When algorithms foresee everything, where does the brand's warmth come from? At the "2026 D3 Smart Growth Conference" in Shanghai on April 24th, let's explore the new business trends in the AI era together.
The past two years have been the "era of rapid development" for AI technology. Enterprises have been eager to test the waters and have grown wildly amidst the dividends of computing power and the novelty of applications.
In 2026, AI is accelerating the qualitative change of business logic: shifting from shallow, single - point tool calls to fundamental system reconstruction.
In the past, the inertia of relying on single - point efficiency improvement and traffic dividends to drive growth is being broken. Instead, there is a deeper value area that demands a "full - link business closed - loop". In this year, simply "accessing AI" no longer brings absolute security. The density of AI's business penetration and the depth of its decision - making participation are the real foundation for growth.
At this critical moment of paradigm shift, how can brands penetrate the fog of technology and find the underlying logic of truly "using AI effectively"? How can they build a system and find the definite path to "resilient growth"?
The "AI Symbiosis · Resilient Growth" 2026 D3 Smart Growth Conference, hosted by DataStory, will be grandly launched in Shanghai on April 24th.
It will gather leaders in the AI native field, global growth benchmark brands, and practical operators to jointly face the core industry proposition of "human touch vs. algorithms" and deeply explore how AI can move from consumer insights to transactions and find new answers for brand resilient growth.
The conference is about to open. Let's take a sneak peek and unlock the new signals of 2026 AI business in advance:
1. Evolution and Reconstruction of Organizations: From "Hierarchical Human Resources" to "Agentic Enterprise"
Organizations are no longer obsessed with the infinite expansion of human resources. Instead, they empower through AI Agents to dig deep into the limits of individual productivity and reshape the modern work model.
At the juncture of AI 2.0 moving towards AI 3.0, the era of a large - scale explosion of intelligent agent applications has arrived. According to the newly released "GenAI Industry Impact Matrix Map" by Xsignal, currently, AI R & D tools and AI efficiency - improvement applications are surging at astonishing compound annual growth rates (CAGR) of 515.74% and 394.98% respectively. Traditional production factors are being rapidly replaced. According to DataStory's aggregated data, the volume of content related to Agentic has exceeded 27.03 million in the past three months, and the interaction volume has exceeded 170 million.
Offline, Feishu × Anker Innovations AI Recording Bean, GetSeed Recording Card and other intelligent voice hardware have become the "digital senses" of employees, capturing fragmented communication and inspiration in real - time and seamlessly transforming them into the decision - making context of the system;
Online, the emergence of open - source architectures such as OpenClaw and Hermes AI has laid the initial foundation for the system base of the new - era Agent OS, enabling AI to completely bid farewell to the single dialog box and evolve into a cyber employee with "permanent memory" and "self - evolution ability";
At the control center of human - machine collaboration, a brand - new "Harness Engineering" is rising. This engineering allows humans to truly become "commanders", directly turning scattered inspirations into a business closed - loop where AI works for you and directly delivers results.
Under this new interaction paradigm, when "instruction equals creation" becomes a daily occurrence, ordinary employees can easily create a "AI avatar" that operates 24/7. The boundaries of individual productivity are infinitely broadened. The new work model intertwined by "super individuals + AI" enables the smallest business units to release huge business potential.
The future work model and the smallest unit of business organizations are undergoing drastic changes. AI will no longer be just an auxiliary tool for efficiency improvement but will be deeply integrated into the workflow and organizational structure. The era of Agentic Enterprise has begun.
How can brands/enterprises tell your business story at this node of the AI explosion?
Understand AI native organizations, disassemble AI business benchmarks, and launch the AI Growth Brain for the first time
Sign up immediately and secure your seat: https://hdxu.cn/1GdFm
2. Core Shift in Growth Competition: From "Blind Experience Boxes" to "Algorithmic Brand Closed - Loop"
Brands no longer rely on back - end traffic exposure. Instead, they let AI intervene in insights and decision - making in advance, using the certainty of computing power to hedge against the uncertainty of the market.
Currently, the influence of AI has comprehensively penetrated and reshaped the entire marketing chain. With the arrival of the "Algorithmic Brand Era", new rules such as GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) are taking over the underlying logic of the business battlefield. Since the beginning of this year, the volume of GEO - related content has increased by 221% year - on - year. When AI becomes the new entry point, the ultimate battlefield of brand competition is shifting from "seeking exposure" to "grabbing answers". Whoever can build a real and credible "AI Brand Equity (Answer Asset)" earlier will gain a more advantageous position in the preferred recommendations of generative AI; From AIGC to AIGD, AI can also take over the "decision - making layer" in marketing. AI is no longer just helping you write copywriting and make posters but has evolved into an "AI CMO" that helps you formulate strategies, allocate budgets, find target audiences, and continuously calculate the optimal growth solution.
In the stock game, brands must use AI to build a refined funnel from "identification, recommendation, trust to conversion". The future "super entry point" with truly disruptive business value will belong to those "transaction closed - loops" that can accurately understand user intentions and directly complete transactions.
How can brands break through the shallow generative dividends and let AI truly penetrate the "first mile" of strategic decision - making?
At the conference site, multiple AI growth tools that reshape the entire marketing chain will be grandly launched in 4 forums!
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3. Emotion Becomes a New Necessity: From "Algorithmic Equality" to the Return of "Human - Centered Narrative"
When AI levels the efficiency gap among all enterprises, the brand's warmth, emotional comfort, and real human connection will become the scarcest competitiveness.
In today's world where everyone is using AI to pursue the "perfect answer", an SBTI test created by an AI - assisted up - master, with its rough "human touch" and "a touch of madness", has fascinated nearly 90% of UGC users from different circles. It has broken through from the private domain to the public domain. It attracted 21.86 million views in just 5 days after its launch, and also triggered many PGC creators to follow the trend and grab the limelight. In the era of competing for image quality and computing power, the "anti - refinement" resonance with cynicism and rough human touch is the core competitiveness that algorithms can never replicate, and it is also the soul that future brands need to hold on to while pursuing ultimate efficiency with AI.
In an era where all needs can be accurately predicted by algorithms, the essence of business is returning to "humanism".
Facing the issue of "human touch and algorithms", how can brands build their non - replicable "emotional assets"?
Multiple top scholars and operators will share the new methodology and practical cases of "emotional assets"
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April 24th · 10F, Renaissance Shanghai Zhongshan Park Hotel
AI Symbiosis, Resilient Growth | 2026 D3 Smart Growth Conference
We invite you to join hundreds of top business minds
to truly apply intelligent technology to business practice,
re - sort out the business foundation,
and jointly explore the definite growth rules for 2026.
