Yu-Ting Kuo is a Microsoft Corporate Vice President focused on agentic AI development. He previously spent 25 years at Microsoft, where his work included pioneering Azure AI services, building consumer AI applications, and establishing Microsoft AI R&D centers in Belgrade, Cambridge, Taipei, and Zürich. He also bridges industry and academia as a faculty member at MIT and National Tsing Hua University, teaching entrepreneurship, innovation, machine learning, and AI ethics, and serves on the MIT Sloan Executive Board. His background includes studies at National Tsing Hua University, MIT, Harvard Business School, and the Wharton School.

In this Leadership Fireside Chat, Luyuan Fang, Founder and CEO of Curative AI, shared insights from her experience building and monetizing transformative AI and LLM solutions across three industries. She emphasized that successful AI products require far more than advanced models—they depend on scalable data platforms, strong governance, end-to-end MLOps, and disciplined execution to deliver reliable business value with speed and precision.

In this Leadership Fireside Chat, Microsoft Corporate Vice President Qi Ke shared her inspiring journey from Software Development Engineer to senior executive, including her experience at Google Cloud. Her story shows how technical excellence, courage, continuous growth, and expanding influence can help professionals break barriers and redefine what is possible for Chinese women in the global technology industry.

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👨‍💼 John Lee was a Senior Vice President at Morgan Stanley and UBS Bank. He successfully sold a company for $103 million.

👨‍💻 Peter Kao is a serial entrepreneur and CEO, as well as an AI expert. He was a Director at AT&T, where he led the development of a successful product within three years, and he is currently an executive at a major tech company in the Bay Area.

As President of Microsoft’s Developer Division, Julia leads the technical and business strategy, product development and engineering teams for Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, all Microsoft programming languages and runtime, Azure DevOps, Azure SDKs, and Azure Application Development PaaS and Serverless offerings. She also manages GitHub as an independent operating entity.

Big Data, AI, Asian American Candidates and fundraising for 2024 and beyond.

Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga is a working mom, former small business owner, and breast cancer survivor. Margaret was born at Stanford Hospital and raised on the Peninsula by immigrant parents from Japan. She and her husband Yotto saved to purchase their home in Mountain View, where they raised two daughters who attended public schools and cared for Margaret’s aging parents.

A graduate of Harvard University, Margaret is passionate about equity, community service, and quality schools, She got her start in public service as a Congressional Aide to U.S. Representative Anna Eshoo and also served as Assembly Evan Low’s District Director. Her first elected public office was the Santa Clara County Board of Education. Since 2007 Margaret has served on the Mountain View City Council, where she was the first Asian Pacific Islander American woman to serve as Vice Mayor and Mayor in the City’s history.

As the Corporate Vice President of the Microsoft Teams Calling, Meeting and Devices group, I lead a team of program managers and engineers who are obsessed with making workplace communication simpler and more inclusive. I joined Microsoft out of college and worked on a wide range of consumer and enterprise products including Windows Media, Digital Rights Management, Zune, Windows Phone, mobile gaming, Skype, Lync and incubation projects. In recent years, I led the convergence and transformation of the Microsoft's Unified Communication strategy from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams.

Donna Liu is a Corporate Vice President in the Artificial Intelligence and Research Group at Microsoft. She is responsible for the strategic planning, technical innovation, and execution of a global team of data analysts, engineers and scientists to deliver on business and organizational objectives for Cortana and Bing Maps. Under her leadership, the team provides state-of-the-art natural language understanding for a broad range of products and services across Microsoft and delivers key productivity skills for Cortana customers. Additionally, she has guided Bing Maps to mature into a viable global mapping and geospatial competitor, and her team has spearheaded various initiatives into OpenStreetMap collaboration, image recognition, and fleet management services for logistics customers.

Prior to her current role, Donna led many major search domains in Bing Search, including Local, Travel, Image, Video, Entertainment, and Shopping. Notably, she led engineers across 4 continents to deliver Bing Local Search matching the US leader in quality and in many global markets. She also built Bing Multimedia (Image and Video) Search capabilities to be best-in-class and grew Bing Multimedia query share in the US to outpace that of core web search, average Bing search and the competition.

Yuan Lin, a member of the 22nd class of Wharton's EMBA program, currently serves as the VP of Engineering at Newfront Insurance. She is responsible for overseeing the entire R&D team, including Product Development, Infrastructure, and Data. Yuan Lin graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2011 and joined Facebook prior to its IPO. Two years later, she became the Tech Lead for Facebook's Graph Search team. In 2014, she joined Coursera as a Tech Lead and transitioned to an Engineering Manager a few months later. In 2018, she joined Lyft and built the Insurance Tech team from scratch, focusing on optimizing the company's most significant operational cost—Insurance Cost—and helping Lyft become profitable. All the companies she has worked for have successfully gone public. Currently, she is committed to exploring the digital transformation in the commercial insurance sector, the application of artificial intelligence in business risk management, business decision-making, and corporate development, as well as establishing behavioral guidelines that enterprises need to follow in the development of artificial intelligence and other technologies. As a career woman who has grown step-by-step from an Engineer to an Executive in successful unicorn companies, she is also happy to share her various experiences and insights gained during her development in the tech field.

Dr. Sue Xu is a Managing Partner at Amino Capital, with investment theme of data moat, network effect and domain agnostic. She has successful investments from inception to unicorn in Generative AI, Consumer, SaaS and Frontier tech.

She was interim CEO of CandyHouse and CyteSi. Since 2012, she has involved with more than 260 investments mostly in seed and Series A, with 17 unicorns and over 35 companies with valuation higher than $100M, including Chime, Rippling, Grail(acquired by Illumina), Webflow, Weee, DFINITY, Replit, Oasis Labs, OmiseGo, Turing, Wyze, GetAccept, Guesty, Avail MedSystems, Instawork, Wetravel, StarRocks, Karbon Card, Unbabel, and WriteSonic.

Dr. Sue Xu began her early stage entrepreneurship when she was the founding scientist of GlycoMira (also involved in undergrad and PhD laboratory spin-offs). She has three patents and over 20 journal publications, and previously was a medical school researcher at Stanford University.