On the afternoon of December 21, the 2021 CTO Forum of digital industry on “Integration of Digital and Substantial Economy, Innovation and Poly Potential” was successfully held in Shanghai. The forum was hosted by East China Normal University, sponsored by CTO school, Shanghai Caohejing Development Zone Hi-Tech Park Development Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Caohejing Development Zone"), and undertaken by Shanghai Lingang Caohejing Talent Co., Ltd. It was conducted both online and offline, with the amount of online viewers reaching 12k.
In academician lecture, Qian Xuhong, president of East China Normal University, delivered a speech on the topic of Quantum Thinking, Taoism and Nature. Qian Xuhong believes that it is the mission and task of CTO school to pursue excellency and cultivate talents with both critical and creative thinking, and that the future of the country is determined by today’s education. He claimed that the talent training goal of CTO school should be to cultivate T-shaped talents who have one specialty and multiple abilities, they not only expert in one thing but are also capable of many other things. Like transformers, they have great variability and adaptability, and they also have strong expansion and deduction ability.
Sun Zhenrong, member of the Standing Committee of Party committee and vice president of East China Normal University, pointed out in his speech that at present, a new round of global scientific and technological revolution and industrial reform are emerging, and digitization has become the core driving force to advance economic and social development. Based on the strategic cooperation between East China Normal University and Lingang Group, CTO school and Shanghai Lingang Caohejing talent Co., Ltd. jointly built a CTO executive education and intelligent business demonstration base in digital industry. The joint efforts of college and enterprise will be significantly beneficial for strengthening technical leadership and improving the development of digital economy.
Zhou Aoying, member of the Standing Committee of the Party committee, vice president of East China Normal University and president of the Intelligence + Research Institute, delivered a keynote speech on the new scientific and technological revolution from the rise of artificial intelligence. He pointed out that we should lay much importance on data which is a new kind of energy bringing new cognition, new thinking and new development. He also claimed that innovation is the premise of the scientific and technological revolution. What we should do is to persist in the combination of innovation and initiative. Additionally, the new scientific and technological revolution calls for entrepreneurship which is to initiate what others have not done.
The round table forum was hosted by He Jiaxun, executive dean of CTO school, and several executives attended the forum and had in-depth discussions, they are Pu geguang, general manager of Shanghai Trusted Industrial Control Platform Co., Ltd. and professor of Software Engineering College of East China Normal University, Wu Xinye, founder and president of Shanghai Datatom Information Tech Co., Ltd., Huang Yawen, deputy director of operation and management center of Caohejing Development Zone, Wu xiongbin, enterprise and technical cooperation director of East China of ByteDance Ltd., and Zhang Yuming, partner of Yinli Internet Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. and the chief partner of Caohejing InCity.
He Jiaxun posed the questions mainly focused on 3 aspects: what are the problems faced by the executives of science and innovation companies, how to use Chinese wisdom in business ecological innovation and how to understand technical leadership, which triggered in-depth discussion and exchange among the guests. Huang Yawen claimed that the development of the industry needs subversive thinking and innovative management, Consequently, technicians in traditional industries urgently need to change their mindset and nurture innovative thinking. Pu geguang commented that there is still insufficiency in the management ability of enterprise technical talents, and the construction of innovative technical talent system needs the support of systematic degree education and ability improvement. Wu Xinye stated that the enterprises should emphasizes on large-scale planning and small-scale implementation, they should persist in the application driven innovation, so as to find useful data through analyzing the problems and establish systematic management models. Zhang Yuming pointed out that in the digital era, the service chain of enterprises is people, goods and market. Information digitization is significantly helpful for shopping malls to attract investment and construct business forms. Wu xiongbin believes that technical leadership should refer to the leadership ability with solid foundation, broad perspective of the industry and artistic management thinking.