The 2018 World Artificial Intelligence Conference will be held in West Bund, Shanghai from Sept 17 to 19. With the theme of "A new era empowered by artificial intelligence," the conference gathers AI scientists, entrepreneurs and government officials to share their views on the industry.

Featuring "sophistication, globalization, specialization and marketization" prominently, the conference will have a main forum, several theme forums and will host innovation competitions as well as exhibitions to show cutting-edge AI technologies, applications and products.

More than 150 companies at the forefront of AI will take part in the conference, including Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, Google and Microsoft.