Different voices. Different perspectives.
One conversation about what comes next.
Meet the minds shaping what comes next. Human intelligence. AI and robotics. New markets. Capital. Leadership. New geographies.
In Shanghai, we bring together perspectives from Stanford, China and our own SEP community to explore the forces reshaping how we think, build, lead and live.
FROM STANFORD
Back to the Classroom
Kang Shen
What neuroscience can teach us about learning, adaptation and being human in an age of increasingly intelligent machines.
Thomas Lee
AI, energy, silicon and the physical breakthroughs and limits that may define what comes next.
CHINA FROM WHITHIN
From Shanghai
June Zhou
Founder & Chairwoman · Lens Technology
An extraordinary entrepreneurial journey — and a perspective from inside China’s transformation into a global advanced-manufacturing powerhouse.
Zeng Fangqin
An inside view of the technology, manufacturing and industrial ecosystems powering the next generation of global innovation.
Disscussion Panel
Perspectives from two leaders at the intersection of technology, business and a rapidly changing global landscape.
Xiaoning Qi
A semiconductor and technology leader with experience at Alibaba, C-SKY and Intel. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford and is an IEEE Fellow.
Di Yao
A legal and business leader with experience across Google, GoPro and King & Wood Mallesons. A Stanford Law alumnus, he also chairs its China Alumni Association.
FROM OUR COMMUNITY
Ideas from SEPeers around the world
The intelligence of SEP, brought to the stage. Across countries, industries and generations, SEPeers are already navigating many of the transformations we are coming to Shanghai to understand.
Their experiences give us a different kind of perspective: not predictions about what might happen, but lessons from what they are already building, testing, investing in — and living through.
Human × Machine
Sharon Xue Yang
As AI moves from screens into the physical world, the next frontier is not intelligence alone, but interaction.
This talk explores the rise of socially autonomous robots and why social intelligence may become the defining platform layer for the next generation of Physical AI.
Felix Wong
Most of us use AI as an advisor: ask a question, get an answer. The bigger opportunity is turning AI into an operator that can work for hours—or days—without us.
The question is: what has to change before you can safely let an agent run for 24 hours or more? This talk shows how to extend an agent’s autonomy horizon from minutes to days.
Markets × Behavior
Capital × Opportunity
The new geography of innovation
Leadership × Life
The Conversations Shaping What Comes Next
Human × Machine
Markets × Behavior
Capital × Opportunity
Geography × Innovation
Leadership × Life
Be part of the room where the future is being discussed, challenged, and created.
Take a look to the Speakers Lineup for
SEP Alumni Global Reunion 2025
STANFORD FACULTY PROFESSORS
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