Absorbing global talents, enthusiastic about public welfare and giving back to society, Yan Zhiqing | Microsoft executives start technology in Shanghai | Shanghai | Global

Release time:Apr 13, 2024 21:02 PM

In just 4 years, the overseas revenue of a Shanghai intelligent technology enterprise has grown rapidly from a "zero starting point" in 2018 to over 10 million US dollars in 2022, and it has the technical ability to fill the global gap in the wind power field. The founder of this enterprise is named Yan Zhiqing. In 2016, he started his business in Shanghai and established Shanghai Kubo Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. Prior to this, he served as Vice President of Microsoft China Greater China for ten years.

Born in Shanghai and raised in the United States, Yan Zhiqing never forgets that his roots are in Shanghai. During his tenure at Microsoft, he continued to promote cooperation between Shanghai and large multinational corporations such as Microsoft; After starting his own business, he proposed the strategic deployment of "sharpening the sword domestically and shining the sword abroad" with Shanghai's development as the core, leading enterprises to continuously create leading artificial intelligence technology products domestically and even globally. He also attracted excellent talents from around the world to Shanghai and actively helped Shanghai build a high-level international talent highland.

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In November 2016, Yan Zhiqing founded Shanghai Kubo Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. and became the CEO. Under his leadership, technical personnel overcame difficulties and created two globally leading technology products to fill domestic gaps. The company also expanded into an international enterprise headquartered in Shanghai, with sales and delivery centers throughout the United States, Denmark, Singapore, and Brazil. Focusing on the two major technological fields of computer vision and machine learning, Expanding Intelligence can now provide end-to-end integrated intelligent services for enterprise users, helping traditional industries greatly improve operational efficiency and accelerate digital transformation.

Last year, Kuanbo Intelligence overcame the impact of the epidemic, accelerated project construction and overseas expansion, resulting in a significant increase in the company's revenue against the trend. The "Computer Vision Based Robot Fully Automatic Inspection and Maintenance Platform" led by him has become the world's first artificial intelligence product in the field of wind power inspection and maintenance. It has not only achieved key technological breakthroughs for China, but also promoted products and services to nearly 30 countries worldwide during the epidemic. It has also completed daily inspections of 31 wind turbine blades in Indiana, USA, setting a world record in this industry.

Absorbing global talents, enthusiastic about public welfare and giving back to society, Yan Zhiqing | Microsoft executives start technology in Shanghai | Shanghai | Global

Behind this breakthrough achievement lies the foundation laid by the more than 200 patents applied for and obtained by Kuanbo Intelligence since its establishment. Under the leadership of Yan Zhiqing, the company's technical team has developed two leading artificial intelligence products for the retail and wind power industries.

Among them, the expansion of Bo Zhiwei's physical retail artificial intelligence assistant integrates market product insights, retail execution, shelf and promotion intelligence tracking and other functions, solving the industry pain points of offline retailers lacking real-time product data and difficult to grasp market dynamics and business opportunities. Through innovative artificial intelligence technology, Yan Zhiqing led the team to establish a massive SKU knowledge base, with model accuracy maintained at over 98.5%. With this technology and product, Kuanbo Intelligence has established strategic cooperation with numerous internationally renowned fast-moving consumer goods brands in multiple regions around the world, and the solutions provided have been implemented in multiple markets such as North America and Southeast Asia.

In the field of wind power, Kubo Intelligence is the pioneer of fully automatic inspection services for wind turbine blades. This technology is based on special flying robots and artificial intelligence technology, and can complete 100% automatic inspection within 15 minutes, which is more than 10 times more efficient than traditional methods. At present, based on the fully automatic inspection business of wind turbine blades, Kuanbo Intelligence is vigorously developing wind turbine blade maintenance technology. The development and application of this technology are expected to further break through, filling the gap in the global wind power field where artificial intelligence technology empowers the maintenance industry.

Under the leadership of Yan Zhiqing, Kuanbo Intelligence not only achieved breakthrough revenue growth, but also pushed its products to the global market.

