China News Service, Changsha, November 11th (Xiang Yipeng) The press conference of the 2026 World Computing Conference held in Changsha on the 11th revealed that with the approval of the Hunan Provincial People's Government, the 2026 World Computing Conference is scheduled to be held in Changsha from November 19th to 21st.
Currently, global computing technology is undergoing a new round of paradigm restructuring and energy level leaps. Breakthroughs are accelerating in cutting-edge directions such as heterogeneous integration, optoelectronic fusion, and neuromorphic computing. Artificial intelligence is moving from "perceptual intelligence" to "generative intelligence" and "decision-making intelligence", promoting the transition of computing from supporting the digital economy to leading the intelligent economy, becoming the core force in cultivating new productivity and shaping a new picture of the trillion-level digital economy.
The press conference of the 2026 World Computing Conference. Photo by Xiang Yipeng
In recent years, Hunan has relied on the World Computing Conference platform to continue to focus on attracting talents, coordinating the construction of the "four computing in one" computing power network, deepening the implementation of "artificial intelligence +" scenarios, and making the advanced computing industry cluster bigger and stronger.
According to the Hunan Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Hunan has established a normalized joint service mechanism around key tracks such as autonomous computing, energy electronics, intelligent robots, and artificial intelligence terminals, built a number of public platforms for testing, adaptation, and verification, and regularly organized upstream and downstream supply and demand docking, product joint debugging and testing, and strengthened industrial clusters; at the same time, it has deepened production The academic-research-finance cooperation supports leading enterprises to join forces with universities and scientific research institutes in the province to form municipal industry-education consortiums and industry-industry-education integration communities, to train urgently needed talents such as end-side AI chips, embodied intelligent manufacturing, and large industry models, and guide state-owned capital in the province to invest in early, small, and hard technologies, smooth the circulation of industrial capital, and jointly build an industrial ecosystem.
With the theme of "Computing Everything, Xiangyue's Future - Creating a New Form of Intelligent Economy", this conference will set up an opening ceremony and keynote forum, theme forum, parallel forum, concurrent events and computing industry expo, with a total of "1+5+N+1" and 21 themed activities.
It is understood that the conference adheres to high-standard and high-level conferences, extensively gathers global wisdom and industrial resources, and sets topics to actively comply with the development trends of the computing industry. The speech topics focus on cutting-edge fields such as intelligent manufacturing, semiconductors, artificial intelligence, and computing power. The conference will interpret the development direction of the computing industry during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, release a number of research reports on computing industry analysis, computing power development trends, and computing industry standards, as well as a number of computing industry results such as computing and computing collaboration, infrastructure, and computing software and hardware.
This conference adopts a market-oriented operation method for the first time and expands previous special exhibitions into the 2026 Computing Industry Expo, with a planned area of 10,000 square meters. More than 80 well-known companies in the computing field at home and abroad are actively participating in the exhibition. The exhibition will set up links such as industry-industry cooperation, industry-education integration, standard release, and project signing to strengthen marketization and industrialization results.
The World Computing Conference has been held for 7 times since its inception in 2019, and has become a high-end platform for displaying achievements, industrial integration, and international cooperation in the field of computing.
