The 10th Asian Electronic Forum 2014 Hong Kong

The 10th Asian Electronic Forum 2014 was held in Hong Kong from 14-16 Oct 2014. Directors and CEOs of Electronic Industries Association from China, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, India and Hong Kong gathered together at Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) to attend the event. This year members visited the Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Autumn Edition) and the electroinicAsia Fair in the morning of Oct. After the luncheon, the HKEIA, the host organizer, invited the honorable Mr. Godfrey Leung, the Under Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development to be Guest of Honour for the afternoon AEF public and conference session. Special thanks were given to the support of Hong Kong Trade Development Council and Messe Munchen International (MMI) for this event.

HKEIA as one of the founding organizers 10 years ago, and after the AEF has been held annually in different Asian Regions in which the Electronic Associations in Asia gather together to discuss and exchange views on important issues affecting the electronic industry in Asia.

During the meeting, senior officials of the member Associations of AEF including China Electronic Chamber of Commerce (CECC), Shenzhen Electronics Industries Association (SZEIA), the Hong Kong Electronic Industries Association (HKEIA), Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association (TEEMA), Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA), Communications and Information network Association of Japan (CIAJ), International Eletrotechnical Commission (Singapore) (IEC), Thailand Electrical and Electronics Institute (TEEI), the CMAI Association of India (CMAI) delivered keynote presentation on the development and future of the electronic information industry in Asia. The AEF also had one new member as the Japan Electrical Manufacturers' Association (JEMA) joined AEF for the first time.

In addition, AEF organized the "10th Asian Electronics Forum Innovation Award" and invited AEF members to be the judging panel for the Award. The Award presentation ceremony was held at the dinner on 15 October.

The Innovation Award of Asian Electronics Forum Winners are as follows:

Company Name Product Name
LOHAS Agriculture Information Technology Co., Ltd LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability)
Baidu Baidu Kuaisou
Shenzhen Sky Dragon Audio-Video Techonology Co. Hyun Dream Zone
Shenzhen Rapoo Technology Co., Limited Rapoo-Bluetooth Touch Keyboard
SuZhou Beiang Technology Ltd Air Purifier JY300
TCL Multimedia Technology Holdings Limited TCL TV+
Ckicom Technology Limited Smart Infant Monitoring System
Hopstech Industries Ltd. Foobler
iFi HK Ltd. AQUAJAM
SK Telecom Co., Ltd. AirCube
World State Limited JumpsPower AMG6 - Portable Mini Jump Starter

On 16 Oct, HKEIA arranged a visit for members to the Hong Kong Science Park and visited two institutions, NAMI & Huawei in the morning. After that AEF members also had a meeting to evaluate this year event and discuss the upcoming 2015 AEF venue.

Members comment that this year HKEIA had held the event successfully and AEF award should be carried forward to next year event. Japan members include JEITA, CIAJ and JEMA showed interest to organize AEF in 2015 October during the CEATEC. Members were worried about the time was too close to the WEF organizing in Taiwan in 2015 and after discussion members finally agreed that TEEMA of Taiwan would be the host of 2015 and Japan be the venue of AEF in 2016. Period will be in October.

It was important to emphasis that AEF was not in competition with WEF, participants of AEF were encouraged to join WEF. In fact the two forums should be complementary to each other. Members also suggested in future AEF could be organized out of Asian Region, such as Germany to explore further cooperation

Site seeing of the Peak has been arranged for members in the afternoon.

For more information of AEF and photos, please visit the AEF official web-site: www.aef-asia.org

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