The 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference will be held in Shanghai on July 6-8, with the theme of **"Intelligently Connected World Creates the Future"**, focusing on the development of general artificial intelligence, creating a good innovation ecology, embracing the new era of intelligence, and discussing the industry together new future. The conference will continue to play the important role of "technology vane, application showcase, industry accelerator, and governance chamber", bringing together the world's top scientists, entrepreneurs, government officials, experts and scholars, international organizations, investors, start-up teams, etc., to build a world-class A cooperation and exchange platform to jointly promote new opportunities for development.
The conference will take the World Expo Center as the main venue, and set up branch venues in Zhangjiang and Xuhui, and at the same time link up with Minhang, Putuo and other places.
Eight highlights of this conference
1. Big names at home and abroad gathered to stage a brainstorming session around ten topics
This year, the conference returned to offline, and the total number of guests reached a new high. It is expected that more than 1,400 domestic and foreign celebrities will attend, including Turing Award winners, Nobel Prize winners, representatives of international organizations, foreign academicians, entrepreneurs/CEOs at home and abroad, etc. At the meeting, discussions will focus on ten topics including large models, AI for Science, general intelligent bodies, computing power, metaverse, and talents, and stage a wonderful brainstorming session to share a feast of ideas with everyone.
2. Large-scale models from home and abroad gathered star teams to come to Shanghai for exchanges
The fire of ChatGPT has ignited the trend of artificial intelligence prairie fire. This year's conference will also bring together domestic and foreign large-scale model star teams, and gather big guests in the field of large-scale models. The well-known large-scale model products in China will debut, and the core development team behind it will also bring relevant discussions on the path of large-scale models. At the same time, the large-scale model team of international leading enterprises will make a big debut. The content will cover model categories such as large language models, large visual models, and multimodal large models, fully demonstrating the diverse ecology of large models that empower all walks of life.
3. Expand the international "circle of friends"
Openness brings progress, cooperation, sharing and win-win! WAIC actively cooperates with international organizations and strongly recommends high-quality international resources. This year, dozens of international organizations, top conferences in international academic circles and foreign-funded enterprises were attracted to participate in the conference, including the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, UNESCO, IJCAI, IEEE Metaverse Standards Association, the British National Committee on China Affairs, Baden- Württemberg International Economic and Technological Cooperation Agency, BC Provincial Government, SWITCH Singapore Science and Technology Innovation Week, Microsoft, Google, Intel, Nvidia, OpenAI, etc., most of them are participating for the first time . In addition, this year's conference will also promote the participation of international pavilions from Germany, Singapore, Australia, etc., as well as international visiting groups from Portugal, Brazil, and Switzerland, and the international cooperation "circle of friends" of the conference will continue to expand.
4. The exhibition space will be upgraded again, and 400 enterprises will release new voices in the industry
This year, the exhibition of the conference has resumed offline, with a scale of 50,000 square meters. The total number of exhibitors has hit a record high, and it is expected to exceed 400. Up to now, more than 30 new products have been confirmed for the first debut, covering large models, chips, robots, intelligent driving and other fields. For the first time this year, two themed exhibitions will be set up . The "China Artificial Intelligence Industry Innovation Achievement Exhibition" and the theme exhibition area of the "Towards General Artificial Intelligence" conference will respectively focus on AI innovation achievements and the layout of future industrial clusters. In addition, Zhangjiang, Xuhui and Minhang will also be linked , to create a variety of scene interaction and application display activities around metaverse, AI+ART, robotics and other fields, so that the audience can experience the charm of future technology more immersively and embrace the digital future together.
5. Accelerated landing of innovative achievements in the deep integration of government, industry, university, research and investment
Relying on the advantages of platform resources, the conference effectively integrates the government, market and society, and continuously promotes the industrialization of cutting-edge scientific and technological achievements. Through cooperation with Tsinghua University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Tongji University, East China Normal University, Zhejiang University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Cambridge and other top universities at home and abroad, gathered in Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Authoritative scientific research institutions such as Intelligent Lab, Shanghai Future Intelligence Research Institute, Pengcheng Laboratory, etc., gather well-known investment institutions such as CICC, Shanghai Industrial Investment Fund, Linux Foundation, Qiming Venture Capital, etc., and invite relevant representatives from all walks of life to conduct cross-border integration In-depth exchanges, showing the breakthrough results of innovative applications.
6. The wave of young people sweeps the grand opening activities day and night carnival
The practice of artificial intelligence industry is inseparable from the support of talents. WAIC has been committed to building a communication platform for the backbone of AI development. This year's conference focuses on strategic talents, leading talents, young talents and other multi-level talent echelons, and plans artificial intelligence youth pioneer forums, open source markets, book clubs, talent recruitment fairs and other talent activities. At the same time, led by the "SAIL Award", through AIWIN World Artificial Intelligence Innovation Competition, BPAA Algorithm Practice Model Competition, Hackathon, Youth League Committee Youth Artificial Intelligence Innovation Competition and other brand events, further gather outstanding young scholars and leading talents and teams at home and abroad , to create a high-quality talent ecosystem.
7. Digital elements migrate across time and space, and the whole people share the feast of science and technology
The conference has been committed to holding AI conferences with AI technology. This year's WAIC continued to deepen AI technology, continuously expanded intelligent application scenarios, linked Zhangjiang, Xuhui, and Minhang venues, and fully integrated a series of cutting-edge technologies such as AR, VR, MR, 5G, AIGC, and digital humans to create a digital Press officer, an immersive experience, a journey through time and space, and digital applications such as digital avatars with thousands of people and faces, WAIC Yuanjing Planet 2.0, smart venues, and cloud exhibition platform 4.0; open offline landmark check-in points for tourists and citizens Experience sharing, to achieve the ultimate immersive experience in the digital and real world.
8. Digging deep into the procurement needs of 100 million levels and further improving the effectiveness of business empowerment
This year's conference will deeply integrate enterprise, media, and IP resources, link Australia, the United Kingdom, South Korea, etc. to form more than 100 VIP visiting groups, and create 20 closed-door industry matchmaking meetings and 30+ scene release activities. Ten billion procurement needs will be announced on site . To provide exhibitors with a precise business cooperation platform. Through creating supporting activities such as "Magic Box Live Room", "CEO Finance and Economics Afternoon Tea", "Treasure of the Town Hall" and "3*24 Live Room", the conference will further activate the resources of the conference and promote the industry's "co-creation, co-construction, co-integration, and co-development". Governance, sharing and win-win”.