"The Age of Autonomous Systems" isn't a forecast. It's the stack being built right now: agents that act, transact, and get things done on your behalf. The premise underneath all of it is a trust layer, which is exactly what Kite is building. We are pleased to share that our Co-Founder & CEO @ChiZhangData will speak in the Tech Track at GTLC 2026 Bay Area Chinese Tech Leaders Summit, hosted by TGO Silicon Valley. She shares the stage with founders and researchers including: ▷ Yuandong Tian (@tydsh), Founder of Recursive Superintelligence, the $4.65B self-improving AI lab. Former Research Director at Meta FAIR, and earlier on Google X's self-driving car team (now Waymo). ▷ Yangqing Jia (@jiayq), creator of Caffe and Co-Founder & CEO of Lepton AI (acquired by NVIDIA). Former VP at NVIDIA, VP at Alibaba Group, and AI Director at Facebook. ▷ Junchen Jiang (@JunchenJiang), CEO of Tensormesh and Professor at UChicago, co-creator of the open-source LMCache. ▷ Bo Li, Co-Founder & CEO of Virtue AI and Professor at UIUC, a leading scholar in AI safety and trustworthy ML (IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, Sloan Fellow). ▷ Ryan Hanrui Wang, SVP Applied AI at Nebius and former Co-Founder & CEO of Eigen AI (acquired by Nebius for $643M), out of MIT's HAN Lab. ▷ Ding Zhao, Professor at CMU and director of the Safe AI Lab, focused on trustworthy and safe AI. ▷ Weiyan Shi (@shi_weiyan), Professor at Northeastern and AI2050 Fellow, who built the negotiation agent behind Meta's CICERO. 📅 July 17, 2026 · Tech Track 2:00 PM 📍 Q Bay Center, San Jose If you're in the Bay Area, come find us. 🪁 🔗