BeijingMay 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — From May 19 to 20, the 2026 AI Partner•Beijing Yizhuang AI+ Industry Conference, themed “Bringing AI to the Frontline,” kicked off at the Tongming Lake Convention and Exhibition Center in the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (referred to as “Beijing E-Town,” also known as “Beijing Yizhuang”). The conference was guided by the Beijing E-Town Management Committee, hosted by 36Kr, and organized by the National Information Technology Application Innovation Park. It featured 8 roundtable dialogues, over 10 keynote speeches, and an off-site “World Café” industry matchmaking session. More than 50 representatives from leading domestic enterprises gathered to explore the deep integration of artificial intelligence with various industries.
Deep Analysis of Industry Pain Points: From Identifying Trends to Achieving Implementation
In 2026, the artificial intelligence industry is undergoing a profound restructuring of its value system, where the yardstick for technological progress is shifting from obscure technical parameters to practical application value. Feng Dagang, head of the conference organizer and CEO of 36Kr, stated that this conference represents a long-term, deeply rooted plan in the industrial frontline. Its core purpose is to break down industry barriers and continuously deliver essential value—such as demand matching, case analysis, and resource collaboration—directly to the frontlines of various vertical sectors. Only when technological development collides head-on with industry pain points can the fruits of “AI+” take root and flourish in real-world industrial scenarios.
This year’s conference featured a unique structure. The first day focused on “Identifying Trends,” offering in-depth interpretations of the national “AI+” plan and the latest industry directions on the frontline. The second day tackled “Achieving Implementation,” deconstructing practical solutions for technology, products, organizations, and talent to address implementation challenges across the entire chain. In the main venue, the conference held 8 roundtable dialogues targeting industry pain points. Enterprise representatives engaged in deep discussions on topics such as “The National Promotion Plan for AI+ and the Survival Roadmap for Enterprises” and “The Ultimate Evolutionary Question: When Introducing AI, Should You First Change Processes or Mindsets?” to explore breakthrough strategies. Over 10 keynote speeches focused on the industrial frontline, with prominent figures like Tan Min, Chief Brand Officer of UBTECH; Tang Kai, Senior Vice President of the Digital Supply Chain Solutions Business Group at SF Express; and Chen Weimeng, Director of AIoT Technology Marketing at BOE, sharing their experiences and achievements in advancing “AI+” to contribute insights for industry development.
The indoor sessions addressed “how to view the situation,” while the outdoor sessions tackled “how to take action.” The conference’s sub-venue hosted the “World Café” industry matchmaking session. Thirteen industry demand-side entities, including China Bohai Bank’s headquarters, Beijing E-Town Investment Development Co., Ltd., Shanghai Anci Environmental Protection, and Wangfujing Outlets, provided highly specific “demand lists” with real scenarios, real budgets, and real pain points. Thirty-six technology providers, such as Aidi Pu, Arctech, Qianfeng AI, and Biscuit Technology, engaged in face-to-face, precise matchmaking to offer targeted solutions. Additionally, Beijing E-Town released 24 comprehensive application scenarios in areas like childcare and elderly care, government affairs, and urban governance, soliciting technical solutions online from the public to accelerate the construction of a city-level engineering experimental platform, making the achievements of the intelligent age observable, tangible, and experiential. Over the two days, the matchmaking sessions are expected to facilitate preliminary cooperation intentions among multiple enterprises, continuously unleashing the true industrial value of “AI+” through deep, full-scenario supply-demand exchanges.
Setting Industry Benchmarks: From Case Leadership to Win-Win Cooperation
The conference officially released multiple lists, including the “2026 Best AI Scenario Penetration Cases” and the “2026 Consumer Brand AI Recommendation Power Directory,” showcasing benchmark practices of deep AI-industry integration and providing clear implementation references for more industry participants.
The “2026 Best AI Scenario Penetration Cases” list features projects that genuinely solve industry pain points and generate real commercial value. This includes 55 projects such as Arctech’s “Taiyi AI Empowering Automotive Design Creative Review,” Baidu Health’s “Wenxin Health Butler,” and Bairong Intelligence’s “Baizhi Knowledge Production Engine,” covering over 10 key fields including smart manufacturing, lifestyle services, and healthcare. Taking Arctech’s Taiyi (TAI) as an example, this AI-assisted platform for the automotive design industry has been implemented in scenarios like interior and exterior design, CMF, HMI, and creative review, supporting idea generation, partial modifications, and collaborative creation, effectively improving efficiency in early-stage exploration and review.
The “2026 Consumer Brand AI Recommendation Power Directory,” jointly released by 36Kr and AI word-of-mouth marketing company PureblueAI, focuses on five core consumer lifestyle categories: automobiles, smartphones, home appliances, skincare, and cosmetics. Listed brands include internationally renowned names like Xiaomi, OPPO, Casarte, Estée Lauder, and Belina. The “AI Recommendation Power” in this directory reflects AI’s cognition and judgment based on vast amounts of public information, user feedback, and product data. When AI answers consumer questions from an objective, comprehensive perspective, this metric measures a brand’s probability and capability of being selected, prioritized, and positively described, showcasing its overall performance in generating consumption decision answers. It has become a new competitiveness indicator for brands in the AI era.
