On October 11-13, the 2018 World Intelligent Manufacturing Summit was held in Nanjing International Expo Center. On the 13th, 2018 World Intelligent Manufacturing Summit ------Artificial Intelligence Technology Breakthrough and Application Forum was hosted by World Intelligent Manufacturing summit, undertook by Intelligent Manufacturing Alliance of CAST Member Societies, Jiangbei New Area Management Committee, CAAI, Southeast University, IEEE Nanjing Branch and Co-sponsored by Cloud intelligent control Technology Institute successfully. With the theme of "AI Enables Us to Upgrade and Build the New Future", the summit is committed to building a multiplex and open platform for exchanges and cooperation. It attracted the participation of intelligent manufacturing enterprises, authoritative institutions and industry experts from all over the world.

The forum is presided over by Sun Changyin, Executive Manager of CAAI and distinguished professor of Southeast University and Li Lijun, Executive Manager / Vice President and Chairman of Cixing Robot, Chen Chanmei, member of the Party and Labor Committee and vice-director of the Administrative Committee of Jiangbei New Area, Nanjing, Yue Dong, Deputy Secretary-General of the CAAI, President of the Institute of Advanced Technology and the Institute of Automation Chemistry, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications attend the forum and gave a speech.

Six experts made brilliant reports at the forum.Dai Qionghai, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering and Professor of Tsinghua University, Don Wunsch, lEEE Fellow, Professor of University of Science and Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, Xu Lei, Academician of the European Academy of Sciences and Chief Scientist of Artificial Intelligence Institute of Shanghai Jiaotong University, He Xiaofei, founder and CEO of Fabu Science and Technology and professor of Zhejiang University, Li Hao, Deputy General Manager of Shanghai Tmirob Co., Ltd., Mengshan, CEO of Acus Co., Ltd., .

The development of AI is still booming. In the past China was at the middle-lower end of international manufacturing chain, but now China has upgraded itself as an innovative and smart power. Under this background, the 2018 World Intelligent Manufacturing Summit has created an international, professional and market-oriented platform for communication and cooperation, which integrates industrial events, frontier exhibitions, road shows, peak forums and intelligent experiences. It has strongly promoted the establishment of the cooperative development mechanism of the world's intelligent manufacturing, as well as providing new momentum for the development of intelligent manufacturing economy.