Acer Dubai Event 2023 | Conscious Technology for a Brighter Tomorrow
[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] ready let's go go what will we ever do without our car what if we can see our dreams come true oh no B what if we can always make it in [Music] time what if we can give everything a second life at ASA we believe that even a humble dream can Inspire big changes our in Innovations help bring ideas to Life Giving creators the tools to explore and expand possibilities and enabling adventurers to push forward into New Frontiers we appreciate the value of a good game in connecting more people anytime and anywhere [Music] we create solutions to empower the everyday heroes in all of us by applying smart technology to everyday [Music] life sometimes a fleeting opportunity is all we have to capture those special moments with that special [Music] someone we strive to offer better care to those in need so everyone is free to pursue their [Music] dreams we are all in this together our future and our planet rely on each and every one of us that's why ASA put sustainability at the core of the things we do and has pledged to Source 100% renewable energy by [Music] 2035 [Music] [Applause] for nearly half a century Asa has committed to Breaking the barriers between people and Technology we continue to search for solutions to make tomorrow A Greener better place because we recognized that our work isn't just about technology it's about [Music] people am [Music] coming we are embarking on a journey to a better tomorrow one step at a time and most importantly together what do we mean by sustainable company people have actually different definition because sustainability is not just for the environment but also for the business itself yeah I think everybody feel pensed about what earth going to become if you don't do anything but to be honest or our kpi have nothing to do with green so what should we do if you are thinking you want to be meaningful to the world then I think doing the right things maybe is better than doing the things right more than 40% of acers operation around the grow already use renewable energy but we need to reach 100% if we can do that by 2035 we just have to do it AER is dedicated to a sustainable future we are committed to using 100% renewable electricity by 2035 and the reaching Net Zero emission by 2050 Acer's position which is still more focused on the hardware so how we can make the best use of size to make the biggest impact that's why we created Earth a program to communicate to our supply chain about HG sustainability and green if we can do it together we can make a lot of difference sustainability is not a recent addition to our strategy in fact it's been ingrained in our DNA for years as integrate Energy Efficiency into product design as a core principle in year 2022 nearly 70% of our computer product earn the energy star certificate our team is also looking into what more wi could do for example reducing heavy metal exploring plastic alternative and researching sustainable materials as a platform we can articulate property what can be done to a more company throughout our supply chain to our industry We Believe user experience and the environmental sustainability can go hand inand technological innovation and the sustainability compliment each other yes does not have to be a cost we are creating value creating business to ESG I'm in charge of supply chain in aser headquarter we need to make sure we are deliver the right Goods with the right quality and quantity but we have additional kpi we want to get 80% of our critical supplies to commit to I 100 or stps by 2025 we as our supplier to have the concept reduce recycle and reuse we request them to implement this the come set into the production [Music] process in contact we think deserve of green is an attitude from the beginning we should think about reuse reduce and recycle so I think based on that actually Acer and the Quant have the same [Music] belief is it possible for M production can this product make profit that was my first thought when I heard that s want to use the high percentage of recycled materials for this kind of eco-friendly Lup most of them are expensive and has lots of design limitation comple needs to work with our suppliers to continuously improve the way of molding and injection conditions within the limited time to solve the problem compos has built energy monitoring system they can remotely monitor the energy usage of FR in the short term we want to reduce emission by 4.2% per year and the use 2019 Us best year to achieve a 50% carbon reduction by 2013 and Z by 2050 our usage of renewable enage increases every year decarbonization is a challenge but also an opportunity fting new Solutions give us Competitive Edge I'm very happy that our surprise share the same with us when we work together we can make an impact because every decision comes we are on track to meet our kbi in fact we will get there earlier [Music] e let's welcome Acer's chairman and CEO Jason Chen and our MC for today Michael Burkin CEO of Q to the [Music] stage hi Michael hi [Music] everyone sorry well welcome everybody um to this fabulous um exhibit uh which we're very excited to share with you after the show um I'm privileged to share the stage with my friend Jason Chen the chairman of CEO of ACA um I've known ACA a long time I believe it's one of the world's most important compan iies has been for 47 years but even more important