The 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit runs from 2 to 5 November in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province, and will hold 27 sub-forums, according to an agenda note the organisers published on 1 November. The AI-related tracks listed are AI agents, robotics and embodied artificial intelligence, AI for science and digital infrastructure. The remaining forums cover cultural heritage preservation, education, youth development, green and low-carbon development, data governance and cybersecurity.
Our takePutting agents and embodied AI on the same programme as data governance reflects where the engineering problems now sit. An agent that acts needs tool contracts, action permissions and a steady supply of fresh data — governance questions before they are model questions. The test after the summit is whether the forums leave shared evaluation methods behind or only declarations.