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GS1 Hong Kong Summit 2025 Shaping the Future with Sustainability, Transformation, AI & Resilience

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GS1 Hong Kong Summit 2025 Shaping the Future with Sustainability, Transformation, AI & Resilience

2025-10-28 18:16 Last Updated At:18:35

HONG KONG, Oct. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The GS1 Hong Kong Summit 2025 ("the Summit") themed "Powering Next-Gen Business with STAR" concluded on a high note today at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Drawing 600 senior executives, policymakers, and industry pioneers, the Summit served as a premier platform for dialogue and collaboration to explore how enterprises can harness STAR – Sustainability, Transformation, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Resilience to enhance competitiveness and drive success in future.

Ms Mable Chan, JP, Secretary for Transport and Logistics of the HKSAR Government was the Guest of Honour and delivered opening address, "The evolvement of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) is exciting as businesses take steps to protect our Mother Earth and assume more social responsibilities in their business practices to make our world greener and more equitable. The Government is also spearheading the adoption of Al in logistics through the Port Community System (PCS), which will be implemented for industry use starting in early 2026." She also emphasized that resilience is the key element to place Hong Kong among the world's top logistics hubs.

As highlighted in the Policy Address, one of the strategic priorities is to develop Hong Kong into a leading multinational supply chain management centre, serving as a gateway for enterprises to "go global." In alignment with this vision, the Summit featured strategies supporting Mainland enterprises in entering Hong Kong, or even Asia Pacific market.

Mr Roy Ng, Chairman of GS1 HK, shared how the STAR framework empowers companies to enhance their competitiveness, "GS1 standards are evolving alongside the industry trends, serving as enabler of 'STAR'. Driven by rising consumers' expectation, regulatory requirements, 'S' - sustainability is no longer optional, but a must for businesses. Products selling to EU will be required to feature a Digital Product Passport that shows consumers the product's lifecycle - where it comes from, what it's made of, how sustainable it is, and whether it can be recycled. QR codes powered by GS1 standards capture unique product identifiers - GTIN (barcodes), GLN (location identifiers), etc, and provide instant access to these verified data, supporting companies meet regulatory requirements and build consumer trust."

Ms Anna Lin, Chief Executive of GS1 Hong Kong, highlighted the importance of AI and data at the plenary, "The power of AI lies in the reliability of the data it consumes. To prevent 'garbage in, garbage out', businesses must prioritize structured, verifiable, and trusted data. Data and AI technologies are inseparable — effectively managing both is key to unlocking their full potential and driving tangible business value."

In addition, the 2nd edition of GS1 HK's Digital Transformation Awards was also held at the event, recognising businesses that have successfully implemented digital transformation initiatives in 10 award categories, including excellence in AI innovation, customer experience, digital enablement, ESG & sustainability, digital trust & data management, etc. (Please refer to appendix for the list of "Digital Transformation Awards" winners.)

Concluding the Summit was the Chairman Club, where businesses across sectors —including food, health & wellness, retail, and consumer electronics brands—exchanged insights on how they navigated challenges and grew with winning strategies.

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Appendix

Digital Transformation Awards Winners List (in alphabetical order):

Award category

Awarded Company

Digital Transformation Enterprise of the Year

HKT

Excellence in AI Innovations

Maxim's Caterers Limited

SP Infinite Technology Limited

Swire Coca-Cola Limited

Excellence in Customer Experience

DCH Business Innovations / DCH Living

HKT

Hospital Authority

Mannings, DFI Retail Group

Excellence in Digital Culture

HKT

Swire Coca-Cola Limited

Excellence in Digital Enablement

HKT

MTR Corporation

Rondish Company Limited

Excellence in Digital Trust & Data Management

Check Point Software Technologies Limited

HGC Global Communications Limited

Excellence in ESG & Sustainability

AS Watson Group (HK) Limited - AS Watson Industries

Catalo Natural Health Science Limited

FoodTech AI Company Limited

Excellence in Operational Impact

DCH Business Innovations / DCH Toolbox

HGC Global Communications Limited

MTR Corporation

Excellence in Sales & Marketing

FrieslandCampina (Hong Kong) Limited

Hong Kong Technology Venture Company Limited

Maxim's Caterers Limited

Excellence in Supply Chain & Logistics

Geek Plus International Co., Limited / Wellcome Supermarket

Loscam (Greater China) Holdings Limited

SME Innovator

Antelope International Limited

ShipAny Limited

 

About GS1 Hong Kong

Founded by the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce in 1989, GS1 Hong Kong is the local chapter of GS1®. GS1 Hong Kong's mission is to empower businesses of their digital transformation, improve supply chain visibility and efficiency, ensure product authenticity, facilitate commerce connectivity and enable sustainable value chain through the provision of global supply chain standards (including GTIN & barcodes), and a full spectrum of platforms, solutions and services.

