Over 5,000 participants were drawn to this year's StartmeupHK Festival.     The event is to showcase Hong Kong's vibrant startup ecosystem for startups and investors all over the world. This year, it covered smart city, FinTech, Internet of Things (IoT), digital health, fashion technology and retail technology, with more than 80 speakers in panel sessions, interactive discussions, competitions and speaking events. The four-day event took place at the Hong Kong Convention...

Date: 13 January 2017 (Friday)   Time:  8:30am – 12:45pm   Venue: Room CPD-3.28 3/F Jockey Club Tower Centennial Campus The University of Hong Kong   Organizer: Hong Kong Next Generation Internet Society (HKNGIS)   Supporting Organization: SCC   For registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCdYXyOsst6D8WA-a2hMygFeCX6MKO1G7QqL-EpJ_gu7eeCA/closedform  

Co-organized by IT Services, The University of Hong Kong and The Hong Kong Next Generation Internet Society with SCC being the supporting organization.   With the threats of cyber-crimes greatly on the rise, the experts at this technical seminar shared their reviews of the cyber security issues and solutions last year and provided their advice on upcoming challenges of cyber security, particularly in the face of escalating deployment of emerging technologies in Internet of Things, and...

Organised by Hong Kong Productivity Council with SCC as the co-organizer.    As the 4th event of the Smart City Series, the theme for the conference is Smart Living which is one of the six major components of the smart city concept. The conference explored key aspects of the topic including policy initiatives, ways to improve the health and safety of Hong Kong citizens, latest technology applications to enhance our quality of life, as well as global trend.  

Date: 5-7 January 2017 (Thursday-Saturday)   Time:  8:30am - 6:30pm   Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, The University of Hong Kong   Organizer: Asia GIS Association Centre of Urban Studies and Urban Planning, HKUrbanLab, HKU Hong Kong GIS Association GIS Research Centre, HKU   Conference Co-organizer: SCC   Event website:  http://www.dupad.hku.hk/agisc/  

Organised by the Asia GIS Association, the Hong Kong GIS Association, the Centre of Urban Studies and Urban Planning, HKUrbanLab and the GIS Research Centre of the University of Hong Kong with SCC as the conference co-organizer.    The theme this year was "Future Smart Cities" which apply the GIS technology extensively and there are plenty of success stories and precious experiences. The 3-day Conference was a forum for brainstorming the way forward into the future on how to build a...

Date: 22 December 2016 (Thursday)   Time:  4:30pm – 6:00pm   Venue: Golden Lilies Banquet. Shop 102, The Arcade, 100 Cyberport Road Cyberport   Organizer: Information And Software Industry Association    Supporting Organization: SCC

Organized by Shenzhen-Hong Kong Technology Association Alliance. A forum on information and insight exchange between Shenzhen and Hong Kong was held with Mr. Eric Yeung, SCC's Convener as one of the keynote speakers. The thereafter Annual Meeting was officiated by Mr. Nicholas Yang, Secretary for Innovation and Technology, and Mr. Chen Lin, Director General of the Youth Department of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, to show...

  A delegation led by two SCC Co-chairs of Steering Committee Dr. Hon Elizabeth Quat and Dr. Winnie Tang completed a 4-day visit to Tokyo, Japan last December to learn their smart city experiences.   The delegation, met with the senior management of Hitachi, visiting Kashiwa-no-ha – Japan's first Smart City, and the Hitachi Building Solution Lab with presentation about their facility management system.   SCC delegation members included Convener Mr. Eric Yeung, Chair...

Organized by The Chartered Institute of Building (Global VDC). Mr. Eric Yeung, SCC's Convener presented the opening speech. The Symposium was to share knowledge and innovative ideas for practitioners from architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) on how to build a smarter and more sustainable community in the 21st century.