4-day countdown to Shanghai Blockchain International Week 2021! The stars were bright, and the guests at the summit revealed their secrets

After months of careful planning and preparation, the 2021 Shanghai Blockchain International Week arrived late. There are only 4 days left until the opening of the event! The much-anticipated 7th Blockchain Global Summit has also announced the summit agenda and speakers. There are 7 roundtable forums, 3 fireside talks, 25 keynote speeches, and 50+ industry leaders. Come and see the summit's all-star lineup with Xiaowan!

Dr. Xiao Feng, Vice Chairman and Executive Director of China Wanxiang Holdings and Chairman and General Manager of Wanxiang Blockchain, will deliver a welcome address and final closing speech at the 7th Blockchain Global Summit. Dr. Xiao Feng is a PhD in economics from Nankai University. He has over 20 years of experience in the securities industry and asset management. As early as 2015, he keenly discovered the vast world behind blockchain technology and initiated the establishment of Wanxiang Blockchain Lab to explore infrastructure research and industrial applications of blockchain technology. He is a pioneer and evangelist in the blockchain industry.

Mr. Li Lihui, former governor of the Bank of China and head of the Blockchain Research Working Group of the China Internet Finance Association, will give the opening speech at this summit. Since the Blockchain Global Summit 2017, Mr. Li Lihui has attended every summit and served as a guest speaker. From “Different Paths of Blockchain Technology Development” to “Digital Technology Changes Will Reshape the Economic Model”, Mr. Li Lihui summarized the development path of blockchain technology and put forward blockchain development suggestions. By predicting the changes that the development of digital technology will bring to our society, economy, and life, he helps enterprises and individuals seize the opportunities of the times.

Mr. Ma Zhitao, Vice President and Chief Information Officer of WeBank, will once again be a guest speaker at this summit. At the 6th Blockchain Global Summit with the theme of “Integrated Innovation,” Mr. Ma Zhitao said in his speech “Building a “New Infrastructure” for the Digital Economy to Liberate Data Productivity” that only by integrating blockchain with other technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and big data can form a digital “new infrastructure” solution. Let's wait and see what new views and insights Mr. Ma Zhitao will have at this year's summit.

Well-known foreign researchers, represented by Turing Award winner Dr. Whitfield Diffie, senior consultant at Discreet Labs, and Robert Townsend, Elizabeth & James Killian chair professor at the MIT Department of Economics, will also connect to the summit site around the world to bring you world-leading academic research progress.

Global blockchain technology development leaders such as Vitalik Buterin, founder and chief scientist of Wanxiang Blockchain Lab, Dominic Williams, founder and chief scientist of Dfinity, Gavin Wood (Lin Jiawen), founder of Protocol Labs, and Juan Benet, founder of Protocol Labs, will deliver keynote speeches to share the progress and technological breakthroughs of cutting-edge global projects, and discuss blockchain as a general technology to show application value in the path of digital transformation Thus, we will accelerate the construction of a new foundation for a high-quality and trustworthy digital economy and promote the construction of information infrastructure.

Qiu Zhijie, dean and professor of the School of Experimental Art at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and professor at the School of Intermedia Art at the China Academy of Art, Wang Yuwei, vice president of Wantong Investment Holdings Co., Ltd., Wang Yuwei, publisher of “Art Business” and a special researcher at the School of Social Sciences of Tsinghua University, Nova, Chairman of the Guojian Penglai PonlaII Administrator Conference, and Chen Junhong, founder and CEO of Yunzhongzi Technology, will focus on the construction of the metaverse in detail from an artistic and technological perspective, and actively seize the high ground of global technological innovation competition.

Guests including MixMarvel co-founder and CSO Mary Ma, Dapper Labs co-founder and chief commercial officer Mik Naayem, and Allison Sturges, head of global partnerships at Genies, will focus on the technical infrastructure of the metaverse and discuss how the development of underlying technology supports the upper-tier applications of the metaverse.

Guests including Wu Xiankun, co-founder and president of rct AI, Borget, chief operating officer and co-founder of Sebastien Sandbox, and Zhang Zhongnan, CEO and co-founder of Alchemy NFT, will discuss topics such as metaverse application scenarios and business models in depth to explore the application of the metaverse.

Chang Zheng, business director of the Shanghai Environmental Energy Exchange Strategy and R&D Center, Sheng Xuefeng, director of the Shanghai Smart City Development Research Institute, and Zheng Zhongbin, general manager of the Industrial Internet Innovation Center (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., will discuss how blockchain technology can find entry points in the digital torrent from various perspectives such as carbon neutrality, new infrastructure, and intelligent manufacturing. Using blockchain technology innovation as the core, combined with digital technologies such as big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence, etc., to promote the digital transformation and upgrading of urban governance, industrial manufacturing, etc.

Wang Yunzhen, CEO of Wanxiang Blockchain, and Qian Zhihui, senior project manager of the JTC Smart City Division, and other guests will have a fireside conversation to share planning ideas for Singapore's official smart city around the Singapore Punggol Digital Smart Park (PDD) and explore how blockchain can empower innovation in urban management models, management concepts, and management methods, thereby accelerating the digital development of urban governance systems and governance capabilities.

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How can blockchain technology maximize utility in digital transformation? How to improve the integrated infrastructure for efficient collaboration and accelerate the digital transformation of traditional enterprises? How to grasp the integration of technology and application to build a mutually beneficial and win-win relationship where blockchain and traditional industrial structures are highly complementary and interests are deeply intertwined? Please follow the guests to the 7th Blockchain Global Summit to explore the changes blockchain technology may bring to society, economy, life, etc., and help enterprises and individuals seize the opportunities of the times.

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