it's one of the world's most human companies it was founded by stanchi with the mission to break down barriers between people and technology and it's well regarded in the industry and wider than the industry that Acer has done more than any other organization to democratize technology over many decades essentially to put computers in the hands of people that otherwise would never have had a chance chance to get them Jason will doubtless explain some specifics in the background um of of of this humanity and Acer as a company but today we're here to explain how the very um significant and recent diversification of the companies built upon this human platform um and to focus on Humanity's biggest problem which is climate so Jason it's great to see you here you're one of you're one of the world's busiest Global CEOs so why are you here and why are we here with you well uh I believe many CEOs are all very busy including yourself so very happy to be here I want to take the opportunity to welcome all of you to join us today physically and for people online thanks for joining us welcome one thing that collectively we realize that the biggest challenge now a day facing humanity is the climate change as a company we believe we need to play our part in the sustainability actions so why why am I here I'm here to introduce our Visions how we can help help people business and more climate conscious we strongly believe in the power of people can innovate but that innovate that Innovation could also impact the planet the climate ever since the company was established we evolved from a PC brand nowaday as a solution company a ecos ecosystem player We believe We Empower people to make their marks in life but not to make negative marks on the planet want to make ourself to be much more a human Centric company involve individual employees as well as surprise CH Partners today I'm here to introduce the conscious technology concept and I will explain that later that is designed with human and heart and planet in mind I mean I know um from my own personal experience that Ace has been Paving the way towards uh a climate conscious era for quite some time now can you highlight some of the initiatives which which form the basis of this new conscious technology platform in fact we have lots of uh initiatives until now and there are many coming uh today I would like to highlight three of the projects that we feel very proud of uh back in 2017 uh we initiated uh very grass rooted that means uh button up emplo initiative project called project Humanity about 70% 70% our employees around the world more than 40 Country participated and more than 300 projects being initiated that is related to sustainability and only two years ago we expanded Beyond just a corporation which we expanded to our supply chain a project we call earthian Project the Earth mission earthian project that uh we launch six missions six of them to link to the climate change including energy product design packaging design production logistic and recycled it one of the example is we cooperate with logistic shippers use biofuel to ship our product to be more eco-friendly until last year 2022 60% our key suppliers in our supply chain is either committed to re 100 with specific time frame or a science base uh commitment that they will do to make sure that we do the right thing for the planet the last one but not the the third one but not last one that I would like to talk about is a visible problem in fact uh today I just landed this morning and as soon as I landed I I reach out to our Dubai office and and our employee took me to uh two of the shopping malls uh the retail area that uh to see how a computer product has been demonstrated and very Vis one of our product line Vero the first recycle material-based computer that we introduced two years ago that's well demonstrated and in fact well accepted we use PCR some of them will even include ocean bom material think of about that if we can use recycled material to make computers why not ask us ask industry why not here would like to publicly declare Acer will do between 20 to 30% of PCR plastic utilization in computers and displays by 2025 I I mean I I I think project humanity and the earthian project were extraordinarily um powerful not just with your own employe based but with your whole ecosystem of suppliers and customers um we're going to come back to Vero uh later on in the in the conversation but let's just um go back to um how those initiatives have formed the basis for what you're doing now and essentially Ace's new look in the climate era um I think we should have a chart that goes up at this point that actually identifies how you moved away from comp CH is yeah it's a yeah but I think the important part of the chart at least for this moment is the fact that PC sort of has moved away from the core although it Remains the core business but essentially how that the the organization is now looking at itself perhaps you could illuminate this a little bit Jason uh too uh yes we are a computer company and we will continue to be a computer company if anything that we can talk about we will be the last man stand for the PC industry we'll be here as long as we can as long as the industry continue Propel ASA will be here continue make computers with conscious technology the new look of Asa is right there that means we are making offers Beyond just computers there are multiple areas that we are pushing the boundaries for a