​AI can already help you write code, research faster, build polished projects, and prepare for interviews. So when everyone has access to the same leverage, what actually keeps you valuable?

​CREAO is bringing together AI founders, engineers, researchers, builders, and hiring perspectives to explore how AI is reshaping the way we learn, build, get hired, and grow our careers.

​We’ll dig into questions like:

• ​What becomes more valuable when high-quality output gets cheaper?

• ​What does it mean to truly learn when AI is always available?

• ​How do you demonstrate real capability in an AI-native hiring market?

• ​And how do you turn AI leverage into durable career leverage?

​Expect a candid, technical, and practical conversation — plus the chance to meet people across the Bay Area who are building, researching, hiring, and navigating the same shift.

​Who Should Attend

​🎓 Students, new grads & researchers thinking about what to learn, build, and pursue next
💻 Engineers, builders & early-career professionals adapting to AI-native ways of working
🚀 Founders, product people & operators thinking about talent, teams, and the future of work
🤝 Anyone looking for thoughtful conversations, new connections, and people worth learning from

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​Keep the conversation going after the event — meet builders, researchers, founders, and AI-native talent, and stay in the loop on future CREAO events.

​Agenda

​5:30–6:00 PM | Check-in, Milk Tea & Light Networking
6:00–6:05 PM | Welcome & Opening Remarks
6:05–6:25 PM | Keynote
6:25–7:05 PM | Panel Discussion
7:05–7:20 PM | Agree or Disagree: Interactive Discussion
7:20–7:35 PM | Live Audience Q&A
7:35–9:00 PM | Dinner & Open Networking

​Speakers

​Keynote Speaker

​Chenyu Zhang
CTO, Neuromantics

​Chenyu Zhang is an AI researcher, engineer, entrepreneur, educator, and Stanford d.school Certified Design Your Life Coach. He is also a Certified Career & Life Coach and Co-Active Coach, with a particular interest in how people can redesign their careers and lives in the age of AI.

​Chenyu studied Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Toronto before pursuing graduate studies in Education at Harvard, driven by a growing interest in how technology is reshaping learning, work, and human development. His research has spanned MIT Media Lab, Harvard Berkman Klein Center, Stanford HAI, and other academic institutions, with work published at conferences including CHI, NeurIPS, AAAI, ACII, and AERA.

​Beyond academia, Chenyu has spent nearly a decade in industry and has been building startups since 2016 across HR Tech, marketplaces, healthcare, mental health, finance, legal tech, and education. He has also taught computer science for several years, including at Northeastern University, and has mentored students and early-career professionals navigating their own paths.

​Moderator

​Aria Shi
GTM Lead, AdaL

​Aria is an AI researcher, builder, and GTM Lead focused on autonomous and self-evolving agents. Her work explores how agents can learn, collaborate, and improve through experience, bridging cutting-edge research, real-world agent systems, and bringing emerging AI technologies to market.

​Panelists

​Ethan Zheng
Co-founder & CTO, Jobright.ai

​Ethan Zheng is Co-founder of Jobright.ai, an AI-powered job marketplace with more than 2 million registered users and over $9 million in ARR. He leads the company’s technology strategy across product, AI/ML, and infrastructure. Ethan holds a PhD in AI and database systems, has previously worked at Twitter and NewsBreak, and shares insights on startups and AI with more than 50,000 followers on LinkedIn.

​Bin Sheng
CTO & Co-Founder, AdAnt AI

​Bin Sheng is CTO and Co-Founder of AdAnt AI and founder of AnyTransformer. He works on agent workflows — reusable skills, human checkpoints, and structured orchestration — and is currently applying them to ads and marketing at AdAnt, an agentic video platform for generating and recreating social ads. Previously he led engineering at Pony.ai.

​Joyce Li
Ex-Staff Software Engineer, Airbnb

​Joyce has over a decade of software engineering experience, including 8+ years at Airbnb, where she was a Tech Lead and Staff Software Engineer, as well as an early adopter of AI coding tools for production infrastructure work. She is now on sabbatical, building her own AI projects.

​Brian Lattimore
PhD Candidate, Stanford University

​Brian Lattimore is a PhD candidate in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University, where he is affiliated with the Center for Work, Technology & Organization. His research examines how emerging technologies, particularly generative AI, reshape work, expertise, and relationships in organizations. His current work studies how generative AI changes the ways employees engage with and learn from coworkers, with implications for skill development and the future of work. His previous research includes responsible and ethical uses of generative AI in organizations.

​Who’s in the Room

​Host

​CREAO is the AI operating system for businesses — a reliable, secure platform where AI agents can build, execute, and improve real workflows over time. It remembers how you work and gives businesses the infrastructure to move from using AI tools to running on AI.

​Partners

​AdaL is an automation-first agent harness that turns goals into finished work. It orchestrates multiple AI agents to plan, implement, test, and verify complex tasks autonomously. From an issue to a production-ready PR, AdaL runs the entire engineering loop with minimal human intervention.

​AdAnt is an agentic video platform for recreating and generating social ads. Share your website, product details, or an inspiration video link, and the AdAnt agent helps suggest templates, avatars, and product angles for new ad variants.

​DINQ is an AI-powered talent search engine that helps companies discover and evaluate talent based on real work signals across the open web, while helping individuals build richer professional profiles around projects, research, and contributions.

​Jobright.ai is the #1 AI recruiting platform trusted by more than 2 million professionals. After transforming how people find their next opportunity, Jobright is now working for employers—using AI recruiters to source, verify, and engage qualified candidates, so hiring teams can focus on interviewing.

​TinyFish builds the web infrastructure for AI, trusted by Google, DoorDash, and multiple Fortune 500s. Search the web, fetch clean markdown from any URL, run a real browser, and deploy agents, all from one API. Backed by a $47M Series A led by ICONIQ.

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