From the MEET Organizing Committee, reported from QbitAI
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In 2026, AI is moving from "being able to chat" to "being able to work." As models begin to call tools, execute tasks, and embed themselves into organizational workflows, the wall between intelligent technology and industry is being torn down.
On December 9, the Quantum Bit MEET2027 Intelligent Future Conferencearrives as scheduled. This year's conference takes as its theme"Uniting Intelligence and Action · Commanding the Future",to discuss with everyone: how AI moves from demos to delivery, from tools to organizations, and from single-point capabilities to systemic effectiveness.
The engineering deployment of large models and Agents, the large-scale entry of embodied intelligence, the management restructuring of AI-native organizations, and the deep-water challenges of enterprise digital-intelligent transformation—these are the most worthwhile questions to follow this year, and they will all be repeatedly dissected in one day of high-density碰撞—high-density exchange and collision.
Academic frontiers and commercial deployment share the same stage, where the latest achievements from Infra, models, products, and industry front lines are showcased together.
The conference will also authoritatively releasethe Annual AI Rankingsand an annual AI trends report, recording this year's technological achievements while also anticipating next year's direction of evolution.
The MEET2027 Intelligent Future Conferenceregistration channel is now officially open. Seats are limited,just go to the Quantum Bit official account to register and attend~
First Batch of Guest Lineup
Wang Jinqiao
Deputy Chief Engineer, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Director, Zidong Taichu Large Model Research Center
Chairman, Zidong Taichu (Zhongke Zidong Taichu)
Dean of the Wuhan Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Chairman of Zhongke Zidong Taichu, and a positional professor at the School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; he also serves as Secretary-General of the Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance and Head of WG7 Intelligent Products and Services at the MIIT AI Standards Committee. He has long been engaged in research on multimodal large models, video understanding and retrieval, and large-scale visual recognition. He is a leading domestic authority in the field of multimodal general large models and was named one of the 2025 Forbes China "AI Influential Figures."
He has published more than 300 papers in authoritative IEEE journals and top international conferences, including more than 50 journal papers and more than 220 top international conference papers; he has led the proposal of 13 national standards, obtained 36 authorized invention patents, and won international top visual algorithm competitions 10 times. He has received the World AI Conference SAIL Outstanding Leadership Award, the Wu Wenjun AI Science and Technology Progress Second Prize, the Beijing Science and Technology Progress First Prize, the Beijing Natural Science Second Prize, the Hubei Science and Technology Progress Second Prize, the China Invention and Innovation Silver Award, the Zu Chongzhi Award, and the New Era China Economic Innovation Figure honor, and his team was selected into the Chinese Academy of Sciences "Keyuan Famous Craftsmen" program.
Fang Yue
Director, AI and Management Innovation Research Center, CEIBS (China Europe International Business School)
Founding Executive Dean, Shenzhen Silicon-Based Management Innovation Research Institute
Professor Fang Yue is Director of the AI and Management Innovation Research Center at CEIBS and Founding Executive Dean of the Shenzhen Silicon-Based Management Innovation Research Institute. Professor Fang holds a Ph.D. in Decision Sciences and a Master's in Operations Research from MIT, and a Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics from Tsinghua University. He has long focused on AI-driven organizational change, enterprise digital-intelligent transformation, and innovation in management decision-making, combining international academic research with Silicon Valley finance and corporate strategy consulting experience. He initiated the establishment of the CEIBS Digital Economy and Intelligent Enterprise Research Center and led the founding of the CEIBS AI and Management Innovation Research Center, focusing on the evolutionary path for enterprises moving from AI tool applications to AI-native organizations and promoting the integration of management theory, transformation methods, and industry practice. He is the author of Digital Leadership, Super Intelligent Entity: The Boundless Evolution of the Enterprise Future, and Super Intelligent Entity Startup Guide: An Enterprise AI Transformation Action Manual, and he continues to provide research and practical support for AI transformation in the technology, high-end manufacturing, automotive, and financial industries.
Fang Han
Chairman and CEO, Kunlun Wanwei (Kunlun Tech)
A graduate of the Department of Modern Physics at the University of Science and Technology of China, he has worked at the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, TurboLinux, AsiaInfo, and Oak Pacific Interactive, and in March 2008 assisted Mr. Zhou Yahui in founding Kunlun Wanwei.
Mr. Fang Han has 30 years of experience in the internet industry. He began participating in and advocating the open-source movement in 1994, is a founding figure of Chinese Linux and one of the 'Four Swordsmen of Chinese Linux', and authored China's first Linux book, 'The Complete Practical Guide to Linux'. He is also one of China's earliest network security experts, was responsible for full-network security auditing for the three major telecom operators, led the development of China's first P2P download software, the DUDU Accelerator, and was in charge of developing 'Three Kingdoms Storm', the web game with the highest market share in China. He is one of the most senior participants in China's internet industry.
Wang Yunhe
Founder and CEO of Jiyuan Ludong (TokenRhythm)
He holds a bachelor's degree from Xidian University and a doctorate from the Department of Intelligent Science at Peking University, has published over 200 papers with more than 40,000 citations on Google Scholar. He previously served as Director of Huawei's Noah's Ark Lab. In April 2026, he founded Jiyuan Ludong, proposed 'Agent = Base Models + Harness', and launched the OpenSquilla runtime, the NeoHorse-1 series of models, and the TokenRhythm API platform.
