UTHF 2026: From Silicon to Sovereignty · AI Agents, Robotics & Sovereign AI

Sat, Nov 14, 2026 · 12:30–6:00 PM · Computer History Museum, Mountain View

AI agents are starting to write code, make decisions, and act in the physical world. Who builds the chips, models, and robots behind them, and who controls them?

The 2026 U.S. Taiwan High-Tech Forum brings together engineers, researchers, founders, and investors from Taiwan and Silicon Valley for one afternoon on robotics, agentic AI, and sovereign AI.

Highlights

Keynote: Deepu Talla, VP of Robotics & Edge AI at NVIDIA, on The Big Bang of Robotics: Physical AI Meets the Agentic Era

Panel: Who Holds the Keys? Practical Moves in the Age of Agentic and Sovereign AI, with speakers from APMIC, Playground Global, and OpenAI, moderated by Berkeley SkyDeck

Fireside chat: Taiwan’s Deputy Minister of Digital Affairs and Stanford’s Florence G’sell on how democratic partners can build sovereign AI together

Networking with food provided, plus a raffle with a round-trip flight ticket among the prizes

Agenda (tentative)

12:30 PM: Check-in

1:00 PM: Opening remarks, Jenny Lin (NATEA Silicon Valley) and Andrea Hsu (National Science and Technology Council)

Keynote, Deepu Talla (NVIDIA)

Panel, Who Holds the Keys?

Fireside chat

4:25 PM: Networking + raffle

6:00 PM: End

Speakers

Deepu Talla, VP of Robotics & Edge AI, NVIDIA. Leads NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, including Isaac, Metropolis, and Jetson.

Isabel Hou 侯宜秀, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Digital Affairs, Taiwan.

Florence G’sell, Visiting Researcher, Stanford Program on Geopolitics, Technology and Governance. Researches the governance of emerging technologies and AI.

Wesley Chu 朱宸佐, Executive Director, Stanford Taiwan Center for Science, Technology and Innovation. Fireside moderator.

Ian Chen, US General Manager, APMIC. APMIC built Taiwan’s first sovereign AI model and is NVIDIA’s designated generative AI ISV partner in Taiwan.

Austin Yu, Playground Global. Invests in next-generation compute and semiconductors.

Yung-Sung Chuang, Research Scientist, OpenAI.

Sibyl Chen, General Manager, Berkeley SkyDeck. Panel moderator.

Tickets

General: $40

Students: $25 with a school email. [code: STUDENT]

Getting there

Hahn Auditorium, Computer History Museum, 1401 N Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View, CA 94043.

Presented by NATEA Silicon Valley, co-hosted by Taiwan’s National Science and Technology Council. UTHF has connected Taiwan’s hardware strengths with Silicon Valley’s innovation community for 28 years.