Week 2!


This was a shorter work week than normal because we had the Monday July 1st as a statutory holiday.  Not only is it Canada day, but it is also the Hong Kong SAR day.  The global edge crew including myself spent the weekend volunteering at the Canada Day celebration by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.  I was pretty busy and I regret not taking enough photos, if I manage to find some that others took I shall post them here.

Aside from that this week has been a bit slower than last week.  On Wednesday I had a chance to visit ASAP Creative & Communication.  They are interested in partnering with DNET Solution to hopefully sell our hardware in Taiwan.  I was glad my boss took me to the meeting so I could see first hand how business was done in Hong Kong.  It turns out that my boss knew the Director for over 20 years.  He was telling me that in Hong Kong relationships are very important, it’s mostly how business is run.  My Boss’s goal was to get the Director to showcase the product to her husband who has a company in Taiwan who would eventually tell his colleagues and through that their business would spread and they would be able to sell the hardware.  Most of the meeting was in Cantonese so I couldn’t gauge anything but their facial expressions and reactions.

The other main task this week is trying to integrate another companies tech with our multimedia panel.  Essentially that tech is an Android based media server that would be the perfect harmony to our companies hardware.  Our main job is to figure out if the tech can either fit in and be integrated into our hardware to offer the full hardware and software experience to the customer.  Otherwise if we can’t integrate it we have to add it on as a package deal when we try and sell our hardware to our clients.  I personally hope that we can integrate it because our current software is pretty primitive and from the demonstration I saw last week, I like their version a lot more.

Mainly because it is developed using the Android 4.2 OS, as a software (game) developer I can see myself trying to convince my boss that games can be developed specifically for that system.

On July 8th, I had the privilege of visiting a press and industry launch of “Tomorrow’s Guestroom” at the Icon Hotel and the Polytech Uni. DNET won the award so myself along with almost everyone in our office went to the press conference to showcase our hardware to both the press and industry.  It was really exciting to meet several people from the hospitality industry and it was a bit awkward since almost everyone there was 2-3 times my age.  It was great to see how fast paced things in Asia are.  I never knew how slow business was in Canada until I came here.  I guess it really helps that China is so close that we don’t have to wait long to hear from manufacturers.  In Canada since the distribution channels are mostly further apart from one another, I guess it slows down business.  It is really amazing that a small company can manufacture hardware and prototype so fast!


Thats all for now!