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Currently serves as a researcher at the Institute of Industrial Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, State Councilor, Executive Director of the China Enterprise Management Research Association, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and expert member of the National Enterprise Management Modernization Innovation Achievement Review Committee. She has published 14 academic monographs. As a key member, she has participated in more than ten national natural science and social science foundation key projects, and has won the National Science and Technology Progress Award (3rd Prize, 1999), China Development Award (1st Prize, 1998), Sun Yefang Economic Science Paper Award (1998), the first Jiang Yiwei Enterprise Reform and Development Academic Fund Outstanding Research Report Award (1998), and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award. While engaged in theoretical research, she also serves as a management consultant and consulting expert, providing beneficial services to government departments and enterprises.

Co-CEO / Managing Partner of Sinovation Ventures. Graduated from Stanford University with an MBA. In 2000, amidst the first internet wave, he co-founded Yinda Technology, reaching an annual turnover of $15 million. From 2006 to late 2009, he worked at Google China's Business Development headquarters, creating Google China's premium advertising network, achieving an annual run rate of $80 million in revenue. Currently oversees Sinovation Ventures' investment business and strategy. He started investing in AI in 2012 and is one of the earliest AI investors globally, with several portfolio companies reaching multi-billion dollar valuations (4Paradigm, Megvii, Momenta, etc.). Since 2023, he has participated in the incubation of 01.AI and is deeply involved in its strategic planning.

Mr. Tao Jiang is the Founder and Chairman of CSDN, China's professional developer community. In his 30+ year career, he has integrated expertise in software, internet, and entrepreneurship. He has led projects such as Giant Handwriting Computer, Kingsoft PowerWord, and Hero Super Player. In addition to CSDN, Mr. Jiang also founded Programmer Magazine, Broadview, and Itcast. As a venture investor, he has strategically invested in more than 80 high-tech startups. As a distinguished promoter of the open source industry, Mr. Jiang serves as a director of the Open Atom Foundation, executive member of the CCF Open Source Committee, and deputy secretary-general of the "Innovation China" Open Source Innovation Consortium. In 2023, he co-founded GOSIM Global Open Source Innovation Meetup to further promote the development of the open source industry in China and globally.

Dr. Michael Yuan is the founder and core developer of WasmEdge. WasmEdge is a CNCF-hosted open source WebAssembly virtual machine, primarily used in edge computing, Service Mesh, and embedded functions. He has written 6 software engineering books and is a long-term open source contributor. Michael is also the co-founder of Second State, an open source infrastructure software startup dedicated to commercially and sustainably supporting enterprise applications in the WebAssembly and Rust ecosystems.

Jianhui Tao, Founder & CEO of TDengine, primary author of the open source time-series database TDengine, and winner of the 2024 CCF Distinguished Engineer Award. After graduating from USTC in 1994, he studied in the US and worked in mobile internet R&D at Motorola, 3Com, and other companies in Chicago. He returned to Beijing in 2008 and founded "Hexin" and "Happy Mommy". In May 2017, he founded TDengine, focusing on AI-driven IoT and industrial big data platform R&D. Since open-sourcing in July 2019, TDengine TSDB has repeatedly ranked #1 on GitHub trends. In July 2025, TDengine IDMP—an AI-native industrial data management platform—was released, introducing the concept of "Zero-Query Intelligence", letting data speak for itself. TDengine has received nearly $70 million in investment from Sequoia, GGV, Matrix Partners, and Mingshi Capital.

Dr. Wensong Zhang, CCF Fellow, Founder of the LVS (Linux Virtual Server) open source project. He currently focuses on cloud-native and AI Infra startup incubation and investment, and serves as Executive Director of CCF and Deputy Director of the CCF Open Source Development Committee. He was previously an Operating Partner at Hillhouse, Senior VP at Didi Chuxing, VP at Alibaba and CTO of Alibaba Cloud, Co-founder of TelTel, and Associate Professor at the College of Computer Science, National University of Defense Technology.

Mr. Song Liu has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. He previously served as General Manager of Technology Strategy at Oracle Greater China and Vice President of Alibaba. He has long served in enterprise software solutions, database product marketing, cloud computing ecosystem development, AI ecosystem, open source ecosystem, think tanks, and digital transformation research. He has deep, long-term consulting and think tank experience in combining cutting-edge technology with industry transformation, leading multiple books and research reports in the fields of digital transformation and industrial internet.

