Digital capability is at the core of any modern business, but building digital capability is still a mystery like alchemy. Based on our global experiences, the Digital Fluency Model emergges from ThoughtWorks. We hope to help more companies finding the true north of building the digital mindset through this model.

Led by China, economic landscapes in Asia has been profoundly changed by the Internet and digital technologies. Even though representing borderless platforms, the Internet and associated digital innovations also reflect national identities and policies. Do the digital economics of China and Asia represent a new way of doing things for the world, or just for the societies from where they originate? How do US-China trade tensions impact and illustrate the differences between East and West? What are senior executives in Asia saying about the influence of automation and AI on their organisations and workforce needs? To address these and related topics, Robert Koepp of The Economist Corporate Network will offer a multi-faceted presentation on Asia’s digital economies and their significance for business and organisations today and into the future.

In the ever-changing VUCA era, the future we are facing is always in quantum states. No one can predict when the change will come, nor the time crisis befalls. Factors like international politics, economic conditions and industry innovation can push an enterprise to prosperity and can also strike it down to the bottom. That’s why we should initiate Zhongtai strategy early and keep building our core competence persistently. It is also important to move fast to take advantage of the favorable momentum and resources to stay competitive in the ever-changing business environment. In this backdrop, ThoughtWorks and Huawei will explain the rise of Zhongtai strategy and share the method and practical case in implementation. We hope this session can help enterprises better understand and implement Zhongtai strategy, and leverage its core competence to respond better to the changing external environment. 

It's time to stop hype-driven investment and get real business value from blockchain. Blockchain technology only make sense in a complex business ecosystem of multiple stakeholders. Supply chain and trade finance are such a typical scenario. We will share our practical cases and experiences around blockchain, how to reduces fraud risks and compliance costs to enhance transparency and effiency in supply chain and trade finance. Blockchain is not the right solution for most scenarios, however it could be one of best options when build an open ecosystem.

Supply chain is the core capability for New Retail enterprises in the ever-changing digital era. supply chain, previously a division of support in the business, has been grown into an ecology that influences the user experience directly. For this reason, the requirement for supply chain are growing rapidly, yet the best practice and procedure are outmoded. Having one of the biggest supply chain system in the world, Lenovo will share their practices in building a soft supply chain with Intelligent Data that drives business innovation.

In twenty to thirty years’ time, human society will step into an intellectual society featuring “everything perceptible, inter-connected and intellectual”. In fact, we have already set out on this journey to implement AI on all businesses. How far away is machine learning from your area of business? Do you need a machine learning platform? How should we utilize machine learning to empower our business? Joined with AI Director of FinShine, SAIC motor, chief data scientist of ThoughtWorks will share real cases on how machine learning pushed forward business transformation.

ThoughtWorks Social Impact Project is a real project. We invite business decision makers to have a brainstorm with us and create a kid education product for children in the underdeveloped area. The product aims at bridging the gap and creating a fair education chance for all the kids. In this process we will also set out the key points in product design process, and the glamour of Design Thinking in a social innovative way can be fully felt on site.