Xijun Zhang
Secretary General of Chinese Mechanical Engineering SocietyFormerly served as the Minister of Science and Technology Development Department of China Machinery Industry Group Co., Ltd
Peihua Gu
Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Director of the New Engineering Education Center at Tianjin UniversityDirector of the New Engineering Education Center and Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University. From 2005 to 2018, served as the Executive President and Vice President of Shantou University. From 1997 to 2005, he served as Vice Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Head of the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Calgary. I have been involved in the reform of engineering education in China and Canada since 1999.
Academician of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and Fellow of the International Academy of Production Engineering; Changjiang Scholar Lecture Professor; Twice became a Canadian NSERC Chair Professor; Tianjin University Outstanding Alumni, McMaster University 150 Outstanding Engineering Alumni, and other awards.
Weiming Shen
Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Professor Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyHe was elected a Fellow of IEEE in 2012, a Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada in 2014, and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2019. He received his bachelor's and Master's degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University in 1983 and 1986, and his PhD degree in Artificial Intelligence in System Control from the Technical University of Compiegne, France in 1996. From 1997 to 1999, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Calgary, Canada. From 1999 to 2018, he was a Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow and Principal Investigator at the National Research Institute of Canada. He is also editor-in-chief of IET CIM and deputy editor of IEEE TSMC, TASE and other magazines. His research interests mainly include collaborative design and manufacturing, intelligent manufacturing, production scheduling, Internet of Things, big data, agent theory and application.He has published over 450 papers in scientific journals and international conferences in the related areas, among which more than 200 papers have been indexed by SCI, more than 12,000 times cited on Google papers (of which a single paper has been cited more than 900 times), with an H-index of 52.
Per Anders Johnsson
Founder and CTO of JWI SoftwarePer Johnsson is the Founder and CTO of JWI Software, a pioneering leader in industrial software innovation in China, and the first company globally to launch a fully cloud-native Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system. With a strong background at technology powerhouses like IBM and PTC, he has played a key role in driving large-scale business transformations across Europe, Asia, and China.
Mr. Johnsson holds a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology, where he developed a solid foundation in engineering principles and advanced technologies. He also earned an Executive MBA from the University of Western Ontario, equipping him with the strategic insight necessary to lead at the intersection of technology and business.
His latest venture is focused on revolutionizing the CAD industry, leveraging AI to transcend the limitations of traditional CAD tools.
Hongbo Liu
Vice General Manager of GSK CNC Equipment Co., Ltd.- Keynote Report
- High-Level Dialogue: Exploration and Practice in Intelligent Manufacturing Talent Cultivation
Mainly responsible for developing and promoting the application of industrial robots in the company, achieving breakthrough results in the application and promotion of industrial robots. The company is known as the "CNC industry base of southern China" and is a member unit of the China Machinery Industry Federation and the vice chairman unit of the China Robot Industry Alliance.
Yadong Gong
Professor, Northeastern University; Secretary-General, Mechanical Engineering Discipline Teaching Steering Committee, Ministry of EducationDoctoral supervisor, recipient of special allowance from the State Council, and leader of national first-class majors and courses. Liaoning Province Teaching Master, Liaoning Province's First Outstanding Graduate Guidance Teacher, and Liaoning Province's Outstanding Communist Party Member in Universities.
Engaged in teaching, research, and graduate training in grinding and precision machining, micro scale machining, intelligent manufacturing, additive/subtractive composite machining, etc. for a long time, authored and published 11 national planning textbooks and works, won 2 national teaching achievement awards and the first national textbook award, 6 provincial and ministerial level teaching achievement awards, 2 Liaoning Province Science and Technology Progress Awards, and obtained 10 national patents. As the person in charge, I have undertaken and completed 15 national "863" plan projects, key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, and general projects.
Published over 200 SCI indexed academic papers. I am currently serving as the Secretary General of the Teaching Guidance Committee for Mechanical Engineering Majors under the Ministry of Education, an expert in undergraduate teaching evaluation, an expert in the evaluation of collaborative education between industry, academia, and research, an expert in engineering education certification, a member of the National Natural Science Foundation project evaluation, a member of the International Abrasive Technology Committee (ICAT), Vice Chairman and Secretary General of the Liaoning Mechanical Engineering Society, a member of the China Mechanical Engineering Society, an executive director of the Production Engineering Branch and the China Cutting Advanced Technology Research Association, an executive director of the National Abrasive Processing Technology Professional Committee, and the Secretary General of the Mechanical Engineering Discipline Teaching Research Association of the National Metallurgical Education Society.
