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2025 Global Digital Economy Conference Launches First European Forum! Join Us in Barcelona on March 4th!

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2 years ago

February 26, 2025

BEIJING, Feb. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — A news report from China.org.cn:

2025 marks the 20th anniversary of the comprehensive strategic partnership between Spain and China, as well as the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the EU and China. China and Europe continue to deepen cooperation in numerous fields including trade, economics, culture, and more, ushering in unprecedented development opportunities. Against this backdrop, the 2025 Global Digital Economy Conference will host its International Cooperation Forum series in Barcelona, Spain on March 4, marking the conference’s first European venue. Themed “Integration, Innovation, Win-Win: Co-creating a New Blueprint for the China-Europe Digital Economy,” the forum will focus on digital friendship and digital development, promoting the flourishing development of the China–Europe digital economy, and will showcase the broad prospects of China–Europe cooperation through four key highlights, injecting new vitality into the global digital economy.

Highlight 1: First European Branch Venue Expanding Global Digital Cooperation Network

The Global Digital Economy Conference, as a flagship platform promoting international exchange and cooperation in digital friendship, has successfully held four sessions since its founding in 2021, accumulating widespread influence globally. As a core participant in the conference, Beijing has actively played a leading role, having initiated the Global Digital Economy Partner Cities Cooperation Initiative with 30 international cities, promoting the construction of an open innovation network for the digital economy between global cities and within international multilateral and bilateral frameworks.

This conference enters Europe for the first time and is being held concurrently with the MWC World Mobile Congress, which will further expand the global digital economy partner network, deepening inter-connectivity and interoperability in the digital economy field between Europe, Asia, and other regions worldwide.

Highlight 2: Distinguished Guest Lineup Discussing Digital Cooperation Development

The Barcelona venue will feature a variety of activities, including the “Digital Economy International Cooperation Forum” and the “Beijing Night” enterprise exchange event. Of particular note is the participation of leaders from the Catalonia Trade & Investment Agency, the Director of the International Economic Promotion Office of the Barcelona City Government, the President of the China-Europe Digital Association, the President of GSMA Greater China, and the Chief Procurement Officer of Faurecia Automotive International, among others.

During the meeting, leaders and experts from China and Europe will engage in in-depth discussions on topics such as digital economy development trends, international cooperation experiences, digital enterprise overseas expansion, and digital technology empowerment application scenarios, jointly promoting new developments in China–Europe digital economy cooperation.

Highlight 3: Establishing European Overseas Service Center to Support Efficient Business Expansion Overseas

The Beijing Digital Economy Enterprise Overseas Innovation Service Base, as a landmark project in Beijing’s construction as a global digital economy benchmark city, has become a key initiative for the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology to promote international cooperation in the digital economy. During the event, strategic cooperation agreements will be signed with organizations such as the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce, exploring the establishment of the first European Overseas Service Center and further expanding the international cooperation network with Europe. The Overseas Service Base will closely connect with the Spanish government, business associations, overseas service ecosystems, and business resources, and will take the lead in building channels for demand and supply matching, collecting global orders, and attracting global digital economy enterprises to focus on and establish a presence in Beijing. This will inject continuous momentum into the high-quality development of Beijing’s digital economy.

At the forum, the first-ever introduction of typical digital economy solutions from Beijing will be launched, targeting the needs of the Spanish and European markets. The focus will be on key industry sectors such as smart energy, autonomous driving, smart logistics, cross-border e-commerce, and AI large models. Leading companies and advanced technologies in these industries will be showcased to facilitate precise matchmaking between Chinese and Spanish, as well as Chinese and European businesses, helping Beijing’s digital technology enterprises expand efficiently overseas.

The conference will also facilitate the implementation of a series of cooperation agreements. Notably, the Overseas Service Base will join the business association network with the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce, the China-Europe Digital Association, the Catalonia Association of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, and GSMA and the Catalonia Beijing Association. GSMA will also collaborate with the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology to finalize and sign multiple strategic cooperation agreements.

Highlight 4: Active Enterprise Participation Building China-Europe Digital Economy Exchange Bridge

In addition to the Digital Economy International Cooperation Forum, the “Beijing Night” enterprise exchange will also be a major highlight of this conference. This exchange will showcase the development achievements of Beijing’s digital economy while providing a quality platform for direct dialogue and in-depth negotiations between Chinese and foreign enterprises, promoting exchanges and cooperation in technology, markets, talent and other aspects.

The conference has already received active responses from many enterprises, with Chinese companies including Huawei, Yonyou Network, iSoftStone, China Telecom, and ZTE, and foreign companies including SEAT, Faurecia Automotive, Stefani International Exchange, ROCA, and Spanish Babylan confirming attendance. More than 150 Chinese and foreign enterprise executives are expected to attend, conducting over 20 government-enterprise connection activities.

