AI+ Day: Build × Reach — U.S.–China AI Founder Showcase
AI+ Day: Build × Reach
U.S.–China AI Founder Showcase
Tuesday, September 29, 2026 · 1:00–6:00 PM PDT
📍 Plug and Play Tech Center · Sunnyvale, California
Silicon Valley builds AI.
China’s creator-founders put products in front of 100M+ people.
One room. One afternoon.
AI+ Day brings together Silicon Valley AI founders, robotics teams, investors and operators with 20+ leading creator-founders and IP operators visiting from China.
The goal is simple:
Build. Demo. Get feedback. Find distribution. Meet the people who can help you move.
In the Room
🤖 10 AI & robotics projects — rapid-fire demos + live robots
🌏 20+ creator-founders from China
📱 Creators & IP operators reaching 100M+ people combined
🚀 Silicon Valley founders, investors & operators
💡 AI, Physical AI, entertainment, education, consumer products & new business models
This is not a day of 40-slide decks.
Every demo gets 5 minutes.
And every founder answers one question:
What do you need right now?
Users?
Distribution?
Capital?
Hardware?
Creators?
Partners?
A way into the U.S. or China market?
Say it in the room.
FEATURED SPEAKERS & GUESTS
Dr. Mohammad Rasouli
Stanford AI Researcher & CEO, AIx2
AI transformation, capital markets & emerging technology
Christy Crouse
Founder & CEO, Aitizen City
Building an AI entertainment business ecosystem where humans, AI and robots create interactive experiences and new businesses together
Jonathan Ginsberg
President & Co-Founder, BEEC Inc.
COO & Director, Black Hawk Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: BKHA)
Gary Xie
Founder & CEO, FlyHigh Talent · Founder, Spark VC
Forbes China Global Chinese Elite Top 100, 2022
Paul Fahn
Publisher, C19ScienceNews.com · Co-Founder, Agreemint
Former Director of Digital Media Technologies, Samsung Electronics
Elaine Yang
Business Head, Robotis SV Lab
Ian Ashenbremer
Creative & Marketing Director, IntBot
Rosie Gao
Product Designer, IntBot
Donald Cheng
Chief City Development Officer, Center of the Universe AI Entertainment
Founder of ACSIOM and Mosaic Platforms · Intelligent Infrastructure & Physical AI
Dr. Yingchao “YZ” Zhang is Co-founder and Chief AI Officer of opAIda.ai, a serial entrepreneur, and an AI innovator with more than 20 years of technology leadership experience. He was named one of the “50 Outstanding Asian Business Leaders” in 2023 and was appointed by Governor Phil Murphy to the Board of Trustees of Thomas Edison State University in 2025. He holds a Ph.D. in High Energy Nuclear Physics from Stony Brook University.
Gary Stanford Jr (Teaching Artist) - is a Bay Area native (born in SF) and has been heavily involved in Bay Area Musical Theater appearing in over 200 musicals with numerous theater companies as an actor. He has also worked as a stage director, dance choreographer, production manager, and teaching artist. He serves on the Board of Directors for Broadway on the Bay (President), Lyric Theater (SJ), and React Theater (Seattle).
Previous to his theater arts career, he worked as a Bay Area software engineer, Accenture Global Services consulting with Evans and Sutherland, At&T, EBay and Providian Financial.
Leo Liu is the Founding Partner of Parthenon Law's Silicon Valley and London offices. As a startup lawyer, business advisor, and Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP), Mr. Liu advises founders, investors, and boards on corporate governance, venture financings, fund formation, and mergers and acquisitions.
Bohan Sun is the founder of Nlink.ai, building 4D capture and reconstruction infrastructure for Physical AI. A 4DGS/CV researcher and originator of Silicon Aesthetics, he has spent the past several years building and researching computational and generative systems across Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, New York, and Asia. His work has intersected with organizations including Sotheby’s, UCCA, NVIDIA, World Labs, Apple, and Stanford. Previously the founder of BCA, he now focuses on machine perception, spatial computing, and dynamic 4D reconstruct
Dorian Cartwright is a roboticist, patent attorney, and founder of TrustRobotics. With more than 20 years of patent prosecution experience in Silicon Valley, he has worked at the intersection of robotics, AI, and intellectual property, beginning with patent applications for Honda’s ASIMO robot. He is also the inventor behind 60+ patent applications in humanoid robotics and AI. Through TrustRobotics, Dorian is focused on bringing secure, connected, and scalable Physical AI products from innovation to real-world deployment.
+ 20+ creator-founders from China and more Bay Area founders, investors, robotics teams and operators.
AGENDA
1:00 PM — Doors Open
Check-in, coffee & networking
1:10 PM — Two Markets, One Room
Welcome with Liu Siyi, Christy Crouse & featured guests
1:45 PM — Demo Block I
5 startups × 5 minutes
One final question for each team: What do you need?
2:35 PM — Robot Break
Hands-on demos with Silicon Valley robotics teams
2:50 PM — Demo Block II
5 more AI & robotics projects from the U.S. and China
3:40 PM — Panel: Distribution Is the Moat
Bay Area investors and operators meet creator-founders with large consumer audiences in China.
What travels between the two markets?
What doesn’t?
How do AI products actually find distribution?
4:20 PM — Fireside: AI & the Next Classroom
A conversation about AI, creators, education and the next generation
4:50 PM — THE ASK: 60-Second Open Mic
Anyone in the room can take the mic.
Looking for users?
Hiring?
Raising capital?
Need a robotics partner?
Looking for distribution in Asia?
You have 60 seconds.
5:10 PM — Robots & Open Networking
Product tryouts, founders, creators, investors and real conversations
6:00 PM — Group Photo & Wrap
VIP Dinner — Invitation Only
WANT TO DEMO?
We are selecting a limited number of AI, robotics and Physical AI projects to take the stage.
When registering, select:
“I’d like to demo my AI project.”
Please include:
Project / company name
One-line introduction
Website or demo link
What you are looking for
Selected teams receive a 5-minute demo slot.
BUILD IN SILICON VALLEY.
REACH NEW MARKETS.
FIND THE PEOPLE WHO CAN HELP YOU MOVE.
Free Admission · English-Led · Limited Capacity · Registration Reviewed by Host
Hosted by Liu Siyi, Founder of Qunxiang
Together with 20+ leading creator-founders visiting from China