On August 21, the 2026 Dell Technologies Summit and the “Evolvers” Forum, themed “Evolution · Riding the Momentum to New Heights,” kicked off grandly in Shanghai. Building on the cutting-edge perspectives and innovative practices of Dell Technologies World, this summit brought together nearly 1,000 industry leaders, corporate decision-makers, and technology experts at the main venue in Shanghai. It was simultaneously presented through satellite city branches in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Qingdao, as well as via online livestreams.
The summit features a main forum, two major thematic sub-forums, a partner summit, and other sessions. Together, participants explored how enterprises in the intelligent era can achieve systematic evolution,推动 intelligent technologies from concept validation toward large-scale deployment, and continuously unlock business value.
Intelligence of Evolution
In the intelligent era, enterprises enter a new cycle of systemic evolution
As intelligent technologies move from pilot validation to large-scale deployment, enterprises are entering a new round of systematic evolution. The core question of industrial competition is also shifting from “whether to deploy intelligent capabilities” to “how to unlock the value of intelligent technologies.”
The 2026 Modern Enterprise Readiness Study by Dell Technologies Group shows that more than half of organizations in China will set establishing and expanding intelligent capabilities as their top strategic goals for the next 24 months. 20% of enterprises already have mature deployment capabilities for intelligent applications, and another 45% are actively accelerating the penetration of intelligent technologies into core business scenarios.
However, as intelligent technologies keep evolving and intelligent applications accelerate into large-scale deployment, enterprises’ competitive advantages are increasingly dependent on the support capabilities of modern technological systems. In the face of rapidly changing technology environments, enterprises have higher requirements for key areas such as infrastructure and intelligent endpoint deployment, data management, and network resilience building.
Richard M. McLaughlin, President for APJ and Japan and Greater China Region at Dell Technologies Group, said in his keynote speech:
The enterprise challenges in the intelligent era are accelerating. While topics such as infrastructure, data readiness, security resilience, trust, employee productivity, and business performance may seem different, they are in fact interconnected and influence one another.
Richard M. McLaughlin, President for APJ and Japan and Greater China Region, Dell Technologies Group
Focusing on the real pain points enterprises in China face today, he delivered an in-depth interpretation of the (2026 Modern Enterprise Readiness Study), shared Dell Technologies’ latest insights into enterprise modernization and intelligent development, and discussed how enterprises can respond to changes and seize development opportunities from a more systematic perspective.
Wu Dongmei, Global Senior Vice President and Chairman of the China Region at Dell Technologies Group, further said:
“Enterprise evolution is not a one-time technical upgrade, but a continuous, evolving systems engineering effort. As technology keeps advancing, enterprises need more flexible infrastructure, more efficient data capabilities, and a more open innovation ecosystem in order to respond quickly to changing business needs and unlock long-term value.”
Dell Technologies is committed to being a long-term trusted partner for customers. With an end-to-end portfolio of products and solutions covering client, data center, edge, and cloud, it helps enterprises accelerate their modernization journey and transforms innovative concepts into practical business outcomes faster—together moving into a new phase of development in the intelligent era.”
Dell Technologies Group, Global Senior Vice President and Chairman of the China Region, Wu Dongmei
In the new cycle of the intelligent era, more and more enterprises are exploring paths to evolve by combining their own business scenarios. At the summit, “evolvers” from different industries shared their practices and insights on AI-driven business change and upgrading organizational capabilities.
Tian Yunlong, General Manager of Haier Smart Home Technology Ecology Platform and Vice Director of the National Engineering Research Center for Digital Home Networking, said: “Haier is evolving from a global leader in major home appliance industries into a user-centered platform-based technology ecology enterprise.”
Currently, Haier has achieved a 90% improvement in R&D efficiency, a 12% increase in on-time product launch rate, and an overall 80% improvement in employee efficiency through AI applications. Dell Technologies continues to provide Haier with AI compute, edge computing, and globally scaled intelligent infrastructure support, helping drive intelligent transformation.”
Tian Yunlong, General Manager of Haier Smart Home Technology Ecology Platform; Vice Director of the National Engineering Research Center for Digital Home Networking
Wang Haitao, CTO of Zhongji Ningbo Group Co., Ltd., said: “By building a private AI LLM management platform and integrating large models and intelligent agents into business workflows, Zhongji Ningbo has achieved a 4x increase in individual effective productivity for super salespeople and a 34% increase in overall effective productivity.”
