GSTAR SUMMIT 2025: AI & HUMANITY | The New Turing Institute

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Meet and interact with leading experts shaping the future of AI. Our speakers include industry titans, academic luminaries, and research trailblazers.

About The Event

GStar Summit 2025 is a premier AI leadership forum uniting global visionaries, researchers, and innovators across the world to the APAC region.

Taking place on November 22, 2025 in Hanoi, Vietnam - one of the region’s emerging innovation hubs - the Summit explores how human-centered AI can drive sustainable growth, social progress, and shared prosperity across borders.

GStar Summit brings together global leading pioneers from technology, business, policy, and academia to discuss how AI is transforming industries - and what it means for humanity.

Through keynotes, panels, and cross-border collaborations, GStar Summit serves as a platform for Asia-Pacific voices to shape a future where AI is inclusive, ethical, and empowering.

          
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Agenda - GSTAR Summit 2025

Saturday, 22 November 2025, 08:00–18:00 (TBD)

MORNING - AI

Check in

07:30 - 08:30

Welcome ReceptionDr. Thang Luong (NTI) & Ms. Wendy Nguyen (Stanford ViRx)

08:45 - 09:00

Opening RemarksSpecial Guest

09:00 - 09:20

KeynoteDr. Ed Chi - Vice President of Research, Google DeepMind

09:20 - 09:50

Invited talkDr. Preslav Nakov - Department Chair and Professor of Natural Language Processing, MBZUAI

09:50 - 10:20

Tea Break

10:20 - 10:35

Invited talkDr. Thang Luong - Director of Research, Google DeepMind & NTI co-founder

10:35 - 11:00

Panel discussionPanelists: Ed Chi, Thang Luong, Preslav Nakov, Marc Woo, Hung Bui

11:00 - 11:45

LUNCH

Lunch Break

11:145 - 13:30

AFTERNOON - AI & Humanity / Opportunities - Applications - Policy

Opening TalkDr. Thang Luong - Director of Research, Google DeepMind, NTI co-founder

13:30 - 13:45

GStar lightning talks

13:45 – 14:00

GStar short-talkLong Phan - Research Engineer, Center for AI Safety & GStar Lecturer

14:00 - 14:15

GStar short-talkSang Truong - Researcher, Stanford AI Lab & GStar Lecturer

14:15 - 14:45

Invited TalkDr. Choi Myungsub - Head of Research, Tynapse

14:45 – 15:00

Tea Break

15:00 – 15:15

Opening TalkJeffrey Glenn MD/PhD - Joseph D. Grant Professor and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University

15:15 – 15:45

Invited TalkJean Desombre, JD/MBA - Founder, Venture Capital Investor and Global Healthcare Executive Paragon Global

15:45 – 16:05

Invited TalkNDA Speaker

16:05 – 16:25

Panel DiscussionPanelists: Ed Pham, Allison Huynh, Jean Desombre, Brian Liechty Moderator: Wendy Nguyen

16:30 – 7:30

Closing RemarksOrganizers

17:30 – 17:40

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About the Organizers

New Turing Institute or NTI (formerly VietAI - a large community for AI enthusiasts in Vietnam since 2018) is a social enterprise dedicated to shaping the future cadre of global AI talent. Leveraging Silicon Valley expertise and a network of world‑class professionals, NTI is building a vibrant deep‑tech ecosystem across education, entrepreneurship, and research.

Stanford ViRx belongs to Stanford Medicine - an integrated academic health system comprising the Stanford School of Medicine and adult and pediatric health care delivery systems. Stanford ViRx is an antiviral drug-discovery hub, with the role to develop drugs to fight viral pathogens with high pandemic potential, including the one that causes COVID-19.