We firmly believe that the technology industry is waiting for a new era of abandoning the old

One day in January 2004, in Rochester, New York, downstairs of the tallest building in the city, a group of white-collar workers wearing plain ties and holding large cardboard boxes gradually lined up at the taxi waiting area. People's faces were filled with disappointment, anger, or a few tears, because from that day on, Eastman Kodak Company announced a global layoff of 12,000 to 15,000 employees, accounting for about 20% of the company's total employees. This tallest building was the Kodak headquarters building which was just built at the end of the last century.

It was also from this day that Kodak began to lay off employees and shrink, marking the end of the luster of this old company that once brought light and color to the world, until it declared bankruptcy in 2012.

But to this day, people still believe that "Kodak produced the best quality film until the day it went bankrupt." What defeated this company was not product or quality issues, but obsolescence and conservatism.

Under the influence of the new crown epidemic for four years, a similar situation is spreading in the world today.

We can see that from 2019 to 2022, the development of many technology companies, like people’s wages, has stagnated. Companies and ecosystems are becoming more and more closed.

The high degree of confusion among entrepreneurs and start-ups about future changes has prompted them to move towards conservatism, increasingly pursuing continuity and stability, and even taking "deepening digging and accumulating grain" as a common development benchmark.

When bold strategic plans begin to be shelved, when the value of potential programs cannot be demonstrated, and when entrepreneurial dreams are forced to converge, we have to believe that the current technological ecosystem has reached a closed abyss.

But stability and conservatism are like stones dropped into a cesspool. Even though they are watered with fertilizer day and night, they can never grow the seeds of new life and the future.

In the face of ongoing difficulties, the current technology industry may need more courage.

In the face of more confusion about valuations and development prospects, we need to find some valuable voices and targets; in the face of disbelief in the future and potential, we need some signals of hope to be realized.

To this end, Leifeng.com will deeply explore Urban AIoT (urban Internet of Things) , commercial robots, industrial manufacturing, cloud and data infrastructure, enterprise services, e-commerce, local life, autonomous driving, smart cars, automotive technology ecology (supply chain), medical hardware and institutions, medical digitization, games and graphics engines, overseas expansion, security, content community, consumer hardware, best enterprise technology innovation engineering projects, applied basic research breakthroughs, smart home, a total of 21 fields, to find those brave disruptors and innovators.

Through their actions and stories, they provide inspiration to today's technology industry, and through the selection of a list, they once again prove the value of innovation and courage.

The Industrial Technology · Most Commercially Valuable List, formerly known as the "AI Best Growth List", was founded in 2017 and has gone through six selections, with a total of more than 2,000 technology companies registered. In 2022, the list was fully upgraded and renamed the Industrial Technology · Most Commercially Valuable List , hoping to find the most emotional cases from the bottom-level accumulation and implementation dimensions.

The specific registration and selection process for the list is as follows:

• Registration: July 18th - August 25th

• Expert selection: August 25-September 1

• Final list released: (September 7)

Before and after the list is released, Leifeng.com will disseminate it through full-channel articles, live broadcasts, and long and short video content formats on Leifeng.com's multi-matrix platform.

At the same time, companies that receive recognition awards will become Leifeng.com's priority communication partners, and will be given priority care in in-depth industry analysis, reporting, business intelligence analysis, and investment and financing information, as well as long-term communication support.

During the dissemination of the list, and before and after its release, we will work with 50+ partner media to provide full coverage of this year's selection.

For more details, please refer to the official website of "Industrial Technology·Most Commercially Valuable List": https://www.leiphone.com/special/custom/AITop2022.html

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The Industrial Technology Most Commercially Valuable List has gone through six industry-wide selections in the past , and has become a benchmark reference manual for technology industry enterprise analysis and the integration of industry, academia and research. In the previous list selections, in the fields of security, driving, finance, chips, industrial Internet, AIoT, etc., we have selected Yuanrong Qixing, WeRide, AISpeech, Huawei Machine Vision, Dahua Technology, Shukun Technology and many other potential technology companies.

The release of each list has also become one of the important focuses of the GAIR Global Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Summit, attracting great attention from investors, technology company executives, analysts, and industry practitioners.