Personal AI skills workspace released publicly
Published the working skill system used to coordinate AI agents, review outputs and turn repeatable workflows into reusable infrastructure.
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Rebuilding the company around AI agents
A five-minute talk and expert roundtable at BEYOND Expo on OpenClaw, Hermes and the shift toward organizations where people direct coordinated AI teams.
Event recap and photographsHow an AI-native company actually works
An official 54-minute session on agents handling customer support, operations, issues and pull requests inside a working company.
Full talk · Speaker profile · Event page · Short clip 1 · Short clip 2AI founders and infrastructure roundtable
A closed-door exchange with AI founders and infrastructure leaders on agent systems, product execution and the emerging AI-native stack.
View original postAI product and market discussion
A founder conversation in Palo Alto about product direction, market timing and turning new AI capabilities into durable customer value.
View original postBuda launches “Agents as a Company”
Buda introduced a workspace where coordinated AI employees share context and execute persistent business workflows, with a public launch discussion on Hacker News.
LinkedIn launch · Show HN discussionMacau New Media Lecture: From conversation to execution
A keynote at Macau University of Science and Technology on practical AI agents, human-agent collaboration and how organizations change when AI takes on operational work.
Macau Daily coverage
Global Sources Summit: Digital Employees and AI Agents
A founder panel on how digital employees evolve from task automation into coordinated teams, and what remains uniquely human in an AI-native company.
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AI Agents live session
A live, no-slides demonstration of working agents and real business workflows for an audience of more than 500 people.
Original post and photographsAI Hackathon Tour university finals
Joined the national finals jury as an AI product practitioner, reviewing 57 teams selected from 410 initial projects across 11 leading universities.
InfoQ report mirrorOperating a company with AI agents
A long-form profile on deploying OpenClaw agents across company workflows, the resulting organizational changes and the skills people need when they manage AI employees.
Read the archived reportWhen 30 agents start running the company
A practical OpenClaw demonstration at a 410-person Macau builder event, with the full program livestreamed by AI Base.
Event page and programIs AI killing software?
A 70-minute roundtable on OpenClaw, the future of SaaS, agent startup opportunities and what changes when AI begins to replace software workflows.
Listen to episode 106AI Business Conference: Vertical Agents
A practical session on deploying vertical AI agents in professional workflows and moving from demos to operational value.
Event pageHong Kong Meets AI: Building an AI-native organization
A Buda founder session on agent teams, organizational design and the operating model behind an AI-native company.
Event page2025
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Attended the twentieth anniversary edition of TechCrunch Disrupt at Moscone Center, connecting with founders and the global technology community.
Photograph on LinkedIn2023
Cloud and AI for business innovation
A Business Innovation Show session at sky100 on moving from one-click tables to AI agents with AITable.
Official program · Event guide
AmCham Shanghai HR Conference: AI Future of AITable
A session for the American Chamber of Commerce community on making AI application creation accessible through familiar spreadsheet-style tools.
Photographs on LinkedIn
SaaStr Annual 2023
Joined the SaaS founder and operator community in San Francisco while building AITable for international teams.
Photograph on LinkedInEmpowering Everyone with AI
An English-language founder interview about the AITable thesis, accessible AI creation and the path from Vika to an international product.
Read the interviewAPITable recognized among the fastest-growing low-code projects
The open-source visual database continued its rapid developer adoption as the foundation for AITable's collaborative and AI application platform.
View the open-source project2022
Can product-led growth power SaaS?
A conversation on building Vika for everyday users, product-led growth and making enterprise digital capabilities broadly accessible.
Read the interviewPLG opportunities and challenges
A founder panel on product-led growth with the CEOs of JsDesign and LigaAI.
Read the summit recap2021
Three steps from Excel to enterprise digitalization
A summit keynote on building HEYTEA's digital systems from zero and the progression from moving data online to integration and connection.
Read the edited transcriptA conversation on enterprise digital transformation
A video interview with Vika founder Kelly Chan about new insights into digital transformation and the company's product thesis.
36Kr video · Full interview on DouyinVika financing and enterprise digitalization profile
Coverage of Vika's founder, platform and more than US$10 million in Pre-A and Pre-A+ financing.
HKUST profile · 36Kr JapanFrom HEYTEA CTO to SaaS founder
A founder profile covering the origin of Vika, product choices, organizational thinking and four early funding rounds.
Read the profile2020
The three failures of technology management
A leadership summit talk on technology management pain points and building a high-efficiency collaborative database around a new “Vika mindset.”
Read the talkThe digitalization playbook behind HEYTEA
An interview on enterprise software, organizational change and the product insight that led to founding Vika.
Read the interviewHow HEYTEA's mini program created data value
A closed-door accelerator session on HEYTEA GO and the three pillars of enterprise digital transformation.
Read the session recap · Tencent Cloud mirrorRemote work as the ultimate expression of digitalization
A retail digitalization livestream on building a remote-work operating platform to reduce costs and maintain execution during disruption.
Read the WeChat republication2019
China's Internet Is Flowering. And It Might Be Our Future.
A long-form report featuring HEYTEA GO, WeChat commerce and Kelly's work leading the company's digital product and technology organization.
Read the reportDigital transformation strategy for tea brands
A listed keynote on how a consumer tea brand can connect marketing, membership, operations and technology through digital transformation.
Speaker program · Summit scheduleBuilding end-to-end digitalization through mini programs
A keynote on treating data as an enterprise asset and connecting customer-facing mini programs to the full retail operating chain.
Read the conference reportHEYTEA's path to digital transformation
A conference talk on HEYTEA's transformation journey followed by an industry roundtable on the next stage of smart retail.
Official agendaThe three iron triangles of a digital enterprise
A keynote on the misconceptions that block digital transformation and the organizational, product and implementation patterns that move it into operation.
Read the edited transcript · Official programTechnology creates a tea-drink unicorn
Reporting on mobile ordering, 10 million members and the digital systems supporting HEYTEA's growth.
Read the reportTechnology and the industrial internet
A summit talk and CTO panel on how technology changes consumer companies, followed by an interview with National Business Daily.
National Business Daily · GeekPark panel recapGreater Bay Area innovation forum
Forum coverage citing Kelly on the opportunity to apply digital technology and software thinking beyond traditional technology companies.
Read the coverageIn the industrial internet era, the company is the product
A product conference keynote on organizational design, digital management, digital marketing and the data engine behind industrial transformation.
Read the full transcriptBuilding HEYTEA GO from zero
Two in-depth interviews on retail technology, product architecture, digital membership and the operating ideas behind HEYTEA GO.
GeekPark interview · iFanr interviewInfrastructure behind HEYTEA's digital stores
A third-party customer story documenting the network and operational infrastructure supporting HEYTEA's connected retail footprint.
Read the case study2018
Digital transformation for the new beverage industry
A Meituan-hosted summit session for more than 1,000 beverage operators on digital operations and HEYTEA's technology practice.
Meituan event recapThe three pillars of digitalization
The published transcript of a HEYTEA GO case-study keynote on product, organization and infrastructure.
Read the transcript · Summit dates2017
Three stages of intelligent upgrading for traditional enterprises
An early HEYTEA keynote describing a progression from data-enabled management, to internet-connected operations, to intelligent business.
Read the conference report