insideview ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE MAKING A BETTER WORLD WITH TECHNOLOGY A conversation with EDWARD CHENG, Corporate Vice President of Tencent and CEO of Tencent Pictures

TENCENT is one of the world’s top 10 most valuable internet companies. In 19 years, the Shenzhen-based start-up has grown into one of the world’s biggest technology and culture companies, with a market value exceeding US$400 billion. In 2013, Tencent launched the WE Summit as a platform for interdisciplinary exchange amongst the world’s science and technology innovators. Here, Edward Cheng discusses his expectation of the summit and Tencent’s ambition to address global challenges with technology.

What are the major focuses of achievements to share their scientists, whose research How does Tencent address Tencent? visions of the future. Now live Tencent will support continuously. essential problems facing Tencent aims to build better streaming of the summit attracts We will also help connect young humanity? connections among people, millions of viewers. scientists with capital and the We care about challenges services and devices. Our core I hope the WE Summit industry by inviting them to share threatening human survival, new businesses now encompass will become a barometer insights at the WE Summit. issues emerging in technology social media, digital content and of technological innovation, development, and cultural financial technology. WeChat directing our future efforts. It will How do technology and preservation. Solutions to and QQ are among the most also motivate more scientists humanities intersect? problems like environmental popular social platforms for and entrepreneurs to explore Dreaming about changing the pollution, climate change, Chinese mobile internet users, solutions to global challenges world with technology, I studied diseases, and urban congestion with nearly 900 million monthly collaboratively and provide physics in Tsinghua. While in require science and technology active users respectively. inspirations to the young. With university, I joined the drama innovation. Tencent will invest in We have integrated various greater global influence, the WE society and became interested such novel technologies, including entertainment forms, including Summit will integrate all forces to in performing arts. To me, early diagnosis of cancer, flying comic and animation, literature, support innovation development technology and humanities cars and space exploration. film and TV, games and music, and will become the beacon are connected, one aiming at Our investment decisions are to build an internet-based pan- guiding the future of mankind. truth, the other seeking virtue, based on social values of the entertainment ecosystem, and but both are for a bright future technologies rather than merely are starting to explore overseas Why are you partnering with of mankind. Advancement of their economic values. market. Our financial technology Nature Research? human civilization needs the Disruptive changes brought products, WeChat Pay and QQ We are honoured to build a coordination of the two. by technological advances mean Wallet, have enabled speedy strategic partnership with Nature At Tencent, we apply internet improved material conditions, mobile payment, replacing cash. Research. Its core journal, Nature, technologies to integrate user- but also greater anxiety. Tencent As emphasized by our CEO, is the world’s top scientific and professional-generated pays close attention to side Ma Huateng, we are also into journal, having witnessed the content, building an ecosystem effects of internet development, emerging technology trends. Our profound changes brought for cultural innovation. We have such as internet addiction and R&D input in artificial intelligence by science and technology helped many ordinary people find cyber security. (AI) and human-computer development in its 148-year their unique talent and brought We are using technology to interaction have seen preliminary history. Through the collaboration, novel cultural entertainment promote and revive traditional results. We have a broad interest we expect to enhance the experience to millions of users culture. Examples are an open in technologies that will improve global impact of science and by, for instance, adapting good digital library on traditional quality of life. technology innovation, connect comic intellectual property (IP) games that we created with the world’s talented scientists of grassroots writers to films, UNESCO and an online game What is the WE Summit? with young people in China, and games or other digital products. developed based on Capoeira, a We initiated the WE Summit make science and technology I find a perfect integration of arts Brazilian martial art. By working to build a bridge that connects innovation a new craze. With the and technology here. Technology with Nature Research and other global innovators for them to WE Summit, the connection will also plays an important role in partners, Tencent expects to take learn from each other, explore spark greater innovation for the cultural preservation. Using AR or greater social responsibilities, a path to innovation, and to benefit of mankind. VR technologies, we can better contributing to a brighter future work for the benefit of mankind. The collaboration allows us reproduce ancient arts. New of mankind. Every year, we invite from to leverage Nature Research’s technologies will enable more around the world approximately rich academic publishing data personalized and individualized 10 scientists, inventors or to identify future science trends cultural experience, boosting entrepreneurs with breakthrough and the most promising young cultural development. http://we.tencent.com

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