Managing Partner of Zhongjing Capital (2024 China's Best Market LP TOP20), holds a Master's degree in Economics from Renmin University of China, is a Certified Public Accountant and Senior Accountant in China. Mr. Li has over 20 years of experience in investment and financing management of large enterprise groups, having worked in three well-known listed companies responsible for investment and financing, mergers and acquisitions, and internal control management, covering industries such as consumer goods, environmental protection, internet, and advanced technology. During his ten years as Managing Partner of Zhongjing Capital, Mr. Li has invested in 21 well-known GPs through FOFs and directly invested in more than ten well-known projects.

Former strategic analyst at ByteDance, Master's in Software Engineering from Nanjing University, representative projects include ONES and ApiFox

Dedicated to empowering AI/SaaS global entrepreneurs, former investor at Hillhouse Ventures.

Driving Commercial Growth through Product Architecture. Expert in the PMF to 1-to-10 journey.

Junping Du, Founder & CEO of Datastrato, former Chair of the LF AI & DATA Foundation Board, Member of the Apache Software Foundation, Co-founder of Apache Gravitino, and expert in data and open source. Previously, he served as GM of Open Source Business at a Fortune 500 company, Head of Tencent Open Source & Director of Big Data R&D, and Head of Cloudera Hadoop Team.

AFFiNE Cofounder & ex-COO (raised $10M total). MiraclePlus S21 Alum. Dropped out of PhD at University of Edinburgh to start a business, taking it from Seed to Pre-A in 4 years. Forbes Asia 30U30. RTE Community Advisor. DKU Entrepreneurship Mentor. 3 years of global operations experience, reaching users in 100+ countries/regions. Mentored 30+ Product Hunt #1 projects. AFFiNE open source launch gained 6000 stars in one week, 10k stars in one month. Currently mentors 10+ projects on global expansion/open source operations, having mentored 40+ projects in total. "AI toB Global Growth Methodology: Open Source Commercialization and Global Ecosystem Community Building"

Bachelor's in Software Engineering from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, MBA from Tsinghua PBC School of Finance and Cornell University. Forbes China 30 Under 30, Hurun Under30s Entrepreneurship Leader, Vice President of Quzhou Chamber of Commerce. Serial entrepreneur for ten years, deeply engaged in data and AI applications, experienced multiple rounds of financing and corporate M&A, accumulated solid product and commercialization experience. Founded Lexiang Online and Zaoshu Technology, exploring instant retail and intelligent financial data infrastructure respectively, serving universities nationwide and trillion-level asset management institutions. Former General Manager of Financial and Pan-Enterprise Division at Sensors Data, leading AI product R&D and commercial implementation, promoting large-scale application of AI technology in finance and overseas scenarios.

Former VP of Software R&D at quantum AI company QBoson, built and led algorithm and infrastructure engineers to develop the first large model based on Bayesian Neural Networks (BNN) and public global stock trading data, as well as quantum image recognition acceleration algorithms based on CNN, Graph Sampling, and QUBO (patent pending). Former Tech Product Lead at self-driving car company Waymo, led internal Big Bet algorithm projects across Waymo Research and Behavior teams, exceeding expectations and accelerating product rollout to dense cities. Serial entrepreneur in chatbots, humanoid companion robots, and search engines. Graduated from MIT EECS (BS), MIT Media Lab (MS), and CIID (MS). Featured in media 2009-2012 for projects like UN rescue dog wearable data collection device (2009 Haiti Earthquake) and optical interactive orbital dress for Lady Gaga (2011), published in International Advanced Entertainment and Computing Conference. Interne at Microsoft Research Asia HCI group in 2010. 2003 Science Olympiad National Gold Medalist.

Formerly responsible for the sealer project at Alibaba, later donated to CNCF.

PhD graduate from the Multimedia Laboratory (MMLab) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, with long-term research in multimodal generation, 3D reconstruction, and human preference modeling. Has published multiple research achievements at top international conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, and ECCV, and proposed systematic human visual preference modeling work (HPS series), providing important references for preference alignment and evaluation of generative models. Previously conducted cutting-edge AI research and engineering practices at SenseTime, Meta, and other institutions, participating in the development and implementation of multiple generative AI systems for real business scenarios. In recent years, he has focused on the structural connection between AI and real user needs, proposing the Vibe User Research concept, exploring a new generation of product self-iteration and self-upgrade paradigms centered on continuous user feedback and preference modeling, committed to promoting the large-scale implementation of open source technology in enterprise-level AI applications and business innovation.

