Human Pinellia ternata, Xiaoman has just passed. On May 22nd, a light rain in Beijing awakened flowers, plants, and trees, bringing fresh air. The two-day 2025 Global Spatio Temporal Intelligence Conference (WGDC25) also came to a successful conclusion on the same day. WGDC has now passed its fourteenth year. The road ahead may still be difficult and long, but everything interprets poetry and expectations in a calm and steady manner. Here, I would like to express my gratitude to all the participants of the conference, sincerely thank you for your support and companionship all the way, and look forward to our reunion next year.
As the first industry innovation conference named "Spatiotemporal Intelligence", WGDC25 has attracted a lot of attention from the industry. With the theme of "Spatiotemporal Intelligence Refactoring the World", the conference invites top scientists, industry elites, investors, and technology developers from related fields to gather together and explore the past, present, and future of spatiotemporal intelligence. In the era of change, exchange the evolution and transition path of AI+spatiotemporal technology, accumulate knowledge for the development of the industry in the next decade, and share observations, reflections, and insights. Over the course of two days, a total of 2000 attendees attended the conference to exchange ideas. On the first day of the video live broadcast, the total traffic on various platforms exceeded 1 million, and the number of views on the live image broadcast exceeded 860000. There were over 500 related reports on the entire network, and the keyword "spatiotemporal intelligence" had been ignited at this moment.
Thank you to the partners of this conference. With everyone's joint efforts and cooperation, this conference was able to be successfully held. We have injected strong impetus into the innovation of the space-time intelligent industry together. Space time intelligence deserves more attention, and we also welcome more and more technology companies and industry organizations to join us, exchange and cooperate together, and work together to open up new opportunities.
The 2025 Global Spatio Temporal Intelligence Conference is guided by Zhongguancun Science City and hosted by Taibo Network. Li Deren, winner of the National Highest Science and Technology Award and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, attended the opening ceremony as the honorary chairman of the WGDC conference and delivered a keynote speech. The topics cover key areas of spatiotemporal intelligence such as smart cities, commercial aerospace, low altitude economy, satellite applications, map and location services, future travel, VR metaverse, and geospatial intelligence. On May 21-22, the conference was fully launched under the framework of 1 main forum+8 sub forums+1 technology exhibition+N diversified ecological activities.
Opening Ceremony and Main Forum
Huang Ying, Director of the Cyberspace Administration and Deputy Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Haidian District Committee of Beijing, and Jiang Dakuan, Director of the Industry Department of the Zhongguancun Science City Management Committee, who is the guiding unit of the conference, attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches, stating that Haidian will strongly support the development of the spatiotemporal intelligent industry, continue to build a highland of technological innovation, and resonate with global developers. In his opening speech, Liu Yuzhang, founder of Taibo Network, mentioned that in 2025, WGDC will adopt the "Global Spatio Temporal Intelligence Conference" as its new Chinese name, which not only expresses Taibo Network's comprehensive embrace of AI, but also hopes to collide and exchange the resources it sees, links, and trends it perceives globally with the industry.
Academician Li Deren, Honorary Chairman of the WGDC Conference, stated in his keynote speech "Spatiotemporal Intelligence Helps Sustainable Development Goals" that as long as it is the material world, there is spatiotemporal intelligence. The acquisition, processing, information extraction, and knowledge mining of spatiotemporal data need to move towards intelligence, which includes multi-level spatiotemporal intelligence such as deep space, aerospace, open space, underwater, and socio-economic aspects. The use of communication and remote computing intelligent sensing network technology to study global spatiotemporal intelligence, from isolated satellites to earth observation brain, has become an inevitable trend in the industry. Technological innovation is used to promote mass application, market and international application.
Professor Huang Tiejun's team from Beijing Zhiyuan Artificial Intelligence Research Institute gave a keynote speech, stating that artificial intelligence is currently in a stage of development from information intelligence to physical intelligence. The emerging embodied intelligence and spatiotemporal intelligence belong to the larger category of physical intelligence, and their prospects will become increasingly broad. From 'static integration' to 'dynamic emergence'. In the future, it is expected to achieve true AGI through life simulating brain like intelligence.
