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Venue

Guangzhou, the center of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, is known as the south gate of China. As the core engine of science and technology innovation in China and the Greater Bay Area, Guangzhou is ranked 15th in the world in Nature's Nature Index-Science Cities. And Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Technology Cluster is ranked 2nd in the World Intellectual Property Organization's 2020 Top 100 Global Innovation Clusters.


In September 2022, the Second Conference of the International Science, Technology and Innovation Forum of Boao Forum for Asia will be held in Guangzhou. The conference will foster the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to be a global innovation highland, and accelerate Guangzhou to become an open and top-notch city of innovation with great charm in the world. While the conference will also provide a high-end exchange platform for international science and technology innovation exchanges, enhance cooperation in the field of science and technology innovation in Asia and the world, and facilitate the development of international science and technology innovation.


Venue:

The Westin Pazhou

Concrete Address: Area C, Canton Fair Complex, 681 Fengpu Zhong Rd., Haizhu District,Guangzhou

Langham Hotel

Concrete Address:638 Xingang East Road, Haizhu District, Guangzhou



2022-09-27
08:00 - 20:00Registration
 
2022-09-28
08:00 - 20:00Registration
 
09:15 - 11:00Session 1 Capital Boosts Scientific and Technological Innovation

- This session will discuss how to promote the deep integration between finance and scientific and technological innovation from various perspectives, and how to make angel investment, venture capital, equity investment, technology credit, securities market and other capital forms promote high-quality technology projects.

- Enterprises are the nucleus of scientific and technological innovation. Capital empowerment is of great significance to STI enterprises.

- The values generated by capital-assisted technology will be radiated to various industries and sectors, having great values in people's livelihood, economy and society.

09:15 - 11:00Session 2 5G Application and 6G Prospect

- 5G breeds a subversive technological revolution, and it will deeply change the future society. What kind of changes will 5G innovative technology bring to our future life and what life application scenarios will it have?

- Seizing the opportunity of 5G and accelerating the digital transformation and upgrading of traditional industries based on 5G will open up the digital economy era. How will 5G reshape the traditional industries and what industrial application scenarios will it have?

- This session also focuses on the current R&D status of key technology and future application prospect of 6G technology.

09:15 - 11:00Session 3 Genetic Engineering and Biomedicine

- At present, biomedicine has become a global emerging industry with great vitality and prospect. It is in the period of transformation from large-scale industrialization into rapid development, gradually becoming the world's leading economic industry.

- Genetic engineering technology has become the core content of biotechnology. Genetic engineering and its related fields will become one of the most important research directions and leading industries in the 21st century, laying a good foundation for the innovation and industrialization of biotechnology.

- This session will also focus on accelerating the construction of human resource team in the field of biomedicine, boosting the biomedical STI platform guided by precision, personalization and reproducibility, comprehensively promoting STI development of people's life and health, and supporting the development of high-quality fields of the biomedical industry.

09:15 - 11:00Session 4 Artificial Intelligence and the Great Intelligence Age

- The rapid development of artificial intelligence has profoundly changed the life of human society, created new demands for intelligence in various fields ranging from macro to micro, given rise to new products, new technologies, new industries, new business models and new modes and triggered major changes of the economic structure, thus becoming a strategic technology leading a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial change.

- While enjoying the economic dividends empowered by AI in all industries, how to manage AI industry ecosystem built based on AI becomes a key topic of the industry.

- The session tries to explore how AI can provide the basis for the full implementation of the innovation-driven development strategy, and how to link Industry-University-Research to better promote the rapid and healthy growth of the industry.

- This session will also focus on the trends of the most cutting-edge AI technologies including AI and the future of science, AI and life sciences, and AI and human well-being.


15:00 - 17:00Opening Ceremony & Plenary
 
17:30 - 19:15Session 5 From Molecular Design to Materials Application
 - At present, with the growing demands for intelligent materials in many fields, the global intelligent material industry is in an explosive growth period and the market scale is mounting up. In the future, the frontier application of intelligent material will continue to expand the coverage and be applied in more areas.

- Functional and intelligent materials are still under constant research and development. There are many products applied in different fields now and will continue to be applied in the future.

- The development of new materials will generate many new technology and cumulative skills, and the sharing of these valuable experience will have a positive impact on the research and development of the industry.

17:30 - 19:15Session 6 Digital Building, Future City
 - The advent of the digital era has greatly changed every aspect of human life. The digital economy is a significant engine for the recovery of the post-pandemic economy, bringing opportunities to digital transformation in various industries, thus giving rise to the digital building.

- Open source has become the general trend of global digital sci-tech innovation. Seizing the new opportunity of open-source development, focusing on the new situation and building an independent and perfect open-source ecology are the security guarantee for the solid development of digital building in the future.

- Developing Chinese style IFC open standards and building a BIM platform with Chinese characteristics will help to solve the waste caused by data integrity and data exchange, so as to drive digital buildings and smart cities.

2022-09-29
08:00 - 13:00Registration
10:00 - 11:45Session 7 Science, Technology and Innovation Propels Global Public Health Security


- Since the beginning of 2020, the sudden outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has swept the world and taken away millions of lives worldwide, posing a serious threat to people’s health and wreaking havoc on the global economy and normal life.

- China’s achievements in preventing and controlling the COVID-19 are highly regarded, and scientific and technological innovation has played an important role. Digital medical system, biomedicine, big data, AI, wearable devices, Internet of things (IoT) and other technologies are applied in pandemic prevention and control.

- Humans are facing great changes unseen in a century, while the global pandemic situation is complex and fast-changing. In response to the normalization of pandemic prevention control, and in light of public health and security problems that may arise in the future, how can we act efficiently and swiftly to fight the virus by using scientific and technological tools?

- The session will also discuss the current situation of pandemic prevention in Asia and other regions of the world, and the results of vaccine research in various countries. Strengthen international cooperation to jointly serve global public health and build a community with a shared future for mankind.



10:00 - 11:45Session 8 Scientific and technological progress and application of microecology and probiotics

- Microecology is the cornerstone of life and health. With the intersectional development of omics, synthetic biology, genetic engineering and other life sciences, technologies and clinical research in medicine related to microecology and probiotics, therapeuticfood and drug application have become global popular topics.

- The booming development of microecology and probiotics is injecting strong impetus into the rapid growth of the sunrise industries such as medicine, biological products and nutrition & health care.

- The technological progress and application of microecology and probiotics will have great roles in disease prevention and control, and will make significant contributions in medicine and human health.

10:00 - 11:45Session 9 Industrialization Exploration and Strategic Upgrading under Industry 4.0

- What is the significance behind the rapid development of global information technology in promoting industrial transformation and upgrading? Which industries have been affected? What new industries have emerged?

- This session further explores the re-industrialization of traditional industries through big data, internet, cloud computing, internet of things, artificial intelligence to realize the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries.

- Countries around the world are now actively promoting new manufacturing development plans to turn manufacturing into their future strategic focus. This session focuses on the global industry 4.0 strategic plan and provides new solutions for the steady growth and vitality of the global economy.