1024 Programmer's Day & AI Builders Conference Opens October 24 in Changsha

On October 24–25, the 1024 Programmer's Day & AI Builders Conference will be held at World Computing · Changsha Smart Valley. The conference is guided by the Hunan Xiangjiang New Area Management Committee, hosted by Changsha Developer Technology Co., Ltd. (CSDN), co-organized by Changsha Software Park Co., Ltd., and supported by the Changsha Information Industry Zone Management Office of the Changsha High-Tech Industrial Development Zone. This marks the seventh consecutive year that 1024 Programmer's Day has been held in Xiangjiang New Area.

With the theme "Embodied Together, Building the Intelligent Future," this year's conference is expected to draw more than 1,500 in-person attendees. The overall program consists of "one main conference, four forums, and four build sessions," offering rich and varied content: the main conference—the opening ceremony and Technology Heroes Summit—will bring together top technologists from across the country to share insights; the four forums include "Dream Building in Xiangjiang," an entrepreneurial stage for young developers; "Beijing-Xiangjiang Interaction," a two-city dialogue between Beijing and Changsha in the field of embodied intelligence; the "AI + Government" Government-Enterprise AI Inner-Source Platform Forum, focused on real-world scenario implementation; and a HarmonyOS special session to warm up the conference; the four build sessions continue the "Everyone Can Build" theme, with attendees forming teams on site, building within a time limit, and releasing their works on the spot. Beyond the two-day program, the 1024 exhibition and street-zone interactions will run concurrently, bringing together developers, technology experts, and sci-tech innovation enterprises from across the country to jointly create a developer industry event for the AI era.

A Seven-Year Pact: Mutual Achievement Between a Conference and a Thriving Land

Image: The seven-year evolution of 1024 Programmer's Day and the technology waves (2020–2026)

At a time when industry events frequently move around, a conference held in the same region for seven consecutive years is itself an answer worth understanding. Looking through the seven-year agenda, several milestones stand out clearly. In 2020, Ni Guangnan, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, opened the conference, and the heads of nine major operating systems gathered in Yuelu; in 2021, the heads of six major global databases and six major operating systems shared the stage; in 2022, led by seven academicians and linked across four cities, the conference moved from a single venue to regional coordination; in 2023, the conference appeared in CCTV's prime-time "News Live Room," and 1024 entered the national spotlight for the first time as a "Changsha phenomenon"; in 2024, related Weibo topics reached 4.07 billion views, with online and offline resonance; in 2025, the first "AI Builders Conference" emerged, with 3,000 registrations for nine build sessions.

Over seven years, from operating systems and databases to open-source ecosystems, from academician dialogues to frontline practice, 1024 Programmer's Day has grown from an industry conference into an annual milestone in China's developer ecosystem that combines professional depth with public influence, while continuing to witness and participate in the upgrading of Changsha's digital industry capacity.

Three Highlights of 2026 Programmer's Day

Highlight 1 | Embodied intelligence is a thread running throughout this year's conference. At the opening ceremony and Technology Heroes Summit, industry executives including Xiao Xiangjiang, founder of Hunan Chaoneng Robotics; Su Yang, co-founder of Lingxin Qiaoshou; and Zeng Hui, senior vice president of Galaxy General Robot, will speak in succession to jointly discuss the development trends of embodied intelligence. Embodied intelligence is also the theme of the "Beijing-Xiangjiang Interaction" forum: guests from more than 20 embodied intelligence enterprises, universities, and other institutions in Beijing and Changsha will engage in extensive dialogue on technological progress and industrial cooperation. For 1024 Programmer's Day, industrial exchange and matchmaking between Beijing and Xiangjiang is not a first—the 2024 conference featured the Changsha–Beijing AI Ecosystem Cooperation Meeting, and in 2025 the Changsha Industry and Beijing Large Model Ecosystem CXO Private Salon was held; this year will further focus on embodied intelligence.

Highlight 2 | The AI + Government forum will not discuss concepts, but real cases that are already running. The forum, in the form of "government and enterprise sitting together," will use the construction practice of Shenzhen Longgang's National First Government AI Inner-Source Collaboration Platform as a case study to discuss in depth the complexity of government in the unique scenarios of AI + Government, providing a reference sample for practice experts concerned with the intelligentization of government business.

Highlight 3 | Hands-on building takes attendees from idea all the way to product. The four build sessions continue the "Everyone Can Build" theme, with attendees forming teams on site, building within a time limit, and releasing their works on the spot. Advanced production tools are in place from the moment of entry—SenseTime's Xiaohuanxiong brings its AI tools into the sessions, and attendees can start working directly, going through the complete process from idea to AI production to product release within the two-day conference period; Lenovo and NetEase will deliver speeches at the opening ceremony, discussing the real implementation of AI office work. Works will be uniformly collected on the "Code Create" works platform and continuously disseminated through rankings and incentive mechanisms. From attending a conference to leaving with a work, the value of the conference extends from the two-day period into an accumulable asset.

Everyone Can Build: Shenzhen Special Session Opens a Two-Way Journey Between Industry and Developers

This 2026 Changsha 1024 Programmer's Day & AI Builders Conference has partnered with CEIC to create a Shenzhen special session, which will open concurrently on October 22–24, connecting the consumer electronics industry with developers around the theme "Everyone Can Build." The Shenzhen special session will feature a hardcore technology exhibition area, showcasing root technology toolchains for computing power, cloud-native, and on-device AI, including CANN, Huawei Cloud, HarmonyOS, SDK, and Nexent. CSDN will also appear at the CEIC exhibition area, promoting a two-way journey among root technologies, developers, and consumers. On October 24, a full-day flagship forum will open, featuring keynote sharing and roundtable discussions on AI Agents, AI coding, and new HarmonyOS 7 features, along with a closed-door technical exchange meeting; in the afternoon, the CodeLabs hands-on camp will provide multiple practical workstations where developers can experience multi-agent collaboration, rapid AI application building, and HarmonyOS cloud development on site, enabling them to hear insights, get hands-on practice, and connect closely with industry needs and industrial chain resources, jointly exploring the direction of consumer electronics innovation in the intelligent era.

Held in Xiangjiang New Area, this conference will further gather AI developer resources from across the country, consolidate Changsha's artificial intelligence industry foundation, deepen the linkage of sci-tech innovation resources between Beijing and Xiangjiang, help the high-quality development of the digital economy and artificial intelligence industry cluster in Xiangjiang New Area, and continue to polish Changsha's developer ecosystem calling card.

From October 24 to 25, World Computing · Changsha Smart Valley will once again light up for builders. The seven-year pact begins a new journey.

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