How does AI translate its technical capabilities into business value? How will computing power, energy and mobility achieve in‑depth integration? What key breakthroughs lie ahead for life sciences, smart manufacturing and startups?
As technological innovation dives deeper into industrial real‑world scenarios, rather than chasing isolated hot topics, it is more critical to hear insights from front‑line practitioners, identify pathways for technology implementation, and spot the next wave of growth opportunities in advance.
Six themed stages will be set up at Hongqiao Tech Week. Centered on six cutting‑edge sectors including AI , Future Mobility & Energy,Digital Infrastructure,Industry 5.0, Life Science & Health, and Startup, it hosts a series of in‑depth dialogues covering industrial practices, tech trends and business outlooks.
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What key topics will be covered across the six themed stages? Get a first look at this agenda overview.
01
AI
From Tech‑Driven Competitions to Scalable Value Creation
Enterprises have moved beyond AI experimentation and into the deployment phase. How can AI be applied at scale in a secure and efficient manner? How to deliver return on AI investments? How to gain an edge amid the competition of agent‑based capabilities? At the AI stage, discussions will cover three dimensions: technical roadmaps, industrial adoption and enterprise transformation, exploring how AI can truly become central to business operations.
Session Highlights AI Disruptors:
Building Our Future
• Open‑source vs Closed‑source: The Large‑model Battle
• Building the Infrastructure to Sustain Global AI Ambitions
AI in Industry – Focus on Healthcare, Energy, Manufacturing & Financial Services
• Does AI Hold the Key to Large‑scale Clean‑energy Production?
• The Role of AI in Driving Ground‑breaking Medical Breakthroughs
AI in Industry – Broader Enterprise Transformation
• Governance Practices: Driving Business Value through Responsible AI and Robust Data Practices
• Exploring Generative AI’s Value for Enterprises: 2027 and Beyond
02
Future Mobility & Energy
Reconnecting Vehicles, Energy and Urban Systems
Demand for power resources driven by AI and electric vehicles is growing in tandem. Vehicles are no longer merely means of transportation, but critical nodes linking energy, data and urban infrastructure.
The Future Mobility & Energy Stage focuses on hot topics including zero‑carbon campuses, vehicle‑to‑grid interaction, autonomous driving, eVTOL, low‑altitude economy and power batteries, exploring brand‑new possibilities for the mobility‑energy ecosystem.
Session Highlights
- Connecting the Future — How to Truly Unlock the PV‑Storage‑Charging Business Loop
- New Overseas‑expansion Models for Energy‑storage Enterprises
- From Features to Agents: How Leading Automakers Are Redefining the Car
- The Tipping Point of Robotaxis: The Road to Safety, Economics and Scale
- The L4 Scaling Game — Algorithms, Computing Power and the Data Loop
- Cars as Mobile Power Banks: How Trillion‑dollar Vehicle‑Energy Integration Reshapes Daily Life
- Localization of Automotive Sensors: Supply‑chain Reconstruction in the Post‑chip‑shortage Era
- The L4 Scaling Game — Algorithms, Computing Power and the Data Loop
- eVTOL Pioneers: Technology, Integration and Global Ambitions
- Scaling Drone Logistics: From Last‑mile Delivery to Long‑haul Transport
03
Building the Foundation for the Next Digital‑economy Cycle
Computing power serves as a key productive force in the new era, yet capacity expansion alone is far from sufficient. Next‑generation communication technologies, AI‑ready data centers, cloud sovereignty, cybersecurity, as well as scalable and sustainable computing‑power infrastructure, jointly define the future boundaries of the digital economy.
Session Highlights
- 2026‑2030: National Strategies and Investment Trends for Computing‑Power Networks
- The Next Decade of Digital Infrastructure
- Embracing the Post‑Quantum Era
- Networks, Cloud and Data Centers in the AI Era
- The New Data‑Center Economy: Powering AI, Cloud and Digital Businesses
- Power, Heat Dissipation and Sustainability
- Investing in the AI Infrastructure Race
- Securing Enterprise Operations with Zero‑Trust Architecture
- Safeguarding Security in a Connected World
- Building Trusted Digital Infrastructure for the Next Decade
- Digital Systems Towards 2035
04
Industry 5.0
From Automation to Intelligence and Human-centric Development
The Industry 5.0 Stage focuses on industrial AI, autonomous factories, embodied intelligence, industrial robots and the industrial metaverse, exploring how emerging technologies reshape global design, production and manufacturing models.
