The 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit will be held from November 2 to 5, with the theme focusing on open source, openness, co-construction and sharing.

[Wuzhen Internet Affairs·Bright Observation]

The 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit will be held from November 2 to 5 in Wuzhen, Zhejiang, China. With the theme of "Open Source, Openness, Co-construction and Sharing—Working Together to Build a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace", this summit is based on the general trend of global digital intelligence development, focuses on the forefront of the industry, adheres to the original intention of openness, and broadens the international cooperation pattern. It will create a global digital intelligence event that is cutting-edge, open, and inclusive, and inject new impetus into building a community with a shared future in cyberspace.

Anchor the concept of "open source and openness" and build an ecology of "co-construction and sharing"

"Not long ago, I went to Zhejiang for an in-depth survey, and I felt that both academia and industry have high hopes and pay close attention to the open source ecosystem..." At the press conference, Ren Xianliang, Secretary-General of the World Internet Conference, also recalled the venue of the "Six Little Dragons Wuzhen Dialogue" at the 2025 Wuzhen Summit. Jing, a representative of DeepSeek spoke on the spot at that time, which impressed him deeply: "The concept of working together to build a community with a shared future in cyberspace emphasizes open cooperation and win-win results, and the cooperation and sharing brought about by open source technology is an important core advantage for their company's development."

Since the beginning of 2025, various open source large models have significantly lowered the application threshold of artificial intelligence technology and promoted the inclusive sharing of technology with the advantages of low cost and high performance. Nowadays, more and more large models are joining the ranks of open source, and more and more international people clearly understand that open source and openness are an important path for the inclusive development of artificial intelligence. It is also an important choice for sharing intelligence dividends and promoting common development.

The theme of this year's summit is "Open Source, Openness, Co-construction and Sharing—Working Together to Build a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace." It is not only a proactive move to comply with technological development trends and respond to the common concerns of the international community, but also a reflection of the World Internet Conference's role as an international exchange platform and the continued deepening of the important concept of "Working Together to Build a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace."

——"Open source and openness" is intended to transcend the practice of building "small courtyards and high walls", practicing "three, six, nine, etc." and dividing "near and distant", emphasizing promoting the flow of technology, knowledge and innovation resources in a more open and inclusive way, allowing more countries, enterprises, scientific research institutions and developers to participate in digital technology innovation;

——"Co-construction and sharing" is the practice of multilateralism, emphasizing the gathering of forces from all parties around the world to jointly participate in the construction of the digital ecosystem, and promote the innovation results and development dividends of the digital intelligence era to benefit more countries and people.

"Both of these are the proper meaning of 'joining hands to build a community with a shared future in cyberspace' - only by building together in sharing and developing in open collaboration can we build a community with a shared future in cyberspace that shares weal and woe and is stable and long-term," Ren Xianliang said.

During the summit, the World Internet Conference Digital Intelligence Training Institute will also hold a series of capacity-building activities with the theme of "Open Source and Openness, Creating a Future Together", aiming to help developing countries learn from the experience of open source ecological construction, improve digital governance and transformation decision-making capabilities, and explore inclusive digital intelligence development paths.

Special activities are iteratively upgraded, and the quality of AI at the summit is getting stronger and stronger.

Currently, the global wave of intelligence is surging, and digital intelligence technology innovation has ushered in an unprecedented active period. The new generation of Internet technologies, which include the intelligent connection of all things, human-machine collaboration, cross-border integration, and co-creation and sharing, are superimposing and releasing huge energy, which not only breeds unprecedented development opportunities, but is also intertwined with unpredictable risks and challenges.

How to coordinate the development and security of artificial intelligence and balance artificial intelligence innovation and governance have become issues of the times that the international community must jointly answer. Judging from the settings of each session and section of this year’s summit, we continue to focus on the development and governance of artificial intelligence and explore feasible paths for technology to be good.

Going back to 2025, the main forum of the Wuzhen Summit at that time innovatively set up the "Six Little Dragons Wuzhen Dialogue". Leaders of cutting-edge technology companies had in-depth exchanges on topics such as artificial intelligence technology innovation, which became one of the highlights of the summit. At the Asia-Pacific Summit in April 2026, a Xiangjiang dialogue between digital intelligence "trendsetters" shed light on the future of AI. The outlook for the development direction and broad opportunities also impressed everyone; the main forum of the 2026 Wuzhen Summit will set up an "Artificial Intelligence Wuzhen Dialogue" session, inviting the world's leading technology companies, heads of well-known open source large model companies, and artificial intelligence scientists to have a dialogue on the same stage, and conduct exchanges around topics such as the construction of a global artificial intelligence open source ecosystem.

