Touching the temperature and power of technological innovation at the Zhongguancun Forum

The 2026 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference will be held in Beijing from March 25 to 29. With the annual theme of “deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation,” the conference will continue to strengthen its distinctive concept of “running the conference with science and technology.” By comprehensively incorporating the latest industry technological achievements into every stage and every scenario of the annual conference, it will fully empower forum services and management, so that every participant can truly feel how the development of artificial intelligence empowers industries of all kinds.

The 2026 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference will be held in Beijing from March 25 to 29. Reporter from China Economic Net Zhu Xiaoqian / Photo

As the forum’s operations organization, Zhongguancun International Exhibition Co., Ltd. has carried out a comprehensive upgrade of the forum’s smart management system, giving the “Zhongguancun Forum Intelligent Agent” a fresh new look. By building an AI intelligent service matrix that integrates “intelligent attendee experience, intelligent conference affairs management, and intelligent media coverage,” it empowers every part of the forum through digital and intelligent means, providing all participants with strong smart support. Translation services have also seen a major upgrade: the AI “translation officer” is on duty throughout. Leveraging more powerful speech recognition and translation technology, it has made significant improvements in response speed, semantic understanding, and translation accuracy. The service languages have expanded from two—Chinese and English—to eight, including French, Russian, Spanish, and others, enabling more intelligent, more precise, and more natural cross-language conversion capabilities—making communication among guests from all directions more convenient. An intelligent meeting assistant has also launched in sync, which can实时 convert meeting audio into intelligent text records in real time, automatically extract key points, generate conclusions, and produce searchable and shareable meeting archives—making the outcomes of every meeting clearly visible and comprehensively enhancing the attendee experience.

At this year’s annual conference, the “robot concentration” has reached a new high. A variety of embodied intelligence robots for multiple categories and purposes have been fully integrated into forum scenarios. Robots from multiple brands and in multiple forms “deploy as teams,” providing diversified services such as consultation and guidance, technology showcases, and interactive exchanges.

The robot snack bar incorporates Beijing’s traditional street snacks into a light dining scenario. Through a unified scheduling platform, multi-brand heterogeneous robots achieve fully autonomous and coordinated work across the entire process—from ordering, to preparation, to delivery. Reporter from China Economic Net Zhu Xiaoqian / Photo

The tea-ceremony robot can simulate the techniques of master tea brewers, providing a convenient and authentic tea experience. Reporter from China Economic Net Zhu Xiaoqian / Photo

A robot band and dancing robots join forces to deliver an excellent performance. Reporter from China Economic Net Zhu Xiaoqian / Photo

This year’s annual conference has also brought fun-filled tech interactive experiences. In the smart cultural and creative area of the XiaoGuan storefront, attendees can use AI and real-time multimedia rendering technologies to blend forum elements with their own ideas, generating a personalized refrigerator magnet on-site as a tech souvenir. At the same time, at the forum venue, a real-person shooting mode automatically captures精彩 moments of attendees, and an intelligent editor produces a personalized conference Vlog—recording the unique tech journey for participants through the lens, making the “temperature” of technology within reach. In addition, this year, the forum introduced for the first time a gel ice-and-snow new material, which can provide instant cooling for electronic devices such as laptops and mobile phones. The venue also sets up a “technology meditation space” created with plant bioluminescent light sources and self-luminous bacterial liquid technology, creating a venue atmosphere where technology and nature blend together.

Staff demonstrate the process of generating a personalized refrigerator magnet. Reporter from China Economic Net Zhu Xiaoqian / Photo

As a “test field” and a “showcase window” for technological innovation and industrial innovation, the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference provides real application scenarios for the verification and promotion of new technologies—so that new tech is not merely a cold display of equipment, but becomes a novel attendee experience that has warmth, can be sensed, and can interact. By expanding boundaries with innovation, it promotes positive interaction among technology, scenarios, and industries—making this year’s annual forum conference a rehearsal of future work and ways of life.

(Reporter Zhu Xiaoqian)