HYSTA Talk: AI Industry Mixer with Kai-Fu Lee

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Join our upcoming AI Industry Mixer with Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, renowned AI expert, author, venture capitalist and technology executive, who will be speaking about AND signing his new book AI Super Powers.
We are co-hosting this event with <A HREF="https://leap.ai/welcome" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Leap.ai</A>. In addition to the exciting talk by Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, the event will also be featuring 3 major exciting sessions:
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Frontier Tech Discussion: an awesome lineup of leading AI companies will be sharing tech trends from the forefront;
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Recruiting Info Session: AI companies will be recruiting on-site with exclusive job openings - bring your resume! 
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Private book signing: get your copy of AI Superpowers signed by Dr. Lee after his talk and connect with him on the spot!
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<H2>EVENT HIGHLIGHTS</H2>
- Get in line! Dr. <A CLASS="tap-target feed-shared-text-view__mention ember-view" HREF="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAAGW4gBv7bRB1TmDXnXwehTA41M4M5qDcU/" TARGET="_self" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Kai-Fu Lee</A> will be giving a keynote speech and signing his newly released book AI Superpowers (comes with your ticket). You will also receive an exclusive edition of Dr. Lee's book My Journey into AI upon check-in. 
- Bring your resume! Expect to hear fresh industry insights from superstar AI companies <A CLASS="tap-target feed-shared-text-view__mention ember-view" HREF="https://www.linkedin.com/company/12905674/" TARGET="_self" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Leap.ai</A>, <A CLASS="tap-target feed-shared-text-view__mention ember-view" HREF="https://www.linkedin.com/company/1039156/" TARGET="_self" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Quora</A> ML, <A CLASS="tap-target feed-shared-text-view__mention ember-view" HREF="https://www.linkedin.com/company/7799633/" TARGET="_self" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">AISense</A> and <A CLASS="tap-target feed-shared-text-view__mention ember-view" HREF="https://www.linkedin.com/company/18066347/" TARGET="_self" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">WeRide.ai</A> and learn what exclusive job openings they are looking to fill!
<H2>TICKET INCLUDES</H2>
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Admission to all talks and presentations;
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Admission to the private book sigining session with Dr. Lee;
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1 hard copy of Dr. Lee's new book AI Super Powers;
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1 hard copy of Dr. Lee's book My Journey into AI;
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<H2>AGENDA</H2>
6:00 - 6:30 Check in;
6:30 - 8:00 AI industry frontier discussion with featured companies;
8:00 - 8:30 Keynote speech by Dr. Kai-Fu Lee
8:30 - 9:00 Private book-signing with Dr. Kai-Fu Lee & networking 
<H2>FEATURED COMPANIES</H2>
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 Leap.ai
Founded by two hands-on ex-Google engineering leaders, Leap.ai intelligently matches tech professionals to job opportunities and advisors. The AI-driven product considers passion, strengths, preferences, and experience when making matches. With over 100,000 jobs, Leap is the most comprehensive platform for opportunities in tech at unicorns and fast-growing startups. 70% of candidates with a Leap referral land interviews.
Quora
Quora's mission is to share and grow the world's knowledge. We want to shorten the distance between people and any knowledge that would benefit them. This means growing our collection of knowledge, assessing it, and figuring out how to distribute it efficiently. To achieve all these ends, we rely heavily on machine learning.
AISense(Otter.ai)
Funded by <A HREF="http://horizonsventures.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Horizons Ventures</A> (DeepMind, Waze, Zoom, Facebook), Tim Draper, <A HREF="https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2012/08/01/professor-billionaire-david-cheriton/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">David Cheriton</A> of Stanford (first investor in Google), etc.  AISense has created Ambient Voice Intelligence™ technologies with deep learning that understands human-to-human conversations. Its <A HREF="http://otter.ai/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Otter.ai</A> product digitizes all voice meetings and video conferences, makes every conversation searchable and also provides speech analytics and insights. Otter.ai is the exclusive provider of automatic meeting transcription for Zoom Video Communications.
Otter.ai has been selected by TechCrunch Disrupt 2018, Venturebeat AI Summit, WebSummit and other world-class conferences as the exclusive real-time transcription product. Otter also won the Best Apps of 2018 Award by Mashable.
