During London Tech Week held in June, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivered an address at the event. Tech giants including AMD and Nebius successively unveiled their investment commitments to the United Kingdom on the same day, with the total value of newly settled foreign investment hitting nearly £4 billion.

Chinese technological forces hit a new high in participation during this edition of London Tech Week. Covering overseas delegations organized by the Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Center as well as active participation from renowned enterprises including BYD and Tencent, domestic tech companies are steadily deepening their connections to the global innovation ecosystem.

Shanghai and London, two global innovation cities, are forging tighter cooperative ties to advance two-way exchanges in technology, capital and industrial innovation.

Hongqiao Tech Week held its official launch press conference at this year’s London Tech Week, officially unveiled itself as the brand’s debut landing event in China. The event is scheduled to take place at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) from November 20 to 22, 2026.

Backed by the established brand equity of London Tech Week, together with global sci-tech decision-makers, overseas enterprises and venture capital resources, Hongqiao Tech Week links worldwide tech firms and innovation institutions as well as industrial capital with the Chinese market, striving to build a comprehensive tech festival that supports industrial implementation across all sectors.

Founded in 2014, London Tech Week ranks among Europe’s most influential comprehensive tech events. It annually draws tech corporations, startup teams, multinationals, investment firms, universities and research institutes from dozens of countries and regions across the globe to converge in London. Past distinguished speakers include Lisa Su of AMD, Jensen Huang of NVIDIA, Arthur Mensch from Mistral AI, Darren Hardman of Microsoft, Tanuja Randery of Amazon, George Osborne from OpenAI and Darren Mowry of Google Cloud. These elites jointly explore how technological innovation fuels industrial upgrading, urban advancement and global collaboration.

Possessing extensive global influence, London Tech Week has built up a worldwide resource network covering the full industrial chain of the technology sector. It brings together global tech enterprises, startup ecosystems, industrial capital, international organizations, industry leaders and innovation communities, fostering an open and dynamically evolving international technology ecosystem.

Hongqiao Tech Week and London Tech Week are both proprietary brands under Informa’s brand portfolio, sharing global overseas enterprise databases, international tech keynote speakers, worldwide science and technology decision-makers as well as venture capital institutions. Against the backdrop that cross-regional collaboration is increasingly emphasized in global scientific and technological innovation, the brand keeps expanding its international footprint from west to east. By drawing on the industrial characteristics and innovative strengths of respective host cities, it establishes a technology exchange network spanning major innovation hubs around the world.

Shanghai serves as a crucial node for Informa’s flagship comprehensive tech week to expand its reach into the Asia-Pacific region.

Hongqiao Tech Week will be embedded within this global brand framework to sustain and deepen long-term resource synergy. It enables ongoing onsite interactions among enterprises, projects, capital and talents, cultivating a more open and efficient innovation ecosystem.

As one of China’s pivotal hubs for scientific and technological innovation and a key gateway for international enterprises accessing the Chinese market, the Hongqiao area lies at the heart of the integrated Yangtze River Delta region. It radiates influence over core industrial clusters covering semiconductors, new energy vehicles, biomedicine and other sectors, offering ample room for growth in international scientific and technological collaboration.

Hongqiao Tech Week thoroughly responds to the strategic arrangements outlined in the national 15th Five-Year Plan for the construction of Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Center and the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta. Centered on the core guideline of integrating the four chains — innovation, industry, capital and talent — for the Hongqiao International Open Hub, the event focuses on six major tech tracks: AI, Future Mobility & Energy, Digital Infrastructure, Industry 4.0, Life Science & Health, and Startup. It gathers global innovation resources to advance the profound integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial development.

In addition to showcasing cutting-edge global scientific and technological achievements, Hongqiao Tech Week adopts a dual-track model consisting of core exhibition halls and off-site events across the entire Hongqiao area via summits, forums, business matchmaking sessions, project roadshows and industrial site visits. During the event, activities will be extended to commercial districts, open-air forums and enterprise field trips. This framework helps forge closer partnerships between international corporations and the Chinese domestic market, accelerates the matching of innovative outcomes with practical application scenarios, and enables international cooperation to better align with actual industrial demands.

The link forged between London and Shanghai connects far more than two international metropolises — it weaves a tech network encompassing global innovation forces. Hongqiao Tech Week is set to kick off at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) from November 20 to 22, 2026. Uniting global tech enterprises, innovative institutions and industrial partners, the event will open a brand-new chapter for international scientific and technological connectivity.