第13届全国消费品行业CIO大会圆满成功闭幕！CIO组织2026下半年活动计划重磅公布！

This article covers the successful conclusion of the 13th National CIO Conference for the Consumer Goods Industry and the 5th AI Agent Application Conference, alongside the release of the CIO organization’s event schedule for the second half of 2026. Key takeaways are as follows:

1. This conference is the highest-level, largest-scale and most influential event for CIOs in China’s consumer goods industry, co-hosted by multiple leading industry associations. It drew over 600 senior CIOs and IT executives from multiple provinces and cities, covering all major consumer goods sectors including food and beverage, beauty, apparel and footwear, and food service. More than 100 leading CIOs shared digital transformation case studies, with a collective focus on exploring AI-driven enterprise digital transformation.

2. The conference also announced the CIO organization’s event lineup for H2 2026: the 14th National Consumer Goods CIO Conference and 6th China AI Large Model Application Conference will be held in Guangzhou from August to September; the National CIO Annual Conference for the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Industry and 7th China AI Large Model Application Conference will be held in Shanghai from November to December. A series of closed-door salons and private board meetings will also be held across the country throughout the year.

3. An awards ceremony was held during the conference to recognize industry digital transformation leaders, AI innovation enterprises, and outstanding digital solution service providers. The event showcases the industry’s latest transformation achievements and aggregates resources from top service providers.

This conference gathered a large number of AI digital transformation practice cases from leading consumer goods brands and shared the latest industry trends, offering valuable insights for brand owners’ transformation. Key takeaways for brands are as follows:

1. Multiple leading brands have already rolled out AI applications across multiple business segments: Juewei has built AI-powered hit product development, Aokang has redesigned customer service experiences with AI, and Laiyifen has implemented AI-enabled intelligent store operations to boost efficiency. These mature practices provide direct references for brand owners to optimize product R&D, improve operational efficiency, and upgrade customer service, helping brands grasp AI transformation trends in the consumer sector.

2. Focused on AI-driven end-to-end growth for brand businesses, the conference featured a range of actionable solutions from high-quality solution providers, including AI new infrastructure, retail AI platform implementation, and AI-powered decision-driven growth. Brand owners can select solutions aligned with their own needs to address core transformation pain points.

3. Brand owners can also connect with peer resources, exchange transformation experience, and capture the latest changes in user behavior through the CIO organization’s multiple industry events in the second half of the year, to adjust their brand operation and channel development strategies accordingly.

This conference shared the latest developments in AI-driven digital transformation in the consumer goods industry, offering clear opportunity directions and practical references for all types of consumer goods sellers. Key takeaways are as follows:

1. AI-driven digital transformation has been confirmed as the core growth direction for the current consumer goods industry, with a large number of leading brands already implementing AI across hit product development, operational efficiency improvement, customer service, business decision-making and other links. This confirms AI transformation has become an industry consensus and a new growth driver, meaning sellers need to布局 early to capture the dividend.

2. The conference gathered a wide range of high-quality digital solution providers covering different fields, which can provide sellers with mature solutions ranging from data governance and AI platform construction to end-to-end business growth. Sellers can partner with suitable providers to advance their transformation and avoid common missteps.

3. The CIO organization hosts closed-door salons across the country year-round and will hold two large-scale industry events in the second half of 2026. Sellers can access the latest industry information, connect with resources, capture growth opportunities from AI transformation, and learn mature experience from leading players to avoid transformation risks by participating in these events.

The digital transformation trends disclosed at this conference offer important insights for factories looking to advance digital upgrades and capture new business opportunities. Key takeaways are as follows:

1. Downstream consumer goods brands are now widely advancing AI-driven digital transformation, which has greatly increased demand for digital and intelligent product design and manufacturing. Factories need to adapt to changing downstream requirements and upgrade their digital capabilities in advance to meet the cooperation standards of leading brands and secure more business opportunities.

2. AI transformation now covers the entire consumer goods value chain from R&D and production to operations. Factories can learn from the digital practices of leading consumer brands, advance digital transformation of production links aligned with their own manufacturing needs, and optimize production processes via AI to cut costs and improve efficiency.

3. The conference aggregates resources from brands and service providers across the industry. Factories can connect with brands’ cooperation needs and expand business channels by participating in offline events organized by the CIO organization, while also accessing digital transformation solutions tailored for manufacturing to advance their own digital and e-commerce upgrades.

This conference clearly outlines the current industry trends in digital transformation of the consumer goods industry and the core demands of enterprise clients, offering important reference value for service providers to refine market positioning and optimize their solutions. Key takeaways are as follows:

1. The clear industry trend is that AI has become the core focus of digital transformation for consumer goods enterprises. Client demand has shifted from basic digital construction to AI-native end-to-end business transformation, covering multiple business scenarios including hit product development, operational efficiency improvement, customer service and business decision-making. This is the core market focus for service providers going forward.

2. The core pain point for current clients is how to move AI beyond conceptual hype to real implementation in actual business links to deliver quantifiable business growth. Multiple leading enterprises shared their pain points and lessons learned during implementation, allowing service providers to refine their solutions to match clients’ actual needs.

3. The conference recognized outstanding solutions across multiple niche segments, allowing service providers to benchmark against top industry cases to identify their own optimization directions. Service providers can also connect with the CIO organization’s industry platform to reach more targeted client resources and expand their business footprint.

This conference disclosed the latest demand from consumer goods enterprises for digital service platforms and shared operational experience from mature industry platforms, offering multiple references for platform operators to adjust their operational direction and expand business. Key takeaways are as follows:

1. Consumer goods enterprises currently have strong demand for integrated platform services covering AI中台 construction, data governance, and end-to-end AI empowerment. They require platforms that can deliver full-cycle services from architecture construction to implementation in business scenarios. Platform operators can optimize their service systems around this core demand to match market needs.

2. The CIO Club, China’s largest CIO organization for the consumer goods industry, has built a resource network covering more than 100,000 consumer goods industry CIOs, with an operational model that combines large-scale industry conferences with year-round closed-door salons and private board meetings across the country. This approach to accurately connecting industry resources is a valuable model for all types of platform operators to learn from.

3. Platform operators can leverage industry events of this kind for investment promotion and connect with resources from a large number of leading consumer goods enterprises. They should also avoid overhyping unproven concepts amid the transformation boom: enterprises now prioritize implementable solutions with quantifiable results, and purely conceptual AI offerings can no longer meet market demand. Platforms need to focus on delivering tangible business value.

This conference presents the latest industrial developments in digital transformation of China’s consumer goods industry and discloses new problems and emerging forms in industry development, offering high reference value for industrial research. Key takeaways are as follows:

1. In terms of new industrial trends, digital transformation in the consumer goods industry has entered a new stage of AI agent implementation and application. The core theme of industry transformation has shifted from traditional digital upgrading to AI-powered end-to-end business redesign. A large number of leading enterprises have already completed implementation across multiple business links, meaning AI transformation has moved from industry consensus to the scaled adoption phase.

2. In terms of new industry challenges, the core shared problem across the industry today is how to overcome the "last mile" barrier to AI implementation, moving AI beyond concepts to deliver quantifiable business growth in actual operations. This will be the core focus of future industrial research.

3. In terms of industry organization models, a mature industry exchange ecosystem has taken shape, led by top industry CIO organizations, with leading enterprises sharing practical experience and service providers offering solutions. National CIO organizations now cover more than 600,000 digital elites across all sectors. This mature industry exchange organization model offers important reference value for research on the business model development of industry organizations.