"This dialogue hopes to enhance the international community's consensus on the development trend of open source through communication between multiple parties, advocate an open, inclusive, fair and inclusive cooperation orientation, enhance mutual trust in the industry, and help narrow the global digital intelligence gap." said Ren Xianliang, Secretary-General of the World Internet Conference.

Focusing on cutting-edge hot topics, this year's summit will design innovative topics and set up 27 sub-forums, a record high number in recent years. New sub-forums such as global governance initiative cyberspace cooperation, intelligent agent mutual trust, interconnection and interoperability, global cooperation and innovation, robots and embodied intelligence, space-time intelligence, and digital intelligence technology to promote green and low-carbon development will contribute actively to the formation of a more equitable and inclusive global governance system.

In addition, the summit brand matrix will also continue to be refreshed. For example, the 2026 Internet Light Expo, with the theme of "Intelligent Interconnection, Wisdom for the Future", has invited more than 400 companies to participate in the exhibition; the "Direct to Wuzhen" global Internet competition has ushered in a new track, setting up five major tracks of digital medical care, smart connected travel, smart terminals, smart manufacturing, and new consumption, two major scene competitions of new travel and AI+ manufacturing, and two special events of the Open Source Competition Challenge and OPC; the 2026 World Internet Conference Outstanding Contribution Award will cover artificial intelligence, information communications, robotics and other fields...

The circle of international friends continues to expand, and the radiation effect of the summit continues to show

"After four years of hard work, the World Internet Conference's 'circle of friends' has grown day by day, and international cohesion has continued to improve. Since its establishment in 2022, the World Internet Conference has brought together more than 230 members from 47 countries and regions on 6 continents..." Ren Xianliang said.

——The mature cooperation platform continues to deepen. Since the beginning of this year, the World Internet Conference has held a special forum at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona for the third consecutive year, the Asia-Pacific Summit has been held in Hong Kong for the second consecutive year, a seminar on the development of responsible artificial intelligence has once again been held at the International Telecommunication Union's "Artificial Intelligence for Good" Global Summit, and the Digital Silk Road Development Forum has been held for the third time.

——The territory of international cooperation continues to expand. Since the beginning of this year, we have held a side event with the theme of "Artificial Intelligence and World Heritage" during the 48th session of the World Heritage Committee to explore new paths for cultural heritage protection driven by AI; held an international seminar in Jakarta, Indonesia, to explore the development of cross-border e-commerce; attended the 2026 AI Frontier Summit, the Global Electronics Export Summit and other events to discuss the development of the digital intelligence era with guests from all walks of life.

——Continue to provide international public goods. With the continuous improvement of professional committees such as artificial intelligence, cultural heritage digitization, and e-commerce, as well as mechanisms such as the Digital Intelligence Training Institute and the Digital Intelligence Health Working Group, the conference’s international exchanges and cooperation have become more abundant and the carriers more diverse. More cutting-edge artificial intelligence security and governance-related research results will be released during this year’s Wuzhen Summit.

In the next step, the World Internet Conference will continue to play its role as an international organization platform and further expand the international "circle of friends"; continue to pay attention to cutting-edge trends, focus on common concerns in the global digital field, expand cooperation areas, innovate forms of exchanges, promote the implementation of more pragmatic results, let digital dividends better benefit people of all countries, build international consensus and contribute solutions to promote the construction of a community with a shared future in cyberspace.

"This year's Wuzhen Summit will continue to improve the internationalization, leadership, and openness of the conference." "In order to present a complete, exciting, and successful Internet event to the world and let the world hear the most cutting-edge voices under the wave of digital intelligence, we continue to increase the intensity and breadth of guest invitations," Ren Xianliang said.

Over the past ten years since the Wuzhen Summit was held, its international influence and platform attractiveness have continued to increase, and its radiation effect has continued to expand. It has become an important platform for high-level exchanges and cooperation in the global Internet field, and an important window for the world to observe China's Internet development. At the beginning of November this year, the autumn mood is soaked in the water town of Wuzhen. We will gather here again for this annual date of mathematics and wisdom. (Written by: Li Zhengwei, Liu Jidong, Ding Yu)