How does Hong Kong unlock its unique institutional dividends to become an international safety and arbitration epicenter for Physical AI?

At the HKU LAE x SCC Joint Symposium, Dr. Amanda Lim—Hong Kong Chief Representative & CFO of Digauto, and Coordinating Lead for the SCC PAIS-Lab 5-Year Plan Proposal—took the stage as the Panel Facilitator & Moderator for an extraordinary cross-disciplinary assembly of scholars, legal authorities, and engineering pioneers.

Dr. Lim orchestrated a high-impact dialogue addressing the critical structural bottlenecks in autonomous driving (ADS) and the low-altitude economy (LAE):

• HIL Mileage Conversion Framework: Championing regulatory adaptation under Cap. 374AA and civil aviation rules, allowing high-fidelity indoor Hardware-in-the-Loop simulation and SOTIF Index benchmarking to serve as certified technical compliance data, saving enterprises catastrophic physical crash costs.

• The GBA Schema & LHD/RHD Discrepancies: Driving the execution of a standardized Great Bay Area spatial data schema that resolves severe perception dead zones and decision conflicts when autonomous systems transition between Guangdong (Left-Hand Drive) and HK/Macau (Right-Hand Drive).

• Common Law & DSSAD Arbitration: Outlining how auditable Data Storage Systems for Automated Driving (DSSAD) and high-fidelity incident reconstruction position Hong Kong as the prime international legal arbitration and IP dispute center for physical AI accidents.

Special thanks to our distinguished panel speakers:

• Dr. Alex Zhicheng Huang (HKU Faculty of Law)

• Ms. Li Xiaoying (CEO, Digauto)

• Prof. Kim-Fung Tsang (Technology R&D Advisor, SCC; IEEE Fellow)

• Prof. Liping Xu (HKU Department of Mechanical Engineering)

• Prof. Xintao Yan (HKU Department of Civil Engineering)

• Mr. Fan Hailong (General Manager, Automotive Electronics & Information Testing, CMVR)

• Prof. Xiaoyang Li (BUAA School of Reliability and Systems Engineering)

• Prof. Chenshu Wu (HKU School of Computing and Data Science)

Under Dr. Lim’s leadership in Hong Kong, Digauto is actively aligning government policy, academic excellence, and international venture capital to bring the PAIS-Lab vision to full execution in Hung Shui Kiu.