At the conference, Beijing Zhongguancun College & Zhongguancun AI Research Institute, Capital Institute of Physical Education, and Jingao E-sports (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. signed a joint research agreement to conduct collaborative studies on “AI+ E-sports.” This will focus on key areas such as scientific e-sports talent selection, intelligent sparring partners, and match review analysis, promoting the deep integration of AI technology, sports science research, and the e-sports industry ecosystem. Leveraging Beijing E-Town’s strong industrial foundation in AI and the digital economy, as well as the Beijing Smart E-sports Center’s advantages in venue operations, event organization, and industry resource connections, this collaboration will provide a high-frequency, authentic, and youth-oriented application platform for AI technology. It aims to foster coordinated development across e-sports training, event operations, digital content, and talent cultivation, helping Beijing E-Town cultivate new “AI+ E-sports” integrated application scenarios and providing practical support for Beijing’s development of digital sports, intelligent competition, and new cultural consumption.
Cultivating a Fertile Ground for Growth: From Scenario Openness to Full-Chain Breakthroughs
As the wave of artificial intelligence surges forward, Beijing E-Town is anchoring its overall goal of “building a city-wide AI ecosystem,” driving AI technology to empower thousands of industries and enter millions of households. By the end of 2025, Beijing E-Town had gathered over 600 core AI industry chain enterprises, with the industry scale exceeding 80 billion yuan. The collaborative innovation system of “data, computing, models, and applications” has transitioned from blueprint to reality. Earlier this year, Beijing E-Town released the “Implementation Plan for Further Accelerating the Construction of a City-Wide AI Ecosystem (2026-2027),” focusing on four dimensions: full-chain native industry layout, full-industry integration and empowerment, full-scenario urban applications, and full-element resource supply. Through 20 key actions, it will systematically advance the “AI+” initiative to cultivate an internationally leading intelligent native industry cluster.
This conference serves as a vivid demonstration of Beijing E-Town’s “focus on opening up full-scenario applications,” truly turning the venue into a battleground where AI technology and industry demands collide head-on. Using the conference as a medium, Beijing E-Town is extending invitations to more AI technology developers and industry practitioners. On the evening of May 19, a more relaxed, entrepreneur-friendly After Party—the Modulus OPC Night—was held in Beijing E-Town. At the event, government officials sat down with over 150 representatives from OPC enterprises, AI entrepreneurs, and young creators for candid and efficient Q&A sessions. They focused on core issues such as entrepreneurial support in Beijing Yizhuang, the development of new OPC organizations, the opening of industry scenarios, policy application guidance, and talent service measures, achieving precise alignment between policy benefits and entrepreneurial needs.
As a community-style office space designed for AI super individuals and solo entrepreneurs, the Modulus OPC Community, created by Beijing E-Town, offers systematic and substantial support for入驻 teams. Beyond free office space for the first year, it provides up to 300 million yuan annually in computing power vouchers, model vouchers, and data vouchers, supplemented by services in finance, law, taxation, and skills training, truly lowering the costs and difficulties of early-stage entrepreneurship and enabling entrepreneurs to start with ease. It has established a dedicated AI fund, built an atomic collaborative order platform and other AI agent infrastructure, and introduces over 100 high-quality orders to the community annually, providing ample commercial growth opportunities for the OPC group. Implementing a mechanism of “daily exchanges, weekly activities, and monthly visits by industry leaders,” it continuously fosters a learning community, promotes technical collaboration and order sharing, and builds a self-sustaining, self-evolving internal collaboration ecosystem through government incentives. Additionally, Beijing E-Town will open a dedicated recognition channel for AI talent, represented by super individuals, offering up to 500,000 yuan in personal rewards over three years, providing city-level support, recognition, and emotional value for new business formats and groups.
This development path, which leverages the city’s strength to boost innovation density, has also spawned a series of “new forces” leading industry development. The “Modulus World” AI new quality industry community has attracted over 60 high-quality enterprises, including Aishi Technology, Maimai Technology, Liangliang Vision, and Jisi Technology. As the first incubated enterprise in “Modulus World,” Jisi Technology has been selected as a pilot unit for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s first batch of digital human standards and holds a leading position in the domestic AI digital human e-commerce live streaming track. Li Shizun, CEO of Jisi Technology, stated: “Since moving in, we have deeply felt the ‘comprehensive, multi-dimensional’ empowerment from the E-Town. Through the connections made in Modulus World, we have deeply cooperated with Beijing International Computing Service Co., Ltd. to jointly explore the university market, rapidly expanding beyond our original ‘online e-commerce AI digital human live streaming business’ and successfully creating a second growth curve in ‘AI+ education.'” Furthermore, the leading domestic AI community Way to AGI has fully moved into the Modulus OPC Community and will deeply participate in its operations, with nearly 40 high-quality OPCs, including “Digital Life Kazik,” having officially signed on.
A relevant official from the Information Technology Industry Bureau of Beijing E-Town stated that by the end of 2027, Beijing E-Town aims to create over 10 benchmark intelligent scenario complexes, promote the application of 100 vertical models, gather 1,000 core AI industry chain enterprises, attract 10,000 super individuals and independent developers, and achieve a significant leap in the scale and capability of the intelligent economy core industry.