Innovation drives technology, and digital intelligence drives the future. Nowadays, China's industrial digitization process is accelerating and upgrading, and the scale of digital industrialization continues to grow. Data shows that by 2022, China's digital economy will reach a scale of 50.2 trillion yuan, ranking second in the world in terms of total volume. The digital economy has become a new engine for promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and promoting high-quality development.

On October 27, 2023 China Enterprise Digital Transformation Summit and SIE User Conference were held in Wuhan. The conference, with the theme of "AI driven digital innovation", invited over 1000 industry elites, business leaders, experts and scholars to gather together, focusing on AI technology and exploring the digital future together.

The main forum was officially kicked off by Zhang Chengkang, chairman and CEO of SIE, in his keynote speech "AI Drives Digital Intelligence Innovation". Talking about the impact of AI, he shared: "Now there are a lot of companies that have made big models. What we do is still to do what we should do around the value of customers and the industry. Our ability lies in having years of experience in the industry, combined with our understanding of AIGC, and insight into different industry scenarios to maximize the value of the industry."

In the context of the emergence of large-scale models, the widespread application of AI technology is changing various industries. As a need to actively embrace digital innovation, based on industry traction and technological empowerment, to achieve sustained innovation and development.

In the era of AI, industries are reshaped and intelligent manufacturing is moving towards new directions. Zhang Chengkang once again reiterated the "scissors gap principle" of digitization. With the development of informatization and intelligence, on the one hand, the labor cost of enterprises continues to rise over time; On the other hand, the cost of intelligence continues to decrease over time, and when the curve of labor cost and intelligence cost reaches the intersection point, intelligence will usher in an explosion. Therefore, Zhang Chengkang stated that in the era of AI driven intelligence, we can shift the manufacturing paradigm from traditional "trial and error" based physical manufacturing to virtual manufacturing based on CPS technology, and move the manufacturing system from isolated centralized to networked collaborative open system, from traditional to intelligent, from manual operation to the Internet of Things, realizing the revolution of production tools and the transformation of production modes.

Zhang Chengkang also mentioned that the three core strategies of SIE Information are: first, to build the Gushen AIGC middle platform; second, to cooperate with Huawei Cloud to develop the Pangu manufacturing industry model; third, to make breakthroughs in the subdivision scene. With the development of intelligence comes the application innovation of enterprise IT and the digital transformation empowered by AI. At this year's conference, SIE Information hopes to explore the digital transformation of enterprises around AI technology together with industry partners, and explore and create value from it.

Later, Li Peigen, an academician of the CAE Member and professor of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, emphasized the importance of AI technology in the field of industrial software, especially for innovative design, manufacturing process and equipment, in his keynote speech AI and Industrial Software Development. He pointed out that it is necessary to vigorously develop software that can "define manufacturing" based on the application of AI and forward-looking big models. "Nowadays, the development of artificial intelligence has surpassed human intelligence in local fields, and some software that integrates artificial intelligence into manufacturing may completely surpass human capabilities in specific directions of manufacturing

In terms of digital transformation and integration of data and reality in the manufacturing industry, Xu Jianfeng, Vice President of Huawei Manufacturing and Big Enterprise Corps, stated in his speech that "we have now entered a time of intelligent business scenarios and intelligent products. The value of ecology is beyond doubt, and we hope to work together with ecological partners to create a better future. In the era of AI sweeping across thousands of industries, Huawei will work with SIE, the core partner of the industry, to provide manufacturing enterprises with digital and intelligent solutions, help China's manufacturing industry achieve digital and intelligent upgrading, and create a new pattern of the real economy.

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A special summit dialogue session was held at the conference, attended by Zhang Chengkang, Academician Li Peigen, Zhang Chuanzong, founder and CEO of Sijiufang, and Wan Xuchang, Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Sunrise Oriental Holdings Co., Ltd. The session was chaired by Hu Haoran, Director of Industry Operations and Head of Spark Action at Xinhua News Agency, and various parties engaged in discussions on multiple topics. On site topic voting was set up, with guests in the audience scanning codes to participate, and the voting results were presented in real-time on the large screen.

The peak dialogue that combines topicality, interactivity, and professionalism has aroused enthusiastic responses from everyone present. The collision of viewpoints among the big shots on stage, the harmonious dialogue, and the diversity bring inspiration and reflection to the audience below.

At this conference, SIE Information reached a strategic cooperation with 49th Square. Zhang Chengkang, chairman and CEO of SIE Information, and Zhang Chuanzong, founder and CEO of 49th Square came to the stage to hold a strategic ceremony. SIE will provide all-round digital solutions for the Baijiu industry represented by 49F, and both parties will cooperate to promote the upgrading and development of intelligent manufacturing in the industry.

Liu Weichao, Vice President of SIE and President of Digital Products BG, shared the keynote speech of "Accelerating the Integration and Innovation of" Double Span "Platforms and Boosting the Development of Industrial Digital Intelligence", and officially released the SIE Gushen Industrial Internet Platform, which was recently selected as a national "Double Span" platform. He introduced that SIE Information, based on the manufacturing industry for 18 years, continued to deepen the needs and application scenarios of the manufacturing industry with digital enabling economic development, accumulated mature experience, combined technological innovation with industry case practice, and built China's independent industrial operating system, a meta model driven SIE Gushen industrial Internet platform.

