Convenings

World AI Conference 2026

On the morning of July 19, 2026, Concordia AI hosted the WAIC 2026 “Frontier and Agentic AI Safety” Forum at the Shanghai Thompson Hotel, Expo Center. As one of the featured forums under WAIC 2026’s governance track, the forum featured in-depth discussions around three core themes: “Frontier AI Risk Monitoring: From Scientific Understanding to Practical Tools”, “The Agentic AI Era: Full-Lifecycle Safety Governance and Risk Intervention”, and “Frontier AI Risk Governance and Global Perspectives”. The Forum brought together more than 20 distinguished experts and practitioners from around the world. Speakers included Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio (Professor at the University of Montreal), Alondra Nelson (former acting director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy), Amandeep Singh Gill (United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology), Wan Sie Lee (Cluster Director for AI Governance and Safety at Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority), ZHOU Bowen (周伯文) (Director of Shanghai AI Lab), and XUE Lan (薛澜) (Dean of Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University and Counsellor of the State Council), alongside former researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic, and senior experts from Alibaba, the Frontier Model Forum, Hugging Face, and the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT). Around 300 attendees joined in person, and the livestream had recorded more than 300,000 views as of July 19.

2026 BAAI

On June 13, 2026, Concordia AI co-hosted the “Agentic AI Safety” Forum at the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) Conference. This marked the third time Concordia AI had co-organized a forum on this theme, following previous editions in 2023 and 2025. The gathering brought together leading scientists, engineers, and policy architects from global institutions—including Nanyang Technological University, UNSW Sydney, MIT, Fudan University, Peking University, National University of Singapore, and Westlake University—to discuss the frontier and systemic risks of autonomous agents, evaluate core technical paradigms for building trustworthy agent systems, and explore practical engineering applications of agents in cybersecurity: as AI gains ever greater autonomy, can our safety systems keep up?

2026 International Scientific Exchange (ISE) on AI Safety

The 2026 International Scientific Exchange (ISE) on AI Safety was held in Singapore on May 18–19, 2026. Concordia AI participated as a supporting partner, working with IMDA and the Future of Life Institute (FLI) to advance the global conversation on AI safety. The summit brought together more than 100 leading AI safety experts, frontier model developers, policymakers, and industry representatives from over 10 countries. Participants included Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio and internationally renowned scholars such as Zhang Yaqin, Stuart Russell, Max Tegmark, and Dawn Song, as well as representatives from national AI Safety Institutes (AISIs), government agencies, and related international organizations, and representatives from more than a dozen Chinese and international frontier AI companies, including Alibaba, Ant Group, ByteDance, Huawei, Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind. As a supporting partner of ISE, Concordia AI contributed to the strategy, drafting, and coordination of the 2026 Singapore Consensus on Global AI Safety Research Priorities, with Concordia AI’s CEO serving on the report’s Steering Committee. Concordia AI researchers were also lead writers of the draft Companion Report on Agentic Risk Management, which complements the Main Report and extends the discussion from research priorities to emerging practices for the safe development and deployment of autonomous AI agents. Concordia AI also moderated the ISE panel on agentic risk management and organized two focused workshops at the summit, on emergency shutdown mechanisms for AI agents and on agentic AI risk management.

World AI Conference 2025

On July 27, 2025, Concordia AI hosted the “AI Safety and Governance” Forum at the World AI Conference in Shanghai. The forum brought together more than 20 leading scientists, policymakers, and representatives of international organizations from China, the United States, Canada, France, the United Kingdom, Singapore, and other countries. Centered on four key themes — “The Science of AI Safety,” “Emerging Challenges in AI Safety,” “AI Risk Management in Practice,” and “International Governance of AI Safety” — the forum featured 16 keynote presentations and five roundtable discussions, with in-depth exchanges on frontier topics such as superintelligence safety, cybersecurity threats from frontier AI, the risks of AI self-replication, and responsible innovation at the intersection of AI and the life sciences. Drawing on perspectives from all sides, the forum also released four major reports. Speakers included Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio; United Nations Under-Secretary-General Amandeep Singh Gill; Shanghai AI Lab Director ZHOU Bowen (周伯文); Special Envoy of the President of France for AI Anne Bouverot; Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley Stuart Russell; Peng Cheng Laboratory Director GAO Wen (高文); CEO of the Partnership on AI Rebecca Finlay; Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Strategic Advisory Expert Committee member HE Jifeng (何积丰); and many more leading figures from government, industry, and research. Over 200 audience members joined in person, with more than 14,000 views of the livestream.

World AI Conference 2024

We hosted the Frontier AI Safety and Governance Forum at the World AI Conference and High-level Conference on Global Governance of AI 2024 (WAIC 2024), China’s most influential AI conference. The Forum brought together 25 distinguished experts including former Baidu President Zhang Ya-Qin, Turing Award Laureate Yoshua Bengio, Peng Cheng Lab Director Gao Wen, Shanghai AI Lab Director Zhou Bowen, and UN High-Level Advisory Body members Zhang Linghan, Zeng Yi, and Ruimin He. The event drew 300 in-person participants, over 1 million online viewers, and coverage from 20+ news outlets.

Beijing Academy of AI Conference 2025

We co-hosted the “AI Safety Forum” with the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) at the 2025 Beijing Academy of AI Conference (BAAI 2025). The forum brought together leading scholars and technical experts from MIT, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Renmin University, the University of Toronto, Singapore Management University, and others. The event worked towards a scientific consensus on technical evaluations for AI “red lines.”

Beijing Academy of AI Conference 2023

We co-hosted and moderated a full-day forum on AI Safety and Alignment at BAAI 2023—the first AGI safety-focused forum at a major Chinese AI conference. The forum featured 14 leading voices in the field, including Geoffrey Hinton, Sam Altman, Stuart Russell, and Andrew Yao, alongside experts from Anthropic, DeepMind, Tsinghua University, the University of Cambridge, Peking University, and BAAI. The event attracted over 500 in-person participants.

International AI Cooperation and Governance Forum 2024

We co-hosted AI Safety sessions at the Forum with Singapore’s AI Verify Foundation. The AI Safety Plenum, chaired by Concordia AI, featured leading voices including LAM Kwok Yan, Co-Executive Director of the Singapore AI Safety Institute; Jade Leung, CTO of the UK AI Safety Institute; XUE Lan, Dean of the Tsinghua Institute for AI International Governance; TANG Jie, Chief Scientist of Zhipu AI; and Friederike Grosse-Holz, representative from the EU AI Office’s AI Safety Unit. Concordia AI and AI Verify Foundation also co-organized a closed-door workshop, convening 20+ international researchers to explore testing frameworks, risk assessment, mitigation strategies, and monitoring protocols.

International AI Cooperation and Governance Forum 2023

We co-hosted a half-day forum on Frontier AI Safety and Governance during the International AI Cooperation and Governance Forum co-organized by Tsinghua University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in December 2023. During the event, Concordia AI released a draft Chinese-language report for expert consultation titled Best Practices for Frontier AI Safety: Research and Development Practices and Policy Construction Guide for Chinese Institutions. The finalized 70+ page report, reflecting expert input from the forum, was published in January 2024.

Examining AI Safety as a Global Public Good

In February 2025, on the sidelines of the French AI Action Summit, Concordia AI co-hosted a workshop on “AI Safety as a Collective Challenge” in collaboration with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP), the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative (AIGI), the Tsinghua University Center for International Security and Strategy, and the Tsinghua Institute for AI International Governance (I-AIIG). During the seminar, Concordia AI, CEIP, and AIGI jointly released the report Examining AI Safety as a Global Public Good: Implications, Challenges, and Research Priorities