business go to make sure that we do our part not just computer but computer science in start to move into a jent lifestyle we are moving ourself into ecosystem into Solutions into human Centric and one very important initiative is Acer working with uh the organization under the u q Ideo we establish uh a platform a system a engine we call it ACA climate lab and an optimal goal is to become a climate era organization yes I think to um just elaborate on that a little bit the ACA climate lab is an engine to develop an Innovative ecosystem of sustainable products and services that directly responds to and stimulates action for the changing needs of human beings and the planet um it's a result of this particular work that the innovations that it stimulated are categorized as you can see on this chart between the categories of working learning moving and living I think that's a fair assessment isn't it Jason y very true but one thing I I need to explain the climate lab is not a physical laboratory that you can look at it uh it's not R&D Center that you running no it's not it's actually a platform that we do it cross functions cross departments that we work on products service internal projects that we drive values for the corporation because over the past years we already created lots of Technologies and this time one extra ingredient conscious conscious technology want to empower we already Empower millions of people using computer to to change life change the way they work we have already built a capability and a culture to welcome all the industry prayers to use recycled material to make computers use the same kind of concept conscious technology to move on to make sure that we enter the new climate era in a few minutes we will we'll move into these these various headings and many of the initiatives that you have going on let's start as we always do with Asa um as at the end of the day it is a major player in the PC business a world leading company so I'm going to start with the PC bubbles because that's normally where we do start um and so I'd like to move the session to focus on how technology and Computing um play such a pivotal role in our Collective Futures and specifically climate Futures two of the companies who have the greatest influence on this are aca's longtime Partners gu yes they are Intel and Microsoft let's welcome Goku from Intel and Sheri from Microsoft [Applause] welcome [Applause] Sherry please take a Sit well you've actually by doing that Jason I you've given me the the Glorious chance to not have to um read through gokul's job title cuz it's is actually extremely long and um all I know is he's the boss of India and he's the leading voice on sustainability it's more than just India it's actually also uh Design Center and lot R&D activities and IC designs softwares and many many areas um so um just to start us off um welcome very much to our to our show here this evening so I'm going to start with you shell could you maybe uh just talk a little bit about how Microsoft's collaborated with ACA over the years is and and how that impacts the future of computing well first of all thank you for having Microsoft on the panel we appreciate it we've been partners for so long and I look at uh the future especially around sustainability as our partnership just uh will bring great um uh immense um focus here in the future so thank you um the work of Microsoft and ner have been critical to continue to lower the all up carbon footprint um of the equipment in our data center and uh as we know uh cloud is an integral part of cloud computing and uh personal Computing rather so from email to Secure Storage to cloud computing and more recently AI um uh and we have just uh recommitted to making our data centers run 100% on renewable energy by 2025 and I think that right there is a huge commitment and that means huge progress um as our data centers are essential to deliver cloud services and AI functionality in the future to users and to deliver a significant benefit to the PC so as our partnership we will continue together to uh change in the years to come as well keep it up shering keep it up Microsoft wonderful very exciting to hear that we we'll come back to to AI in a second but but gokl sort of same question to you how how do you see it going forward you know Intel um has been committed and one of our vision is to create world changing technology that kind of enriches the lives of everybody in the planet and what better place to talk about it than being with Acer you know about conscious technology and a bright tomorrow if you look at the world today we're actually transitioning from personal responsibility to soci vital responsibility and graduating to a planet responsibility and the best way to look at that is when the Silicon software and the system comes together for us to make that happen and um Intel's always been at the Forefront of it we look at U renewable energy water conservation waste management and climate impact and we have a ton of commitments towards achieving Net Zero in all of these facets and we we've been partnering with Acer to make sure that sustainable Computing allows us to have a sustainable future that's kind of where it starts yes Jason what's what's your view on the same question well uh I'm very excited to see the commitment from Microsoft from Intel long-term Partners thank you Sherry for being with with us in this very very important time making such a big commitment and thank you