9 August, 2019 - The International Invention,Innovation and Technology Exhibition (ITEX), jointly run by CIODevelopment Center, IT solution providers and a group of high-level CIOs, is a businessevent matching IT supply with demand by way of an exposition. Inaugurated inBeijing on 9 August 2019, the “ITEX’s First Expo Matching IT Supply with Demand” comprisedsummits, fairs and seminars on business demand. Representatives from well-knownIT manufacturers, especially top startups, and IT companies are invited to displaytheir products at booths and deliver talks. Meanwhile, more than 100 CIOs aswell as investment firms showcase their latest IT technology applications that facilitateprecise matching of IT supply with demand. With its extensive experience in ICTsolution service, HKT is honored to be invited to participate in the event.

The expo is highlighted by four main features:

1.   All-encompassing: It isthe first large-scale business show matching ITsupply with demand catering for CIOs, and covering IT manufacturers of different domains.

2.   Future vision: An AI zone and a hot product zone are availableto offer participants a sneak peek at the latest IT development.

3.   Discount offering: To facilitatea platform promoting quantity procurement, a group purchase zone is set up for CIO members to purchase hot products at more attractive discounts.

4.   Precise matching: A 1-on-1 seminar on supply and demand takes place on the followingday, and it serves as an effective platform for business negotiations matching theneeds of participating CIOs and manufacturers.

At a seminar entitled “Enterprise Mobility and Security”, Fan Jian Cheng, Senior Consultantdelivered a speech on “securityand network challenges amid corporate digital transformation”. It was notedthat following the announcement of “Go Out” policy as a national strategy atthe 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the country  shifted its focus to the two-pronged approachof “bringing in foreign investment” and “going global” from the previous one ofsimply “bringing in foreign investment”, which was adopted at the initial stageof the open door policy. Network connectivity is essential for enterprises expandingits business overseas. Likewise, the performance of basic business IT networks,costs and providers’ service are particularly vital to such businessesexpansion. Yet, local operators face a variety of unfavorable factors such asslow capacity expansion, connection delay, more packet loss and absence ofoptimization measures for accessing leading global public cloud servers AWS, Azure and Softlayer,in addition to low speed. This has thus dampened enterprises’ initiatives interms of business expansion overseas. As a modern telecommunication hub, HongKong is well positioned to serve as a “super-connector”. In his remarks, Fan Jian Cheng noted: Headquarteredin Hong Kong, HKT has extensive experience in operation and management ofInternet connectivity abroad, and that it has access to plentiful internationaloutbound bandwidth and overseas IP backbone, undersea and terrestrial cableresources. This helps optimize and boost the speed of accessing leading global public cloud servers. With its business networksecurity ensured, HKT offers highly cost-effective integrated ICT solutions for business customersof all trades in China and abroad.

 A glimpse of theseminar when HKT Senior ConsultantFan Jian Cheng delivers his speech.