On 30 July, 2019 HKT has teamed up with Dongguan City Association of Enterprises with Foreign Investment, along with Deloitte and Salesforce as co-sponsors, to launch the “Future Trends of Information Technology and Digital Transformation” Salon on 30 July 2019  . The event drew more than 30 industry elites, decision makers, CIOs and CTOs to exchange views on the development trends and challenges in the post-AI age. They also discussed ways to explore new opportunities for foreign-owned enterprises in Mainland China with a view to helping them prepare for the future.

Digital economy has become a key driver for global economic growth in the 21st century thanks to transformation of the smart and intelligent world, people’s ever-increasing  demand and intense global competition. According to the Research Report on Economic Focus of G20 released by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), among the G20 members, China’s digital economy had a rapid growth from 26.17 trillion in 2017 to 31 trillion in 2018, representing a growth rate of 18.4%. The figure soared 208 times more over a span of 16 years between 2002 and 2018, and served as a new indicator for domestic economic growth. It is obvious that business production and management modes have been undergoing digitalization. It is thus advised to keep abreast of the latest development of technology, which is based entirely on network. Our past experience in digital transformation tells us that network works as a channel for enterprises, not only serving as the pillar for supporting digital transformation such as cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT) and mobility management, but also imposing direct impact on digital project upgrade of enterprises.

In-depth Discussions

Tong Ngoi-yee, Head of Sales, South China Region, HKT, delivered a speech themed “How to Enhance Business Agility through Digital Transformation”. In her remarks, she expounded on recent trends of digitalization among Dongguan enterprises, and explained how HKT’s one-stop network solutions could help enterprises go through digital transformation. Backed by years of solid experience in the data communication sector, she also pointed out that through SD-WAN network, high-speed connections with data centers could be ensured which improved its cost effectiveness, network speed, security, efficiency and so forth. This thus helped the participants gain a better understanding on SD-WAN service and opened more opportunities for digital service development.

Following is the speech of “Future Trends of Information Technology Development” given by Bryant Zhu, Manager Advisory, Deloitte China, who discussed the global key trends in technology and telecommunication sectors in the coming five years. Elaborating on disruptive technology transformation, he expounded on the potential factors affecting business development of those sectors. His analysis could be served as a reference for the participants to formulate their company strategies.

Qiang Li, Senior Business Consultant, Bluelinksys Technology Co., Limited delivered his speech on “Digital Transformation of Enterprises in the Age of Cloud Computing”, sharing his experience of helping clients to ride the great Internet wave in the age of digital economy, and developing more innovative and personalized products by utilizing the efficient customer relationship management (CRM) systems, so as to lay a better foundation for capturing market shares .