June 18, 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference30-day launch yesterdayShanghaiHeld. The conference will be held in Shanghai from 17 to 20 July and will be organized in the three main regions of the West Bank, Shibo, Zhang Jiang and Zhang, under the theme "A smart partner for the future"。

THE CONGRESS PLANS TO HOLD MORE THAN 140 THEMATIC FORUMS, BRINGING TOGETHER OVER 1400 INTERNATIONAL GUESTS, WITH A TOTAL OF MORE THAN 100,000 SQUARE METRES OF EXHIBITION SPACE, AND OVER 1,100 GLOBAL ENTERPRISES, WHICH WILL LAUNCH MORE THAN 3000 EXHIBITS AND SET UP FOR THE FIRST TIME AN OPC DEDICATED EXHIBITION AREA, WITH 180 BUSINESSES WITH RESULTS。
The Congress also launched its first AI original platform, Hi WaIC, which integrates smart activities, supply-and-demand matching, vertical content, social networking at the community level, think tank data and hierarchical membership, and opens the access to ticketing。