At the IBM China Enterprise Level AI Summit Forum held today, Chen Xudong, chairman and general manager of IBM Greater China, pointed out, "Today, IBM's key customers in China are private enterprises and foreign companies in China, and the main focus scenarios have also shifted to the digitalization, intelligent transformation and global operations of private enterprises."
Chen Xudong pointed out that looking forward to the next forty years, IBM will continue to leverage IBM's deep accumulation in technology and consulting to empower the development of private enterprises, while also contributing to the local software industry and the construction of software ecosystem partners.
At the conference, IBM released the IBM China "AI Deep Cultivation" plan, which includes three aspects: regional market, partner ecosystem and co-creation platform.
The regional market will select cities where private enterprises gather and the private economy is developed as key cities. Suzhou and Yantai are the first batch of key cities selected.
The partner ecosystem refers to strengthening collaboration and empowerment with local partners in selected key cities, in addition to IBM's own investment, in order to better serve local customers.
The co-creation platform refers to deeply linking local governments and industry associations, and working with partners to create a win-win innovation platform for all parties. The AI innovation platform has three core functions: first, as a platform for customers to understand digital and intelligent technologies; second, as a platform for technical empowerment of partners; third, as a multi-party co-creation platform, starting from customer pain points and customer needs, using IBM's unique co-creation methodology, working with customers and partners to find AI solutions that meet local customer needs.