Livestream Registration | Today! 2026 WAIC Qiming Venture Partners Entrepreneurship and Investment Forum: The Evolutionary Journey from Computing Power Origin to Application Deployment
Decoding the Paradigm Shift in the LLM Era Together: How the Industry Can Move Beyond Pure Parameter Chasing to Ruthless Exploration of Real-World Scenarios, Cost Efficiency, and Closed-Loop Business Models
2026 WAIC World Artificial Intelligence Conference
Qiming Venture Partners · Entrepreneurship & Investment Forum
The Evolution from Compute Origins to Application Deployment Begins Today!
This is a sub-forum exploring AI's journey from underlying compute infrastructure to industrial deployment — through the lens of innovation and entrepreneurship.
We are bringing together leading scholars and pioneering founders in this space to present:
3 keynote speeches
1 in-depth dialogue
1 roundtable discussion
3 major announcements
How does compute infrastructure evolution support the full-stack AI industry? How does AI evolve from "technical ideal" to "industrial engine"? How can real-world scenarios generate efficient, sustainable AI commercial value? What differences exist in AI governance approaches across countries? How can we build a safe, sustainable AI governance framework?
Sunday, July 19, 2:00 PM
Registered attendees are welcome to join us at
Silver Hall B, 1st Floor, Shanghai World Expo Center
(No. 1500 Expo Avenue, Pudong New Area, Shanghai, China — Gate 2)
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Founded in 2006, Qiming Venture Partners currently manages 11 USD funds and 7 RMB funds, with total assets under management reaching $9.5 billion. Since inception, the firm has focused on investing in outstanding early- and growth-stage companies in Technology and Healthcare.
To date, Qiming Venture Partners has invested in over 580 high-growth innovative companies. More than 210 of these have gone public on the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited, Shanghai Stock Exchange, and Shenzhen Stock Exchange, or exited through M&A and other means. Over 80 portfolio companies have become recognized unicorns or super-unicorns.
Many of Qiming Venture Partners' portfolio companies have grown into the most influential companies in their respective fields, including Xiaomi (01810.HK), Meituan (03690.HK), Bilibili (NASDAQ: BILI, 09626.HK), Zhihu (NYSE: ZH, 02390.HK), Roborock (688169.SH), Hesai Technology (NASDAQ: HSAI, 02525.HK), UBTECH (09880.HK), WeRide (NASDAQ: WRD, 0800.HK), HyperStrong (688411.SH), Insta360 (688775.SH), Unisound (09678.HK), Biren Technology (06082.HK), Zhipu (02513.HK), Gan & Lee Pharmaceuticals (603087.SH), Tigermed (300347.SZ, 03347.HK), Zai Lab (NASDAQ: ZLAB, 09688.HK), CanSino Biologics (688185.SH, 06185.HK), Schrödinger (NASDAQ: SDGR), MicroPort EP MedTech (688617.SH), Sanyou Medical (688085.SH), Amoy Diagnostics (300685.SZ), Genrix Bio (688520.SH), Insilico Medicine (03696.HK), AusperBio, Yuanxin Technology, MediLink Therapeutics, LaNova Medicines, StepFun, and others.