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World AI Conference [WAIC] Future Tech Demo Day × StartupX
World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) and StartupX proudly present the Future Tech Demo Day.
Future Tech, a sub-brand of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), together with StartupX, is launching the Future Tech Online Demo Day on 7 May 2026.
As AI continues to reshape industries around the world, this event brings together a curated group of cutting-edge AI startups from all over the world, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, Korea and beyond.
The session will spotlight frontier AI companies spanning predictive AI, generative AI, AI infrastructure, enterprise AI, automation, and emerging AI-native applications.
Whether you are an industry leader seeking collaboration, an investor looking for high-potential startups, or an ecosystem partner interested in China-facing innovation opportunities, this global gathering of AI innovation is designed to connect bold ideas with commercial and strategic opportunities.
Why Attend
Join a focused online demo day featuring 15 high-potential AI startups from around the world.
The event is designed for investors, corporates, ecosystem builders, and innovation leaders who want early access to emerging AI companies with global ambition and potential relevance to the China market.
Attendees will get to hear directly from founders, understand their technologies, explore collaboration opportunities, and participate in a live Q&A session.
Who Should Attend
This event is suitable for:
Investors looking for emerging AI startups
Corporate innovation and strategy leaders
AI ecosystem builders
Government and trade agency representatives
Technology partners and platform companies
Accelerators, incubators, and venture builders
Business leaders exploring AI collaboration opportunities in China and globally
Businesses looking to understand more about the China market and AI landscape
Organizers & Partners
World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC)
The World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) is one of the world’s leading platforms for artificial intelligence innovation, bringing together global AI companies, researchers, investors, policymakers, and industry leaders to explore the future of AI.
Held annually in Shanghai, WAIC showcases frontier technologies, breakthrough applications, and emerging AI companies across areas such as generative AI, robotics, AI infrastructure, enterprise AI, smart cities, autonomous systems, and industrial intelligence.
As a global convening platform, WAIC connects cutting-edge AI innovation with real-world commercial opportunities, cross-border collaboration, and China’s fast-growing technology ecosystem.
Future Tech is a sub-brand of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), one of the leading global platforms for artificial intelligence innovation, industry exchange, and ecosystem collaboration.
StartupX
StartupX is a global innovation partner for those building what’s next. We collaborate with corporates, governments, and startups to launch ventures, scale businesses, and drive bold transformation. Founded by entrepreneurs and ecosystem builders, we built StartupX to challenge the status quo of how innovation gets done in Asia.
Special Support:
Airwallex
GMI
Startups Pitching
Allus AI creates machine learning solutions for manufacturing such as defect detection and process monitoring.
Betterdata solves data privacy challenges for enterprises with their synthetic data platform (IRG-1).
Calvin delivers quantitative visibility into AI & GenAI performance by combining governance workflows, lifecycle oversight, and embedded AI testing across 70+ metrics to support scalable enterprise adoption.
Farmio is a full-stack AI company building a global food network to supply the best food, most efficiently.
Gamercury AI builds AI-native game worlds and a scalable AI-powered world engine for emotionally intelligent, interactive storytelling.
HyperAccel is an AI semiconductor startup developing energy-efficient, high-performance processors optimized for Large Language Model (LLM) inference.
Industrial Next combines cutting-edge AI with advanced robotics to transform manufacturing processes, enabling smart automation and making reshoring production truly cost-effective.
Leapstack's B2B model enables insurers to improve Combined Ratio while the B2B2C model provides pre-emptive approach for individual customers to detect CVD and other diseases in earlier stage.
We build brain-inspired, CUDA-compatible AI compute infrastructure that dramatically improves energy efficiency and cost per inference for modern AI workloads.
Nama
Nama is the context layer for AI work, helping enterprises turn knowledge, tools, decisions, permissions, and feedback into trusted AI workflows.
PuzzleLogic delivers interpretable and traceable AI-powered pathology diagnosis solutions for analysis, reporting, data governance, and research translation.
Qlevia AI is an enterprise data AI platform that transforms trillion-scale enterprise data into trusted actionable intelligence for management decision making.
Rebuilder AI's AI platform transforms product design into manufacturing-ready outputs in a single workflow.
RIFFAI uses satellite and AI technology to monitor environmental changes and critical infrastructure in real time.
Sequence unifies revenue operations in one automated platform with AI-native billing and quote to cash for modern B2B finance & revenue teams.
SPREEAI is an AI-powered commerce infrastructure that enables photorealistic, personalized shopping experiences across digital and physical retail environments.