Then, Yuan Haigang, chief architect of SIE Information Valley God Laboratory, released the industry's first AIGC middle platform (Shanmou GPT) focusing on the big model of enterprise services, which became the focus of the industry. At the press conference, Yuan Haigang said: "The launch of AIGC Zhongtai (Shanmou GPT) marks an important breakthrough of SIE in the field of artificial intelligence. We believe that through technological innovation, we can provide more intelligent and efficient solutions for enterprises, helping them achieve digital innovation and development. In the future, we will strengthen in-depth cooperation and research with customers from different industries, expand the application and landing of AIGC in different industries and fields, and further enhance the performance and applicability of Shanmou GPT

Later, Li Wenxian, general manager of SIE Industrial Software and IOT subsidiary and expert of Guangdong Industrial Internet Think Tank, delivered a speech "Exploring the Digital Transformation Road Based on Model Manufacturing", and ceremoniously released SIE Gushen MBM products. He introduced, "Our future products need to solve the problems of the entire industry chain and industrial upgrading, rather than simply considering how to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Many entrepreneurs feel that what was originally an internal problem of the enterprise has now become a problem for the upstream and downstream of the industry. Therefore, we have been thinking about how to build the next generation of products. Combining our technological characteristics with the manufacturing complexity and uncertainty problems faced by enterprises, I think there are two very important points. One is the need for data, and the other is the need for models. Thus, the Grain God MBM we have created is born

SIE fully embraces the AI intelligent era, uses its independent research and development capabilities and industry's deep experience to enable the industry to transform into a digital intelligent one, and helps Chinese enterprises move towards high-quality development.

The main forum speech is still ongoing, with insights from segmented industries such as informatization, digitization, and digital supply chain flying together. Academic professors, industry research experts, and business experts continue to add knowledge and practical knowledge.

IDC China Vice President and Chief Analyst Wu Lianfeng shared in his speech "New Paradigms of Future Manufacturing and Enterprise Response Strategies" that in the era of intelligent digital business, we must seize the "user turning point", meet the needs of the digital native generation, namely the post-1995 generation, and create high-quality, affordable, innovative, and meaningful digital products and services in order to establish a firm foothold in the market. At the same time, he mentioned that digital technology has great potential for industrial software and manufacturing enterprises to adopt the "dual carbon" strategy and achieve sustainable development.

Professor Zhang Zhengang, a second level professor at the School of Business Administration of South China University of Technology and director of the Guangzhou Digital Innovation Research Center, shared in his speech "Digital Innovation Empowers High Quality Development of Manufacturing Industry" the need to cultivate model thinking and platform thinking today. A conceptual model is the abstraction and construction of the interrelationships between objective things and their elements using methodology, and is a concise and operational expression of people's systematic thinking. A platform is an interface that enables participants to create value through online and offline integration, internal and external organization integration, physical and virtual integration, sharing, co creation, and symbiosis through network innovation and data empowerment. Therefore, we need to cultivate model thinking and platform thinking, enhance systematic thinking, powerful expression, the ability to share resources, co create value, and achieve win-win cooperation.

Zhang Jiyu, General Manager of SIE Digital Supply Chain Products, shared that in the context of the uncertainty of the world economy, through the drive of digital intelligence, a collaborative ecological network can be established to create a customer-centric and proactive smart supply chain, making the supply chain the core competitiveness of enterprises! Assist enterprises in going global, promote revenue growth and cost reduction to increase efficiency.

Ding Juan, General Manager of SAP Business Technology Cloud Platform Greater China, shared in "Business AI Smart Navigation - SAP Helps Enterprises Achieve Excellent Operations and High Quality Development" the practices and cases of SAP empowering enterprise management software and business services with AI technology to help enterprises go global and achieve green and sustainable development.

In his speech "Digital Transformation Empowers High Quality Growth", Wu Zonghai, Vice President of Xiaoxiong Electric, shared practical cases of Xiaoxiong Electric's digital development. In the face of weak growth in the industry, Xiaoxiong Electric has achieved counter trend growth by transforming its process system, restructuring its organizational capabilities, implementing digital systems, digitizing management elements, promoting end-to-end business collaboration and management innovation.

Yu Hongtao, General Manager of SIE Digital Consulting Center, gave a speech on "Ideas for Building the Top Level Architecture of Digital Transformation". In response to the current situation of "confused progress" in enterprise digital transformation, he shared the "correct posture" from planning to execution in transformation actions, as well as how to accelerate transformation by learning from benchmarks and using "stones from other mountains" through external forces.

Gu Chunhua, Deputy General Manager of SIE Business Finance, introduced in his speech "Intelligent Business Finance Leading Enterprise Financial Digital Transformation" the integration of business and finance, emphasizing the standardization of financial accounting and other business processes in the process of digital transformation, focusing on "transforming concepts," "transforming organizations," and "transforming functions.

Zhan Xiaofeng, a partner of SIE Gideon, introduced and released SIE EPM product in "Controlling the momentum with numbers, creating promising information". As a domestic and independent enterprise performance management platform, it can help enterprises improve efficiency, reduce costs and reduce risks in comprehensive budget, consolidated statements, financial reports, management accounting and other cross financial and business management scenarios.

At last, Sun Yuxuan, the founding partner of SIE Industrial Fund, shared the practical methods of creating the ecology of SIE Industrial Fund in the keynote speech "Fund Innovation and Investment Practice under the Ecological Integration and Development of SIE".

In the future, facing the trend of accelerating the integration of real economy and digital technology, SIE Information will strengthen and expand intelligent manufacturing and industrial software, follow the pace of Chinese enterprises going to sea, realize the strategy of "globalization", let Chinese software go to the world to benefit more countries and people, join hands with more enterprises, go to the AI digital wave, amplify the value of the industry, explore high-quality development paths, and jointly contribute to the great cause of building a digital China.