GS1 Hong Kong currently supports close to 8,000 corporate members from 20 sectors including retail & consumer packaged goods, food & beverage and food services, healthcare, apparel & footwear, logistics & ICT. By working closely with communities of trading partners, industry organizations, government, and technology providers, we can foster a collaborative ecosystem, paving the way for "Go Digital, Go Green".

As a non-profit organization, GS1 develops and drives global adoption of supply chain standards. Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, GS1 has member organisations in over 120 countries.

Website:www.gs1hk.org



HONG KONG, Oct. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The GS1 Hong Kong Summit 2025 ("the Summit") themed "Powering Next-Gen Business with STAR" concluded on a high note today at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Drawing 600 senior executives, policymakers, and industry pioneers, the Summit served as a premier platform for dialogue and collaboration to explore how enterprises can harness STAR – Sustainability, Transformation, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Resilience to enhance competitiveness and drive success in future.

Ms Mable Chan, JP, Secretary for Transport and Logistics of the HKSAR Government was the Guest of Honour and delivered opening address, "The evolvement of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) is exciting as businesses take steps to protect our Mother Earth and assume more social responsibilities in their business practices to make our world greener and more equitable. The Government is also spearheading the adoption of Al in logistics through the Port Community System (PCS), which will be implemented for industry use starting in early 2026." She also emphasized that resilience is the key element to place Hong Kong among the world's top logistics hubs.

As highlighted in the Policy Address, one of the strategic priorities is to develop Hong Kong into a leading multinational supply chain management centre, serving as a gateway for enterprises to "go global." In alignment with this vision, the Summit featured strategies supporting Mainland enterprises in entering Hong Kong, or even Asia Pacific market.

Mr Roy Ng, Chairman of GS1 HK, shared how the STAR framework empowers companies to enhance their competitiveness, "GS1 standards are evolving alongside the industry trends, serving as enabler of 'STAR'. Driven by rising consumers' expectation, regulatory requirements, 'S' - sustainability is no longer optional, but a must for businesses. Products selling to EU will be required to feature a Digital Product Passport that shows consumers the product's lifecycle - where it comes from, what it's made of, how sustainable it is, and whether it can be recycled. QR codes powered by GS1 standards capture unique product identifiers - GTIN (barcodes), GLN (location identifiers), etc, and provide instant access to these verified data, supporting companies meet regulatory requirements and build consumer trust."

Ms Anna Lin, Chief Executive of GS1 Hong Kong, highlighted the importance of AI and data at the plenary, "The power of AI lies in the reliability of the data it consumes. To prevent 'garbage in, garbage out', businesses must prioritize structured, verifiable, and trusted data. Data and AI technologies are inseparable — effectively managing both is key to unlocking their full potential and driving tangible business value."

In addition, the 2nd edition of GS1 HK's Digital Transformation Awards was also held at the event, recognising businesses that have successfully implemented digital transformation initiatives in 10 award categories, including excellence in AI innovation, customer experience, digital enablement, ESG & sustainability, digital trust & data management, etc. (Please refer to appendix for the list of "Digital Transformation Awards" winners.)

Concluding the Summit was the Chairman Club, where businesses across sectors —including food, health & wellness, retail, and consumer electronics brands—exchanged insights on how they navigated challenges and grew with winning strategies.

Download Photos: photos

Appendix

Digital Transformation Awards Winners List (in alphabetical order):

Award category

Awarded Company

Digital Transformation Enterprise of the Year

HKT

Excellence in AI Innovations

Maxim's Caterers Limited

SP Infinite Technology Limited

Swire Coca-Cola Limited

Excellence in Customer Experience

DCH Business Innovations / DCH Living

HKT

Hospital Authority

Mannings, DFI Retail Group

Excellence in Digital Culture

HKT

Swire Coca-Cola Limited

Excellence in Digital Enablement

HKT

MTR Corporation

Rondish Company Limited

Excellence in Digital Trust & Data Management

Check Point Software Technologies Limited

HGC Global Communications Limited

Excellence in ESG & Sustainability

AS Watson Group (HK) Limited - AS Watson Industries

Catalo Natural Health Science Limited

FoodTech AI Company Limited

Excellence in Operational Impact

DCH Business Innovations / DCH Toolbox

HGC Global Communications Limited

MTR Corporation

Excellence in Sales & Marketing

FrieslandCampina (Hong Kong) Limited

Hong Kong Technology Venture Company Limited

Maxim's Caterers Limited

Excellence in Supply Chain & Logistics

Geek Plus International Co., Limited / Wellcome Supermarket

Loscam (Greater China) Holdings Limited

SME Innovator

Antelope International Limited

ShipAny Limited

 

