Fly to Singapore, Then Keep Flying: This Week in Global AI
首发于 EPIC Connector Substack（2026-09-10）
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September is bringing a touch of autumn to the Northern Hemisphere—but the global AI scene is only heating up. From Singapore to San Francisco, the next few weeks are packed with AI events worth showing up for.
EPIC Connector will be at Tech Week Singapore and SF TechWeek, ready to explore the global AI market with you: meeting people, spotting opportunities, and seeing where your product could go next！
Singapore’s Can’t-Miss Tech Moment
Looking to take your AI product into Southeast Asia? Fly to Singapore for Tech Week Singapore 2026, September 28-30: find a market, partners, and perhaps your next customer.
EPIC Connector is delighted to join this year’s Tech Week as an Official Community Partner. Industry professionals can apply for complimentary entry through ourdedicated registration link.
As the official Community Partner for Singapore Tech Week, we will host growth-acceleration programs including SG Cohort and the Tech Week Afterparty. Benefits include on-site ecosystem visibility, exclusive interviews, promotional exposure at popular Side Events, workshops, and targeted introductions to VCs, universities, and leading tech companies. We welcome like-minded partners to join us; for booth inquiries and more, please get in touch with Julie!
🏆Product Hunt Weekly Brief：Who’s Climbing the Charts?
For the new week (Aug 31–Sep 6), Product Hunt’s leaderboard remained focused on AI workflow automation. Six of the 17 visible launches were AI agents or workflow-automation products, with their share rising from 16.7% the week before to 35.3%.
No. 1, Kilo Code for JetBrains (525 points), is an AI coding agent built into JetBrains. No need to switch tools or learn a new workflow. It claims 5M+ users and 10T+ tokens processed, and has 46 reviews on Product Hunt. That’s a pretty easy pitch for developers who already spend all day in their IDE.
No. 2, Monid, is equally telling: it lets agents discover, call, and pay for 1,800+ APIs at runtime. It tackles the unglamorous chores developers know too well—finding an API, registering, testing, and integrating it. Browzer is another good example: not another documentation site, but a tool that drafts the documentation from a codebase. These products are pushing AI into more specific steps where it can actually deliver an outcome.
The launch lesson? State the value so clearly that people can nod right away, then put the proof on the table. Kilo’s user and token numbers, Monid’s 1,800+ APIs, and the reproducible GPU-cost methodology behind Computable GPU Index all make the promise believable without a long explanation. They make it immediately clear which step the product takes off a user’s plate.
🔥 GitHub Growth Radar：Open-Source Projects on the Rise
Models are no longer the only main character. Workflows that can be copied, run, and shown are more likely to earn Stars. Five of the verifiable Trending Top 10 were AI-agent projects, while developer tools and education/research each took two spots. People are not just starring big, all-purpose agents. They are picking up smaller tools they can use right away.
No. 1, archify, added 16,712 Stars in a week—and more than 30K Stars over two weeks. It turns a codebase or system description into interactive, verifiable architecture, process, and data-flow diagrams. Instead of explaining a repository file by file, an engineer can put the picture on the table and finish half the conversation. Technical products need shareable results too: the faster an observer understands the output, the easier it is to share.
No. 2, mattpocock/skills, is especially interesting: an established repository with roughly 254K Stars still added 12,474 last week. Its appeal is not a new model, but reusable skill assets that a team can copy, adapt, and fold into its everyday workflow. No. 5, OpenMAIC, works from the same principle—turning PDFs, slides, images, and videos into interactive courses. Users first see “I can take a course,” not how many multimodal components sit underneath.
What mayExploreamplify? In the September 7 Explore snapshot, ECC, skills, ponytail, and humanizer also appeared in the Trending Top 10—four overlaps, or 22.2% of the Explore snapshot. That does not prove that Explore caused the growth, but it does suggest a second burst of discovery for projects that are already being discussed and can be grasped quickly by new visitors. Put the demo, template, and clear install path first; explain the technology after. People see a course they can actually use—not a pile of tech under the hood.
🌍 Wherever You Are, There’s an Event for You
1️⃣ Applied AI Summit: Explore real-world AI adoption in finance, manufacturing, healthcare, and beyond with industry leaders and technical experts.
📍 September 17 | Singapore
🔗 https://luma.com/63bz69zb
2️⃣ 🍜 Ramen AI | AI Founders x Marketers: A dinner for AI founders, growth marketers, builders, and operators to make real connections around GTM, growth, product, and fundraising.
📍 September 17 | London, UK
🔗 https://luma.com/RamenAIFoundersDinner
3️⃣ Singapore Tech Week 2026 AfterParty & Demo Night: Continue the conversation with Asia’s AI and deep-tech founders and industry partners at the closing-night afterparty at Marina Bay Sands.
📍 September 30 | Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
🔗 https://luma.com/techweeksg
4️⃣ 2026 Token2049 Afterparty: Connect with Web3 builders, protocol teams, funds, and investors after TOKEN2049 wraps, and keep talking about the next opportunity.
📍 October 7 | Singapore
🔗 https://luma.com/2026token2049
5️⃣ SF Techweek 2026 Afterparty: Keep the conversation going beyond the conference with AI founders, model researchers, and investors.
📍 October 10 | Frontier Tower @ Spaceship, San Francisco, USA
🔗 https://luma.com/techweekSF
6️⃣ EPIC SF Demo Night @ Finding Next Moat: During TechCrunch Disrupt week, 10 selected startups will show 10 VCs the moats that set them apart. The evening includes an afterparty and curated introductions.
📍 October 11 | San Francisco, USA (exact location shared after registration)
🔗 https://luma.com/SFDemoNight
7️⃣ GEIA Embodied Intelligence Innovation Week: Join 1,500+ embodied AI founders, technical teams, and industry partners, with the IROS 2026 China qualifiers, a robotics developer competition, and an AI + hardware hackathon on site.
📍 December 9-11 | Beijing, China
🔗 https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/bJ_MnkLQnq7pyZA0ybM_vw
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