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Dear Members and Friends,  China-Italy Chamber of Commerce is pleased to invite you to the webinar “Chinese Standards & Compliance for European Exporters”, organized in collaboration with the EU SME Centre  and the Seconded European Standardisation Expert in China (SESEC) Project. The webinar will be held on January 28th, 2021 from 16:00 to 17:30.   The webinar will provide an overview of how the Chinese standardization system is structured and it will provide guidance and practical tips on how to ensure that products exported from the EU and China are in compliance with relevant Chinese standards and technical requirements, both under normal trade and cross-border e-commerce; as well as for key sectors such as F&B, consumer products, and cosmetics. This webinar is the first of a webinar series to be organized in the field of standards, conformity assessment and compliance in China. In fact, standards and compliance remain one of the main reasons why products exported from the EU to China encounter delays at the Chinese customs. The webinar series aims to address this issue by increasing the awareness of EU exporters; it will focus on horizontal issues, as well as on specific industries where EU exporters have a large presence in China.    About the speakers: Dr. Betty XU, Seconded European Standardization Expert in China  Betty Xu, took the position as Seconded European Standardization Expert in China in Sept 2014. Seconded European Standardization Expert (SESEC) is a project co-funded by European Commission, EFTA, three official European SDOs (CEN, CENELEC and ETSI). The purpose of the project is to support EU-China co-operation in standardization. Dr. Betty Xu had more than 10 years’ experience in industry, first as the software/hardware developer in an IT/Automation Company (from 2000-2002) , R&D leader in a big household appliance company (2006-2008), then as the standards drafter, and standardization Director in a giant European electrical equipment manufacturer (2008-2013). Dr. Betty Xu migrated to Australia and had been working for Standards Australia since April 2013. Dr. Betty Xu also had 8 years’ experience in Standardization and Technical Regulation. She was the drafting leader for several China national Standards and was involved in 2 IEC standards drafting. She specially worked in the standardization area when she was the Standardization and Technical Regulation Director for North East Asia in Siemens Ltd China, from 2008 -2013. After working for industry for almost 10 years, Dr. Betty Xu had the chance to work in a national standards developing organization, Standards Australia, in 2013. Where she gained more experience and more understanding of the well-developed economy and its standards development strategy, scheme and process.   Dr. Martina Gerst, Senior Technical Adviser for Market Access China Dr. Gerst is a senior Technical Adviser/Trainer for Market Access China. She has more than 15 years of China experience. During this time, she has advised EU SMEs about market access to China, especially standards & conformity, and IPR, in different sectors such as F&B, Electric/Electronics, ICT/e-commerce, or automotive. In addition, she has participated in R&D projects about mechanical engineering and ICT. Dr. Gerst has held senior positions in Fortune 500 companies such as BMW, Daimler, Siemens, KPMG.   Scan the QR code to register:   For more information about the webinar, please contact info@cameraitacina.com.   Kind Regards, CICC Team.

Dear Members and Friends,   On Thursday, January 28, 2021, the China-Italy Chamber of Commerce (CICC), as a leading partner of the EU SME Centre, is pleased to invite you to the webinar “Chinese Standards & Compliance for European Exporters”.     This webinar will provide an overview of how the Chinese standardisation system is structured, and will provide guidance and practical tips on how to ensure that products exported from the EU and China are in compliance with relevant Chinese standards and technical requirements, both under normal trade and cross-border e-commerce; as well as for key sectors such as F&B, consumer products, and cosmetics. More details and specific agenda will follow in the next days. Kind Regards, CICC Team.

