Organized by TGO , the GTLC Bay Area Chinese Tech Leaders Summit is a full-day summit for Chinese technology leaders across the Bay Area & North America.

The 2026 summit theme is The Age of Autonomous Systems. As AI moves from copilots & chatbots toward agents, autonomous workflows, self-improving systems, robotics, & AI-native organizations, technology leaders are facing a new set of questions: how to build these systems, how to organize teams around them, & where the next wave of startup & industry opportunities will emerge.

Confirmed keynote speakers July 17, 2026, full day

Yuandong Tian (), Co-founder of Recursive Superintelligence

Yangqing Jia, VP of NVIDIA; Co-founder & CEO of Lepton AI

Dongxu Huang, Summit Co-Chair; Co-founder & CTO of TiDB

Junchen Jiang, CEO & Co-founder of Tensormesh; Professor at UChicago

Yi Zhu, Founder of Humani Labs; Co-founder of Boson AI

Junwei Zhang, Host of The Diff Podcast; Board Member of TGO Silicon Valley

The summit will also feature many other industry leaders, founders, senior engineers, & technology executives from the Chinese tech community in the Bay Area & beyond.

Target audience

Tech leads, engineering managers, AI professionals, entrepreneurs, investors, startup founders, & members of the broader Chinese technology community in North America.

Key themes

Autonomous systems & AI agents

AI technology trends

Technology leadership

Engineering organization & management

Startup practices in the AI era

Emerging technology & investment opportunities

Cross-border perspectives from Chinese tech leaders

Overview

The summit brings together around 300 Chinese technology & entrepreneurial professionals from the Bay Area & North America for a day of talks, discussions, & high-quality offline networking.

The program includes keynote speeches, lightning talks, panel discussions, lunch networking, & interactive sessions. The main stage will focus on the summit theme, The Age of Autonomous Systems, while breakout sessions will go deeper into:

AI technology trends

Organization & leadership in the AI era

Voices from China, featuring sharing sessions from TGO China members