Deploy & Scale: AI Agents & the Future of Software — with Qoder, Anthropic, NEA & MAI

GTC brings together the world’s leading AI researchers, builders, and investors. But the most interesting conversations often happen after the conference — in smaller rooms with the people actually building the technology.

Deploy & Scale is a curated post-GTC gathering with leaders from NEA, Anthropic, Microsoft AI, and Qoder, bringing together founders, engineers, researchers, and investors to discuss where AI development is heading next.

Hosted by Qoder and Beta University, this event focuses on how AI agents and AI-native developer workflows are reshaping software development — from coding agents and developer tooling to the structure of next-generation AI startups.

Rather than a traditional meetup, the goal is simple:
bring together the people actively building the future of software.

We'll hear from

Eric Liang, Member of technical Staff @Anthropic working on Claude Cowork | Angel Investor
Jerry Zhou, Principal Member of Technical Staff @ Microsoft AI | Ex-NVIDIA
Thomas Joshi, Investor @NEA
Yu Hang, Product Lead @Qoder

What We’ll Discuss

The rise of AI coding agents and autonomous development workflows
How agent systems navigate large codebases and real engineering tasks
The emergence of AI-native developer stacks
What benchmarks like SWE-bench and OpenClaw reveal about agent capabilities
How AI is changing the structure of engineering teams and startups

Who You’ll Meet

A curated group of 30–50 AI builders and investors, including:

• Pre-Seed–Series A AI founders
• Engineers building AI infrastructure and devtools
• Researchers from leading AI labs
• Venture investors actively backing AI startups

Agenda 📅

2:00 – 2:30 PM | Arrival & Check-in

2:30 – 2:45 PM | Keynote: Accelerating Infrastructure Deployment by Qoder

2:45 – 3:30 PM | The Convergence Panel: AI Research, Startup Scaling & Venture Capital

3:30 – 5:00 PM | Product Demo & High-Signal Networking

This event is brought to you by

Qoder｜An Alibaba's agentic coding platform and IDE that helps developers automate complex software tasks through deep codebase understanding and autonomous agents.

Beta University｜#1 pre-accelerator in Silicon Valley, helping early-stage founders build VC-fundable startups. Ready to build with us? Apply here. You can also learn more about how to get involved—as a mentor, partner, or supporter of the next generation of startups.