Dear Members and Friends of CICC, The Innovation and Technology Working Group (I&TWG) of the China-Italy Chamber of Commerce is glad to inform you to that the Webinar: "AR and VR for remote assistance and training, trends and case studies" is going to be held via Zoom on 9 December, 5 to 6 PM China Time (CST) – 10 to 11 am Italy Time (CET). It’s almost a decade that we hear speaking about the impact of new technologies in our way of working and in what is called “human-augmentation”; about how our physical and mental abilities can be further enhanced through technological devices, as we have learned to do since the stone age.  Though, resistance to change and other dilemmas in the organization didn’t made that revolution happen since the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. As one element of remote working, many companies have accelerated to adapt the use of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) to ensure business continuity and in order to supplement the impossibility or extreme complication for technical teams to travel in different global sites for installation of new production lines, upgrade of existing lines, or carrying out maintenance and assistance during the pandemic. Forced by the pandemic, many companies already realized that this is not just contingent but it will last as a new way of working that improves speed and efficiency while contribute to reduce companies’ carbon’s foot print. CCIC Innovation and Technology Working Group is glad to propose this seminar dedicated to this technological application into the daily business sharing the experience of different speakers. Rosanna Terminio, Managing Partner of AsecorpChina Business Consulting and PhD Candidate at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) on Automation and Work, will give a brief introduction of this new trend and explain the difference between AR and VR. Maria Santonastaso, China General Manager Dedalus China, will than moderate a session with Ivan D’Onghia, CTO Digital/Robotics, Danieli Tongchuang Information Technology and Cristian Sala, Cama Group Executive Sales Manager. The two speakers will share practical application of this technology explaining why their company chose to adopt it, how it benefited them and their customer by sharing success stories. The case studies cover several companies size so as to be beneficial to different CCIC members and will end with a Q&A session where the audience can interact with the companies through the guide of Maria Santonastaso. The webinar will be held on Zoom and it is tailored for a diverse audience of Multinational, Big and SMEs Corporate C-levels (e.g., CEOs, CTOs, COO etc.) and Senior Managers in different functional areas, including Production, Business Development, Human Resources, ICT, Product/Service Developments, Sales and After-Sales. This webinar is part of a webinar journey promoted by the CCIC and I&T WG with the purpose of: Giving the chance to expose all members of CCIC to new technologies through theoretical contents and practical demonstration on how they can improve companies’ performance Generate cross-innovation and collaboration between the members   Program: 17:00 Welcome Speech, Vittorio Oliva I&T WG Vice Coordinator and Head of Italian Coverage of the Hong Kong Branch of Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A. 17:03 Webinar Opening, Maria Santonastaso Health Care WG Coordinator and General Manager of Dedalus China 17:05 Key note speeches, Rosanna Terminio, Ivan d’Onghia, Caristian Sala 17:05 -17:10 Rosanna Terminio, AsecorpChina Business Consulting and PhD Candidate UOC - Human (and Business) Augmentation: AR and VR 17:10-17:25 Ivan D’Onghia, CTO Digital/Robotics, Danieli Tongchuang Information Technology - Case study 1 - VR, AR and more in some concrete experience 17:25-17:40 Cristian Sala, Cama Group Executive Sales Manager - Case study 2 – When difficulties turn into opportunity: from the real to virtual machine 17:40 – 18:00 Q&A and closing, Maria Santonastaso   Price  Free for CICC Members  200 RMB for NON Members   To register scan the QR code on the flyer or click HERE.   Speakers Vittorio Oliva is the Vice-Coordinator of I&T WG and the Head of Italian Coverage of the Hong Kong Branch of Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A. He oversees the business relationships with Italian Groups in Hong Kong and supports APAC-Italy cross border business and innovation developments, with a focus on the Greater Bay Area. He has been with Intesa Sanpaolo since 2000 and held several positions in USA and in Europe - including General Manager of the London Branch ex Sanpaolo IMI, General Manager of the Frankfurt Branch and Italian Head of Mid Corporate – Nord West – prior to being moved to the Intesa Sanpaolo’s APAC HQs.   Graduated in Economics and Master in Asian Studies, Rosanna Terminio is Managing Partner of AsecorpChina Business Consulting and PhD Candidate for UOC in Automation and Work. She has published a research paper in 2018 presented at Robo-Philosophy at University of Vienna titled “The impact of RAAI (Robotics Automation and Artificial Intelligence) in the working environment from the employee perspective, a scoping review”. The paper has been selected for the 3rd Conference on Economy and Enterprises by The Economists of Catalunya, Spain and included in the project “Digitalization and Work” financed by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness.  She has contributed to the book “The work we need: people and industry 4.0” published in Italy by Guerini e Associati.   Maria Santonastaso is General Manager of Dedalus China., a Beijing-based Italian company dedicated to Healthcare IT integrated solutions in the fields of Regional Healthcare, Hospital Integration and Business Intelligence. She is also coordinator of the CCIC Health Care Working Group. She holds a degree in Oriental Languages and Civilization from Ca’ Foscari, a Master Degree from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa and an Executive MBA from Hult International Business School. During her previous career she has been working for the Italian Embassy in Beijing and the United Nations.   Graduated in Computer Science Ivan d’Onghia started his activity at Danieli headquarter Italy in 2017 where, after some years as responsible for the Human–Machine interface systems, he was moved to the direction of the department for pipes mill and long products mathematical models and data analysis. From 2012 for Danieli he become Area Manager for electrical and automation solutions for the Russian Federation and CIS countries. From this year he is acting as CTO at DTI, company based in Beijing and focused on robotic and digital solution.     Cristian Sala joined Cama in 2015 as Executive Sales Manager. His role is to supervise all the sales activities leading the team of area managers based in the Head Quarter and in the six subsidiaries. Together with the Engineering Sales Manager he reports directly to the Managing Director. Graduated in Economy in the last ten years he has developed his experience by coordinating sales team in global business with high technological standards.   For more information contact: infoguangdong@cameraitacina.com   Kind Regards, CICC Team