Session Highlights
• From Lighthouse Factories to Global Partners: Exporting China’s Smart Manufacturing Paradigms
• Smart Manufacturing Going Global — From Capability Export to Rule‑setting
• Industrial AI‑powered Quality Inspection • Insights from the World’s Most Advanced Factories
• Human‑machine Collaboration
• From R&D to Commercialization
• Japan’s Co‑creation Model • Design, Operation and Training in the Industrial Metaverse
• Circular Economy
• From Automated Production Lines to Embodied Intelligence
• Practical Deployment of Embodied AI • Smart Manufacturing 2.0
05
Life Science & Health
How AI Reshapes Drug R&D, Medical Devices and Healthcare Management
AI is shortening preclinical R&D cycles, while challenges remain in data quality, regulatory pathways and business models.
The Life Science & Health Stage conducts in-depth discussions on cutting-edge directions including AI drug discovery, digital twin organs, medical-grade wearables, surgical robots, brain-computer interfaces and in-vivo gene editing, exploring critical pathways to translate technological breakthroughs into clinical applications.
Session Highlights
• Generative AI in Drug Discovery: Can It Truly Shorten Pre‑clinical Pathways?
• Life Sciences 2030 — The Intersection of Technology, Capital and Regulation
• AI‑powered LNPs: Breakthroughs in Anti‑aging Therapies
• AI‑generated Control Groups: A Cost‑saving Tool for RCTs or a Minefield for NDA Submissions?
• The Next Frontier for Wearables: From Consumer‑grade Heart Rate to Medical‑grade Blood Glucose and Blood Pressure
• Surgical Robots: From Automation to Intra‑operative AI
• Brain‑computer Interfaces (BCI) for Neural Rehabilitation: From Lab to Clinic
• Phased Approval for AI‑based Medical Devices: A Comparison of FDA TAP, NMPA Green Channel and EU MDR
• From Treatment to Prevention — Business Models and the New Payer Reality
06
Startup
Crossing the “Valley of Death” to Scale Deep‑tech Innovation
From lab‑born achievements to market‑ready products, and from early‑stage financing to cross‑border expansion, deep‑tech enterprises must overcome multiple barriers spanning technology, organization, capital, compliance and commercialization.
The Startup Ecosystem Stage addresses the most tangible challenges along the entrepreneurial journey, exploring how deep‑tech ventures can build sustainable growth trajectories.
Session Highlights
• From Scientist to Operator: Organizational Evolution of Deep‑tech Startups
• Web3 Financing: From Equity to Protocols — Tokenomics in Early‑stage Funding
• The New Landscape of Deep‑tech Financing: State‑backed Capital, Corporate Venture Capital and the Ebbing of US Dollar Funds
• The Next Three Years — Sectors, Timing and Exits from Investors’ Perspective
• Cross‑border Ecosystem — Tug‑of‑war Between Global Expanders and Local Players: Building Global Networks
• From Lab to $100M+: The Commercialization Journey of Deep‑tech Ventures
• Darkest Hours: Policy Shifts, Customer Atrophy and Activating Plan B within 72 Hours
• Scaling Deep‑tech: Monetizing Technology Portfolios Across Industries
AI draws on digital infrastructure as its computing‑power foundation. Future mobility depends on coordinated energy‑system support. Life sciences and industrial manufacturing are being reshaped by intelligent technologies. Meanwhile, startups keep advancing cutting‑edge innovations to bridge the gap between lab breakthroughs and real‑world markets.
The six stages are not six separate, independent tracks. Rather, they constitute an interconnected, co‑evolving innovation network.
At Hongqiao Tech Week, you can:
Explore cutting‑edge technologies reshaping industrial landscapes
Hear real‑world insights and trend outlooks from industry practitioners
Engage on‑site with experts, entrepreneurs, investors and industry partners
Find answers truly relevant to your business, technology and investment priorities
Some trends can be learned from reports. Some perspectives can only be fully grasped when you are here on site.
Confirmed Speakers Preview
Mantas Mazeikis, CISO at HELM AG, a century‑old German multinational industrial giant; Despina Panayiotou Theodosiou, CEO of maritime‑digital‑tech firm Tototheo Global; Chenyi Ang, Chairperson of CSDA (Global Sustainable Digital‑Assets Institution); as well as Samson Tam JP, Founding Partner of Hong Kong‑based Inno Angel Fund and Director of Hong Kong Science Park. These executives, tech leaders and industry decision‑makers are attending a domestic tech event for the first time, bringing abundant international innovation and industrial‑cooperation resources to Hongqiao Tech Week.
*Speaker lineup for 2026 Hongqiao Tech Week is subject to ongoing updates…
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