Smarter Together, Advancing Through Technology | Winmore Digital at the 2026 Intelligent Digitalization Technology Exchange Roundtable Summit

On September 16, the “Smarter Together, Advancing Through Technology—2026 Intelligent Digitalization Technology Exchange Roundtable Summit” was held in Shenzhen.

The summit was jointly hosted by Shenzhen Jifang Industrial Control Co., Ltd. and Intel (China) Co., Ltd., and organized by the Shenzhen Retail Intelligent Information Technology Industry Association. Guests from industry associations, universities and research institutions, investment organizations, retail technology companies, and smart hardware providers gathered in Shenzhen. They exchanged insights on topics including on-device foundation models, edge-cloud collaboration, fresh food AI, smart hardware, and representative solutions, while exploring new application breakthroughs and opportunities for industry-wide collaboration in intelligent digitalization.

As AI foundation models rapidly move from the cloud to edge devices, the integration of AI with physical commerce continues to deepen. How to bring AI into real-world operations and effectively connect on-device perception with cloud intelligence was one of the summit’s key areas of focus.

At the summit, Chu Jiheng, Co-Founder of Shanghai Winmore Digital Technology Co., Ltd., delivered a presentation titled “On-Device AI Perception, Cloud-Based Intelligent Decision-Making.” He shared Winmore Digital’s practical experience in applying AI to retail scenarios and discussed the future development of edge-cloud collaboration.

Winmore Digital believes that the value of AI in retail is evolving from isolated applications toward system-wide intelligence. Edge devices perceive what is happening in real business environments, while the cloud performs analysis and decision-making. Together, edge and cloud capabilities create a complete closed loop for intelligent retail operations.

Based on this vision, Winmore Digital is advancing a development path centered on “on-device AI perception plus cloud-based intelligent decision-making.” At the current stage, these capabilities address core challenges in store operations and enterprise management respectively. The next step is to integrate them further, enabling retail systems to progress from localized intelligence to end-to-end intelligence.

Shanghai Winmore Digital Technology Co., Ltd. focuses on integrating AI and digital human technologies with the retail and food industries. Centered on store operations and headquarters management, the company provides products and solutions that help retailers achieve intelligent transformation.

At the edge, Winmore Digital has developed a portfolio designed for real store environments, including iScale smart weighing, iCanteen food recognition, iDetector AI loss prevention, and iHuman digital human solutions. Through AI vision and intelligent interaction, these products support practical workflows such as product recognition, checkout, loss prevention, and customer service.

In the cloud, Winmore Digital is further developing Winmore EIS, an enterprise intelligent operations system built around a “forecast-driven” approach. By combining data and AI, the system explores intelligent decision-making across merchandising, inventory, replenishment, allocation, pricing, and other operational scenarios, helping enterprises evolve from experience-driven management toward AI forecast-driven operations.

From “perception” at the store level to “decision-making” at the enterprise level, Winmore Digital is not seeking to build a collection of disconnected AI functions. Its goal is to create an intelligent system that connects real business operations, data, and management decisions.

During the summit’s discussion session, “Cross-Industry Integration—Application Breakthroughs and Ecosystem Development for Intelligent Digitalization Technology,” Chu Jiheng joined guests from retail technology, artificial intelligence, and related fields to discuss the convergence of AI, cloud computing, smart hardware, software, and other technologies across retail, industrial control, and additional application scenarios.

For AI to deliver real value across industries, technical capability alone is not enough. It also requires a deep understanding of industry scenarios and ongoing collaboration across software, hardware, computing infrastructure, algorithms, and the broader industrial ecosystem.

For Winmore Digital, the journey from on-device AI perception to cloud-based intelligent decision-making ultimately serves one goal: bringing AI deeper into retail operations, enabling data to play a meaningful role in decision-making, and turning intelligence into measurable business value.

The edge is the senses, the cloud is the brain—and Winmore Digital is connecting them into one intelligent whole.

Smarter together, advancing through technology.

Looking ahead, Winmore Digital will remain grounded in real retail scenarios and continue working with industry partners to explore new possibilities for deeper integration between AI and retail operations.