Right after Google’s AlphaGo defeated world Go masters Lee Se-dol and Ke Jie, the world was shocked once again by the AI debate between SpaceX’s Elon Musk and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. Will AI be a better tool for human beings or will it replace human beings? When will the singularity appear? How can graphene – “the magical material of the 21st Century” – be applied in the future? Once viewed as a business of scientists, technological innovations such as cashless payment, bicycle sharing, unmanned supermarket are constantly emerging and changing our life. How will such kind of innovations exert further impacts on human life?
CHTF 2017 “Innovation & Future Technology” Forum is intended to promote the display and sharing of future-oriented disruptive technologies, and aims to provoke people’s thoughts about the future. Scheduled to be held on November 17 in Bougainvillea Hall, Floor 5 of Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center, the Forum will focus on AI, gene science, graphene materials, etc., where authoritative research institute will release surveys, insightful and forward-looking scientists from worldwide will give speeches and talk with industry celebrities and entrepreneurs, discussing technical research and innovative industrial applications.
Major guests include:
Konstantin Novoselov, 2010 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Prof. Dr. Hans Uszkoreit, Academician of Academia Europaea, Science Director of DFKI, Dicror of AITC
Scott Beaumont, President at Google China
Shen Xiaowei, Director of IBM Research – China, CTO of IBM GCG
Horace Chow, COO at Microsoft China
Wang Haifeng, Vice President at Baidu, Head of AIG
Li Desheng, GM of Intel China Strategic Cooperation Department, Head of Intel Innovation Accelerator
Paul Eremenko, CTO of Airbus
Pu Guannan, President of Facebook Asia-Pacific Cooperation
Zhu Yanmei, Executive Vice President at BGI
Wang Jun, Founder and CEO of iCarbonX
Wang Xiaochuan, CEO of Sougou
Chen Lei, CEO of Thunder, CEO of NetHeart
Liu Zihong, Chairman and CEO of Shenzhen Royale Technologies
In addition, Chris Thomas, Global Partner & Vice President of McKinsey & Co. will release a survey on AI’s status quo and future on site.