SFC × Abaka AI Spatial Intelligence Night
About the Event
Join Spatial Frontier Club and Abaka AI in the South Bay for an evening bringing together researchers, engineers, founders, and builders working across Spatial Intelligence, World Models, Robotics, and Physical AI.
The evening will feature short technical talks, open discussion, and networking around recent work, emerging ideas, and open questions at the intersection of AI and the physical world.
People from Meta, Google DeepMind, World Labs, Qualcomm, ByteDance, TikTok, Hippocratic AI, Cargo Robotics, and more have already registered, bringing together a diverse mix of researchers, technical leaders, founders, and builders from across the ecosystem.
Come share what you’re working on, exchange perspectives, and connect with others building at the frontier of Spatial Intelligence and Physical AI.
Who Should Attend
This event is designed for people working in or exploring:
Spatial Intelligence
World Models
Robotics & Embodied AI
Physical AI
Robot Learning & Robot Data
3D / 4D Representation
Computer Vision & Multimodal AI
Simulation & Synthetic Environments
Neural Rendering & Gaussian Splatting
Digital Twins
XR & Spatial Computing
We welcome researchers, engineers, founders, technical leaders, investors, students, and ecosystem builders whose work touches these areas.
Featured Speakers
Speaker 1 Guozhen (Jenn) Zhu
Principal Scientist, Origin AI and ADT Research
Jenn is a Principal Scientist at Origin AI and ADT Research, working at the intersection of ambient intelligence, multimodal perception, and Physical AI.
Her research explores how AI systems can build transferable representations of people and the physical world from multimodal and ambient signals, spanning localization, activity understanding, and human-centric sensing.
She has led projects from early-stage research through real-world deployment, bridging frontier AI research, system development, and product impact across millions of devices worldwide.
Speaker 2 Laura Lin
Head of Growth & AI/UX Researcher, Collov Labs
Laura leads Go-To-Market strategy at Collov Labs, an on-device multimodal visual intelligence company, driving growth, content, and product positioning. She is also an HCI researcher with a background from Stanford's HCI program, bringing a research-driven lens to product and UX work.
Previously at Google and Meta, with one founder exit, Laura now advises several Bay Area AI startups, bridging tech and business impact, fluent across Mandarin and English.
Speaker 3 Heroza
Co-founder & CEO, Gorest AI
Heroza is the Co-founder and CEO of Gorest AI, where she is building multi-agent AI systems for creating interactive 3D worlds and game content.
Her work sits at the intersection of generative AI, game development, and human-computer interaction, with a focus on making complex creative workflows more accessible through natural-language interaction.
Event Format
6:00 PM – 6:45 PM
Arrival, networking, food & drinks
6:45 PM – 7:50 PM
Speaker talks and technical sharing
7:50 PM – 8:15 PM
Open discussion and audience Q&A
8:15 PM – 9:30 PM
Community mixer and networking
About the Hosts
Spatial Frontier Club is a Bay Area community connecting researchers, founders, investors, and builders working across Spatial Intelligence, World Models, Robotics, Embodied AI, Simulation, 3D technology, and Physical AI.
Abaka AI delivers human intelligence data for frontier AI through a trusted data platform. It provides comprehensive data processing support across the entire AI data lifecycle, helping teams build and evaluate advanced AI systems.
Its core services include high-quality off-the-shelf datasets, data collection, data cleaning, data annotation, model evaluation, and self-developed data annotation tools.
Registration
This is a curated gathering with limited capacity.
Please register using your current affiliation and include a short note about your work or interest in the event themes. Priority may be given to applicants whose backgrounds are closely aligned with the discussion.
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