2018 World Internet of Things Expo press conference held in Beijing

Today, the global Internet of Things era is leading a new round of information development. In the future, the data they create and share will bring a new information revolution to people's work and life, and promote major changes in the way the global economic and social system operates. Under such opportunities and opportunities, how to grasp industry trends, give play to the leading role of new technologies and new applications, and give birth to new formats, new models and new paths in the era of the Internet of Things is the top priority for achieving the deep integration of the Internet and the real economy.

As an important platform and carrier for international exchanges, industry releases, industrial development, achievement display and talent gathering, the World Internet of Things Expo has been successfully held twice. The successful convening of the World Internet of Things Expo has created a large environment for realizing the "future scenario", gathered the best resources in the global Internet of Things field, demonstrated the broad development prospects and huge development space of the Internet of Things industry, and promoted the early arrival of the Internet of Things era.

Now, the preparations for the new World Internet of Things Expo are proceeding step by step and in an orderly manner. It was learned from the press conference of the 2018 World Internet of Things Expo that the 2018 World Internet of Things Expo, hosted by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the People's Government of Jiangsu Province, and undertaken by the Jiangsu Provincial Economic and Information Commission, the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Science and Technology, and the Wuxi Municipal People's Government, will be held at the Wuxi Taihu International Expo Center from September 15 to 18.

Creating a new IoT ecosystem on an unprecedented scale

This year's IoT Expo will host 28 events of various types, exceeding last year's 23, and the number of guests attending the event is expected to hit a record high. Among them, the Wuxi Summit will be held at Wuxi Taihu International Expo Center on the morning of September 15, and the number of on-site participants is expected to reach 2,500. Leaders of relevant state ministries and commissions, leaders of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government, senior executives of well-known domestic and foreign companies, and experts and academicians will exchange ideas, contribute insights, and build consensus around hot issues such as manufacturing power, network power, and smart society, and jointly look forward to the broad prospects of the Internet of Things and discuss the development of the Internet of Things.

In addition, the exhibition of IoT applications and products will be held at Taihu International Expo Center from September 15 to 18 for 4 days. The exhibition area is 50,000 square meters, including five major theme exhibitions, including IoT communication and platform support enterprise exhibition, intelligent manufacturing and sensor theme exhibition, smart life theme exhibition, smart transportation and Internet of Vehicles theme exhibition, smart city theme exhibition, as well as an interactive experience exhibition of typical IoT application cases. Nearly 500 well-known companies including China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom, Huawei, Haier, Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, China Resources, JD.com, Inspur, Sany Heavy Industry, Vision, Amazon, Microsoft, Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Siemens, Qualcomm, ARM, ABB, Schneider, Lufthansa, Audi, etc. have confirmed their participation. So far, more than 30 Fortune 500 companies have confirmed their participation, which has exceeded the number of last year. More than 10 well-known companies such as Qualcomm and JD.com will complete their "first show" at the IoT Expo. New technologies, new products, new models and new applications in the fields of industrial Internet, wearable devices, smart cities, AR, VR, AI, etc. will be displayed in a concentrated manner. The world's first city-level application demonstration of LTE-V2X in the Internet of Vehicles will be unveiled outside the exhibition hall. Interested visitors can board the vehicle outside the exhibition hall and experience the convenience brought by smart transportation.

Summit Forum brings together consensus on development

It is understood that the 2018 World Internet of Things Expo, with the theme of "Digital New Economy, New Era of Internet of Things", will host 1 summit, 1 Internet of Things application and product exhibition, 10 summit forums and 16 series of activities.

The summit forum and series of activities focus on the core concept of "international, integration, industry, and professionalism", closely follow the theme of "digital new economy and new era of Internet of Things", and set topics. There will be 10 summit forums, which are more high-end, richer in content, and more diverse in form, covering hot areas and issues such as intelligent manufacturing, industrial Internet, 5G and Internet of Vehicles, artificial intelligence, big data, Internet of Things information security, intelligent sensing, distributed energy, smart environmental protection, and smart agriculture.

The series of activities include the IoT New Technology, Product and Application Achievement Release Conference, 2018 Wuxi Exchange Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship of High-level Talents, IoT International Technology Transfer Conference, IoT Developer Conference, Smart Legal Development Conference, IoT and Smart City Summit, Smart Education Summit, Smart Health Development Summit, Smart Sports Industry Development Summit, Smart Tourism Industry Development Summit, Smart Gas Industry Development Summit, Blockchain and IoT Integration Development Summit, Smart Grid Summit, IoT Cryptography Application Special Summit, IoT Investment Summit, 2018 China Integrated Circuit Industry Development Seminar and the 21st China Integrated Circuit Manufacturing Annual Conference, etc. 16 activities.

Focus on the construction of industrial Internet platforms to cultivate new development momentum

In order to cater to the accelerated development of the global industrial Internet and the trend of industrial Internet platforms expanding from the commercial field to the manufacturing field, and to implement the State Council's "Guiding Opinions on Deepening the Internet + Advanced Manufacturing to Develop Industrial Internet", the "2018 Industrial Internet Development Summit Forum" co-organized by Jiangsu Provincial Economic and Information Commission, China Electronics Information Industry Development Research Institute, and Wuxi Municipal People's Government, and co-organized by Wuxi Municipal Economic and Information Commission, Wuxi National High-tech Industrial Development Zone Management Committee, and China Information Weekly will be held during the 2018 World Internet of Things Expo.

The 19th CPC National Congress clearly proposed to "promote the deep integration of the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence and the real economy", marking a new stage in the Internet's promotion of the real economy, especially the optimization and upgrading of traditional industries. As the core carrier of the development of industrial intelligence, the industrial Internet platform provides support for data aggregation, modeling analysis, application development, resource scheduling, monitoring and management, etc., realizes intelligent production decision-making, business model innovation, resource allocation optimization, and industrial ecological cultivation, and becomes the "nerve center system" of industrial intelligence.

The convening of this forum, based on platform construction, will further promote application results, highlight the coordination between ministries, provinces and cities, and jointly support and encourage the policy strength of enterprises' digital and intelligent transformation, as well as Wuxi's specific measures and implementation results in cultivating intelligent manufacturing service companies and improving the intelligent manufacturing service system.

During the 2017 World Internet of Things Expo, the "Industrial Internet Platform and Software Development Summit Forum" co-organized by the China Center for Information Industry Development and the Wuxi Municipal People's Government and hosted by China Information Weekly and Wuxi Municipal Economic and Information Commission has discussed topics such as Internet + intelligent manufacturing, building an industrial cloud engine, and constructing a new ecosystem based on the industrial Internet platform and manufacturing industry, and jointly discussed the innovative directions and practical applications of the integration of subdivided industrial fields and the Internet.

The "2018 Industrial Internet Development Summit Forum" will invite many experts and scholars as well as senior executives from domestic and foreign manufacturing and Internet companies to focus on the industry's core technologies and standard construction, platform reshaping, new models, and new ecosystems to provide authoritative policy interpretations and professional technology demonstrations, thereby effectively promoting platform construction and smart manufacturing practices, and further accelerating the promotion of application results, analysis of construction ideas, and cultivation of a smart connected ecosystem.