Ultralytics YOLO27:
September 13, 2026 · Hybrid event

Open vision, built for the real world

A hybrid event in Shenzhen where the AI and computer vision community came together to explore how accessible, collaborative vision AI moves beyond the lab to deliver meaningful impact in real environments.

About Ultralytics YOLO Vision

Born from a community, for a community. Ultralytics YOLO Vision began in 2022 with a simple belief: vision AI should be open, accessible, and shaped by the people building it.

Now in its fifth edition, YOLO Vision brings together enterprise leaders, founders, engineers, researchers, students, and open-source contributors to exchange knowledge, introduce new technology, and explore what is next for computer vision.

It is where breakthrough ideas meet real experience, through technical sessions, product launches, practical case studies, live demonstrations, and conversations that move the industry forward.

Sponsors and demos from

Ultralytics YOLO Vision by the numbers

70+

Countries represented

3,000

Registrations

25

Sessions

15+

Sponsors

700+

Companies

15,000

Online views

Why attend Ultralytics YOLO Vision?

Meet enterprise decision-makers, founders, engineers, researchers, hardware partners, developers, and open-source contributors shaping the future of visual intelligence.
Explore the latest in vision AI. Ultralytics YOLO advancements. Industry trends across robotics, logistics, manufacturing, sports, security, retail, and more.
Experience live demonstrations running on real hardware and addressing real operational challenges across manufacturing, logistics, robotics, security, retail, sports, and other industries.
Attendees watching a session on the main stage at Ultralytics YOLO Vision

Explore our agenda

09:00 AM
Opening doors + coffee
Shenzhen Bay Culture Square
10:00 AM
Opening keynote
Glenn Jocher, Paula Derrenger & Jing Qiu
11:00 AM
Beyond detection: Teaching AI to understand construction with Ultralytics YOLO26
Keith Povich
11:20 AM
Break & Demos
11:50 AM
Open Vision, Open Compute: Building Real-World AI with Ultralytics YOLO on AMD ROCm
Alex Zhang
12:10 PM
Where value moves in the next era of AI
Steve Nouri
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12:35 PM
Optimizing Ultralytics YOLO with OpenVINO™: Accelerating Real-Time Vision on Next-Gen Intel® Core™ Ultra
Shane Wang
1:00 PM
Lunch & Demos
2:00 PM
AMD Workshops
Li Zheng & Zihao Mu
2:10 PM
Embodied vision AI: robotics in the real world
Paul Li & Mirjana Prpa
2:30 PM
Ultralytics YOLO on Real-World Robots with D-Robotics RDK: Stories & Benchmarks from Global Makers
Jiaxing Li
2:50 PM
Qualcomm AI Hub: Everything you need for edge deployment
Richard Dong
3:10 PM
AI for Humanity: An open vision for the real world
Dr. James Ong
3:30 PM
Break & Demos
4:00 PM
Real-Time Intelligence at the Edge: Accelerating Vision AI from Model to Deployment with NVIDIA
Alex Lei
4:20 PM
Open vision, built for the real world
Yong Zhang, Bowen Xu, Yimin Long & Vincent Yin
5:00 PM
Demos
6:00 PM
Event closes
Ultralytics YOLO Vision 2026 Shenzhen venue auditorium

Speakers

Meet the enterprise leaders, engineers, researchers, and open-source contributors advancing AI and computer vision.

Glenn Jocher

Glenn Jocher

Founder & CEO

Glenn Jocher is Founder and CEO of Ultralytics, the company behind YOLO, the world's most widely adopted computer vision models. His work isn't just about building faster, more accurate models; it's about empowering people everywhere to solve meaningful problems with vision AI.
Steve Nouri

Steve Nouri

CEO and Co-founder

Steve Nouri is the CEO and Co-founder of GenAI Works, the largest AI community. A renowned AI leader and Australia's ICT Professional of the Year, he has revolutionized AI perspectives while championing responsible and inclusive AI.
Paula Derrenger

Paula Derrenger

VP of Growth

Paula Derrenger is VP of Growth at Ultralytics, the company behind Ultralytics YOLO, the world's most widely adopted computer vision models. She leads marketing and partnerships, building the relationships and go-to-market strategy that bring vision AI to businesses around the world.
Oisin Lunny

Oisin Lunny

Event MC & Host

Oisin Lunny is an award-winning marketer, event MC, podcast host, speaker, UX professor, and journalist for Forbes and The Guardian. A veteran of global tech firms, he now helps people and companies tell their best stories via events and podcasts. He also DJs on Brighton's Slack City Radio.
Mirjana Prpa

Mirjana Prpa

Assistant Professor & Founder, FEAR Lab

Mirjana Prpa is an Assistant Professor in the Computational Media and Arts Thrust at HKUST (Guangzhou) and founder of the Future Embodied Augmented Realities (FEAR) Lab. Her research sits at the intersection of AI, human-computer interaction, and extended reality, exploring how intelligent systems can support human experience, creativity, and collaboration in health, well-being, and education.
Dr. James Ong

Dr. James Ong

Founder & Managing Director

Dr. James Ong brings four decades of industry, venture and academic experience. Founder of the Artificial Intelligence International Institute (AIII), he champions Sustainable AI for Humanity and AI for Humanity as UN SDG 18. He co-authored AI for Humanity and 人本人工智能, and holds a PhD in AI for Computational Governance from UT Austin.
Shane Wang

