Hongqiao Tech Week 2026
AI
14 sessionsStrategic Partner Keynote
Panel: Open Source vs. Closed Source: The Great LLM Battle
Presentation/Fireside Chat: Unpacking China’s Approach to the AI Sovereignty Debate
Panel: Creating AI-Ready Societies: The Importance of Driving Adoption and Building AI Literacy
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Chairman's Opening
Presentation/Fireside Chat: Self-Evolving Models: Continuous Learning & Forgetting Prevention
Fireside Chat: Governance in Focus: Developing Advanced AI That Can Be Scaled Safely
Fireside Chat: Building the Infrastructure Required to Power the World’s AI Ambitions
Presentation/Fireside Chat: Web3 2027-2030: When Value Internet Meets the AI Agent Economy – From Tools to Ecosystems
Presentation/Fireside Chat: Understanding How Highly Impactful AI can be Built on a Budget
Presentation/Fireside Chat: How to Deliver on AGI’s Promise to Transform the World as We Know It
Presentation/Fireside Chat: How Will World Models Reshape the Future of Business & Wider Society?
Chair’s Closing Remarks # Information Classification: General
Digital Infrastructure
13 sessionsChairman’s Opening
2026-2030: National Strategy and Investment Trends of the Compute Power Network
The Next Decade of Digital Infrastructure: What Must Be Built Before Innovation Can Scale?
Panel Discussion: The Business Case for 6G: From Research to Commercial Reality
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Chairman's Opening
Who Will Build the World's Next Digital Backbone?
Undersea Cables, Satellites and the Future of Global Connectivity
From Edge to Backbone: Scaling AI Infrastructure with Photonics - Intra Data Center: Optics for scale up/scale out - Scale Across: New bandwidth for AI traffic between DCs - From CPO to OCI: Optics for computing
The Data Centre Economy — Where the Next Wave of Compute Is Being Buil
AI-RAN and 6G The Intelligent Network: Where Connectivity Meets AI
Panel Discussion: How Networks, Cloud and Data Centres Must Evolve in the Age of AI
Chair’s Closing Remarks
Future Mobility & Energy
12 sessionsChairman’s Opening
The Twin Engines of New Energy's Second Half: AI Empowerment and Global Expansion Envision Energy
Industry Insights in the Energy 3.0 Era Informa Techtarget
Panel Discussion: Closing the Commercial Loop in Photovoltaic-Storage-Charging - What Will It Really Take?
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Chairman's Opening
Zero-Carbon Campus 3.0: A Roadmap for Integrating Renewables, Storage, and Smart Governance
V2G in Action: EVs as Mobile Energy Hubs
From Backup to Virtual Power Plants: How V2G Rewires Mobility and Energy
Station-Level Microgrids and VPPs: Lessons from Real- World Integration
Panel: AI-Powered Energy Systems — How Storage Becomes the Smart Grid's Brain
Chair’s Closing Remarks
Life Science & Health
12 sessionsChairman’s Opening
Generative AI in Drug Discovery: Can It Really Shorten the Preclinical Path?
AI+ Quantum Computing: the Swiss Army Knife for Hunting Down the Next Billion-dollar GLP Target
Panel Discussion: China's Biotech Ambition vs. Localization Realities — Breaking Down the Walls to a Global Future
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Chairman's Opening
Senolytics and Longevity Medicine: From Lab to Clinic
AI Drug Discovery: Real-World Data from Screening to Phase II
AI-Powered LNP: Breakthroughs in Anti-Aging Therapeutics
Digital Twin Organs: Can Virtual Trials Replace Human Volunteers?
Panel Discussion: AI-Generated Control Arms — Cost- Saver for RCTs or Minefield for NDAs?
Chair’s Closing Remarks
Industry 5.0
15 sessionsChairman’s Opening
Moving from Automation to Autonomous Decision- Making
Industry 5.0: Building the Next Generation of Intelligent Industry
The Digital Twin Revolution: Designing, Simulating and Optimising Industry Before It Exists
Industrial AI Quality Inspection: From Visual Recognition to a Multimodal LLM Cognitive Leap
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Chairman's Opening Yan DENG, President, Shanghai Yangtze River Delta Advanced Manufacturing Institute
Analysis of Development Directions and Opportunities for Next-Generation Smart Manufacturing
The Universal Syntax of Complex Equipment Intelligence — Lessons from Autonomous Ships for Deploying Industrial AI in the Physical World
Demand Analysis for C2B Mass Customization Smart Manufacturing of Commercial Vehicles
From Data Silos to Embodied Intelligence: Unpacking the Tech Stack and Path to Impact in Next-Gen Smart Manufacturing
From Gut Feel to Data Wheel: AI's Game-Changing Role in Energy Drilling
Industrial Robots and Next-Generation Smart Manufacturing
Industrial AI - Implementation and Industry Expansion
Chair’s Closing Remarks
Startup
12 sessionsChairman’s Opening
Data, Export Controls, and Localization: Legal Red Lines for Startups
From Scientists to Operators: The Organizational Evolution of Hard-Tech Startups
Panel Discussion: The Other Half of the Darkest Hour - Founder Resilience and Recovering from Bad Calls
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Chairman's Opening
Web3 Financing: From Equity to Protocols — Token Economics in Early-Stage Funding
Hard-Tech's New Funding Landscape: State Capital, CVCs, and the Retreat of USD Funds
Counter-Cyclical Financing: Closing Series B with Industrial Capital in a Funding Winter
Term Sheets and VAMs: A Startup's Guide to Hidden Landmines
Panel Discussion: The Next Three Years — An Investor's View on Sectors, Timing, and Exits
Chair’s Closing Remarks
AI
11 sessionsChairman's Opening
Panel: AI Agent Deployment: Why Do 80% of Projects Fail?
