More than 1,572 guests from 73 countries and regions are taking part in the 2025 conference, assembling the most esteemed lineup in its history. This includes 12 Turing Award, Fields Medal and Nobel Prize winners, more than 80 academicians from both China and abroad, 215 industry leaders as well as more than 30 heads of AI departments from universities.

Peng Zhihui, co-founder and chief technology officer of AgiBot

With long-standing expertise in AI and robotics, Peng has led the company to establish a "robotics hardware + AI" full-stack technological architecture, achieving end-to-end in-house R&D capabilities spanning core components, system integration, and AI algorithms. Under his leadership, AgiBot has developed three revolutionary robot series: Yuanzheng, Jingling, and Lingxi, while setting multiple industry records.

Cyrus Hodes, a member of the OECD AI Policy Observatory and the Global Partnership on AI

He is also a member of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems and the OECD AI Network of Experts, and a co-founder of 1infinity Ventures and Duckweed Bio. From 2020 to 2022, he served as co-founder and partner of Stability AI.

Philippe Rambach, senior vice-president, chief artificial intelligence officer of Schneider Electric

Rambach has more than 20 years of experience in strategy, innovation, and business responsibility in many industries. He once held various leadership roles in energy management and industrial automation. At Schneider Electric, his mission is to drive AI innovation at scale, both internally and for customers, to provide greater overall efficiency and sustainability through data-based insights.

Zheng Nanning, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and director of the National Key Laboratory of Human-Machine Hybrid Augmented Intelligence

Zheng is also director of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at Xi'an Jiaotong University, a life member of the IEEE, honorary president of the Chinese Association of Automation, and honorary president of the Chinese Society for Cognitive Science. He currently serves as deputy head of the expert group of the Strategic Advisory Committee for the New Generation Artificial Intelligence under the Ministry of Science and Technology.

Andrew C. Yao, winner of the 2000 Turing Award and dean of Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute

Yao is a world-renowned computer scientist and pioneer in cryptography and quantum computing. He was a recipient of the Turing Award in 2000 and the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology in 2021. He served on the faculty of MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley and Princeton University before joining Tsinghua University in 2004.

Harry Heung-Yeung Shum, former executive vice-president of Microsoft, a foreign member of the US National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering

During his tenure as executive vice-president at Microsoft, he led Microsoft Research, the world's most cutting-edge computer science research institution, and the Microsoft Global AI Business, overseeing Microsoft's AI strategy covering AI infrastructure, services, applications and intelligent assistants.

Yoshua Bengio, winner of the 2018 Turing Award, full professor of Computer Science at Universite de Montreal, and co-president and scientific director of LawZero

Bengio is also the founder and scientific advisor of Mila and a Canada CIFAR AI chair. Considered one of the world's leaders in AI and deep learning, he is a recipient of the 2018 Turing Award, often referred to as the "Nobel prize of computing".

Stuart Russell, a distinguished professor of computer science at University of California, Berkeley

Russell is a leading researcher in artificial intelligence, a member of the National Academy of Engineering in the United States, a fellow of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom, and president of the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI. He has been active in arms control for nuclear and autonomous weapons.

Geoffrey Hinton, Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics and 2018 Turing Award, and Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of Toronto

Hinton was one of the researchers who introduced the backpropagation algorithm and the first to use backpropagation for learning word embeddings. His other contributions to neural network research include Boltzmann machines, distributed representations, time-delay neural nets, mixtures of experts, variational learning and deep learning.

Eric Schmidt, CEO and chairman of Relativity Space, and former CEO and chairman of Google

Schmidt currently serves as executive chairman and CEO of Relativity Space and he oversaw Google's transformation from a small startup into one of the world's most influential companies as its CEO and chairman from 2001 to 2011.

Craig J. Mundie, president of Mundie & Associates and former chief research and strategy officer of Microsoft

Mundie is a distinguished technology executive with a career defined by significant contributions to the technology industry and public policy. He is a leading advocate for responsible technology development, particularly in the fields of AI, advanced computing systems, and global technology policy. Mundie co-authored Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit with Eric Schmidt and Henry Kissinger.

Xue Lan, counsellor of the State Council of China and dean of Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University

Xue also serves as the director of the Institute for AI International Governance at Tsinghua University, the convener of the Discipline Evaluation Group (Public Administration) of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council and the chair of the National Expert Committee on the Governance of Next Generation of AI.

Zhou Bowen, director and chief scientist of Shanghai AI Lab and Huiyan chair professor at Tsinghua University

Zhou is also a tenured professor of the Department of Electronic Engineering, IEEE/CAAI Fellow. Prior to that, he was the director of AI Foundations of IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, chief scientist of IBM Watson Group, a distinguished engineer of IBM, senior vice-president of JD, chairman of JD's technology committee, and president of JD Cloud & AI.

Xiao SonG, Siemens global executive vice-president, and chairman, president and CEO of Siemens China

Xiao graduated from Chongqing University and Dortmund University and holds a PhD in engineering from Germany. He has profound management expertise in multinationals across industries and successful experiences with investment in innovation businesses.

Yan Junjie, CEO and co-founder of MiniMax

Before founding MiniMax, Yan held various senior positions in SenseTime, including the company's vice-president, chief technology officer of Smart City Business Group, and vice-president of the company's research institute. He published more than 200 papers in top AI journals, and his research work has been cited over 30,000 times on Google Scholar.

Xu Li, board chairman and CEO of SenseTime

Xu serves as the rotating chairman of the AI Committee's Presidium under the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce. He is also the founding president of the Hong Kong New Quality Entrepreneur Union. Through these appointments, he actively fosters holistic collaborations across the AI ecosystem, driving the systematic development of AI and advancing the growth of next-generation productivity.