Jane is the China lead for Google's Sand Hill program. Sand Hill program works with high potential startups, help them grow with Google products, and eventually foster strong relationships between startups and Google's product ecosystem. Jane received her MBA from Kellogg School of Management and Master of Computer Science from New York University.
Charlene 毕业于美国德克萨斯大学,拥有电气工程学学士学位和近20年半导体和电子行业工作经验,涵盖设计、工程管理、生产、销售等领域。目前任职普华永道创新企业经理。
同时,Charlene具有12年的活动管理和社会企业经验。2009年她联合创办上海骄傲节,这是一个由志愿者组织并管理的年度节日庆典,旨在推广多元文化;2014年联合创办活动管理公司Q-Event;2016年与另一位合伙人联合为STEM行业女性打造Ladies Who Tech社群平台。Charlene利用闲暇时间组织活动,管理这些平台的规划、运营、财务、赞助等事宜。同时,她和几位朋友在上海联合经营The Hub 咖啡店。
Nica is currently part of the APAC Partnerships team for Google for Entrepreneurs (GFE), and is deeply passionate about empowering and supporting entrepreneurs and startup communities in Asia. Prior to joining the GFE team, Nica was a Regional Account Manager for Google Marketing Solutions, covering SMBs in Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
Before joining Google, she handled fund operations and marketing at Golden Gate Ventures, one of the leading venture capital firms in Southeast Asia.
Sissi is the founder of REmakehub, alumni of Global Startup Weekend 2017, also she is a low-carbon lover, vegetarian, extreme sport lover, animal protector, and sustainable environmentalist. Her mission is to follow “cradle to cradle” principle, use high-tech recycled material and creative upcycling to clean up the fashion waste and save more natural resources. She is also trying to set up business for good and helping to improve disabled people’s lives.
Sissi is also 2018 Forbes 30 under 30 China Laureate, Asia-Pacific Youth4SDG advocate, SDG MY WORLD 2030 promoter, Global Changemaker, Youth Leadership mentor, HerCentury mentor and part of the Fashion Revolution committee.
Rachel Daydou is a serial entrepreneur and Chinaccelerator alumni. She is currently APAC Innovation Director at FABERNOVEL, an innovation consulting agency helping MNCs to accelerate their digital transformation.
Aside from her day job, Rachel is also Co-Director of Startup Grind Shanghai, a community of 1M global entrepreneurs which organises monthly talks where they invite a successful entrepreneur to share his/her journey. Furthermore, Rachel is also Vice President of International Professional Women Society (IPWS) which supports female professionals' development. Active for 25 years, they connect about 10,000 individuals in Shanghai.
Rachel will be giving the Lean Canvas Model Workshop on Saturday 15/08.
Diana在上海出生后去了美国受教育,在加州大学洛杉矶分校获得文学学士和工商管理硕士学位。她是个管理专业人士,在私营部门拥有2年+的经验。 她曾在金融、销售、交易和人力资源的各个部门工作。 她善于与团队合作,创造持久的问题解决方案并实现战略目标。
Diana在2016年离职休假,离开洛杉矶独立旅行。 在此之后的两年中,她吃遍了17个国家、在她旅行期间认识了她现在的丈夫,并于2017年后期回到了她的家乡上海。
Eva Hsu founded LinguaPass Communications with the goal in providing effective cross-culture communications in the content creation and digital space while stimulating global markets, with a focus on the China market. Past clients include Finnair, Cambio Coffee, AngelHack, H&M, etc.
Originally from Taiwan, Eva grew up in the States, received her bachelor’s in English in Taiwan. After working for 4 years in Taipei, she pursued a MSc in Environmental Management at IE Business School in 2011. She discovered her entrepreneurial traits during the program, and graduated with the goal in starting her entrepreneurship journey in Asia (namely Taipei, and later on Shanghai).