About GS1 Hong Kong

Founded by the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce in 1989, GS1 Hong Kong is the local chapter of GS1®. GS1 Hong Kong's mission is to empower businesses of their digital transformation, improve supply chain visibility and efficiency, ensure product authenticity, facilitate commerce connectivity and enable sustainable value chain through the provision of global supply chain standards (including GTIN & barcodes), and a full spectrum of platforms, solutions and services.

GS1 Hong Kong currently supports close to 8,000 corporate members from 20 sectors including retail & consumer packaged goods, food & beverage and food services, healthcare, apparel & footwear, logistics & ICT. By working closely with communities of trading partners, industry organizations, government, and technology providers, we can foster a collaborative ecosystem, paving the way for "Go Digital, Go Green".

As a non-profit organization, GS1 develops and drives global adoption of supply chain standards. Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, GS1 has member organisations in over 120 countries.

Website:www.gs1hk.org

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GS1 Hong Kong Summit 2025 Shaping the Future with Sustainability, Transformation, AI & Resilience

GS1 Hong Kong Summit 2025 Shaping the Future with Sustainability, Transformation, AI & Resilience

CHANGSHA, China, Jan. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co., Ltd. ("Zoomlion"; 1157.HK) is driving a new wave of intelligent transformation by integrating AI with construction machinery, the industrial internet, big data, and cloud computing. Its full-chain AI system spans smart products, manufacturing, management, and embodied-intelligence robotics, reshaping the company into a fully digital and intelligent enterprise. Zoomlion is also scaling humanoid robotics as its "third growth curve," backed by proprietary hardware-software integration capabilities.

Zoomlion's full-chain AI application system covers four major pillars, namely, AI plus construction machinery, AI plus intelligent manufacturing, AI plus intelligent management, and AI plus embodied-intelligence robots. At Zoomlion Smart City, 12 smart factories and over 300 smart production lines, including 20 lights-out lines, operate as an end-to-end intelligent manufacturing system. In the AI plus intelligent manufacturing domain, processes such as cutting, welding, machining, painting, and assembly are fully connected to the industrial internet platform. This allows unified management of over 100,000 material types and intelligent manufacturing of over 400 products. 

AI-driven scheduling and optimization enable the park to produce an excavator every six minutes, a scissor lift every 7.5 minutes, a concrete pump truck every 27 minutes, and a truck crane every 18 minutes, marking a breakthrough in large-scale, multi-variety, small-batch agile manufacturing. Zoomlion also applies AI across R&D, production, sales, service, and supply chain management. For customer service, the Company has launched a voice-based AI expert diagnostic system with over 95 percent accuracy, enabling remote fault identification, rapid troubleshooting, and 24-hour technical support. 

Since 2024, Zoomlion has expanded into embodied-intelligence humanoid robotics, leveraging its full-stack self-development capabilities. Dozens of humanoid robots are now deployed in factory logistics, loading and unloading, pre-assembly, and quality inspection, forming early productivity use cases. Supported by a self-built training ground with over 100 workstations and large-scale industrial datasets, Zoomlion enables rapid iteration of human-robot collaboration. All humanoid and industrial robots are connected to the Zhongke Yungu Embodied Intelligence Platform, which integrates data, training, simulation, and OTA deployment into a closed loop, powered by a national supercomputing center with 59P GPU computing capacity and tens of thousands of distributed nodes.

Beyond humanoid robotics, Zoomlion is developing a wider range of specialized robots for firefighting, mowing, construction, and agriculture. With deep integration across hardware, AI models, and real-world scenarios, the company is positioning embodied intelligence as its next major growth engine.

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Zoomlion Advances Intelligent Manufacturing with Integrated AI and Embodied-Intelligence Robotics

Zoomlion Advances Intelligent Manufacturing with Integrated AI and Embodied-Intelligence Robotics

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