Event Date & Location:
Date: 11 July 2025
Time: 9 AM to 5 PM
Location: F25-06, F25-07 & F25-27, TikTok,
1 Raffles Quay South Tower, Singapore 048583
The LF AI & Data Meet-Up Day in Singapore 2025 is a one-day event bringing together the global open source AI community. We invite developers, AI practitioners, open source contributors, and tech companies interested in AI agents to join us for a day of knowledge sharing and community collaboration. This year’s theme is “Agent for SWE (Software Engineering)”, focusing on the rise of AI agents in software development and engineering.
REGISTER TO ATTEND: https://lu.ma/LFSG
Event Agenda:
| Time and # | Length | Speaker | Speaker’s Title | Topic | Bio |
| 9:00-9:15 am | Arrival | ||||
| #0.1
9:15-9:17 am |
2 mins | Mike Collier | Executive Director of LF AI & Data | Welcome video | https://www.linkedin.com/in/markcollier |
| #0.2
9:17 – 9:20 am |
3 mins | @Wu Jianbo | Engineering Manager, TikTok | Welcome speech and announce the LF Training and Certification Discount
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Jianbo is currently working on multiple AI projects facing internal developers, including: using AI to test TikTok Application, build AI Code Agents to push for migrations in a large-scale codebase, and much more. |
| #1
9:20 – 9:50 am |
30 mins | @Qian Liu | Researcher, TikTok | Can Language Models Optimize Code Performance on Real-World Repositories? | Qian Liu is currently a Researcher at TikTok in Singapore. His main research interests focus on natural language processing, primarily including code generation and reasoning. He has published papers at top-tier conferences such as ICLR, NeurIPS, and ICML. He participated in StarCoder 1/2, both well-known open-source code generation models in the community, which have garnered over 2.3K likes on HuggingFace. He was nominated for the Baidu Scholarship in 2020 and was honored to be selected as one of the KAUST Rising Stars in AI 2024, and received the Beijing Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Nomination Award in 2023. |
| #2
9:50 – 10:20 am |
30 mins | Tom Qin | Co-founder of Edgenesis and Co-Chair of the LF Edge InfiniEdge AI TSC | Driving Real-World Robots with Kubernetes-Native Digital Twins | Co-Founder and Chief SRE at Edgenesis, TSC Co-chair of LF Edge Project InfiniEdge AI
Experienced software engineer with a proven track record at Veriflow Systems. Co-founder and Chief SRE at Edgenesis, designing Shifu (a Kubernetes-native IoT framework) and leading the engineering team. Passionate about technology and innovation. |
| #3
10:20 – 10:30 am |
10 mins | Bhargav Sagiraju | AI Researcher, National University of Singapore | MCP Agents for data analysis and cross platform data insights | an AI Researcher at the National University of Singapore and my current research spans AI, Blockchain and Agent Frameworks. I am also involved in building an AI-powered Platform called CognideX which allows users to monetize their personal social media data and allows SMEs to generate efficient marketing campaigns from aggregated and anonymized social media data using RAG powered AI Agents. |
| 10:30-10:45 am | Coffee break | ||||
| #4
10:45 – 11:05 am |
20 mins | Sam Chen | Founder & CEO, OpenCSG | Agentic AI: Accelerating Enterprise Enablement and Competitive Advantage | https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-chen-b936727a?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app |
| #5
11:05 – 11:35 am |
20 mins | Tatsuya Kurosaka | Specialist, Hitachi | Securing Model Context Protocol with Keycloak: AuthN/AuthZ for MCP Servers | He is a specialist at Hitachi, Ltd. He has developed storage plug-in for container platform such as Kubernetes and OpenShift. He also has considered the introduction of Keycloak for AuthN/AuthZ for various projects. As a OSS Specialist, he has delivered talks at events like KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. |
| #6
11:35 am – 12:05 pm |
