AI Salon Singapore (27 August 2026)
AI Salon is the global community bringing together AI founders and builders, investors, operators and ecosystem partners to connect, learn and collaborate.
Decentralised and chapter-led, AI Salon has grown to 77 chapters across more than 40 countries.
After six editions in Singapore, AI Salon Singapore returns on 27 August for another evening of fun conversations, useful insights and meaningful connections across the AI ecosystem.
Over the past salons, we have brought together hundreds of founders, investors, engineers, operators and technology leaders who are actively building, funding and deploying AI across Singapore and Southeast Asia.
This next edition continues that momentum.
AI is moving quickly. New models, agents, products and companies are emerging every week. But beneath the noise, the questions that matter remain surprisingly practical:
Where are founders finding genuine commercial traction?
What kinds of AI companies are investors backing?
How are teams moving from experimentation to deployment?
Which opportunities are real, and which are mostly hype?
What does it take to build globally relevant AI companies from Singapore?
Join us for a curated evening featuring founders, investors and technology leaders sharing what they are seeing, building and learning at the frontier of AI.
More details on the speakers and programme will be announced soon.
What We Will Explore
How AI founders can find genuine commercial traction amid the hype
What investors look for when evaluating AI startups
How companies are moving from AI experimentation to deployment
The evolving opportunities around AI agents and automation
What differentiates defensible AI companies from thin product wrappers
Tactical lessons for founders building the next generation of AI startups
Singapore’s role as a hub for AI talent, capital and company building
Who Should Attend
AI founders and startup teams
Engineers, researchers and product builders
Venture capital investors and angel investors
Corporate innovation and technology leaders
Operators exploring practical AI adoption
Ecosystem partners supporting AI companies
Anyone actively building, investing in or working with AI
Agenda
6:00 pm – Doors Open
Registration, food and drinks
6:30 pm – Welcome Address
AI Salon Singapore community update
6:40 pm – Opening Keynote / Founder Sharing
To be announced
7:00 pm – AI Builder Spotlights
Short presentations from founders building and deploying AI products
7:20 pm – Panel Discussion
Founders, investors and technology leaders unpacking what is happening in AI today and where the market is heading next
8:00 pm – Audience Q&A
8:15 pm – Networking
9:00 pm – End
Programme and timings are subject to change.
Meet the Speakers
More speaker announcements coming soon.
Expect perspectives from experienced founders, investors, builders and operators working across AI, venture capital, enterprise technology and regional expansion.
Meet the Speakers
Cyril Ebersweiler, Founder & General Partner, SOSV & Hax
Cyril is an experienced deep-tech investor and company builder. He is a General Partner at SOSV and the founder and Managing Director of HAX, the world's first and most active pre-seed programme for startups working at the intersection of science and engineering. He has personally invested in more than 250 deep-tech companies worldwide. As of 2026, SOSV manages $1.5 billion in assets, anchored by its $306 million SOSV V fund, and makes around 60 new pre-seed investments and 150 follow-on investments each year.
Cyril began working with hardware founders in Shenzhen long before physical AI became an investment theme, supporting them through engineering, prototyping, manufacturing and global supply chains. HAX now operates across Newark, Shenzhen, Pune and Tokyo. He has worked closely with companies including Formlabs, a defining company in professional 3D printing, and Opentrons, the laboratory-robotics company born out of HAX, which reached a reported $1.8 billion valuation. He has also advised companies later acquired by Cisco and Avnet.
Murli Ravi, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Tin Men Capital
Murli is an experienced investor with more than 20 years of institutional investment experience across Southeast Asia. He is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Tin Men Capital, a B2B-focused venture firm he started in 2018 with Jeremy Tan, investing in capital-efficient enterprise technology companies in sectors such as construction, travel, manufacturing, logistics and financial infrastructure. He has served on more than 25 venture-backed startup boards across the region.
Prior to Tin Men Capital, Murli was Head of South and Southeast Asian Investments at JAFCO Asia, Japan's largest independent venture capital firm, where he backed enterprise software, infrastructure and embedded technology companies. He also served on the investments team at Temasek Holdings. Murli is a CFA charterholder and holds degrees in engineering and finance from the National University of Singapore, as well as a graduate degree from the joint programme of Nanyang Technological University and Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business.
Meet the Partners
AI Salon is the global community bringing together AI founders and builders, investors, and partners to connect and collaborate. We are starting new chapters in every city so join us to build the largest Global AI community.
StartupX is a global innovation partner for those building what’s next. We collaborate with corporates, governments, and startups to launch ventures, scale businesses, and drive bold transformation. Since 2018, we’ve supported startups from 110+ countries and partnered with some of the world’s most forward-thinking companies. Founded by entrepreneurs and ecosystem builders, we built StartupX to challenge the status quo of how innovation gets done in Asia.
The AIMX Network is a global community uniting AI leaders, practitioners, and innovators to address the critical question shaping the present and future of AI: How?
The Singapore Global Network (SGN) is an initiative by the Economic Development Board (EDB) to create a community of overseas Singaporeans and non-Singaporeans interested in Singapore. Founded in June 2019, its goal is to leverage its community to create opportunities for its members and Singapore more broadly.
OVHcloud is a global player and the leading European cloud provider operating over 450,000 servers within 43 data centers across 4 continents to reach 1,6 million customers in over 140 countries.
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