Panel: Does AI Hold the Key to Unlocking Clean Energy Production at Scale?
Panel: The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Driving Major Medical Breakthroughs
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Chairman's Opening
Panel: AI ROI – How Should Enterprises be Calculating ROI on their AI Projects?
Panel: AI + Embodied AI: From Virtual Dialogue to Physical World Task Execution
Panel: How AI-Powered Digital Twins & Spatial Computing Are Advancing Manufacturing, Energy & Scientific Innovation
Panel: From Vision to Reality: Achieving Agent-Enabled15:10-16:00 Banks
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Digital Infrastructure
13 sessionsChairman’s Opening
From Ground to Orbit — Building the Infrastructure for09:55-10:15 the Commercial Space Economy
The New Space Infrastructure Stack — From Launch to LEO, Ground Stations and Compute
Offshore Launch and the Infrastructure Behind Commercial Spaceflight
Panel Discussion: The Commercial Space Investment Race — Where Will the Next Billion-Dollar Opportunities Emerge?
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Chairman’s Opening
Communications as the Nervous System — The Evolution of Space–Air–Ground Integrated Networks
Rise of Space-based Computing Infrastructure
From Satellite Networks to Space–Ground Computing — Commercialising the New Infrastructure Layer
LEO Beyond Broadband — Powering Smart Cities and the Low-Altitude Economy Panel Discussion: The Next Space Economy — Who Will Build, Fund and Operate the Infrastructure Above Us?
Panel Discussion: The Next Space Economy — Who Will Build, Fund and Operate the Infrastructure Above Us?
Chair’s Closing Remarks
Future Mobility & Energy
13 sessionsChairman's Opening Navigating Data Sovereignty: The New Foundation for Globalizing China's Intelligent Automotive Supply Chain
Navigating Data Sovereignty: The New Foundation for Globalizing China's Intelligent Automotive Supply Chain
From Features to Agents: How Top Automakers Are Reimagining the Car
Hands-Off, Mind-On: The Car as Your Next Entertainment Space
Panel Discussion: The L4 Scaling Game - Algorithms, Compute, and Data Loops
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Chairman's Opening
Robotaxis at the Tipping Point: Safety, Economics, and the Path to Scale
Cars as Mobile Power Banks: How the Trillion-Dollar Vehicle-Energy Integration Will Reshape Daily Life
Automotive Sensor Localization: Supply Chain Restructuring in the Post-Chip-Shortage Era
From Wheels to Grid: Full-Lifecycle Battery Management and the V2G Business Ecosystem
Panel Discussion: The 2030 Mobility Energy Ecosystem - Where Autonomous Driving, the Low-Altitude Economy, and New Energy Converge
Chair’s Closing Remarks
Life Science & Health
13 sessionsChairman's Opening
Remote Surgery via 5G: Private Networks and Regulatory Innovation
Wearables' Next Frontier: From Consumer Heart Rate to Medical-Grade Glucose and Blood Pressure
From Concept to Care: Can Checkups Go from One- Size-Fits-All to Truly Personalized?
Panel: From Data to Therapy — What's Slowing Down AI in the Clinic?
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Chairman's Opening
Surgical Robots: From Automation to Intraoperative AI13:30-13:50
In Vivo Gene Editing: From Lab Bench to Bedside
Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) for Neurorehabilitation: From Lab to Clinic
Closed-Loop Adaptive Therapy: From One-Drug-One- Disease to Real-Time Regulation
Panel Discussion: Automation's Black Box — From Cell Prep to Surgery, Where's the Line of Trust?
Chair’s Closing Remarks
Industry 5.0
13 sessionsChairman’s Opening
Is the Autonomous Factory a Myth? — What Does Industrial AI Really Need to Take Control Of?
Human Augmentation: Enhancing Work Rather Than Replacing Workers
Photonics, Quantum and Next-Generation Computing Hardware
Panel Discussion: The Autonomous Factory: Can Manufacturing Run Itself?
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Chairman’s Opening Digital Transformation and Change Driven by Compliance and Consistency – MES Strategy and Infrastructure Framework
Digital Transformation and Change Driven by Compliance and Consistency – MES Strategy and Infrastructure Framework
Market Spotlight: Japan's Co-Creation Model: Connecting Corporates, Startups and Capital to Build New Industries
Lessons from the World's Most Advanced Factories
The Connected Factory: Industrial IoT, Edge Computing and Real-Time Operations
Panel: Industry 5.0 in Action: What Will the World's Leading Factories Look Like by 2035?
