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President calls for industrial transformation at COMPUTEX opening

President calls for industrial transformation at COMPUTEX opening

Tsai calls for industrial change at Computex

Addressing the opening of COMPUTEX 2016, President Tsai Ing-wen called for the industrial sector to come out of the groove of OEM and create fewer products but with more variety to meet the challenge brought by today’s industrial changes.

President Tsai said that the COMPUTEX, which is an epitome of Taiwan’s ICT development, also faces industrial changes in recent years. She said Taiwan’s ICT industry should transform from the model of OEM and mass production to making fewer products with more variety to meet the new challenge.

“In today’s IoT age, we have to emphasize on the ability to integrate software and hardware,” she said, vowing that the new government would do its most to pave the way for the industrial transformation and build a solid base for the next 20 years.

At the ceremony, Tsai presided over the prize-giving of COMPUTEX d&I gold awards, Best Choice gold awards and Best Choice of the Year.

Francis Liang, Chairman of the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), one of the two co-organizers of the COMPUTEX, said in the opening that the COMPUTEX had transformed from a traditional PC trade show to focus on Internet on Things (IoT) and “Building Partnerships in Internet Computing Ecosystem” in recent years to be in sync with technology industry evolution.

Aiming to build the ecosystem, the COMPUTEX creates two brand new exhibition areas this year, SmartTEX and InnoVEX, to highlight IoT and startups, respectively, Liang said.

Also for the first time, Liang said, organizers of the annual trade show teamed up with an online broadcast platform to bring the tradeshow’s various activities to live shows on the Internet so people who cannot come will be able to see what’s going on here, he added.

This year’s COMPUTEX attracted 1,602 exhibitors from 30 countries. Liang said the number of countries participating in the annual show grew 36 percent over last year and the number of first-time exhibitors grew 23 percent.