30 mins | Junping Du | CEO and co-founder, Datastrato | Advancing Toward an Intelligent and Agentic Data Architecture with Gravitino | Junping Du is the CEO and co-founder of Datastrato. He is a recognized leader in open-source data infrastructure and a co-creator of Apache Gravitino, a foundational component for next-generation data and AI infrastructure. Junping has extensive experience in big data and cloud computing, having held senior technical leadership, director, and general manager positions at VMware, Hortonworks (now Cloudera), Tencent Cloud, and other Global 2000 companies. He is also a significant contributor to the Apache Hadoop project and an active member of the Apache Software Foundation. Previously, Junping served as Chairperson of the LF AI & Data Foundation, guiding the growth of open-source AI initiatives. |
| #7
12:05 – 12:30 pm |
20 – 30 mins | Bruce Yang | Co-founder, Sapiens AI | Conversational agent for next-gen collaborative workspace | Bruce Yang is the co-founder of Sapiens AI, a Singapore-based startup building Agnes, a contextual AI workspace for Southeast Asia. He is a PhD candidate at the National University of Singapore and previously held product leadership roles at Microsoft and LinkedIn. Bruce also founded a consumer tech company in SV and a enterprise tech company in China that reached over one million users and $10M in annual revenue. His work bridges cutting-edge AI research with real-world product execution, focusing on building human-centric, locally adapted AI systems. Bruce is passionate about empowering Southeast Asia through homegrown innovation, digital infrastructure, and applied AI. |
| 12:30 – 1:30 pm | Lunch Break | ||||
| 1:00 – 1:10 pm | 10 mins | Adrian Cole | Principal Software Engineer, Tetrate | Lunch lightning talk: LF AI BeeAI, testing GenAI applications | Adrian is a software engineer working at Tetrate. He’s been a routine contributor to open source for over ten years. Lately, he spends most of his time on Envoy AI Gateway. His past notable project work includes OpenTelemetry, wazero, Zipkin, OpenFeign, and Apache jclouds. |
| #8
1:30 – 1:55 pm |
25 mins | Sureshkumar Vivek Kalyan | Founder, Cartograph | RAG, Agents, RL | Vivek designs, builds and evaluates machine learning products that help people make sense of data. He is passionate about bridging the gap between cutting-edge ML research and real-world applications that people actually use. |
| #9 (remote)
1:55 – 2:20 pm |
25 mins | Florian Zhidong Fan | Ant Group TuGraph Open Source Lead & Evangelist, and maintainer of TuGraph/GeaFlow/Chat2Graph/DB-GPT/OSGraph | Chat2Graph: Symbolism Enhanced Graph Agent System Architecture | Florian Zhidong Fan, Ant Group TuGraph Open Source Lead & Evangelist, and maintainer of TuGraph/GeaFlow/Chat2Graph/DB-GPT/OSGraph. He has worked for Tencent, Alibaba Cloud, and Ant Group, focusing on “Graph+AI” technology including Big Data, Databases, Graph Computing, Knowledge Graph, and AI Agents. |
| Yaya Xia | Ant Group Open Source Program Manager | Yaya is an active open source contributor, during her PhD program, her research focus was around open source community health analytics and ecosystem sustainability. | |||
| #10
2:20 – 2:40 pm |
20 mins | Vivian Hu | Product Manager, Second State | RustCoder: Let Your LLM Code Rust Like a Pro | Vivian is a Product Manager at Second State and a founding member of WasmEdge. As a CNCF Ambassador and co-organizer of RustChinaConf, she is deeply involved in the cloud native and WebAssembly communities, driving innovation and developer engagement. |
| #11
2:40 – 3:00 pm |
20 mins | Lang Feng | First-year PhD student, College of Computing and Data Science at Nanyang Technological University | Toward Long-Horizon LLM Agent Training: From Structured Credit Assignment to Scalable RL Framework | Lang Feng is a first-year PhD student in the College of Computing and Data Science at Nanyang Technological University, working with Prof. Bo An. His research focuses on reinforcement learning (RL), large language models (LLMs), LLM post-training, and LLM-based agents. He is the first author of the GiGPO algorithm and the verl-agent framework, and is currently exploring how RL can be effectively applied to train AI agents in more complex, multi-turn environments. Beyond foundational research, he is also exploring the real-world applications of LLMs, including their deployment for Android control tasks. |
