The World Internet Conference held a press conference in Beijing to preview its 2026 Wuzhen Summit, to be held 2-5 November in Wuzhen, Zhejiang, on the theme of open and shared governance towards a community with a shared future in cyberspace. Organisers list an opening ceremony, a main forum and 27 sub-forums spanning global cyberspace-governance cooperation, agent interoperability and trust, robotics and embodied intelligence, spatiotemporal intelligence, and digital technology for green development. They say an AI dialogue in Wuzhen will bring together leading technology firms, well-known open-source large-model companies and AI scientists, and that frontier AI safety-and-governance research results will be released.
Our takeThe guest list is the story here, not the agenda: putting open-source model makers at the centre of a state-backed summit signals where China wants the governance conversation to sit. Two threads in the sub-forum list are worth tracking — agent interoperability and AI safety research — because that is where standards quietly turn into market access.