Last year, CIE held the in-person annual conference (recordings) and had great success. This year, we cordially invite you to join us at our 45th Annual Conference. It’s a great opportunity to meet the executives, industrial talents, and friends at our conference in person. We hope to see all of you there!

To refresh your memory, please check out 2023 CIE-SF 44th Annual Conference Recordings below.

Afternoon technical program: link

Dinner banquet: link

Official website: www.cie-sf.org

 

Free Afternoon Technical Session

(1 to 6 PM)

Registration:  2024 Afternoon session Eventbrite link: https://2024CIE-SFAC-Afternoon.eventbrite.com

The theme of the 45th Annual Conference is "Rethinking Boundaries - Artificial Intelligence & Creativity". As usual, we will have a keynote speech and ceremony for Entrepreneur of the Year Awards in the dinner banquet. Besides, the afternoon section is Technical Forum. Our esteemed speakers from the leading industries and academia will talk about Interdisciplinary technologies empowering the connectivity between both business and humans. It will cover a broad range of topics in A.I., e.g. Generative AI, Deep Learning, AI Software and Hardware Design, AI in Education, AI Business Strategies and STEM AI discovery program.

It would be a great opportunity to hang out and meet the executives, industrial talents, and friends at our conference in person.

  • Session I: Deep Learning Frameworks Seminar

Title: Perspective on Deep Learning Framework, A Personal Reflection

AI machine learning in general, trend + his career transition to AI

Dr. Triston Cao, Deep Learning Manager, NVIDIA

  • Session II: AI Applications Panel Discussion

Title: Is AI a tool or creature? Perspectives from AI practitioners

Dr. Haohong Wang, General Manager of TCL Research America

Ms. Chen Bo, CEO/Founder of Aiwave

Ms. Rebecca Ye, CEO/Co-Founder of Kyros.ai

Mr. Alex Yang, CEO/Founder of Brix Labs

Moderator: Dr. Christie Wang

  • Session III: Interview with 2024 Oscar Nominated Documentary Producer Session

Fireside Chat conducted in Mandarin Chinese

Title:Merging Humanities and Technology for Storytelling

Speaker: Mr. Ben Tsiang, Co-founder of SINA and Co-founder and Chairman of CNEX

Interviewer: Dr. Christie Wang

  • Session IV: Future Trend of AI Server Speech

Title: Emerging Data Center Challenges - A Sneak Peek Into The Future

Mr. Frank Lai, Sr. Director of Business Development and Technology Enablement, Supermicro

  • Session V: AI Advancement - LLMs Speech

Title: AI and Humans-[Always]-In-The-Loop

Mr. Erik Manuevo, Vice President, Chegg Inc

  • Session VI: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Education Seminar Speech

Title: How does AI work in everyday life for High School Students and Adults?

Ms. Elisa Paik, Customer Education Manager, HP Enterprise

Mr. Jason Pitts, Software Engineering Manager, HP Enterprise

April 27, 2024 Conference Program

12:30 PM

Registration and Exhibition 

01:00 PM

Opening Remarks

Session I
1:05 - 1:50PM

Perspective on Deep Learning Framework, A Personal Reflection
Dr. Triston Cao, Sr. Software Engineering Manager, NVIDIA

Session II
 1:50 - 2:50PM

Is AI a Tool or Creature? Perspectives from AI Practitioners
Dr. Haohong Wang, General Manager, TCL Research America
Ms. Bo Chen, Aiwave, CEO, founder

Ms. Rebecca Ye, Kyros.ai, CEO, co-founder
Mr. Alex Yang, Brix Labs, CEO, founder
Moderator: Dr. Christie Wang
Session III
2:50 - 3:20PM

Merging Humanities and Technology for Better Storytelling
Mr. Ben Tsiang, Co-founder of SINA.com, Co-founder and Chairman of CNEX
Interviewer: Dr. Christie Wang

 Session IV
3:20 - 4:10PM

Emerging Data Center Challenges - A Sneak Peek Into The Future
Mr. Frank Lai, Senior Director of Business Development, Supermicro

 Session V
4:10 - 5:00PM

AI and Humans - [Always] - In - The - Loop
Mr. Erik Manuevo, VP, Chegg Inc

 Session VI
5:00 -6:00PM

How AI Works in Everyday Life for High School Students and Parents?
Ms. Elisa Paik, Mr. Jason Pitts, HP Enterprise

06:00 PM

Dinner Banquet

06:45 PM

Entertainment Performance

07:05 PM

CIE/USA-SF President Speech

07:15 PM

CIE/USA-SF New President Speech

07:20 PM

Keynote Speech
Dr. Vamsi Boppana
Senior Vice President, Artificial Intelligence, AMD  

08:00 PM

2024 Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year Award
Dr. Song Li
Founder, Executive Chairman of Frontage Laboratories, Inc and Frontage Holdings Corporation  

 

2024 Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year Award
Dr. Norman Chang
Chief Technologist of Electronics, Semiconductor, and Optics BU at Ansys Inc., Ansys Fellow  

 

2024 CIE Technology and Humanities Award

Ben Tsiang 蔣顯斌
Co-founder of SINA.com, Co-founder and Chairman of CNEX  

09:15 PM

High School Student Scholarship Awards

09:30 PM

Closing Remarks

Dinner Banquet and Award Ceremony:  6PM - 9:30 PM 
This delightful banquet features Keynote Speech, Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, Student scholarship Awards, and more.
Admission paid ticket required for general public
Registration: (early bird registration now, click HERE

We are honored to have Dr. Vamsi Boppana, senior Vice President, Artificial Intelligence at AMD to be our keynote Speaker in the evening. Vamsi Boppana is responsible for the AI strategy across AMD, including driving our AI roadmap across client, edge, and cloud; execution of the AIE IP and product roadmap; as well as growing our AI software capability including the unified AI software stack, AI models and use cases.