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Machine Heart Editorial Department
This conference aims to help the construction of artificial intelligence Shanghai Highland, conform to the urban digital transformation strategy, continue the construction of Shanghai's artificial intelligence technology ecosystem, and effectively solve the real needs of artificial intelligence developers.
On February 26, with the theme of "Building a New Ecosystem of Integration and Openness", WAIC 2022 Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Developer Conference was successfully held in Chuangjing Technology Center of Shanghai Lingang New Area. Shanghai Vice Mayor Zhang Wei attended the meeting and inaugurated the WAIC Shanghai Developer Community. Wu Jincheng, director of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology, and Wu Xiaohua, deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee of Lingang New Area, attended the meeting and delivered speeches. Zhang Ying, deputy director of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization, and Lv Ming, president of Shanghai Lingang Economic Development (Group) Co., Ltd., attended and participated in the launch session. Academician Jiang Changjun, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Chairman of the Chinese Engineering Intelligence Society, Vice President and Chair Professor of Southern University of Science and Technology, and Academician of the National Academy of Engineering Zhang Dongxiao delivered keynote speeches.
This conference aims to help the construction of artificial intelligence Shanghai Highland, conform to the urban digital transformation strategy, continue the construction of Shanghai's artificial intelligence technology ecosystem, and effectively solve the real needs of artificial intelligence developers. The conference is guided by the Organizing Committee of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, hosted by the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization, the Management Committee of the Lingang New Area of the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone, and the Shanghai Lingang Economic Development (Group) Co., Ltd., and hosted by the Heart of the Machine.
As a series of WAIC developer activities, this conference maintains the consistent high level and high quality of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference brand. The conference adheres to the needs-led development, focuses on core issues such as basic research and infrastructure strengthening, technological innovation, and talent training, provides a platform for academic exchanges, technical discussions, and communication and cooperation for artificial intelligence developers, and outputs cutting-edge, hardcore, and hot content to reunite for the transformation and upgrading of artificial intelligence.
Wu Jincheng, director of the Municipal Commission of Economic Informatization, pointed out in his speech that Shanghai should adhere to innovation leadership, expand the new boundaries of AI, and continuously inject new source living water into the development of artificial intelligence; it is necessary to grasp the trend of change, develop a new ecology of open source, promote algorithm open source, data openness, and open computing power, and form a virtuous circle of using open source and contributing to open source; to create an optimal environment, stimulate new vitality of developers, promote exchanges, cooperation and settlement development of domestic and foreign scholars, technology experts, etc., so that more developers can participate in the transformation of artificial intelligence technology. Empowering cities in the process of digital transformation.
Wu Xiaohua, deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee of Lingang New Area, said in his speech that promoting the development of the artificial intelligence industry is an important mission of Lingang people. Since its inception, the new area has actively promoted the application of AI chips, computing centers, automatic driving, intelligent manufacturing and other scenarios, and introduced more than 100 artificial intelligence enterprises including SenseTime, Cambrian, Horizon, etc., initially forming a full-coverage AI technology scenario system and a global artificial intelligence independent innovation ecosystem. Lingang New Area will continue to give full play to the advantages of institutional innovation, industrial policy, talent guarantee and scene application, welcome all AI talents on the stage of Lingang, show their talents, realize their ambitions, promote artificial intelligence to empower hundreds of industries, benefit everyone, and contribute more to the development of Lingang and even Shanghai artificial intelligence industry.
At the conference site, a series of blockbuster releases were made, including Zhang Wei, vice mayor of Shanghai, unveiling the WAIC Shanghai developer community, Zhang Ying, deputy director of the Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology, Lv Ming, president of Lingang Group, Liao Yunfa, president of the East China Branch of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Dong Junping, chairman of the Open Atom Foundation, and Tian Kunyang, vice president of Huawei Ascend Computing Business, jointly released the white paper on the development of the AI framework, Jin Yaohui, executive director of the Shanghai Magnolia Open Source Open Source Research Institute, and Wang Wei, representative of the Mulan community. Open Atom Foundation Chairman Block Junping jointly released the "Mulan-Magnolia" open AI dataset action, and Zhao Yunfeng, founder and CEO of the Heart of the Machine, also issued honorary certificates to the most popular technical workers of AI developers in 2021.
