This year, China Hi-Tech Fair was successfully held on 11-15 November 2020 at the Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center. LSCM joined this signature event under the Hong Kong Pavilion, which was co-organised by the Innovation and Technology Commission and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council. The Centre’s latest technologies, Follow-me Robot and Smart Lifter were introduced to the cross-border participants.

Organised by The Construction Industry Council (CIC), Celebration of BIM Achievement 2020 was held online on 10 Nov 2020.  This celebration aims to recognise outstanding projects, organisations and individuals for their contributions in adopting and promoting Building Information Modelling (BIM) in the construction industry in Hong Kong.   With the project of “RFID-Enabled Building Information Modeling (BIM) Platform for Prefabrication Housing Production in Hong Kong”, LSCM and its collaboration partner, the University of Hong Kong, were excited to receive the award of “Projects 2020” at the event.  

The webinar named “Hong Kong as a Global Aviation Hub - Unleash the Opportunities in the Post Covid-19 World” on 28 October 2020 at 21:00. It is jointly organized by Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in New York (HKETO), InvestHK, Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), Hong Kong Association of New York (HKANY) and Hong Kong Association of Atlanta (HKAA). Join the air cargo experts and supply chain specialists from Hong Kong and the United States to discuss the challenges and opportunities in the time of COVID19. How do we navigate through this “new normal”? How does our logistics industry capitalize on the burgeoning ecommerce developments and the ever-advancing technologies? Our CEO Mr Simon Wong will also be one of the panelists in this webinar. If you are interested to join us, please register in this link: https://hkaviationlogisticstech.eventbrite.com.

“The 25th Macao International Trade and Investment Fair” is organised by the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM), and co-organised by 15 economic and commercial authorities and trade associations from Macao, Hong Kong and Mainland China, will be held from 22 to 24 October, 2020.” MIF is the first Macao local exhibition awarded by the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry (UFI), and is one of the most reputable annual international economic and trade events in Macao. Under the theme of “Cooperation-Key to Business Opportunities”, MIF leverages on Macao’s advantages as “World Centre of Tourism and Leisure” and “Commercial and Trade Cooperation Service Platform between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries”, which helps MIF’s participants to facilitate business start-up, development and transformation. Our CEO, Mr Simon Wong, was invited to be the speaker of the forum themed as "Smart Cities among Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in relating to Logistics Innovation Technology and Big Data in Safety Transport in Practices". Mr Wong shared his view on the topic related to “How COVID-19 affect the present and future logistics and supply chain development” and prompted joint effort in the regions for the industry. For more event details, please visit http://www.mif.com.mo/25mif/en/ .  

CILTHK LIVE Seminar Series 2020-21 aims to promote the excellence in the transport and logistics practice in Hong Kong and taking this opportunity joining other professionals to build up an online knowledge exchange platform to share best practice across the world. The theme of this series is ‘Smart Cities, Smart Mobility’ and is the first of its kind. In this series, FOUR sessions will be held in quarterly basis from September 2020 – June 2021. Practitioners and academics in the transport and logistics industry will be invited to share their knowledge, experience and insights on how smart mobility drives the city future and its latest development. The first session will be held with LSCM on 8 Sep 2020. The webinar topic is "How do we make Hong Kong a Smarter City?". Hong Kong is working to build a smarter city for the comfort of her residents and visitors. Six pillar approach including smart mobility, smart living, smart environment, smart people, smart government, and smart economy has been adopted. Technologies are the indispensable foundation for developing and implementing a smarter city. This seminar will discuss some selected technologies for smart city developed by Logistics and Supply Chain MultiTech R&D Centre. These example technologies span from sensing devices to video cams and from AI to systems. Realistic cases will be outlined to demonstrate the applicability of these technologies.  Please find the vent details as below: Date:8 September 2020, Tuesday Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm (Registration starts on 6:30pm) Venue: Online with Zoom Fee: Free admission Deadline: 27 Aug 2020 Registration:  http://www.cilt.org.hk/webadmin/adminevents/joineventsform.jsp?rid=1779  Event website:  http://www.cilt.org.hk/webadmin/adminevents/viewevents_public.jsp?cPage=2#1779

On 7 September, the Secretary for Innovation and Technology, Mr Alfred Sit, and the Permanent Secretary for Innovation and Technology, Ms Annie Choi, visited LSCM command centre of the Universal Community Testing Programme to learn about how LSCM had applied logistics and related technologies to oversee the security management and logistical arrangements for specimens. LSCM CEO Simon Wong and the team introduced the technologies applied in streamlining the logistical arrangements.