Your technology roadmap is built on LinkedIn summaries and consultant decks written by people who’ve never stood next to a humanoid robot in a Chinese lab. Your competitor already sourced an AI chip from a Shenzhen company that wasn’t on your radar.
If you brief the board on vaporware and build toward the wrong thing, that costs millions.
The comforting story — “China copies, we innovate” — no longer holds. China is setting the pace in AI chips, humanoids, solid-state batteries, autonomous systems, and flying cars. You need ground truth. Not to win — to survive long enough to pivot.
This is 8 days so your technologist can say: “I stood next to it — here’s what’s real.”
What your technologist walks away with
A board-ready brief separating real from vaporware for your sector:
- What’s shipping now — hardware you can touch, not renders
- What’s on a credible timeline — 12–24 month horizon with manufacturing context
- What’s still engineering fiction — the showroom demos that won’t leave the lab
The brief is the contractual deliverable. The confidence to brief the board with firsthand evidence — not a forwarded article — is the real product.
What the week exposes
- Humanoid robots walking toward you on two legs — 160 degrees of freedom, 41 servo joints. Not a video. In a Chinese lab
- Solid-state batteries pierced with a nail — and not catching fire. Sulfide vs. oxide electrolytes, lithium metal anodes, prototype cells cycled to failure. In a Chinese R&D center
- Lights-out factories — machines running 24/7 in the dark because no human needs to see
- Flying cars on an assembly line — modular ground vehicle plus flight module, 10,000 units per year capacity. The low-altitude economy, in production
- AI hardware under sanctions — what’s actually shipping despite export controls
- “Showroom vs. floor” calibration throughout — the skill of telling real capability from staged demo
Desk research tells you what’s public. This puts your technologist next to the hardware.
Who runs it
A bilingual lead guide delivers the week. Steven — 26 years owning factories in China, Chief Global Advisor at CERS and CNECC, on stage at China’s premier dual-carbon forum — appears at the key spikes. The doors open because the relationships are real.
The fee is small next to
One wrong technology roadmap that costs millions. One competitor who got ground truth first. One board presentation built on fiction.
Pricing
| Early Bird | Standard |
|---|---|
| $16,888 | $21,888 |