2026 Conference Agenda

Chairman’s Opening

10:20 -

10:25

Chairman’s Opening

10:20 -

10:25

Chairman’s Opening

10:20 -

10:25

Chairman’s Opening

10:20 -

10:25

Chairman’s Opening

10:30 -

11:15

Panel: One Blueprint, Five Forces

10:30 -

10:50

Data, Export Controls, and Localization: Legal Red Lines for Startups

10:30 -

10:50

Moving from Automation to Autonomous Decision-Making

10:30 -

10:50

AI+ Quantum Computing: the Swiss Army Knife for Hunting Down the Next Billion-dollar GLP Target

10:30 -

10:50

The Twin Engines of New Energy's Second Half: AI Empowerment and Global Expansion

10:30 -

10:50

2026-2030: National Strategy and Investment Trends of the Compute Power Network

10:55 -

11:15

Brain-Computer Interface: Safety Evaluation and Translation from Animal Models to Human Applications

10:55 -

11:15

Photonics, Quantum and Next-Generation Computing Hardware

10:55 -

11:15

Industry Insights in the Energy 3.0 Era

10:55 -

11:15

Digital Transformation in the Age of AI

10:55 -

11:15

From Scientists to Operators: The Organizational Evolution of Hard-Tech Startups

11:20 -

11:40

[Fireside Chat] Japan’s Manufacturing Reinvention — Co-Creating the Next Generation of Intelligent Industry

- How Japan is combining its manufacturing strengths with startups, emerging technologies and global partnerships to reinvent industry for the AI era - Reinventing established manufacturing for an AI-driven industrial era - Connecting corporates, startups and emerging technologies - Moving innovation from R&D and pilots into industrial deployment - Using cross-border co-creation to accelerate transformation - Lessons from Japan’s evolving manufacturing ecosystem

11:20 -

12:00

Panel Discussion: Frontiers in Brain-Computer Interface Innovation and Applications

11:20 -

12:00

Panel Discussion: Closing the Commercial Loop in Photovoltaic-Storage-Charging - What Will It Really Take?

11:20 -

12:00

Panel Discussion: The Other Half of the Darkest Hour - Founder Resilience and Recovering from Bad Calls

11:20 -

11:40

Presentation/Fireside Chat: Unpacking China’s Approach to the AI Sovereignty Debate

11:20 -

11:40

Global Telcos Strategies for the next-generation mobile infrastructure

- When AI meets 6G - From ground to space - Integrating communication and sensing

11:45 -

12:05

Who Will Build the World's Next Digital Backbone?

11:45 -

12:20

Panel: Creating AI-Ready Societies: The Importance of Driving Adoption and Building AI Literacy

11:45 -

12:05

When a Mega-Ship Gets an "Brain": How Shipping AI Is Teaching Global Supply Chains to Navigate Proactively

13:25 -

13:30

Chairman's Opening

13:25 -

13:30

Chairman's Opening

13:25 -

13:30

Chairman's Opening

13:30 -

13:50

Presentation/Fireside Chat: Self-Evolving Models: Continuous Learning & Forgetting Prevention

13:30 -

13:50

Hyperscale vs Edge: Where is Infrastructure Investment Going

13:35 -

13:55

AI + Manufacturing: Opportunities and Pathways for Next-Generation Smart Manufacturing

13:45 -

13:50

Chairman's Opening

13:45 -

13:50

Chairman's Opening

13:45 -

13:50

Chairman's Opening

13:55 -

14:15

Fireside Chat: Governance in Focus: Developing Advanced AI That Can Be Scaled Safely

13:55 -

14:15

Web3 Financing: From Equity to Protocols — Token Economics in Early-Stage Funding

13:55 -

14:15

Generative AI in Drug Discovery: Can It Really Shorten the Preclinical Path?

