en.Wedoany.com Reported - The 2026 WAIC CONNECT zone will be held from July 17 to July 20 in Shanghai, releasing over 20 billion yuan in procurement demand across all industries. It will feature three venues—Zhangjiang, Expo, and Xuhui—providing a direct matchmaking platform for AI technology suppliers and buyers.
The three venues are divided by track, each with distinct procurement focuses. The Zhangjiang venue focuses on hard technology, highlighting computing infrastructure, chip underlying technology, intelligent manufacturing, and rural digitalization. It will release single-billion-level computing procurement projects, numerous million-level factory production line AI transformation orders, and a large procurement pool for urban and rural infrastructure digitalization. The Expo venue covers million-level orders across all categories, involving urban renewal, cross-border international cooperation, smart healthcare, supply chain, and park digitalization. It features a dedicated cross-border overseas procurement session with a budget in the tens of millions of dollars; urban infrastructure and healthcare digitalization demands range from 5 million to 115 million yuan across multiple tiers, with additional large volumes of small and medium-sized orders for government-enterprise digitalization and professional services. The Xuhui venue targets the fast-cash consumer sector, focusing on AI going global, cultural tourism and health, jewelry new retail, pets, and smart livelihood. It includes a billion-level technology procurement budget for overseas ecosystem co-building, with individual project demands ranging from 5 million to tens of millions of yuan.
According to data released by the organizers, the total procurement demand pool exceeds 20 billion yuan. A total of 20 segmented industry matchmaking sessions will be held, with over 60 application scenarios released simultaneously. On-site, there will be 150 domestic and international professional procurement delegations, accompanied by more than 30 dedicated matchmaking specialists. The event will feature an AI-powered matching system, one-on-one private negotiation areas, and industry visit services, enabling pre-event matching, on-site deal-making, and post-event follow-up.
Procurement demands comprehensively cover tracks such as billion-level computing procurement, billion-level smart healthcare, billion-level cross-border going global, billion-level financial digitalization, 50 million-level supply chain, million-level intelligent manufacturing, cultural tourism and health, and pet new retail. All tracks are seeking AI technology partners with substantial investment.
