ACP MetroCon 2026

Association of Chinese Professionals puts MetroCon 2026 on Saturday, November 21, at Plano Event Center, 2000 East Spring Creek Parkway. The tenth-year theme is AI & Me. Morning and afternoon blocks cover AI in education, a Golden Eagle investment session, career leadership roundtables, technology panels, next-generation leadership, a job fair, free medical consults, and robotics competitions. Evening runs social networking, a VIP reception, and the gala banquet from about 7:00 to 9:00 PM. Visit Plano lists a $30 figure; Luma sells Day Pass, lunch, and banquet-seat tiers separately. Open the live checkout before you treat any tier as free or as a flat $30.

Banquet keynote is Eric Yang, Head of Topaz at Adobe after Adobe closed its Topaz Labs acquisition in September 2026—TV Tech put the deal near $340 million. Topaz is a North Texas company: Feng “Albert” Yang, a former Harbin Institute of Technology assistant professor, founded it in a guest bedroom in 2006; Eric, his son and co-founder, ran it from Addison HQ until the Adobe close. Under Eric, the firm grew from roughly a dozen people to more than seventy, won a 2025 Technology & Engineering Emmy for AI video enhancement, and kept standalone apps while feeding Firefly and Photoshop. Opening-ceremony keynotes listed include Skip Howard (Computer Visionaries.AI / Spacee) and Ken Qi—CaptionLens CEO and earlier co-founder of 01.ai with Kai-Fu Lee. Technology speakers on the host roster include Steve B. Jiang on agentic AI in healthcare and Ryan Wang on humanoid robots and semiconductors. ACP Foundation DFW mail runs through Richardson (P.O. Box 832865); try info@acp-foundation.org or acpfoundation.member@gmail.com if checkout stalls.

Chinese American founders, operators, investors, and parents who want a full Plano Saturday should lock Day Pass and banquet seats early—host copy expects 1,000-plus people. The Yang banquet is the local Addison-to-Adobe story; the investment and career tracks are for people with a specific ask that day. Ascend’s Frisco Diwali and the US-India Chamber Awards are already other nights on Circuit.

Spring Creek Parkway is event-center parking. Screenshot each Luma tier you buy. Check the ACP agenda again the morning of if a speaker time moves.