World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2021 (WAIC)

The World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2021 (WAIC), co-sponsored by National Development and Reform Commission, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology of the People´s Republic of China, National Internet Information Office, CAS, Chinese Academy of Engineering, China Association for Science and Technology and Shanghai Municipal People‘s Government, was held in Shanghai from July 8 to 10, bringing together top scientists, well-known entrepreneurs, government officials, experts and scholars, international organizations, investors, startup teams and other guests from all over the world.

As a leading enterprise in the field of data center, an implementer of sustainable data ecosystem, and a strategic partner of UNIDO ITPO Shanghai, Hotwon Group was invited to the World Artificial Intelligence Conference for the first time as a representative of high-tech private unicorn companies, and together with the participants, we seek solutions to build green smart city governance and sustainable intelligent data ecosystem.

2021 International AI City Forum

2021 International AI City Forum is one of the key forums of this year's WAIC, guided by the WAIC Organizing Committee, co-sponsored by Shanghai Smart City Development Institute, Tongji University and China Unicom, co-organized by Jingdong Group and Shanghai Information Service Outsourcing Development Center, and supported by UNIDO-SIPC, Tomorrow.City (Shanghai) HUB and BSI and other organizations.

Mr. Liu Li’ao, President of Hotwon

On July 9, Mr. Liu Li’ao, President of Hotwon, was invited to attend 2021 WAIC - International AI City Forum and delivered a keynote speech on "Data Center Empowering AI City New Infrastructure", talking about AI empowering digital city governance with the guests. In his speech, Mr. Liu Li’ao introduced that the Group, as a leading enterprise and young leader in the data center field, adheres to the concept of green sustainable development and has been exploring intelligent design, advanced power supply, and heat dissipation technology, secure green storage devices, energy-saving servers, etc. to reduce energy consumption and balance efficiency and security, so as to continuously empower the new infrastructure of AI cities and create a sustainable data ecosystem.

Mr. Liu Li’ao's brilliant speech brought a brand-new experience to the conference audience, which made more people understand the great role played by the data center in AI city governance in the new infrastructure field and the important achievements made by Hotwon as a rapidly emerging private unicorn company in this field.

AI Empowering to Bridge the Digital Divide Forum

AI Empowering to Bridge the Digital Divide Forum is one of the important forums of the WAIC, guided by the WAIC Organizing Committee, co-sponsored by Shanghai Smart City Development Institute, Ant Group, and co-organized by UNIDO-SIPC and Shanghai University.

Opening ceremony

On July 10th, Mr. Wang Lipeng, vice president of the Group, attended the 2021 WAICAI· Bridging the Digital Divide Forum as a special guest, and attended the opening ceremony of the development report "Gathering Digital Partners and Bridging the Digital Divide", discussing with the participants how to make more people better integrate into the era of intelligent applications and share the digital development dividend. As the co-sponsor and participating development organization of the development report "Gathering Digital Partners and Bridging the Digital Divide", Hotwon Group will provide important cases and solutions of sustainable data ecosystem for the report, and will cooperate with its strategic partner UNIDO ITPO Shanghai to serve the global new infrastructure construction with Chinese technology, bridge the digital divide and benefit human development with science and technology.

Intelligent Connectivity Inspirational Cities

Digital empowerment, endless exploration and innovation. As the implementer of the sustainable data ecosystem, Hotwon always insists on exploring and innovating to make customers and industries more stable, safer, greener and smarter.

About UNIDO ITPO Shanghai

UNIDO, a United Nations specialized agency, is headquartered in Vienna, Austria. Its main task is to promote and accelerate the economies of developing countries as well as countries in industrial transformation and development and to promote international industrial cooperation. UNIDO ITPO Shanghai is one of the nine investment promotion centers (ITPO) of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in the world. It aims to make use of the advantages of UNIDO's global network and headquarters resources to promote foreign capital and technology to enter Shanghai and at the same time promote Chinese capital and technology to other developing countries and economies in transition.

About Hotwon Group

Hotwon Group, the implementer of the sustainable data ecosystem, focuses on providing high-quality IT infrastructure, network communication, cloud computing application services, and one-stop multi-regional resource services for government and enterprise customers. In 2018, Hotwon Group reached a strategic cooperation with CITICPE to deploy big data industry resources and data service infrastructure nationwide, and the total investment in the next five years is expected to exceed CNY 10 billion; in 2020, Hotwon, CITICPE, DCP and China-United Arab Emirates Joint Investment Fund achieved the strategic cooperation of Series B funding, successfully completed the equity financing with a total amount of USD 300 million, and laid out the big data industry resources and data service infrastructure nationwide.