SHANGHAI, Aug. 28, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The World
Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC 2019), the annual
technological fest which will open its doors from Aug 29 to 31 in Shanghai, has announced the schedule for its
first day.
The opening ceremony, scheduled in the morning, will kick-off
with a round-table meeting and keynote speeches from government
officials, scholars and leading entrepreneurs sharing their insight
on the theme of "Intelligent Connectivity Enables Infinite
Possibilities". Conference-goers can look forward to featured
speakers shedding light on the status quo of the industry and the
potential impacts of artificial intelligence
Coming off the back of the opening ceremony are two major forums
focusing on technological trends, AI application scenarios,
industry ecosystems, AI-related education and policies. Looking to
integrate AI technology into the commercial activities and draw a
blueprint to envision the direction and trends of the industry from
multilateral and international perspectives, the forum on
industrial development will gather academic representatives and
leading entrepreneurs in round-table dialogues.
China, having embraced AI
technology with open arms, will continue to contribute to the
global AI development with determination, deploying AI strategic
plans to empower and transform the global economy.
This year's star speakers include:
- Elon Musk, Co-founder,
CEO and Product Architect at Tesla
- Jürgen Schmidhuber, Co-founder & Chief Scientist,
NNAISENSE
- Li Yong, Director
General, United Nations Industrial Development Organization
(UNIDO)
- Tom Michell, Dean of
school of Computer Science at CMU
To date, more than 300 featured guests are slated to attend the
event among which are:
- Anderson Chen, CEO of
DeepBlue Technology
- Bill Huang, CEO of
Cloudminds
- Deyi Li, Academician of
Chinese Academy of Engineering and International Academy of
Sciences for Europe and
Asia
- Harry Shum, Executive
Vice President, Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Research
Group
- Jeannette M. Wing,
Professor of Computer Science at Columbia
University
- Jeffrey Welser, Chairman
of IBM Research
- Jei Chen, President of
Tongji University
- Jessica Tan, Co-CEO of
Ping An Group
- John Hoffman, CEO of GSMA
Ltd
- Kai-Fu Lee, CEO of
Sinovation Ventures
- Leo Zhu, CEO of YITU
Technology
- Liming Chen, President of IBM, Greater China
- Marek Michalewicz,
Principal Research Scientist of at the CSIRO in Australia
- Mark Papermaster,
Executive Vice President of AMD
- Michael Wooldridge, Head
of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science at the
University of Oxford
- Neil Shen, Founding &
Managing Partner of Sequoia Capital China
- Qi Yin, CEO of MEGVII
- Qiang Yang, Professor at Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology
- Qingfeng Liu, Chairman of
iFLYTEK Co., Ltd.
- Raj Reddy, Professor of Carnegie
Mellon University
- Robin Li, Co-founder,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Baidu
- Sam Li, Global Senior
Vice President of SAP China
- Songchun Zhu, Chairman of
DMAI & Professor at UCLA
- Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President at Amazon Web
Services (AWS)
- Tao Wang, President of ICT Strategy & Marketing
- Tianshi Chen, CEO of
Cambricon
- Tony Cai, Vice Dean of
the Wharton school, Daniel H.
Silberberg
- Wayne Luk, Chairman of
Professional Committee of the China Artificial Intelligence
Industry Innovation Alliance
- Wei Cheng, CEO of Didi
Chuxing
- Xi Zhou, Founder of
CloudWalk
- Xiao'ou Tang, Professor at Chinese
University of Hong Kong
- Yutaka Saito, Senior
Executive Vice President of FIELD Promotion Division
- Zhihua Zhou, Director of
Computer department at Nanjing University