puta mas other hand blue house so I
apologize well after two days of the bay
when I should be speaking in English or
in Bhutan where I find decided maybe I
should speak in English though I think
some of you asked you to bear with me
you may be surprised to see her old man
like myself standing in front of you
talking about technology fashion the
digital age I’m surprised at myself and
maybe I share with you some of my
experience well firstly i was born in
poncho and I grew up in hong kong and i
went to the university in the US now
something i have not how many people was
my undergraduate was a physics major and
i was a work for student data it’s
managed to graduate and got my degree
and after two years i decided there was
not much future Oh with a career in
physics so I went back to the business
school and because of physics have some
background in mathematics though I chose
that quantitative analysis as my major
in my MPA program and in those days this
is packed in 1960s 667 before many of
you were born and in those days maybe no
in the u.s. only a handful of professors
or researchers were using mathematics to
analyze the economics and the financial
market though when I chose that major
and I was the only one in the whole
business school and upon my graduation
from the big banks from Wall Street him
out who we could and I was very
fortunate to be chosen as one of the
first Asians going to the wall street
and I remember my first job
he had of the human resources of the
bank row row a recommendation and said
Cyrus is a very intelligent Chinamen I
don’t know if you appreciate the term
Chinamen because in those days Asians or
Chinese were still not accepted though
in the American Society okay though
Chinamen is somewhat a little bit
insulting and derogative let me put it
that way and then after two years I use
some mathematics to try to analyze the
stock market and in those days the
computer and all of you remember the IBM
machine is maybe one fifth of the size
of this room and we used punch cards to
input and then when I was in the bang we
were using a computer to analyze the
financial markets and those day was time
sharing and very slow so after 23 years
I decided that again there was no future
for me in doing quantitative analysis
but of course today you know as many of
you know all the Trading’s were done now
by the computer you just push one button
you you can sell 1,000 stocks okay so
that’s about what 40 years ago and just
tell you how I am now a little bit maybe
why how I did get into the 3d technology
it was really by accident there’s about
four years ago I heard about 3d printing
and did not pay much attention to it and
it was by accident that I was introduced
to one of the founders of 3d printing
industry com which is the leading media
in 3d printing and they were interested
in finding a partner in Asia especially
in China though I was in the US for four
months and I with system because
designers workshops and dealers
and there’s some basic market research
and decided that although 3d printing
still are at a very early stage there
maybe there’s a future in it so upon my
return to Hong Kong with some of my
former colleagues and partners we
decided to start this business we first
have Pat LaFrieda pupo com which is a
media in 3d printing and last year is
that that aku freedom which is the
e-commerce and really more than we’re
working with designers around the world
and already there some designers in
artists who are already very advanced in
designing and coming up the 3d products
that most of the but the world does not
know generally that such already exists
so this is something i’d like to share
with you today okay now first maybe talk
a little bit about digital age what what
is digital age we are at the early stage
may be okay if the first industrial
revolution in the 19th century was about
steam engine later on electricity is
really about you know half the dynamics
and twentieth the Second Industrial
Revolution a twentieth century that we
have computers and by the optics
internet and it’s all about
communications today we like to think we
are in the effort industrial revolution
of the digital age so what was does that
mean digital age to me is that
technology and mankind human will be
closely interrelated hopefully many of
the technologies or before the benefit
of mankind and so what has that to do
with any one of us I think on the
supplies I a manufacturing there will be
drastic changes in the way
which will be mixed I’ll explain later
to death and the technology involved
really still covers a full range and we
may be talking about the clow dictator
artificial intelligence robotics a rvr
and then the last but not least is 3d
technology which is something I would
like to focus on a little bit annoyed
trying to share with you so what has
that to do with all of us and maybe
first just let’s take a look at some of
the examples that some of the designers
in the world already coming up with
somewhere intricate designs and products
using 3d technology and maybe I explain
3d technology actually I involve a
number of technologies first as you were
well known many of you and the computer
view on the design field it’s the cat
computer-aided design then there’s the
3d scanning 3d modeling and mewling
which is a subtractive manufacturing and
finally but not least is the free
depending which is a native
manufacturing better you know you just
put material but x dot to bill up
whatever you want to do okay but before
that there’s really a lot of design a
line of concept who try to be creative
and innovative and then there are a lot
of computer manipulation to come up with
the model and now know there are many
surface Bureau that have very
sophisticated and expensive machine that
may print for you but in the last few
years there were a lot of hype because
some of the licenses it expire so many
can well you with some of you maybe
three or four of young people get
together you view a 3d printing machine
at home and you try to sell it now and
now several thousand M&B you you can buy
one and then
try to start working with it from your
home okay and that’s something we’re
encouraging to happen then I try to
again explain a little bit later so my
main subject is out in fashion so what
has that to do with out in fashion in
fact as I said many of the artists and
designers already engaged in this
creative process now first one to
mention that already this is happening
in China right among yourself thief mar
was an architect hong kong a person
painting the u.s. in shanghai and his
company’s college topper and scott com
