The International Workshop on Interoperability Technologies in Electronic Certification was held in the city of Shenzhen, on May 20, 2014. It was an annual event
of APKIC Interoperability Working Group (IOWG). Aiming to promote communication and cooperation among academia and industry, the workshop provided a forum
for researchers and engineers from certification authorities, financial organizations, cryptographic chip manufacturers and security institutes, to present and discuss
interoperability challenges, opportunities and technologies in electronic certification, trust computing and financial applications, especially under the background
of the Chinese standard SM2/3/4 algorithms. As the secretariat of APKIC, HKPKIF shared the preparation work with IOWG.

An Agreement of strategic collaboration between HKPKIF member, CERTIZEN Limited and GFA Limited (北京國富安電子商務安全認證有限公司), a high-tech company
providing professional information security products and services directly under the Ministry of Commerce of PRC China International Electronic Commerce Center was
signed in the workshop to better promote cross border electronic trading and relative businesses.