Dell Technologies supports enterprises in building AI capabilities with stable and reliable infrastructure, helping Zhongji Ningbo explore an AI-driven path of organizational evolution.”
Wang Haitao, CTO, Zhongji Ningbo Group Co., Ltd.
In addition, as part of a new question for enterprise development in the intelligent era, the invited guest Feng Lun—founder of Wantong Group, Chairman of Yufeng Group, and a well-known business visionaire—shared his thoughts on enterprise evolution.
He believes that each technology wave will reshuffle the industry, but the enterprises that can truly transcend cycles are not those chasing every trend. Instead, they are those that can integrate new technologies into their own development logic and keep evolving amid change.
Feng Lun said:
“History shows that technology will not simply replace every enterprise, but it will definitely redefine how enterprises compete. In the AI era, enterprises don’t need to answer ‘whether to use AI,’ but ‘how to redefine themselves with AI.’”
The enterprises that can truly transcend cycles are those that continuously absorb new technologies, adjust their own capabilities, and keep evolving amid change.”
WanTong Group founder, Chairman of Yufeng Group, well-known business visionaire, Feng Lun
Power of Evolution
Be well-versed in both internal and external strengths—be a full-stack architect on the path to enterprise evolution
Modernization and intelligent transformation have become common challenges that enterprises of all sizes must face.
From modernizing data centers to deploying intelligent solutions, and from traditional personal endpoints to large-scale adoption of AIPCs, Dell Technologies is committed to being a full-stack architect that ‘enhances both internally and externally’ on the road of enterprise evolution. Leveraging end-to-end technological innovation, it helps enterprises achieve continuous infrastructure modernization and a leap in office productivity.
Liu Kai, General Manager of the Pre-Sales Systems Engineering Department for Commercial Solutions, Dell Technologies Group Greater China Region, said:
“The move of intelligent applications from pilots to large-scale deployment is a long-term endeavor involving coordinated evolution across business, organizational, and technical capabilities. The reshaping of business forms and decision-making methods, the activation of organizational potential, the building of a compute foundation, and the improvement of data governance and security systems all support one another and together form the foundation for the large-scale release of enterprises’ intelligent capabilities.
Dell Technologies is providing enterprises with end-to-end digital-and-intelligence solutions supported by strong technical capabilities and deep practical experience, helping customers move from breakthroughs at single points to system-wide leaps in business.”
Liu Kai, General Manager of the Pre-Sales Systems Engineering Department, Dell Technologies Group Greater China Region
At the conference, Liu Kai also invited Liu Yidong, CIO of Shanghai Ouyi Biomedical Technology Co., Ltd., to the stage to share the company’s practical exploration in the process of AI-driven business transformation.
Left: Liu Yidong, CIO of Shanghai Ouyi Biomedical Technology Co., Ltd.
Liu Yidong said:
“The key to an enterprise’s AI transformation is not only introducing technology, but also enabling AI to truly integrate into business processes and organizational operations. Ouyi Bio is推动AI落地 across multiple business scenarios by building an AI capability platform and a local computing cluster. With the computing and storage infrastructure provided by Dell Technologies, it delivers stable support for high-performance bioinformatics analysis.”
Next, the product showcase session brought the on-site atmosphere to a climax. Through immersive experiences, the on-site guests gained a deeper feel for the power and appeal of the technology foundation of enterprises in the intelligent era.
There is no doubt that the coordinated support of data centers and intelligent endpoints is the core question of enterprise intelligent evolution. Among them, modernized data infrastructure is an important foundation for enabling intelligent applications to land.
Chen Jie, General Manager of the Information Infrastructure Solutions Business Unit for Pre-Sales, Dell Technologies Group Greater China Region, emphasized:
“Future competition, in essence, is a competition of data capabilities. What truly widens the gap between enterprises is not a mere pile-up of single technologies, but whether they can build a modern data-and-intelligence foundation for the future—and continuously transform data into business value.
With a decoupled architecture, Dell Technologies hosts an enterprise’s core data in private cloud to safeguard business operations. It unlocks data value with an intelligent data platform to accelerate business transformation. Leveraging an end-to-end network resilience framework, it protects data security and builds business resilience—helping enterprises keep evolving amid change and win the future.”