WeRide.ai
WeRide.ai (formally Jingchi.ai), China’s leading L4 autonomous driving company, is committed to using artificial intelligence to deliver fully autonomous vehicles that operate without human intervention to perceive the environment and deliver a safe, robust, and convenient Mobility as a Service. WeRide.ai is the first L4 autonomous driving start-up company in China to receive investment from and form strategic partnership with a globaltop automaker, Alliance RNM (Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance). 
<H2 CLASS="MsoNormal">FEATURED KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Kai-Fu Lee</H2>
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee is a renowned AI expert, venture capitalist and technology executive who developed the world's first speaker-independent, continuous speech recognition system as his Ph.D. thesis at Carnegie Mellon. He later worked as an executive, first at Apple, then SGI, Microsoft, and Google.
One of the most prominent figures in the Chinese internet sector, he was the founding director of Microsoft Research Asia, serving from 1998 to 2000; and president of Google China, serving from July 2005 through September 4, 2009. 
Dr. Lee has written two books on speech recognition and more than 60 papers in computer science. After two years as a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon, Dr. Lee joined Apple Computer in 1990 as a principal research scientist. While at Apple, he headed R&D groups responsible for Apple Bandai Pippin, PlainTalk, Casper (speech interface), GalaTea (text to speech system) for Mac Computers.
In 1998, Dr. Lee moved to Microsoft and went to Beijing, China where he played a key role in establishing the Microsoft Research (MSR) division there. MSR China later became known as MSR Asia, regarded as one of the best computer science research labs in the world. Lee returned to the United States in 2000 and was promoted to corporate vice president of interactive services division at Microsoft from 2000 to 2005.
In July 2005, Dr. Lee joined Google and pioneered its development in China.Dr. Lee helped establish the company in the market and oversaw its growth in the country. He was responsible for launching the Google.cn regional website, and strengthened the company's teams of engineers and scientists in the country.
In 2009, Dr. Lee founded a $115m venture capital (early-stage incubation and seed money business model) fund called "Innovation Works" (later changed to "Sinovation Ventures") that aims to create five successful Chinese startups a year in internet and mobile internet businesses or in vast hosting services known as cloud computing.
ABOUT AI Super Powers
“Kai-Fu Lee's smart analysis on human-AI coexistence is clear-eyed and a must-read. We must look deep within ourselves for the values and wisdom to guide AI's development.”
Satya Nadella (CEO, Microsoft)
“In his brilliant book, Kai-Fu Lee applies his superpowers to predicting the disruptive shifts that will define the AI-powered future and proposes a revolutionary social contract that forges a new synergy between AI and the human heart.” 
Marc Benioff (Chairman & CEO Salesforce)
“Truly one of the wisest and most surprising takes on AI. Kai-Fu Lee  connects it with humans in a logical yet inspiring way. You’ll find this book illuminating and exciting in equal measure.” 
Chris Anderson (Head of TED)
 “Kai-Fu Lee has great insights on one of today’s most exciting and important technological trends. China’s rapid development and commitment to the future should bring an interesting and exciting challenge to the U.S.: the game is on.”
John Chen (Chairman & CEO, Blackberry) 
“Having worked closely with both of them, Kai-Fu Lee’s  brilliance for understanding and explaining the new AI world order is comparable to how Steve Jobs explained how personal computing would fundamentally change humanity.  Kai-Fu's book is that good.”
John Sculley (Former CEO, Apple)
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HYSTA
Established in 1999, HYSTA is the leading non-profit US-China professional organization in Silicon Valley that aims to help investors, entrepreneurs, business leaders, young talents, students and scientists and scholars to better connect and leverage the resources of the community. Today, HYSTA has built an influential network of 20,000+ members mostly based in Silicon Valley, with many active across the globe. In close partnership with prestigious universities, corporations and diverse professional and business organizations, HYSTA strives to unite business and professional elites to bring their leadership and career success to the next level.
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LEAP.AI
Founded by former Googlers Richard Liu and Yunkai Zhou, Leap.ai uses machine learning to support career related decision-making for technical professionals. With a holistic approach to mitigating career challenges, the company helps engineers: find the company/job with the highest chance for success, create/update a resume, and get meaningful career advice from a relevant source: 
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<LI>Smart resume builder: We analyze users’ resumes and instantly highlight opportunity areas to improve language, formatting, etc.</LI>
<LI>Smart advisor matching: Based on a user’s career needs, we identify experienced professionals to provide 1:1 advising.</LI>
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