The 2019 ZGC Forum will be held at the Exhibition Center of Zhongguancun National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone from October 16th to 18th. Reporters from qianlong.com find from the guest list that this Forum is full of “International Style”.

According to Zhai Lixin, director of the Administrative Committee of Zhongguancun Science Park, the Forum is highly internationalized. Since initiating the online registration, the Forum has received universal attention from all walks of life internationally. Up to now, more than 400 foreign guests from 50 countries and regions have confirmed their participation, of which more than 120 experts will give speeches or participate in dialogue and discussion at the Forum. And a group of overseas talent investigation teams from the United States, Canada, Germany, Britain, France, Israel, Australia, Japan, South Africa and other countries will actively participate in the Forum. All the participants in the “International Training Course on Planning, Construction and Management of Incubators in Countries along the Route of ‘Belt and Road’” being held by the Ministry of Science and Technology will also take part in the relevant activities, providing vigorous support and adding rich colors to build a comprehensive, open and high-end international forum for global innovation and entrepreneurship.

Zhongguancun Development Group has also given full play to the advantages of a market-oriented platform that brings together innovative resources and serves the innovation ecology. It has invited guests through a wide range of channels including colleges and universities, institutes, alliances, associations, enterprises, social institutions, experts, scholars, etc. Many of the invited heavyweight guests are important partners of Zhongguancun Development Group in the international innovation exchanges in recent years.

For example, Edvard Moser, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014, Qiu Chengtong, the first Chinese person who won the Fields Medal, Zhang Xiang, the president of University of Hong Kong, Xue Qikun, the vice president of Tsinghua University and dean of Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, Wang Xiaodong, the director of Beijing Institute of Life Sciences, and Rao Yi, the director of Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing and the president of Capital Medical University, etc.

There are also some well-known representatives from innovative entrepreneurs. For example, Li Situo, the chairman of Nokia, Yu Kai, the founder and CEO of Horizon, Wu Gansha, the co-founder, chairman and CEO of UISEE, and Chen Tianshi, the founder and CEO of Cambricon, etc.

In addition, there are many representatives from international organizations, innovative service agencies and financial institutions. For example, Ebba Lund, the CEO of the International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation, Wang Binying, the deputy director general of the World Intellectual Property Organization, Grant Philpott, the COO of the European Patent Office, and there are other representatives from investment institutions such as IDG Capital, Sequoia Capital, Japan Mizuho Financial Group, ZhenFund, etc., as well as representatives from many stock exchanges in regions such as Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Singapore, London, etc.