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The World Intelligent Manufacturing Conference has been held in Nanjing since 2016, aiming to showcase global intelligent manufacturing innovation results and promote the docking of industrial resources.
China News Service, Nanjing, October 27 (Reporter Xu Shanshan) On October 27, reporters learned from the press conference of the 2026 World Intelligent Manufacturing Conference that the conference will be held in Nanjing from November 19 to 21 and will be co-sponsored by the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government and the International Intelligent Manufacturing Alliance. This conference will set up one theme conference, more than 10 special activities, and nearly 30 industrial ecology conferences will be held simultaneously.
The conference closely follows the country's "15th Five-Year Plan" to accelerate the development of a new generation of intelligent manufacturing, combines Jiangsu's "artificial intelligence + manufacturing" practical results, and brings together academicians, experts and leading entrepreneurs from around the world. At the meeting, the results of pilot-level smart factory construction, the top ten scientific and technological developments in smart manufacturing in the world and China in 2026, and a series of research reports by the National Smart Manufacturing Expert Committee will be released. In addition, innovative achievements such as industrial data sets, large model algorithms, and industrial world model generators will also be unveiled at the conference, visually demonstrating the new generation of intelligent manufacturing from theoretical exploration to implementation.
Focusing on Jiangsu's "1650" modern industrial system, the conference focused on key industrial chains such as new energy vehicles and embodied intelligent robots to carry out precise industry docking. More than 50 domestic and foreign professional purchasing groups will go to Nanjing to carry out intelligent manufacturing and major equipment procurement negotiations. The professional market-oriented exhibition held at the same time has a total area of about 50,000 square meters, displaying cutting-edge technologies such as autonomous vehicles and unmanned aerial vehicles, and showing the application of artificial intelligence in industrial operations and other scenarios.
The World Intelligent Manufacturing Conference settled in Nanjing in 2016. After ten years of development, it has become an important international platform for observing global intelligent manufacturing innovation trends, linking global high-end industrial resources, and publishing national intelligent manufacturing results.
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