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Asian American Summit

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Driving change in business, culture and innovation

The fifth annual Asian American Summit in Napa Valley convened leaders from diverse industries to share insights on AI, entrepreneurship and much more. Through thought-provoking discussions and networking, the event showcased the future of innovation and how Asian Americans are driving progress and fostering community across business, culture and beyond.

163

Influential Asian American families

20

Cities

15+

Industries represented

Spotlight on the Venture Capital Community Creating Unicorns from Asian American Immigrants

Garry Tan, CEO, Y Combinator
George Hu, President, Fireworks AI
Larry Li, Managing Partner, Amino Capital

This kickoff conversation brought together three Asian American leaders who shared their immigrant origin stories and paths to leadership shaped by grit, resilience and a tenacious work ethic. Themes discussed ranged from overcoming stereotypes and invisible workplace barriers, to building teams through open-mindedness, and giving back to the community through mentorship, investing in underserved populations, and civic activism.

Creating a Level Playing Field: Leadership, Fairness and Building What’s Next

Angela Hwang, CEO, Metaphore Biotechnologies; former Chief Commercial Officer and President of Global Biopharmaceuticals, Pfizer

In a powerful fireside chat, Angela Hwang recounted how growing up Chinese in apartheid-era South Africa instilled the curiosity, hunger and sense of fairness that forged her success. The conversation explored lessons on leveling the playing field through intentional hiring, leading with bold ambition and followership, breaking the "bamboo ceiling" and using one's platform to uplift the next generation of Asian American leaders.

Astera Labs Unplugged: A Semiconductor Powerhouse

Jitendra Mohan, CEO, Astera Labs
Sanjay Gajendra, President and COO, Astera Labs
Tony Kim, Head of BlackRock Fundamental Equities Global Technology

This masterclass on partnership featured the co-founders of a semiconductor company that has rocketed from an immigrant founders’ bet in 2017 to a roughly $60 billion powerhouse. The conversation covered their serendipitous connecting, the shift from AI training to inference workloads, and an optimistic view that AI will expand rather than eliminate jobs—provided the technology is democratized through education and broader access rather than concentrated among a few companies and countries.

A Conversation with LILA: Reimagining Scientific Superintelligence

John Kim, Chairman of the Board, LILA, Scientific Superintelligence

This eye-opening dialogue examined how an AI-powered science company automates laboratories with robotics and AI, collapses month-long experiments into minutes and trains models on real-world results rather than purely in-silico guesses. The session highlighted breakthroughs already emerging—like an eco-friendly cooling liquid for Amazon's data centers discovered in a single week—plus progress on cancer treatments, clean hydrogen fuel and carbon capture, framing scientific superintelligence as the next great accelerator of human discovery.

The Next Chapter in Megacap Tech Growth

Giri Devulapally, U.S. Equity Group, J.P. Morgan

This session spotlighted a senior portfolio manager’s path from immigrant engineer with a passion for markets to leader of one of the firm's flagship strategies. The conversation framed investing as a "complex adaptive system" requiring humility and adaptability, and posited that while AI represents a second industrial revolution, the next wave of winners may shift from today's dominant picks-and-shovels builders to a broader set of companies—many not yet known—that harness AI to transform healthcare, data-rich industries and beyond.

Biopharma Breakthroughs: Healthcare, Longevity and Well-Being

June Lee, Board member, Abivax, Tenaya, Eledon
Jason Colomo, CEO, Maze Therapeutics
Nisa Leung, Managing Partner, Aulis Capital

This deep dive on biotech explained how the field has evolved from one-size-fits-all treatments to a precision medicine era powered by genomics, multimodal data and AI-driven drug discovery. The speakers highlighted emerging frontiers like brain-computer interfaces, aging and chronic inflammation therapies, and AI-enabled biology, while also emphasizing efforts being made to advance East Asian leadership in biotech and ways family offices can meaningfully participate in funding the next wave of medical innovation.

Asian American ROC (Return on Community): The Past 20 Years and the Next 20 Years

Sue Van, CEO, Wallace Coulter Foundation
Norman Chen, CEO, The Asian American Foundation

This panel brought together two philanthropic leaders who spotlighted the chronic underfunding of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, which receive just $0.34 of every $100 in U.S. philanthropic giving despite representing 7% of the population. The discussion traced how targeted "venture philanthropy" investments in census participation, nonprofit infrastructure, small-business loans, youth mentorship and local civic engagement have multiplied AAPI representation in elected offices and built lasting community power.

Unconventional Paths to the Top

Serena Göransson, Oscar-winning music composer for score
Deepika Chopra, award-winning author, "The Power of Real Optimism"
Kaori Ogasawara, Rehearsal Director, Berkeley Ballet Theater

This inspirational panel featured three Asian American women who each pivoted from the paths their families envisioned to carve out careers of their own choosing. Through stories of leaving a family ballet school, stepping away from an orchestral career and building a new field within psychology, the discussion wove together themes of curiosity, resilience and the courage to redefine success, while offering reflections on raising the next generation to trust their own voices.

Closing Keynote

Raj Subramanian, CEO, FedEx

The concluding fireside chat featured the chief executive officer of a global logistics giant, who traced his journey from a small city in southern India to leading a $90+ billion company with 500,000 employees, 700 planes and $2 trillion in annual commerce. The conversation covered how curiosity, adaptability and a culture of putting people first have driven the company's success, as well as its three-tier AI strategy to boost efficiency, differentiate customer value and unlock supply chain orchestration.

From Our Speakers: Advice & Perspectives

Descriptive audio

ANGELA HWANG: Growing up as a child of Chinese immigrants in apartheid South Africa provided me with many, many formative experiences. I would say that because of apartheid and because of the segregation between certain parts of the country, as well as others, compared to others, it really put me in a place where learning to be resourceful, learning to be determined, and not letting challenges get in my way is what helped me to advance my education, to really harness every opportunity that I had. Importantly, it instilled in me a sense of fairness, that in a world that is not fair at all, that all of us have a responsibility to uplift others.

DEEPIKA CHOPRA: I was so excited to come out for the Asian-American summit. Myself being an Asian-American first generation and me being in the field of mental health really motivated me to come still in this population and this community that I belong to. There's so much stigma. Optimism, as I was studying this for the last 15 years, has really been misunderstood and misrepresented. People think optimism is about being positive. But actually, optimism and the science behind real optimism and why I wrote the book is much more closely related to resiliency and overcoming and persevering through struggle.

NORMAN CHEN: There were thousands of incidents of attacks against our community. And after having, quote-unquote, "the American dream" in my life, I felt like now is really the time to give back to my own community. I would like my legacy to be that The Asian-American Foundation, or TAAF, will be here for the next 100-plus years. And now that we're five years in, we've really felt like we've built a very strong foundation that unifies our community, directs resources, meaningful resources to wonderful initiatives and organizations that then will then grow over time as more families engage and expand.

SUE VAN: We are totally committed to building sustainable, long-term, successful, community-based organizations in the Asian-American Pacific Islander community. What I would like to see is that all the groups that I funded and invested in, that they continue to grow, to succeed, and to excel.

JITENDRA MOHAN: The advice that I will give to the next generation of founders is very simple. You have to be persistent. You have to persevere. You have to surround yourself with advisors that can tell you when things are going well and when things are not going well and what you could do and what you should not do to trust your gut. You have to figure out what is the right thing for you, what is the right thing for your company, and what is the right thing for your customers. And it is going to be a lot of hard work, but it is also very enjoyable. So just make sure that you and your team enjoy what they are doing, because it's hard work and it's a long journey.

KAORI OGASAWARA: I would love to say to all the young artists that ballet is still art. It's not about how beautiful your body is. It is about how you dance from your heart. So as long as they have it, I think, and they believe in themselves, I think they will bring the joy to the stage. And they will be succeeded.

JOHN KIM: In many ways, I wish I was born into this generation and was able to start my career at the birthing of a whole new innovation cycle. Because there's a leveling effect that technology is going to have with education and access to information that otherwise was really bifurcated or pooled in communities and different segments of society prior to this. The democratization of knowledge and information, thanks to AI, is really exciting.

The advice is to say, now you can dream, and now you can be curious, and now you have access to the world's smartest people through AI to help you actually bring those dreams, bring those ambitions, bring those ideas into life, where one would never have been able to do that.

[AUDIO LOGO]

(SPEECH)

ANGELA HWANG:

(DESCRIPTION)

Moderator Jerry Lee and speaker Angela Hwang walk on stage in front of a screen that says, Asian American Summit. Creating a Level Playing Field: Leadership. Fairness, and Building What's Next. The slide on the screen displays their names, titles, and headshots. With both seated, Angela speaks on stage.

(SPEECH)

Growing up as a child of Chinese immigrants in apartheid South Africa provided me with many, many formative experiences.

(DESCRIPTION)

Angela stands in front of a gray background and speaks. Text: Angela Hwang, CEO OF METAPHORE BIOTECHNOLOGIES, EX CHIEF COMMERCIAL OFFICER AND PRESIDENT OF GLOBAL BIOPHARMACEUTICALS, PFIZER.

(SPEECH)

I would say that because of apartheid and because of the segregation between certain parts of the country, as well as others, compared to others, it really put me in a place where learning to be resourceful, learning to be determined, and not letting challenges get in my way is what helped me to advance my education, to really harness every opportunity that I had. Importantly, it instilled in me a sense of fairness, that in a world that is not fair at all, that all of us have a responsibility to uplift others.

(DESCRIPTION)

Another panelist speaks with Jerry on stage. Text: Deepika Chopra, AWARD WINNING AUTHOR, "THE POWER OF REAL OPTIMISM."

(SPEECH)

DEEPIKA CHOPRA: I was so excited to come out for the Asian-American summit. Myself being an Asian-American first generation and me being in the field of mental health really motivated me to come still in this population and this community that I belong to. There's so much stigma.

(DESCRIPTION)

Deepika speaks on stage, seated with Jerry and three other women. The top of a barn peaks above leafy vines in a vineyard.

(SPEECH)

Optimism, as I was studying this for the last 15 years, has really been misunderstood and misrepresented. People think optimism is about being positive. But actually, optimism and the science behind real optimism and why I wrote the book is much more closely related to resiliency and overcoming and persevering through struggle.

(DESCRIPTION)

A man speaks on the stage between two other people. Text: Norman Chen, CEO, THE ASIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION. Rows of event attendees look on.

(SPEECH)

NORMAN CHEN: There were thousands of incidents of attacks against our community. And after having, quote-unquote, "the American dream" in my life, I felt like now is really the time to give back to my own community. I would like my legacy to be that The Asian-American Foundation, or TAAF, will be here for the next 100-plus years. And

(DESCRIPTION)

People mingle at outdoor cocktail tables. Norman chats with two other men, all wearing name tags.

(SPEECH)

now that we're five years in, we've really felt like we've built a very strong foundation that unifies our community, directs resources, meaningful resources to wonderful initiatives and organizations that then will then grow over time as more families engage and expand.

(DESCRIPTION)

Text: Sue Van, CEO, WALLACE COULTER FOUNDATION.

(SPEECH)

SUE VAN: We are totally committed to building sustainable, long-term, successful, community-based organizations in the Asian-American Pacific Islander community. What I would like to see is that all the groups that I funded and invested in, that they continue to grow, to succeed, and to excel.

(DESCRIPTION)

Another speaker gestures on stage. Text: Jitendra Mohan, CEO, ASTERA LABS.

(SPEECH)

JITENDRA MOHAN: The advice that I will give to the next generation of founders is very simple. You have to be persistent. You have to persevere. You have to surround yourself with advisors that can tell you when things are going well and when things are not going well and what you could do and what you should not do to trust your gut.

(DESCRIPTION)

People turn their attention to the stage.

(SPEECH)

You have to figure out what is the right thing for you, what is the right thing for your company, and what is the right thing for your customers. And it is going to be a lot of hard work, but it is also very enjoyable. So just make sure that you and your team enjoy what they are doing, because it's hard work and it's a long journey.

(DESCRIPTION)

Text: Kaori Ogasawara, REHEARSAL DIRECTOR, BERKELEY BALLET THEATER.

(SPEECH)

KAORI OGASAWARA: I would love to say to all the young artists that ballet is still art. It's not about how beautiful your body is. It is about how you dance from your heart. So as long as they have it, I think, and they believe in themselves, I think they will bring the joy to the stage. And they will be succeeded.

JOHN KIM:

(DESCRIPTION)

A new slide on stage says, A Conversation with Lila: Reimagining Scientific Superintelligence. It displays moderator Kirk Haldeman and speaker John Kim. John speaks on stage. Text: John Kim, CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, LILA SCIENTIFIC SUPERINTELLIGENCE.

(SPEECH)

In many ways, I wish I was born into this generation and was able to start my career at the birthing of a whole new innovation cycle. Because there's a leveling effect that technology is going to have with education and access to information that otherwise was really bifurcated or pooled in communities and different segments of society prior to this. The democratization of knowledge and information, thanks to AI, is really exciting.

(DESCRIPTION)

An attendee looks down at a notebook. An audience member speaks into a microphone.

(SPEECH)

The advice is to say, now you can dream, and now you can be curious, and now you have access to the world's smartest people through AI to help you actually bring those dreams, bring those ambitions, bring those ideas into life, where one would never have been able to do that.

[AUDIO LOGO]

(DESCRIPTION)

Event attendees mingle under umbrellas and strings of lights outside the bar-style venue.

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