uh our friends from Intel that we can all work together to make it uh a great uh not just a event but enter a new era but now let's look at uh another topic that nowaday people all talk about artificial intelligence yes well Shelly your organization is the leading purveyor of all things AI um we'd all love to hear just a a very short version of your opinion perhaps with a a sustainability agenda in mind use of power Renewables and so on what's your what's your what's your view on the status quo on AI if one can call it that well um you can't talk Microsoft without talking AI That's first and foremost and it does take a significant Resource number of resources to run AI we know that um uh the good news is that it's done through our data centers as I said will run 100% renewable energy by 2025 um looking at new ways uh researching around Ai and the energy that it takes so um but I would just say most importantly as well as that AI is assisting in all of the challenges that we're seeing around climate uh change so in order for us to get faster to assist sustainable uh future AI will help us um you know really speed that up so uh it can accelerate in many different ways uh and I would say assisting in uh just making sure that we're looking at things like helping humans from a repetitive task perspective from a productivity perspective we're already seeing um great examples of that and uh we will continue as we are taking our journey at Microsoft of learning from our own sustainability commitments we'll continue to look at how AI can play a greater role in helping ourselves and then also bringing that through to our customers and our partners as well thank you very much Gokul I know Intel has a strong perspective on this also what's what do you have for us right now we were just talking about that in the Green Room SP up exactly so AI is U you know it's changing everybody's lives and AI is everywhere um it starts with um how we are looking at energy efficiency when we do our power management on the PC for example we've got a number of Aid driven loads that understands what kind of users and what kind of workload and we give Technologies like adaptic working with aser to make sure that the battery life and the power consumption for these workloads are really low and when you run AI on a low power IP within the Silicon then you not only achieve the benefits of everything that Microsoft is providing but it also allows the user to conserve energy so that's the first starting point in addition to that we also give a number of capabilities that are important for AI and that's AI when we do the engineering inside Intel we use a number of AI tools so that we are able to bring the efficiency of our engineering quality reduce the number of defects turnaround time in terms of the time taken for us to actually implement the Silicon all of that goes back to the amount of energy that we consume to actually build a product and these are fundamental things and tools and reference designs that we make we share with aser and we make sure that the products eventually are able to manifest that and bring to bear when it goes to the user yeah I I must admit from a personal perspective being in the communications um business I um uh I'm very taken with your last point I I I was taken yesterday at the at the Microsoft Event where you two were both on a panel with cow the COO of Acer and you were all very um supportive of and instrumental in the development of carbon usage awareness which I think is an incredibly important topic which I think all three companies can collaborate very strongly um and I think will go a long way to um or some way anyway to dealing with the the climate issue that we're all we're all dealing with um Jason what what's your view on this uh I travel around the world talk to investors reporters the number one questions I always ask being asked is being how is AI PC or how is AI ready PC going uh from our point of view we believe uh the usage model will have a fundamental change because of the generative AI you the computer will be used you in the past has been a Search tool that you do search the new US model has been asked you ask computer to give you the answer you want other than give you a list of search result and you you will have to do your own study and then compile the computer now with the hardware and software all work together will be able to provide you that Sher said it earlier on that we have seen that uh generative AI Model start to happen mostly on the data center on the cloud side but we believe not all the data will only sit on the cloud some of them will be local and therefore the Computing model or the AI model will be cloud based will be Age based will be hybrid based and therefore whether that's AI server aipc and a hybrid model that will all happen at the same time because of the L and more efficient will be distributed by Computing in both age and uh the cide and the evolving usage model uh was stimulate eventually the PC demand as well as the server demand and we are all excited about that well thank you very much for for coming over this evening um we all know what a important part partnership it is and we're very very positive about the future so thank you very much indeed for coming up thank you thank you very much thank [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you so let's move it on to ASA specifically and back to the um the new conscious technology platforms of of working