Last Sunday I spoke at 2026 WiDS (Women in Data Science), organized by Taiwanese in Data Science. It was a forum of about 200 people online and in person. Spending a whole weekend day at an event must be tiring, and I really admire everyone’s dedication to learning.
My talk was titled “Five AIs on My Team: Building Your Own Agent Team.”
I didn’t want to talk about vague theory this time. The point was to share what I’ve really learned from five months of furiously testing my army of OpenClaw agents. Put plainly, I wanted to lay out where agents’ performance limits actually are today, and talk about how we’ve put them to work in practice at our company, genuinely taking a lot of tedious tasks off our hands. Sharing the potholes and lessons came with an ulterior motive: I hoped to expand people’s sense of what agents can do and talk everyone into going home and building their own agent workflows.
By my count, I’ve given nearly 20 talks of various sizes by now. And without exaggeration, this was definitely the most carefully run event I’ve been part of.
Running a technical forum like this takes serious work. From the preparation months ahead, I could feel how much thought the volunteers put in. I’m the kind of speaker who procrastinates on slides and basically produces them the day before the talk. This time the WiDS team not only put up with my repeated delays, they took the time to go back and forth with me, smoothing out my script and revising my slides. Between my own casualness and the team’s dedication, the contrast was so stark that I could really feel how much care everyone put in, and it made me a little embarrassed 😅
The promo videos, the recordings and the on-site quality were all great too, and I laughed watching other speakers’ promo videos. The venue was the Socrates Hall at the GIS NTU Convention Center, and the whole atmosphere was really comfortable 🙏
Besides giving my own talk, I had a great time in the audience. The program covered both the technical and applied ends, and you could tell the team had spent a lot of time choosing speakers and getting the pacing right. I picked up a lot of perspectives from everyone that I don’t usually notice.
I really have to thank the volunteer team behind it all, and the fellow speakers I got to talk with that day. It was great meeting you all! (Tagging everyone for likes) @Alyssa Chen, @Naiwen Chiang, @Chen-Chun Lin, @An-Lei Huang, P.E., @Leslie Tang, @Lydia Chu, @Ching Tsang, @Ruby Chou, @Ching Tzu Li, @Tzu-Yen Chueh, @Ju-Hsuan Cheng, @Yi Shan Huang, @Zong Jin You, @Joanne Huang, @Kuan-Ting Yen, @Howard Weng, @Dorina Hu, @Shih Pei Yen, @Lin Lo
Running events really burns you out! I hope everyone took away something practical from the talk. And if I accidentally talked you into playing with agents, feel free to leave a comment and share your own pothole stories 🙌
