What is After AI? | A Strategic Conversation from Silicon Valley at 2025 Taiwan Demo Day

Jan 11

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What is After AI? | A Strategic Conversation from Silicon Valley at 2025 Taiwan Demo Day

As AI dominates headlines and reshapes entire industries, the most forward-looking investors, researchers, and founders are already asking: what comes next? This panel—filmed live at Willow Workplace in Menlo Park on July 24, 2025—brings together some of the sharpest minds in AI, venture capital, and exponential technologies to explore the next wave beyond artificial intelligence.

🎙️ Moderated by:

Sibyl Chen — General Manager, Berkeley SkyDeck

🧠 Panelists:

• Chris Manning — Head of the Stanford AI Lab, expert in next-gen AI architectures

• Jerry Kaplan — Renowned futurist, author, and serial entrepreneur

• Michelle Kiang — Founding Managing Partner of MTM Venture Partners

Topics include:

🔹 Signals for the next investable frontier

🔹 Post-AI computing paradigms

🔹 Synthetic biology, edge intelligence, and beyond

🔹 Geopolitical shifts and infrastructural realignments

🔹 Where the next 10x innovations might emerge

🔗 Learn more: https://www.sparknify.com/taiwan-demo-day

📍 Filmed at: Willow Workplace, Menlo Park, CA

📅 Date: July 24, 2025

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