Guanghui Zhou
Vice Dean of the School of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Intelligent Manufacturing Innovation Center at Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityProfessor, doctoral supervisor, mainly serves as the vice chairman of the Production System Special Committee of the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineering, the vice chairman of the Manufacturing Technology Special Committee of the Chinese Society of Automation, the vice chairman of the Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering Teaching Committee of the China Machinery Industry Education Association, the standing member of the Digital Twin Special Committee of the Chinese Society of Graphic Sciences, the member of the Industrial Internet Strategy Advisory Expert Committee, and the member of the Shaanxi Intelligent Manufacturing Expert Advisory Committee. He has been selected into the New Century Excellent Talent Support Plan of the Ministry of Education and enjoys the Sanqin talent allowance.
Mainly engaged in the teaching and scientific research of networked digital manufacturing/intelligent manufacturing technology, design innovation of complex mechanical and electrical products, industrial Internet, digital twins and other aspects, and successively undertook more than 40 national, provincial and enterprise level vertical and horizontal projects such as national key research and development plans, special projects for innovative methods, special projects for intelligent manufacturing, major projects for numerical control, and Natural Science Foundation; Published over 160 SCI/EI indexed articles, authored 2 academic monographs, 8 textbooks/reference books, authorized 40 national invention patents, and registered 28 computer copyrights; Has won more than 10 teaching and research awards, including the first prize of the Ministry of Education's Natural Science Award, the first prize of Shaanxi Province's Higher Education Science and Technology Award, and the first prize of Shaanxi Province's Teaching Achievement Award.
Pei Huang
CEO and Editor-in-Chief of e-works at e-works数字化企业网Mr. Huang Pei is a Foreign Fellow of AAET and a Professor-Level Senior Engineer. He is a Member of National Intelligent Manufacturing Expert Committee, Deputy Secretary General of ICIM, Vice Director of CAAI Professional Committee of Intelligent Manufacturing, Vice President of Hubei Artificial Intelligence Society and vice president of Hubei Mechanical Engineering Society. He has 32 years of experience in the field of intelligent manufacturing and has provided IT consulting services for hundreds of enterprises. He got his Ph.D. degree of mechanical engineering in 1997 at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He got senior management certificate from RPI (Renssellaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY) in 2001.
Xiangru Guang
Product Manager of Lenovo Group's Global Learning Center- Efficient Organization Construction and Talent Cultivation in the AI Era
- High-Level Dialogue: Exploration and Practice in Intelligent Manufacturing Talent Cultivation
Visiting professor of Shenzhen Institute of Reform and Opening up Cadre Management, visiting professor of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, consultant of CSTD talent development platform, talent development expert.
Guan Xiangru has 15 years of experience in talent development and organizational development, serving multiple well-known enterprises. Proficient in ability model construction, learning and development system building, organizational diagnosis, etc. He used to be the head of ByteDance Professional College and the dean of the Eight dimensional Research Institute.
Yun Chen
Deputy Director, Industry 4.0 Learning Factory, Tongji UniversityVice Director of the Industry 4.0 Learning Factory at Tongji University, Director of the Executive Committee of the Intelligent Manufacturing Competition of the China College Students' Mechanical Engineering Innovation and Creativity Competition, Vice Chairman of the Intelligent Manufacturing and Service Branch of the China Creative Society, and Director of the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Society. Hosted over 50 major projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Shanghai Natural Science Foundation, National 863 Program, Shanghai Science and Technology Commission, and Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Project; Has won one second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award, one first prize of Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award, and one third prize each; Published over 80 papers. In addition, he has won the honorary titles of "exemplary individual", "Shanghai Talent Award", "March 8th Red Bannerman" and other honorary titles with the national 863/CIMS theme.
Research direction: Big data technology, intelligent manufacturing, knowledge engineering and applications.