The World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2021 opened on the morning of July 8th at Shanghai World Expo Center. Li Qiang, Secretary of CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee, pointed out in his speech at the opening ceremony that it is necessary to thoroughly implement the spirit of the important instructions of General Secretary Jin Ping, give full play to the "head geese effect" of artificial intelligence, take artificial intelligence as an important driving force to comprehensively promote urban digital transformation, make greater strides in building an intelligent economy, creating an intelligent life and shaping intelligent governance, speed up the construction of "Shanghai Highland" of artificial intelligence with more international influence, and strive to become the best testing ground and an important vane for the development of artificial intelligence in the world, so that the beautiful vision of the intelligent era can be fully interpreted and vividly demonstrated in Shanghai.
The World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2021 with the theme of "Intelligent Connectivity, Inspirational Cities " was held in Shanghai from July 8th to 10th. Around the digital transformation of artificial intelligence empowered cities, nearly 100 forums and special activities were held and special exhibitions with a size of 40,000 square meters were organized, along with related competitions, awards and intelligent application experiences. A new cloud platform 2.0 was also built to provide live broadcast, cloud venue and cloud exhibition.
