International Open Source Festival Singapore: NextGen AI Summit Singapore 2025

NextGen AI Summit Singapore 2025 targets the inflection from breakthroughs to scaled adoption in generative AI.
The summit stays tightly aligned with the page-listed tracks: multimodal & video generation, agent workflows, enterprise-grade RAG engineering, safety/compliance governance, and efficient inference/compute optimization—all anchored by hands-on cases such as RAG × KAG platforms for intelligent research, governing egress APIs and agentifying services, AI applications in Web3, enterprise RAG/agent productization, and the translational journey from research to clinically validated medical devices in medical imaging.
The aim is to share reusable engineering methods and verifiable practices that help teams leap from PoC to large-scale deployment.

# 1. Event Information

Date: September 28, 2025, 1:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Venue: Connexion 2 & Connexion 1, Level 3, Block W1, Singapore Institute of Technology, 11 Punggol Coast Road, Singapore 829979

# 2. Agenda

• 13:00 – 13:30 | Registration & Networking
• 13:30 – 13:45 | Opening Remarks (15’)
  Prof. Perry Shum (Chair Professor, SUSTech; President, IEEE Photonics Society; IEEE/SPIE Fellow; OPTICA Fellow)
• 13:45 – 14:15 | Talk 1 (30’)
  Kevin Wang (MSc in Business Analytics, HKUST)
  Fusion of RAG and KAG: Building the Next-Generation AI Platform for Intelligent Research
• 14:15 – 14:45 | Talk 2 (30’)
  Lasantha Samarakoon (Technical Lead @ WSO2; Team Lead @ Bijira)
  From Gateways to Agents: Governing Egress APIs and Agentifying Services (or updated solo title)
• 14:45 – 15:15 | Talk 3 (30’)
  Devon Sun (Founder & CEO, AI Builders)
  Applications of AI in Web3
• 15:15 – 15:35 | Tea Break (20’)
• 15:35 – 16:05 | Talk 4 (30’)
  Jack Yu (Solution Architect, TiDB)
  TiDB: Scale With on Limits — Powering the Future of AI and Web3
• 16:05 – 16:35 | Talk 5 (30’)
  Hongbo Huang (Founder & CEO, Ipeaking Technology; Google AI Developer Expert; Author of Advanced Guide to TensorFlow)
  How to Make Your Enterprise-Grade RAG or Agent Product More Impressive
• 16:35 – 17:05 | Talk 6 (30’)
  Dr. Du Hao(Co-founder & CTO, FathomX Ph.D., Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, NUS)
  From Research to Clinically Validated Medical Device: The Translational Journey of AI for Breast Cancer Detection
• 17:05 – 17:30 | Group Photo & Networking

# 3. Organizing Committees

▶ Conference Chairs
Prof. Perry Shum | Chair Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology; President of IEEE Photonics Society; IEEE/SPIE Fellow; OPTICA (formerly OSA) Fellow; Initiator of Open Source University Alliance
Prof. Yuan | Vice Dean of Engineering, National University of Singapore; Fellow of the Academy of Engineering Singapore
Prof. Ian McLoughlin | SIT × NVIDIA AI Center, Singapore Institute of Technology

▶ Academic Committee Representatives
Prof. Bo Du | Dean, School of Computer Science, Wuhan University; Director of the National Multimedia Software Engineering Technology Research Center, China
Prof. Qizhen Sun | Professor, School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; National Distinguished Young Scholar
Assoc. Prof. Yiyang Pei | Singapore Institute of Technology
Assoc. Prof. Yu Han | Nanyang Technological University
Prof. Huaqun Guo | SIT × NVIDIA AI Center, Singapore Institute of Technology

▶ Technical Committees
AI Technical Committee: Wei Meng (Chairman, LF AI & Data Board), Junping Du (Founder, Datastrato), Hin Yang (Vice President, Linux Foundation APAC)
Web3 Technical Committee: Keith Chan (CNCF Greater China Director), Jianing Yu (Founder of UWEB, Honorary Chairman of Hong Kong Blockchain Association), Prof. James Lei (Secretary General, Hong Kong Web3.0 Association), Shawn Chang (Co-founder, Web3 Infra Foundation)

▶ Organizing Committee
Tony Tang | Founder of OSTech, Co-initiator of the Open Source University Alliance
Bing Xue | Partner at Feiyu Technology, Committee Member of Open Source University Alliance

# 4. Participation

Registration:
Official Website: https://iosfestival.com

Sponsorship & Partnerships:
Available tiers include Title, Platinum, Gold, and Individual Sponsorships, covering keynote/panel slots, standard booths, exposure in program book and website, VIP passes, and closed-door matchmaking sessions. Limited availability, first come, first served.
Contact: tony@ostechhome.com

# 5. Organizers

Host: OSTech
Gold Sponsors: ROKID, PaperKG, WSO2, AI Builders
Supporting Organizations (partial): SIT × NVIDIA AI Center, Linux Foundation APAC, Open Intelligent Computing Industry Alliance (COIA), Beijing Academy of Frontier Artificial Intelligence, LF AI & Data, CNCF, IEEE SOLI, NUS, NTU, SIT, Hong Kong Web3.0 Association, Web3 Infra Foundation, KSUG.AI