The Certified Digital Professional (CDP) designation is a professional certification for individuals with extensive digital transformation experience.

Digital transformation has become a major driving force for enterprises to streamline and modernize their business scenarios for creating more values to their customers and end users. The enabling technologies for digital transformation includes but not limited to the key areas of Body of Knowledge of Certified Digital Professional.

 In order to promote the emerging technology trend and satisfy industry’s requirements, the Services Society (S2) has identified the key areas of body of knowledge for enabling digital transformation solutions.  The certificate “Certified Digital Professional” is created to certify a professional who has met the Certification Board’s educational, experience, examination, and ethical requirements, and has committed to providing digital transformation services that adhere to the Certification Board’s standards of excellence.

 All issued certificates of the CDP are registered in blockchain. You can access them through a QR code or certificate number. The certificates are subject to the Certification Board’s renewal requirements.

Part A: Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Applications

Part B: Blockchain Technologies and Applications

Part C: Cloud Computing Technologies and Applications

Part D: Big Data Technologies and Applications

Part E: Internet of Things (IOT) Technologies and Applications

Part F: 5G Technologies and Applications

Part G: Digital Economy and Service Innovation Framework

Part H: Digital Transformation Methodology and Practices

Based on a deep analysis of your organization or customer’s pain points, you design a digital transformation solution to address the identified pain points by leveraging the technologies and digital transformation methods.  The project report includes but not limited to project title, target users, customers’ pain points, digital transformation solution, values to customers, and illustrations in customer engagements.  

It is noted that the project report can be replaced by a published or accepted paper of Services Society sponsored conferences. As the Services Society’s flagship conference, the Services Conference Federation (SCF) includes the following 10 collocated service-oriented sister conferences: International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), International Conference on Services Computing (SCC), International Conference on Big Data (BigData), International Conference on AI & Mobile Services (AIMS), and World Congress on Services (SERVICES), International Conference on Internet of Things (ICIOT), International conference on Cognitive Computing (ICCC), International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE), and International Conference on Blockchain (ICBC). Started from SCF 2018, the conference proceedings have been published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer International Publishing AG. Currently the Abstracting and Indexing services covered by Springer’s data feeds for LNCS proceedings include ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index (included in Web of Science), Engineering Index EI (Compendex and Inspec databases), DBLP, Google Scholar, IO-Port, MathSciNet, Scopus, and ZBlMath.

• Artificial Intelligence

• Blockchain

• Cloud Computing

• Big Data

• Internet of Things

• 5G

• Digital Economy

• Services Computing

• Web services

• Digital Transformation

Started from 2020, we have conducted two certification exams with submitted project reports. Some selected certified individuals are from the following companies.

• Amazon

• Procter & Gamble

• China Merchants Group Limited

• Bama Tea Co., Ltd.

• DHL Supply Chain

• SHENZHEN ROYOLE DISPLAYTECHNOLOGIES CO. LTD.

• Ping An Bank Co., Ltd.

• Vista Outdoor

• CHINA CONSTRUCTION STEEL STRUCTURE CORP.LTD

• Sagemcom

• TAIPING GENERAL INSURANCE CO., LTD.

• Shenzhen COSCO Shipping-Yantian Port Logistics Co., Ltd.

• Shenzhen Transport Information & Technology Co., Ltd.

• A.P. Moller – Maersk

• Midea Group Co., Ltd.

• China Unicom

• Sinovac Biotech Ltd.

• Shenzhen SF Tyson Holding (Group) Co., Ltd.

• Walmart Inc.

• China Marine Shipping Agency

• Ping An International Smart City Technology Co., Ltd.

• CHINA MERCHANTS BANK CO., LTD.

• Guotai Junan Securities Co., Ltd.

• Coolpad Group Limited

• BEIJING YINGKE LAW FIRM SHENZHEN OFFICE

• Google China

• Dell (China) Company Limited

• Shenzhen Transsion Holdings CO., LTD.

• S.F. Holding Co., Ltd

• Vista Outdoor

• Prologis China

First time: $300 (including CDP Application Fee and an electronic certificate registered on blockchain) per certificate;
CDP Application Fee: This fee is required to create your CDP application and verify progress towards meeting its requirements. Please note the exam fee is included. This fee is non-refundable and non-transferable .

 Renew (every two years): $199 per certificate; a published or accepted paper of SCF conferences within 2 years;
CDP Renewal Fee: This fee is required to create your CDP renewal and verify progress towards meeting its requirements. Please note the paper publication fee is excluded. This fee is non-refundable and non-transferable.

 Training Cost: $1500 per certificate. Please note the CDP Application Fee or CDP Renewal Fee are excluded. This fee is non-refundable and non-transferable.

The Services Society (S2) is a non-profit professional organization that promotes worldwide research and technical collaboration in services innovations among academia and industry professionals. The goal of S2 is to foster Building the Modern Services Industry through Services Computing technologies and business innovations.

 This scope of Services Computing covers the whole lifecycle of services innovation that includes business componentization, services modeling, services creation, services realization, services annotation, services deployment, services discovery, services composition, services delivery, service-to-service collaboration, services monitoring, services optimization, as well as services management.

 The enabling technology suite includes Web services, service-oriented architecture (SOA), cloud computing, artificial intelligence, cognitive computing, big data, internet of things, edge computing, blockchain, mobile internet, metaverse, business consulting methodology and utilities, business process modeling, transformation and integration.

 Its community members are from industry and academia with common interests. The Services Society has formed 10 Special Interest Groups (SIGs) to support technology and domain specific professional activities.

 S2 is registered in the USA as a "501(c)(3) organization", which means that it is an American tax-exempt nonprofit organization. S2 collaborates with other professional organizations to sponsor or co-sponsor conferences and to promote an effective services curriculum in colleges and universities. The S2 initiates and promotes a "Services University" program worldwide to bridge the gap between industrial needs and university instruction. You can visit ServicesSociety.org to get more details.