2026 WOD Expo - Global Sponsorship Recruitment Offcially Launched

The overall scale of China’s manufacturing industry has ranked the world’s largest scale for 15 consecutive years.

Manufacturing digitalization has become a must-take path for the industry high-quality development of manufacturing. In collaboration with Ipsos—one of the world’s largest market research & consulting firms, Digital Events launched industry digitalization whitepaper, in which data shows that the market size of China’s manufacturing digitalization market will reach RMB 1.2 trillion by 2025. By 2030, it is expected to expand to RMB 2.7 trillion, with a compound annual growth rate of 17%.

Amid trillion-yuan market opportunities, digital solution providers urgently need a one-stop approach to connect with core decision-makers across the entire manufacturing digital transformation chain.  The 2026 WOD Manufacturing Digitalization Expo (Shanghai) helps you efficiently connect with core decision-makers of the entire manufacturing digitalization chain, efficiently obtain sales leads, boost brand popularity, and build an exclusive ecosystem —join now to seize the opportunity!

WOD establishes a "1+10" all-scenario service system, forging a one-stop precision matching hub for digital solution providers to facilitate end-to-end business opportunities.

Contact us: Jor ZHOU

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All-Scenario Showcase of Digital Smart Factory | Precise Alignment with Core Needs

In 2026, the WOD expo will be upgraded with core exhibition area of "6 Vertical Manufacturing Industries +2 Cutting-edge Technologies", covering Electronics Manufacturing, Automotive Manufacturing,  Machinery Manufacturing, Petrochemical Industry, Semiconductor Manufacturing, and Energy Storage Manufacturing, and two major technology engines focusing on AI and intelligent robots, which will open up the deep integration channel between technology and industry in an all-round way.

All-Scenario Showcase of Digital Smart Factory - Grand Debut from Global Leading Digital Solution Providers

The 2025 Shanghai and Shenzhen exhibitions have been a complete success, attracting Siemens, Rockwell Automation, China Mobile, Dassault Systèmes, Festo, HollySys, Shanghai Electric Automation Group, SAIC-GM, ZWSOFT, SAP, Hexagon, and SGS, and other global leaders to participate in the exhibition. During the exhibition, a large number of industrial cooperation was facilitated, which became a benchmark event in the field of digital transformation of manufacturing industry, and was widely recognized and highly praised inside and outside the industry.

High Precision · Wide Coverage · Strong Demand — WOD Visitor Profile

The audience of WOD2026 presents the core characteristics of “high professionalism, wide coverage and clear demand orientation”, and the overall scale is expected to exceed 25,000 professional visitors, with industry distribution spanning key fields such as automotive manufacturing, electronics communications, aerospace, petrochemicals, new energy materials, etc. The audience identity focuses on the core of the manufacturing industry digital decision-making chain, with enterprise decision-makers, digitalization leaders, technical backbone mainly, while including procurement decisions, program selection and demand docking related personnel.

7 Concurrent Events | Empowering Digital Solution Providers to Target the Core Decision-Making Level in One-Stop Platform

• WOD Think-Tank · The Bund

Think-Tank, Friendship, Opportunities

 A cross-industry dialogue platform tailored for manufacturing C-level decision-makers, building a golden bridge for resource integration and strategic collaboration, empowering companies to seize the digitalization wave and capture new industry opportunities.

• WOD World Manufacturing Digitalization Conference

Strategic Reconstruction, Leadership Leapfrogging

Attendees comprise decision-makers in manufacturing digital transformation (at or above director level), technical experts, and industry ecosystem stakeholders. By bringing together global leading enterprises and experts from international organizations, the expo delivers frontier insights and in-depth analysis of market and industry trends — empowering exhibitors to engage directly with core decision-makers, close the loop on technical-to-commercial value conversion, and strengthen their voice in the industry.

• mDX Award

Gather Benchmark Forces, Empower Leading Glory

The mDX Award recognizes technology/product innovations, digital benchmarking scenarios, leading figures and transformation experts, helping exhibitors to enhance their brand recognition and leadership through authoritative endorsement, attracting the attention of precise customers, efficiently acquiring transformation demand leads, and seizing the first opportunity in the digital transformation market.

• mDX Transformation Summit

Industry-oriented insights on transformation challenges, sharing experiences and cutting-edge solutions

The mDX Transformation Summit addresses unique manufacturing digitalization challenges across industries, inviting leading companies, associations, and research institutions from home and abroad to share and discuss cutting-edge solutions and practical experiences across policy, technology, and market dimensions, providing reusable Manufacturing Digitalization pathways for diverse sectors. It empowers exhibitors to directly engage with enterprise digital transformation decision-makers and implementers, strengthen their professional voice in vertical sectors, and explore precise cooperation opportunities in segmented industries.

• mDX Supply & Demand Matching Salon

Connecting Supply and Demand Side Efficiently, Taking the Lead in Developing Commercial Opportunities

Engage directly with digitalization decision-makers and buyers across sectors, through closed-door technical/product analysis and targeted interactions, empowers exhibitors to efficiently connect with high-quality buyers, quickly secure orders, and access segmented market resources.

• mDX Best Practice Workshop

Digitalization Empowerment through Practical Cases, Hands-on Support Facilitates Transformation

By inviting digitalization executives and responsible persons, taking specific cases as the entry point, and focusing on “technology application + scenario landing”, we will help exhibitors accurately reach enterprise digitalization responsible persons and participants, realize precise exposure of market segments, and directly connect with potential customers.

• D Lounge | Talk-Show

Gain Trend Insights and Connect Resources through Relaxed Cross-Industry Dialogues

By inviting cross-border decision makers and industrial ecological leaders to exchange trends in a relaxed form such as a coffee break/afternoon tea and sunset drink, it helps to implant and disseminate the exhibitors' brands and professional influence in depth, and to expand new opportunities for diversified networking and cross-discipline cooperation.

“World of Digitalization (WOD) ” WeChat Mini Program

 Deliver Direct & Targeted Qualified Sales Leads with Year-Round value

Three major Pain Points of traditional exhibitions are difficult to be solved: cluttered leads are time-consuming to screen, business opportunities are lost after the exhibition and there’s no basis to quantify the return (ROI measurement).

WOD hits the pain points directly: By scanning the WOD code via the mini-program, exhibitors can instantly access clients' contacts, demand details, and communication notes — generating qualified sales leads. The marketing team summarizes the leads in real time without manual screening, which saves time and improve efficiency, and makes exhibition results intuitively measurable.

More core empowerment: 3 Days of Exhibition, Year-Round Value! The WOD Mini-Program has accumulated over 40,000 precise users, accummulated more than 5,000 procurement demands, and total demand amount exceeds RMB 10 billion which will continue to match  exhibitors with business opportunities, and realize long-term empowerment.

Contact us: Jor ZHOU

jor.zhou@digitevents.com

+852 5998 6066

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Book Now for Early-Bird Discount and Priority Booth Selection!

At the same time, you can enjoy the exclusive rights and benefits of seven concurrent activities, including closed-door meeting priority admission, supply and demand matching priority matching and other customized services.