Programme
13:00 - 17:00
Industry Tour: Alibaba and Hema Fresh
18:00 - 20:00
Data Strategy Steering Committee
Attendees: Committee members or by invitation only
20:00 - 23:00
Welcome Reception
Attendees: All GS1 delegates, partners and spouses (limit of 2 guests)
11:00 - 16:00
GS1 China and GS1 joint board dinner
Attendees: GS1 China Board, GS1 Board, spouses, partners, or accompanying guest or by invitation only
09:00 - 10:30
Welcome Plenary with GS1 China Industry Speakers
Attendees: All GS1 staff and GS1 China members
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
Attendees: All GS1 staff and GS1 China members
11:00 - 12:30
Plenary, continued
Attendees: All GS1 staff and GS1 China members
10:30 - 16:00
GS1 Management Board Meeting with Lunch
Attendees: GS1 Management Board members or by invitation
16:15 - 16:45
Management Board Nominee Panel
16:45 - 18:15
GS1 MO Presidents and CEOs session
Attendees: GS1 Presidents and CEOs only
18:45 - 19:00
Walk to the gala dinner
Attendees: All GS1 delegates, partners and spouses
Location: Departing from Hyatt Regency, Main Lobby
19:00 - 22:00
Gala dinner
Attendees: All GS1 delegates, partners and spouses
Location: Zhi Wei Guan Restaurant
09:00 - 13:00
GS1 General Assembly
Attendees: GS1 GA delegates or by invitation
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
Attendees: GS1 GA delegates or by invitation
14:00 - 16:00
Closing plenary and inspirational keynote
Attendees: All GA delegates
18:15 - 19:00
Transportation to the Networking Dinner
Attendees: All GS1 delegates, partners and spouses
19:00 - 22:00
Optional Networking dinner
Attendees: All GS1 delegates, partners and spouses
Location: Lou Wai Lou
09:00 - 17:30
Wuzhen historic water village
Attendees: All GS1 delegates, partners and spouses
MONDAY
13:00 - 17:00
Industry Tour: Alibaba and Hema Fresh
18:00 - 20:00
Data Strategy Steering Committee
Attendees: Committee members or by invitation only
20:00 - 23:00
Welcome Reception
Attendees: All GS1 delegates, partners and spouses (limit of 2 guests)
11:00 - 16:00
GS1 China and GS1 joint board dinner
Attendees: GS1 China Board, GS1 Board, spouses, partners, or accompanying guest or by invitation only
TUESDAY
09:00 - 10:30
Welcome Plenary with GS1 China Industry Speakers
Attendees: All GS1 staff and GS1 China members
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
Attendees: All GS1 staff and GS1 China members
11:00 - 12:30
Plenary, continued
Attendees: All GS1 staff and GS1 China members
10:30 - 16:00
GS1 Management Board Meeting with Lunch
Attendees: GS1 Management Board members or by invitation
16:15 - 16:45
Management Board Nominee Panel
16:45 - 18:15
GS1 MO Presidents and CEOs session
Attendees: GS1 Presidents and CEOs only
18:45 - 19:00
Walk to the gala dinner
Attendees: All GS1 delegates, partners and spouses
Location: Departing from Hyatt Regency, Main Lobby
19:00 - 22:00
Gala dinner
Attendees: All GS1 delegates, partners and spouses
Location: Zhi Wei Guan Restaurant
WEDNESDAY
09:00 - 13:00
GS1 General Assembly
Attendees: GS1 GA delegates or by invitation
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
Attendees: GS1 GA delegates or by invitation
14:00 - 16:00
Closing plenary and inspirational keynote
Attendees: All GA delegates
18:15 - 19:00
Transportation to the Networking Dinner
Attendees: All GS1 delegates, partners and spouses
19:00 - 22:00
Optional Networking dinner
Attendees: All GS1 delegates, partners and spouses
Location: Lou Wai Lou
THURSDAY
09:00 - 17:30
Wuzhen historic water village
Attendees: All GS1 delegates, partners and spouses
Speakers
Jessie Zheng
Chief Risk Officer of Alibaba Group
Alibaba Group
Plenary: GS1 China hosted Industry Plenary
Topic:
Innovative Way to Improve E-Commerce Product Quality – Practice of Alibaba
Jessie Zheng was appointed as Chief Risk Officer of Alibaba Group in December 2017 responsible for data and information security across Alibaba platforms. She has also been the Chief Platform Governance Officer since December 2015, in charge of the governance of retail and wholesale marketplaces including but not limited to intellectual property right protection, product management, quality control, platform rules making.
She served as financial vice president of Alibaba,com from December 2010 to October 2013 and Deputy Chief Financial Officer of Alibaba Group from November 2013 to June 2016. Before joining Alibaba Group in 2010, she was an audit partner at KPMG.
She received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Northeastern University in China.
