Chief Chair

Wang Jian    Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, President of Zhejiang Lab and Founder of Alibaba Cloud


Chairs (in alphabetical order by last name)

Schahram Dustdar    Member of Academia Europaea, IEEE Fellow, ACM Distinguished Scientist, President of International AI Industry Alliance, Professor of TU Wien, and Head of the Research Division of Distributed Systems at TU Wien

Dame Wendy Hall    Fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering, Member of the UK Government's AI Council, Regius Professor of Computer Science, Associate Vice President (International Cooperation) of the University of Southampton, Executive Director of the Web Science Institute, Expert of the UN High-level Advisory Body on AI

Zhang Yaqin    Foreign Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering , Expert in digital video and AI, Dean and Professor of Institute for AI Industry Research, Tsinghua University

Zeng Yi    Director of the International Research Center for AI Ethics and Governance of the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dean of Beijing Institute of AI Safety and Governance (Beijing-AISI), and Member of the UN High-Level Advisory Body on AI

Zhou Hongyi   Founder of 360 Group


Vice-Chairs (in alphabetical order by last name)

Mohamed Ben Amor    Secretary-General of the Arab ICT Organization

Chang Jiang    Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy & Technology Officer and Head of Strategy and Technology Department of Nokia Shanghai Bell

Feng Junlan    Chief Scientist of China Mobile

Hou Shengli    Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Cisco Greater China

He Xiaodong    Vice President of JD Group and Director of the JD Explore Academy

Ji Longwei    Global Vice President of AMD and General Manager of China R&D Center

Li Ruicheng    Global Senior Vice President & Managing Director of SAP Labs China

Li Fei    Vice President of H3C, Vice President of Solution and General Manager of H3C AI Research

Liu Yang    Executive Dean and Professor of Institute for AI Industry Research,Tsinghua University and Deputy Director in the Department of Computer,Science and Technology at Tsinghua University

Lu Wei    Vice Chairman of CyberSecurity Association of China and Chairman of the Professional Committee on AI Safety Governance

Sun Maosong    Foreign Member of Academia Europaea, Executive Vice Dean and Professor of Institute for Artificial Intelligence of Tsinghua University

Sheng Yao    Deputy Director of Omnimedia Integrated Communication Technology Research Lab-State Key Laboratory for the Production and Presentation of UHD Video and Audio of China Media Group, and Director of Video Technology R&D Centre, Technology Business Group, CCTV International Network Co., Ltd

Tang Yi    Chairman and CEO of Beijing Yinxiang Biji Technology Co., Ltd.

Tang Jie    Professor of Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University

Wang Shijin    Vice President of iFLYTEK and Executive President of iFLYTEK Research

Wang Wei    COO of Sina Weibo, CEO of Sina Mobile and Head of Sina AI Media Research Institute

Wei Kai    Director of Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of China Academy of Information and Communications Technology

Xie Dong    Vice President of IBM China R&D Labs and CTO ofIBM GCG

Xia Junjie    Deputy General Manager of Science and Technology Innovation Department of China Unicom

Yang Mingchuan    Director of the Institute of Big Data and AI, China Telecom Research Institute

Ye Zhenzhen    Director of State Key Laboratory of Communication Content Cognition and Member of the Academic Committee, Chairman and President of People.cn

Ye Jieping    Vice President of Alibaba Group and Head of Data to Intelligence Lab, IEEE Fellow

Zhang Yong    Vice President of QiAn Xin Group


The World Internet Conference (WIC) was established as an international organization on July 12, 2022, headquartered in Beijing, China. It was jointly initiated by Global System for Mobile Communication Association (GSMA), National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China (CNCERT), China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), Alibaba Group, Tencent, and Zhijiang Lab.