Key figures worth paying attention to in the 2026 business world gather at the WISE event | The first batch of guests is officially announced.
It's November again this year, and the 36Kr WISE 2026 King of Commercial Summit will meet you in Yizhuang, Beijing this year.
The WISE King of Commercial Summit is like a continuously open window, showing us the constant changes happening in China's business world every year. This year marks the 14th year of the WISE Summit. From the internet wave to the AI era, from business model innovation to technology-driven industrial transformation, new stories take place every year, and there is always a group of people who take the lead in stepping into the center of changes.
In 2026, these changes have become more tangible. AI is no longer just a dialog box on the screen, robots have started to walk into real life, and new entrepreneurial approaches and new business opportunities keep emerging. Those discussions about the future that once existed are turning into real business stories happening right now.
At this year's WISE, let's talk together: how can new technologies truly integrate into business scenarios? Where are new growth opportunities emerging? What kind of judgments and choices are those people standing at the frontline of changes making?
Therefore, we have invited those who are exploring and taking action on the front line of business to meet everyone again at WISE!
The first batch of guests for WISE2026 King of Commercial is officially announced. More surprises are on the way! Scan the "Audience Registration QR Code" at the bottom of the poster or the article to sign up for the conference. Seats are limited, early bird tickets are only available for the last five days, and we look forward to meeting you on site!
First Batch of Guest Lineup
Wang Xingxing | Founder, CEO and CTO of Unitree Robotics Co., Ltd.
Wang Xingxing is the founder, CEO and CTO of Unitree. During his postgraduate study, he independently pioneered the R&D of XDog, a high-performance quadruped robot driven by low-cost outer-rotor brushless motors globally, which blazed the technical precedent of low-cost high-performance legged robots worldwide. The XDog robot was covered by multiple domestic and foreign media in 2016, and gained huge repercussions in the global robotics community.
Later in August 2016, he founded Unitree, which took the lead in publicly retailing high-performance quadruped robots around the world, leading global sales for years, and significantly promoted the global commercialization process of high-performance quadruped robots and humanoid robots. The company has cumulatively submitted more than 200 patent applications at home and abroad. He led the company to obtain multiple rounds of investment from Meituan, Tencent, Alibaba, HSG, Shunwei, Matrix Partners and other institutions. He once led the team to make the company's products appear on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Ox, the Opening Ceremony of the Winter Olympics, the Super Bowl, the CCTV Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Snake and the CCTV Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Horse. He has won honors including the 2025 China Youth May 4th Medal, the 6th National Outstanding Builder of the Cause of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics from the non-public economic sector in 2025, the 2025 Time Magazine "100 Most Influential AI People in the World", the cover character of Time Magazine 2026, and the 4th National Innovation Award for Excellence.
Xia Lixue | Co-founder and CEO of InfiniteCore
Xia Lixue, co-founder and CEO of InfiniteCore, graduated from the Department of Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University with both bachelor's and doctoral degrees, and studied under Professor Wang Yu. He has long been committed to the research of artificial intelligence system design methodology. His relevant work in the fields of large language model compression and acceleration, generative AI model chips is the world's first customized hardware design for the field of deep learning speech synthesis, which is in a leading position internationally. He has published more than 30 academic papers, with more than 3500 citations on Google Scholar. He has been selected into the list of top 2% scientists in global disciplines released by Stanford University for five consecutive years, and selected into the AI 2000 list of the most influential scholars in the field of artificial intelligence globally (Top 100 in the chip direction) for two consecutive years. He has won honors such as the 2025 National Model Worker of the Industry and Information Technology System, the 2025 CCTV Top 10 AI Person of the Year, and the 2025 Fortune 40U40 Business Elite. He founded InfiniteCore in 2023, and under his leadership, InfiniteCore has developed into one of the most representative high-tech enterprises in the AI infrastructure sector.
Hao Jianye | Elite Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of Tianjin University, Founder and CEO of MemoraX AI
Hao Jianye, Elite Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of Tianjin University, Founder and CEO of MemoraX AI, recipient of the National Excellent Youth Science Foundation, graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong with a doctorate degree, and once engaged in postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has long been deeply engaged in deep reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems and embodied intelligence. He has published more than 150 papers in top international conferences and journals such as ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR and Nature Communications, with more than 15000 citations on Google Scholar. He has won 4 best paper awards at international conferences and 4 NeurIPS competition championships. He once served as the director of the Decision Inference Laboratory and the director of the Large Model Algorithm Laboratory at Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, and the Technology President of Huawei Medical Corps, leading the incubation of multiple AI industrial projects from 0 to 1.
He founded MemoraX AI in 2026, focusing on building the next-generation AI memory infrastructure, and committed to breaking through the long-term memory capability bottleneck of large models. At present, the company has promoted the commercial implementation of long-term memory technology in more than 10 industries including medical care, finance, software development and intelligent terminals, and completed three rounds of financing of hundreds of millions of yuan within half a year of its establishment.
