The 5th WIC to Be Held in Tianjin with 6 New Highlights
The 5th World Intelligence Congress (WIC) is to be held from May 20 to May 23, 2021 at the Tianjin Meijiang Convention and Exhibition Center under the theme “New Era of Intelligence: Empowering New Development, Fostering New Pattern”, featuring a series of exhibitions, contests and intelligent experiences. Both on line and off line, the Congress is expected to be a platform for latest information and achievements sharing as well as a variety of eye-catching events such as exhibitions and contests, etc.
Many investors from TEDA are invited to the WIC. Among them are Fortune 500 enterprises such as Nestle, Coca-Cola, Novo Nordisk, GSK, Novozymes, Mars, Schneider, NXP, Vestas, and Denso, industry leaders such as OTIS, Kennametal and AEON, unicorn companies such as I-KINGTEC and Volkswagen–Mobvoi, and outperformers in segments like intelligent technology and biomedicine represented by Carale, Aden Technology, QY Node and CoreSense.
Six New Highlights
1. A Summit for Brainstorming
There will be two summits for political leaders from home and abroad, big companies, experts and scholars, platforms and institutions, and domestic and international media to discuss hotspot subjects ranging from the relationship between AI technology progress to economy, culture, art, social governance, etc.
2. Latest Achievements Release via Parallel Forums
Focusing on artificial intelligence, intelligent manufacturing, digital economy and smart city, 18 parallel forums and 12 company-led theme forums will be held. During these parallel forums, 16 achievements such as China Digital Economy Development Report (2021) and A Ranking List of Excellence in China Digital Finance Competitiveness will be released.
3. Innovative Forms of Exhibitions
The World Intelligent Technology Exhibition will adopt online-plus-offline mode, with the off-line exhibition and experience areas at Tianjin Meijiang Convention and Exhibition Center. Covering an exhibition area of 48,000 square meters and hosting more than 220 exhibitors (both companies and institutions), there will be six exhibition areas and three intelligent experience areas to showcase solutions and technologies about research & application, smart manufacturing, smart city and transport, and smart life. Visitors can also witness frontier technologies and praise-worthy national achievements such as the Tianhe Supercomputer and China’s next-generation carrier rocket.
4. New Scenarios Based on Intelligent Experience
Intelligent experiences of this year’s WIC is highlighted by experiencing the international consumption hub city, latest 5G+achievements, and other amazing intelligent experiences. There will be a smart consumption experience area, as well as study tours about the smartness of Tianjin Port and Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City. For the first time, a maze solver robot project will make its debut at WIC.
5. Eye-catching and Innovative Contests
Five annual events are also worth visiting: World Intelligent Driving Challenge, China (Tianjin) Industrial App Innovation & Application Competition, China HualuCup Data Lake Algorithm Competition, International Intelligent Sports Conference, and RoboCup China Open & RoboCup Asia-Pacific Tianjin Invitational Tournament will be held.
6. WIC as a New Engine for Growth
(1) Tianjin will sign strategic cooperation agreements with old and new partners such as China Electronic Technology Group, China Telecom, Lenovo Group, China Association for Science and Technology, and China Media Group.
(2) The WIC will carry on its innovative efforts in bilateral talks between government and businesses, and among businesses.
(3) For the first time, The WIC will witness the 2021 Round Table Conference of China•Tianjin’s International Sister Cities. A series of MOUs for friendly exchanges will be signed.