Chen Jinpei, CEO of Qianxun, pointed out in his speech that the greatest imagination of spatiotemporal intelligence should not only stay in the high-altitude satellites that are thousands of miles away, but also in the digital world and fireworks life of the interconnected world. With the wave of AI, the development speed of spatiotemporal intelligence has exceeded any period. For robots, artificial intelligence is the "brain" responsible for thinking and decision-making, while spatiotemporal intelligence is the "cerebellum" responsible for perception and action. In the process of digital intelligence wave, computing network, space-time network and Internet are three important infrastructures, which form the whole digital world and real world infrastructure closed-loop.
Andrei Iordache, a senior industry solution expert at HERE Technologies, shared the intersection and integration of artificial intelligence and location intelligence in the automotive field from a global perspective. In Andrei Iordache's view, the intersection of artificial intelligence and location intelligence will shape the future of software defined vehicles, with virtual scene vehicle testing built on real-world models, immersive digital cockpit based vehicle user experience and functionality, continuously evolving the lifecycle of vehicles. The constantly changing global automotive landscape is making vehicles increasingly a product of ecosystem collaboration rather than independent construction of isolated participants.
At the opening ceremony, Tao Chuang, Global Expert Advisory Committee Member of Taibo Think Tank and Founder and Chairman of Weizhi Technology, made a heavyweight debut of the "2025 Spatio Temporal Intelligence Industry Trend Report". This is also the tenth consecutive year that Zhizhuo Group and Taibo Think Tank have jointly released an industry trend report. From the dimensions of technology view, world view and model view, we shared the changes from the information age to the Internet age and then to the intelligent age, and expounded the three elements (technology, scenario and model) and four variables (AI, terminal, scenario and business model) in the intelligent age.
The X-AI Summit Dialogue on "Evolution and Reflection of AI Driven Technology" is a wonderful segment of the opening ceremony, where experts explore the boundaries of spatiotemporal intelligence together. They discuss the similarities and differences between artificial intelligence and human intelligence, the connections and differences between spatiotemporal intelligence and spatial intelligence, as well as the future models of AI driven industries. At this moment, spatiotemporal intelligence is so close to us from heaven to earth, from nature to society, from society to the human body. It is the 'future focus of artificial intelligence' and the 'key issue for achieving sustainable human development'.
Jiang Guofei, Chief Scientist of China Electronics, stated that the core goal of spatiotemporal intelligence is to extract information value from the spatiotemporal dimension and support intelligent analysis and decision-making of complex systems in complex environments, such as nuclear power plants, spacecraft, aircraft, and various factories. The sensors in these scenarios are essentially variables that change over time and are dynamic data generators that run continuously. Only by utilizing massive time series to automatically model complex systems, based on mathematical models, can various spatiotemporal intelligent reasoning, decision-making, and applications be made.
Zheng Yu, Vice President of JD Group and Chief Data Scientist of JD Technology, delivered a keynote speech titled "Urban Computing: Stimulating the Value of Urban Data with Spatiotemporal Intelligence". He pointed out that in the process of urban construction, there are three main types of data, namely structured data represented by e-government forms, unstructured data represented by video, voice, and text, and spatiotemporal data represented by geographic information and IoT data. To address the issue of missing common foundations, a technology system centered around data can be constructed; To address the issue of data silos, a city knowledge system can be constructed to transform data into knowledge, align and connect data using knowledge.
Professor Deng Zhidong, Director of the Visual Intelligence Research Center at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of Tsinghua University, gave a keynote speech titled "Artificial Intelligence and World Model Evolution and Intelligent Driving Scene Applications". He stated that the essence of world model agents is next spatiotemporal state prediction, which refers to the prediction of the next spatiotemporal state. World model agents can achieve interactive learning. He predicts that the transformative development of autonomous driving from perceptual intelligence to cognitive intelligence, from spatiotemporal understanding and prediction to learning based spatiotemporal decision planning, can truly achieve large-scale commercialization and industrialization of autonomous driving in the era of big models.
Chen Jiancheng, Vice President of Global Sales and Head of Greater China Business at TomTom, stated that everything from the steering wheel and check-in points to smart city planning is driven by maps. He believes that the speed at which map merchants update a map is very fast now, with map updates taking only 30 milliseconds, which is also the most important development for the map industry in the future.
Yan Sunrong, General Manager of Baidu Maps Open Platform, mentioned in his speech "Newly Released Map AI Open Platform, More Open and Intelligent" that "only deep openness can create the future together". Baidu Maps released a new map AI open platform at the conference, including four major capabilities deep openness and five major scenario deep applications, and officially announced the developer "support" plan at the conference.
At the main forum, Zhang Di, a partner and senior analyst at Taibo Think Tank, released the "2025 Spatiotemporal Intelligence Technology and Application White Paper" jointly written by Taibo Think Tank and relevant institutions; Expert Xue Junxiao from Zhijiang Laboratory shared the theme of "Embodied Intelligent Satellite Constellation System", Vice President of Cross dimensional Intelligent Market Lin Jiawei shared the theme of "Sim2Real Accelerating Embodied Intelligence towards the Physical World", Vice President and Chief Expert Zhang Yunfei from China Telecom Smart City Research Institute shared the theme of "New Paradigm Construction of Urban Trusted Data Space under Spatiotemporal Intelligence Background", and Wu Sensen, a specially appointed researcher at the School of Earth Sciences at Zhejiang University, shared the theme of "Fuxi Wanxiang Spatiotemporal Computing Big Model: Engine for Geospatial Intelligent Analysis".
In addition to the main forum, the WGDC25 conference also features parallel events such as the Spatiotemporal Intelligence Developer Forum, HERE Directions Beijing Intelligent Driving Summit, AI-X Youth Forum, Commercial Aerospace New Decade Forum, Satellite Application Innovation Forum, Map and Location Services Forum, Low altitude Economy Forum, National Defense Informatization Forum, Cultural Tourism and VR Large Space Forum, Zhongguancun Science City Closed Door Meeting, etc., focusing on the forefront of technology, industry trends, industry applications, ecological collaboration, and the overseas expansion of Chinese enterprises, with a variety of highlights.
Qianxun Location Time Space Intelligent Developer Forum
On the afternoon of May 21st, Qianxun Location teamed up with Taibo Network to hold the 2025 Spatio Temporal Intelligence Developer Forum, sharing insights into the trends of spatiotemporal intelligence and releasing multiple new products such as the Spatio Temporal Intelligence Three Body Kit, Global Communication Service, and Cloud Chip Integrated Chip Module. Together with partners, they showcased typical cases of spatiotemporal intelligence empowering road inspection, low altitude economy, urban shared travel, and other fields. The forum was delivered by Xin Xin, Vice President of Qianxun Position, and several experts from Qianxun Position, including Dai Bin, CIO of Shanghai Urban Construction and Urban Operations (Group), shared topics, explained products, and presented case studies.
HERE Directions Beijing
On the afternoon of May 21st, HERE Technologies teamed up with Taibo Network to hold the "HERE Directions Beijing - AI and Location Intelligence Leading the New Era of Mobile Travel" Intelligent Driving Overseas Summit, attracting 100 representatives from OEMs and Tier1 partners to participate. This HERE Directions event was hosted by Xie Ning, General Manager and Business Head of HERE Greater China. Andrei Iordache, Director of HERE Industry Solution Architecture, Chen Yan, Chief Solution Architect of HERE China, Liang Zhixin, Director of Navigation Products for HERE Partner and Neusoft Group's Automotive Intelligent Innovation Solutions Division, Liang Rui, Director of Amazon Cloud Technology Industry Cluster Architect, and Fu Jiewei, General Manager of Taiwei China, participated in the keynote speeches and roundtable discussions, focusing on the globalization trend of intelligent driving, the integration of AI and location intelligence innovation, as well as the opportunities and solution paths for Chinese car companies to go global.
