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BEIJING<\/span>, March 8, 2026 \/PRNewswire\/ — A report by CRI Online:<\/span><\/p>\n

The World Internet Conference Specialized Committee on Artificial Intelligence (the WIC SC on AI) hosted a special forum under the theme "Embodied AI: Leading a New Paradigm of AI Development" on March 3 in Barcelona, during the Mobile World Congress.<\/p>\n

Notable figures addressing the event included Francis Gurry<\/span>, vice-chair of the WIC and former director-general of the World Intellectual Property Organization; Mohamed Ben Amor<\/span>, director general of the Arab Information and Communication Technologies Organization; and Lara Dewar<\/span>, chief marketing officer of the GSMA.<\/p>\n

Others who gave speeches were Schahram Dustdar, co-chair of the WIC SC on AI, a member of Academia Europaea and president of the International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance; Zhang Dong<\/span>, executive vice president of China Mobile; Nakul Duggal<\/span>, executive vice president and group general manager at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.; and Wang Xiang<\/span>, senior vice president at ZTE.<\/p>\n

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The forum also featured a roundtable<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

The forum also featured a roundtable moderated by John Higgins<\/span>, co-lead of the Standards Program of the WIC SC on AI and chairman of the International AI Governance Association. It was participated by Liu Dong<\/span>, director of China Future Internet Engineering Center and Internet Hall of Fame Inductee; Jayne Stancavage, vice president of policy and regulatory affairs at Intel Corporation; Emanuela Girardi<\/span>, president of ADRA; and Qu Zhenbin, chief solutions architect for AI+ at Alibaba Cloud.<\/p>\n

They discussed the opportunities and challenges emerging in the embodied AI industry.<\/p>\n

The participants agreed that embodied AI is rapidly transitioning from research and development to large-scale implementation and is now a key focus in AI development. <\/p>\n

They stressed the importance of deepening international cooperation to foster a healthy, diverse and inclusive global industry ecosystem and build a secure collaborative governance framework. These efforts are crucial to developing safe and reliable embodied AI and ensuring technological progress benefits humanity, they noted. <\/p>\n

They expressed the hope that the WIC SC on AI would continue to play a vital role in building global consensus and create a shared, intelligent future.<\/p>\n

The forum was attended by over 100 representatives, including WIC SC on AI members, WIC members and representatives from international organizations, government agencies and institutions in the embodied AI field.<\/p>\n

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