WAIC Afterparty 2026 - AI Hero Assemble

​Free food and drinks are provided. Luma only accepts payments in US dollars. If you need to pay in RMB, please click this link to register on the Huodongxing event page..https://2794133406381.huodongxing.com/event/3866680770200

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About Event

​This July, WAIC 2026 returns to Shanghai. From the new global computing power order in the ZFLOP era, to a new paradigm of intelligent driving driven by world models; from the industrial implementation of embodied intelligence, to application breakthroughs in the agent ecosystem — the world's AI attention converges here once again.

​When the daytime sessions wrap up, the night for AI builders has only just begun.

​WAIC Afterparty 2026· AI Hero Assemble — an Afterparty crafted for frontline AI creators, going-global pioneers, and startup dreamers. 🍕🍷Free food and drinks are provided.

​🟡Guest Speakers（TBC）

• ​Oratis | Co-founder & COO, HakkoAI

  • ​Co-founder & COO of Hakko AI, building the world's first AI game companion desktop app serving 300+ brand users.

• ​Wenxuan Tan | Founder & CEO, Prismer.ai

  • ​Founder & CEO of Prismer.ai, incubated by Zhipu AI's Z-Plan, pioneering the first unified framework bridging connectionism and symbolism.

• ​Bruce Yang | Founder & CEO, Agnes.ai

  • ​Founder & CEO of Agnes.ai, with 100K+ registered users and 25K+ daily active users, valued at over $100M.

• ​ARK | Founder & CEO, iSpiral Inc

  • ​CSerial AI entrepreneur across China & US | AI automated workflows & AIGC video | Bootstrapped to PMF growth

• ​Xiankun | Founder & CEO, Kuse

  • ​Founder & CEO of Kuse; third-time entrepreneur, previously co-founded rct.ai (YC W19) and Readabroad (backed by ByteDance, ZhenFund), reaching tens of millions in ARR without funding.

• ​Austin | Founder & CEO, Taku

  • ​Founder & CEO of Taku; serial entrepreneur, co-founded Sapient Intelligence with a $22M seed round, previously served MiniMax and other leading AI companies.

• ​Bo Zhang | Founder & CEO, Lev8

  • ​Founder & CEO of Lev8; former core member of DeepSeek's AI scientist team who built DeepSeek LLM and led DeepSeek VL development, previously senior researcher at Microsoft Research Asia.

• ​Heyang Zhou | CTO & Co-founder, AFK.Surf

  • ​CTO & Co-founder of AFK.Surf; built Bridge to clone any AI app with a single sentence.

• ​Siyu | Investor, Vertex

  • ​Investor at Vertex Ventures, backed by Temasek Holdings.

• ​Jason | Founder & CEO, ReelFluent.app

  • ​Founder & CEO of ReelFluent; CMU HCII alum and ex-Tencent, redefining AI language learning through immersive short dramas.

• ​Max | MAS, LobeHub

  • ​Core member of LobeHub; LobeChat has earned 63k+ GitHub stars as a flagship open-source AI agent ecosystem.

• ​Tao Mei | Founder & CEO, HiDream

  • ​Founder & CEO of HiDream; four-time Fellow (ACM/IEEE/IAPR/CAAI), with 40,000+ paper citations.

• ​Chen Yu | Managing Partner, Yunqi Partners

  • ​Managing Partner at Yunqi Partners; first angel investor in MiniMax, with portfolio including PingCAP, Zilliz, and DeepRoute.ai.

• ​Jiang Yaokai | Founder & CEO, Functor Technology

  • ​Founder of Functor Technology; Cambridge + CMU educated, 8 years at Silicon Valley's Medallia, no-code platform Zion reaching million-level users.

• ​Lawrence Xu | Founder, Infron

  • ​Founder of Infron.AI; solo founder having raised over RMB 100 million, an art-tech builder bridging Singapore and North America.

• ​William Du | Co-Founder & CEO, Cloudsway.AI

  • ​Co-Founder & CEO of Cloudsway.AI; ex-Sequoia investor.

• ​Alvin Jiang | Founder, Vitality AI

  • ​Founder of Vitality AI; former VP of Marketing at NetEase, VP at Alibaba, CMO at Renren, instrumental in Renren's NYSE IPO.

• ​Luo Xuan | Co-Founder, RWKV

  • ​Co-Founder of RWKV; pioneer of novel open-source LLM architecture.

• ​Gu Jun | Senior AI & Data Open-Source Builder

  • ​Core driver of the Milvus open-source project; Senior Architect & Partner at Zilliz.

• ​Yao Lu | Assistant Professor, NUS School of Computing

  • ​Assistant Professor at NUS School of Computing; 10-year AI research veteran at Microsoft Research North America, focused on the intersection of ML and systems.

• ​Lencx | Independent Developer, Noi Project

  • ​Independent developer with 64k+ GitHub stars; creator of Noi and the ChatGPT Desktop Application.

• ​Harry | Founder, Youart

  • ​Founder of YouArt; building an all-in-one AI creative platform integrating top-tier models.

• ​Tony | Co-founder, Digitforce

  • ​Co-founder of Digitforce, a B2B AI entrepreneur who has guided over 100 enterprises through their full AI digital transformation journey.

• ​潘凌越PANTHOLE｜FOUNDER, JURAMAIA LLC

  • ​Google Developer Expert & Huawei Developer Expert, specializing in AI content generation and distribution with a core focus on AI interactive short dramas.

• ​蔡欣｜Head of Innovation Business, CITIC Bookstore | Initiator, Xinrui LAB

  • ​20-year publishing veteran | Omni-media publishing & innovation delivery | AI × humanities new publishing & media

​🔸Who you'll meet:

• ​AI + "tools", "pan-entertainment", "comic drama", the terminal revolution in the physical AI era, Frontline builders in large models, embodied intelligence, AI Infra, and the agent ecosystem

• ​Going-global entrepreneurs leading teams into global markets

• ​Independent developers and one-person companies building from 0 to 1

• ​Top-tier investors and industry experts focused on the AI space

​🟡What we'll talk about:

• ​WAIC 2026 highlights: the new computing power order, world models & autonomous driving, embodied intelligence in production, agent ecosystem breakthroughs

• ​Latest AI trends: AI + "tools", "pan-entertainment", "comic drama", the terminal revolution in the physical AI era, system-level leaps in AI Infra, multimodal technical paths, etc.

• ​Going global: opportunities, challenges, and real-world lessons from global entrepreneurship

• ​Startup signals: new opportunities and paradigms for AI-native ventures

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