Advantech hosts World Partner Conference during Computex

IoT system and platform provider looks to advance physical AI and WEDA architecture

June 17, 2026

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Advantech team in the exhibition hall at the 2026 Advantech World Partner Conference

Advantech, a provider of IoT intelligent systems and embedded platforms, hosted the World Partner Conference (WPC) at the Advantech AIoT Co-Creation Campus. This year marked the first time Advantech deeply integrated WPC with Computex, attracting more than 800 technology partners, industry leaders and ecosystem members from around the world. Through 12 vertical industry forums, participants explored the latest developments in edge AI, physical AI and AI agents. Advantech created a platform that connected global technology trends, hands-on product experiences and cross-border business matchmaking. Over three days of exchanges, global attendees gained first-hand insights into edge computing and AI-powered products, while encouraging strategic, technical and commercial collaboration across the global ecosystem.

Advantech Chairman K.C. Liu stated that, under this year’s branding theme of Edge Computing & AI-Powered WISE Solutions, Advantech integrated WPC with Computex for the first time to expand global ecosystem collaboration and build a more comprehensive edge AI value chain. By connecting technology partners, developers and industry customers, Advantech aims to accelerate the development of scalable and replicable offerings.

From his front-line market perspective, Advantech North America general manager Ween Niu observed that enterprise demand for edge AI adoption is growing rapidly. Customers no longer require only individual hardware devices or AI models; instead, they need system-level partners capable of integrating hardware, software, AI frameworks, system deployment and field services. In application fields such as smart manufacturing, healthcare, logistics and autonomous equipment, AI projects often involve complex requirements, including cross-platform integration, real-time computing, data processing and on-site operations and maintenance. As a result, the key success factors for AI commercialization lie in ecosystem collaboration and the ability to deploy scalable architectures quickly.

Figure 1: Miller Chang, president of Advantech Embedded Sector, delivered a keynote speech titled “From Digital to Physical: Edge AI Computing & WEDA” at the Computex forum on June 4.

In response to market demand for scalable AI architectures, Miller Chang, president of Advantech Embedded Sector, delivered a keynote speech titled “From Digital to Physical: Edge AI Computing & WEDA” at the Computex forum on June 4 (Figure 1). The session attracted nearly 1,000 attendees and highlighted the latest trends as AI moves from the digital world into physical industrial environments. Chang stated, “The world is now at a critical inflection point for edge AI and is about to enter a major wave of rapid physical AI growth. AI has evolved from cloud-based model training and generative AI into the physical AI stage, where systems are capable of sensing, reasoning and taking action. In the future, AI will be able to participate in real-time industrial decision-making and autonomous operations, becoming a key force driving the intelligent transformation of industries.”

To help enterprises overcome integration and deployment challenges in AI adoption, Dr. Richard Huang, AVP and chief software architect of Advantech’s WISE-IoT Group, further introduced WISE-Edge Developer Architecture (WEDA) during the forum. Dr. Huang stated, “WEDA is designed to provide an open architecture that accelerates the development of AI agents, digital twins, edge AI and other applications across a wide range of GPU and NPU chip platforms. It also significantly reduces the complexity of deploying large numbers of edge AI devices across multiple sites and managing the AI model lifecycle.”