Forums on Space Computing and Ocean Computing Acoustics to Be Launched for the First Time

The Information Office of the Hunan Provincial People's Government held a press conference on November 11, 2026. It announced that the 2026 World Computing Conference will be held in Changsha from November 19 to 21.

Themed "Calculating the World to Create a New Era—Creating a New Form of Smart Economy," the 2026 session will hold a total of 21 themed activities in a "1+5+N+1" format, including the opening ceremony and keynote forum, themed forums, parallel forums, concurrent competitions, and the Computing Industry Expo.

Compared with previous sessions, this year's conference features more distinctive international, professional, and market-oriented characteristics. The conference will invite Nobel laureates, academicians from home and abroad, and representatives of leading domestic and international entrepreneurs to deliver keynote speeches. It will concurrently hold events such as the RoboCup Asia-Pacific (RCAP) Changsha Invitational Tournament 2026 and the China Postgraduate IC Innovation Competition.

The conference will provide an interpretation of the development direction of the computing industry during the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030). It will release a number of research reports on computing industry analysis, computing power development trends, and computing industrial standards. It will also announce the achievements in computing power-electric power coordination, infrastructure, and other areas of the computing industry. Themed forums will focus on computing chips, computing power-electric power coordination, AI servers, and other topics. New forums on space computing and ocean computing acoustics will also be set up.

The 2026 Computing Industry Expo will be held concurrently, with a planned area of 10,000 square meters. More than 80 well-known domestic and international companies in the computing field have already registered to exhibit. The expo will include activities on industry-finance cooperation, industry-education integration, standards release, and project signing. It aims to strengthen market-oriented and industrialized outcomes, forming a closed-loop system of "in-depth discussion+interactive experience+industrial matchmaking+transaction promotion" with other conference activities.

Since its founding in 2019, the World Computing Conference has been held for seven sessions and has become a high-end platform for showcasing achievements, industrial integration, and international cooperation in the computing field. At present, all preparatory work for the conference is progressing in an orderly manner.

Chinese source: hunan.gov.cn