Two-way empowerment and integrated innovation! The offline roadshows of the second season of "Lenovo's New Business Innovation Ecological Roadshow" concluded successfully in two cities.
The keywords belonging to 2024 must involve adjustment and remodeling.
The surging wave of AI has not receded but has integrated into various industries, forming an undercurrent that is washing the coast of the business world. Almost every day, new ideas, new technologies, and new products embark on their commercial voyages, waiting to be verified by the market.
The unlimited possibilities linked to the AI era bring not only opportunities but also challenges to innovators.
How to achieve the "daring leap" from innovation to implementation has become the lifeline of countless innovative enterprises of all sizes. Integrating into the industrial ecosystem may be the certainty for innovators to embrace the future and traverse the cycle.
In December, the offline roadshows of the second season of "Lenovo New Business Innovation and Ecological Roadshow" in Shanghai and Beijing concluded one after another. More than 140 innovative projects in the cutting-edge AI tracks signed up to participate. Nearly 40 winning projects selected were showcased on the stages of Beijing and Shanghai.
After evaluation by the expert panel, 10 outstanding projects were finally born - DeepDesign, Silicon Core Technology, Oriole Intelligence Sound, Openbayes Bayesian Computing, Panto Technology, Ruru AI, Water Core Electronics, Deep Surge Intelligence, Digital Light Core, and TanZhen Technology.
As the initiator of the event, Lenovo has been continuously fulfilling the responsibility of the chain leader enterprise, focusing on serving the development of small and medium-sized enterprises. Previously, Lenovo has integrated resources of the systematic industrial chain by aggregating different ecologies such as investment institutions, group business departments, and large enterprise partners, and has created a win-win ecological alliance for small and medium-sized enterprises - Lenovo Start-up Star Program.
Up to now, tens of thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises have become a part of Lenovo Start-up Star Program, reaping assistance in four aspects: industry-research co-creation, ecological openness, capital support, and business expansion, as well as empowerment in multiple aspects such as brand, service, product, and ecology.
Centered around Lenovo Start-up Star Program, Lenovo has also constructed five empowerment capabilities including supply chain, platform, technology, ecology, and green, providing all-round empowerment for the growth of outstanding start-ups, and exploring a "three-step" innovative development path of "venture capital, post-investment, and on-chain" for small and medium-sized enterprises.
Driven by Lenovo, a new ecosystem of two-way empowerment and integrated development has gradually become an innovation incubator for start-ups and an accelerator for the development of small and medium-sized enterprises. This second season of the "Lenovo New Business Innovation and Ecological Roadshow" is an exclusive stage for it to attempt to gather more ecological forces and provide a showcase for innovators in the cutting-edge fields.
The innovative projects that stood out in the previous competition have entered the POC stage for implementation. This year, the event has won the participation of more ecological forces - large enterprises, venture capital institutions, government forces, and other ecological circles, who have gathered here for the same goal - to seek new possibilities for the integrated development of large, medium, and small enterprises and the two-way empowerment of the industrial ecosystem.
In the offline venue of this roadshow event, senior executives of Lenovo and its large enterprise partners, big names from well-known investment institutions, government leaders, and academic experts gathered here. While witnessing the style of innovators, they also served as sharing guests to bring insights and experience sharing.
On December 20 in Beijing, Yu Hai, Senior Vice President of Lenovo Group, General Manager of Commercial Product Center and Global SMB Business believes that on the road to promoting the popularization of AI, it may be difficult to meet these needs by relying solely on the R & D strength of one enterprise, and it is necessary to build a "tropical rainforest" of scientific and technological innovation. Through the roadshow event, it is hoped to discover more innovative AI projects, inject greater driving force into the success of both parties' products and businesses, help more start-ups thrive, and jointly explore the development opportunities in the AI era.
Wu Shichun, Founding Partner of Plum Ventures shared his observations and thoughts on how chain leader enterprises empower the industry, emphasizing the importance of an enterprise's self-hematopoietic ability and believing that resilient entrepreneurs are the key to success.
Ji Zhaohui, Vice President of Marketing for AMD Greater China demonstrated how AMD supports the development of AI PC through its technology and ecology, and promotes the application of AI technology in various fields through cooperation with partners such as Lenovo, providing hardware technical support and ecological empowerment for start-ups.
It is worth mentioning that Kuang Zheng, Co-founder and CTO of Qingting Acoustics, the winning project of the previous roadshow season, returned to the stage to demonstrate the real empowerment of the innovation ecosystem created by Lenovo for small and medium-sized enterprises with his current situation of obtaining investment and conducting multiple product POC tests.
In the roundtable dialogue session in Beijing, Wang Zhepeng, Vice President of Lenovo Group, Head of Personal Computer and Ecological Innovation Research Laboratory of Lenovo Research Institute, Zhang Lu, General Manager of Innovation Ecology Cooperation Department of Beijing Zhongguancun Bank, Yuan Feng, Partner of Gaorong Ventures, Yu Fanghao, General Manager of Mergers and Acquisitions of Baichuan Intelligence, Partner of AI Industry Fund, and Feng Dagang, CEO of 36Kr discussed in Beijing around the theme of "Co-building, Sharing and Winning Together: New Possibilities for the AI PC Industry Ecology", exploring how the AI PC industry ecology can achieve the two-way empowerment of large, medium and small enterprises based on the opportunity of the third iteration of the PC industry.
