HONG KONG -- With less than a month to go before its opening date, both exhibitors and visitors are preparing for the world’s largest printed circuit board trade show, the International Printed Circuit & APEX South China Fair (HKPCA & IPC Show). 

The annual event will be held Dec. 3-5 at the Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center. Staged under the theme “Innovation through Resilience,” the show will host a record 500 exhibitors – almost 100 new this year – at over 2,100 booths, across a floor area of 45,000 sq. m.

This impressive size of the exhibition is only part of this industry event, however. A range of onsite events will provide abundant educational and networking opportunities.

The main highlight this year will be the new  PCB & Electronic Assembly Market Conference 2014 program. A number of leading industry figures will share insights into procurement strategies and market trends. Among the speakers:

• Canice Chung, HKPCA Chairman and President of TTM's Asia Pacific business unit
• John Mitchell, president and CEO, IPC
• Peter Zhou, a CSR/EHS expert and senior CSR manager at Huawei
• Dr. Hayao Nakahara, president of New Technology (N.T.) Information
• Professor Wang Chunqing, Professor of Electronic Assembly Technology & State Key Laboratory of Advanced Soldering and Connection, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology

• Philip Plonski, managing partner, Prismark Partners.

The event will include a welcome dinner where some 1,000 engineers and executives from the industry are expected to be on hand.

Admission for the show is free and online preregistration is advised. Preregistrants will be enrolled in a drawing for a free smartphone.ww.hkpca-ipc-show.org