learning moving and living and to elaborate on those um to identify all sorts of strategies that have come from that so we would like to welcome on stage Emanuel Froman the president of Asa Amir to help [Music] [Applause] [Music] Emmanuel hi everybody so um Emanuel earlier on Jason and I were talking about AC's human Focus and how the company designed Solutions with human beings in mind obvious point but it really means something for ACA we're now Keen to sort of move on to specific actions that Asa has taken through this drive to the new platform of conscious technology so let's start with um the working uh platform which is targeted all businesses small large local and international so how would you start to explain how is leading the future of work in the climate era so very good question first iser is well known for being a consumer brand but since the Inception of the company 47 years ago as you said the commercial business serving Enterprise has always been a very sizable part of a business so all company now have ESG goal and they all conscious about climate and sustainability so they challenge us to say we we want more sustainable PC and this is where we started with our Vero line of product which was consumer first but then Corporation and vir was meant from the beginning to be a Greener PC so we work throughout the entire life cycle of the project from the conception with PCR started with 30% PCR now the latest generation will have 60% PCR in their product no paint treatment on the product then we worked through the supply chain Mak making sure our suppliers would also use where they can renewable energy then we work through the entire logistic working with our logistic provider to do biofuel or use more biofuel when possible so we could serve uh a Vero notebooks that were Greener but you know company like figures they said okay it's nice to be greener that's marketing but how much Greener so we started to measure give a carbon footprint for all our Vero notebook now 50% of notebook we give a carbon foot footprint and now I'm happy to announce that we go one step further which is starting with the new generation of voo 16 in will give carbon neutral products carbon neutral carbon neutral [Applause] products so through the supply chain we've try our best to minimize the carbon footprint and whatever is left will purchase carbon credit to ensure from crle to the Grave that the product is carbon neutral and this will start with the 16in and then our future V notebook whether it's consumer or Corporation will have carbon neutral promise from well that's phenomenal I mean when Vero came out it really was unique both in terms of its the reality of the product but also the symbolism that it actually had for the rest of the organizations you've just described so what would the next phase of this be now so moving on so we deliver Vero other product that again we do our best to be as green as possible but we also want the end user to do its part so first if you're an user whether consumer again or Enterprise and user you've made a statement by selecting a vopc first and if it's a consumer version is very visible you'll see them they look Echo conscious and they are so first you feel good then we give optimized software actually with Intel with Microsoft on all our products we have a key called Asos sense that help you yourself Drive the power consumption of your own PC so if you're using intense usage like gaming or other you do a big Excel spreadsheet maybe you want maximum power but if you do something else maybe you can switch back to Echo or Echo Plus mode that will lower the uh the power consumption of your notebooks and and you know we distribute millions of notebook every year so if those little piece one by one add up and contribute so the end user is also in control himself of making sure he does the less impact on the planet and and what about renewals renewability repairs what's what where are we on that one so again thank you it's all good to do product that are Greener but it's true that one of the issue of the industry is the products you know tend to have a shorter life and we built many more so it's very very important to ensure the product are first easy to repair so we do a lot of effort on modular notebook you can easily repair you can upgrade them but this is not enough so to Enterprise in general we offer device as a service so it's a complete life cycle management where you can purchase product from us we can Finance we can deliver with white glob services but if you choose to you can return your product to Acer this is again a decision from the end user and then we can repurpose reuse recycle or dismantle in eco-friendly those products and you know there is a well-kept secret in a series we have a thousand employees in Europe only doing reuse recycle and that's about half of our employee more than half about our employees you're going to tell me it's a lot why it's a lot because they do that for Acer but for also 40 other companies so it's a business in itself it started as Sr only but now we do this for 40 companies and of course 40 companies 40 companies exactly so it's it's it's truly a business last time you told me 25 now it's already 40 40 and so through this of course we contribute to recycle a lot of electronics PC and non PC and that's of course very good for the planet and and out of that uh total Repair Service uh how many percent is actually Acer how many percent actually noner