DIGITAL CITY FORUM

2023-06-28 | 13:30 - 16:45

SNIEC, Hall N5, Shanghai Auditorium

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Digital Everything

Session Description

Digital technology is the key element leading the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, and the digital economy has become the core driving force to promote the high-quality development of China's economy. At present, digital cities are on the fast track of development. The “Digital City Forum” aims to build a platform of top technology, experts and wisdom, with a forward-looking global vision on urban development issues, to accelerate the promotion of digital industrialization and industrial digitization, promote the deep integration of digital economy and real economy, and provide an effective path for empowering the transformation and upgrading of the whole industry by cultivating new dynamics of digital economy and collaborating with all sectors of society, thus creating a new engine for economic growth and pouring a constant impetus for the innovation-driven development strategy. The forum will invite representatives from government regulatory departments, industry authorities and leading enterprises to share their practical experiences and theoretical achievements in the development and construction of digital cities through keynote speeches and roundtable discussions, explore the potential of integration and innovation of digital technology and data elements, bring together relevant platform enterprises in the digital economy industry chain, take advantage of the rich application scenarios in the Chinese market, and create a new pattern of digital city construction. Agenda: Moderator: Leo Chen, Deloitte Semiconductor Sector Leader 13:30 - 14:00 Sign-in 14:00 - 14:05 Address by Tang Wenkan, Deputy Director, Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization 14:05 - 14:10 Address by Alex Sinclair, GSMA CTO 14:10 - 14:15 Address by Charlotte Lu, Deloitte China Eastern Region Managing Partner, 14:15 - 14:45 Roundtable: New Infrastructure for Digital Development Confirmed Speaker: Liu Hong, Head of Technology, GSMA Greater China (Moderator) 14:45 - 15:00 Keynote Speech: Building Digital Innovation Facilities to Promote the Development of Digital Shanghai Confirmed Speaker: Pan Yan, Director of Information Infrastructure Department, Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization 15:00 - 15:15 Keynote Speech: Satellite Internet, Making the Digital World Reach Every Corner Confirmed Speaker: Lu Ben, Chief Scientist, Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology 15:15 - 15:30 Keynote Speech: "Green IT" Promotes China's Smart Cities into 3.0+ Era Confirmed Speaker: Guan Hongfeng, Vice President & General Manager of Cloud-Network Convergence Division, Lenovo Group 15:30 - 15:50 Roundtable Dialogue: Harmony in Diversity of Digital City Construction Confirmed Speakers: Mao Huidong, CEO, Smart City Expo World Congress / Tomorrow.City (China) 15:50 - 16:05 Keynote Speech: The "ChatGPT Era" of Digital-Real Convergence Confirmed Speaker: Cherry Huang, Deloitte Consulting Partner 16:05 - 16:45 Roundtable Dialogue: Digital Empowerment for Industry Development Confirmed Speakers: Qian Kun, Assistant Director (Dean) of Information and Intelligent Development Department, Director of Planning and Management Center, Assistant Director of Big Data Artificial Intelligence Center, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University Wang Xinnan, General Manager of Shanghai Xintou Construction & Secretary General of Shanghai Smart Park Association Yang Daping, Chairman, Shanghai General Plan Institute of Education Chen Zhengwei, Executive Vice President of Yidian Smart City Design and Research Institute & Chief Architect of INESA Intelligent Tech Gao Bibu, Chairman of Dahan Tricom   Guided by: Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization, GSMA Organizer: Deloitte, Shanghai Academy of Next Generation Information and Communications Technology Co-organizer: Smart City Expo World Congress / Tomorrow.City (China)


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