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‼️HAPPENING TMR‼️ Five frontier themes in AI. Two days at NUS. 🧠 AI in Training ☁️ AI in Infrastructure & Deployment 🤖 Embodied AI 🛡 Social Intelligence & Human Values 💻 AI in Product Whether you’re building, already working in the space, looking for a way in, or simply curious, the room is for you. You don’t need to be a CS major. Expect talks and panels from people doing this work every day, including the lessons from production that often take much longer to make it into papers, courses or playbooks. Come for the theme you know. Stay for the ones you didn’t expect. 📅 17–18 August 2026 📍 Acacia College, National University of Singapore 🎟 Sign up here

Five people who build AI for a living, answering the questions the demos skip. Alex Ang and Aiden Ma: Agnes AI 🧠 What it actually took to build and grow Agnes. The calls they made, the ones they would remake, and where it goes next. Guan-ru Huang: Nebius ☁️ Your local AI deployment works. Now serve it to a million people without it falling over. Jakub Tomasek: Kabam Robotics 🤖 Jakub explores the Physical APIs, networking, and trust needed to make intelligent machines work with each other and the real world. Clement Neo: Neo Research 🛡️ How do you catch a frontier model manipulating you before it ships? Currently, nobody fully knows. Clement works on it anyway. Isaac Timothy Tay: ShopBack 💻 Here is how AI changed the way it gets built, and where human judgement still wins in the product lifecycle. Two days. 15+ speakers, mentors and builders in between. Come with questions, they stay to answer them. 📅 17 to 18 August 2026 📍 Acacia College, NUS 🎟️ Register here

Anyone can demo AI. Almost nobody can ship it. This 17-18 August, five people who actually did it are on stage at NUS. OpenAI. Cloudflare. IMDA. Griffin Labs. Adaption. • 🧠 Darius Liu from Adaption on adaptive AI systems and why enterprises will need to own and control their intelligence. • ☁️ Jaryl Chng from Cloudflare on using AI to keep the infrastructure behind "serverless" services reliable. • 🤖 Raphael Yee from Griffin Labs on why the future of robotics may not be one general-purpose robot, but specialist hardware and models built to solve real commercial problems. • 🛡️ Huanyue Liao from IMDA BizTech Group on AI safety and how chatbots should respond when the stakes are real. • 💻 Gabriel Chua from OpenAI on practical ways to learn, build, and execute with Codex. If you are a student trying to work out where you fit into AI, come hear from the researchers, builders, and operators doing the real work. 📅 17 to 18 August 2026 📍 Acacia College, National University of Singapore 🎟️ Sign up: Here

station is coming. 🪐 we're creating physical spaces in RC4 and Acacia for you to build with the right people. we realised, more than who you know, it's who you surround yourself that matters. station is looking for builders who have started working on their idea. software or hardware. one cohort per sem, 12–20 spots. applications for cohort ST1 are open. apply through this link today! open to all nus students. 🏖

Thinking about NOC or curious what the experience is really like? 👀 Join us for NOC Sharing! Hear from NOC alumni about their overseas experiences, startup exposure, lessons learnt, and what they took away from the programme 🌍 🎤 Meet our alumni Eugene Chia - NOC Paris, Co-Founder of Ecovolt Guhanavel Kumar - NOC Munich, Ex Co-Founder of EasyConvo Rajvrat Thapliyal - NOC Silicon Valley & Vietnam, Co-Founder of Shipy Elijah Chia - NOC Vietnam Hear it directly from those who have been through it 🙌 📅 2 Sep, 4–6 PM 📍 NUS Enterprise I3 MPH @ Level 2 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613 ⚡Spots are limited. Sign up here! 🔗 Follow our socials to stay updated.

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[In support of AI Symposium] AI does not stop at the model. It has to be trained, deployed, embodied, trusted, and made useful in the world. Meet the researchers, builders, and operators doing that work now. The LaunchPad AI Symposium puts you in the room with the people shaping what AI becomes next. Expect technical talks, live demonstrations, candid conversations, and a room full of people building what comes next. 🎓 Open invite to all university students 📍 Acacia College, National University of Singapore 📅 17 to 18 August 2026 If you want to be in the room where AI’s next chapter is being argued, built, and tested, join us. Sponsored by: Jane Street, GriffinLabs, SemiAnalysis, and Zo Computer Supported by: OpenAI, Acacia College, and IMDA Partnering with: Agnes AI, AI Singapore, Cloudflare, GMI, Hacktron AI, Kabam Robotics, Neo Research, NUS Computing, Reactor School, ShopBack, The Collective, and The Robot Company Register: Here More details: Here

[In support of Xathon 2026] Join Xathon 2026, an AI innovation challenge by BeyondX Lab where you'll work in teams to build AI-powered solutions that solve real-world challenges in Smart Cities, Mobility, Creator Economy and Health.   📅 Start with our FREE Build & Validate Workshop 19 August 2026 (Wed) – Learn design thinking, rapid AI prototyping, discover AWS Kiro and BuilderLab, and get ready for the Hack Days.   💡 Hack Days: 26–27 September 2026 🏆 Top 3 teams will showcase at BeyondXpo on 12 October 2026.   👥 Teams of 3–4 • AI-assisted prototypes • Mentorship • Incubation opportunities   Learn more and register at: https://xathon.beyondx.co/

🚀 StartIT Recruitment AY26/27 Semester 1 is now open! Interested in technopreneurship, startups, and building meaningful connections? Join StartIT’s close-knit community of aspiring founders and motivated builders, where you’ll organise exciting events, meet startup founders, gain practical skills, and explore your own ideas. Open Roles ⚙️ Operations Executive 🎨 Marketing Executive 🤝 External Relations • Deputy Director • Partnerships Executive • Startup Analyst Full role descriptions and responsibilities are available in the application form. No prior experience is required. We’re looking for curious, proactive, and responsible team players with an interest in tech and entrepreneurship. 🎤 Interviews: Rolling basis 🔗 Apply here! (or scan the qr code) Spots are limited, so apply early! 🔗 Follow our socials as well to stay updated!

[In support of CFG] Dear Students, This is a reminder that the NUSS-NUS Mentorship Programme is now 🤩 open for applications 🤩! Don't miss your chance to be 💡matched 💡with 100+ seasoned professionals from banking, ICT, FMCG and more—most with 10+ years of experience and eager to mentor! Application Closing: 19 August 2026 (Wednesday) at 23:59 Application Link: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/mzEchuG3Gi (Limited slots available; Only successful applicants will be notified by 22 August 2026) For more information, refer to: https://nus.edu.sg/cfg/students/career-ready/mentorships/nuss-nus-mentorship-programme

[In support of The Collective] Tencent Cloud + AI Tinkerers are running an agent-building hackathon, build an AI agent on CodeBuddy or WorkBuddy that solves a real business/life problem. Prizes: 3k/2k/1k SGD, top teams flown to Shenzhen for the global finals. Join if you're keen, you get 2,000 free credits to build with: https://luma.com/jo916m7a