;<br \/>\nintelligence and robotics, which has been identified as one of the key pillars&#13;<br \/>\nof the city&#8217;s innovation economy and a prime part of the National Key Technologies&#13;<br \/>\nResearch and Development Programme. We are delighted that the HKCA programme&#13;<br \/>\nwas launched in time, and the HKTB is a great partner, offering professional&#13;<br \/>\nsupport every step of the way, especially for first-time organisers.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><b>IEEE Region 10 Conference 2022 (TENCON)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thanks&#13;<br \/>\nto the referral of ambassador Ir Edward Cheung, Chairman of the Joint Chapter&#13;<br \/>\non Circuits &amp; Systems and Communications of&#13;<br \/>\nIEEE Hong Kong Section, the HKTB worked together with the IEEE Hong Kong&#13;<br \/>\nSection to successfully bring TENCON to Hong Kong. The high-profile technology&#13;<br \/>\nand engineering event will gather more than 1,000 cross-disciplinary professionals,&#13;<br \/>\nacademicians, industry leaders, researchers and students.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dr&#13;<br \/>\nPaulina Chan, Chair of the IEEE Hong Kong Section and the General Chair of&#13;<br \/>\nTENCON Conference, said: &#8220;We&#8217;re excited to host TENCON, an IEEE flagship&#13;<br \/>\nconference in Hong Kong again in 2022. Hong Kong is an ideal destination for&#13;<br \/>\ntechnology-business integration and an international hub for hosting&#13;<br \/>\nprofessional conferences in Asia. We had a great experience working with the&#13;<br \/>\nHKTB. I am confident that the upcoming TENCON will reach new horizons in global&#13;<br \/>\nparticipation, anticipating multidisciplinary professional profiles and dynamic&#13;<br \/>\nexchanges among international attendance.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Hong Kong: A Pivotal I&amp;T Hub <\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hong&#13;<br \/>\nKong is a pivotal I&amp;T hub, enjoying strong government support and growing&#13;<br \/>\ncollaboration among GBA cities. Coupled with Hong Kong&#8217;s unique position as an&#13;<br \/>\ninternational gateway, with unrivalled connectivity, the city is a strategic&#13;<br \/>\ndestination for tech events. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Through&#13;<br \/>\nthe HKCA programme, the HKTB provides one-stop event support for events both&#13;<br \/>\nlarge and small for the I&amp;T sector, as well other business and professional&#13;<br \/>\nfields, and promote the multiplier effect to fuel the local economic recovery.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-09-28\/96397\/hong-kong-convention-ambassadors-tech-event-wins-underline-the-citys-position-as-a-pivotal-it-hub\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG&#13; KONG SAR &#8211;\u00a0Media OutReach\u00a0-&#13; 28 September 2021 &#8211; Further to the announcement the return of RISE, one of&#13; Asia&#8217;s largest tech conferences, in March 2022, Hong Kong also recently secured&#13; two major technology events to be held next year \u2013 the very first Greater Bay&#13; Area Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Conference 2022 (GBAAIR Conference),&#13; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}