AI is changing more than technology. It is changing how products are created, how services are delivered, and how business value is realized.
Where will the next generation of AI innovators come from? How can ideas born on campus become real products? And as AI Agents begin to carry out tasks autonomously, how will young developers take part in this new economic transformation?
ME Group × Finch officially launch the AI·Dao Global Campus Tour, bringing it to key innovation cities across China, the United States and the United Kingdom. The tour will connect university innovation communities, student developers and young entrepreneurs worldwide, uncover promising AI projects, and explore new ways for campus innovation to reach real-world applications.
This is more than a campus tour. It is a global initiative for the next generation of AI creators.
01 | Into Campuses Worldwide, in Search of the Next Generation of AI Builders
From Asia's technology innovation hubs, to the AI and startup frontier of the United States, to the academic and innovation powerhouses of the United Kingdom, the AI·Dao Campus Tour will focus on leading universities worldwide and the innovation ecosystems around them, connecting young talent and tech communities across regions.
China | Beijing · Shanghai · Shenzhen · Hangzhou · Hong Kong
• Beijing: Peking University, Tsinghua University, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Renmin University of China, University of International Business and Economics, and more
• Shanghai: Fudan University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tongji University, East China Normal University, and more
• Shenzhen: Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen University, Sun Yat-sen University, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), and more
• Hangzhou: Zhejiang University, Hangzhou Dianzi University, and more
• Hong Kong: The University of Hong Kong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, City University of Hong Kong, and more
United States | Silicon Valley · Berkeley · New York · Boston
• Silicon Valley (Palo Alto): Stanford University
• Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley
• New York: Columbia University, New York University, Cornell Tech, and more
• Boston: Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University, and more
United Kingdom | London
• London: Imperial College London, University College London, King's College London, London School of Economics and Political Science, and more
Note: The above are the key universities and surrounding innovation ecosystems the tour will focus on. Partner institutions and participating organizations are subject to final confirmation.
By building connections with university innovation communities, student organizations and developer groups, the AI·Dao Campus Tour hopes to bring more young people into AI application development, agent building, project showcases and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
We are not just looking for AI users. We are looking for the next generation of Builders who can build products, solve problems and create value.
02 | From Using AI to Building AI: Campus Innovation Enters a New Stage
As AI Agents, reusable Skills and automated workflows continue to evolve, the barriers and boundaries of AI innovation are shifting.
Young developers are no longer limited to calling models and generating content. They can build agents that carry out tasks, package professional expertise into reusable Skills, and develop applications around real needs. Starting from an idea, a few lines of code or a Demo, innovators can explore new product forms and business models.
But technical implementation is only the first step.
For a project to truly grow, it has to answer more questions: What real need does it address? Who will use it? How will it keep delivering value? And how does it move from a one-time showcase to long-term use?
This makes the connection between campus innovation and the real market more important than ever.
AI·Dao Campus Tour aims to drive more than technical exchange: a complete journey from idea, to build, to validation of real demand.
03 | Connecting Talent, Capabilities and Real Demand to Take Innovation Beyond Campus
With this goal in mind, the partnership between the AI·Dao Campus Tour and Finch will focus on an important direction in the AI-native economy: when agents can provide services and Skills can package capabilities, how can these capabilities be connected with real tasks and market demand?
This is a new question that AI innovation is now exploring.
Finch is building an AI-native marketplace that connects agents, Skills and task demand, so that AI capabilities can not only be built and showcased, but also be discovered, called on, and create value in real-world scenarios.
For student developers taking part in the tour, this means a project's growth path does not have to end at the Demo stage. Outstanding AI Agents, Skills and applications can go further: finding real use cases, validating product value, and exploring opportunities for partnership and commercialization.
AI·Dao Campus Tour will focus on the following around this direction:
• Discovering promising projects: Finding student developers and young Builders with ideas and hands-on technical ability.
• Showcasing innovation: Creating opportunities for AI Agent, Skills and application projects to connect, present and receive feedback.
• Connecting with real demand: Exploring links between student projects and industry scenarios, real tasks and potential users.
• Supporting sustained growth: Helping promising projects further validate their value and explore paths to deployment and commercialization.
We hope to give more campus ideas the chance to be seen, validated and keep growing, and to help young creators understand the relationship between technology, product and market earlier on.
04 | Starting from Campus, Connecting a Global AI Innovation Network
AI-era competition is not only about technical capability. It is also about talent, innovative applications and business ecosystems.
Universities around the world continue to produce new research and product ideas, while the growth of the AI-native economy opens up new space for these innovations to be applied. When creators on campus can connect with developer communities, real demand and broader markets, more early ideas have the chance to grow into products of real value.
AI·Dao Global Campus Tour sets out with universities as its starting point, communities as its bond, and real-world application as its direction, connecting young creators around the world and exploring more possibilities between AI technology and the real world.
From the first Demo on campus to AI products that solve real problems; from the experiments of independent developers to collaboration networks spanning regions and communities — we look forward to working with more university innovation communities on the next stage of AI innovation.
Connecting top universities, discovering the next generation of AI creators, and taking innovation from campus to the real market.
China · United States · United Kingdom
Build in Campus. Connect to the World.
AI·Dao Global Campus Tour | How to Take Part
Whether you are an AI developer, a student Builder, an independent creator, or a startup team exploring AI Agents and Skills, you are welcome to join.
Project Submission: https://0s4nrej.s.gy/aidao
Event Registration: https://www.me.news/event-collections-v2/4
First Stop: AI·Dao Campus Tour, Shanghai
On November 6, ME Group × Finch × Tencent Cloud will join university innovation communities from Fudan University, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tongji University and more at Tencent Shanghai Binjiang Building, bringing together university talent, AI Builders and the industry ecosystem to explore new opportunities in AI Agent innovation and commercialization.
Date: November 6, 14:00–18:00
Venue: Tencent Shanghai Binjiang Building
Project Submission: https://0s4nrej.s.gy/aidao
Event Registration: https://www.me.news/events-v2/742