It is worth mentioning that among the participating enterprises, there are many telecommunications companies. As a national value-added telecommunications business pilot city, since being approved to carry out pilot work in 2024, Beijing has actively helped enterprises promote Beijing’s value-added telecommunications business abroad. Through exchanges and cooperation with overseas telecommunications enterprises, it expands cooperation opportunities and achieves mutual benefits and win-win. With this Global Digital Economy Conference being held concurrently with the WMC World Mobile Congress, Chinese enterprises will also leverage platform advantages to actively conduct preliminary connections with overseas telecommunications enterprises, vigorously promote cooperation, and jointly promote the development of the global digital economy.

The Barcelona forum is hosted by the Global Digital Economy Conference Organizing Committee and organized by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology. At that time, the conference organizing committee will also formally invite European institutions including the Catalonia Enterprise Development Bureau and Barcelona Chamber of Commerce to attend the 2025 Global Digital Economy Conference to be held in Beijing in July, to further conduct cooperation exchanges and promote China–Europe digital development.

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Power Knot MEA Recognized as THE BIZZ 2026 Winner for Business Excellence

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9 hours ago

October 4, 2026

FREMONT, Calif., Oct. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Power Knot LLC, the market leader for on-site organic waste management solutions, announced that its sister office, Power Knot Middle East (PKME), has been recognized as a THE BIZZ 2026 Winner by the World Confederation of Businesses (WORLDCOB).

The recognition reflects PKME’s business excellence, leadership, and quality standards, highlighting its work to help organizations across the UAE and wider Gulf region improve food waste management.

PKME provides on-site food waste biodigestion technology through the LFC biodigester, an automated system that uses microorganisms and oxygen to digest food waste into wastewater within 24 hours. The regional team supports customers from equipment selection and installation to ongoing technical support.

Designed for commercial operations, the LFC biodigester helps facilities process food waste where it is generated, reducing reliance on storage, collection, and off-site disposal. This approach helps businesses reduce waste handling, improve kitchen hygiene, and lower the costs associated with transporting food waste to landfill.

Power Knot’s complementary equipment, including BCG shredders, SBT bin tippers, and water management systems, supports facilities with different waste volumes and operational requirements.

The award recognizes Power Knot’s commitment to delivering practical solutions backed by reliable equipment and customer support. As organizations across the Gulf seek more efficient ways to manage food waste, the team continues to help customers turn sustainability goals into everyday operational improvements.

About THE BIZZ Awards

The BIZZ Awards, hosted by the World Confederation of Businesses (WORLDCOB), recognize business excellence, innovation, and leadership across more than 130 countries. Winners are evaluated on business leadership, management, quality, innovation, and corporate social responsibility, joining a global network of organizations committed to excellence and continuous improvement.

For more information access https://thebizzawards.com/

About Power Knot

Power Knot provides safe, reliable, and economically sound solutions for commercial, industrial, and military organizations worldwide seeking to reduce waste and lower their environmental impact. Our products help organizations reduce their carbon footprint by efficiently moving, lifting, grinding, digesting, pumping, filtering, and reporting on waste streams. Designed, developed, and manufactured in Silicon Valley, California.

For more information, visit powerknot.com.

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SafeGuard Privacy Wins Second AdExchanger Award for Best Privacy Technology

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13 hours ago

October 3, 2026

SafeGuard Privacy has won the 2026 AdExchanger Award for Best Privacy Technology, its second win in the category and fourth straight year as a finalist. The award recognizes its role as the infrastructure behind privacy diligence in digital advertising, from powering the IAB Diligence Platform to bringing privacy diligence into IAB Tech Lab’s agentic buying specs.

NEW YORK, Oct. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — SafeGuard Privacy has won the 2026 AdExchanger Award for Best Privacy Technology, its second win in the category and its fourth consecutive year as a finalist. The award recognizes SafeGuard Privacy’s work as the infrastructure behind privacy diligence in digital advertising, including the IAB Diligence Platform and privacy diligence built into IAB Tech Lab’s agentic buying specs.

“When we started SafeGuard Privacy, the industry handled privacy diligence with spreadsheets and hope. Now it runs through a shared standard. As AI agents start buying media, diligence has to move at machine speed without losing its legal rigor.” Richy Glassberg, CEO, SafeGuard Privacy

“When we started SafeGuard Privacy, the industry handled privacy diligence with spreadsheets and hope,” said Richy Glassberg, CEO and Co-Founder of SafeGuard Privacy. “Now it runs through a shared standard, inside the IAB Diligence Platform and the Tech Lab’s agentic buying specs. Seeing AdExchanger recognize that shift, for the second time, means a lot. The next shift is already here. As AI agents start buying media on behalf of brands, diligence has to move at machine speed without losing its legal rigor. That’s what we’re building now, and I’m proud of the team doing it.”

