SYNC 2017 Unbounded: Building Across Borders 1/28
Hottest AI event this Summer!
Featuring Vish Makhijani, CEO of Udacity, Fengmin Gong, VP of Didi Chuxing, Peter Welinder, AI Researcher at OpenAI, Gil Penchina, Partner at IDG Ventures and many more distinguished speakers —- PingWest, the produced online technology media company with a Presence in both China and the United States, is hosting their annual SYNC event for the 5th time!
This time in the heart of Silicon Valley, SYNC 2017 will feature a select group of outstanding entrepreneurs and executive, distinguished technologists, and being from both the US and China for talks on the things that matter most to the future of tech, including machine Intelligence, passive driving, cross-border innovation and investing, and more
Program
Unbounded: Building Across Borders
09:30 – Coffee & Breakfast
10:00 – Opening Remark
Thomas Luo, Founder & CEO of PingWest
10:10 – Keynote: People vs. Intelligent Machine?
Dr. Fengmin Gong, VP, Didi Chuxing, Head of Didi Labs.
10:30 – Fireside Chat: Redefine Education for the AI Era
Vish Makhijani, CEO, Udacity
Thomas Luo, Founder & CEO, PingWest
10:50 – Keynote: AI: From Technologies to ProductsCharles Fan, CTO of Cheeta Mobile
Charles Fan, CTO, Cheetah Mobile
11:10 – Fireside Chat: Future of Work Powered by AI
Peter Welinder, AI Researcher, OpenAI
Xuezhao Lan, Founding Partner, a stealth venture fund
11:40 – Panel: AI: From Research to Application
Maya Ackerman, Assistant Professor, SJSU
Hanlin Tang, Senior AI Researcher, Intel
Xiaobing Liu, Staff Software Engineer, Google Brain
Rama Akkiraju, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Watson
Moderator: Yi Li, AWS AI Program, Amazon
12:20 – Lunch Break
13:20 – Panel: Racing against Time: When Will Self-driving Car Be Ready?
Amy Gu, Partner of Hemi Ventures
Josh Hartung, Founder of PolySync
Peter Pyun, Principal Solutions Architect at NVIDIA
David Liu, Founder of PlusAI
Moderator: Yunan Zhang, Contributing Reporter, The Information
14:00 – Keynote: Genomics to Personalized Drugs: Precision OncologySubarna Sinha, Program Lead of SRI International
Subarna Sinha, Program Lead, SRI International
14:20 – Keynote: Disruptive Innovation in FinTech
Paul J. Walsh, SVP, Platform Strategy & Innovation, VISA
14:40 – Panel: The Rise of Tokens & ICOs & Its Impacts to Funding Landscape
Gil Penchina, Partner, IDG Ventures
Joey Krug, Co-founder, Augur; Partner, Pantera Capital
Moderator: Allen Hsu, Venture Partner, Sparkland Capital
15:20 – Keynote: Data as a Service vs. User Experience
Moca Huangfu, Co-founder, TINGYUN
15:40 – Keynote: How Robots Become Part of Our Daily Lives
MQ Wang, Founder & CEO, Zero Zero Robotics
15:55 – Keynote: Digital Avatar Can Be Merged with AI
Daniel Seah, CEO, Digital Domain (Visual Effects for Titanic, Transformers, etc.)
16:15 – Panel: Cross-border Investment
Jim Mao, Partner, WestSummit Capital
Jason Costa, EIR, GGV Capital
Shuonan Chen, Founding Partner, Agile VC
Moderator : Rebecca Fannin, Founder of Silicon Dragon
