AI ENGINEER SHANGHAI 2026
Speakers & their work
Researchers, founders and engineers sharing the models, systems and products they are building.
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Marco Casalaina
VP Products, Core AI & AI Futurist
Microsoft
From Models to Working Enterprise Agents
Christoph Lassner
Advisor, Co-founder
World Labs
Taxonomy of World Models
Ying Yang
Founder & CEO
CHILING CHUANYUE TECHNOLOGY
AGI is decoding. Encoding is the moat.
Baoping Wang (Yubo)
Founder & CEO
YouMind
Building a Personal Agent for Growth with YouMind
Ryo Lu
Founding Designer
ex-Cursor
When We Can Do Anything, Do We Still Know What We Want?
Bin Liu
VP of Engineering
HeyGen
HTML is all your agents need: Redefining Context Engineering
Ivan Burazin
Co-founder & CEO
Daytona
Kubernetes Is Not Your Sandbox
Jakub Hojsan
FDE Lead
Exa
Powering open source personal agents with Exa search
Yusen Dai
Managing Partner
ZhenFund
Conversation · AI startups: products, markets & what comes next
Ronny He
Head of MiniMax Code R&D
MiniMax
Stronger Models, Leaner Harnesses: What to Control and What to Let Go
Vincent Koc
Chief Architect
OpenClaw Foundation
Dark Factory to Lobsterville: Intent Engineering for Persistent Multiplayer Agents
Fan Bin
Agent Engineer Lead
Manus AI
AI-Native Work at Manus: One Monorepo, Open Tasks
Chen Peng
Head of Data & Applied ML
Arena
Measure the frontier of AI for real world use
Ailing Teng
General Manager, Developer Business, Product and Ecosystem
StepFun
From Model Intelligence to Agent Harness: Enabling Long-Horizon Agents
Gavin Luo
VP, Strategy & Partnership
VAST / Tripo AI
From 3D Generation to World Models: Building Persistent Interactive Worlds for Physical AI
Charles Xie
CEO
Zilliz
Your Agent's Memory Is Next Quarter's Training Data
Lux Li
Head of AI Product
TiDB / PingCAP
Nobody Planned AI Infra: How AI Builders Pushed a Database Beyond the Database
Harry Wang
Founder & CEO
Linear Capital
Conversation · AI startups: products, markets & what comes next
Patrick Liu
Founder
TaoZ Capital
Conversation · AI startups: products, markets & what comes next
Bibi
Founder · VC panel moderator
Xiaosheng Bibi / 第二次用火
Conversation · AI startups: products, markets & what comes next
Leonie Monigatti
Member of Technical Staff
Liquid AI
How We're Building Open Decision Models for On-Device Agents
Rissa Cao
Co-founder & CEO
Fish Audio
From Expressive Speech to Real-Time Voice Agents
David Li & Alex Triplett
Member of Technical Staff / Chief Operating Officer
You.com
Post-Training at the Frontier: Teaching Open Models to Search and Browse the Web
Xinghua Jia
Deputy General Manager; General Manager, Industrial Embodied AI Business Unit; Head of Physical AI
AiMoga Robotics
Beyond Vision-Language-Action: First Principles for Building Physical AI
Joey Wang
Engineering Lead
Harvey
Trust Your Own Evals, Not the Leaderboard: What 7,000 Internal Agent PRs Taught Us About Adopting Open Models
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Grace Li
Senior Principal Applied AI Engineer
1Password
Jun Lv
Head of Models
Noematrix
Noe-0: A World Action Model Built on Real-World Human Experience
Lena Onyshchenko
PyTorch Compiler Engineer
NVIDIA
Async or Nothing: When TMA Pays Off in torch.compile
Tinsley Shi
Product Manager, Agentic Infrastructure
Google
Reinforcement Learning at Scale on Agent Substrate: Orchestrating Millions of Sandboxes
Tang Feihu (Xiaodao Laoshi)
Developer Relations & Software Engineering
Kimi / Moonshot AI
Life of a Game Developer in AI era
Andy Wang
CMO & GM, North America
Dify
Beyond the Pilot: Managing Your 500th AI Agent
Zhong Shen
Head of Hardware
DYNA
Building Robot Hardware for Rapidly Evolving Models
Xiaodong Zeng
Founder & CEO
AutoArk
On-Device AI: Bringing Intelligence Closer to Everyone
Robert Pei
VP, Product
Visa
Beyond Reasoning: Building Infrastructure for AI Agents That Act
Chen Wang
Head of Partner Engineering
Baseten
Full-Stack Inference Engineering: Latency, Throughput and Cost
Yanlong Wang
Principal Engineer
Jina AI by Elastic
Reading the Web at Trillion-Token Scale
Ding Hao (Xuanwo)
Senior Engineer
LanceDB
Robot Data Needs a Build System
Alyssa Lee
Chief of Staff / Community
DataHub
Trusted Context: Building the Layer Between Enterprise Data and AI Agents
Harrison Zhao
Founder & CEO
DatusAI
Your Data Agent Needs More Than a Knowledge Graph -- From Semantic Layers to Executable Ontologies with Apache Ossie
Siwei Gu
Co-founder & CEO
Nowledge Labs, Inc
Memory Engineering, RSI and Team Knowledge Layer
Mingke Luo
Founder & CEO
masons.ai
Communication Among Sovereign Agents: The Foundation of Agent Economy
Peter Hoffmann
SVP Engineering
Data4Life Asia
The Harness Is the First Reviewer
Xinghong Fang
AI Engineer
Optiver
Building a reliable, multi-region LLM gateway
Roman Shirochenko
Engineering Manager
Agoda (Booking Holdings)
Your Repo. Your Benchmark.
Utsav Singhal
Co-founder & CTO
Interact AI
The Web That Talks Back: Turning Dead Pages into Live Agents
Rabi Shanker Guha
Founder
Thesys Inc
How We Make LLMs Render UI That Doesn't Break
Peng Gong
Staff Engineer
Meta / Instagram
Beyond Screenshots: Building Agent-Native Verification for Mobile Apps
Sac
Indie Developer
Independent
From Idea to Viral Launch: How I Built a 3D Little Prince Game with AI
Satvik Sinha
AI Engineer
AICET, NUS
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: What 3,000 live sessions taught us about streaming speech-to-text
James Hush
Daily.co
Trusting Evals I Can’t Read
Dicong "David" Qiu
Co-founder & CTO
QuantSparkle.ai 数耀量生
Real2Real: A Quantum Embodied AI Paradigm for Optimal Behaviors Generation
Do Tuan Anh
Senior Manager, Data & AI Engineering
Techcombank
Optimizing Organization-Wide LLM Inference Cost: Seat License, Pay-per-Token, or Provisioned, and Beyond
HZ
Hao Zheng
CTO
Futuring Robot
From Hardware to Intelligence: Full-Stack Evolution and Real-World Deployment of Home Service Robots
Community in the AI era
13:00–13:40 · November 5 · First session after lunch · Main stage
- AJWaytoAGI · Founder
- KojiCrossing · Founder
- 高宁Linkloud · Co-founder
Tentative moderator: Yuzheng Sun, PhD · Superlinear Academy