NEC holds Innovative Solutions Fair in Singapore

NEC holds Innovative Solutions Fair in Singapore

Co-creating
cities of tomorrow led by urban and business
transformation at the NEC technology showcase

Singapore, 19 January
2017 – NEC Asia Pacific,
together with NEC Corporation, today
announced that the NEC Innovative Solutions Fair 2017 will be held in Singapore
on 19 January at the Marina Bay Sands, Level 4, Sands Expo and Convention
Centre.

This
year’s theme, ‘Co-creating Cities of Tomorrow’, seeks to showcase NEC’s most
innovative and proven suite of “Solutions for Society” and cutting-edge
technologies that are being used to transform cities and businesses in the
areas of safety, security, efficiency and allowing people to live brighter
lives.

Featuring
more than 25 interactive exhibits showcasing NEC’s breakthrough innovative
urban and business transformation solutions, the one-day event will feature a
keynote speech by Mr. 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, and how ICT
solutions can help enhance safety and business transformation for cities and
society.

Other
highlights include safer and smart cities technologies based on NEC’s portfolio
of artificial intelligence technologies, NEC the WISE*, such
as NEC’s world’s No.1** 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.

Mr.
Kiren Kumar, Assistant Managing Director, 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.”

“NEC
Asia Pacific is pleased to hold the NEC Innovative Solutions Fair for the
second time in Singapore. Leveraging NEC’s ‘Solutions for Society’ suite of
cutting-edge technologies and solutions, we believe in forging strong
partnerships with governments and enterprises to co-create impactful,
innovative solutions that solve societal challenges and enhance lives. As a
result, NEC aims to create a safer, brighter and more sustainable future for
society and its communities,” said
Lim Kok Quee, Managing Director and Deputy CEO (ASEAN Sub-Region) of NEC Asia
Pacific.