AI-X Youth Forum
On the afternoon of May 21st, the AI-X Youth Forum, as one of the highly anticipated sections in WGDC25, stimulated the "New Star Force Field of Spatiotemporal AI", focusing on cutting-edge topics such as spatiotemporal intelligence, large-scale models, remote sensing computing, and urban sustainable development. It invited young pioneers from universities and research institutions in China, the United States, and Singapore to share their latest scientific research achievements and awarded the AI-X Youth Pioneer honor. The forum was hosted by Zhu Qiqi, a professor of the School of Geography and Information Engineering of China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Luo Wei, an assistant professor of the National University of Singapore, Li Haifeng, a professor of Central South University and head of the Department of Geographic Information, Yin Ling, a researcher of the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhang Mi, an associate researcher of Wuhan University, Li Xiaojiang, an assistant professor of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning of the University of Pennsylvania, Zheng Fuyin, an associate professor of the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zheng Guanjie, an associate professor of Shanghai Jiaotong University, Ding Jingtao, a postdoctoral researcher of Tsinghua University, Yang Tianyu, a doctoral student of Beijing Normal University, and other outstanding youth representatives made theme reports, sharing their latest scientific research achievements, and demonstrating the power of young people.
Commercial Aerospace New Decade Forum
On the morning of May 22nd, the Commercial Aerospace New Decade Forum stood at the milestone of the first decade of China's commercial aerospace industry, discussing the "New Decade of Industry Finance Collaboration - Dual Direction of Industry and Finance". Zhao Wenbo, Deputy Chief Engineer of the High Resolution Special Project of the National Space Administration and Academician of the International Academy of Astronautics, delivered a keynote speech titled "Development Status and Future Strategic Thinking of the Commercial Aerospace Industry". Liu Yuzhang, founder and chairman of Taibo Network, shared insights on "Prospects for the Commercial Aerospace Industry in the 15th Five Year Plan". Huo Liang, founder and chairman of Deep Blue Aerospace, gave a keynote speech on "Progress in the Development of the Nebula Series Recyclable Liquid Rocket". Wang Chunhui, co-founder and CTO of Earth Satellite System 2, gave a keynote speech on "The Space Silk Road: Building a Global Developer Ecology for Low Earth Orbit Computing Constellations". Dou Mingming, chairman of China Merchants Fund, gave keynote speeches on "Industry Finance Collaboration to Create a High Ground for Future Commercial Aerospace Industry". Wang Yuecheng, Partner of Taibo Think Tank and Chief Analyst of Aerospace, released the "2025 Top List of Commercial Aerospace Industry Finance Collaboration". Hosted by Mr. Dou, the guests from Zero Space, Star Mobile, Hongqing Technology, and Zhongguancun No.1 had a roundtable discussion to discuss the future together.
Map and Location Services Forum
On the morning of May 22nd, the Map and Location Services Forum deconstructed "AI for Map: From Automatic Mapping to Scene Innovation", attracting a lot of attention. Professor Ai Tinghua, an expert in the field of maps and AI, and a professor at the School of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, gave a keynote speech on "The Great Transformation of Map Making under Generative AI Technology", while Professor Yang Diange, a long-term professor at the School of Vehicle and Transportation, Tsinghua University, gave a keynote speech on "Intelligent Vehicles and In Vehicle Electronic Maps", aiming to unravel the true relationship between maps and intelligent driving; Taibo Think Tank releases the "2025 Intelligent Driving Map Market Research Report". At the same time, the forum invited Sally Zhong, Strategic Customer Service Director of TomTom China, to share "Intelligent Global New Coordinates: TOMTOM Orbis Map Collaborates with Industry Partners to Create the Future", Li Xiantong from the Transportation Virtual Reality and Digital Twin Laboratory of the Ministry of Transport Science Research Institute to share "Innovative Practices of Digital Twins in the Transportation Field", and Wang Hao, Founder and CEO of Jihai Zongheng, to share "Beyond the Map: AI Reshaping Spatial Cognition and Decision making".
