The 2025 World Internet Conference (WIC) Wuzhen Summit opened on Friday (7/11) morning local time in the ancient water town of Wuzhen in Zhejiang, eastern China.
This year's edition, themed "Forging an Open, Cooperative, Secure and Inclusive Future of Digital Intelligence -- Building a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace," comprised 24 sub-forums on topics such as China's proposed Global Development Initiative, the digital economy, artificial intelligence (AI), and data governance, among other activities.
Citing innovation, collaboration, and trust as key to ensuring an open, inclusive, and secure digital future, Global System for Mobile Communications Association CEO John Hoffman said at the opening ceremony that "If we get this right, we will unlock the full potential of the digital world to enrich the lives of people around the world, leaving no one behind."
During the opening ceremony, distinguished contribution awards were presented to recognize individuals and companies that have made outstanding contributions to the global internet landscape.
On Thursday (6/11), the WIC awarded the 2025 World Internet Conference Prize for Pioneering Science and Technology (Iptek) to 17 international projects, in recognition of their breakthroughs in frontier areas, such as AI models, intelligent Internet of Things (IoT), embodied intelligence, and quantum computing.
These projects include Microsoft's GitHub Copilot coding agent, Alibaba's Qwen open-source large-scale language model, and key technologies and applications of China's BDS-3 satellite navigation signal.
This year's Wuzhen WIC summit will run.
