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ECI International Digital Innovation Festival turns discoveries into butterflies
Release date: December 7, 2023, 22:53
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To promote the sustainable development of global digital innovation, the "2023
ECI International Digital Innovation Festival and ECI (Wuxi) Digital
Innovation Industry Forum" grandly opened in Wuxi High-Tech Zone on the
7th.
The Wuxi National High-Tech Industrial Development Zone Management
Committee and the IECIA International Digital Economy Innovation
Organization are co-hosting the event.
Wuxi is hosting a worldwide innovation
festival for the first time. Digital innovation is an essential engine for
accelerating the global economy today. With the theme "Becoming the Future,"
this year's Innovation Festival relies on Wuxi's digital innovation advantages
and ECI's dedicated operational resources and international think tanks to build
a high-end platform. At the opening ceremony, Cui Rongguo, Secretary of the
Party Working Committee of Wuxi High-Tech Zone and Secretary of the Xinwu District Committee, and Su Xiong, Global Chairman of the IECIA International Digital Economy Innovation Organization, delivered speeches as the organizers. Consul General of the Netherlands in Shanghai, Ms. Marjo Crompvoets, and the
Consul General of Israel in Shanghai, Ms. Guo Meiyao. Ravit Baer and other
international speakers gave keynote speeches.
Zhou Changqing, member of the Standing Committee of the Wuxi Municipal
Party Committee and Minister of the United Front Work Department; Yang
Hanping, President of the China Advertisers Association; and Wang Xiaolin,
Executive Secretary of the China Soft Science Research Society and Executive Dean of the Sixth Industry Research Institute of Fudan University, also opened
the ceremony. Guests delivered speeches.
Wuxi High-Tech Zone, a key industrial technology innovation highland in the
Yangtze River Delta area, has produced significant gains in digital innovation in recent years, according to Cui Rongguo. This year, we will join hands with the IECIA International Digital Economy Innovation Organization to accelerate the cultivation of innovative productivity, lead the way in the new digital landscape,
and establish a hub for China's digital innovation industry.
Su Xiong praised the Xinwu District Government of Wuxi City for its support
in his remarks and stated that ECI has always been devoted to creating the
future through innovation. In the future, it will cooperate with Wuxi to establish
the "International Digital Economy Industry (Wuxi) Innovation Research
Institute," a domestic milestone. This action aims to unite global talent, promote
digital economy and technology research, and build a digital innovation hub.
This Innovation Festival focuses on scientific and technical innovation,
industrial innovation, and educational innovation, introducing high-quality resources such as abroad talents, technology, and money, and accomplishing
three main projects: the Israeli Intelligent Robot (Wuxi) Collaborative
Innovation Center, International Innovation Industry Exchange and
Cooperation, and ESG International Education and Training.
The memorandum
of cooperation was signed, showing the multi-dimensional empowerment.
Wuxi National High-tech Industrial Development Zone Management
Committee won the ECI Digital Economy Industry Development Special
Contribution Award at the Innovation Festival
Zhou Changqing, member of the Standing Committee of the Wuxi Municipal
Party Committee and Minister of the United Front Work Department,
particularly emphasized that digital innovation has strong vitality and leads to
high-quality social and economic development. In the future, Wuxi will work
closely with ECI to complete the digital innovation and economic
empowerment of the trinity of industrial chain, innovation chain, and talent
chain, as well as investigate and establish an innovative development model.
During the Innovation Festival, guests from both home and abroad made bold
assumptions. They spoke openly about digital economic innovation, AI and
artificial intelligence, ESG, sustainable development, China's macro policies,
Wuxi's digital economic industry advantages, and Bay Area economic empowerment. Participants felt the theoretical results brought about by
technological change.
Digital innovation and industrial growth are hot topics at this forum.
Representatives from well-known enterprises decoded the entire industry's
transformation trend from full-chain digital innovation cases, digital economy-
empowered product intelligent design, and cultural industry innovation paths.
At the meeting, ECI and experts and scholars from 13 countries and regions
jointly issued the "Global Sustainable Innovation and Civilization
Development" initiative, calling on the whole society to pay more attention to building a sustainable development ecosystem using digitalization to empower
the future of civilization.
The Golden Hall was packed with guests as the ECI Awards Annual Innovative Person Awards Ceremony began in the evening. IECIA, the international digital
economy innovation organization, awards the annual Innovation Leader, the
annual Innovation Influencer, the annual Innovative Business Creative, theannual Innovative Emerging Person, the annual Innovative Marketing Person, the annual Chief Innovation Officer, and the Annual Innovative Woman to the best in various fields. Leaders were awarded seven major prizes recognizing
their continuous entrepreneurial and innovative spirit.
Guests attending the Innovation Festival said in an interview: This grand
ceremony has once again brought shock and surprise to the global innovation
community. They believe that through the strong alliance between ECI and
Wuxi National High-Tech Industrial Development Zone, all "digits" will be
promoted in digital international innovation. Sustainable development