Chair’s Closing Remarks
Startup
13 sessionsChairman's Opening
From IP to Product: Legal Hurdles and Commercial Strategy for Research Spin-Outs
Ecosystem-Built Ventures: Survival Strategies Inside Platforms and Alliances
Cross-Border in Southeast Asia: Traffic Growth and Payment Traps
Panel Discussion:Cross-Border Ecosystems - Global Scalers vs. Local Players - Building a Global Network
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Chairman's Opening
From Lab to $100M+: A Hard-Tech Commercialization Journey
Paper to Product: Why Most Hard-Tech Startups Fail in the Valley
Valley of Death Survival Guide: 3 Warning Signs, 6 Financing Lifelines
The Darkest Hour: Policy Shifts, Lost Clients, and Launching Plan B in 72 Hours
Panel Discussion: Founder's Math — Dilution, Options, and Co-Founder Exits
Chair’s Closing Remarks
AI
13 sessionsChairman's Opening
Panel: AI & Customer Service: Balancing Cost Reduction with "Human Experience"
Fireside Chat/Presentation: Governance in Action: Driving Business Impact Through Responsible AI and Robust Data Practices
Fireside Chat/Presentation: AI & Code Generation: Engineering Practices for Developer Productivity
Panel: AI Agent Security: Preventing Prompt Injection & Privilege Escalation
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Chairman’s Opening
Fireside Chat/Presentation: How Non-Tech Companies Can Tame AI Agents Without a 50-Person Engineering Army
Fireside Chat/Presentation: Exploring the Value of Generative AI to Enterprises in 2027 & Beyond
Presentation/Fireside Chat: A Deep Dive into Marketing AI Success Stories from Top Enterprises
Panel: How Enterprises Can Embrace Agentic Commerce and Adapt to for a Future of AI Powered Shopping
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Digital Infrastructure
10 sessionsChairman’s Opening
Operational Resilience Through Zero Trust Architecture10:20-10:40
Securing Modern Enterprises with Zero Trust
Case Study: How HELM Moved from Experimentation to Secure Adoption
Critical Infrastructure Under Attack: The New Cybersecurity Imperative
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Chairman’s Opening
Protecting Critical Infrastructure in an Interconnected World
Panel Discussion: Building Trusted Digital Infrastructure14:20-15:05 for the Next Decade
Chair’s Closing Remarks
Future Mobility & Energy
9 sessionsChairman's Opening From Pilots to Profits: Cracking the Low-Altitude Economy
From Pilots to Profits: Cracking the Low-Altitude Economy
eVTOL Pioneer: Technology, Integration, and Global Ambition
Panel: The Four Barriers to Low-Altitude Takeoff — Certification, Infrastructure, Capital, and Scale
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Drone Logistics at Scale: From Local Delivery to Long Haul Low-Altitude Economy: Infrastructure, Energy, and the Path to Profitable Flight
Low-Altitude Economy: Infrastructure, Energy, and the Path to Profitable Flight
Chair’s Closing Remarks
Life Science & Health
9 sessionsChairman's Opening
Risk and Regulatory Sandboxes for Medical AI Models
Phased Approvals for AI Devices: FDA TAP, NMPA Green Channels, and EU MDR Compared
Panel Discussion: From Treatment to Prevention — Business Models and the New Payer Reality
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Chairman's Opening
Digital Therapeutics: From Transaction to Lifetime Care13:55-14:15 — The Reimbursement Puzzle
Panel Discussion: The Precision Medicine Ecosystem — Can Research, Industry, Payers, and Regulators Align?
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Industry 5.0
10 sessionsChairman’s Opening
Embodied Intelligence in Action: Dexterous Manipulation & Force Sensing for Precision Assembly
Smart Manufacturing 2.0 – Synergizing Embodied AI, Automation & Digital Factories
Humanoids in Manufacturing: From Pilot Projects to the Factory Floor Joanne GOH,Senior Research Manager, Manufacturing Technology, Informa Techtarget
Industrial AI Next Frontier: From Automated Lines to Embodied Intelligence
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Chairman’s Opening From Lighthouse Factories to Global Partners: Exporting China’s Smart Manufacturing Paradigm
From Lighthouse Factories to Global Partners: Exporting China's Smart Manufacturing Paradigm
Panel: Smart Manufacturing Going Global – From Capability Export to Rule-Shaping
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Startup
9 sessionsChairman's Opening
Exiting in a Downturn: Reverse Mergers and Asset Sales
SaaS Transformation: A Soft Landing When Sale and IPO Aren't Options
Panel Discussion: Rethinking Exits - M&A, SaaS Transformation, or Hong Kong/US IPOs?
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Chairman's Opening
Hard-Tech at Scale: Cross-Industry Monetization of Your Tech Portfolio
Panel Discussion: Building Innovation Alliances - From Vendor to Partner
Chair’s Closing Remarks