Technology, Entrepreneurship, and Career Development in the Age of AI/SI

Join CAST-SD and the UCSD Chinese Engineering Association on Saturday, November 21, 2026, from 1:00 to 7:00 p.m. Pacific at the Price Center Theater, UC San Diego.

Registration · Students attend free. Non-student admission is $20 USD. Please select the ticket that applies to you.

Venue & Parking

• Venue: Price Center Theater, Price Center West, Level 1, UC San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093. Theater location
• Where to park: Use Gilman Parking Structure. Drive north on Villa La Jolla Drive through the Gilman Drive intersection to enter the garage. Park in a space marked V (visitor), then follow campus signs to Price Center West. Campus parking and directions
• Saturday parking: UC San Diego currently charges $2.25 per hour, up to $9, from 10:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Enter your license plate and pay at a garage pay station or in ParkMobile using zone 4752. Current visitor parking rates

Program Highlights

• Keynotes: Liangfang Zhang on biohybrid nanomedicine, Diego Zuluaga on open standards for the agentic web, and Pengtao Xie on automated LLM post-training.
• Career development panel: Challenges and opportunities in the age of AI/SI.
• Entrepreneurship in San Diego: Talks by Daniel Haiming Chang and Rory Moore, plus startup pitches and hackathon demos.