Enterprise AI transformation is moving into deep waters, extending from single-point tools and business-scenario efficiency gains toward systematic organizational restructuring. McKinsey noted in its "Organizational State Report 2026" that although AI is regarded as a key driving force of a new round of productivity revolution, only a minority of enterprises have truly converted it into business performance. The key reason behind this is that many enterprises still keep AI transformation at the level of "tool upgrades," while neglecting the more essential "organizational restructuring." How to integrate AI capabilities into the organization and turn them into sustained productivity will become a key factor affecting enterprises' future competitiveness. On November 12, Baidu will focus on the topic of "intelligent organizations" at the Baidu World 2026 conference, and may propose an organizational evolution paradigm for the AI era.
On October 21, Baidu's official WeChat account published an article revealing more agenda information about the Baidu World 2026 sub-forums. This year's conference features 10+ sub-forums organized around three major directions: "AI-Driven Organizational Leaps," "AI Office and Knowledge Work," and "Technology, Industry and Ecosystem," covering topics such as organizational evolution, large-scale agent deployment, AI office, AI + self-evolution, vertical industry growth, and the capability advancement of super individuals, providing multi-dimensional practical references for enterprises and developers advancing intelligent organization building.
Highlight One: Covering the Full Chain of AI Organizational Restructuring, Unveiling the Evolution Methodology of "Intelligent Organizations"
In the AI era, organizational forms may evolve toward collaboration between humans and agent squads. This transformation involves multiple links including human-machine collaboration mechanisms, workflow restructuring, organizational culture change, and security governance. The sub-forum topics at this year's conference will cover the full chain of top-down AI restructuring within organizations, decoding how enterprises can internalize AI as an organizational capability and build competitive advantages.
At the "Organizational Evolution: AI-Driven Organizational Leaps" sub-forum, Baidu will share the practices and latest results of its internal intelligent organization building, further showing how "internalized AI capabilities" are implemented in enterprise operations. It is reported that the forum will focus on topics such as job boundary restructuring, the "organizational looping" flywheel, AI asset accumulation and agent security, and unlocking talent ceilings, analyzing how organizations achieve self-evolution through continuous iteration and stimulate organizational vitality.
The "Agents Rooted in R&D and Production: How to Go From 'Using AI' to 'Becoming an AI Enterprise'" sub-forum will outline the key conditions for enterprises to move from single-point AI applications to systematic transformation from four aspects—agent infrastructure, data and knowledge, scenario selection, and organization and talent—and share cases of building AI-native enterprises.
Highlight Two: From Super Individuals to Super Organizations, Decoding How AI Moves From Personal Efficiency to Organizational Intelligence
As AI applications such as agents and digital humans accelerate their integration into enterprise production and operations, the release of AI's value is gradually shifting from personal efficiency gains to team collaboration and organizational efficiency. This year's conference sub-forums will also showcase Baidu's latest layout in the agent field, sharing products and cases of agents, digital humans and more in high-value knowledge work scenarios, providing practical ideas for enterprises and developers to start from specific scenarios and extend from personal efficiency gains to organizational intelligence.
The "Dabzi in Progress · Beijing Station — How Agents Move From the Desk to the Production Line" sub-forum will revolve around topics such as general agent evolution trends, enterprise-level applications, and ecosystem co-building. Combining practices of Baidu Dabzi integrating into personal office work, team collaboration, and enterprise business, it will share methodologies for empowering super individuals with agents and enhancing organizational productivity, further advancing industrial intelligence.
The "Super Intelligence Goes to Work Globally — Empowering Super Individuals, Building Super Organizations" sub-forum will focus, from three perspectives—users, team collaboration, and global application—on topics such as the evolution paths of super individuals and super organizations, how enterprise Agents restructure organizational collaboration, and new opportunities in the global development of AI office, discussing how AI moves from a personal efficiency tool to organization-level productivity.
The Digital Human sub-forum will focus on the all-new upgrade of digital human Agents, explore applications of digital human Agents in multiple business scenarios such as brand marketing, cross-border expansion, after-sales service, and corporate internal training, and present how digital humans upgrade from virtual avatars into productivity within intelligent organizations that can be dispatched, reused, and continuously create value.
Highlight Three: From Organizational Practices to Industry Solutions, Showcasing the Deployment Paths of Intelligent Organizations Across Thousands of Industries
The deployment of intelligent organizations also needs to be closely integrated with the business needs and scenario characteristics of different industries. At this year's conference sub-forums, Baidu will also join hands with partners to exchange practical experience in integrating AI into business processes and organizational collaboration in fields such as embodied intelligence, brand marketing, and gaming, providing ideas for forming solutions that industries can learn from, and helping thousands of industries evolve toward intelligent organizations.
The "How Embodied Intelligence Moves From Scenario Validation to Commercial Deployment" sub-forum will explore, around topics such as world models, multimodal embodied cognition, physical reasoning, embodied brains, behavior understanding, and simulation interaction, the technical paths to enhance embodied intelligence's understanding of real environments and task execution capabilities, advancing it from scenario validation to iterable, scalable industrial applications.
The "How to Use AI to Achieve a Full-Cycle Marketing Closed Loop: Insight · Creativity · Optimization" sub-forum will focus on three key links—content production, organizational collaboration, and scientific ad placement—highlighting practices such as digital humans boosting advertising content production efficiency by 10x, AI digital employees promoting the reuse of marketing experience within organizations, and scientific algorithms converting previously "experience-based" budget allocation into certain growth, presenting solutions for integrating AI across the full marketing chain.
The "From Efficiency Gains to AI-Native: How to Find a New Growth Curve for the Gaming Industry" sub-forum will join forces with leading domestic AI game teams to explore, around topics such as game development, AI NPCs, and intelligent security, how large models and Agents reshape game development workflows and integrate into character interaction and gameplay design, advancing AI from assisting game development to AI-native game creation and expanding "personalized for thousands of faces" gaming experiences.
Highlight Four: Exploring Frontier AI Technology Trends to Accelerate Scientific Discovery
The pace of AI technology evolution profoundly affects the breadth and depth of industrial deployment. At present, technologies such as agents are accelerating toward self-evolution, and RSI has become a hot industry topic. This year's conference will also focus on frontier topics such as RSI and AI4S, exploring AI technology transformation trends and their application prospects in industrial scenarios.
The "How RSI Will Reshape Scientific and Engineering R&D" sub-forum will share frontier trends in agent self-evolution, focusing on RSI's application explorations in fields such as materials R&D, chip design, quantum computing, and controlled nuclear fusion, and discuss the application value and capability boundaries of self-improving systems in solving complex scientific and engineering problems.
The "How AI4S Accelerates Scientific Research and Life-Health Innovation Leaps" sub-forum will focus on AI for Science and AI for Healthcare, analyzing the applications of technologies such as computing power, cloud, large models, and agents in scientific research and life health, and presenting AI's role in driving innovation in research methods, solving complex life science problems, and full-process new drug R&D.
It is reported that, in addition to the 10+ sub-forums, this year's conference also includes 1 main forum, over 30 AI open classes, and a 6000-square-meter AI exhibition area. Baidu founder Robin Li will deliver a keynote speech at the opening ceremony, sharing his thoughts on intelligent organization evolution trends. In addition, Baidu will release the latest progress of its "Chip-Cloud-Model-Entity" full-stack AI, providing technological and product support for enterprises and developers advancing intelligent organization building.
Registration for Baidu World 2026 is now open, offering four ticket types: VIP tickets, Premium tickets, All-Access tickets, and free tickets. You can register through the conference website (https://baiduworld2026.events.net.cn/tickets) or the conference mini-program.
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