Acer is now about 20 to 25% okay what we repair 75% and growing is noner product and do you think this renewable Dynamic can can move onto components such as solid state um drives and and components such as that or is that is that a bridge too far would you say well if you take motherboard for example which is one of the most expensive component we do repair motherboard in our service not all can be but the one that can be repaired so yes the more we can recycle every component after the keys of course we promise that what cannot be repurpose need to be dismantled and reused as much as possible in a way that is eco-friendly so we also have Norm here and audit and all our service center are ISO certified for this so well that's phenomenal um it doesn't surprise me knowing the company but um that's that's a major move towards um a sustainable approach um moving to learning Ace has always been very strong in this category I suspect nearly every one of us in this room who has children of a schooling age um will have had Chromebooks in their home if they haven't had one themselves so it's always been important but um how would you say we're moving forward in the learning environment based on the new conscious technology platform so learning of course a lot of our products go into uh the hands of uh especially k212 Al also higher ed student but k212 and first you said we're a human company and of course for product that are going to be used by kids you know they're not going to take care of the product like you and me would so first from the beginning from the drawing board we make sure those prodct are regularized so we have full you know they can fall for 2 meters and they you can walk on them and they still work they're military spec they're TCO you can spill water on a keyboard is very impressive I take the product like this I you know spill water you see the water pulling through and the products working completely fine so first we try to make those product durable which is good for the planet then as I I mentioned already we make them easy to fix and repairable and modular but we have some touching example where we've gone beyond I mean one a couple I have in mind one is a a school in balara island in Spain where you know when you ship product to an island like this the repair is complicated because you know getting them back on the continent from the island is complicated so we actually work with a school themselves to develop a curriculum where we teach student to self-repair PCS and and they do self-repair their own PC and it has become again a course we have another example in the US a biggest school district in Wisconsin um called chip Falls and there again they have thousands of PC we've developed e-learning curses with the student they're actually certified able to repair hardware and they repair all the PCS in less than 48 hour 48 Hours 95% of the PC are repaired by the student themselves and every year 50 to 70 student graduate from that course so we teach future generation to take care of their product repair and that Electronics can have a longer life conscious technology also one extra skills that we will be able to train people up and one day they might use it they might make it to be their profession so that we feel all good about that exactly and in fact we not just teaching students how to repair or do service on their own PC uh you started in us uh education Advisory Board and coming to emia you do it uh a slightly different way can you elaborate a little bit more about this education Advisory Board yeah I think we realize that we know product and we know our partners a channel the resellers but but we very rarely as aser talk to schools and do we know exactly what you know not only the student want but also the school intendant the the person that is responsible for the IT department in a school and usually you know that's one or two person managing 10 or 20,000 or even more uh device so it's not easy so we did a conso where every year for a couple days we invite some teachers that tell us how what is a challenge for them to teach and to keep uh student educated and we learn from this now some of our products you you see some Led on the backlight so depending on what the kids do the teacher can see what they're doing and this comes directly fored exactly and we work on TCO and a lot of ideas on how to tailor our products to education came actually from this conso from truly listening to people that every day deal with kids was inspiring stuff doesn't surprise me because um it's a nature of the business but um that is really wonderful um let's move on to Mobility this is actually a topic that um my own organization is uh spends a lot of time on both in terms of urban planning and in terms of working with organizations in terms of creating um Urban Mobility livable cities uh and so on um so Emanuel again what would be some of the smart solutions that Ace is working on in this category so very interesting my boss who is here challenged the entire organization to say we would like to expand Beyond pc pc is core but we have Computing capabilities Computing technology knowledge how can we expand Beyond PC because PC market has ups and down and we want to be resilient so there was two condition one it needs to still Embrace sustainability and two he needs to somehow use some of our internal capabilities and naturally after some brainstorming we came to immobility why because immobility is about