Graduated from Zhejiang University (Computer Science). In 2023, his undergraduate graduation project Zeabur was selected for MiraclePlus Accelerator and received $300k seed funding. Dedicated to creating an AI DevOps engineer, allowing both non-technical users and professional dev teams to deploy, monitor, backup, and test any service using natural language, on any cloud server or local host. Zeabur received $2M angel funding led by Silicon Valley's 500 Global in Fall 2025 and officially launched globally.

Serves over 100 AI tech products including Jimeng, Kuaishou Kling, Skywork, and Lovart in overseas influencer marketing campaigns, managing tens of millions in budget and helping brands quickly gain global volume. EezyCollab also self-developed an AI-driven influencer marketing SaaS, deeply coupled with its agency business, dedicated to using AI to improve the quality and efficiency of influencer marketing services. Yiki holds degrees from Peking University and USC.

Xiaoyin Tang, Executive Editor-in-Chief of CSDN & New Programmer, Head of "Universal Gravitation" column. Coordinates the planning of the "New Programmer" book series and "China Developer Annual Survey Report". Co-editor of "China Open Source Development Blue Book", "China AI Application Developer Report", and "China Open Source Application Developer Report". Has served as editor-in-chief for multiple open source and developer conferences. An open source enthusiast.

Yaowei Zheng, Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Beihang University, author of the LLaMA Factory large model fine-tuning framework, which has over 60k Stars on GitHub. He has published multiple papers as first author in conferences and journals like ACL, CVPR, and WWW, and serves as a reviewer for AAAI and EMNLP. He has received honors such as Beihang Role Model and Ascend Ecosystem Open Source Excellence Award. Winner of First Prize in the Huawei Cup National Mathematical Modeling Competition and Lanqiao Cup Information Technology Competition. Invited to give keynote speeches at industry summits like AI Computing Conference and Apsara Conference. His research results have been applied in companies like Alibaba Cloud and NVIDIA.

Senior technical entrepreneur, currently Founder of the leading open source project RAGFlow. RAGFlow is a widely popular enterprise-grade RAG engine, which under his leadership has garnered nearly 70k stars on GitHub, becoming a widely adopted open source solution in knowledge retrieval and Agent development. He possesses years of R&D experience in infrastructure and core AI algorithms, having supported business systems with hundreds of millions of users, dedicated to driving enterprise intelligent upgrades through solid technical products.

Passionate about open source software and communities, with over 20 years of experience in product R&D, architecture design, and team management in Linux OS, distributed systems, storage & HA, virtualization & cloud computing, containers & cloud-native, and AI infrastructure. He has held positions as Chief Architect, Technical Director, and China Technical Lead in well-known foreign and domestic ICT leaders. As an independent contributor, he has initiated open source projects and successfully promoted them internationally. Currently at Red Hat APAC CTO Office, he leads the incubation and promotion of AI inference communities like vLLM and llm-d, implements AI technology strategies, and focuses on the innovative application of 100% open source AI products and solutions in vertical industries.

A comprehensive technical expert who often anticipates trends, with a background in R&D, Product, Management, and Business Models. Possesses full-stack reverse engineering capabilities and accumulated strategic experience across industries (Missiles, Mobile Phones, Automotive, AI New Retail, Edge Terminals, Embodied Intelligence). Expert in strategically integrating top-level technical solutions with business models, with experience in commercialization at the group strategy level. Released Unitree's open-source bipedal robot Qmini, pioneered the successful implementation of smart agricultural robot products for high-value crops, and established Unitree's Beijing company.

Formerly worked at top international companies like The Times and Apple. The Unbounded Youth Forum he founded has gathered 100+ global projects, investors, and entrepreneurs across China, UK, and Australia, continuously helping enterprises land in China. He focuses on AI, entrepreneurial ecosystems, and future industry trends, dedicated to building a platform that truly improves youth development quality and promotes cross-domain ideological dialogue.

Former big tech operator, now YouTube AI video explorer. Silver Play Button creator (x2). Successfully monetized multiple AI tracks. Uses AI to improve efficiency across the entire content workflow.

120k users in one year, 10k+ followers across the web as an AI niche blogger.

Former researcher at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI). Currently a Product Manager at a music tech company, responsible for AI music plugins and innovative smart instrument R&D. With a background in Information Technology from Beihang University and Sound Design from the University of Edinburgh, he focuses on "AI x Music Tech" interdisciplinary research. He is also an active film composer and independent musician, currently serving as bassist for the Beijing band White Bird Dictionary.

Dedicated to using AI to solve the most painful parts of academic writing — literature tracing and authenticity verification. Launching Citely.ai in 2025 to help students, teachers, and researchers reduce repetitive work and spend time on true creation.