Wang Xiang | Founding Partner of Alpine Newland, Former President of Xiaomi Group, Former President of Qualcomm Greater China
Wang Xiang, Founding Partner of Alpine Newland, Former President of Xiaomi Group, Former President of Qualcomm Greater China, joined Xiaomi Group in 2015, and successively served as Senior Vice President, President of the International Business Department, President of Xiaomi Group and Acting Chief Financial Officer. He led the expansion of international business and the construction of intellectual property system, cleared patent obstacles for Xiaomi's globalization and established patent barriers. He stepped down as the Group President in December 2022 and transferred to the position of Senior Advisor.
Later, he turned to technology startup incubation and investment, founded Alpine Newland and served as Founding Partner, focusing on three major directions: AI applications, technology overseas expansion and intelligent manufacturing, helping young entrepreneurs connect China's supply chain with the global market. He is currently the co-chairman of the Embodied Intelligence Industry Alliance.
Guo Houyang | Founder, Chairman and CEO of Nova Fusion
Guo Houyang, APS Fellow of the American Physical Society, specially-appointed expert, currently serves as the Dean of Fuyao University of Science and Technology · Nova Fusion Energy Innovation Research Institute and specially-appointed Professor of Fuyao University of Science and Technology. He is also one of the very few scientists in the world who have deeply participated in the two mainstream fusion routes of Tokamak and Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) at the same time. His academic and engineering experience spans top institutions in Asia, Europe and the United States: he once served as the leader of the JET divertor recycling group and experimental leader of the world's largest Tokamak, the person in charge of the U.S. Department of Energy's largest FRC research program, Chief Scientist of TAE Technologies, founder and director of the General Atomics DIII-D boundary plasma and material research center of the largest Tokamak in the United States, the director of the CAS EAST Tokamak Laboratory, and he also has CTO experience in many domestic fusion enterprises, with valuable practical experience in basic theory and device construction. This composite resume spanning universities and enterprises in the East and West, and connecting the two fusion routes, constitutes the necessary academic and industrial background to participate in the definition of the global future energy science paradigm.
Zhang Yi | Founder and CEO of Future Near Robotics
Zhang Yi, Founder and CEO of Future Near Robotics, former founder and CEO of Zhangmen Education, a U.S. listed internet company. In 2022, he founded Future Near Robotics, and obtained multiple rounds of financing of nearly 1 billion yuan from institutions including ZhenFund, Boyu Capital and ByteDance. At present, Future Near Robotics has entered more than 500 families for paid use, and it is the world's first general-purpose robot that is put into use in real home environments.
Zhao Yan | Chairman of Huaxi Group, Chairman and President of Bloomage BioTechnology
Zhao Yan, Chairman of Huaxi International Investment Group, Chairman and President of Bloomage BioTechnology (688363.SH), currently serves as a member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a representative of the Haidian District People's Congress, an executive member of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, the Executive President of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce Women Entrepreneurs Chamber of Commerce, and the Vice Chairman of the Beijing Municipal Federation of Industry and Commerce. She founded Huaxi International in 1989, constructed and operated the Wukesong "Double Olympic Venues", and created the "Huaxi LIVE" model. She founded Bloomage BioTechnology in 2000, took the lead in realizing the biological manufacturing of hyaluronic acid, and ranks first in the world in market share. She has won honors such as the National March 8th Red Banner Bearer, China Economic Person of the Year, and Forbes China Top 100 Outstanding Businesswomen.
Li Zhifei | Founder and CEO of Mobvoi
Li Zhifei, Founder and CEO of Mobvoi, Ph.D. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University, expert in natural language processing and artificial intelligence, former scientist at Google Headquarters.
In 2012, Li Zhifei left Google and returned to China to found Mobvoi. Over the past ten years, he has continuously led the company through multiple technology cycles including mobile internet, AIoT and generative AI, leading the R&D and commercial implementation of voice assistants, smart hardware, multimodal large models and AIGC products, including Magic Audio Workshop (overseas version DupDub), Magic Yuan, Magic Ask and other products.
At the same time, around Agent capabilities and AI-native workflow, he explores new-generation AI-native applications and hardware forms, and launches Agentic AI products such as TicNote and CodeBanana. In this process, Li Zhifei has formed a relatively rare practical path of continuous cross-generational transformation among Chinese entrepreneurs, and keeps exploring the engineering implementation and commercialization boundary of AGI.
Mobvoi led by Li Zhifei has successively obtained investment from well-known institutions such as HSG, ZhenFund, Google, SIG and GoerTek, and was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on April 24, 2024, known as the "first AIGC stock".
Fan Yaoyuan | Founder and CEO of Nakai Quantum
Fan Yaoyuan, born in 1998, graduated from the School of Physics of Peking University with a bachelor's degree, and obtained a doctorate in quantum electronics from the School of Electronics, engaged in cold atom research for more than 8 years. During his doctoral period, he led the construction of the first ultra-cold atomic interferometric gyroscope system in China, and jointly built the first ultra-cold atomic Bloch oscillation gravimeter in China. He completed his doctoral studies as an outstanding graduate in 2026, and founded Nakai Quantum in April of the same year, committed to the R&D of neutral atom quantum