Hi All. Does anyone know is the GenAI summit mostly a Chinese event? I noticed that many of the participants were Chinese and that many of the booths were from Chinese companies. I'm just curious about it. Thanks!

https://x.com/gptdaoglobal?lang=en https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanxing/ Much respect for Shanghai Jiaotong University as a whole, but GenAI Summit itself was a pretty messy logistical disaster: • #aiareall as a hashtag makes sense in Mandarin (人工智能就是一切/Réngōng zhìnéng jiùshì yīqiè) but not in English • Lots of booths from seemingly "fake" companies that probably won't be around next year (please, prove me wrong) • Expensive VIP tickets required for one of the tracks (except when security disappeared at an arbitrary point) • Crazy lines and badges weren't printed or sorted before the event • Hosts asked strange questions to kill time: "how much power will be required at the edge to reproduce a small animal brain?" MCs were not subject matter experts and were dressed in opera gowns (Why? Academics never do this at academic conferences...ditto for corporate tech conferences.) I'm trying to be objective about what was impractical and frustrating, rather than simply making subjective generalizations. This prior event in the South Bay was also a mess, per reports: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/generative-ai-summit-silicon-valley-2023-tickets-644622642677

Was like 95% Chinese last year when I had a booth there. Was pretty busy regardless even though I can’t really speak Mandarin.

Thanks guys. I perfectly agree that. I hope it will be better next year.

Someone linked the 2023 event. This year it was at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco: https://genaisummit.ai/ Although that byline is wrong. The Palace of Fine Arts is not in the “heart of San Francisco.” It’s lovely there, but it’s definitely near a section of the city’s famous coastline. I’m talking to a company now for a field marketing/events role that I know went. One of their co-founders spoke and the event, and I just checked the site. They had a booth. This is good to know. Hopefully, I’ll move forward and can ask them how they’re currently measuring ROI on events and if they think this one was a success. It sounds like based on the comments in this thread, it might not have been. Interesting to see what they’ll share.

it was a complete shit show this year as well. Some good speakers in the lineup but very less to takeaway

At least one speaker is a friend. Another, as I mentioned, might be a colleague. FWIW, I hope their talks were good. The Palace of Fine Arts is a decent spot if the event is decent. I went to GitHub’s Universe there one year, and it was okay. Parking wasn’t great, but I managed. It looks like they’re having Universe at Fort Mason this year though.