SSG Accelerator Demo Day
Deepseek is just the beginning; Asia's untapped talents are emerging at a rapid speed. Join us for a demo day with 10 brand new AI start-ups coming out of the Asian founders community, ranging from serial founders with $200M exits to 18-year-old tech geniuses graduating college in 2025.
With two inspiring Panel Discussions followed. All events are online, register today!
Agenda:
6:00-6:15PM Welcome Note from UChicago Polsky Center
6:15-8:30PM Cohort 1 Team Pitches
8:30-9:30PM Panel Discussion 1 - Enterprise AI Revolution - Scaling Business Implementation
Michael Franklin, Founding Advisor of Databricks
Tim Shi, Co-founder & CTO of Cresta
Vera Yang, President & Co-founder of Flexcompute
Allen Wu, Corporate Development Director at NVIDIA
moderated by Karthee Madasamy, Managing Partner at MFV Partners
9:30-10:00PM Break
10:00-11:00PM Panel Discussion 2 - Beyond Technology: Asia's Product Innovators Reshaping the AI Landscape
Xiang Wang, ex-President of Xiaomi
Carrie Wang, Head of Asia at Duolingo
Carter Hou, Co-founder of Halliday & Moody
Qian Liao, VP of Product, Vidu
11:00-11:30PM Fireside Chat - How International Founders are Navigating through the AI Wave
JP Gan, Founding Partner of INCE Capital
Emanuele Colonnelli, Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at UChicago Booth
About SSG Accelerator
SSG facilitates Asia's brightest talents to meet global opportunities. In strategic partnership with the University of Chicago, we're an AI-native launchpad that identifies exceptional Asian founders and propels them onto the world stage. We've built our program on a simple truth: Asia is home to extraordinary entrepreneurial talent from academic innovations to mobile apps, from enterprise SaaS to consumer hardware. Provided with the right stage and opportunity, they will create products with global impact.