| 3:00 – 3:15 pm | Coffee break | ||||
| #12
3:15 – 3:40 pm |
25 mins | David Liu | Founder, Notellect | Data Agent in the Era of the Super Individual | David Liu is the founder of Notellect, an AI-powered data analysis platform designed to give professionals a personal data brain. With over a decade of experience in technology and entrepreneurship, David previously served as CTO of Metabytes and held engineering leadership roles at Gojek and Garena. He specializes in building tools that bridge the gap between complex data systems and everyday users, empowering individuals to work smarter with data. |
| #13
3:40 – 4:10 pm |
30 mins | Dr. Leo Li | AI Infra Architect, Oracle | High-performance AI infra for AI and More | Dr. Leo Li
AI Infra Architect Full stack experience in AI infrastrucute networking from chip desgin to AI native solutions. |
| #14
4:10 – 4:40 pm |
30 mins | Haichen Zhang | AI Product Architect, AMD | Scalable AI Agent Deployment with MCPs on AMD GPU | Haichen is the Senior Product Manager for AMD’s AI Product Marketing team, where he leads initiatives to accelerate training and inference for large language models, recommender systems, and natural language processing (NLP) workloads tailored to internet-scale applications. Prior to AMD, he served as a Machine Learning Architect at NVIDIA, bringing years of deep technical expertise to the forefront of AI innovation. |
| #15
4:40 – 5:10 pm |
30 mins | Henry Wang | Singapore Internet Governance Forum and AI Data governance | Discussion about AI & Data governance | Cofounder, Singapore Internet Governance |
| Una Wang | Founder and CEO of LingoAI,
Founding Member of Singapore Internet Governance Forum |
She holds a Data Privacy and Technology certification from Harvard University and has extensive experience in smart product design and virtual reality technology development. She is especially passionate about inclusive AI and championing AI for the Global Majority, ensuring that underrepresented communities have both voice and value in the future of intelligent systems. | |||
| #100
5:10 – 5:15 pm |
5 mins | @Wu Jianbo | Engineering Manager, TikTok | Achkowledgement and wrap up | Jianbo is currently working on multiple AI projects facing internal developers, including: using AI to test TikTok Application, build AI Code Agents to push for migrations in a large-scale codebase, and much more. |
| 5:15 – 5:30 pm | Departure | ||||
LF AI & Data Day Singapore is a community-driven, inclusive gathering. We strongly encourage people of all backgrounds and experience levels to submit proposals – whether you’re a seasoned open source maintainer or a first-time speaker, your perspective is valuable. Our goal is to foster a welcoming atmosphere where everyone feels comfortable sharing and learning.
By participating in LF AI & Data Day Singapore, you’ll be contributing to the growth of the global open source AI community. It’s a great opportunity to showcase your work, meet like-minded professionals, and inspire others. Let’s come together to advance the state of AI agents in software engineering!
We look forward to receiving your exciting proposals. Together, let’s make LF AI & Data’s Meet-Up Day in Singapore 2025 a memorable day of AI innovation, community bonding, and shared learning. Mark your calendars for July 11, and help us shape an agenda that drives the conversation forward in “Agent for SWE (Software Engineering)”.
Stay tuned for updates on the event venue, agenda, and the CFP submission link on the official LF AI & Data website. If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact the organizers at tina.tsou@tiktok.com Tina Tsou.
Let’s build the future of AI agents in software engineering – submit your proposal today and see you in Singapore!
