The Parallel Session on High-Quality Development of Artificial Intelligence Industry of the 8th Hongqiao International Economic Forum (HQF) will be held on the afternoon of November 5th at Hall 4.2 (D2) of the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai), aiming to jointly explore the cutting-edge trends and future prospect of the artificial intelligence industry.

Currently, as a core driving force behind the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, artificial intelligence is injecting strong momentum into global economic and social development as well as the progress of human civilization. Technological breakthroughs in speech recognition and autonomous driving to the implementation of application scenarios such as intelligent manufacturing and smart cities, artificial intelligence is promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and fostering new business formats through the "AI +" initiative, thus providing key support for accelerating the formation of new-quality productive forces.

The Parallel Session on High-Quality Development of Artificial Intelligence Industry will be hosted by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China, and organized by the Chinese Institute of Electronics and China Media Group Mobile. The session will invite representatives from international organizations, renowned experts and entrepreneurs to share their insights and conduct discussions around the in-depth integration of "AI +" into industrial innovation and development, aiming at building consensus on international collaboration and development, and advancing the construction of an open and shared global cooperation ecosystem.

The session includes opening remarks, keynote speech and panel discussion.

Confirmed Guests Include:

XU Xiaolan, Member, Standing Committee of the National Committee of CPPCC; Vice Chairwoman, Central Committee of the China Zhi Gong Party; Vice President, All-China Women’s Federation; President, Chinese Institute of Electronics

Ciyong Zou, Deputy to the Director General and Managing Director of the Directorate of Technical Cooperation and Sustainable Industrial Development, UNIDO

Sean Stein, President, the US-China Business Council

JIANG Xiaojuan, Professor, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Former Deputy Secretary-General, State Council of the People’s Republic of China

WANG Zhonglin, Director and Chief Scientist of the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Recipient of the ENI Award, Einstein World Science Award, and Global Energy Prize; Member of Eight Academies including the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), and the Academia Europaea

GONG Ke, Past President, World Federation of Engineering Organizations

CHEN Ying, Vice President and Secretary-General, Chinese Institute of Electronics

Max Q.-H. Meng,Chief Scientist, Yuanhua Intelligence, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering

Peter Yi, Global, Vice President, SAP

Frank Meng, Chairman, Qualcomm China

YAO Maoqing, Partner, Senior Vice President, President of the Embodied Intelligence Business Unit, AgiBot

ZHU Xiaoxun, Executive Vice President, Siemens (China) Ltd., and President, Siemens China Research Institute

LI Nan, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of  Maimai Technology Group

More distinguished guests are being confirmed. Stay tuned!