AI Salon KL – AI Beyond Chatbots: Practical, Embedded, Real-world AI Systems
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# AI Salon KL – AI Beyond Chatbots: Embedded, Real-world AI Systems
🚀 The AI conversation is evolving.
Beyond copilots and chat interfaces, a new wave of builders is embedding AI directly into industrial systems, healthcare workflows, hardware, edge devices, and operational infrastructure.
Join us for the next edition of AI Salon KL as we explore what happens when AI leaves the demo stage and enters the real world.
This session brings together researchers, founders, and operators building practical AI systems that interact with physical environments, legacy infrastructure, and mission-critical workflows.
Expect an evening of sharp technical conversations, founder insights, and meaningful connections with Kuala Lumpur’s growing AI ecosystem.
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## 🎤 Panel Session
We’re excited to host a panel featuring researchers and founders building AI systems beyond traditional chatbot experiences:
- Hafsa Syeda
Researcher exploring AI-driven wearable technologies and intelligent sensing systems. - Ts. David Romero Garcia
Saving the forest with technology from our Forest Intelligence Platform. - Qaiyyum Hakimi
Building ZeptoStack – enabling industrial teams to deploy reliable AI agents locally and integrate with real-world infrastructure. - Haniyan Farhan
Researching counterfactual inference and multi-agent LLM systems for emergency department triage workflows.
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## 🎤 Startup / Builder Demo & Pitch Opportunities
We’ll also be opening a limited number of slots for founders, researchers, and builders to showcase their AI projects during the event.
If you’re building something interesting — whether it’s infrastructure, agents, robotics, healthcare AI, embedded systems, developer tools, or applied AI products — let us know in the registration form.
Selected teams will get the opportunity to demo their work to the community.
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## 📅 Event Details
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Time: 6:30 PM – 10:00 PM
Location: WORQ KL Gateway
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## 🎯 Agenda
6:30 – 7:00 PM | Registration & Networking
7:00 – 7:10 PM | AI Salon KL Organizer Opening Remarks
7:10 – 7:30 PM | Partner Opening Remarks
7:30 – 8:00 PM | Community Startup / Builder Pitches
8:00 – 9:00 PM | Panel Session – AI Beyond Chatbots
9:00 – 10:00 PM | Open Networking
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## 🎯 What to Expect
✨ Panel Discussion
Hear directly from researchers and founders deploying AI into real operational environments across healthcare, industrial systems, environmental intelligence, and edge computing.
🚀 Builder Showcases
Discover startups and technical builders working on practical AI systems across Southeast Asia.
🤝 High-Quality Networking
Connect with AI founders, engineers, researchers, investors, and operators shaping the region’s AI ecosystem.
💡 Practical Conversations
Less hype, more deployment realities — from reliability and infrastructure to integration and adoption challenges.
🌐 Global Community
Be part of a worldwide network of AI builders and communities spanning Miami, Dubai, Cairo, Kuala Lumpur, and beyond.
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## 🌐 About AI Salon
AI Salon is a global community connecting AI founders, developers, researchers, and investors through city chapters around the world.
From Miami to Dubai, Cairo to Kuala Lumpur, AI Salon creates spaces for practical conversations, collaboration, and knowledge-sharing around real-world AI innovation.
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🤝 Proudly Supported By
**FPT AI Factory** – FPT AI Factory is a comprehensive AI Developer cloud platform offering an end-to-end NVIDIA-accelerated computing platform, designed to support the entire AI product lifecycle.
**Antler** - Global early-stage venture capital firm empowering exceptional founder
**WORQ** (Venue Sponsor) – Malaysia’s leading coworking and flexible workspace provider.
**Tsuin AI** (Organizer)– AI startup building AI Twins.