DWP Global Summit Shenzhen

Registration & Networking

Opening Ceremony

KEYNOTE

Signing Ceremonies

MOU between Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) and World Canal Historical and Cultural Cities Cooperation Organization（WCCO)
MOU between GeSI and CITYNET
Official Launch of United Nations Solution Hub (UNSH)

Plenary Session: Digital - The Backbone for a Sustainable Future

As climate urgency and digital acceleration converge, organizations and governments are redefining how technology can drive measurable progress toward global development goals. This plenary explores how digital innovation — from AI and data ecosystems to intelligent infrastructure and resilient supply chains — is enabling new pathways for sustainable development at scale.

Bringing together global institutions, industry leaders, and academic experts, the discussion will focus on translating ambition into action, examining how digital transformation can strengthen supply-chain resilience, accelerate climate solutions, advance smart city development, and foster cross-border cooperation.

The session will highlight practical approaches, real-world case studies, and collaborative models that demonstrate how integrating digital innovation with sustainable development strategies can deliver tangible outcomes for economies and societies.

Plenary Session: Redefining Pathways to Green Digital Infrastructure & Supply Chain Resilience

As digital transformation accelerates globally, resilient and sustainable digital infrastructure has become critical to economic stability, innovation, and climate action. This plenary panel will explore how next-generation networks, data
infrastructure, and circular ICT solutions can support low-carbon transition pathways while strengthening cross-border supply-chain resilience.

Bringing together leading global operators and technology providers, the discussion will examine practical strategies for building energy-efficient infrastructure, enabling sustainable supply chains, and deploying scalable digital solutions that balance performance, resilience, and environmental responsibility.

The session will showcase real-world use cases and collaborative approaches that demonstrate how green digital infrastructure can serve as the backbone of a resilient and future-ready global digital economy.

White Paper First Pitch: Digitalization for Green Supply Chain

by GeSI Working Group on Sustainable Supply Chain
Followed by close-door meeting of the working group with local specialists and industry partners to take their feedback, during the coffee break

Plenary Session: AI-enabled transformation with human-centric approach

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping industries, institutions, and societies. While the focus has largely been on performance, efficiency, and scale, there is increasing recognition that AI-driven transformation must remain anchored in human outcomes—trust, inclusion, wellbeing, and long-term resilience.

As organizations accelerate AI adoption, a critical question emerges: how can we ensure that transformation is not only technologically advanced, but also human-centered, responsible, and aligned with societal needs?

This discussion aims to explore how organizations can deploy AI at scale while maintaining a strong human-centric approach, ensuring that innovation translates into meaningful value for people, businesses, and society.

Plenary Session: Smart City Digital Foundation & Climate Actions Empowered

As cities face growing pressures to decarbonize, improve public services, and enhance urban resilience, digital technologies are becoming foundational to next-generation urban development. Anchored in the UN Solution Hub, this plenary session will explore how digital platforms, data ecosystems, and intelligent infrastructure enable cities to accelerate decarbonization while improving citizen-centric services.

Bringing together global institutions, technology leaders, development partners, and pioneering cities, the discussion will showcase pilot projects and real-world case studies demonstrating how digital innovation supports sustainable housing, efficient public infrastructure, and integrated urban governance.

The session will focus on practical implementation pathways, highlighting replicable models and collaborative frameworks that allow cities across different regions and development stages to scale smart, low-carbon urban transformation.

Digital with Purpose Supply Chain Awards

(Welcome Reception, Invitation-only)

The Digital with Purpose Supply Chain Awards Ceremony will recognize leading suppliers that are redefining global value chains through digital innovation, intelligent infrastructure, and responsible business practices.

Assessed against the Responsible Business metrics of the Digital with Purpose Performance Framework, the Awards celebrate excellence across climate action, digital trust, circularity, inclusion, and supply chain governance.

The ceremony will honour the top three suppliers — Developing, Pioneering, and Diamond — highlighting achievements in building resilient, transparent, and future-ready supply chains.