power management is buying driving Hardware through software is about application is about iot is about sensor if you think optimized intelligent immobility device out all of this so we started to launch some ecooter uh and we sold many this year in Europe we're starting to launch generation 2 now with more Ai and we embark on designing from really the drawing board an ebike intelligent bike called EB you will see next door soon wait wait wait wait easy to say they are AI PC AI e scooter what do we really mean so first there's a lot of thing it's it's of course it it's not generative AI it's more traditional AI but the application has a lot of you know goodies and one example for example is if you give a destination where you want to go with your ebike and of course through Google Maps it will study the terrain how many ups and down what is the uphill 3D 3D exactly and it will tell you with with the battery you have left you can reach there but using only 25% assisted and the rest you need to Pedal yourself so you'd better pedal or it will tell you guess what good news you can you go there with 90% assisted so you can relax just pretend you pedal but let the engine and the power do everything proba be so this this is example of how do we bring application development software and some okay traditional AI into the bike but you know we we consider over the future bike is really kind of a computer on wheel and this is where we going and we are first generation and of course we're working on followup for the years to come I mean it it does all fit I mean again when when goes back to the mission of the company to break down barriers between people and Technology it wasn't to break down barriers between people and Computing it was basically the way in which technology can enhance lives and so I think that's one of the reasons why you're seeing such success um what about um what about e-mobility Hub what's what's going on with that yeah this you know so we have device that we make intelligent but eventually we also have and Jon will mention in mostly in Taiwan we have a sister company doing work around you know city of the the future or uh Smart City Smart City uh and then so we have capability there uh infrastructure capability charging charging born or uh smart parking and we want to bridge a little bit the two together to manage a campus immobility hub for example so it's both infrastructure and device yeah um Jason must what have you what would you like to amplify on this topic um talking about Smart City smart city is a very broad term many people talk about that and we have decided to enter uh front transportation connected uh transporting vehicles uh immobility that we talk about and buses and very important not just Transportation but also parking and not just parking but we also make smart meters gas meter water meter electricity meter talking about lot of places lck of waters do you know how many water got leak out before reaching your house smart water meter will monitor real time if the meter keep running you know something is going on the pipe's leaking and where is that leaking that we want to know so gas electricity water small meters and smart payments so that people can live on a much smarter way and one thing I learned from Grace Le our chief sustainability officer all these smart solution mostly they are very eco-friendly so they save your time save the energy you have to spend on particular take example on Smart Meters uh no longer people have to go to your house you are apartment to check your meter pratically the numbers will be transmit back uh to the system automatically for that we save energy you no longer to need that parking sleeve that you take pick up the sleeve and go to convenience store to pay for your parking fee uh the smart parking meter will automatically detect the CET and then deduct from your credit card everything can be much more eco-friendly I say at least most of them are eco-friendly yes I I think also the communication possibilities to people and the ability to build community action is greater when you have that information um the way in which people receive the information they get from smart technology and and act upon it is going to be critical over the years to come if we're going to fix the climate situation let's move on to the to the fourth category which is living um uh I'm going to focus on you on this one Jason because I know that Taiwan is very much the epicenter of this development well in fact e- home ever since my previous and previous job uh in days and people been talking about eome for a long time uh so it's not a new idea but it's a a continuous effort that we can connect uh multiple and more devices at home uh and make them smarter and we've been thinking from ASA point of view we're a computer company how are we going to enter in this area so one thing we figure out is thermal and performance Troff right for Semiconductor seral and performance tradeoff and therefore ASA have been working a lot on system thermal technology so therefore the same chips will perform better on our computer and by doing so we actually study air treatment we have more than 300 patterns on system thermal how to make our system perform better and we start to think about we know all this air treatment technology why not we bring that into Home Appliance and that comes out our first air purifier because of the fan on our computers and because of the thermal requirements that we