International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance and Nobel Laureate Attend HICOOL 2025 Global Entrepreneurs Summit｜Shaping New Chapters in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
22 Oct 2025
From October 16 to 18, 2025, the HICOOL 2025 Global Entrepreneur Summit was successfully held at the Beijing International Convention Center. Under the theme "Building a Global Capital for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem," the summit focused on four core elements: technological innovation, industrial integration, international cooperation, and youth empowerment. It brought together over 300 experts, more than 500 high-tech innovation enterprises, 1,000 investment institutions, and 300 media representatives, establishing a global platform that fosters both intellectual exchange and resource integration.
At this gathering of global innovators and resource connectors, Mr. Cai Zhongtao, Secretary-General of AIIA, accompanied Nobel Prize laureate in Physics, Sir Andre Geim, Royal Professor at the University of Manchester, to participate in the summit and engage in discussions on global innovation and talent development.
Professor Geim delivered an insightful keynote on the development and application prospects of two-dimensional materials, joined by other renowned scientists including Gérard Albert Mourou, fellow Nobel Laureate in Physics, and Cheng Heping, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Institute for Future Technology of Peking University, and Founder of Beijing Superview Biotechnology Co., Ltd, sharing pioneering insights spanning from micro-scale physics to next-generation technologies.
Through high-density, high-quality discussions on cutting-edge fields such as humanoid robots, large-scale AI models, laser technology, and AI agents, the experts fostered a deeply integrated exchange platform spanning “industry, academia, research, finance, and investment.”
Mr. Cai Zhongtao, Secretary-General of AIIA, was invited to participate in the thematic forum "The Power of Alumni: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and the Future of Careers." He delivered a keynote titled "How Global University Alumni Networks Can Empower the Career Development of Returning Overseas Talent."
He emphasized that in an era characterized by intelligent collaboration and increased global mobility, alumni networks should play the role of connectors of innovation resources. To that end, Cai proposed building a "Alumni + Enterprise + AI" integrated development model—featuring initiatives such as AI-based career advisory systems, alumni-driven job referral mechanisms, and targeted AI skill training programs—to systematically support the professional growth of returning overseas professionals.
Cai further outlined AIIA's global collaboration strategy, titled "One Alliance, Multiple Hubs, Global Synergy."
Open Access to Resources: AIIA will open its AI research assets, enterprise databases, and investment channels to support innovation and entrepreneurship in partnership with global alumni associations.
Joint Innovation Hubs: New AI industry and talent collaboration centers will be established across North America, Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East, jointly built with overseas alumni networks.
Global AI Alumni Innovation Alliance: AIIA advocates for a global network uniting alumni innovation resources to promote cross-border mobility of projects, capital, and talent.
Public-Private Partnerships: AIIA aims to collaborate with local governments and international alumni associations to create "International Talent Innovation Ports" and "AI Cooperation Demonstration Zones."
Moving forward, AIIA will remain committed to our original aspirations, leveraging AIIA's global presence to promote the deep integration of industry, academia, and research in the field of artificial intelligence, as well as to advance talent development—contributing substantially to a more open and dynamic global innovation network.