Satellite Application Innovation Forum
On the morning of May 22nd, the "From Single to Multimodal: The Evolution of Satellite Remote Sensing AI" - Satellite Application Innovation Forum was held. Zhang Bing, Secretary of the Party Committee and Vice President of the Aerospace Information Innovation Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, delivered a keynote speech entitled "Innovation of Satellite Application Paradigm Driven by Artificial Intelligence", and Gu Haiyan of the Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping Sciences shared "Remote Sensing Intelligent Interpretation Large Model and Business Application". The forum also invited Yan Zhiyu, General Manager of Zhuhai Aerospace Micro, to share "Artificial Intelligence Empowering Satellite Innovation Applications", Qiu Zhenge, an expert in China's four-dimensional field, to share "Construction of Agricultural Brain and Comprehensive Upgrade of Agricultural Industry Chain", and Qi Yonggang, Deputy Director of the Satellite Data and Resources Office of the National Satellite Meteorological Center, to share "Fengyun Meteorological Satellites and Applications". Meng Yu, a researcher of the Aerospace Information Innovation Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of the National Research Center for Remote Sensing Application Engineering Technology, presided over the round table of the forum, and together with Li Suju, director of the Satellite Application Department of the National Disaster Reduction Center of the Ministry of Emergency Management, Cheng Bo, a researcher of the Aerospace Information Innovation Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and other guests explored the evolution path of remote sensing AI.
Low altitude Economic Forum
On the afternoon of May 22nd, the low altitude economic forum was extremely popular. Multiple experts dissect the new infrastructure of low altitude economy and new challenges in urban airspace. Wang Yuecheng, Partner of Taibo Think Tank and Chief Analyst of Aerospace, released the "Global and China Low altitude Economy Panorama Deep Research Report". Yan Jun, Founder and Chairman of Seagull Flying Automotive Group, gave a keynote speech on "eVTOL Breakthrough in Large Scale Mass Production and Airworthiness Certification System ", Baidu Map Technology Architect Jiang Chang gave a keynote speech on" Baidu Ground Air Integrated Intelligent Base, Supporting High Quality Development of Low altitude Economy ", Secretary General of the Key Laboratory of Low altitude Geographic Information and Air Route of the Civil Aviation Administration of China Ye Huping gave a keynote speech on" Infrastructure Construction and Urban Opportunities of Low altitude Economic Air Route Network ", Chief Data Asset Architect and Deputy General Manager of Ecological Cooperation and Development Department Kang Laicheng gave a keynote speech on" Digital Twin Base, Supporting the Appreciation of Airspace Assets ", and Vice President and Chief Technical Engineer of Zhongke Xingtu Huian Technology Co., Ltd. Jin Lufeng gave a keynote speech on" Smart Emergency: Multi Agent Collaborative Decision Architecture under Time and Space Constraints ". Fang Xiaoming, Chief Researcher of Aerospace at AVIC Securities, presided over the roundtable of the forum. Xu Weiyue, Senior Vice President of BeiDou Fuxi, and Zhu Jidong, Product Expert of China's Four Dimensional Marketing Department, participated in the dialogue.
Forum on Culture, Tourism and VR Large Space
On the afternoon of May 22nd, the Cultural Tourism and VR Large Space Forum with the theme of "Breaking through the Big Space: From Dazzling Technology to Large Scale Implementation" was held. Speech by Shi Guangming, Deputy Director of Pengcheng Laboratory and Professor of the School of Artificial Intelligence at Xi'an University of Electronic Science and Technology, titled "Intelligent Agent Collaboration: Reconstructing the Virtual Reality Integration of Cultural and Tourism Interaction Paradigm". The person in charge of the TianDi Online Business Product Center; Chen Xiangbin, the head of industry and research, delivered a speech titled "Immersive Experience Economy:" New Infrastructure "and" New Scene "for the Integration of Cultural and Tourism Exhibitors. Yu Shuabing, the founder of Hangzhou Zhizhou Yiyue Enterprise Management Consulting and the former head of Tiktok E-commerce merchants' recommendation flow strategy, shared the theme of" Virtual Experience Economy and E-commerce Platform Marketing Strategy ". Yan Yang, the deputy secretary-general of Zhongguancun Big Data Industry Alliance and the director of Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance's Meta Universe Special Committee, delivered a speech titled" VR/AR Virtual Space Market Research Report ". Du Xin, the founding partner of Nilotus Capital, shared his insights on" Breaking the Virtual Culture and Tourism from the perspective of investors ".