The main forum in the morning conducted in-depth discussions and exchanges around openness, integration and new ecology. Jiang Changjun, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and supervisor of the Chinese Engineering Intelligence Society, gave a keynote speech on the topic of "Matter, Information, Intelligence", and Zhang Dongxiao, vice president and chair professor of southern university of science and technology and academician of the National Academy of Engineering, gave a keynote speech on the topic of "Artificial Intelligence under the Guidance of Theory: Model Driven vs Data Driven". Tian Kunyang, Vice President of Huawei's Ascend Computing Business, delivered a keynote speech entitled "Rooted in the Basic Prosperity Ecosystem, Ascend AI Helps Urban Digital Transformation".
A number of well-known academic and industry representatives also held a number of roundtable dialogues.
Around the "New Track · New Momentum: How Intelligent Manufacturing Can Drive Deeper Digital Transformation" topics, including Yu Jingyi, Vice Provost of ShanghaiTech University, Executive Dean and Professor of the School of Information Science and Technology, member of the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Strategic Advisory Committee, Gong Chaohui, CEO of Bintong Intelligence and member of class A, and Gao Ping, ai computing expert of Fuyuan Technology and general manager of the product marketing department of Lingang AI enterprises, held a roundtable dialogue.
Focusing on the topic of "How to cultivate more new generation developer talents for Lingang", a number of guests from SenseTime, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai Electric Power University, Shanghai Marine Intelligent Information and Navigation Remote Sensing Engineering Technology Research Center, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai Dianji University, Shanghai Jianqiao College, Xiaoyi Robot, and Denglin Technology held a roundtable dialogue.
Around the "2022 year, where is the difficulty of AI development?" On the topic of the heart of the machine, a number of experts and scholars from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Advanced Research Institute of Oriental Science and Technology, and the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory launched a dialogue.
Focusing on the topic of "The Practical Road of AI Developer Ecosystem Construction", a number of guests, including Weng Wei, deputy chief economist of Lingang Group, and Zhao Yunfeng, founder and CEO of Machine Heart, held a roundtable dialogue.
The conference held a number of forums such as "Ascend Artificial Intelligence Developer" and "Model Developer", and held special discussions on the hot topics of "How Autonomous Driving Cloud Technology Supports the Landing of Large-scale Autonomous Driving Fleets in Multiple Places" and "Privacy Computing Empowers the Safe Circulation of Data Elements".
The sub-forum of "Ascend Artificial Intelligence Developers" invited the top experts of Huaba Software and shared the key technologies that developers pay attention to, including CANN, MindSpore, MindX, etc., and also invited the scientific research authorities of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to share the key achievements of AI and the thinking on the future trend of the AI industry.
The "Model Developers" sub-forum invited the core developers who are most popular with the AI developer community in 2021 to interpret model design ideas and implementation skills through the online forum, discuss engineering optimization methods, and discuss the trend theme of AI technology engineering in 2022.
At the autonomous driving seminar, focusing on "how autonomous driving cloud technology supports the landing of large-scale autonomous driving fleets in multiple places", Qingzhou Zhihang and partners Volcano Engine and NVIDIA shared how to create an internal tool chain that can achieve efficient research and development, and promote the rapid iteration of technology and the wide application of landing scenarios.
At the Private Computing Seminar, focusing on "Privacy Computing Enables the Safe Circulation of Data Elements", Insight Technology and a number of partners comprehensively interpreted how private computing enables the safe circulation of data elements from the three-dimensional perspective of "technology + academic + application".
In order to enhance the participants' sense of participation and immersion, the conference set up a variety of carnival activities such as "How Ascend AI Developers Are Made", "Amazon DeepRacer Self-Driving Racing Carnival", "Ant Group Alipay Pet Technology Carnival" and "AI Developers Following SOTA". The wonderful event attracted a large number of AI developers to improve their understanding of the technology in practice. At the same time, the conference was connected to the branch venues of the five major universities in Lingang in the form of a network, and the whole process was broadcast live through waic2.0 official website, "NetEase Yaotai" immersive activity platform, Pujiang release, Pujiang Observation and other channels, providing a feast of knowledge for developers who could not attend the scene in person. The conference enhances the online and offline integrated immersive participation experience of the conference in the most IN and AI way, effectively solves the real needs of artificial intelligence developers, shows the new style of Lingang construction to AI developers and enterprises, and shows the new achievements of Shanghai's artificial intelligence development.
In the future, the WAIC developer ecosystem will continue to strengthen cooperation with the academic community, industry and other relevant parties, attract more innovative developers to gather in Shanghai, create a characteristic artificial intelligence geek culture, and provide strong support for the development and layout of the artificial intelligence industry in Shanghai and Lingang.