NEC Asia Pacific held its Innovative Solutions Fair 2017 in Singapore focussing on the theme of ‘Co-creating Cities of Tomorrow’. The even sought to showcase NEC’s technologies that are being used to transform cities and businesses in the areas of safety, security and efficiency.
Featuring more than 25 interactive exhibits the event featured a keynote speech by Kiren Kumar, who oversees the Infocomm and Media industry development efforts at the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), as well as insights from thought leaders into the latest industry research.
Other highlights include safer and smart cities technologies based on NEC’s portfolio of artificial intelligence technologies, NEC the WISE, face recognition and fingerprint technology, cyber security, smart energy, healthcare, transport; business transformation solutions such as enterprise cloud, IoT, smart workplace and collaboration, Software-Defined Networking technology, mixed reality for enterprises and much more.
Kumar, assistant managing director at EDB, said: “NEC is a longstanding partner of Singapore and has worked closely with the government on multiple fronts to test and scale their latest smart city technologies. We are therefore heartened to see that NEC is leveraging Singapore as a platform to showcase their latest technologies and facilitate partnerships between companies and innovators to address opportunities created by digitalisation. This bodes well for Singapore’s efforts to become the Digital Capital of Asia.â€