Chen Jie, General Manager of the Pre-Sales Systems Engineering Department, Dell Technologies Group Greater China Region
Modern infrastructure is a solid foundation for enterprise intelligent evolution, while intelligent endpoints are the key entry points that deliver intelligent capabilities to every employee.
In its latest report (For a Future-Ready Employee Workforce: Analysis of the Strategic Value and Necessity of Adopting AIPC), IDC clearly points out that as enterprise AI application adoption moves into a new stage, the deployment intensity of intelligent endpoints and high-performance systems continues to rise.
Yu ZhiJuan, Director of the Commercial Endpoint Solutions Business Unit, Dell Technologies Group Greater China Region, believes:
“Intelligent applications are reshaping the way we work. More and more innovation capabilities are extending from the cloud to endpoint devices, running collaboratively on both local and cloud environments—truly reaching every employee’s desktop.”
Dell’s AIPC product matrix makes PCs into more intelligent, more efficient, and more secure productivity tools—meeting enterprises’ daily needs for modern office work. Desktop-side modern intelligent solutions further help enterprises run higher-end AI workloads locally, with stronger control, lower latency, and less reliance on the cloud—unlocking the potential of local computing. This is not only another leap in technology, but a comprehensive reshaping of the enterprise productivity landscape.”
Yu ZhiJuan, Director of the Commercial Endpoint Solutions Business Unit, Dell Technologies Group Greater China Region
In the ecosystem collaboration segment, Dell Technologies joined hands with Chen Ran, Founder & CEO of Beijing Open Transion Technology Co., Ltd., and Zhao Lina, General Manager of Dazhui Technology Service (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., to explore new pathways for AI infrastructure and industry-focused intelligent implementation.
Left 1: Zhao Lina, General Manager of Dazhui Technology Service (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. Left 2: Chen Ran, Founder & CEO, Beijing Open Transion Technology Co., Ltd.
Based on the exploration of ecosystem partners in open-source ecosystems, industry applications, and infrastructure, Dell Technologies, together with partners, jointly released the Dell Intelligent Agent Hyper-Node Solution. Through an integrated “Intelligent Agent Factory” for end-to-end delivery, it accelerates the deployment of AI from the compute foundation to real industry applications.
On Evolution
Decoding the path to enterprise intelligence implementation
An enterprise’s evolution path also depends on an open and collaborative industrial ecosystem. The 2026 Dell Technologies Partner Summit held on that afternoon brought together nearly 300 core channel partners nationwide. Deep exchanges centered on building channel ecosystems in the intelligent era, collaborative innovation, and business evolution opportunities.
In addition, Dell Technologies will also open two thematic breakout forums to break down enterprise data-and-intelligence evolution paths from two dimensions: the infrastructure foundation and endpoint productivity. Specifically:
?“From Decoupling to Intelligence: Reshaping Modern Infrastructure” breaks into three core Dell strategies—decoupled architecture, intelligent readiness, and network elasticity. The forum provides in-depth sharing on how to reshape the data center foundation with a decoupled architecture, unlock the value of data assets with an intelligent data platform, and build business resilience with an endogenous security system, together outlining a future-oriented blueprint for enterprise IT architecture evolution.
?“Intelligence at Your Fingertips: Redefining the Way AI Runs and the Future of Productivity” forum connects with multiple ecosystem partners. It focuses on Dell’s leading advantages in security, manageability, and intelligent application cost optimization for commercial AIPCs, and also provides detailed introductions to Dell’s complete end-side AI compute architecture.
Realm of Evolution
Immersive exhibition area, showcasing technological innovation capabilities in a panoramic view
At the summit venue, Dell Technologies carefully created an immersive exhibition area covering the full range of modern infrastructure, intelligent endpoints, and Alienware gaming products. Visitors can directly experience Dell’s full-stack technical capabilities and cutting-edge innovation achievements.
The modern data center exhibition area presents Dell Technologies’ innovation achievements and scenario-based deployments in private cloud and storage, intelligent data platforms, and network elasticity, focusing on three key areas: business operations, business transformation, and business resilience. It helps enterprises build end-to-end data management capabilities, laying a solid foundation for the large-scale deployment of intelligent applications.
An IDC report (Private Cloud Modernization: Key Path for Asia-Pacific Enterprises to Improve Business Agility) points out that the modernization and innovation of private cloud are fundamentally what enables enterprises to make continuous progress and maintain competitive advantages.
