Mrs Carrie Lam, the Chief Executive, attended a reception at the Central Government Offices on June 4, to commend the Hong Kong delegation on their award-winning inventions shown at the 46th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva (the Exhibition), before taking a tour of the exhibits.

The Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC) has launched a new video to showcase outstanding projects of its five research and development (R&D) centres.

The Standards and Calibration Laboratory (SCL) has developed a verification service for Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) on linear dimensions measurement in accordance with ISO 10360-2:2009. This service was peer reviewed by Dr Tan Siew-leng of National Metrology Centre, Singapore and accredited by the Hong Kong Accreditation Service (HKAS) in April 2018.

The Hong Kong R&D Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management Enabling Technologies (LSCM) announced its name had been changed to Logistics and Supply Chain MultiTech R&D Centre (LSCM) in late May 2018. The name change reflects LSCM’s long-term vision and mission to become a leading research and development (R&D) centre, and its efforts to initiate and conduct R&D activities in various core technology areas including logistics and supply chain management, robotics, e-Commerce, healthcare, and other related industries in Hong Kong.

The "Artificial Intelligence on Fashion and Textile Conference (AIFT) 2018" will be organised by the Institute of Textiles and Clothing of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University from July 3 to 6, 2018. AIFT 2018 is a first-of-its-kind conference, bringing together researchers, engineers and practitioners in the area of using AI in fashion and textiles to discuss and explore the most promising theories and applied intelligence topics. The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA), as the partnering organisation, will have a technology showcase at the event. Click here for more details.