The 2026 AI+ Financial Infrastructure Frontier Innovation Dialogue was held in Pudong, and the Financial Xinchuang Ecosystem Co-construction Initiative was released

On October 23, the "Building the Foundation with Digital Intelligence · Unlocking the Future with Computing" 2026 AI+ Financial Infrastructure Frontier Innovation Dialogue was held in Pudong. The event was co-hosted by the Lujiazui Financial Salon Secretariat and Zhizhi Technology (DolphinDB), focusing on the development trends, technological innovation and business practices of financial infrastructure in the AI era, bringing together representatives of financial institutions and technology companies to jointly explore the implementation paths for AI-empowered financial infrastructure development. A secure and controllable financial IT innovation foundation urgently needs to be built. As the core carrier area of Shanghai International Financial Center, Pudong is ushering in important opportunities for developing AI finance and advancing financial IT innovation. At present, AI large models and intelligent computing power are reshaping the development logic of financial infrastructure, and financial institutions are accelerating toward data intelligence, computing power collaboration and real-time decision-making. The high-level opening-up of the financial industry and technological self-reliance are advancing in parallel, and there is an urgent need to build a secure and controllable financial IT innovation foundation. During the event, several industry representatives delivered keynote speeches. Dr. Qian Xin, President of the Capital Operations Center of Ping An Bank, Dr. Zhou Xiaohua, Founder and CEO of DolphinDB, and Bao Huanchen, Deputy General Manager of the Operations Support Department of the Shanghai Headquarters of China Central Depository & Clearing Co., Ltd., respectively combined front-line practices such as bank capital operations, multi-asset management and bond market infrastructure to analyze the implementation paths of AI and data technologies in financial business; Nicole Chen, Managing Director of North Asia Pacific and President of China at London Stock Exchange Group, and Zhang Junwei, Deputy General Manager of Intelligent Computing Products at Hygon Information, discussed the transformation directions and development opportunities of financial infrastructure from the dimensions of high-performance computing power, trustworthy AI and internationalization practices, and domestic computing power, respectively. The Financial IT Innovation Ecosystem Co-building Initiative was released. During the event, the Financial IT Innovation Ecosystem Co-building Initiative was officially released. The initiative aims to consolidate the technology foundation through industrial collaboration, accumulate development momentum through talent cultivation, and jointly build an open and win-win financial IT innovation industry ecosystem. At present, enterprises in the relevant industrial chain have joined hands with more than 30 representative enterprises in the IT innovation field, including Hygon Information, UnionTech Software, Inspur Information, Phytium, Kylin Software and Kunpeng, to achieve full-chain adaptation from chips and operating systems to servers and basic software; at the same time, they have carried out industry-university-research cooperation with more than 20 universities, including Peking University, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Fudan University and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, to continuously cultivate interdisciplinary professionals oriented toward fintech and time-series computing. The event carried out in-depth exchanges from multiple dimensions, including bank practices, data foundations, computing hardware, exchange internationalization and the IT innovation ecosystem. On the same day, the 37th and 38th Lujiazui Financial Salon events, themed "Innovation and IT Innovation Practices of Financial Infrastructure in the AI Era" and "New Paradigms for Risk Management in Trading and Multi-Asset", were held successively. Participants said they will continue to pool the synergy of industry and universities, promote the integrated development of AI and financial IT innovation, and contribute to building a secure, efficient, open and win-win financial infrastructure system for the construction of Shanghai International Financial Center.