AAEOY 2025/2026 Hosted in San Francisco Bay Area


2025-2026 AAEOY Quick Summary And Proceeding Are Here
09/26/2026

Celebrating the Winners of the 2026 AAEOY National AIGC Video Challenge
09/23/2026

2025 – 2026 AAEOY Award & Conference Proceedings Released
09/16/2026

2026 AAEOY AIGC Video Challenge: Distinguished Award Results Announced
09/15/2026

AAEOY Afternoon Program Open for Registration
09/11/2026

2026 AAEOY AIGC Video Challenge Public Voting Starts
08/26/2026

2026 AAEOY AIGC Video Challenge Results Announced
08/24/2026

2026 AAEOY Award and Conference Program Officially Released
08/12/2026

National AI-Generated Content (AIGC) Video Challenge is Announced for 2026 AAEOY
06/20/2026

Asian American Engineer of the Year Award and Conference Announces 2025-2026 Awardees 
06/9/2026

Mr. Jeremiah Owyang to Serve as Keynote Speaker for the Afternoon Technical Session at the 2025–2026 AAEOY Award & Conference
06/1/2026

2025-2026 Awardee Profiles are Published on AAEOY Website
05/18/2026

Asian American Engineer of the Year Award and Conference Announces First Phase of 2025-2026 Awardees
05/02/2026

Mr. Lip-Bu Tan, CEO of Intel Corporation, Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award
04/10/2026

Dr. Arun Majumdar, Dean of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Distinguished Leadership in Science and Technology Award
04/10/2026

Mr. Johnny Ho, Co-Founder and Chief Strategist officer of Perplexity AI, Named Featured Speaker
02/15/2026

2025-2026 AAEOY Conference Calls for Sponsors!
11/06/2025

2025-2026 AAEOY Award and Conference Announced
10/12/2025


2025 – 2026 AAEOY PROCEEDINGS

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2026 AAEOY AIGC Video Challenge

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Join us on September 19, 2026, at the Santa Clara Convention Center for an afternoon AI Conference bringing together leaders in technology, startups, investment, and education to explore how AI is shaping our future.

The conference will feature two tracks: the Technology Track and the Education Track.

The Technology Track, “Engineering the AI-Native Future: How AI Is Transforming Technology, Business, and Innovation,” will bring together Silicon Valley AI leaders, venture investors, startup founders, and engineers to examine how AI-native companies are changing the way organizations compete, build products, develop software, and create entirely new industries.

The program will feature keynote speaker Jeremiah Owyang, General Partner at Blitzscaling Ventures and Founder & Host of Llama Lounge, presenting “The AI-Native Era: How Organizations Will Compete, Build, and Scale.” Featured sessions will also include Bernard Harguindeguy on how every company is becoming an AI company, Leo Tchourakov of Factory on the self-improving software factory, and startup leaders sharing how AI is transforming startups and creating new industries.

Topics will include AI-native companies, agentic AI, intelligent software development, cybersecurity, AI accessibility, smart wearables, human-AI collaboration, venture capital, startups, and emerging technologies.

The Education Track will explore how we prepare people for this rapidly changing world. Dr. Arun Majumdar, Dean of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, will present “Education in the Age of AI: Preparing Minds for an Intelligent Future,” while Johnny Ho, Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Perplexity AI, will discuss “Orchestrating Entrepreneurship in AI.”

Together, the two tracks explore both sides of the AI transformation: how we build the AI-native future—and how we prepare people to thrive in it.

September 19, 2026 | 1:00 PM
Santa Clara Convention Center

AAEOY Afternoon Program

Time: 13:00, Saturday, September 19 2026
Location: Santa Clara Convention Center

Registration Link: https://luma.com/tg9walub

​There will be tracks in the afternoon program “Technology Track” and “Education Track”.

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Technology Track:

Engineering the AI-Native Future
How AI Is Transforming Technology, Business, and Innovation

​Artificial intelligence is transforming software engineering, cybersecurity, accessibility, autonomous systems, and the way organizations build and compete. The 2026 AAEOY Afternoon Technology Session brings together Silicon Valley founders, technology leaders, investors, and innovators to examine the emerging AI-native future.

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Keynote Speaker

​Jeremiah Owyang
General Partner
, Blitzscaling Ventures
Founder & Host,
Llama Lounge

Title: The AI-Native Era: How Organizations Will Compete, Build, and Scale

​Jeremiah Owyang will discuss AI-native organizations, agentic AI, enterprise transformation, and how artificial intelligence is changing the way companies innovate, compete, and scale.

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Featured Fireside Chat

​Bernard Harguindeguy
Founder, Executive Venture Fund (EVF)

​Title: AI, Enterprise Innovation, Cybersecurity, and Leadership

​A serial entrepreneur, former CTO of Ping Identity, and venture investor, Bernard Harguindeguy will share perspectives on how AI is reshaping enterprise technology, cybersecurity, innovation, and leadership.

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Featured Technical Speaker

​Leo Tchourakov
Principal Engineer, Factory

​Title: Beyond Coding Agents: Inside the Self-Improving Software Factory (Tentative)

​Leo Tchourakov will explore how autonomous Software Factories are transforming the software development lifecycle through AI agents, continuous feedback, model evaluation, and self-improving engineering systems.

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Startup Leaders Panel

​How AI Is Transforming Startups and Creating New IndustriesStartup founders will discuss how AI is enabling new products, industries, and real-world applications.

Xiaoran Wang
CEO & Co-Founder, AGIGA AI

​Xiaoran Wang leads the development of EchoVision, an AI-powered smart glasses platform that assists blind and low-vision users through real-time scene understanding.

Tom Pritsky
CEO & Co-Founder, Captify

Tom Pritsky leads the development of AI-powered smart glasses that provide real-time captioning for people with hearing loss.

​More Speakers to Be Announced

​Additional speakers from AI infrastructure, software engineering, semiconductors, robotics, cybersecurity, venture capital, enterprise AI, and emerging technologies will be announced soon.

​Join founders, engineers, researchers, investors, executives, and students for an afternoon of technical insights, industry perspectives, and meaningful networking.

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Location

Santa Clara Convention Center
5001 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA