Le Hoai Quoc (L), head of the management board of the Saigon high-tech park, spoke at a press conference introducing the annual event held on November 13. (Photo: tapchicongthuong.vn) HCM City (VNA) – The SaigonHi-tech Park’s annual conference, themed “Robots and Artificial Intelligent(AI)”, will take place in Ho Chi Minh City on November 16.
Featuring 16 Vietnamese and foreignspeakers, including experts from the UK, US and Japan, the event will focus ondiscussing interactions between human and robots as well as the role of robotsand AI in smart city building.
The event also features an exhibition showcasinglatest technologies in the area, with local and international exhibitors.
Le Hoai Quoc, head of the management boardof the high-tech park, said robots and AI will help better use resources toincrease production and living standards, and speed up the nation’s modernisationand industrialisation.
The conference aims to help authoritiesunderstand their importance, thus improve the implementation of preferentialpolicies for high-tech research and development, he added.
Held for four times to date, the conferencehas attained several successes.
It has encouraged the HCM People’s Committeeto include a micro-electro-mechanical systems development project in the city’sintegrated circuit industry development programme, and helped form a network ofexperts in biomedical engineering and implement a British Council-sponsoredhuman resources training project in the field.
Also worthy of mention is the establishmentof a Vietnam – Japan centre for training and technology transfer, which worksto train a workforce for robot and automation technologies.-VNA
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