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China ‘Shanghais’ intelligent technologies
CHINA will present an international trade fair highlighting ‘intelligent’ technologies across a wide range of industry sectors in Shanghai on September 16-18, which may be of interest to leading Australian companies in the field.
Named the iFair Shanghai 2015, the fair is hosted by Shanghai UBM Sinoexpo International Exhibition Co, at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. 
The iFair has been created in response to the Chinese Ministry of Industry’s drive to ‘speed up’ the development of intelligent technology and products, widely used in retail, education, finance, media, engineering, convenient living, and the consumer electronics industry.
Shanghai is being promoted by the Industry Ministry as the centre of intelligent industry development in China, “as an international metropolis and at the centre of the Yangtze River Delta’s economic circle, with excellent geographical advantages provides unlimited opportunities in the development of the intelligent industry”.
A showcase of national and international intelligent product will be on show for what is also a gathering of government officials, industry leaders, experts and scholars, communicating on the issues of intelligent industry. Organisers said the exhibition would concentrate on policy, markets, technology, capital and other fields to create in-depth exchanges and cooperation, high-end showcases, and promote rapid development of the intellectual industry.
The iFair Shanghai 2015 will include the 12th China International Self-Service, Kiosk, Vending Show, the 7th Shanghai International Digital Signage and Touch Technology Show, 2015 Shanghai International Multimedia Application and Human-computer Interaction Technologies Show and 2015 Shanghai International Digital Conference Show.
The exhibition area of 25,000sqm is expected to attract more than 500 internationally-known exhibitors and more than 20,000 professional buyers.
A key focus of iFair, supported by the Chinese Government, are the fields of Intelligent Cities and Intelligent Industry. This area looks at state-of-the-art software development in general living and the industrial chain, especially equipment manufacturing processes. The area will feature intelligent traffic, intelligent medical care, intelligent retail, intelligent security, intelligent traffic, and intelligent logistics.
Galleries and exhibits include a self-service products and vending machine systems exhibition area; a digital signage and audio-visual integration technology exhibition area; an international digital conference exhibition area; and a multimedia application and human-computer interaction technologies exhibition area.
Associations jointly organising iFair include the European Vending association (EKN), National Automatic Merchandising Association (NAMA), European Vending Publishing Association (EVPA), American Digital Signage Association, Digital Signage Consortium and Nano Opt. Media Inc, China Outdoor Advertising Association branch, Chinese Commercial Display Alliance, Digital Signage Multimedia Alliance Taiwan, along with many domestic and foreign industry associations and organisations.
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