Las Vegas, NV – Electronics innovation will be on vibrant display in the Hong Kong Trade Development Council’s (HKTDC) 43rd annual Hong Kong Pavilion at CES, featuring 47 companies in bold and exciting exhibits that showcase why electronics is the number one export for the world city.

Strategically located in the heart of Asia, within a five-hour flight to half of the world's population, Hong Kong has long been a hotbed of entrepreneurship. The city boasts the fifth-fastest growing start-up ecosystem in the world and was the world's #1 IPO center in 2019. It's strong global financial hub, coupled with the city's supportive regulatory structures, low taxes, attract top investments to help fuel new and long-term development.

Today, more than 3,100 start-ups call Hong Kong home, a 21% increase from 2018. Co-organized with the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP)

20 of these start-ups will be exhibiting in Eureka Park, including 6 winners from the Start-up Express – a development program launched by HKTDC to assist Hong Kong start-ups in building networks, marketing their business and enhancing brand awareness globally. There are also two winners from IPHatch Hong Kong – an open-innovation competition to bring business concepts to fruition by commercializing the intellectual property and technology portfolios from renowned multinational corporations.

As a key international sourcing hub, 27 Hong Kong innovators will also be featured in the Design and Source to supply the needs of global buyers who attend CES this week.

Exhibitors representing a broad spectrum of applications will be on display, including:

1. Artificial Intelligence: Jedies Advance Tech, Veztan

2. Wellness/Wellbeing: CYC Motor, Contact Beverage

3. Lifestyle: Knitwarm, Maxconcept

4. Wearables and Medical/Healthcare: Taison Digital, MedEXO, Incus

5. Eco/ Smart Home: AIRXED, Hi-Cooler, Epro

6. Smart City: RaSpect, , Affluent Growth & Innovation Tech

7. IoT & Sensors: R-Guardian, Prodigy, Meridian Innovation

8. Lighting: LiPhy, Rayson

9. Safety & Security: GL Technologies, KiLax

10. R&D: NAMI, Innoplay

11. AR/VR: PPK, Kazoo

12. 3D: PlusD,

13. E-commerce: LinkedMarts

14. Electro/Acoustic: Innovation Technology, Kan Tsang, Chiba, Shiba

15. Testing & Certification: ECTest, STC

As the world’s freest economy for the past 25 years, and ranked as the world’s third best and easiest place for business by the World Bank’s Doing Business Report 2020, Hong Kong presents an ideal opportunity and platform for companies seeking to enter the fast-growing Asian market. Electronics products are currently Hong Kong's biggest export, accounting for over 68% of Hong Kong's total exports in 2018 and supplying global demand for high-tech products including telecommunications equipment, semiconductors and computer items, etc.

For more about HKTDC, please visit www.hktdc.com and for registration details for CES, please visit www.ces.tech.

To learn more about the 47 Hong Kong companies exhibiting at CES, click here.

About HKTDC
The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) is a statutory body established in 1966 to promote, assist and develop Hong Kong's trade. With 50 offices globally, including 13 in Mainland China, the HKTDC promotes Hong Kong as a two-way global investment and business hub. The HKTDC organizes international exhibitions, conferences and business missions to create business opportunities for companies, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), in the mainland and international markets. The HKTDC also provides up-to-date market insights and product information via trade publications, research reports and digital news channels. For more information, please visit: www.hktdc.com/aboutus. 

LONDON — Look for dominance by Silicon Valley firms launching more sophisticated smart devices for the home and business at next year’s CES 2019.

That was the prediction made by UK-based Digital Production Partnership, a nonprofit, membership-based organization promoting common specifications and workflows. Managing Director Mark Harrison discussed his prognostications at the DPP’s HPA Creative Tech Retreat this week in London.

While CES 2019 is likely to attract close to 4,000 exhibitors, Harrison said that only a handful of them will actually matter. Tech giants, like Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Facebook, will dominate the industry with innovations related to smart assistants, smart cars, the smart home, business operations and e-commerce, among other widely adopted consumer technologies. And Chinese giants like Alibaba, Baidu, TenCent, Huawei, Hisense and ZTE will have an especially strong presence.

[Read: CES 2018: Big, Thin And Very Smart Is TV Theme]

Predicting that “the future will be hiding in plain sight,” Harrison added that there “will be lots of voice control, enabled by machine learning, and we’ll see some interesting examples of personalization. They’ll give us glimpses of what truly usable personalization, that works seamlessly across different environments, could look like. But the technology needs to catch up before we see the full picture.”

Harrison explained that since machine learning works best with very narrow problems to solve, we’ll see plenty of small-scale — and business to business — integrations, predominantly in controllable environments with a clear utility, such as the car, retail, workplace and public spaces.

While CES 2019 will focus on personal tech, Harrison expects to see an incoherent mix of personalization with personal security and data privacy. There will also be devices that help control how much the technology controls our lives, as well as tech for well-being.

Other key trends include even greater immersive technology enabled by the combination of augmented reality and the ubiquity of smartphones, which we’ll see in new mobile AR apps for shopping, travel, games, messaging and specialist training. And while 5G technology — which promises high-speed, mobile connectivity without the need for ubiquitous Wi-Fi — won’t be ready for significant deployment until around 2020, it will be a focus of attention for some major infrastructure players.

The DPP’s CES 2019 report, to be published in January 2019, is prepared with the help of DPP/UK member Covatic, which specializes in creating personalized consumer experiences for media.

CES 2019 will be held in Las Vegas Jan. 8–11, 2019.

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