Liao Wenlong
Founder and Chief Technology Officer of COWA Robotics
He holds a doctorate from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and is an expert in robot algorithms and systems. In 2015, he co-founded COWA Robotics and has long served as the company's lead person for core technology. He has led the design of multiple consumer-grade and industrial-grade robots, advanced the R&D and mass production of AI robots, and has continued to deepen full-stack technological R&D in robotics spanning core algorithms, software and hardware platforms, and AI infrastructure, driving the company's 'one brain, many forms' technology system and the large-scale deployment of multi-scenario embodied intelligent robots. He has published 20 papers at international academic conferences and journals such as CVPR and AAAI, and holds 237 invention patents.
Zhou Erjin
Co-founder and CTO of Force Origin AI
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Force Origin, responsible for the company's foundation model research and development as well as AI infrastructure development. He graduated from the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University and won a gold medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI). Before joining Force Origin, he served as rotating president of Megvii Research Institute, head of Megvii's face recognition algorithms, and head of MegEngine, Megvii's deep learning training framework. Zhou Erjin has long been engaged in computer vision, artificial intelligence, and robotics R&D and product implementation. He led teams to win championships in multiple domestic and international evaluations and competitions, including the NIST FRVT and the face recognition track of China's first Artificial Intelligence Competition. The related AI technologies have been applied to smartphones, smart cameras, robots, and various other products, covering more than ten million AIoT devices.
Lu Hongyuan
Founder of Facebook Mind
PhD from The Chinese University of Hong Kong; completed both bachelor's and master's degrees at Imperial College London, UK. As first author, was the first to win the Best Paper Award at a flagship ACL conference representing an Asian institution as an independent institution, with only two authors and no corporate background. First author and proposer of Adam’s Law. Has published nearly 20 papers as first author/corresponding author at conferences including EMNLP, ACL, NAACL, EACL and COLM. Holds 30 domestic invention patents, as well as multiple PCT international patents and US patents. Previously worked at Microsoft and Alibaba, with responsibilities related to pre-training and AI algorithm optimization.
Xia Lixue
Wenxin Xiong (Infinigence AI) Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
He received both his bachelor's and doctoral degrees from the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University. Under Xia Lixue's leadership, Wuxin Wenqiong (Infinigence AI) has grown into one of the most representative high-tech enterprises in the field of AI infrastructure. He has been named to Stanford's global Top 2% scientists list for five consecutive years and to the AI 2000 list of the world's most influential scholars in artificial intelligence for two consecutive years (Top 100 in the chips category). He serves as a deputy to the 17th People's Congress of Xuhui District, Shanghai, and as a member of the 11th Youth Federation Committee. His honors include 2025 National Model Worker in the Industry and Information Technology System, Leading Talent in Artificial Intelligence in the Ningxia Computing Power Hub, 2025 CCTV Top 10 AI Figures of the Year, 2025 Fortune 40 Under 40 Business Elite, 2024 Forbes China New-Era Disruptive Founder, and 36Kr WISE2024 Business King New Generation Pioneer recognition.
Xia Lixue has long been devoted to the research of design methodology for artificial intelligence systems, and has published more than 30 academic papers, with over 3,500 citations on Google Scholar. His work in areas such as compression and acceleration of large language models and chips for generative AI models represents the world's first customized hardware design for deep learning-based speech synthesis, holding a leading position internationally.
The above display order is in no particular order, and more heavyweight guests are being confirmed one after another! Stay tuned.
The call for entries for the annual AI rankings is about to close!
The "Artificial Intelligence Annual Rankings" launched by QbitAI has become one of the most influential rankings in the AI industry. This year's rankings will start fromcompany、Product、Peoplewill select five categories of awards across three major dimensions including, and the ranking results will be officially announced at the MEET2027 conference.
The selection criteria can be found at: Quantum Bit's "MEET2027 Intelligent Future Conference" kicks off! Annual rankings call for entries is underway
Filing method
This selection process will close on November 16, 2026; please submit your entry as soon as possible.
Web version link:
https://wj.qq.com/s2/27813867/cbwi/
Cases for the annual AI trends report are now being solicited
The annual trend series report will also be released in a major launch at the MEET2027 conference.
This year, the report will continue to focus on AI, the core direction of technological development in our era. Combining factors such as technological maturity, current deployment status, and potential value, the 2026 Annual Top 10 AI Trends Report will nominate ten major AI trends that are unleashing enormous potential, provide in-depth analysis of each trend, and nominate representative institutions, best cases, and more.
How to Participate
This case collection closes on November 20, 2026.
Web version link:
https://wj.qq.com/s2/28062086/ophg/
About the MEET Intelligent Future Conference
As an annual influential tech business summit, each year the most industry-representative tech business leaders come to the conference to share forward-looking insights and perspectives.
Every year the conference attractsThousands of tech industry professionalsparticipated,A million viewers watching online，Nearly a hundred partner media outletsfor joint exposure. The MEET Intelligent Future Conference has also become an annual bellwether for the intelligent technology industry.
This year, fusion is taking place. Technology roadmaps are converging, industry structures are being reshuffled, and investment logic is shifting gears—where these three lines intersect lies the breakthrough. We cordially invitethe most representative companies and figures from the fields of technology, industry, and investmentto share the stage and discuss the path to breakthrough, together envisioning a new chapter of intelligence.