Denny Yang
Senior Vice President & CAO
Walmart China
Plenary: GS1 China hosted Industry Plenary
Topic:
Walmart China Supply Chain Empowers Omni Channel New Retail Market - Evolution & Collaboration
In the fast changing and hero raising China retail market, the recent rise of e-commerce giants has shaken the traditional retail environment by its rapid growth and frequent innovation, seems to became the chosen one for the future. A single channel world is no longer sufficient to satisfy the tailored shopping experience. How do traditional retailers stay ahead in this New Retail era? Walmart China fundamentally changes how we define and structure our supply chain, to create a richer cross-channel retail experience and win future market by evergreen changing and win-win collaboration.
Bio:
Denny Yang is the Senior Vice President & Chief Administrative Officer for Walmart China. As an Executive Committee Member, Denny leads a strong supply chain team and a Business Process Reengineering team on continuous supply chain efficiency improvement, supply chain network and solution development based on current 20 Ambient, Fresh and Import Distribution Centers suppling to 400 plus stores and clubs everyday across the country, as well as business process reengineering and change driving throughout the value chain of the business and the whole organization in order to facilitate Walmart winning in the fast moving retail market in China.
Denny has over 20 years’ experience working in the retail, trading and distribution industries. Before joining Walmart, Denny was Associate President of Shanghai Tangjiu Group (SSCW), a company of Bright Food Group, a well-known state-owned holding company in food & beverage industry. Prior to that, Denny worked in Metro Cash & Carry China as the Head of Supply Chain Management & Logistics and in CHEP Asia as Strategy & Marketing Director. Denny has strong supply chain and strategy development experience in building supply chain excellence covering strategy & network design, logistics operations, supply chain optimization and collaboration, and procurement in China & Asia. He also successfully extended his experiences to international trading, business strategy & marketing, overseas M&A and general management of acquired businesses.
Denny has served as board director of ECR (Efficient Customer Response) China for 10 years from 2007 to 2017 and ECR Asia for 2 years from 2013-2015 working on facilitating logistics standardization, supply chain efficiency improvement, and collaboration across FMCG-retailer supply chain together with supply chain leaders and industry experts from leading retailers, FMCG companies, and consulting firms in China and Asia.
Denny holds a master degree from University of Sydney majoring in Logistics Management and a mater degree from Renmin University of China majoring in Commercial Enterprise Management. Prior to that, Denny graduated from Shanghai Institute of Building Material and has earned his bachelor of industrial engineering.
Yuguang Han
Senior Product Manager of Y Business Unit, responsible for supply chain management innovation
JD.com
Plenary: GS1 China hosted Industry Plenary
Topic:
Smart Supply Chain Drives Upgraded Quality E-Commerce
As the largest e-commerce company and largest retailer in China, by revenue, JD.com has the world’s most advanced logistics system and smart supply chain technologies, leading to a revolution in e-commerce supply chain. In JD.com, more than 90% of the orders have achieved same- or next-day delivery standard, which is a level of service that no other company in the world can match. We leverage technologies such as data mining, natural language processing, image recognition and machine learning to better understand and response to the customer demands in real time. This enables JD to provide truly differentiated and personalized customer services.
China's economic development has entered a critical period of transformation and upgrading. Quality economy has become an essential part of economic development in the future. Guided by consumer demand, JD.com will promote quality economic upgrading, empower global partners, and improve the efficiency of international commodity circulation by integrating extensive supply chain business experience and expertise with high technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain, and the Internet of Things.
JD’s Blockchain Anti-fake and Traceability Platform realizes full link traceability of products from production to table based on blockchain technology. Video, anti-fake, and internet of things technologies are applied in the process, and the data is synchronizing with government regulatory authorities to endorse product quality and promote food safety innovation.
Bio:
Yuguang Han is a Senior Product Manager of Y Business Unit, responsible for supply chain management innovation. Mr. Han graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a Master of Science in Operation Research, and he also holds CPIM.
After joined JD.com, Mr. Han has been working on creating innovative and applicable smart supply chain products, such as the JD.com Block-chain Anti-counterfeiting and Tracing Platform, and the JD.com Operation Research and Optimization Platform. He initiated and led several innovative anti-counterfeiting and traceability projects in China based on block-chain, such as the commodity donation traceability project for JD Foundation(NGO), the agricultural products traceability project for government precision poverty reduction project, and the cross-border origin products traceability project, etc. Additionally, as the project manager of the Block-chain Food Safety Alliance on JD.com side, he was responsible for coordinating and leading the joint working team, including Walmart, IBM and Tsinghua University, to establish the alliance.
Prof. Jia Yang
University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Plenary: Inspirational Keynote at Closing Plenary
Topic:
Towards a brighter world
Professor at the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, obtained the Harvard MPA degree in 2001 and received the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Alumni Achievement Award in 2011.
Intern at the Carter Center in 2001, Also serving as member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)since 2008, Member of the Standing Committee and head of the Liason Working Committee of The Central JiuSan Society, a democratic party founded in China in 1946, Executive member of All-China Women’s Federation, and founding member and vice chair of the UN CRPD Committee.
She received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Northeastern University in China.