Defense Informatization Forum
On the afternoon of May 22nd, the theme of the National Defense Informatization Forum was "AI Big Models and Multi Source Geospatial Intelligence". Hu Bo, Director of the South China Sea Strategic Situation Awareness Program, Director of the Ocean Big Data Intelligence Research Center at Peking University Chongqing Big Data Research Institute, and Chief Scientist of Mingkun Data Science, gave a keynote speech on "Multi source Heterogeneous Data Fusion for Sea Situation Awareness". Zhou Xiaoming from Guanwei Technology shared "Construction of Dynamic Identification, Tracking, and Collaborative Response System for Global Strategic Assets". Ni Xingguang, Vice President of Zhongke Shitong Hengqi, shared "Ontology+Big Model" and "Benchmarking Palantir to Build a New Paradigm for National Defense Intelligent Decision making". Yang Zhigao, Vice President of Zhongke Satellite, shared "Application of Real time Remote Sensing in Modern Warfare". Zhang Xiaozhou, co-founder and senior remote sensing expert of the National Defense Geospatial Intelligence Forum, presided over a roundtable dialogue with guests to discuss the credibility of geospatial intelligence empowered by generative AI, how AI can assist in situational simulation and counter inference in information warfare, and the evolutionary path of generative AI in cognitive warfare in the future.
During the two-day forum of the conference, Taibo Think Tank successively released multiple research results, including the "2025 Spatiotemporal Intelligence Industry Trend Report", "2025 Spatiotemporal Intelligence Technology and Application White Paper", "Innovation Awards 2025 Innovation Enterprise TOP List", "2025 Intelligent Driving Map Market Research Report", "15th Five Year Plan for Commercial Aerospace Industry Outlook", "Low altitude Economy Panorama Research Report", as well as the "2025 Commercial Aerospace Industry Finance Collaboration TOP List" which includes three core contents: "China's Top 10 Influential Cities in Commercial Aerospace", "China's Top 10 Industrial Parks in Commercial Aerospace", and "China's Top 10 Investment Institutions in Commercial Aerospace". These research results provide reference for policy makers, industry innovators, industry planners, and investors, and lead the direction of innovation.
WGDC Technology Innovation Exhibition
As an important component of the Global Spatio Temporal Intelligence Conference, the WGDC Technology Innovation Exhibition has always been a stage for the concentrated display and release of new technologies in space-time intelligence. It is also the main stage for many outstanding enterprises to launch new products and showcase their annual brands, leading the direction of industrial innovation. At the same time, many technology innovation companies have also launched new products at WGDC. The WGDC25 Technology Innovation Exhibition covers multiple core areas of spatiotemporal intelligence, from three body kits, intelligent constellations, AI maps, multi form robots, metaverse space computing platforms to digital twins, presenting multidimensional advances in cutting-edge spatiotemporal intelligence technologies, as well as application scenarios and development trends in different fields.
VR large space experience area
For the first time, the WGDC25 conference has opened a VR large space project experience area. Guowen Qiyu, a partner of AI-X Black Technology, brought two sci-fi VR themed IPs, "Mechanical Awakening" and "Fengshen", to the conference exhibition area, providing participants with an immersive experience of the metaverse VR large space project. Through high-precision positioning, full body motion capture, and multi person collaboration technology, users can freely move in real physical space while seamlessly interacting with the virtual world. This kind of '; Combining Reality and Reality "; The experience has opened up a crucial gateway for us to enter the metaverse.
The WGDC25 conference has come to an end, but the original intention and mission to promote the development of the spatiotemporal intelligence industry are still on our shoulders. Here, we once again express our sincerest gratitude to all the attending friends who have followed and supported WGDC, as well as all the users of Taibo Network! Thank you for participating in and witnessing the WGDC Global Spatio Temporal Intelligence Conference, which marks a new starting point for the brand. In 2026, WGDC will set sail again without fear of wind and waves. We look forward to meeting everyone again, moving forward together in the era of great change, and embarking on a journey to the stars and the sea together!
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