(Late September 2025, Shanghai/Singapore/US Headquarters, Three-Way Remote Strategic Conference)
Two weeks after Dr. Evelyn Hayes returned to the US headquarters, a highest-level strategic video conference concerning the future of Global Department Store's Asian division and its global digital transformation was held synchronously across multiple time zones spanning three continents.
The main venue was set in the boardroom of Global Department Store's global headquarters in New York, personally chaired by the nearly eighty-year-old founder, William von Strauss. John Smith, CEO of the Asian Division; David Green, Retail Operations Director of Greater China; and Wang Jianguo, General Manager of the Longhua Road Store (as the frontline representative of the Lighthouse Project), joined from the Singapore and Shanghai branch venues. Meanwhile, Li Banjia, accompanied by Chang Siyuan and core members of the "International Project Vanguard," participated in the meeting from the "Digital Transformation Office International Project Operations Room" at XX Group's headquarters.
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