Shenzhen
AI & Innovation
Executive Immersion
Gain first-hand exposure to how AI, robotics and emerging technologies are being commercialised across Shenzhen's innovation ecosystem — and what it means for your organisation's future competitiveness.
Why Now
In 2025, a Shenzhen company quietly overtook Tesla to become the world's largest electric vehicle maker.
BYD sold 2.26 million electric vehicles last year — outselling Tesla by over 600,000 units — without even selling in the US market. In 2011, Elon Musk publicly laughed off BYD as a serious competitor. This is what happens when a manufacturing ecosystem compounds for over a decade. The same conditions that built BYD are now producing the next generation of AI, robotics and autonomous systems companies — and this is what your leadership team would see firsthand.
What Leadership Teams Gain
Understand AI Commercialisation
See how leading organisations are applying AI across products, operations and decision-making.
Explore Emerging Business Models
Examine new revenue streams, ecosystems and sources of competitive advantage.
Gain Exposure to Robotics & Automation
Understand the impact of robotics, autonomous systems and advanced manufacturing.
Strengthen Strategic Foresight
See first-hand how AI and robotics are already reshaping competitive dynamics—and identify the signals that will shape your industry over the next decade.
Challenge Existing Assumptions
Gain fresh perspectives to inform strategy, innovation priorities and transformation.
Accelerate Leadership Alignment
Build a shared understanding of how AI and innovation will reshape your industry—so your leadership team aligns on opportunities and risks together.
Why Shenzhen
While much of the world debates AI in theory, Shenzhen is where it is being built, deployed and commercialised—in robotics, autonomous vehicles and intelligent manufacturing, at a pace few other cities can match. It is one of the world’s most concentrated innovation ecosystems, bringing talent, capital, research and industry together within a single connected system.
Ecosystem That
Drives Innovation
At Scale
Sample 3-Day Programme
Day 1
Understanding Shenzhen’s Innovation Ecosystem
- Visit 2 leading technology and innovation organisations
- Executive briefing on China’s innovation ecosystem
- Discussions on ecosystem development, talent and growth
- Leadership reflection and synthesis
Day 2
AI, Robotics & Advanced Manufacturing
- Visit 2 AI, robotics or advanced manufacturing organisations
- Explore automation, digital operations and commercialisation approaches
- Understand emerging applications across industries
- Discuss implications for your organisation
Day 3
Future Competitive Advantage
- Visit 1 emerging technology company or innovation-focused organisation
- Explore future trends, disruption and evolving business models
- Leadership synthesis workshop
- Strategic action planning and organisational takeaways
Beyond the Immersion
Turning Insights into Action
- Delegation reconvenes 3–4 weeks after the immersion
- Share initiatives, experiments and actions underway
- Discuss implications for strategy, innovation and transformation
- Reinforce learning and organisational alignment
What You’ll Explore
Artificial Intelligence
How organisations are deploying AI across products, operations and customer experience.
Robotics & Automation
The growing role of robotics and intelligent automation across industries and value chains.
Future Business Models
How technology-enabled organisations are creating new forms of value through platforms and ecosystems.
Advanced Manufacturing
The evolution of smart factories, industrial automation and digital production systems.
Who Should Attend
Leadership
Teams
Leaders
Leaders
Leaders
Leaders
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