On December 5 in Shanghai, Zheng Aiguo, General Manager of Global SMB Products and Solutions of Lenovo, Head of Lenovo Start-up Star Program demonstrated Lenovo's practice of building an all-round empowerment for small and medium-sized enterprises through the creation of the "Lenovo Start-up Star Program", as well as its thoughts on exploring the two-way empowerment of the industry based on the "chain leader" role.
To fully assist the potential realization of innovative projects, Lenovo also relies on its own product division - Lenovo Research Institute - Lenovo Venture Capital's "three-level R & D system" to actively reach out to innovative projects and continuously promote the application and implementation of new AI scenarios and technologies.
Li Guowen, Director of the Investment Promotion Office of Yangpu District, Shanghai emphasized the importance of small and medium-sized enterprises as an innovative force from the government's perspective, and recognized the value of the innovation roadshow event in empowering the industrial chain innovation.
Wang Zhepeng, Vice President of Lenovo Group, Head of Personal Computer and Ecological Innovation Research Laboratory of Lenovo Research Institute shared Lenovo's exploration and thoughts in the field of AI PC, as well as the expectation of more innovative forces to jointly contribute to the industrial development with Lenovo.
Liao Yang, General Manager of Global Custom Software R & D of AMD discussed how to support the development of AI technology through hardware innovation, and expressed the hope to cooperate with enterprises in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain such as Lenovo to jointly promote the coordinated progress of AI applications and hardware.
In the roundtable dialogue session in Shanghai, based on the theme of "Chain Leader Empowering the Industry and Ecological Innovation", Tang Jin, Deputy Director of the Investment Promotion Office of Yangpu District, Zheng Aiguo, General Manager of Global SMB Products and Solutions of Lenovo, Head of Lenovo Start-up Star Program, Luo Xu, Managing Director of Lenovo Venture Capital, Yao Kai, Professor of the Department of Business Administration of Fudan University, Director of the Global Science and Technology Innovation Talent Development Research Center of Fudan University, and Li Zheng, Partner and Vice President of 36Kr gathered in Shanghai to examine the value of chain leader enterprises in the industrial ecology and Lenovo's practice from different perspectives of government, industry, academia, and research.
Looking back at the roadshows in Beijing and Shanghai. Many innovators in the cutting-edge AI field have displayed their business ingenuity and innovative ideas on the stage, not only feeling the all-round empowerment brought by the Lenovo ecosystem, but also providing assistance to the entire industrial ecology with their own innovation capabilities, truly building a two-way empowerment model for the industry.
Next, let's witness the style of the TOP 10 projects of the second season of the "Lenovo New Business Innovation and Ecological Roadshow Season" and see the power of innovation together. (Sorted in alphabetical order of project names).
DeepDesign
DeepDesign focuses on the application of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AIGC) in the field of mechanical 3D design. Its ChatDesign (conversational design) subsystem uses the self-developed (proposed and pre-trained by the team) Colap-3D model, allowing users to drive the design of mechanical 3D equipment through conversation. At the same time, users can further modify the results of mechanical 3D design through conversation. In addition, its DesignGPT subsystem (Coming Soon) is a true large model for mechanical 3D design, with an expected parameter quantity of up to tens of billions. It is the best solution for industrial design + structural design + mechanical design, which can meet the full-chain needs from creative conception to production. Its B2C2B business model covers all aspects from end users to the manufacturing end, which will greatly promote the digitalization and intelligent development of mechanical 3D design.
Silicon Core Technology
Silicon Core Technology is incubated from the Software Engineering Institute of Peking University, and its core team is from Peking University. It is one of the earliest teams in the world to apply deep learning technology to the field of code generation and code understanding. The company focuses on the AIGC for Code field, is committed to applying cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology to software engineering, and focuses on the enterprise personalized landing technology of the code large model to help enterprises achieve intelligent development. aiXcoder provides enterprises with all-round intelligent software development solution services, including the construction of an intelligent software development platform, the construction of an exclusive code large model, domain knowledge learning, and self-owned large model training consultation services.
Oriole Intelligence Sound
Relying on the 20-year research accumulation of the Tsinghua team, Oriole Intelligence Sound is deeply engaged in the field of sound, especially in the research and development, application, and service of sound front-end processing technology and related products, and is committed to "improving the quality of human life and work with sound intelligence". Oriole Intelligence Sound achieves precise processing of voice signals through AI modeling and deep learning, and can efficiently eliminate noise in a local computing environment. Oriole Intelligence Sound has realized the possibility of enabling sound pickup and noise reduction with AI technology, leading the development of the voice front-end processing field with technological innovation, and has been highly recognized in the domestic and international markets.
