The 2018 Greater Bay Area Summit on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Came to a Successful End in Shenzhen

December 11 01:25 2018

On December 6-7, 2018, the 2018 Greater Bay Area Summit on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (GBAS) was held at JW Marriott Hotel Shenzhen Bao’an, and leaders of the 9+2 urban agglomeration in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area were invited to attend. With the theme of “AI Industrialization, Industrial AI and Move towards a New Era of Innovation Economy”, the summit has attracted more than 3,000 participants including well-known academicians at home and abroad, listed company executives, investment and financing institutions, and professional visitors.

On December 6-7, 2018, the 2018 GBAS was held at JW Marriott Hotel Shenzhen Bao’an, and leaders of the 9+2 urban agglomeration in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area were invited to attend. With the strong support from Communication Department of China Association for Science and Technology, China Industry-University-Research Institute Collaboration Association and Shenzhen Bao’an District People’s Government, this summit was jointly hosted by China Centre for International Science and Technology Exchange, Shenzhen Association of Science and Technology and Shenzhen Industry-University-Research Institute Collaboration Association. And it was co-organized by the Mainland station of Cross-straits, Hong Kong and Macao, Hong Kong Industry-University-Research Institute Collaboration Association, the Association for Promotion of Science and Technology of Macau, Taiwan Mountain Jade Association, IEEE Nanotechnology Council (IEEE NTC) and Unicorn Leaders League. Receiving supporting letters from more than 50 business associations, this conference was reported by more than 100 media on site. More than 3,000 participants including well-known academicians at home and abroad, listed company executives, investment and financing institutions, and professional visitors attended the two-day conference.

Focus on the Greater Bay Area and discuss the AI industry synergy of the urban agglomeration. 

With the theme of “AI Industrialization, Industrial AI, and Move towards the New Era of Innovation Economy”, activities of various forms were organized at this summit, including academician expert keynote report, industry CEO forum, display experience, project docking platform, Greater Bay Area night, etc. to jointly explore the technical evolution and application empowerment of artificial intelligence, thus presenting a combination of forward-looking and ground-breaking summit content and live experience the perspectives of industry-university-research, investment, financing, and internationalization.

Many experts were gathered to discuss about opportunities for cross-field technological innovation. 

A lot of well-known experts attended this summit, including Zhonglin Wang, foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and academician of the European Academy of Sciences, Toshio Fukuda, academician of the Japanese Academy of Engineering, Professor Jianwei Zhang, academician of the Hamburg Academy of Sciences and Director of the Multimodal Systems Institute of the University Hamburg, Professor Yu Sun, academician of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Professor of the University of Toronto, and Chairman of the Canadian Micro-Nano Engineering Systems Research Center, Professor Oussama Khatib, Director of the Robotics Laboratory at Stanford University and Chairman of the International Robotics Research Foundation, Professor Jens Kober, Delft University of Technology of the Netherlands, Professor Kazuhiro Kosuge, Department of Robotics, Tohoku University, Professor Wenrong Li from the City University of Hong Kong, Renquan Luo, Chief Editor of IEEE Industrial Information Journal and Professor of National Taiwan University, Professor Osamu Tabata from Department of Microengineering, Kyoto University, Lianqing Liu, Deputy Director of the Robotics Research Office of the Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and vice chairman of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, etc. And there were also a lot of industry masters including Dr. Jieliang Chen, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Investment Officer and General Manager of Foxconn Technology Group, Dr. Zihong Liu, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Royole Technology, Lan Du, Senior Vice President of IFLYTEK Co., Ltd., Daokui Qu, founder and CEO of SIASUN Robotics, Professor Jay Liou, founder and CEO of Advanced NanoBio Technologies Limited, Lingchen Yu, Chairman of Tuling Robot, etc.

Cross-field Theme, Discuss the New Momentum of AI and Entity Economy. 

This year’s summit brought together top experts, scholars and outstanding industry talents in the field of artificial intelligence to have in-depth exchange and discussion about the current AI hot topics, core technologies, and scientific issues of common concern. And they talked about the industrial AI and AI industrialization, sensor applications, the rise of the industry, the development of enterprises and prospects. Through a forward-looking dialogue, an innovation and entrepreneurship contest, three theme reports, three theme forums, and six high-end roundtable dialogues, a platform for in-depth cooperation and exchange in robots and artificial intelligence in South China and the whole country was hereby established. More than 60 academic leaders and industry leaders attended the roundtable forums and delivered keynote speeches.

With rich harvest, the the AI blue book was officially released. 

Blue Book on Development of New-Generation Artificial Intelligence in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (2018) was released grandly. It summarizes the problems encountered by high-tech enterprises during new technology R&D and describes their plans for the future, thus providing think-tank support for the development of high-quality AI in Greater Bay Area. During the summit, Shenzhen Oriental Fortune Capital Investment Management Co., Ltd. and Shenzhen Industry-University-Research Institute Collaboration Association (SZIUR) held the signing ceremony of “Robotics and AI Industry Fund”. Besides, the organizing committee also held the signing ceremony of GBAS 2019 Robotics and AI Cooperation Park with several industrial parks. In the future, the cooperation park will sign cooperation agreements with the international academician team, world-renowned scientific research institutions and technology transfer platforms, introduce technology-based SMEs and projects for incubation from Germany, France, the United States, Australia, Italy, Israel, Canada, Russia, etc., and attract a number of overseas multinational R&D institutions, thus promoting the grafting, absorption and transfer of technologies at home and abroad.

Live experience for the annual event with strong sense of technology. 

During the summit, the Greater Bay Area Robotics and AI Theme Exhibition brought together domestic high-tech enterprises and various high-tech products, presenting the latest achievements in robotics and AI and attracting wide public attention. At the same time, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition on Robotics and AI was held. The powerful judges from mainstream media, academic field, robotics and AI industry, and professional institutions conducted data analysis of various authoritative organizations, filed investigation and media investigation of project and enterprise, and large-scale professional examination of high-quality enterprises and projects. Finally, “Top 10 Industry-University-Research institution Technology Transfer Achievement on Industrialization in Greater Bay Area” and “Top 10 Innovation Projects on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in Greater Bay Area” were recognized. The organizing committee issued the certificates for the award-winning project.

Grand summit of the brand stands out with four-year efforts. 

Since the debut of the 2015 Hong Kong-Macao Robotics Cooperative Innovation Forum, “GBAS”, the brand of Greater Bay Area Summit has been fully launched in 2017. With the core theme of “integrating global wisdom and driving the Greater Bay Area development”, it is committed to building an international bay area technology innovation and industrial convergence exchange platform through holding regular high-tech industry summits each year. It focuses on strengthening the industrial coordination among the global bay cities, accelerating the landing and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and jointly building the industrial cultivation platform, thus facilitating China to build the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area with international competitiveness. This summit focuses on the deep integration of industry-university-research institution and technology finance, basic research innovation, key technologies breakthrough, achievements industrialization, policy orientation, and investment and financing cooperation. Meanwhile, the summit is committed to further exploring the road to the development of industry-university-research institution as well as technology finance, providing basis for the related enterprise strategies and reference for decision-making of all levels of government, thus contributing wisdom and strength for realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

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