世界人工智能大会下月在沪召开 吸引近千名专家代表参加   2021-06-22

 

New topics and speakers are confirmed for the coming World Artificial Intelligence Conference or WAIC to open in Shanghai next month, covering credible AI, averting digital gap and AI with carbon neutrality, government officials said on Monday.

Totally 1,000 speakers, including Turing Award winners, academicians, business leaders from Huawei and Qualcomm and startup officials will share opinions in WAIC. They will talk or display latest AI developments in sectors like medical, manufacturing, autonomous driving and urban management.

The WAIC exhibition halls will cover over 40,000 square meters in the Pudong New Area and Xuhui District, double the space in 2019. Turing Award winners Joseph Sifakis and Yao Qizhi, "father of Linux" Linus Torvalds, Siemens CEO Roland Busch, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon, Huawei's rotating chairman Ken Hu, as well as leaders from Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu and JD, all confirmed to attend the event.

 

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