Innovation is the key to business success today. As the market evolves, every business must evolve not just for survival but also to meet new market demands and changes. With every evolution, doors are opened for businesses to expand locally and overseas. One such market change is the “One Belt, One Road” policy. With the “One Belt, One Road” policy linking every business on the map has opened up many opportunities with physical infrastructure put in place in Asia by China with its collaborators. This has in turn allowed for digitalisation to be set in place as communication becomes available. Known as the Digital Silk Road, the digital infrastructure is the gate to new business ideas, new evolutions, and new connection.

Together with the implementation of the Digital Silk Road initiative, the market sees an upsurge in the growth of entrepreneurs where digital technologies are concerned. Start-ups with new business ventures have been on the upswing where many seized the business opportunities to meet market needs and fill the gaps in the marketplace, which was not possible until the rolling in of the digital technologies now. With this the governments in Asia is advocating and stepping up the development of digital innovation as one of their growth strategies and encouraging local businesses and entrepreneurs to do the same.

How can businesses and entrepreneurs capitalize on the Chinese Digital Silk Road initiative? Projects can be categorized under three areas:

1. Telecommunications Infrastructure
2. eCommerce Setups
3. Smart City Projects

Not losing the opportunity to grow internationally, Chinese businessmen have launched IT initiative projects building IT platforms to support their operations and business growth. With their resourcefulness, these Chinese companies have leaped into projects with innovations and creativity.

The China’s Digital Silk Road is poised to be the next big focal point in the market. As the hard infrastructure is being built across the Eurasian supercontinent and beyond, the digital component of laying down fiber optic cables and satellites, as well as other hard infrastructures to support the information and communications technology business, particularly 5G, is the next big topic. With this, issues such as digital governance, digital issues, digital hardwares, etc are topics of discussion and concerns. All these and more are topics that will be presented and discussed during the 9^th SCCCE Enterprise Forum with panel of speakers who have ventured into the Digital Story.

Through the Enterprise Forum, the panel of speakers will share their experiences and the journey of they bring their companies into the Digital Story with success, as well as the prospects of bringing the SG brands internationally. Through the exchanges and dialogues in the Enterprise Forum, Singapore companies can expect to find practical advice, strategies and partnerships among the companies participating in the Enterprise Forum.