ITPO Shanghai Facilitates World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2021

Since the first World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) being held in 2018, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has been assisting in holding WAIC as an international institutional partner for four consecutive years. Echoing the theme of WAIC 2021, “Intelligent World, Intelligent City”, UNIDO took issues such as Al + SDGs and high-quality development of the industry to the conference for in-depth discussion with the professional audience, jointly promoting artificial intelligence technology sustainable innovation and global project landing of high-quality development.

WAIC 2021 was co-organized by the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China, the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China, the State Internet Information Office,the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Chinese Association for Science and Technology, and the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government. 1 Nobel laureate, 5 Turing laureates, 61 academicians from home and abroad, and 150 CEOs have participated in the conference, with more than 352 million online and offline viewers.

(Speech by Bernardo Calzadilla-Sarmiento, Managing Director of UNIDO)

Invited by the organizing committee of WAIC 2021, Bernardo Calzadilla-Sarmiento, Managing Director of UNIDO, represented the Director General to attend the conference via video.