which makes excellent work in jewelry in
many of the designs though recently he
worked with the upon joy Academy of the
Fine Arts it to come up with a 3d
printed furniture and combining
traditional traditional furniture with
3d printing to make it a lot more
interesting though already this is
happening and it’s not something we just
dream about or what now already because
many of the designers especially
architects well have been using 3d
modeling for a long time in many of them
are very good with that and one of the
most famous architect ha ha ha T who
unfortunately passed away early this
year in many of you know who she is and
she already started to get into 3d
printing this is a pair of high-heel
that sheep produce and show in the Milan
then in
terms of art three different thing is
also making an in row okay this is again
an italian architect and he’s trying to
restore antiques this one was original
17th century make by ivory and his
message is nowadays of course many of
the elephants will kill for the ivory
and if I may say the Chinese are the
worst offenders in death so he’s trying
to propagate the idea that you know with
3d printing and we produce some of the
ivory well art pieces rather than know
getting the ivory from the elephants and
another art is basically you know try to
scan some of the paintings and make it
into a 3d model so that to allow the
blinds to touch and feel ah okay because
the fine person when you if you talk to
the point person about Mona Lisa no idea
what that is but with that you know
touch and feel you know they try to
share with this unfortunate by blind
people that know they can also enjoy art
now this Lionel teens one of designers
we work closely with from UK he’s one of
the pioneers that I started doing
research in innovation and early night
119 mid-1990s and one of his work was
acquired by moma New York which some of
you know is one of the most outstanding
Modern Art Museum’s this piece is as
tall as one meter directly from 3d
printing and after three depending
there’s actually require a lot of
polishing and then electroplating who at
them go a silver color and in the
coloring but there’s a lot of work when
it comes to art and really no
sophisticated products
comparing to a simple home make 3d
printer where many of you may think or
push a button and get something out of
it so that’s completely quite two
different world but this is a series of
jewelry that no we’re doing with our six
designers all around the world and with
the so Chinese zodiac animal based on
modern paintings of the Vietnamese
modern artists so already some very
sophisticated what is being done in this
view finally but not these already
there’s a lot of innovation in terms of
fashion I mean if you go to Fashion Week
weather in New Yorkers couple of weeks
of all or London many of the designers
already using 3d printing he’ll come up
with fashion all right but my economic
point of view maybe it’s still not a
competitive because it a full-length
gown may take up to four hundred hours
to print okay so not speaking of the
design and the trimming and then they
cost you 10,000 20,000 US dollars of you
get one of these dresses and you cannot
wear it because no it’s sort of like lon
material not comfortable a lot of
research it’s been carrying now in
material that we like to believe now
will revolutionize the fashion world in
the next year or two okay so let me go
back and say well what has that all to
do with any one of you now in terms of
manufacturing I think the mall will be
changing very rapidly a significantly
today especially China in mass
production many still relying on the
low-cost labor okay but that kind of
scene is going to change we’re rapidly
because nowadays with all the technology
especially 3d technology we’re moving
into what we call manufacturing on
demand and in small quantities
already in the aerospace industries some
of you may know three different is
widely use them the most sophisticated
putzing components I really directly
make from 3d printing using titanium and
the one of the biggest problems with
aerospace industry is there how to keep
inventory of know there may be millions
of parting components or the aircraft’s
though using 3d printing while
ultimately you can think or maybe every
Airport there may be some specialists
now and now if an aircraft breaks down
the initial imparting components will be
printed on site toward is distributed
manufacturing manufacturing on demand is
going to come sooner than all of you
would imagine if you not already know
and if you are artists or a designer and
3d technology are tools that will help
you to create and innovate you may be
able to do things which by hand or other
means you cannot do and it doesn’t mean
it doesn’t mean that it do away with
your creativity because we still need
very creative and innovative designers
and artists to come up with anything
worthwhile I campaign I can think
something but it’s not worth the time
okay and now they are artists that the
workhorse of millions and also there’s a
big difference in terms of really fine
art and fine product and these are the
tools that will allow us to work with
and then on the consumer side you all of
you are consumers and because new
products coming up though your behavior
actually will be shape and change either
you adapt to the new products or new
products at depth to you and finally if
anyone of you interested in doing
startup or entrepreneur
you want to start up your venture there
will be many many opportunities hey you
may be a consumer on one hand and if you
try to do something oh you end up having
a product and you may become an
entrepreneur so of course this is a very
competitive world and nothing comes easy
and in my life I had more failures and
successes that that I can say to you but
every time I fail I’ll come up again and
try something new and this by my oh age
and tries buying something new i’m not
sure while i’m going into and but i know
that whoever business that will have
future and as a matter of how to survive
and we want to survive the next two
years and we are here here to try to
propagate share with you some of these
new ideas and I would encourage many of
you know try your hand in doing startup
you you may want to design something
because at the end of the day when we
talk about 3d printing its DIY do it
yourself and you may start something
very simple but after 10 year 20 year
you may become a wall banana a designer
so you’re all young and they’re 40 50
years ahead of you so don’t be afraid to
fail that by your hand on it and this is
something I like to share with all of you thank you