Gathering of Industry Leaders! AsiaInfo Technologies and TMF Jointly Held 2025 Beijing Summit to Drive Digital Leap and Build a 'Digital Intelligence Community'

Gathering of Industry Leaders! AsiaInfo Technologies and TMF Jointly Held 2025 Beijing Summit to Drive Digital Leap and Build a "Digital Intelligence Community"

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On March 27, AsiaInfo Technologies teamed up with the renowned international organization, TM Forum (Telecommunications Management Forum), to jointly host the 2025 Beijing Summit with a theme of "Powering the Digital Leap with AI". Hundreds of industry leaders, experts, scholars, corporate executives, and ecosystem partners from China and abroad gathered to explore the integration of technology and business, balancing innovation with practice. They delved into issues such as "AI-Driven Industry Digitization, P5G Empowering Industries, and the Development of Intelligent Networks", seeking pathways for high-quality development empowered by "intelligence, data, cloud, and network".

Photo: Summit Venue

Hundreds of attendees, including Nik Willetts, CEO of TM Forum; Wen Ku, Chairman of the China Communications Standards Association (CCSA); Li Huidi, TM Forum Board Member, Vice President and Party Leadership Group Member of China Mobile; Huang Zhiyong, Vice President and Party Leadership Group Member of China Telecom; Gao Nianshu, Executive Director and CEO of AsiaInfo Technologies; dozens of senior executives, as well as experts, and professionals from telecom operators, Alibaba Cloud, Huawei, Ericsson, Volcano Engine, iResearch, and other organizations participated in this Conference.

01 "Intelligence, Data, Cloud, and Networks" Hyper-Convergence to Empower Digital Leap in Hundreds of Industries

Nik Willetts, Wen Ku, Li Huidi, Huang Zhiyong, and Gao Nianshu delivered speeches representing international organizations, industry associations, telecom operators, and leading enterprises respectively, sharing their insights on AI, 5G, and other cutting-edge innovations, as well as global collaboration, industry development, and traditional business transformation. Nik Willetts emphasized that AI is the most dominant technological direction today, and China's rapid AI development is profoundly changing economic and social development models, as well as people's work and lifestyle. He called for stronger all-industry collaboration in AI development. TM Forum has formulated three strategic tasks: "building an AI-ready ecosystem, advancing autonomous networks construction, and promoting widespread AI adoption", which it is committed to implementing. The Forum hopes to work with leading enterprises in the communication and vertical industries to jointly promote AI's empowerment of various industries.

Photo: Nik Willetts delivering a speech

Wen Ku highlighted that the communication industry is accelerating toward intelligence, convergence, and greening, with 5G and AI serving as key drivers. AI plays a crucial role in network operations, fault diagnosis, and automated management, significantly enhancing the deployment, operation, and maintenance efficiency of 5G networks. Especially in China, the communication AI sector has achieved leading progress. Wen Ku called for strengthened collaboration among governments, enterprises, and research institutions to promote the deep application of AI and facilitate the digital transformation of industries. Wen Ku emphasized that standardization work in the 5G and AI fields is crucial, hoping that the entire industry will work together to establish a unified system and promote interconnection.

Photo: Wen Ku delivering a speech

Li Huidi noted that AI is profoundly transforming the world, ushering in a new era of "digital intelligence revolution" and giving rise to the "new trio"-smart connected new energy vehicles, AI-powered smartphones and computers, and intelligent robots. Through the "two large-scale effects" of technological capabilities and economic benefits, AI is profoundly transforming the society. China Mobile positions itself as a "supplier, aggregator, and operator" in the AI field: optimizing the layout of intelligent computing, aggregating large models such as "Jiutian" and DeepSeek, and providing one-stop AI services. Its "Three-Zero Three-Self" (zero waiting, zero failure, zero contact, self-configuration, self-repair, self-optimization) autonomous network has stepped into L4 high-level autonomy era, significantly improving network efficiency. Li Huidi urged the industry to strengthen international cooperation in AI ethics governance, jointly build an open and collaborative AI governance system, and promote intelligence for the good.

Photo: Li Huidi delivering a speech

Huang Zhiyong stated that China Telecom has continuously and deeply implemented the "cloud and digital transformation" strategy, accelerating its transformation into a service-oriented, tech-driven, and security-focused enterprise. Focusing on core technologies such as cloud-network integration and AI, China Telecom has built the "TeleChat" and the "Xirang" domestically produced intelligent computing platform, both of which have been applied in multiple industries. In the aspect of "AI for Network", it actively promotes the deep reconstruction of the network value system with use of AI, and the network's autonomous intelligence level is rapidly evolving towards L4. In the aspect of "Network for AI", it takes full advantages of cloud-network integration, to complete the construction of a 10,000-card intelligent computing cluster, promote the comprehensive upgrade of data centers to AIDC, build new types of AI infrastructure, and achieve two-way empowerment through cloud-network synergy. China Telecom is working with industry partners to build an open ecosystem and initiate cooperation projects such as hackathons to jointly promote AI technological innovation and industrial upgrading.

