Mentors and Judges

  • Kalle Huebner (Judge-Managing Partner at Executive Education & Exchange)

    Kalle Huebner

    Judge-Managing Partner at Executive Education & Exchange

    http://linkedin.com/in/kallehuebner

    Leipzig University, Germany. Master's degree, 2003 - 2008

    Founder and Managing Partner at Executive Education & Exchange Co. Ltd., Shanghai
    Head of Executive Education & Corporate Relations at Tongji University CDHK, Shanghai
    Program Coordinator / Program Director East Asia at ICD, Berlin

    2017 3-Days facilitated workshop on Design Thinking & Innovation (M.Sc. International Business,
    M.Sc. Entrepreneurship & Innovation)
    2016 New Product Development & Innovation (M.Sc. Entrepreneurship & Innovation)
    Innovation & Sustainable Development (M.Sc. International Business)
    Marketing & Innovation (M.Sc. International Business)
    Open course on New Product Development for participants from SKEMA, Xian Jiaotong
    Liverpool University, Monash University, in SIP

    Project Management: Academy of Economics, Freiburg, 2010
    Trainer / Coach (Train the Trainer), International House World Organisation, 2010

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  • