Industry Program
Industry Program
Industry Day @ MMAsia 2025
Theme: Industrial x-Models: Foundations Meet Applications
Date & Time: 10:00 – 18:30, December 10 (Wednesday), 2025
Room: Ballroom
“x-Models” stands for the foundation models including Large Language Model (LLM), Vision Language Model (VLM), Large Multimodal Model (LMM), Small Language Model (SLM), Large Action Model (LAM), etc.
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| 8.30 – 9:00 | Opening Ceremony |
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| 9.00 – 10:00 | Keynote 1: Towards Artificial General Intelligence: Key Challenges and Trends Speaker: Prof. Zhiyuan Liu (Tsinghua University, China) |
| 10:00 – 12:30 | Industry Session 1: Foundations of Industrial x-Models Room: Ballroom Session Chair: Dr. Ma Yunshan In this session, invite 4 speakers from those industry companies in APAC countries, which developed their own x-Models, to introduce their foundation models. |
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| 10:00 – 10:30 | Talk 1: MCP-Universe: Connecting Large Language Models to the Real World with Model Context Protocol Servers Speaker: Dr. Ziyang Luo (Research Scientist, Salesforce AI Research, Singapore) |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Talk 2: Language, Speech, and Beyond: The Marco Models for Multilingual Language and Audio Intelligence Speaker: Dr. Chenyang Lyu (Staff Researcher, AI Business Group of Alibaba, China) |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 – 12.00 | Talk 3: cotomi Act: Building Web Agents that Outperform Humans Speaker: Dr. Masafumi Oyamada (Chief Scientist, NEC Corporation, Japan) |
| 12.00 – 12:30 | Talk 4: The ILMU Journey: Malaysia’s First Multimodal LLM Speaker: Mr. Chee Mun Foong (CEO of YTL AI Labs, Malaysia) |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 17:30 | Industry Session 2: Applications of Industrial x-Models Room: Ballroom Session Chair: Prof. Chan Chee Seng In this session, invite 6 speakers from those industry companies in APAC countries, which applied x-Models for different business domains, to introduce their applications. |
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| 14:30 – 15:00 | Talk 1: Sarashina: Building Japanese-Native LLMs from Scratch Speaker: Dr. Yuyang Dong (Chief Research Scientist, SB Intuitions Corp., Japan) |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Talk 2: Spark LLM and Its Application: from Multilingual Intelligent Speech to AI4S Speaker: Dr. Xin Li (VP of AI Research Institute, iFLYTEK, China) |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Talk 3: From Hype to Hospitals: Real-World Lessons on Deploying AI Medical Scribes in Thailand’s Public Healthcare Speaker: Dr. Chiraphat Boonnag (Lead AI Healthcare Specialist, Looloo Health, Thailand) |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Talk 4: x-Models in Manufacturing: Impressive, But Are They Ready? Speaker: Dr. Chih-Fan Hsu (Senior Data Scientist, Inventec Corporation, Taiwan) |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Talk 5: Sovereign & Shared: Frugally Scalable Multilingual–Multimodal AI for Bharat Speaker: Dr. Ganesh Ramakrishnan (Principal Investigator, BharatGen, India) |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Talk 6: Building the Last Line of Defense: AI-Powered Content Moderation in the AI Era Speaker: Ms. Qian Wu (Senior AI Scientist, YiDun AI Lab of NetEase, China) |
| 17:30 – 18:30 | Industry Session 3 (Panel Discussion): Industrial x-Models: Foundations Meet Applications – Opportunities & Challenges Room: Ballroom In this panel, the moderator and panelists will discuss the opportunities and challenges with audiences from different perspectives of industrial x-Models in terms of their foundations and applications. |
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| 17:30 – 18:30 | Moderator: Dr. Jianquan Liu (Director, NEC Corporation, Japan) Panelists: (1) Dr. Masafumi Oyamada (Chief Scientist, NEC Corporation, Japan) (2) Dr. Xin Li (VP of AI Research Institute, iFLYTEK, China) (3) Mr. Chee Mun Foong (CEO of YTL AI Labs, Malaysia) (4) Dr. Ganesh Ramakrishnan (Principal Investigator, BharatGen, India) (5) Dr. Chiraphat Boonnag (Lead AI Healthcare Specialist, Looloo Health, Thailand) |
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