GTLC Bay Area Chinese Tech Leaders Summit

Organized by TGO 鲲鹏会, the GTLC Bay Area Chinese Tech Leaders Summit is a full-day summit for Chinese technology leaders across the Bay Area and North America.
The 2026 summit theme is The Age of Autonomous Systems. As AI moves from copilots and chatbots toward agents, autonomous workflows, self-improving systems, robotics, and AI-native organizations, technology leaders are facing a new set of questions: how to build these systems, how to organize teams around them, and where the next wave of startup and industry opportunities will emerge.
Confirmed keynote speakers
July 17, 2026, full day
Yuandong Tian (田渊栋), Co-founder of Recursive Superintelligence
Yangqing Jia（贾扬清）, VP of NVIDIA; Co-founder & CEO of Lepton AI
Dongxu Huang（黄东旭）, Summit Co-Chair; Co-founder & CTO of TiDB
Junchen Jiang（江鋆晨）, CEO & Co-founder of Tensormesh; Professor at UChicago
Yi Zhu, Founder of Humani Labs; Co-founder of Boson AI
Junwei Zhang（张俊伟）, Host of The Diff Podcast; Board Member of TGO Silicon Valley
The summit will also feature many other industry leaders, founders, senior engineers, and technology executives from the Chinese tech community in the Bay Area and beyond.
Target audience
Tech leads, engineering managers, AI professionals, entrepreneurs, investors, startup founders, and members of the broader Chinese technology community in North America.
Key themes
Autonomous systems and AI agents
AI technology trends
Technology leadership
Engineering organization and management
Startup practices in the AI era
Emerging technology and investment opportunities
Cross-border perspectives from Chinese tech leaders
Overview
The summit brings together around 300 Chinese technology and entrepreneurial professionals from the Bay Area and North America for a day of talks, discussions, and high-quality offline networking.
The program includes keynote speeches, lightning talks, panel discussions, lunch networking, and 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 and leadership in the AI era
Voices from China, featuring sharing sessions from TGO China members