Startup Launchpad October 2018
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Date:
18-21 October, 2018 (Thursday to Sunday)
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Venue:
AsiaWorld-Expo |
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Organized By:
Global Sources |
Startup Launchpad (SULP) is Asia's largest retail startup trade show which helps startups scale up by selling to global retailers and distributors.
The event showcases 300+ startups to 37,000+ global buyers from 140+ countries.
Held twice a year in Hong Kong—an international trade and sourcing hub—Startup Launchpad features a full-fledged conference program with more than 50 thought leaders covering topics from ideation to distribution, and from emerging trends to new innovations of the future.
The event is built to serve Asia’s hardware startup community.
An Introduction to Intellectual Property and its Protection Strategies
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Date:
14 September 2018 (Friday 15:00-16:30)
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Venue:
Chow Tak Sin Lecture Theater (LT-G), 1/F (Lift 25, 26), Academic Complex, HKUST |
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Organized By:
Technology Transfer Center |
Intellectual property takes many forms: from patents and trademarks to copyrights and trade secrets. Being aware of the different types of intellectual property and how to protect them is an important aspect of your research at the university. When you develop intellectual property, including discovering something new or an improvement of an existing product or process, what do you do? How do you go about protecting your intellectual property, especially your new inventions? This seminar will provide guidance in answering these questions, among others, by addressing, for example, the following items:
• Brief introduction of various types of IPs: patent, trademark, copyright (including software & database), trade secret or know-how, design
• IP protection strategy with respect to different nature of inventions
• Introduction to patents
• Patent filing and prosecution strategies: an international perspective (Provisional filing, PCT filing, EU filing)
• Best time to file a patent application (including impact of public disclosure on patent filing)
• How does patent associate with other types of IPs: trademark, copyright and trade secret?
• How to increase the value of an invention?
AI for Art, Design and Media
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Date:
26-27 June 2018 (Tuesday - Wednesday 1:30pm)
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Venue:
Innocentre, Kowloon Tong |
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Organized By:
HKUST-NE Social Media Lab, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Innocentre & Hong Kong Science Park |
Researchers, artists, designers, media experts, business and technology innovators, etc. today are actively exploring the possible uses of Artificial Intelligence to enable machines producing creative visual content like advertisement, product designs, or even paintings, etc. Art, design and media content are challenging to be produced due to the joint complexity of aesthetic, contextual, functional and cultural considerations. In this event, our speakers from relevant professional, research and business communities will share their latest ideas, technologies and works on how AI could help creating original, aesthetic and functional content for visual artworks, applications and businesses. Controversially, these breakthroughs may redefine our usual concepts about art, design and media, and trigger some issues about the ownerships, values, ethics, etc. Is AI a friend or enemy to our human-race creativity? You may discover the answers in this event.
Who should come (FREE, but LIMITED to 100 Persons ONLY):
1. Artists, Designers, Media Experts, etc.
2. Researchers, Business and Technology Innovators, Entrepreneurs, etc.
3. Gallery Owners/Curators, Trademark Agents, Lawyers, etc.
4. Students, Visual Content Educators, Hobbyists, etc.
CES Asia 2018
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Date:
13-15 June, 2018 (Wednesday to Friday)
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Venue:
Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC) |
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Organized By:
Consumer Technology Association™ & Shanghai Intex |
Owned and produced by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) ™ and co-produced by Shanghai Intex Exhibition Co., Ltd (Shanghai Intex®), CES Asia is the premier event for the consumer technology industry, showcasing the full breadth and depth of the innovation value-chain in the Asian marketplace. Key global businesses come to this event to grow and reinforce their brand by showcasing the latest products and technologies to consumer tech industry executives, foreign buyers, international media and a limited number of consumers from China. Attendees have exclusive access to some of the largest brands from China and around the world, while celebrating the innovation that defines the consumer technology sector. Special co-organizers of CES Asia include the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery and Electronic Products (CCCME) and Chinese Electronic Chamber of Commerce (CECC).
CES Asia 2018 will return to Shanghai June 13-15, 2018 as the only industry event focused on the Asia-Pacific market.
International ICT Expo 2018
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Date:
13-16 April 2018 (Friday to Sunday)
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Venue:
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre |
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Organized By:
Hong Kong Trade Development Council |
In the competitive digital age, ICT solutions are crucial for businesses to improve productivity and profitability. At the HKTDC International ICT Expo 2017, 600 leading exhibitors from 10 countries and regions participated with over 31,000 buyers sourcing the latest ICT solutions for enterprises and SMEs across the globe. Established exhibitors are able to tap into a priceless networking resource at the industry’s premier showcase of next-gen ICT products. Exhibitors can also benefit from the synergy of the concurrent Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition), one of the tech industry’s largest events that attracted an even greater number of relevant visitors to the Expo.
