Fritz-Laurens |
Laetitia Fritz-Laurens works as a Senior Trade Adviser for the French Embassy in Beijing. She relies on over 10 years of consulting experience in Asia and Europe to support French SMEs eager to expand on the Chinese ICT market. |
Siok Tan |
Siok Siok Tan is a filmmaker (her last movie about Twitter - Twittamentary - obtained outstanding reviews) and the founder of Kinetic ONE - the leading social video platform in China focused on youth culture, fashion and lifestyle as well as parenting & pregnancy. |
Feng Li |
Feng Li is a partner at IDG Capital Partners - actively involved in education, consumer services and TMT industry. Before that, Feng Li served at New Oriental Education & Technology Group (NYSE: ADR) - the leading education company in China. |
Ken Xu |
Ken Xu is a partner at Gobi VC - a leading venture capital firm backed by IBM, NTT DoCoMo, Sierra Ventures, McGraw-Hill, and Steamboat Ventures. |
Jian Lu |
Jian Lu is CTO of Ku6 (NASDAQ: KUTV) and Managing Director of Shanda Innovation (NASDAQ: GAME). Before Shanda, Jian occupied different managerial positions in Silicon Valley in particular at Apple. Jian is also the co-founder of Vobile - the largest digital fingerprinting company - adopted by all major studios and TV Networks. |
X Zeng |
A Master in Public Administration from Harvard, Xiaodong Zeng is the Managing Director of International Operations at the Administrative Committee of Zhongguancun Science Park (Z-PARKS) - the world's largest Tech Science Park. Before being invited by the Beijing Municipal Government to join Z-PARKS, Mr. Zeng worked for 15 years at the World Bank Headquarter in Washington DC. |
Xiao Lu |
Xiao Lu is the anchor of Phoenix TV's Uradio ultimate online radio show about high tech - “Xiaolu Kan Dongxi 小路看东西" - followed by millions of fans across the Internet. |
Dr. Chen |
Dr. Dongmin Chen is the Dean of School of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Beijing University. Before that, he was the Head of the Nanoscale Quantum Physics Lab at Harvard University and the President of the Chinese American Semiconductor Professional Association. A successful entrepreneur (co-founded 4DS and Miradia), Dr. Chen has produced over 70 scientific publications and 100 patents. |
X Tan |
Xiaosheng Tan is Vice President & Chief Privacy Officer of Qihoo 360 (NYSE:QIHU). Before that, Xiaosheng served as CTO & COO of MySpace.cn, and Director of Engineering of Yahoo!China. |
Chen Zhang |
Chen Zhang joined Yahoo in 1997. In 2009, he founded Yahoo Beijing Global R&D Center - a 350 people entity serving the needs of Yahoo!’s 700 million users from all around the world. |
Dylan Huang |
A MBA from University of Washington, Seattle, Dylan Huang is deputy general manager at Tencent - where he manages the mobile & online media products departments. Before Tencent, working at Microsoft, Dylan was the main inventor of Addin - a breakthrough in the keyword algorithms industry. |
Gong Yu |
A Ph.D from Tsinghua University and a successful serial entrepreneur, Gong Yu 龚宇 is founder & CEO of iQIYI - China's largest online video platform - backed by Baidu and Hulu's investor. Prior to iQiyi, Gong Yu was founder & CEO of Focus.cn, China's largest online hub for real estate - which was acquired by Sohu (where Gong Yu then became COO). |
Ron Hose |
Ron Hose is co-founder of Innovation Endeavors - Google's Eric Schmidt VC fund. Before that, Ron was co-founder & CTO of TokBox, a consumer video conferencing company backed by Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital, Stanford University among others. Ron is an active investor & adviser to several Silicon Valley start-ups. |
S. de Halleux |
Sebastien de Halleux is co-founder of Playfish - one of the largest & most disruptive social game companies - acquired by Electronic Arts. An active angel investor, Sebastien is also involved in several non-profit projects. |
D Wright |
Dale Wright took over as the Foreign Commercial Service (FCS) Standards Attaché in Beijing, China in October 2010. In addition to cross-cutting standards issues, Dale is also in charge of the information and communications technologies (ICT) sector. |
Xue Jun |
With a successful track record of entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, Jeromy Xue is now Managing Director of Tsinghua Science Park Venture Capital, and the assistant president of Tsinghua University Science Park. |
F Greco |
Frank Greco is EU First Counselor and head of ICT for China. |
F Nazikian |
Franck Nazikian is the founder & president of CHINICT - the largest conference on China tech innovation & entrepreneurship. Previously, jointly with Renaud Laplanche (founder & CEO of Lending Club), Franck co-founded TripleHop Technologies, acquired by Oracle. Franck is also passionate about wine making and is the owner of the LudiFranco winery. |
R Robinson |
Originally from the US, Richard Robinson is a successful serial entrepreneur with over 10 years of experience in China. His new venture Yolu, he co-founded with Zany Zeng (co-founder of Oak Pacific Interactive) is on the verge to disrupt the Chinese SNS space. Richard is CHINICT master of ceremonies this year. |