Glassberg brings more than three decades of experience across media, advertising, technology, and privacy, including as a member of the founding team of CNN.com and a co-founder of the Interactive Advertising Bureau.

Highlights:

Industry standard: The IAB chose SafeGuard Privacy to power the IAB Diligence Platform and built the standardized assessments behind it.Agentic advertising: SafeGuard Privacy is integrated into IAB Tech Lab’s AAMP 2.3, bringing privacy diligence into the Buyer Agent as media buying moves to AI agents.International expansion: The IAB Diligence Platform expanded to Europe through work with BVDW and Nexida in Germany, including certification for the German market.Legal AI: Privacy Assist™ is purpose-built AI for privacy diligence. It suggests assessment answers, drafts RFI responses, and searches across vendors, assessments, and privacy law, turning days of work into minutes.Legal depth: Assessments cover 24+ U.S. states and global privacy requirements, built around how data moves through advertising.Adoption: A thousand companies are on the SafeGuard Privacy platform, including major advertisers, top agency holding companies, and ad tech companies that span the breadth of the industry.Recognition: SafeGuard Privacy has won AdExchanger’s Best Privacy Technology award twice and has been a finalist four consecutive years.

“Establishing a consistent approach to privacy diligence is critical to building greater accountability across digital advertising,” said Michael Hahn, EVP & General Counsel, IAB. “Our work with SafeGuard Privacy on the IAB Diligence Platform has helped make privacy compliance and vendor due diligence more standardized and scalable across the industry. Congratulations to Richy and the entire SafeGuard Privacy team on this well-deserved recognition and their continued commitment to advancing privacy standards.”

SafeGuard Privacy continues to build software that addresses the practical challenges companies face as advertising technology, data use, and privacy requirements become more complex.

“SafeGuard Privacy has helped us make our diligence efforts more efficient and standardized across partners. The ability to easily share assessments and the integration with the IAB Diligence Platform has helped set an industry standard and support our compliance efforts. The new agentic tools only help advance those efforts, and we are excited to leverage them,” said Rachel Glasser, Chief Privacy Officer, Magnite.

As privacy diligence becomes a more fundamental part of how the advertising ecosystem operates, SafeGuard Privacy will continue investing in the standards, software and legal expertise that make it possible to do that work at scale. From the IAB Diligence Platform to the next generation of agentic advertising, the company is focused on building privacy infrastructure that can keep pace with how the industry operates – and how it continues to evolve.

About SafeGuard Privacy

SafeGuard Privacy is the only privacy compliance solution purpose-built for companies that use consumer data. It is the first legal assessment and vendor management platform for leading global brands, publishers, and Ad Tech. The IAB chose SafeGuard Privacy to power the IAB Diligence Platform, creating the industry standard for privacy regulation compliance and vendor due diligence. Standardized, comprehensive, and fully auditable, SafeGuard Privacy now includes Privacy Assist™, the first suite of privacy-specific AI tools that helps compliance and legal teams complete assessments and RFIs faster with transparency and accuracy. SafeGuard Privacy makes it easy for buyers and sellers to accelerate growth while staying ahead of fast-changing privacy risks.

For more information, visit www.safeguardprivacy.com.

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Matt Anderson, SafeGuard Privacy, 1 9174074047, matt@safeguardprivacy.com, www.safeguardprivacy.com

Lana McGilvray, Purpose Worldwide, 1 512.970.8310, lana@purposenorthamerica.com, https://www.purposenorthamerica.com/

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ARTBOX, KOREA’S ICONIC LIFESTYLE RETAILER, MAKES U.S. DEBUT WITH LOS ANGELES POP-UP FEATURING GLOBAL K-POP ICON ILLIT

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14 hours ago

October 3, 2026

The Korean retailer, founded in 1984, will open its first U.S. retail activation on Melrose Avenue from October 3–11, marking the first step in ARTBOX’s broader American expansion

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — ARTBOX, Korea’s original design-lifestyle retail brand, is officially coming to America. From October 3 through October 11, 2026, the beloved Korean retailer will take over 8250 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90046 for its first directly operated U.S. retail activation, introducing American consumers to the products, original characters and sense of discovery that have made ARTBOX a retail destination across South Korea.

