On December 30, 2016, at the beginning of the New Year, the Chinese edition of FastCompany, one of the world's three major business magazines, held its annual FastCompany conference in Guangzhou Library. As a benchmark activity leading China's commercial innovation, the Fast Company Conference has followed the same theme of "Reloading -- Return to zero and restart" for the past three years, indicating the continuous mining of innovation events in the commercial field. As a first-class media focusing on creativity, innovation and creation from an international perspective, Fast Company, with its innate forward-looking planning for innovation, has invited at least 50 top Chinese innovators to share their innovation experience on the stage every year, inspiring all-round innovation in the Chinese business field.
The three segments that attract much attention at each Fast Company conference are: the annual award of "100 Most creative People in Chinese Business", the annual award of "50 Best Innovative Companies in China" and the smart dialogue of Fast Talk with the strong style of Fast Company. Unlike other conferences, Fast Company uses innovative ideas throughout the process. The honor of the 100 creative figures and 50 innovative companies each year is not only a recognition of China's achievements in innovation in the past year, but also a sincere reminder to you: Give up innovation or give up death. Dwelling on the past will only make you stagnant. We have to, zero, restart, and go again! The creative "golden sentences" frequently published by the guests in Fast Talk represent the "Fast company spirit" that Fast Company has always advocated to embrace the future with innovation.
Four innovation speeches, two dialogues of wisdom, to stimulate more creative sparks
Every year, Fast Company's keynote addresses focus on what's hot that year and inspire creativity in all directions. This year's guests had exchanges and discussions on topics such as innovation elements, intelligent hardware, artificial intelligence and urban innovation.
Hu Weiwei, founder of Mobike, one of the most popular bike-sharing companies, gave a keynote speech on "bringing bicycles back to cities". Unlike ordinary speeches, Mobike focused on the "source of innovation" rather than the familiar sharing economy. According to Hu Weiwei, the three elements of innovation are ingenuity, insight and persistence, which are also the secret of Mobike's success.
Another segment that drew much attention at the conference was a wisdom dialogue hosted by Fast Company editor-in-chief Michael Ke. Many innovative brains focus on the two topics of "cross-border innovation" and "urban innovation", with rich imagination and continuous collision of creative sparks. Cross-border innovation links, such as the founder of Hesong Culture Li Huabin, DuPont China Innovation Center director Chen Zhidong, Daily cooking beauty founder Norma and other five cross-border experts around the "big data, artificial intelligence, sharing economy, O2O, Internet of things, inclusive finance, pan-entertainment IP, cloud computing, Internet +or+ Internet" 9 labels, on-site extraction, Chatted about crossover and innovation, and was put to the impromptu test. In the section of innovation City, under the premise that existing cities are becoming more and more super-large cities, Ke Zhixiong led the guests and the audience to think about the advantages and disadvantages of super-large cities to national innovation and what kind of super-large cities can have the vitality of innovation. Pan Jun, general manager of Aiaitong, Lei Yong, founder and CEO of Mr. Kaola, Ayawawa, chairman of Huazhen, and other creative figures are full of golden words and sincerity.
The "25 Best Innovative Cities in China" research project was released to find the most innovative cities
Different from previous years, one of the "highlights" of the conference was the launch of the research project "Fast Company China's Best Innovative Cities 25". Leaders from the government and Southern Finance Omnimedia Group, together with Ke Zhixiong, editor-in-chief of Fast Company, and Lu Chuyang, CEO of Fast Company, lit the launch ceremony and brought blessings and expectations for the project.
Lu said innovation makes cities better. Then, he made a detailed introduction on the project background, operation method, project significance and other aspects.
"Fast Company China's Best Innovative Cities 25 research project is based on Google PageRank algorithm, and joint innovation benchmarking enterprises to jointly make the list, using the business data provided by enterprises throughout the cities, using computer thinking to describe the attributes and behavior of city people, and finally using a visual presentation way to regularly scroll and refresh. Create an objective and calculated new vision of evaluation, focus on the needs and aspirations of city managers, innovation benchmarking enterprises and city residents, and transform operational data that represents the vitality of cities into good stories to help China's innovation atmosphere." Lu Chuyang introduced.
The two lists presented awards to witness the dynamics of Chinese business innovation in 2016
Fast Company has been researching and disseminating innovation in China's business sector since it entered China in 2013. Every year, it selects from thousands of candidates and thousands of companies, Striving to discover ideas, ideas, people, designs, technologies, models, etc. that will change the future -- the "100 Most Creative People in Chinese Business" and "50 Best Innovative Companies in China" lists have now entered their third year.
At the conference, Zhan Decun, deputy director of Guangzhou Science and Technology Innovation Commission; Huang Kaixuan, deputy governor of Tianhe District of Guangzhou; Jia Xiaoming, deputy editor of Southern Finance Omnimedia Group; Dai Changchang, deputy general manager of 21st Century Newspaper; Hu Weiwei, founder of Mobike; Camera 360 Xu Hao, CEO, Chen Xiangyu, founder of Dream World (parent company of Letou game), Zhu Jiayin, founder of video Recipe Day Cooking, Peng Lei, founder and CEO of Keruyun and other "100 Most Creative People in Chinese Business 2016" award guests.
Mr. Huang Deshu, Standing Committee member of the Central Business District Management Committee of Tianhe District, Guangzhou, Mr. Ke Zhixiong, chief editor of Fast Company, Mr. Lu Chuyang, general manager of Fast Company, presented awards to 3M China, DuPont China, Miniso, Hezong Culture, Care Tong, Mr. Kaolai, Shangpin Home, Hard Ball Technology, Wulaidai and other "2016 China's Best Innovative Companies 50" winners.
Anticipate innovation trends and sense the future in the making
The theme of Fast Company Conference is "Reloading", which means to zero out the achievements of the past year, start again, and perceive the future that is being created. "All innovation has to do with your perception of the future," explains Fast Company editor Michael Kohlberg.
To judge the future, Ke Zhixiong gives four key points -- 1. All basic words need to be redefined; 2. Mechanism is out of date; 3. Cities will be more powerful competitors in the future; 4. Human brain research will bring about disruptive changes. The future is the competition of brain technology.
Finally, Ke Zhixiong also reiterated the original intention of Fast Company once again -- "to study together with all the individuals and enterprises who care about innovation and have the hope of continuous innovation how to walk on the road of innovation for a lifetime and make people's life better."