start to use that into home PR and it actually work out very very well it's been well accepted and been recognized rewarded and awarded and from that we move into water purifier and many other devices and there are multiple other uh products and offers in the pipeline that coming out that related to eome I I mean Emanuel I think that um some of these uh initiatives of have SED to take hold in in your region as well maybe portable batteries and solar panels could you talk about that for a second yeah it's true so we we've been embracing this product L at this living you know few months back I think air purifier you've been talking about this power storage for a long time because the air air purifier is not as popular in EMA that it is in Asia in general it was a little bit tough but we figured out that now more and more people deploy solar panels either on their roof or they buy solar panel but one of the issue especially in Europe is not here in Dubai but in other place in Europe the weather is not so nice and the sun is not there always and you want to be able to accumulate this this energy that you can get during the day through solar panel and Battery portable battery becomes more and more important it goes well with sustainability with our ability to manage power uh and to manage also battery cells in general so I told Jon for EMA this is a a good market and on top with immobility you can have power on the go so some are smaller some are bigger some are even to equip your home uh and you can even have your own portable solar panel to generate your own electricity and cumulate or for camping there's many many usage and there's still place in larger EMA where the power grid is not so reliable maybe or there's storm and you want to make sure you can always have electricity so we've already showed this product to many partners many reseller and they're very excited it's a Nason category it's new it's coming it's booming and we're very excited to be entering this as part of our living momentum in in the whole journey of a newer so what's the next phase of Smart Homes Jason well I think it's a Eco conscious uh offers that we can connect uh more devices at home smartly and and eom concept continue to evolve uh we Li sustainability can extend not just home but also into other area for instance the well being we are now using artificial intelligence into medical area uh smart medical uh ACA medical using artificial intelligence to do medical image diagnostic we already have five products spread across eight different countries 10 FDA certificates and we already landed more than 200 hospitals using those AI based smart Medical Solutions we believe not just Bridging the digital divide that people have been talking about that for 25 years now it's about time to bridge medical divide using artificial intelligence that we can do well it's a fabulous story of how by drilling down on your core brand values it gives you endless possibility to diversify your offering and one can see on this slide just how many activities you've created in the last um few years it's breathtaking so congratulations but I'd like to finish um particularly as we hear at cop with um a very important topic that we touched on um slightly earlier which is about um energy the saving of Energy Efficiency of energy and the future of um energy energy related technology what's what's your stance on this um we have two major uh commitments uh allow me to repeat them by 2035 the company the whole group around the world parent companies subsidiaries data centers we commit on I 100 by 2035 and then Net Zero by 2050 by working together with Q Ideo we established climate lab a engine a platform a working process that we have conscious technique in mind to build up products and our offers this year we invested and Venture into battery sell so now we have capability to do battery sell manufacturing uh in Taiwan at the same time we do battery packed and as Emanuel said earlier on we even do uh battery storage from portable for home to uh manufacturing use by containers that we can all offer and we believe for the new sustainability require power storage will be a critical part to make sure that efficiency intelligent security for energy storage system leading more to a robust planet that we all live in well thank thank you very much I I um I would just like to conclude um this very inspiring uh session um I personally look forward to to the day when all homes businesses and cities are run on and by conscious technology and all powered by renewable energy um Acer is fully shifting from a simple provider of outstanding computers to being a vital part of a human being's modern world I would say that everything you have seen and heard today is both honest to the DNA of this remarkable company and vital for all of our fut Futures I would also say that through the creation of the ACA climate lab and the resulting mission of conscious technology Ace has understood the true nature of the world's biggest challenge and is leading the charge to fix it so thank you Jason Emanuel thank you everybody for being here this evening please enjoy the space and we really do appreciate your time thank you thank you very much wait wait wait this is not the end of it we will open the house we will have the product we talk about the offer we mention for you to take a look touch it feel it let's go do it thank you very much thank you guys 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