CNCC 2026 set for Oct 21–24 in Chengdu with 12 academicians, 789 speakers
AI summary
Organizers announced at a Oct 10 Beijing press conference that the 23rd China National Computer Congress (CNCC 2026) will run Oct 21–24 in Chengdu under the theme “Data Drives, Intelligent Computing Shapes the Future.” The program includes 17 invited talks, 3 plenary forums, 167 thematic forums and over 40 side events, with 789 speakers — among them 12 academicians and 92 experts from companies including Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, Xiaomi and JD.com. Tracks newly include “AI + industry,” split out agents and data science/data spaces, and merge vision, multimodal and world models.
In-depth insight
As China's largest annual computing conference, CNCC's track lineup is often read as a signal of where domestic AI attention is heading.