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HYSTA Annual Conference 2026
AI at Scale
September 26,2026
Santa Clara Convention Center
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HYSTA Annual Conference 2026
AI at Scale
September 26,2026
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Santa Clara Convention Center
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Conference Agenda
Explore the sessions, speakers, and activities planned for the 2026 HYSTA Annual Conference.
Agenda
08:00-11:50
Main Morning Session
11:50-17:00
Track 1: AI at Scale: From Models to Systems to Market
13:00-17:30
Track 2: Founders Club Annual Roadshow - From Breakthrough to Scale
5:30-9:00 PM
Evening: VIP Gala Dinner & Awards Ceremony
Speakers & Moderators
Ion Stoica
Databricks
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Lin Qiao
CEO of Fireworks AI
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Dawn Song
VP of AI Research, Meta; Professor, UC Berkeley; Founder, Oasis Labs
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Ed Chi
VP of Research at Google DeepMind
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Junqiao Wu
Professor, UC Berkeley
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Bill Jia
VP of Engineering, Core ML/AI, Google
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Yangqing Jia
Co-founder & CEO, Intent Lab. Co-Founder & CEO of Lepton AI (Acquired by NVIDIA ); Board member of HYSTA
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Junchen Jiang
Cofounder @Tensormesh & LMCache; Prof@UChicago CS
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Yuandong Tian
Founder, AI startup; Former Research Scientist, Meta AI / FAIR
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Banghua Zhu
Cofounder & CTO of RadixArk
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Andrew Dai
Co-founder @ Elorian AI | ex-DeepMind
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Yanbing Li
Chief Product Officer, Datadog; Chairwoman, HYSTA 2025
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Li Fan
Chief Technology and AI Officer, Circle
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Jiantao Jiao
Director of Research & Distinguished Scientist, NVIDIA; Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley
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Reynold Xin
Co-founder, Databricks
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Xingchu Liu
Chief Data & Analytics Officer / Head of Data, Digital, and Analytics, Genentech
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Bo Li
CEO, Virtue AI; Abbasi Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Connie Chan
Silicon Valley VC; Early-Stage Consumer Tech Investor
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Xiaochuan (Giovanni) Ge
CTO of Applovin
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James Zou
Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science and, by courtesy, of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering
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Cheng Liu
HYSTA Board Member; Founder, Chairman and CEO of Eureka Therapeutics Inc.
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Peidong Yang
Professor, UC Berkeley
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Changan Chen
Co-founder and Chief Research Officer at Rhoda AI
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Ding Zhao (Mod?)
Director of Safe AI Lab, CMU; Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, CMU
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Yunzhu Li
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University
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Jan Liphardt
Founder, OpenMind; Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Stanford University
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Zhenjia Xu
Co-Founder of Genesis AI
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Brad Bao
Co-founder & Chairman, Lime
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Hanrui Wang
Co-Founder and CEO, Eigen AI (Acquired by Nebius); SVP of Applied AI, Nebius.
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Leo Ma
Founder & CEO, RoboForce
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Shuyun Chung
Co-Founder & Chief Robotics Scientist, Flexiv
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Tony Zhao
Co-founder and CEO, Sunday Robotics
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York Yang
Co-Founder, Dyna Robotics
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