WAIC Special: Blue & White Sailor Club | AI Nautical Night

AI闹·July 8, 2026·0·0

Every year, WAIC has the same problem: the daytime schedule is packed with back-to-back sessions and speeches,

WAIC Special Night.

One night only.

Every year, WAIC has the same problem: your days are packed with talks and panels,

but the real interesting people only become free once the sun goes down.

The WAIC special edition of "AI Night Hunt" —

On the evening of July 17, we're inviting the Columbuses of 21st-century global expansion to rendezvous at a secret spot on Shanghai's most beautiful plane-tree-lined street, and set sail together.

One rule for this edition:

Wear blue or white

(Every voyage needs the color of the sea)

Five hundred years ago, the Columbuses redefined the "world" with their compasses, nautical charts, and cutting-edge seafaring.

Today, it's AI founders' turn to redraw the map.

🕙 July 17 (Friday), 8:00 PM

🤵 Wear blue or white

🚢 AI Night invites founders, investors, and developers who care about going global to come aboard

Charting new routes together with WebEye and Google Cloud.

Fear no long voyage. The cloud knows no boundaries.

We're keeping our two classic roles for this edition

⚓ Creator

Eight minutes to explain where your project is sailing,

why you chose this route, and why the world might need you to get there.

Then face interrogation from every Hunter in the room.

🧘 Hunter

Same rules as always: upon boarding, you receive three golden spoons 🥄 — they're your votes.

Cast them for the route that moves you most, the wildest sailing plan, the most decisive captain, or simply the person you want to get drunk with tonight.

The night's champion is decided by spoon count.

3 Creators already locked in for the stage

3 spots remaining — apply now

🧭 Product maniac, Duolingo's biggest rival in the AI era, #1 language app on Xiaohongshu's annual list, World Cup champion in college (in the robot world)

⚓ Serial Silicon Valley founder, co-founder of a unicorn, sold his company for financial freedom, now building "the Zheng He voyages of the AI era"

🌊 Former core game developer at a major tech firm, solo traveler to 63 countries, the product prototype he's sharing was born on a ship in Antarctica (yes, there was internet)

If you're also going global, come apply with your product, route, story, and ambition