Shengmin Qian 是食品创业社群 FoodPlus 的合伙人。FoodPlus 专注于通过优质的内容以及高质量的社群活动连接食品消费品领域的创业者。 Shengmin 同时也是小米生态链公司小猴科技的品牌策略总监。小猴科技致力于为热爱生活,富有行动力的人们提供各类高品质的工具产品。
在此之前,工业设计背景出身的Shengmin 在多家设计咨询公司担任调研与策略专家,从对市场及消费者的洞察及企业战略的角度出发,协助企业开发新产品,孵化新事业,并引导他们学习创新方法论,提升创新能力。
王志瑛先后任职于正和岛、中小企业融资研究员、23seed,在创业孵化、投资、区块链等专业领域有建树。曾服务多家如笑果文化、艾米机器人等新锐公司。
2016年底发起成立了全球性的创业投资交流平台创业共和,成为联结国内外的创新创业公司桥梁。2018年战略调整升级,进一步强化区块链垂直领域的服务品牌“哈希星”。
历届参与嘉宾(区块链领域)包括但不限于:NEO创始人达鸿飞(人称达叔)、Queschain创始人王奇君(原信砥安兑COO)、DECENT创始人马杰、德丰杰龙脉合伙人王岳华、Badwater Capital徐敬程、影链创始人宦晶羽、Penta团队顾问Andrew Han (金丘股份CTO)、布比区块链联合创始人杨帆、Social Lwnding及 Banca项目创始人等都参与现场活动分享。
Anastasiia Isakii has organized projects and facilitated in international conferences on leadership development for global audiences, aimed to transform thinking, find out solutions, and inspire action. She has trained youngsters & adults on the local and regional levels in Ukraine, Turkey, Indonesia, China, USA.
Anastasiia has a big passion towards education, she is a Co-Founder & Managing Director of the LifeSkills4Me Community that aims to promote personal growth on daily basis.
Dora has obtained two master degrees in her pursuit of knowledge. She started her career in management consulting and has worked in various roles since then. She is now Associate Director for Asia Pacific at IE Business School. As a future thinker and thought leader, Dora is the founding member and a leadership member of SingularityU Shanghai Chapter. Dora is also a recognised startup mentor with Startup Weekend and Startbootcamp.
Dora is passionate in women empowerment. She is active in Her Century, facilitating women development. In her spare time, she reads intensively in Economics, Technology, Psychology and History.
Love Fashion and Technology. She’s 3 Feet 11" of dynamite that keeps everything at a (previously co-founded) fashion-tech startup organized and moving forward. From styling events to fixing bugs, Josie creates tools, resources and environments to test assumptions and foster innovation that is disrupting the fashion industry. Josie received her Masters in IT Management from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her passion for technology expands far beyond the streets of Hong Kong and she is constantly looking for ways to revolutionize the technology industry.
Mercedes is an international business manager with vast experience in the Asia Pacific region on business development, strategic partnerships and implementation of international projects. She has expertise in different industries/areas such as change management with MNCs as well as worked with Top Universities on Business Education to develop tailor-made projects among other business initiatives. Currently, she is a consultant and business developer in Asia with particular interest on education, entrepreneurship and innovation. She has been in living in China for over 16 years and got her MBA from CEIBS (China Europe International Business School).
Olivia has worked in marketing and communications in Shanghai for the past two years across several different industries. She has a strong passion for helping communities find and amplify their voice, as well as a deep fascination of China’s ever-evolving digital landscape. She is on the Board of the International Professional Women’s Society as the Marketing & Communications Executive, and is the Brand & Communications Manager for FitFam, a global free-fitness community. She has also been a marketing mentor at the Asia Pacific Innovation Academy in held in Shenzhen.
Tamar Hela is no stranger to startups, having been a solopreneur of 3 businesses in var-ious industries. Her company, H.E.L.A. Publishing + Media, offers full services for authors writing books and companies looking to identify their brand image or refine it. Though she’s worked across several industries, Tamar’s main passions involve the publishing industry, education, and complementary health and medicine.
As a published author of 3 books and professional editor of over 40 books, she under-stands the power of storytelling and helps her clients to "tell their stories". In 2017, Tamar and her team won the Validation Award for business viability at Startup Weekend Wom-en’s Edition in Shanghai, which is why she’s eager to give back this year and return as a mentor to other hopeful startup-ers.
Victoria is a young, Polish-Chinese entrepreneur with a passion on food and sustainabil-ity. She founded The Potluck Club, a potluck community based in Shanghai turned digital platform that allowed users to host or join community-driven food events around the world, with a mission to break down social and cultural barriers through food.
Prior to moving to Shanghai 2 years ago, Victoria graduated with a Bachelor of Laws, however decided to shift her focus from a career in Law in order to pursue her passion: food, community-building and social entrepreneurship. She has worked on multiple food projects, from researching undernutrition in Asia and Africa, to helping farmer coopera-tives in Hunan, China explore and implement technology solutions.
Elliot is a marketing and branding strategist with over 10 years experiences helping companies and brands define and redefine their relevance to consumers. He is passionate about shaping ideas and creating brands and products that make a significant difference in people's life.
Diwei has an 8 year working experience in the education industry in China, ranging from leading a teacher and academic team to lead an online project under Pearson, to leading sales and marketing for a study abroad product line at EF Education First to co-founding a digital learning platform that connects study abroad lessons to international schools, currently she’s leading business development at TopSchools, a two-year startup that leads the B2B international school market with its close network of 500+ schools in China.