Curious about the evolution of AI agents—and how open-source tools can bring them into real-world workflows?
Join us on Thursday, 8 October 2026 for an evening of AI, open source, food, and community networking. This event is proudly sponsored by Huawei.
📅 Date: Thursday, 8 October 2026
🕖 Time: 19:00–21:00
📍 Venue: Le Bureau, 14/F, Universal Trade Centre, 3 Arbuthnot Road, Central, Hong Kong
⭐Programme⭐
18:45 — Check-in
19:00 — Gathering, food & beverages
19:30 — The History of Agents and the Applications of openJiuwen – Dr. Huang Yongxiang, Huawei Hong Kong Research Institute
20:15 — Hermes Agent: Use-Case Sharing After Two Months – Sammy and Calvin, Open Source Hong Kong
20:30 — Networking
21:00 — Closing
⭐Featured Session⭐
👍The History of Agents and the Applications of openJiuwen
Dr. Huang Yongxiang will explore the history and evolution of AI agents, followed by an introduction to practical applications of openJiuwen.
Dr. Huang received his PhD from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2021. He has published more than 10 papers at leading international AI conferences, including NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI, and MICCAI. He is currently part of the AI Software division at Huawei Hong Kong Research Institute, where his research focuses on multimodal generative models and efficient training and inference frameworks.
He is also a core contributor to the open-source projects VeRL-Omni and vLLM-Omni, and a technology promoter for OpenJiuWen. His previous industry experience includes work as a Senior Algorithm Engineer at Baidu on feed recommendation models, and as an AI Researcher at Tencent on AIGC content-generation algorithms.
👍Hermes Agent: Use-Case Sharing
Sammy and Calvin from Open Source Hong Kong will share their experience after two months of using Hermes Agent, including practical use cases, lessons learned, and real-world applications.
📝 Registration is required:
We look forward to seeing you in Central for an evening of practical AI-agent insights, open-source discussion, and networking.
