The 2025 Bund Summit will kick off next week. Sixteen academicians and Turing Award winners will lead more than 40 intellectual feasts.

The "2025 Inclusion·Bund Conference" will be grandly opened from September 10th to 13th at the World Expo Park in Huangpu, Shanghai. The theme of this year's conference is "Reshaping Innovative Growth". It will gather global technology leaders, young scientists, entrepreneurs, and technology enthusiasts to present an open, diverse, and forward - looking technology carnival.

The conference has carefully planned a series of wonderful activities, including 1 opening main forum, more than 40 open - insight forums, 18 innovators' stages, 3 AI technology innovation series competitions, and for the first time, a venture capital Meetup has been set up. At the same time, activities such as a 10,000 - square - meter technology - themed exhibition, a 5,000 - square - meter robot town, and a technology talent recruitment fair have been upgraded.

On September 2nd, the organizing committee of the Bund Conference held a media communication meeting and disclosed the conference's preparation situation and four major highlights to the public.

The Bund Conference technology exhibition hall about to be completed

Led by Chinese and foreign academicians and Turing Award winners

This year's Bund Conference has invited 16 academicians and Turing Award winners, and more than 550 industry experts and business leaders, bringing more than 40 intellectual feasts. The guests include Richard Sutton, the father of reinforcement learning and a Turing Award winner; Jack Dongarra, a pioneer in the field of high - performance computing and a Turing Award winner; Yuval Noah Harari, the author of "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind"; Wang Jian, Zheng Qinghua, and Xia Qiang, academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering; and Chen Zijiang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

A large number of young AI technology talents have become the main force of this conference. Nearly a hundred AI scientists, founders, and CEOs of technology companies have gathered at the conference, focusing on cutting - edge technology fields such as embodied intelligence, agents, and large models. The participants include Wang Xingxing, the founder and CEO of Unitree Robotics, and Wu Chenglin, the founder and CEO of DeepWisdom.

As of now, the conference has attracted nearly 20,000 young technology talents from around the world to sign up for various technology innovation activities, such as the innovators' stage, AI technology innovation competitions, and the venture capital Meetup.

The three major Asian fintech events gather for the first time

As a highly influential fintech event in Asia, the 2025 Bund Conference has achieved a new leap in promoting global dialogue on fintech.

On September 12th, the organizers of the three major Asian fintech events - the Singapore FinTech Festival, Hong Kong FinTech Week, and the Shanghai Bund Conference - gathered for the first time. The organizing committee of the Bund Conference, together with GFTN, the organizer of the Singapore FinTech Festival, and InvestHK of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, jointly organized a "Global Theme Day" for fintech to discuss global innovation.

Notably, this year's conference has gathered 62 international guests from 15 countries and regions, including the United States, Singapore, Israel, the United Kingdom, Germany, Indonesia, and South Africa. The internationalization level of the conference continues to remain high.

Nearly 20,000 young technology talents have signed up

This year's conference continues to upgrade its innovation activities.

The innovators' stage, which is very popular among young technology enthusiasts, has been comprehensively upgraded, bringing a more technologically creative stage, more diverse guests, and a more immersive viewing experience. The stage is open to the public for recruitment for the first time. These projects from mass entrepreneurship, together with scientists, rising stars of entrepreneurship, technology bloggers, and talk - show actors, will form 18 technology talk shows, presenting technologically creative ideas in the form of "flash talks + immersive performances". Some of them use AI to reproduce taste and touch, some transform urban noise into creative DJ music for preventing Alzheimer's disease, and a father - son band will create music on - site with the help of AI. These seemingly "whimsical" practices show the infinite possibilities of technology.

Under the guidance of the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission, the AI technology innovation competition focuses on three major directions: AI intelligent hardware, financial intelligence, and AI security. It has set up three competition units: the "Artificial Intelligence Hardware Technology Innovation Competition", the "AFAC Financial Intelligence Innovation Competition", and the "2025 · Global AI Attack - Defense Challenge". As of now, it has attracted more than 8,000 teams from nearly 20 countries and regions around the world to sign up. The final results will be announced at the conference site on September 10th.

The conference has launched the "Venture Capital Meetup" activity for the first time, inviting partners from 8 top venture capital institutions, including Mingshi Capital, GSR Ventures, Yunqi Partners, Jiuhua Ventures, Fengrui Capital, Walden International, Zhongke Chuangxing, and Shoucheng Capital, to participate on - site. They will select excellent startup projects around four major tracks: AIGC, embodied intelligence, intelligent hardware, and chips and equipment.

A technology and future - life experimental field of over 10,000 square meters

Vitality, being enjoyable to visit, and being full of cutting - edge technology and humanistic care have always been the genes of the Bund Conference technology exhibition.

This year, the organizing committee of the conference has upgraded the 10,000 - square - meter cutting - edge technology - themed exhibition area, concentrating on displaying a number of cutting - edge and hardcore technologies, including large models, chips, and controlled nuclear fusion. It has also specially created a future - life section for visitors to experience on - site, covering multiple areas such as "Future Health", "Future Mobility", "Digital New Energy", and "Industrial and Agricultural Evolution Zone". In these exhibition areas, visitors can not only experience creating a personalized agent with a single sentence and having the illusion of being full without eating through hallucinatory snacks but also interact with many technologies, such as consulting the AI health butler AQ.

The conference, in cooperation with Zhangjiang Robot Valley, embodied intelligence enterprises in Shanghai Caohejing High - tech Park, Ke Da Silicon Valley, the International Advanced Technology Application Promotion Center (Hefei), and the Chengdu Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, has set up a "Robot Town" for the first time. The town has gathered more than 40 well - known domestic and foreign embodied intelligence enterprises, covering more than 100 types of embodied intelligence robots from enterprises in the entire scenario, including ontology manufacturing, key components, core modules, and large - model algorithms. These robots are versatile, capable of massaging, diagnosing, making coffee, playing football, and doing tai chi. This event, expected to be the "coolest tech cyber temple fair on the Bund", will bring a deeply integrated human - machine interaction experience to the audience.

In addition to being rich and enjoyable to visit, the conference also focuses on practical functions. Participants can not only wander around the exhibition areas but also have the opportunity to look for jobs and discuss cooperation on - site. This year, the Bund Conference will simultaneously hold a technology talent recruitment fair and an industrial docking meeting. Currently, more than 50 enterprises have provided 1,500 job positions, and the industrial docking meeting has attracted more than 100 enterprises to sign up.

The Bund Conference robot town about to be completed

At the media communication meeting, the organizing committee released the MV theme song of the Bund Conference, which was completely written, composed, sung, and generated by AI. At the Bund Conference, from the creation of a song, the delivery of a cup of milk tea, the prediction of a typhoon, to the generation of a token and the analysis of a protein structure, all are real portrayals of the technological innovation ecosystem and miniatures of future technological life.