DingTalk Summit comes to Kunming, spring city enterprises embrace "work in the AI era"

On January 15, the first Dingfeng Summit of 2026 officially opened in Kunming, a city known for its spring-like weather all year round. Themed "The Future of Work in the AI Era," this summit attracted hundreds of corporate representatives and industry experts who gathered to explore practical transformations and future trends in the age of artificial intelligence.

The First Dingfeng Summit of 2026 Kicks Off in Spring City Kunming

Wu Nanqing, Director of Yunnan Provincial Data Bureau and Director of Yunnan Provincial Data Development Promotion Center, pointed out in his opening speech that we are currently at a critical stage of a new wave of technological revolution and industrial transformation represented by artificial intelligence, big data, and cloud computing. He expressed hope that this Dingfeng Summit would serve as an opportunity to seize strategic AI opportunities, using data as the connecting thread and collaboration as the driving force to promote Yunnan's industries to leap forward from informatization to digitalization and intelligence, jointly writing a new chapter for high-quality development in Digital Yunnan.

Wu Nanqing, Director of Yunnan Provincial Data Bureau and Yunnan Provincial Data Development Promotion Center

Youxian Meijia is a well-known Kunming-based fruit supply chain platform integrating retail chains, wholesale trade, and e-commerce technology, and also a deep user of DingTalk. Lou Weihao, the company’s online operations director, shared on-site how DingTalk has supported their AI-driven transformation.

Since joining DingTalk in 2023, Youxian Meijia has grown from 216 stores with revenue of 360 million yuan to 300 stores and over 1,000 employees by the end of 2025, with total revenue surpassing 400 million yuan.

Leveraging DingTalk’s digital capabilities, Youxian Meijia optimized standardized store operations, launched a DingTalk-powered academy training system that significantly improved training efficiency, and enhanced store management effectiveness and execution through DingTalk’s store inspection system.

Lou Weihao, Online Operations Director at Youxian Meijia

Lou highly praised DingTalk’s AI Meeting Notes and AI Spreadsheet features: “For every meeting, we now use AI Meeting Notes to generate图文 summaries automatically and create follow-up tasks right after the meeting, greatly improving information delivery and task tracking efficiency.”

DingTalk’s AI Spreadsheet instantly aggregates online operational data, providing clear rankings across regions and stores, helping Youxian Meijia continuously improve customer service quality.

Xiong Lianglin, Vice President of Yunnan Open University

Xiong Lianglin, Vice President of Yunnan Open University, shared the practice of building a “Digital-Intelligent Campus with Integrated Single App” based on DingTalk. He mentioned that the university originally had dozens of independent information systems, requiring teachers and students to download multiple apps, with frequently used functions buried and hard to access, resulting in poor mobile office experience and low collaboration efficiency.

“We wanted one super app to integrate all services, covering hundreds of thousands of learners including vocational students, distance learners, and community cadre trainees—but the challenge was enormous.”

DingTalk helped achieve this goal. Built on DingTalk, the “Smart Yun Kai App” integrates various internal systems into a unified digital platform, significantly enhancing collaboration efficiency among faculty and students.

The app supports multiple teaching systems—whether it’s on-campus online classes or overseas vocational education programs—all accessible through one integrated network. Overseas students can log in to participate in course interactions and submit assignments.

Leveraging DingTalk’s multilingual and AI capabilities, the platform can automatically recognize spoken language in video courses, generate subtitles, and translate them into multiple languages in real time. For example, premium Chinese courses can be instantly subtitled in English with one click, accelerating global outreach and breaking down language barriers.

The “Yun Kai Assistant,” powered by DingTalk AI, offers three intelligent functions: first, building a dedicated knowledge base from school regulations and administrative procedures; second, enabling smart responses by accurately identifying user intent and replying quickly; third, supporting multilingual adaptation—for instance, when a Vietnamese student asks a question in Vietnamese, the system responds in Vietnamese.

Xiong Lianglin said DingTalk has become a bridge connecting people and services, delivering seamless experiences from learning interaction to administrative processing. Deep integration of AI has turned the Smart Yun Kai App into an intelligent terminal for every teacher and student.

On December 23, 2025, the AI DingTalk 1.1 New Product Launch & Ecosystem Conference was held in Hangzhou, where DingTalk officially unveiled Agent OS—the world’s first enterprise intelligent operating system built specifically for AI—ushering in a new paradigm of “human-AI collaboration.”

As a smart collaboration platform serving 700 million users and 26 million organizations, DingTalk has been deeply involved in China’s enterprise digital transformation for over a decade.

Zhao Zhong, Vice President of DingTalk

Zhao Zhong, Vice President of DingTalk, positioned DingTalk as an enterprise operating system for the AI era. He explained that DingTalk is reconstructing its collaborative foundation under the philosophy of “AI + DingTalk” rather than “DingTalk + AI,” deeply embedding AI into business processes through features like AI Spreadsheet, AI Meeting Notes, and AI hardware, thus realizing a new paradigm where “humans assist AI in work.” He proposed a three-step approach to AI implementation, aiming toward an AI operating system where agents collaborate with each other, driving enterprises from “data-driven (DT)” to “everyone empowered by AI.”

Zhou Hua, Yunnan Province Yunding Senior Expert

Professor Zhou Hua, a renowned AI expert and Yunnan Province Yunding Senior Expert, described DingTalk as an outstanding product in the AI era that fully covers listening, speaking, reading, and writing, as well as text, graphics, audio, and video. He noted that the popular DingTalk AI Spreadsheet is essentially an application development platform—accessible and usable by everyone, enabling anyone to develop tools. As an educator, he feels strongly that DingTalk is not only a new way of working but also an innovative way of learning, holding great potential in teaching and research during the AI era.

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