The third (2022) China Automotive and Mobility Future Summit will be launched soon

Cars and mobility are becoming the vanguard of the fourth industrial revolution, and we are the practitioners and facilitators of this change.

In big times, however, not everyone involved can paint a clear picture of the future. In the case of our most recent revolutionary revolution, quite a few of the elites of our time got it wrong.

In 1876 Sir William Pulis, chief engineer of the British Post Office, said: "The Americans want telephones, but we don't. We have a lot of postmen."

In 1903, the president of the Savings Bank of Michigan advised Horace Rackham, Henry Ford's lawyer, not to invest in Ford cars: "The horse-drawn carriage will remain, and the automobile will remain a novelty -- a fashion."

In 1946, 20th century fox (parameter | photo) co-founder said: "in the listed six months later, the TV will not be able to maintain its market share. People soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night."

"No one wants a computer in their home," said Ken Olson, founder of the Digital Equipment Company, in 1977.

Today, telephones, cars, televisions and computers have all become essential items in our daily life.

Obviously, the aforementioned elite misjudgment will not be repeated in this technological change. The consensus is that new technologies will catalyze disruptive change, defining the future as a key part of the convergence of technology and business.

In layman's terms, people in the industry refer to it more as cognitive ability. But cognitive ability is only the first step.

The second step is to pace the business. Bill Gates once said, "We always overestimate the change in the next two years and underestimate the change in the next 10 years." So much so that there is a phenomenon in the business world: "half step ahead is a pioneer, one step ahead becomes a martyr."

Third, given the characteristics of the fourth Industrial Revolution, ecological construction becomes the underlying foundation for technological progress, enterprise growth and business prosperity.

After two years of observation and attempts, the third (2022) China Automotive and Mobility Future Summit hosted by Sohu Auto will be held in Haikou on January 5, 2022. At that time, Sohu auto will invite government and association leaders, industry experts to participate in the full display of the development status of technological change, era background and industrial policy.

Focus on battery and energy supplement, intelligence and entertainment, travel and service three directions

Similar to the past, Sohu Auto will continue to invite enterprises in the automotive industry chain to participate in depicting the future scene of automobile and travel, focusing on battery and energy supplement, intelligence and entertainment, and travel and service.

There will be more than one lecture session in each direction. Centering on the life scene, enterprises are invited to show the concrete embodiment of technology, products and enterprise in user service and the way of value creation, as well as the innovation and practice of constructing the future life scene. In short, what does the good life for consumers look like in the context of new technologies? What role does the business or product play?

Award setting and application requirements

At the same time, the Future Summit will set up two categories of awards, with outstanding enterprises and products as the carrier, as the symbol of the change of The Times, and record the pace of historical progress.