Dell Private Cloud (DPC), Dell’s private cloud solution, leverages the advantages of a decoupled architecture. It balances high performance, high security, and high agility, helping enterprises run, manage, and secure core business safely, agilely, and flexibly.
For edge scenarios, Dell Distributed Private Cloud (DDPC) provides lightweight deployment to deliver secure and efficient edge data management capabilities for small and medium-sized enterprises.
As the core storage foundation for private cloud, the new Dell PowerStore Elite further unlocks the value of modern storage. With 6:1 data reduction guaranteed, up to 3x IOPS, improved storage density and throughput capabilities, and non-disruptive upgrades, it provides stable and efficient data hosting for enterprises’ continuously growing data demands and intelligent workloads.
If modernization of private cloud solves the problem of data hosting and business operations, then an intelligent data platform determines whether data can truly serve intelligent applications.
The Dell Technologies Intelligent Data Platform (Dell AI Data Platform, AIDP) solution demonstrated on site provides unified hosting and systematic support for the full lifecycle of intelligent data.
With an open and flexible storage engine, multiple powerful data engines, and outstanding data orchestration capabilities, Dell’s Intelligent Data Platform can convert scattered raw enterprise data into high-performance data foundations that intelligent applications can call directly. It helps enterprises push intelligent applications out of the concept-proof stage, and deploy business scenarios, with lower complexity, smaller risk, and faster speed—continuously creating commercial value.
As intelligent applications continue to move deeper into the core of business, enterprises need not only data readiness, but also sustainable business continuity. Dell Technologies’ network elasticity solutions are built around the core理念 of “protection, detection, and recovery,” helping enterprises establish a network resilience system covering the full lifecycle—providing solid assurance for business resilience in the intelligent era.
In the modern office space exhibition area, Dell Technologies made a major showcase of the new Dell desktop modern intelligent solution. It supports work teams to deploy intelligent agent workflows locally and expand them, avoiding the high costs and network latency challenges brought by purely cloud-deployed solutions.
Dell’s desktop modern intelligent solutions can remove barriers between local control and enterprise-level scalability, while leaving ample room for continuous technology iteration.
For modern office scenarios, Dell Technologies also showcased a full lineup including Dell Pro series professional workstations, commercial laptops, and desktops, along with Dell’s professional monitors and a complete ecosystem of peripherals. While refreshing the office experience, it fully unlocks employees’ innovative productivity.
The new Dell XPS 13 laptop also made a stunning debut at the exhibition area. Designed for students and new-generation professionals who pursue the ultimate and refuse to compromise, it combines ultra-light portability with cutting-edge design aesthetics. The body is extremely thin, with the whole machine weighing only about 1 kilogram, and the thickest part at just around 12.7mm—making it the thinnest and lightest XPS model in the series’ history.
In addition, this new laptop has been upgraded simultaneously in product functions and hardware configurations. It is equipped with the latest-generation processor, enabling it to handle multi-task operations with ease.
To mark the 30th anniversary of Alienware, the exhibition area also showcases a full ecosystem of gaming products covering gaming laptops, desktops, monitors, and professional peripherals.
Among them, the Alienware 39-inch 5K OLED gaming display (AW3926QW) is the first to adopt the 4th-generation Tandem OLED and RGB striped pixel technology. It further enhances brightness, color, and text display clarity. Paired with a 39-inch ultra-wide curved giant screen, it reshapes the visual experience of high-end gaming.
The two models Alienware 16 Area-51 and Alienware 16X Aurora were introduced this year with anti-glare OLED screens for the first time. While preserving excellent image quality, they effectively reduce glare and reflection interference, balancing an extreme visual experience with practical usability across multiple scenarios.
For years, Alienware has stayed committed to pushing beyond the boundaries of high-performance PCs. With a richer full-domain product layout, it continues to deliver premium gaming experiences that fuse pioneering design, hard-core performance, and immersive feel for players.
Evolution doesn’t stop—now is the perfect time to seize the momentum. In a brand-new cycle marked by dynamic modern technology, Dell Technologies will continue to build on its end-to-end, full-stack technical advantages. It will drive architecture evolution with innovation and empower enterprise growth through a comprehensive, end-to-end layout. It supports industries across the board to complete the full leap from intelligent technology pilots to large-scale commercial deployment, helping every enterprise find the right pace of evolution and ride the wave to build long-term competitive advantages in the intelligent era.
Highlights of the summit photo gallery