Morning Welcome (Plenary)

Reflections on Day 1 highlights and a preview of the key priorities for Day 2.

Digital Transformation as a Driver of Sustainable Growth: Cooperation between China and European Union (Plenary)

At a moment when artificial intelligence, data systems, digital infrastructure and platform technologies are reshaping economies and societies, the central challenge is no longer simply how to accelerate digital transformation, but how to ensure that it produces sustainable, inclusive and resilient outcomes.

The Global AI Impact Network (GAIN), a joint initiative of Re-Imagine Europa and GeSI, has been created to address this challenge. GAIN aims to build a community of experts and stakeholders able to support decision-makers, identify practical pathways for AI and digital transformation, and contribute to a more strategic public conversation on the future of growth, sustainability and governance in the digital age.

This session will introduce the GAIN project and use it as a platform for a focused China–EU exchange. It will explore how digital transformation can become a driver of a new growth model, connecting innovation, competitiveness, sustainability, social value and international cooperation. The discussion will start from the European policy context, including the EU’s evolving digital strategy, and will open a structured conversation with Chinese partners on how similar questions are being addressed in China’s own innovation and development ecosystem.

Rather than treating digitalisation, sustainability and economic growth as separate agendas, the session will ask how they can be designed as mutually reinforcing dimensions of the same transformation.

Plenary Session: Data Centres, Energy and Water – Deployment-Ready Growth for the AI Era

As AI adoption accelerates, the rapid growth of high-density computing is creating new challenges and opportunities for energy systems worldwide. This spotlight plenary will explore how data centre expansion can be aligned with energy efficiency, low-carbon power strategies, and grid resilience to enable sustainable scaling of AI infrastructure.

Bringing together industry leaders and policymakers, the session will examine practical approaches to integrating digital infrastructure with evolving energy systems — including AI-driven optimization, flexible grid solutions, and innovative power procurement models that support both performance and decarbonization goals. .

Signing Ceremony

Strategic Collaboration Agreement between Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) and Alibaba Group

Networking Lunch & Industry Matchmaking Roundtables

Themed tables for green supply chains, smart cities, AI, and digital energy efficiency; project matchmaking and partnership conversations.

Digital Education for Impact Alliance Forum

As digital transformation accelerates, developing future-ready talent and advancing AI literacy are essential to ensuring inclusive and scalable digital progress. The Digital Education for Impact Alliance Forum will explore how education systems, industry, and international organizations can collaborate to bridge the digital divide, foster innovation-driven learning, and prepare the next generation of technology leaders.

The session will highlight practical models for university–enterprise collaboration, new approaches to digital education, and global frameworks that enable skills development aligned with evolving workforce needs and emerging technologies.

Responsible Innovation: Visual Health, Data Security and a Sustainable Future for AI Eyewear

As AI moves closer to the user, wearable technologies are emerging as powerful human-centred interfaces that enhance sensing, assistance, and real-time insights. This forum explores the evolving role of AI-enabled wearables — particularly smart eyewear — in transforming how individuals interact with digital systems across healthcare, productivity, mobility, and everyday environments.

The discussion will focus on edge AI capabilities, privacy-by-design principles, interoperability standards, and scalable deployment models. Bringing together ecosystem partners, the session aims to identify practical pathways for responsible innovation and cross-industry collaboration. Key Takeaways: Partnership opportunities and proposed next steps

Global Joint Action Roundtable & Closing Ceremony (Plenary)

This plenary session brings together insights and outcomes from across all thematic tracks, translating discussions into actionable next steps. Designed as a synthesis and coordination moment, the session will highlight key deliverables, partnership opportunities, and implementation pathways emerging from the Summit’s breakout sessions and strategic dialogues.

By aligning stakeholders around shared priorities, the session reinforces the Digital with Purpose approach — moving from ideas to execution through collaboration, structured outcomes, and scalable solutions.