Tencent WE Summit 2019Impact Report

For Prof. Tom Baden

November 3, 2019

Way to Evolve,Tencent WE Summit

At WE Summit, we rarely talk about competition between

companies. We are talking about the future, how to

change mankind’s life through technology.

—— Huateng Ma Co-Founder and CEO, Tencent

Unsurpassed Global Speakers Line Up

Carl June

Director of the Center for Cellular Immunotherapies at

the Perelman School of Medicine

Brian Greene

Theoretical Physicist, Professor at Columbia

University

Hod Lipson

Professor of Engineering and Data Science at Colombia University

施路平 Shi Luping

Director of the Centre for Brain Inspired Computing

Research at Tsinghua University

王贻芳 Wang Yifang

Director of the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of

the Chinese Academy of Sciences

David Wallerstein

Chief eXploration Officer of Tencent（CXO）

Magdalena Skipper

Editor-in-Chief of Nature

Jennifer Jackson

Professor of Mineral Physics at the California Institute of Technology

Tom Baden

Professor at University of Sussex, Winner of 2019

Nature Research Award for Driving Global Impact

Onsite audiences

Onl ine audiences

2,017 audiences have attended

the summit, including policy makers,

media, university students,

technology industry professionals,

science enthusiasts and Tencent’s

partners

over 60 live-streaming platforms

broadcast the Summit,

generating over 19.4 million

page views on the event day，

which was 2 times of last year

14%

9%

23%

12%

22%

20%

Doubled Audience Reach

Policy makers

University students

Media

Partners

Technology industry professionals

Science enthusiast

Hundreds of journalists from mainstream

media attended the summit, resulting in

around 1,300 pieces of media coverage

in two days after the event.

Media attendance

Profound Media Coverage

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Your Moment

The Tencent WE Summit is an annual international science conference that Tencent has hosted

since 2013. As a non-commercial event, Tencent hopes to bring together the most valuable

scientific breakthroughs to help create a picture of our future.

Every year, Tencent invites eight of the world's top scientists to share the most noteworthy scientific

breakthroughs and cutting-edge ideas. In 2017, Tencent welcomed a strategic partnership with

Springer Nature, a leading science publisher, to co-host the Summit.

The Tencent WE Summit has become one of the biggest science events in China, attracting up to 10

million viewers per year, including science and technology insiders, media, investors and science

enthusiasts.

About Tencent

Founded in November 1998, Tencent is one of China's largest Internet companies in

terms of user base.

On June 16, 2004, Tencent was listed on the main board of Hong Kong Stock Exchange

(stock code 700). Tencent takes it as its mission to improve the quality of human life

through Internet services.

Via China's leading online platforms like instant messaging tool QQ, mobile social-

networking and communications service tool WeChat, and Tencent games, Tencent

has built China's largest Internet community to meet the needs of Internet users for

communication, information, entertainment and e-commerce.

About Tencent WE Summit

Thank You!

Tencent WE Summit Organizing Committee

we.tencent.com