Let's hear what the frontline practitioners deeply engaged in the industry have to say about its future | Review of wonderful insights from the 2026 Industry Future Conference
The future of an industry often begins to take shape long before it becomes a widely recognized consensus. Every year, 36Kr tries to look further ahead: identifying industrial opportunities in the early stages of technological breakthroughs, observing growth logic from changes in capital flows, and continuously exploring how far those highly anticipated innovations have actually advanced.
From September 9 to 10, 2026, the 2026 Industrial Future Summit themed "Above Deep Waters, Resonate for New Vitality" was held at Tongming Lake Convention and Exhibition Center, Yizhuang, Beijing. Two days of speeches and dialogues brought these questions to a more tangible scene: what thresholds still need to be crossed before quantum technology can move out of laboratories? How can AI realize its industrial value when it is integrated into the real world? How can state-owned capital and industrial capital support a technology through the long cycle from technological breakthrough to large-scale implementation? From advanced manufacturing, new energy and semiconductors to brain-computer interfaces and embodied intelligence, we care about how much imaginative space technology can unlock, and who is paving the way, verifying and paying for these visions.
After the summit concluded, all judgments are still to be tested by time. The following are the guest viewpoints we carefully selected from the event, including forward-looking judgments on trends and practical answers from real practices. Let's recognize the forming outline of the industrial future from these fragments of insights.