Chen Yu |
Chen Yu is the co-founder and vice president of Yeepay, a leading provider of online payment solutions in China, backed by DFJ, Intel Capital, W.R. Hambrecht and IBM. |
Hans Tung |
Hans Tung is a managing partner at Qiming Ventures and is on the board of Kaixin001, Vancl, Ehi and Yaodian100. He co-founded two Internet start-ups himself: Asia2B in Hong Kong and HelloAsia in Silicon Valley. |
Ling Song |
A dignitary and former high-ranking official at the China Ministry of Information Industry, Ling Song is the Chairman of the Beijing Electronic Commerce Association. |
Nick Yang |
A successful entrepreneur co-founder of Nasdaq top performer Kong.net, Nick Yang is now a prominent angel investor. |
Brief snapshot of past CHINICT speakers & attendees:
| Porter Erisman | VP | Alibaba Group |
| Yuan Dengke | Managing Director | China E-Commerce Association |
| Alison Birkett | First Counsellor | European Commission |
| Dan Reardon | Area Director | HP Snapfish |
| Richard Hsu | Associate Director | Intel Capital |
| Rich Robinson | CEO | Kooky Panda |
| Wei Zhou | VP | KPCB |
| Jeremy Peruski | Managing Director | Lenovo |
| Simon Zhang | Chief Rep. | London Stock Exchange |
| Harry Man | Partner | Matrix Partners |
| Zhang HongJiang | CTO China | Microsoft |
| Chun Zhang | Director | Microsoft MSN Network |
| Inga Han | Chief Rep. | NYSE-Euronext |
| Eric Priest | VP Asia Pacific | Noank Media |
| Fu Xiaoxue | Managing Director | Shanghai Stock Exchange |
| Olivier Glauser | Managing Director | Steamboat Ventures |
| Gregory Shea | Corporate Vice President and MD | USITO |
| Eric Eldon | Editor | Venture Beat |
| Caroline Katzin | Special Counsel | U.S. Sec. of Commerce |
| Bill Yao | CEO | PPLive |
| Yonghe Yao | SVP | 51.com |
| Fritz Demopoulos | CEO | Qunar |
| Jay Chang | President | 56.com |
| Victor Koo | CEO | Youku |
| Malcolm Thorp | VP | HDT |
| Song Xinyu | GM | |
| Tom Melcher | President | China Online Strategy |
| David Wolf | CEO | Wolf Group |
| Andy Tian | President | XPD Media |
| Isabel Liu | VP & GM | Tencent |
| Edward Lu | Overseas Bus. Dev. | Baidu |
| Ruowei Chen | GM | Potevio |
| Billy Wu | VP | Alcatel |
| Bin Ma | VP | Tencent |
| Rocky Lee | Partner | DLA Piper |
| Vincent GU | VP | Comverse Technology |
| Jianli Wang | Deputy CTO | Fiberhome Technologies |
| Kemal Ayyildiz | President Asia | Deutsche Telekom |
| Gao Jiaqing | GM | Capinfo |
| Haizhou Pan | VP | UFIDA Software Engineering |
| Michel Guerry | Senator | French Government |
| Zhao Fengtong | Vice-Mayor | Beijing Municipal Government |
| Michael Pulch | Deputy head | EU Delegation to China & Mongolia |
| Nigel Burton | GM Evangelism | Microsoft |
| Tang Hesong | Director of Strat. Invest. | Microsoft |
| Rui Yong | Director of R&D Strategy | Microsoft |
| Kaiser Kuo | Group Director | Ogilvy & Mather China |
| Feng Jun | Chairman & CEO | Aigo |
| Kang Pan | Deputy Director | NYSE/Euronext |
| Jane Zhu | Executive Director | London Stock Exchange/AIM |
| Ren Guangming | Chief Representative | Hong Kong Stock Exchange |
| Guang Xun Xu | Managing Director | Nasdaq |
| Kejian Chao | Chief Representative | Shanghai Stock Exchange |
| Alex Chen | VP | Aspire Tech |
| Zhang Xiangdong | President | 3G Portal |
| Michael Mi | Managing Director | Cisco Ventures |
| Hope Chen | Venture Partner | Draper Fisher Jurvetson |
| Astra Lam | Managing Director | Motorola Ventures |
| Joe Zhou | General Partner | Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers |
| Ian Chapman | VP & GM Marketing | Motorola |
| Christine Lagarde | Finance Minister | French Government |
| Nick Yang | President | Kong Zhong (Nasdaq: Kong) |
| Zhang Zhihong | Deputy GM | Torch, Ministry of Science & Technology |
| Guo Tianmin | VP | Huawei Technologies |
| Cheng Wusi | VP | Hollysys |
| Jun Yang | VP | China Electronic Center |
| Jihua Zhao | VP | Datang |
| Xinxiang Chen | Chairman | CapInfo |
| Xuan Yan | VP | Oracle |
| Xiowei Chen | CEO | China.com |
| Danfeng Gao | VP | China Unicom |
| Li Jia | VP | ZTE |
| Fang Zhonghua | VP | Founder |
| Ben Wang | CEO | BeyondSoft |
| Quiyue Zhong | Partner | IDG Venture Investment |
| Rowei Chen | VP | Potevio |
| Randy Zhang | VP | Tsinghua Venture Capital |
| Gen Zhang | VP | Philips Semi-Conductor |
| Qiling Qin | CEO | Hansun Technoloies |
| Rui Huang | CEO | China SatCom |
| Daqin Ma | Partner | China Equity Venture Capital |
| Mangdong Xu | CEO | Dotad |
| Fangwei Xiang | CEO | PDX.cn |
| David Zhang | Partner | Chum Investment Corporation |
| Mingshun Li | VP | Discuz.net |
| Li Wan Lin | CTO China | Siemens |
| Bill Gao | GM China | British Telecom Infonet |
| Vincent Gu | VP | Comverse Technology |
| Yonglun Yang | COO | Optisp |
| Jerry Xu | VP | Motorola |
| Jianli Wang | VP | FiberHome |
| Shen Gao | Partner | New Margin Ventures |
| Yanlin Hou | VP | Th-Unis |
| Gérard Deleens | President China | Total |
| Fan Yu | Deputy GM | CE Dongli Technology |
| Olivier Lafaye | President Asia | Thomson |
| André Ferrand | Senator | French Government |