Kicking off the nine-day pop-up on October 3, ARTBOX will celebrate its U.S. arrival alongside the global K-pop group and ARTBOX ambassador ILLIT — YUNAH, MINJU, WONHEE, IROHA— bringing K-pop and Korean lifestyle together with ARTBOX’s world of original characters and products on Melrose Avenue. The partnership brings together two Korean names with strong Gen Z audiences, introducing ARTBOX and its distinctly Korean approach to lifestyle retail to U.S. consumers.

The October 3 opening celebration will feature a special appearance by ARTBOX global ambassador ILLIT, who will join the opening remarks and photo call, meet with selected media, and experience the pop-up firsthand through a store tour and DIY decorating activity.

Following the opening celebration, consumers will be invited to step inside the ARTBOX universe through a series of immersive zones combining shopping, original character IP, K-culture and interactive experiences. The current pop-up design includes:

Step Into the Fun Side: An immersive entrance welcoming guests into the ARTBOX world, anchored by oversized ARTBOX characters — including alien character Lazywag — and visual content.Meet the ARTBOX Gang: A dedicated character and IP experience showcasing ARTBOX’s original characters alongside character merchandise, collectibles, stationery and accessories.Immerse in the K-Fever / Unbox the K-Wave: A K-culture experience featuring ILLIT, K-pop and interactive photo moments, connecting ARTBOX’s Korean roots with the global cultural phenomenon surrounding Korean entertainment.DIY at the Cute Custom Corner: A hands-on customization experience inspired by Korea’s decorating culture, with opportunities to personalize items such as journals, phones and accessories.Take Your Treats Home: A shoppable finale featuring ARTBOX products alongside an exciting Gacha experience.

More than a traditional shopping experience, the pop-up is designed as a roughly 40–45 minute journey through ARTBOX’s world of original characters, interactive moments, constantly refreshed products and highly visual spaces.

FROM SEOUL TO LOS ANGELES

Founded in Seoul in 1984, ARTBOX began with a simple premise: everyday objects should never have to be ordinary. What started as a design-led stationery business has evolved over four decades into a major Korean lifestyle retail destination, spanning 222 stores across South Korea and more than 20,000 active SKUs.

Today, ARTBOX extends far beyond stationery, bringing together eight lifestyle categories encompassing character goods and K-culture, stationery and writing, home and living, beauty and wellness, fashion and travel, gifts and seasonal products, digital and mobile accessories, and food and snacks. At the center of the brand are its original character IPs, which extend across products, collectibles, retail experiences, collaborations, licensing and social storytelling. Together, this mix of design, curation, character and culture gives ARTBOX broad appeal across Gen Z and Millennials, families, tourists and K-culture audiences.

Now, ARTBOX is looking beyond Korea.

Los Angeles marks ARTBOX’s first step into the U.S. market, with Southern California serving as the first phase of the retailer’s broader expansion plans. The Melrose pop-up will introduce American consumers to ARTBOX’s retail model, products and in-store experience firsthand.

The move comes as Korean culture continues to shape entertainment, beauty, fashion, food and lifestyle globally, creating an opportunity for ARTBOX to introduce another side of Korean culture to U.S. consumers.

“Los Angeles is a natural starting point for ARTBOX’s U.S. journey, bringing together culture, creativity and diverse communities,” said Kevin Cho, Head of Global Business at ARTBOX. “This pop-up marks an exciting first step as we introduce ARTBOX’s unique take on Korean lifestyle retail to U.S. consumers.”

The Los Angeles pop-up will also give ARTBOX an opportunity to introduce the brand directly to U.S. consumers as it explores a longer-term footprint in the market. The company is actively exploring long-term retail opportunities with landlords and development partners in the United States.

The ARTBOX Los Angeles Pop-Up will run October 3–11, 2026 at 8250 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90046, with public hours from 4:30 PM–8:30 PM on October 3 and 11:00 AM–7:00 PM from October 4–11.

For more information, visit
https://www.instagram.com/artbox.global_official
https://www.tiktok.com/@artbox.global_official
https://www.youtube.com/@artbox_official

ABOUT ARTBOX
Founded in Seoul in 1984, ARTBOX is Korea’s original design-lifestyle retail brand, transforming everyday objects into experiences people want to discover, collect and share. With 222 stores across South Korea, ARTBOX brings together stationery and writing, home and living, beauty and wellness, character goods and K-culture, fashion and travel, digital and mobile accessories, gifts and seasonal products, and food and snacks through a constantly evolving mix of original design, curation and culture. Built around more than four decades of product development, retail operations and design expertise, ARTBOX creates discovery-driven retail experiences where consumers can shop, explore, play and share.

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artbox@wearefoundation.co

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