Yiqi Zhao

Product Design Lead
Meta

Panel Title:

AI at the Edge:
Wearables, Glasses & Ambient Devices

Panel Summary:

Atom icon for The AI Conference 2023, a groundbreaking two-day event on AGI, LLMs, Infrastructure, Alignment, AI Startups, and Neural Architectures.We’re entering an era where AI isn’t in your pocket—it’s all around you. This panel brings together product leaders from Meta and Google to explore how wearables, glasses, and ambient devices are becoming the new access points for intelligence. 

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About | Yiqi Zhao

Yiqi Zhao, Product Design Lead at Meta, specializes in AI-driven spatial intelligence across Meta Quest products, cross-screen platforms with creation tools. Her team has delivered human-centric innovations, including the Meta Quest headsets and Meta Horizon with Gen AI Creation. With a research background at Harvard and MIT Media Lab, Yiqi began her 3D journey in brain-computer interfaces (EEG) and wearable AI.

Previously, she led Unity’s platform initiatives, including the visionOS partnership for Apple Vision Pro. She also made her mark in the gaming sector by shipping Destiny 2. Additionally, she leads Deepcake, an AIGC community with 200 million monthly viewing. Yiqi’s vision shapes the future of immersive technologies by uniting XR and AI. Yiqi has played a creator-focused role in major industry gatherings such as GDC, AWE, and the GenAI Summit. Her dedication to the community is further recognized through her role as a judge or advisor at over 30 events, including the Indigo Design Award, Creative Communication Award, Design MasterPrize, XR Design Challenge, XR Hack, HarvardXR, and MIT Reality Hack.