13:55 -

14:15

Undersea Cables, Satellites and the Future of Global Connectivity

13:55 -

14:15

Hands-Off, Mind-On: The Car as Your Next Entertainment Space

14:00 -

14:15

Industrial AI Agents in Flexible Manufacturing of Large Power Generation Equipment

14:20 -

14:40

Fireside Chat: Building the Infrastructure Required to Power the World’s AI Ambitions

14:20 -

14:40

Hard-Tech's New Funding Landscape: State Capital, CVCs, and the Retreat of USD Funds

14:20 -

14:35

AI in Oil & Gas Equipment: Autonomous Smart Drilling Rigs and Global Market Expansion

14:20 -

14:40

From Concept to Care: Can Checkups Go from One-Size-Fits-All to Truly Personalized?

14:20 -

14:40

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

14:20 -

14:40

From Features to Agents: How Top Automakers Are Reimagining the Car

14:40 -

14:55

Industry Foundation Models + AI Agents: How AI Is Reshaping the Full-Chain Competitiveness of Power and New Energy – A CHINT Perspective

14:45 -

15:05

Presentation/Fireside Chat: Why Open Source Models Are Crucial to AI Innovation

14:45 -

15:05

Operational Resilience Through Zero Trust Architecture

14:45 -

15:05

Counter-Cyclical Financing: Closing Series B with Industrial Capital in a Funding Winter

14:45 -

15:05

AI-Powered LNP: Breakthroughs in Anti-Aging Therapeutics

14:45 -

15:05

Automotive Sensor Localization: Supply Chain Restructuring in the Post-Chip-Shortage Era

15:00 -

15:15

Data‑Driven & Virtual‑Physical Integration: Digital Twin Shipyard and Intelligent General Assembly Paradigm for LNG Carriers

15:10 -

15:30

Presentation/Fireside Chat: Understanding How Highly Impactful AI can be Built on a Budget

15:10 -

15:30

The New Energy Endgame: How Industry Players Can Help Their Investees Go Global

15:10 -

15:30

AI-Driven Allosteric Drug Development – Tackling Undruggable Targets

15:10 -

15:30

Securing Modern Enterprises with Zero Trust

15:10 -

15:30

From Wheels to Grid: Full-Lifecycle Battery Management and the V2G Business Ecosystem

15:20 -

15:35

From Lighthouse Factory to Data‑Driven Operations: Integrating Next‑Gen AI into Flexible Automotive Manufacturing

15:35 -

16:20

Panel Discussion: The Next Three Years — An Investor's View on Sectors, Timing, and Exits

15:35 -

15:55

Presentation/Fireside Chat: How to Deliver on AGI’s Promise to Transform the World as We Know It

15:35 -

15:55

Case Study: How HELM Moved from Experimentation to Secure Adoption

15:35 -

15:55

AI + Synthetic Biology: A Paradigm Shift from "Universal Therapeutics" to "Personalized Medicine

15:35 -

16:20

Panel Discussion: The 2030 Mobility Energy Ecosystem - Where Autonomous Driving, the Low-Altitude Economy, and New Energy Converge

15:40 -

15:55

Industrial Robots and the Next Generation of Smart Manufacturing

16:00 -

16:20

Presentation/Fireside Chat: How Will World Models Reshape the Future of Business & Wider Society?

16:00 -

16:15

Accelerating Physical AI Commercialization and Large‑Scale Deployment Through an Open Robotics Platform

16:00 -

16:20

Autonomous AI in Healthcare: From "Lights-Out Manufacturing" to "Intelligent Clinical Practice

16:00 -

16:20

Fireside Chat: Architecting the Future: Digital Systems for 2035

16:20 -

16:35

Dual‑Brain, Single Core: Physical AI Super‑Brain Powered by 3nm SoC

16:20 -

16:25

Chair’s Closing Remarks

16:25 -

16:30

Chair’s Closing Remarks

16:25 -

16:30

Chair’s Closing Remarks

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16:30

Chair’s Closing Remarks

16:25 -

16:30

Chair’s Closing Remarks

16:35 -

16:40