The World Robot Conference 2023 (WRC 2023) was held in Beijing from August 16 to 22. YIN Li, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee, and WAN Gang, chairman of the China Association for Science and Technology, attended the conference. A special forum, themed "Future Work Patterns: Forum on the Application and Integrated Development of Intelligent Technologies in Enterprise Management" and organized by the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University (Tsinghua SEM), was held on August 19.

This forum was the first time during the WRC where discussions on technology and organizational management took place. With a focus on organizational management, the forum explored the ways in which generative AI and other artificial intelligence technologies impact future work patterns. Professor LI Ning, chair of the Department of Leadership and Organization Management at Tsinghua SEM, and Professor T. Brad Harris, associate dean of MBAs at HEC Paris, served as the forum’s chairpersons.

The forum drew approximately 150 participants, including experts, scholars, students, and professionals from various fields. Among them were Professor QIN Xin, associate dean of the School of Business at Sun Yat-sen University; Professor HE Wei, recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and faculty member at Nanjing University Business School; Professor WEI Qiang, vice chair of the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Tsinghua SEM; ZHANG Jiayin, associate professor in the Department of Leadership and Organization Management at Tsinghua SEM and Director of the Research Center for Interactive Technology Industry; Professor LI Ning, Flextronics chair professor and department chair of the Department of Leadership and Organization Management; and Jerry Yang, vice president of Thundercomm, an IoT business joint venture between ThunderSoft and Qualcomm. They spoke to share their research findings and industry practices at the forum, which was presided over by LI Ning.

The forum focused on combining organizational management and AI technology applications. Experts and scholars spoke and shared their insights from theoretical and practical perspectives, and promoted exchange and cooperation between academia, industry, and the research communities involved in AI technology applications.

From Tsinghua SEM

Editors: Gillian, Li Han