The three-day World Innovators Meet in 2020 drew an end with the awarding ceremony on December 11, 2020. Awarded companies' representatives, entrepreneurs and EqualOcean partners attended the ceremony, exchanging ideas with on today and future's innovation.
On December 9-12, EqualOcean is holding the World Innovators Meet (WIM) 2020. This year, the event's main topic is 'Technology and Innovation Connect the World.' WIM 2020 gathers innovators from Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas to share their knowledge and key achievements, promoting the concept of 'Tech for Equal.'
Along with the online speeches and panel discussions, EqualOcean released 16 research reports and 37 awarding lists covering eight industries – automotive, communication, consumer, industrials, financial institutions, industrials, real estate, and technology. The lists of innovative enterprises, investment institutions, entrepreneurs, and media were officially released during the ceremony by EqualOcean executives. Below we present the key insights from the ceremony speakers.
Digital economy, healthcare, and new Chinese domestic goods are China's 2021 business trends. – Bin Wang, EqualOcean Executive
COVID-19 has not only accelerated digitization in business-to-consumer (B2C) applications and channels, but also the traditionally less digitized part of the economy, such as areas requiring physical interactions, and business-to-business (B2B) processes. Besides, consumers increasingly want to purchase healthy products and health consultation upon the public health crisis, which the overall healthcare industry in China will be further spurred. Last, a mix of geopolitical and economic forces was already driving a change in the relationship between China and the world, and COVID-19 appears to be accelerating this trend – China's rising importance of domestic consumer markets and technology.
Long-term prosperity depends on technological innovation, which should be assessed by multiple dimensions of innovation input, value creation and alignment with sustainability. – Fan Zhang, EqualOcean Executive
WIA 2020 of China's leading innovative public firms 50 and top 10 lists by eight industries were released on the dinner by EqualOcean executive director Fan Zhang. As China's radiant economy with higher degree of openness to the global capital, the innovation capacity of Chinese public companies is an essential indicator for investors and company managers to watch for pursuing higher investment return and business growth.
Keeping close eyes on global innovation trends is how we empower Chinese startups and entrepreneurs. – Ang Gao, EqualOcean Executive
Apart from investment research for Chinese capital market, EqualOcean also seeks future IPOs through private company research. EqualOcean executive director Ang Gao announced WIM 2020's key research results of 'Next Global 50' series, covering AI, semiconductor, consumer technology, retail, education, automotive, enterprise service, smart manufacturing, healthcare, real estate and fintech.
During Ang Gao's award announcement, several awarded corporation representatives delivered speeches at WIM dinner. The COO of Witinmem Technology, Jilei Yin shared Chinese semiconductor industry was brought up to a rapid growth stage by the disturbing international environment. However, Witinmem's future success is based on the creation of an ultra-new application scenario for AI computing-in-memory technology rather than a 'domestic replacement'. The CEO of ImageDT, Cherry Wang demonstrated how artificial intelligence accelerates the digitalization of the offline retailing industry. Yanpeng Zheng, general manager of Magus Technology, a company specialized in industrial data processing, delivered a forecast of industrial data increase by 2025 – 70% of all data generated in 2025 will be industrial data. Last, the founder and CEO of ChinaScope Xin Shen wrapped up the awarding session for private companies in salute to global innovators and medical care workers.
Panel discussion – Tech for growth in the post-pandemic era
The chief scientist of State Key Laboratory of Communication Integration Professor Hao Shen, vice president of Megvii Yinan Xie, CMO of Seeyon Internet Yiran Liu, channel manager of UCloud Jianbiao Jiang, and EqualOcean executive Bin Wang participated in the panel discussion.
Professor Shen reckoned that the technological advance is the foundation of China's system and cultural confidence, and the importance of technology is further emphasized in 2020's hardships. Megvii's Yinan Xie explained how artificial intelligence could help enhance social efficiency – converting the 'human experience' to AI programs. Seeyon Internet's Yiran Liu shared a typical problem that the companies may face during the digital transformation – data pollution and usefulness. Last, UCloud's Jianbiao Jiang stated that the key to technology empowerment for enterprises is the digital implementation in real use cases.
Software defines everything, data drives the future, algorithm rules the world. – Professor Hao Shen
Following the panel discussion, Professor Hao Shen, as China's leading media science scholar, announced EqualOcean's 2020 media awards of leading media organizations and reporters by industries of automotive, healthcare, financial services, industrials, technology and real estate.
Corporate VC (CVC) has become the backbone in private equity investment market. – Hui Wang, EqualOcean Executive
Investigating the PE/VC investment is another angle to study the trends of global technology and startup in 2020. Hui Wang, the executive director announced EqualOcean intelligence's research results on China's PE/VC landscape in 2020, indicating top institutions in terms of post-investment services, state funds, technology and other seven industries.
Enterprise innovation is based on people's entrepreneurship and innovation. Bin Wang, EqualOcean Executive
EqualOcean has also prepared to award lists for leading entrepreneurs behind corporations and institutions, including young entrepreneurs, scientist entrepreneurs, female entrepreneurs, AI entrepreneurs and foreign entrepreneurs in China.
Co-founder of Easy Transfer Yutong Gao and co-founder of unpackAI John Kaller delivered speeches as entrepreneur representatives.
Check the mentioned reports and lists at EqualOcean.
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About WIM
Hosted by EqualOcean, the World Innovators Meet (WIM) (click to watch the online event on December 9-11, 2020) is a global event for innovators. It provides limitless opportunities to learn from and connect with the most sought-after technology pioneers.
About WIA
The World Innovation Awards (WIA) are announced at WIM to recognize game-changers across various industries and geographies. Selected by a committee of distinguished experts, entrepreneurs and investors, WIA are designed to acknowledge technology disruptors striving to make a positive impact on a global scale.
See this year's WIA lists and download the research reports in English and Chinese on EqualOcean and 亿欧智库 respectively.