Among them, new retail products empowered by artificial intelligence have been applied and promoted in overseas markets such as the United States, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, and Mexico. After winning orders from many leading domestic enterprises such as Shanghai Electric, Huaneng, and Longyuan Electric, the fully automatic detection product of new energy wind power empowered by AI has been expanded by expanding its intelligence to expand into markets such as Japan, Pakistan, Denmark, and the United States. Currently, it has served many well-known global customers, including Longyuan Zhongneng, Three Gorges, Goldwind, Siemens Gomesa, GE Renewable Energy, and Rheinland Group.

Leading the team to give back to society

Since its establishment, Kuanbo Intelligence has attracted numerous outstanding talents from around the world to come to Shanghai to achieve their careers. Currently, the proportion of master's degree holders in the company's R&D engineering team has reached 68%. Leading the team to work together and achieve remarkable results has actually run through Yan Zhiqing's career.

When serving as the Director of the High Performance Computing China Team at Microsoft Asia Pacific R&D Group, Yan Zhiqing led the team to collaborate with Dawn Corporation and Shanghai Supercomputing Center, which successfully ranked the Dawn 5000A in the 10th place of the Global Supercomputing 500 list, making China the second country in the world to develop and produce supercomputers worth billions of times.

Since 2011, Yan Zhiqing has served as the General Manager of Microsoft Azure Business Unit in China. In just 10 months, he officially landed Microsoft Azure's business in China, making Microsoft the first multinational enterprise to bring global public clouds into China and take the lead in commercial operations. In the following 18 months, Yan Zhiqing further promoted the performance appreciation of Microsoft Azure business from 0 to 100 million US dollars, and he himself was awarded the "China's Most Influential Cloud Leader Award" by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

When serving as Vice President and General Manager of Marketing and Operations for Microsoft Greater China, Yan Zhiqing was mainly responsible for promoting Microsoft's products in the Greater China region, formulating and executing marketing strategies, and also taking into account the overall operational management of the company's business. He led the team to achieve twice the annual sales growth. In addition, he also led the landing of Microsoft's 700 million yuan technology research and development center in Minhang District, making important contributions to the construction of Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Center.

Since working in Shanghai during his tenure at Microsoft, Yan Zhiqing has actively devoted himself to public welfare. During his tenure as Vice President of Microsoft Greater China, Yan Zhiqing initiated Microsoft's long-term assistance project for impoverished mountainous areas. Until now, Microsoft has maintained this tradition of philanthropy.

From 2017 to 2021, he led the expansion of intelligent employees to participate in the "Run for an Egg" campaign for five consecutive years, raising funds for impoverished children in mountainous areas and improving their lives. From 2018 to 2019, he also participated in the Kailong Public Welfare Project, using his abilities to influence and help more people.

In 2021, in response to the national call for common prosperity, Yan Zhiqing led the expansion of the intelligent team to launch the "Intelligent AI Freezer+Brand Merchant" promotion plan, empowering nearly 7 million small shops and supermarkets nationwide, helping to improve the living, store, and children's learning environment of local people.

Yan Zhiqing also actively participated in the "Science and Technology Revitalization of Xinjiang" activity of the Shanghai Federation of Industry and Commerce, as well as the corresponding support from Changning District to the Hani Honghe Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province. He led the company to pair up with two villages in Honghe and actively donated money. Next, he will also leverage the advantages of corporate resources to provide more employment support for young people in the Honghe area.

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"The golden mountain is slowly flowing, and the tin water is devoid of vegetation and spring". The scenery of the Taihu Lake Lake is picturesque, and the scenery of lakes and mountains is intoxicating. Wuxi, known as the "Pearl of the Taihu Lake Lake", is not only home to many famous literati, but also an important economic center in eastern China, with developed industry and commerce. Since the lifting of the local pickup truck ban last year and the official implementation of the Wuxi Service Integration into the Shanghai Metropolitan Area Action Plan this year, the Wuxi pickup truck market has ushered in new opportunities for development. Diversified lifestyles such as mountain running, fishing, skiing, and camping have emerged, injecting fresh vitality into the local pickup truck life. On August 12th, the StarCraft pickup truck was heavily launched in Wuxi, shining in the East China region with its hardcore quality. At the delivery ceremony, the first batch of interstellar pickup truck owners also officially picked up their beloved cars, taking the lead in embarking on a "interstellar" journey. On site by SAIC Maxus MA

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