The 2024 World Expo on Digital Agriculture (WEDA) was held from 20 to 23 September in Chengdu, China. During the event, CSAM and the Expo hosts, the Foreign Economic Cooperation Center (FECC) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China (MARA), convened a panel on ‘Leveraging Digital Innovation for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Asia and the Pacific’ on the afternoon of 20 September.