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2025 | Innovations in AI from Asia

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2025 | Innovations in AI from Asia

Sep 23, 2025 - Dec 2, 2025

04:30 pm - 05:50 pm

Our theme for Autumn 2025 is “Innovations in AI from Asia.”  Distinguished guest speakers and panels discuss leading edge business and technology innovations coming from Asian companies and research institutions.  Planned topics include small language models, the evolution of AI agents and agentic AI, edge computing of AI, energy reduction in AI processing, and innovative approaches to AI for specific applications.

Open to the public at no charge for in-person or by Zoom attendance. Seminars will take place on most Tuesdays between September 23 – December 2, 2025.

Stanford students may register for 1-unit seminar credit; course EASTASN-402A, cross listed as EE-402A and EALC-402A. While technical approaches will be introduced, most content should be accessible with only a general IT user background. 

Course Schedule

Sep 23
2025

Series Overview: Innovations in AI from Asia

Dr. Richard Dasher
Director, US-Asia Technology Management Center
Sep 30
2025

Lessons from China and Japan on AI: Opportunities in Asia

Shixiang Shane Gu
Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
Oct 07
2025

AI at the Edge: Entrepreneurship in Asia’s Rapid Growth High-tech Industries

Panelist Dr. Sakyasingha Dasgupta
Founder & CEO, EdgeCortix
Panelist & Guest Host Shri Dodani
Founder & Managing Partner, Global Hands-On VC (GHOVC)
Oct 14
2025

Innovating Sovereign AI for India (Zoom-only)

Paula Mariwala
Founding Partner, Aureolis Ventures & Co-President, Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs India
Sharad Sanghi
Founder and CEO, Neysa Networks & Chairman, NTT Global Data Centers and Cloud Infrastructure, India
Raoul Nanavati
Co-Founder and CEO, Navana.ai
Oct 21
2025

Manus: Building the Hands for AI

Tao Zhang
Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Manus AI
Oct 28
2025

From Vietnam to Silicon Valley – A Journey in Nurturing AI Talents

Thang Luong
Co-founder, VietAI and Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
Host & Moderator: Shixiang Shane Gu
Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
Nov 11
2025

Toward Asia’s AI Capital: Korea’s National AI Strategy (ZOOM-ONLY)

Dr. Jung-Woo Ha
Sr. Secretary to the President on AI and Future Planning, The Presidential Office of Rep. of Korea | AI Strategist | Policy Leader
Nov 18
2025

Recent Developments in AI and Large Language Models across Asia

Dr. Tatsunori Hashimoto
Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Stanford University
Dec 02
2025

Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, Chairman & CEO of Sinovation Ventures

Dr. Kai-Fu Lee
Chairman & CEO of Sinovation Ventures and President of Sinovation Venture’s Artificial Intelligence Institute, and Founder of 01.AI