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2016 Canton Tower Science and Technology Conference Successfully Held in Guangzhou, China


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IDG China

Dec 14, 2016, 09:15 ET

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GUANGZHOU, China, Dec. 14, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- On December 9, 2016, 2016 Canton Tower Science and Technology Conference- Global Mobile Developers Conference & Internet Leaders Forum was held successfully in Guangzhou, the conference covered the mobile Internet, big data, artificial intelligence, AR/VR, technology finance, information security, Internet+ sports and other popular sports fields. In the two-day conference, more than 100 technology leaders and elites from well-known enterprises of the Internet industry made keynote speeches, and 50 famous investors were involved in the project docking, the number of participants reached more than 8000 people, which attracted interviews and reports by more than 300 domestic and overseas media.

Android World Developers Conference, which was held four times and enjoyed massive popularity, has been renamed the 2016 Canton Tower Science and Technology Conference. The focus of the conference was new technologies and new trends in previous conferences. Tens of thousands of Internet developers were involved and witnessed the change of Chinese technology and its application, which faithfully represented the technical hot points in the field of Internet development, precipitated numerous valuable industry experience, and attracted the attention of internet practitioners and developers.

Private session of Internet + think tank

On the afternoon of the 8th, Ren Xuefeng, Municipal Party Secretary of Guangzhou met with Xiong Xiaoge, Global Executive Vice President of IDG, Guo Taiming, Chairman of Foxconn Technology Group, Yan Yan, Chief SAIF Partner, Neil Arora, Partner and Senior Vice President of Hongtai Silicon Valley, Shen Jin, Global Vice President of Qualcomm and Director and General Manager of venture capital, Xu Zhou, Vice President of IDG Asia, Huo Jinjie, President of IDC China, Allen Yang, Director of AR/VR laboratory of Berkeley University and Huang Jiangji, Co-Founder and Vice President of Xiaomi and conducted an in-depth dialogue.

Then, the private session of Guangzhou Internet +think tank was held in Canton Tower, Wang Dong Deputy Mayor, Government of Guangzhou City, attended the meeting and issued the senior consultant appointments, Xiong Xiaoge, Guo Taiming, Yan Yan, Xu Xiaoping, Li Kaifu, Yang Fei, Shen Jin and Neil Arora were hired as senior economic advisers to the Guangzhou municipal government, and Lei Jun, Zhou Hongyi, Li Zhu, Xu Zhou, Huo Jinjie, Allen Yang, Niu Yibing, Xu Yong, Zhou Gengshen and Ding Lei were hired as the senior consultants of Internet industry in Guangzhou municipal government. Ma Zhengyong, Director of Science and Technology Innovation Commission  in Guangzhou city, Wu Qiang, Deputy Director of the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Education, Lin Yanfen, Deputy Director of Guangzhou Municipal Sports Bureau and Ye Xiaoqiang, Deputy Inspector of MIIT also attended the meeting. The eighteen appointed individuals will work together to assist the development of both the economy and internet in Guangzhou.

Thirteen wonderful forums

The conference which boasted thirteen forums, played host to nearly a hundred speakers. It was standing room only and the conference site was packed with people during the peak periods resulting in registration challenges for each of the forums.

At the opening ceremony, Wang Dong, Deputy Mayor of Guangzhou City, Wu Weibao, Deputy Director of Guangdong Provincial Development and Reform Commission and Xiong Xiaoge, Global Executive Vice President and Founding Partner of IDG Capital, the sponsor delivered speeches, which welcomed and thanked the guests, media and audience and reviewed the historical themes, from "openness – cross-border - innovation" in 2012 to "technology – imagination-human-future" in 2016. 2016 Canton Tower Science and Technology Conference witnessed the positive impact of Internet and technology on the development of the industry, hoping that more and more people can deeply understand the top achievements of global intelligent technology through the platform, "absorb industry power" with Internet technology leaders and elites and promote the development of the world technology and the Internet industry.

There were many highlights in the two-day conference, with more than a hundred speakers making speeches in the thirteen topic forums, including the creative "global mobile Internet development contest finals", "2016 global VR / AR trends forum" known as black technology playground, brave "product innovation forum under new scenarios", hot "science and technology finance development summit", hot "big data and security software development forum", "analysis forum of sharing economy and social platform" that is close to our daily lives, "Internet +smart manufacturing & Guangdong entrepreneurial innovation development forum" that follows policy trends, " Internet+ sports forum" that attracts a large amount of fans, "Chinese technology opening day - technology forefront of mobile application development ", the popular "new world of artificial intelligence", " IDG post-investment enterprise forum" that attracts business, and the popular "angel investment and technology innovation forum", which attracted and audience of nearly a thousand professionals. The 2016 Canton Tower Science and Technology Conference showed that the Conference has become a gathering place of the world's leading technology and a new window to observe the world of advanced technology.

The guests of the special forums were senior leaders and core experts from major companies, including Qualcomm, Fyusion, SAIF, Hongtai Silicon Valley, Amazon, Ali, Baidu, Tencent, Hisense, Xiaomi, Foxconn, Taobao, vip.com, Inno Angel Fund, Highper Capital, Northern Light, Sohu and Himalaya, in addition, many experts and scholars of the top universities at home and abroad were actively involved, such as UC Berkeley, The Chinese University Hong Kong, Tsinghua University, etc., it also brought together the representatives from the United States, Germany, Holland, Italy, Greece, Singapore, Norway, Pakistan, Turkey, Angola, Switzerland, Peru, Kuwait and Israel in the Consulate General of Guangzhou the. Speakers shared valuable information, the subject matter was "hot", the technology was never "boring", and the atmosphere was "sparked" by the collision of ideas and passion from the technology practitioners.

At the end of the speech, there were summit dialogue sessions. The guest hosts raised questions that could "represent the audience" and the participants responded by putting forward their own views, carrying out interactions and creating a warm atmosphere.

Canton Tower The Best 2016 Awards Ceremony

On the evening of December 8, the sponsor held a dinner and awards ceremony. Canton Tower The Best 2016 Awards Ceremony was a grand annual selection meeting for technology products and surrounding services created by Canton Tower Science and Technology Organizing Committee. In accordance with the standards of innovation, efficiency and advance, it comprehensively evaluated the development of related technology products in the past year, recommended the best products of the year and announced customer service satisfaction survey and the favorite brand of the consumers. Canton Tower The Best 2016 was upgraded from Android World Awards Ceremony, which was held for five sessions.

Canton Tower Science and Technology Conference Organizing Committee hopes to further encourage Internet companies to conduct technological innovation through selection activities, and provide more reference basis for service selection and make the best products and service help more users, further promote the technical development of the Internet industry and drive Internet and science and technology development in China.

Open communication, speaking freely, jointly discussing the prospects of the world's top technology development and seeking the future of intelligent technology, the Canton Tower Science and Technology Conference has achieved fruitful results in the exchange of ideas, technology display and formation of consensus and so on, which truly becomes the top technology sharing platform in the Internet industry. The Canton Tower Science and Technology Conference was held successfully, but the spirit will not end, it's believed that the 2017 Canton Tower Science and Technology Conference will be even more grand!

For more reviews, please visit the official website: http://www.cantontowerstc.com, or follow the Wechat public account: "Canton Tower Science and Technology Conference".

SOURCE IDG China

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