Awards & Competitions | Release of the Top 30 of 2026 WAIC SAIL Award and Top 20 of Excellent Youth Paper Award

Superior AI Leader Award (SAIL)

The Superior AI Leader Award (SAIL) is the highest - honor award of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference and a high - profile international award with great influence in the global artificial intelligence field.

Adhering to the concept of "Pursuing Excellence and Leading the Future", with transcendence, empowerment, innovation, and leadership as its core values, the award explores high - quality AI projects globally. It focuses on technological breakthroughs, application innovation, and governance exploration, and selects cutting - edge achievements that have both industry benchmark value and the ability to improve human well - being. It is the core indicator for observing the global AI technology iteration and industrial implementation.

"SAIL" implies setting sail on a long journey, symbolizing that artificial intelligence sets off from Shanghai, heads for the world, and sails towards a new intelligent future. After the preliminary and re - evaluation selections, the list of the TOP 30 finalists for the 2026 SAIL Award was officially released.

Outstanding Young Papers Award of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference

The Outstanding Young Papers Award of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference is hosted by the Organizing Committee of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, with the China Association for Science and Technology as the guiding unit. It is an important academic award in the industry focusing on young scientific research forces.

The award solicits high - quality academic papers from young scientific researchers under the age of 40 globally, and collects high - quality scientific research results in basic theoretical research, implementation application results, and key technological innovation in the field of intelligent science and technology and related fields. Its purpose is to discover outstanding young AI talents and encourage more young scientific research practitioners to deeply engage in the field of artificial intelligence and the track of scientific research innovation.

After strict preliminary and re - evaluation screenings, the list of the TOP 20 finalists for the 2026 Outstanding Young Papers Award of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference was officially and heavily released!