Technological innovation, featured by 5G network, big data, AI, cloud computing, and AR/VR, has become an essential driver for global economic growth. Digital economy is transforming the quality, efficiency and dynamics of economic development. In the vast ocean of digital economy, SMEs stand out with their vitality, audacity and agility.

China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) looks closely at opportunities and challenges brought by digital economy to SMEs. CAST has been dedicated to building Innovation China platform, maximizing its edge and wisdom in organization and leadership, introducing knowledge and talents, building social collaboration network, creating a productivity - research eco-system, boosting efficient interaction between S&T, industry, and finance, and facilitating deeper merge between S&T and business. The platform will employ new generation of IT system to build new digital economic eco-system, empowering digitization for industrial sector and creating new dynamics for high-quality economic growth.

CAST initiates the Global Digital Economy Forum for Small and Medium Enterprises 2020 (DES2020), inviting world-renowned scholars and experts, entrepreneurs, directors from SMEs, and policy makers to discuss theoretical innovations in digital economy, business practices, and policy trends, providing brainstorming ideas and information that guide and facilitate SMEs digital transformation. DES2020's theme: Digital Economy Challenges and Opportunities: SMEs Digital Transformation. The agenda offers keynote speeches, forum dialogues, and 6 sub-forums. The themes for sub-forums: Open Data: Unleashing the Original Drivers for New Factors; Cooperation and Symbiosis: New Practices of Platform-based Organizations; Building Platforms: Digital Technology Helps Companies Resume Work and Production; Open Ecology: Achieving Inclusive and Enabling Integration;Lean Startups: A Novel Mode for SMEs to Start New Business in Digital Economy;Bridging the Digital Divide: Addressing New Issues in Governance of the Digital Economy.

DES2020 is organized by China Center for International Science and Technology Exchange and co-organized by CCTV.COM. It is coordinated by Zhejiang Association for Science and Technology, Hubei Association for Science and Technology, MEGVII, Didi, Tusholdings, Greatwall Strategy Consultants and Research Center for Intelligent Social Governance, CAST-RUC.

You are welcomed to attend DES2020 on 16th July, 2020. Let's share the joy and magnificence.

Agenda
Main Forum
  • 15:00 Opening Ceremony
  • 15:05-15:20 Keynote 1
    Synergize SMEs Strengths to
    Boost Digital Economy
    HUAI Jinpeng
    Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Secretary of the
    China Association for Science and Technology (CAST),
    Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
  • 15:20-15:35 Keynote 2
    Digital Transformation of SMEs
    in a Global Economy
    Chen Liming
    Chairman of IBM Greater China Group
  • 15:35-15:50 Keynote 3
    OECD Practice of Digital Tax
    Eric Robert
    OECD Digital Tax Policy Advisor
  • 15:50-16:05 Keynote 4
    Innovative Business Models in
    the German "Mittelstand"
    Michael Dowling
    Professor, Member of the German Academy of Science
    and Engineering (Acatech), Chairman of the MÜNCHNER KREIS
  • 16:05-16:20 Keynote 5
    Collaborative Intelligent Systems:
    Challenges and the Future
    Anthony Cohn
    Professor, Fellow of the Royal Academy of
    Engineering, Turing Fellow
  • 16:20-16:35 Keynote 6
    Digital Economy: A New Opportunity
    for Sustainable Growth in SME
    Hermann Simon
    Management Thinker, Founder and Honorary Chairman of the
    Simon-Kucher & Partners, Founding Father of "Hidden Champions"
Forum Dialogue
  • 16:45-18:15 Business leaders, representatives from international organizations, world-renowned scientists and
    economists, representatives of think tanks and media will attend
Sub-forum
  • Sub-forum 1 Open Data: Unleashing the Original Drivers for New Factors
  • Sub-forum 2 Cooperation and Symbiosis: New Practices of Platform-based Organizations
  • Sub-forum 3 Building Platforms: Digital Technology Helps Companies Resume Work and Production
  • Sub-forum 4 Open Ecology: Achieving Inclusive and Enabling Integration
  • Sub-forum 5 Lean Startups: A Novel Mode for SMEs to Start New Business in Digital Economy
  • Sub-forum 6 Bridging the Digital Divide: Addressing New Issues in Governance of the Digital Economy
Guests
  • HUAI Jinpeng
    Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Secretary of the CAST, Academician of CAS
  • Liming CHEN
    Chairman of IBM Greater China Group
  • Eric Robert
    OECD Digital Tax Policy Advisor
  • Michael Dowling
    Professor, Member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (Acatech), Chairman of the MÜNCHNER KREIS
  • Anthony Cohn
    Professor, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Turing Fellow
  • Hermann Simon
    Management Thinker, Founder and Honorary Chairman of the Simon-Kucher & Partners, Founding Father of "Hidden Champions"
  • Gong Ke
    President of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO)
  • Hans d’Orville
    Former UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Strategic Planning
  • Tony Soteriou
    Director of Commercialisation, UK Research and Innovation
  • Yin Zheng
    Global Executive Vice President & President of China Operations of Schneider Electric
  • Tang Wenbin
    Co-founder of MEGVII
  • Zhang Bo
    Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, DiDi, CEO of DiDi’s Autonomous Driving Company
  • Clarence Tan
    Founder and CEO of Origgin and Origgin Ventures
  • Carl A. Rust
    Vice President of Georgia Institute of Technology
Organization
  • Sponsor
    China Association for Science and Technology (CAST)
  • Organizer
    China Center for International Science and Technology Exchange
  • Co-organizer
    Zhejiang Association for Science and Technology,
    Hubei Association for Science and Technology, MEGVII, Didi, Tusholdings, Greatwall Strategy Consultants and Research Center for Intelligent Social Governance, CAST-RUC
  • Partner
    CCTV.com