Photo: Huang Zhiyong delivering a speech

Gao Nianshu noted that artificial intelligence (AI) is a crucial pivot for the digital economy and high-quality growth, representing the inevitable path for traditional industries to undergo transformation. AsiaInfo Technologies is committed to serving various industries through digital intelligence capabilities, establishing a comprehensive LLM delivery system comprising "a planning methodology, a set of tools, and a professional team". In collaboration with Alibaba Cloud, AsiaInfo has launched the LLM all-in-one machine which integrates the advanced technologies such as DeepSeek, to provide "AI + data" services for industries such as communications, power, and government affairs, with applications already implemented in over 50 scenarios. AsiaInfo Technologies, together with TM Forum, hosted this summit with the hope of exploring new digital paradigms and values driven by AI through the exchange of ideas and experiences, thereby injecting new vitality into industry development.

Photo: Gao Nianshu delivering a speech

During the keynote speeches, Aaron Boasman-Patel, Vice President of Innovation Business at TM Forum, shared the industrial revolution brought about by AI from a global perspective and the importance of international cooperation for technological innovation and economic growth. "With more than 800 member organizations in 111 countries worldwide, we jointly drive the development of today's ICT industry. Partner organizations like AsiaInfo Technologies in China are increasingly contributing and playing a significant role in enhancing global industry cohesion."

Photo: Aaron Boasman-Patel delivering a speech

Shao Xinhua, General Manager of Cloud and Network Operations Department at China Telecom; Gu Ninglun, Deputy General Manager of Network Business Department at China Mobile; Lou Yu, Deputy General Manager of Digital Transformation Department at China Unicom; Ouyang Ye, CTO and Senior Vice President of AsiaInfo Technologies and IEEE Fellow; Wang Shaosen, General Manager of Autonomous Driving Network Solutions at Huawei; Li Li, Vice President of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group; Xu Xiaoyong, Deputy General Manager and Chief Engineer of China Communications Construction Photovoltaic Technology Company; Tang Liting, General Manager of Strategic Business Department at Ericsson China; Xue Chuan, Senior Director of Ecosystem Cooperation at Volcano Engine; and Wang Jun, Chief Strategy Officer at iResearch, shared insights on AI technology integration, product research and development, theoretical exploration, and business practices during the transformation process from the perspectives of communication operators, model computing power resources, and service providers, respectively.

Photo: Highlights of Keynote Speeches

During the roundtable discussion, Ouyang Ye, along with Wang Yue, Chief Expert at China Telecom; Liu Guangyi, Chief Expert at China Mobile and Chief Scientist at ZGC Institute of Ubiquitous-X Innovation and Applications (X-Net); Du Yu, Planning and Architecture Director of Digital Transformation Department at China Unicom; Wang Shaosen, General Manager of Autonomous Driving Network Solutions at Huawei; and Fang Zhou, Technical Director of Strategic Business Department at Ericsson China, engaged in a discussion on "AI-Native Evolution in the ICT Industry". The guests agreed that AI Native is inseparable from the integration of hardware and software and relies on the collaborative efforts of operators and suppliers. Its evolution begins now and the "intelligence" will shape the future.

Photo: Roundtable discussion

During the Summit, Nik Willetts, CEO of TM Forum, presented the "Special Contribution Award" to Li Huidi. Aaron Boasman-Patel, Vice President of Innovation Business at TM Forum, announced several Excellence Awards for 2025 TM Forum.

Photo: Li Huidi receiving the "Special Contribution Award"

02 Amidst the Roaring Wave, We Embrace an Enlightened, Open, and Pioneering Attitude to Build a "Digital Intelligence Community"

Facing the surging wave of digital intelligence, China is advancing towards a future of intelligence powered by AI and next-generation network at an unprecedented pace. AI technologies, represented by LLMs, have become the core engine for enterprises to rebuild their competitive advantages. Network technologies, represented by P5G and autonomous networks, are now used to establish more efficient and convenient infrastructure for industry-wide transformation.

As the wave roars, AsiaInfo Technologies will steer with innovation and sail with ecosystems, to continuously promote the fusion of technology and scenarios, and assist various industries in boarding the AI "express train", converging the potential of the industry chain, and jointly building an open and win-win "digital intelligence community"!