(Yicai Global) Nov. 2 -- Nobel Prize laureates and Turing Award recipients delivered keynote speeches at the opening ceremony of the fourth World Laureates Forum held in Shanghai yesterday. The theme of the three-day event is Open Science: Build an Open Innovation Ecosystem.

Participating scientists jointly announce the Open Science: Build an Open Innovation Ecosystem initiative.

Roger Kornberg, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for chemistry and chairman of the World Laureates Association, addresses the forum.

John Hopcroft, winner of the Turing Award in 1986, speaks on the topic of Open Science: Communication and Talent.

Panelists discuss open science at a roundtable discussion. They are Nobel-laureate Roger Kornberg; Michael Shepard, winner of the 2019 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award; Yang Lei, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; and Wang Zhonglin, winner of the 2018 Eni Awards’ Energy Frontiers Prize.

Editors: Tang Shihua, Futura Costaglione