Shane Wang

Technical Director

Technical Director of Intel China Software Engineering and Client Products Group and Chair of OAAIF's Technical Oversight Committee. An open-source leader, he has held roles across OpenInfra, SODA, CNCF, OpenAtom, COIA, OpenAnolis, Mulan, CCF, and the Shanghai Open Source Information Technology Association.
Keith Povich

Keith Povich

CEO

Keith Povich is the visionary CEO of ForgePlan, transforming decades of construction expertise into pioneering AI for the built environment. His rare blend of field intelligence, entrepreneurial judgment, and technical imagination is creating systems that read complex plans, uncover hidden risks, and turn computer vision into practical, accountable construction intelligence.
Alex Zhang

Alex Zhang

AI Software Product Engineer

Alex Zhang is an AI Software Product Engineer and Senior Member of Technical Staff at AMD, where he leads the AMD ROCm Ambassador Program. He advances open-source AI, developer enablement, and ecosystem partnerships, helping developers worldwide build, optimize, and deploy real-world AI applications across AMD GPU platforms using ROCm software.
Jing Qiu

Jing Qiu

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Jing Qiu is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Ultralytics, focused on improving the performance, scalability, and real-world applicability of state-of-the-art computer vision models. His work spans model architecture, training optimization, and deployment, helping ensure Ultralytics YOLO delivers industry-leading accuracy and efficiency for developers and enterprises worldwide.
Richard Dong

Richard Dong

Product Marketing Manager

Richard Dong is a Product Marketing Manager at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., driving AI ecosystem growth and developer engagement. He focuses on Qualcomm AI Hub, GenieX, and edge AI solutions, helping developers deploy and scale AI applications across billions of connected devices.
Alex Lei

Alex Lei

Account Mgr, Dev Relations

With a strong foundation in multimedia technology and machine vision, he works at the intersection of AI and edge computing, driving intelligent solutions for smart spaces and industrial manufacturing. His work is centered on enabling customers to harness real-time AI inference while ensuring the performance, security, and reliability their operations demand.
Paul Li

Paul Li

Head of R&D

Paul Li is Head of R&D at LimX Dynamics, where he leads the company's robotics research and development. His work focuses on advancing reliable, capable robotic systems and translating cutting-edge research into real-world applications.
Yong Zhang

Yong Zhang

Edge Computing Solution Director

AI chips and edge computing specialist, with deep expertise in model and chip implementations that power audio and video processing. He is focused on the technical planning, deployment, and innovation of edge computing products built on AI chips.
Bowen Xu

Bowen Xu

AI Researcher

Bowen Xu is an AI researcher at Alibaba Cloud and a contributor to Qwen3.5-Omni. His research focuses on LLMs, MLLMs, reinforcement learning, quantization, and sparsification. He has published papers at ICML 2025, ICML 2026, and CVPR 2026, and serves as a reviewer for NeurIPS, ICML, and AAAI.
Yimin Long
Mammoth Technology

Yimin Long

Founder

Yimin Long works for Mammoth Technology, a company offering edge-computing-oriented products and services built around multimodal large models. It delivers localized AI inference capabilities for end-side and edge use cases.
Jiaxing Li

Jiaxing Li

International Marketing Manager

Jiaxing Li (Lisa) leads international partnerships and overseas brand marketing for D-Robotics. She specializes in open-source community building and has spearheaded developer ecosystem initiatives across machine learning, AI and robotics development. She is also an advocate for Women in Tech.
Vincent Yin

Vincent Yin

Technical Expert

Technical expert specializing in vision system applications for robotics and 3D vision. His work focuses on transforming computer vision and AI models into reliable, deployable solutions for real-world industrial applications, bridging algorithm development, system integration, and practical engineering challenges from prototype to production deployment.

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Where and when

Date
September 13, 2026
Time
10:00 – 18:00 (GMT+8)
Location
Shenzhen Bay Culture Square, No. 2516, Keyuan South Road, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China

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Frequently asked questions

  • Ultralytics YOLO Vision 2026 was a hybrid event, with both in-person and virtual attendance. If you missed it, the full event is available on demand on YouTube.

  • Don't worry! You can catch up on the sessions you missed on demand. The recordings are available on our YouTube and Bilibili channels.

  • Tickets for the in-person edition of Ultralytics YOLO Vision 2026 were $100, or $50 for early bird tickets booked by August 15th. Virtual tickets were free, and students with a valid university email address could attend for free.

  • The full event is available on demand on YouTube, including the opening keynote and the Ultralytics YOLO27 announcement. Viewers in China can watch on Bilibili.

  • Yes, both in-person and virtual attendees could ask questions during the Q&A at the end of each session.

  • The event was held in English, with local-language translation support available on-site.

  • Attending in person put you front and center with the people turning vision AI into reality. Attendees met speakers face-to-face, connected with each other, and joined dedicated networking sessions. It was the best way to engage directly with the vision AI community.

  • The day kicked off at 09:00 AM with registration and coffee. The morning featured a series of talks, followed by a lunch break. After lunch, attendees dove back into more sessions and workshops.

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