Tesla Vice President Tao Lin was absent from the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2021 (AC2021), which she was scheduled to attend, following the Tesla owners' protests at Shanghai Auto Show.

In the agenda previously announced by the conference organizers, Tao will attend the forum on April 21 with the theme “Building secure and controllable industrial and supply chains”, discussing with president of Intel China Xu (Ian) Yang and other guests on how to buildsecure and controllable industrial and supply chains.

Beijing time on Wednesday, April 21, Tao did not show up, nor did she participate in the forum online. Meanwhile, the president of Intel China, Xu (Ian) Yang, was also absent from the sub-forum.