Forum held for Talent Day

Talents from home and abroad attend the 1st Shenzhen Global Innovation Talent Forum yesterday, which marks the 4th Shenzhen Talent Day. DT News

A forum was held Sunday to mark the 4th Shenzhen Talent Day and send a message to welcome talented people from around the world to the city.

At the 1st Shenzhen Global Innovation Talent Forum, Wang Weizhong, Shenzhen Party chief, said Shenzhen has always been regarding talented people as the first recourses in its development over the past decades, and people with talent had become Shenzhen’s core competitiveness.

Seven well-known experts and scholars including Shen Xiangyang, director with Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Digital Economy Research Institute, Xue Qikun, vice president of Tsinghua University, David Patterson, director of Shenzhen RISC-V International Open Source Laboratory, Chen Ning, co-founder of Shenzhen Intellifusion, and Gao Wen, director of Shenzhen Pengcheng Laboratory, gave keynote speeches.

“To have a chance to give a speech at the forum indicates my choice of Shenzhen is correct,” Chen Ning said at the forum. As a professional returned from overseas, Chen started the company in 2014 and the first thing his company did was use AI to solve child abduction cases. Through data-based AI, the company helped to locate the suspect within 15 hours after a child in Longgang District was abducted on the eve of the 2017 Spring Festival. Over six years, its system has helped police retrieve more than 400 children and elderly people who were reported missing. The system had been used in more than 100 cities and regions including the Greater Bay Area, Chengdu, Qingdao, Shanghai and Beijing.

“Before I started the business, I have toured dozens of cities. I finally settled in Shenzhen because it is the most suitable city for returned overseas professionals,” said Chen.

The prosperity of Chen’s business can be attributed to Shenzhen’s policy support and good business environment, and he believes Shenzhen will be the first self-evolution smart city in China within the coming 10 years.

At the forum, David Patterson, the winner of the 2017 Turing Award, often referred to as the Nobel Prize of Computing, shared his experience online with forum participants. He spoke at the forum via a holographic projection. The city inaugurated an open source laboratory named after him in 2019. Patterson, professor of computer science at UC Berkeley, is known for Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC-V), an open source hardware instruction set architecture (ISA).

“So far more than 2,000 engineers at universities and enterprises in 50 countries participated in the research relating to RISC-V, Shenzhen is an influential young innovation center, like Silicon Valley, that attracts talented young people to jointly build a dynamic and creative community,” said Patterson. Patterson thinks Shenzhen is an ideal place for RISC-V because there are many researchers in the city who can participate in the program, which he believes will be popularized in the next 5-10 years.

Shenzhen designated Nov. 1 as Shenzhen Talent Day in 2017. So far, Shenzhen has 17,000 high-level professionals, 140,000 personnel returned from overseas and 50 fulltime academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering.