The 2022 World artificial intelligence conference was announced to be held in Shanghai from September 1 to 3

According to Shanghai's announcement, the 2022 World Artificial Intelligence Conference will be held at the Shanghai World Expo Center from September 1 to 3. There will be sub venues in Zhangjiang and Xuhui West Bank in Pudong, and five domestic and overseas sub venues in North America, Europe, Singapore, South Korea and Hong Kong, China, to realize multi local linkage.

The theme of this year's world artificial intelligence conference is "connecting the world with the world without boundaries". It aims to fully grasp the development trend of integration and mutual promotion of artificial intelligence and the meta universe, connect and gather the latest views and achievements of the world's artificial intelligence, transmit the innovative concept of boundless symbiosis, and show the beautiful picture of the intelligent era in Shanghai.

This conference is designed as a whole according to the five sections of "meeting, exhibition, competition, application and talent", fully demonstrating the "hard core new technology, new industrial track, new future scene and new governance issues" in the field of artificial intelligence + meta universe, and creating a conference with stronger innovation strategy ability, better intelligent experience and higher resource linkage. At present, the preparatory work for the conference has entered the sprint stage.

The overall structure of the conference activities can be summarized as "1 + 1 + 2 + 10 + n", i.e. 1 opening ceremony, 1 closing ceremony, 2 plenary meetings on scientific and technological innovation and industrial development, 10 theme forums, and N ecological forums.

The theme of the forum shows the latest trends of the industry. The nearly 100 forums cover more than 30 professional directions in the four major fields of technological innovation, industrial application, legal ethics and ecological construction, including AI + meta universe, generative AI, trusted AI, brain computer interface and other current hottest fields of artificial intelligence. It also planned the AI technology night talk for the first time to create an immersive scientific feast in the form of "meta universe conference" around the cutting-edge topics such as AI for science, multimodality and computer vision.

The guest lineup has confirmed more than 500 heavyweight guests, including leading scholars at home and abroad, well-known entrepreneurs and representatives of international organizations; Among them, there were 4 Turing prize winners, 1 Nobel Prize winner and 1 fields prize; More than 80 academicians at home and abroad, more than 20 presidents of top universities at home and abroad, and more than 400 representatives of industry organizations and entrepreneurs at home and abroad attended the meeting.

This year, the exhibition area is 15000 square meters, with more than 200 exhibitors. The number of first-time exhibitors exceeds 30%, and the proportion of enterprises outside Shanghai and foreign enterprises exceeds 40%.

The main venue of the World Expo Center presents the core exhibition of the meta universe. From the two dimensions of virtual experience and real display, it shows the whole industrial ecological chain of AI + meta universe, including the underlying computing chip, immersive holographic technology, brain computer interface, new generation digital tools, intelligent interactive terminals, etc; Industry leading AI models, intelligent surgical robots, intelligent driving commercial vehicles and other heavy products will also appear, There will be eight treasures of town hall (the world's first three mode large model of the Institute of automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, baidu Wenxin large model, the crypto trusted privacy computing technology stack of ant technology, the 7Nm high-performance artificial intelligence general GPU reasoning chip of Tiantian Zhixin, the Bi Ren BR100 series gpgpgpu chip, the minimally invasive medical toumai abdominal endoscopic surgery system, Qualcomm's first 5g slice based end-to-side collaborative XR separation rendering technology, and unity HMI solution) Waiting for you to explore; In addition, on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the world artificial intelligence conference, the AI 5th anniversary map was specially planned and launched, which will comprehensively show the development of artificial intelligence technology, the previous waic conferences and the achievements of the 5th anniversary of the development of Shanghai artificial intelligence industry.

The East and West sub venues complement each other. The Pudong sub venue opened the Zhangjiang science hall for the first time, demonstrating the world's first meta universe 3D printer, urban digital twin, hyper realistic digital people and other cutting-edge new products and new applications; Xuhui sub venue is characterized by immersive virtual and real interaction, and will launch a meta universe application scene boutique exhibition and a cloud game exhibition.

The sail award has attracted more than 800 projects from global leading enterprises, internationally renowned universities and scientific research institutions to compete for the top 30 and gather at popular racetracks; More than 150 high-quality papers at home and abroad were selected for the young scientific and Technological Paper Award, of which the overseas participation rate exceeded 15%. The sail award will be announced at the opening ceremony of the conference.

The four major brand competitions of bpaa algorithm practice model competition, hacksong, aiwin competition and youth innovation competition respectively focused on four directions: popular software algorithm, open source ecology, industrial application and social science popularization, with a total of more than 3000 participating teams; The main body of the industry has organized a number of high-quality ecological events, such as the "paper reproduction competition" of Baidu PaddlePaddle, which encourages the players to reproduce the top papers using the domestic framework to accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological frontier achievements.

This year's conference focuses on creating a super application scenario of virtual and real integration to provide the audience with a more futuristic participation experience.

The online "meta universe" has made a new appearance, upgrading the three clouds of "cloud venue, cloud exhibition and cloud platform" in previous years to an immersive meta universe "waic meta environment planet", and linking up five scenes of "meta venue, meta exhibition, meta application, meta collection and meta life"; In the yuanuniverse cloud venue and Yuanjing Town, the audience can experience various forms of interaction such as Yuanjing punch in, virtual cloud venue, live broadcast square, highlight products, five-year map, carbon neutral plan, etc; You can also collect two digital collections officially released by the conference, namely waic's five-year review map (Zhihui world map) and Weike brothers' IP (meta universe version). Multi point linkage of off-line clocking points. There are meta universe clocking points in the World Expo Center, Xuhui West Bank, Zhangjiang Branch venue, Oriental Pearl TV Tower and Wukang building. In addition, at the opening ceremony of the conference, a number of AI + metauniverse major application scenarios will be released.