The Growing AI Opportunity in China and Southeast Asia
World AI Conference x StartupX Presents:
The Growing AI Opportunity in China and Southeast Asia
🚀 Date: Friday, 17 October 2025
⏰ Time: 4:00 – 5:30 PM (SGT / CST)
📍 Online (Webinar)
About the Event
Artificial Intelligence is no longer a distant promise — it’s here, reshaping industries, economies, and societies. China’s leading AI startups are pushing the frontiers of robotics, fintech, sustainability, and consumer tech. At the same time, Southeast Asia is emerging as the next AI growth hub — dynamic, diverse, and brimming with opportunity.
This exclusive online sharing brings together China’s most promising AI startups and Southeast Asia’s leading innovation ecosystem. It’s the first step in building bridges between two of the world’s most powerful engines of growth.
Join us for an engaging session featuring:
✨ Insights into the SEA AI landscape - Market trends and industry hotspots
🌏 AI Corporate Innovation Trends — Hear how SEA corporates are adopting and partnering with AI companies.
🇨🇳 AI Startup Pitches from China — Meet cutting-edge startups innovating in AI and looking to scale into SEA.
🤝 Roundtable & Q&A – Open exchange on the real challenges of AI in SEA: localisation, barriers to adoption and cross-cultural talent.
Event Agenda
4:00 PM — Welcome & Introductions
4:15 PM — Keynote Briefing: AI Landscape in SEA
Hear about
4:30 PM — Fire Pitches: China’s Rising AI Startups
5 selected AI startups showcase their solutions and vision for SEA.
5:00 PM — Audience Roundtable Q&A
5:25 PM — Closing & Next Steps
Preview of the upcoming AI Gravity Forum in Singapore
5:30 PM — End
Why Attend?
For Startups: Learn how to scale from China to SEA with the right partners, incentives, and entry strategies.
For Corporates & Investors: Spot the next wave of Chinese AI pioneers before they land in Southeast Asia.
For Investors, Policymakers & Ecosystem Builders: Gain visibility into the cross-border AI corridor and its potential impact on the region.
Speakers
Durwin Ho, Managing Partner, StartupX
Joyce Tay, Partner, StartupX
Tom Xu, Project Director of Strategic Planning Department, WAIC
Seng Woei Yuan, Director, Technology Cluster, MP Group
🏆 Join us at the forefront of the AI corridor between China and Southeast Asia.
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🔥 Fire Pitches — Presenting the Lineup of AI Startups
Shanghai Asants Technology Co., Ltd.
Asants is an intelligent security company founded in 2021. It develops AI-driven proactive security products and services, including China’s first AI Security Assessment Agent. Their solutions help enterprises simulate attacks, map digital risks, and anticipate threats before they occur — enabling a new generation of AI-powered cybersecurity governance.
Shanghai Chapter 01 Information Technology Co., Ltd.
Chapter01 (C01) is an “AI agent production factory” building scalable, scenario-specific intelligent agents. With a modular architecture and high-quality data, they have launched products like Foresight AI (business analytics), Zhiji AI (knowledge management), and automation tools used in enterprise decision-making and services.
Shanghai Turingscat Technology Co., Ltd.
Turingscat is reimagining the creative industry with AI content innovation. Its flagship product Creaibo – Creative Buddy helps creators boost productivity in content production and science communication. The company’s popular IP Turing’s Cat has built a 2M+ follower base, 100M+ video views, and recognition from the China Computer Federation and Bilibili.
MemTensor (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd.
MemTensor, incubated by the Institute for Advanced Algorithms Research, focuses on building principle-driven large language models. Guided by leading scientists, the company is tackling AI fundamentals such as reducing hallucinations, cutting costs, and improving generalization — developing infrastructure that can accelerate AI adoption across industries.
Shanghai OriginHub Technology Co., Ltd.
OriginHub Tech, founded in 2024, brings together alumni from top universities and veterans from Meta, Huawei, and Tencent. Their award-winning Data-Centric AI Platform (WAIC SAIL Award 2024) combines an AI-native database and intelligent data preparation framework, enabling enterprises to streamline data management, governance, and large-scale AI deployment.
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StartupX
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World AI Conference (WAIC)
One of Asia’s premier AI summits, WAIC has become a landmark annual event in Shanghai since 2018, bringing together global leaders, top researchers, government officials, investors, and startups in AI and adjacent technologies. In its 2025 edition, WAIC attracted 350,000+ visits, featured over 800 exhibitors, and unveiled 100+ products making their global debut. At WAIC 2025, China revealed 1,509 AI models, accounting for over 40% of the global total at the time (3,755). WAIC also anchors high-level global AI governance dialogues (e.g. with UNESCO) and is a key node for policy, research, and industrial collaboration. WAIC is a global convening platform where technology breakthroughs, policy frameworks, and cross-border AI collaboration converge.
The AIMX Network is a global community of users, AI leaders, practitioners and innovators seeking to answer the biggest question around AI today and the future: HOW.
The Network activates regional AI communities through curated events and activities around the world, to address real-world issues with emerging AI innovation while keeping the pulse on issues that impact AI for Industry.