World Internet Conference hosts forum on embodied AI in Spain

BEIJING, March 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — A report by CRI Online:

The World Internet Conference Specialized Committee on Artificial Intelligence (the WIC SC on AI) hosted a special forum under the theme “Embodied AI: Leading a New Paradigm of AI Development” on March 3 in Barcelona, during the Mobile World Congress.

The forum also featured a roundtable

Notable figures addressing the event included Francis Gurry, vice-chair of the WIC and former director-general of the World Intellectual Property Organization; Mohamed Ben Amor, director general of the Arab Information and Communication Technologies Organization; and Lara Dewar, chief marketing officer of the GSMA.

Others who gave speeches were Schahram Dustdar, co-chair of the WIC SC on AI, a member of Academia Europaea and president of the International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance; Zhang Dong, executive vice president of China Mobile; Nakul Duggal, executive vice president and group general manager at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.; and Wang Xiang, senior vice president at ZTE.

The forum also featured a roundtable moderated by John Higgins, co-lead of the Standards Program of the WIC SC on AI and chairman of the International AI Governance Association. It was participated by Liu Dong, director of China Future Internet Engineering Center and Internet Hall of Fame Inductee; Jayne Stancavage, vice president of policy and regulatory affairs at Intel Corporation; Emanuela Girardi, president of ADRA; and Qu Zhenbin, chief solutions architect for AI+…

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