16 Academicians, Turing Award Laureates to Attend Shanghai’s Inclusion Conference

The 2025 Inclusion Conference on the Bund in Shanghai will bring together 16 academicians and Turing Award winners, alongside over 550 industry leaders.

Among the most anticipated names to appear at the Inclusion Conference are Richard Sutton, a pioneer of reinforcement learning, and Jack Dongarra, a US computer scientist and mathematician, who are both Fellows of the Royal Society, as well as Yuval Noah Harari, the author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.

Representatives from tech companies, including Wang Xingxing, founder and chief executive officer of Chinese robotics startup Unitree Robotics, and Wu Chenglin, founder and CEO of Chinese artificial intelligence-native software company DeepWisdom.

The 2025 Inclusion Conference will be held from Sept. 10 to 13 at the Huangpu Expo Park in Shanghai. It will feature one main forum, over 40 open insight forums, 18 innovator stages, and three AI innovation competitions. This year’s edition will also organize a venture capital meetup for the first time.

The organizing bodies of the Singapore Fintech Festival and the Hong Kong Fintech Week will also join the Inclusion Conference to launch a tripartite dialogue on financial technology across Asia.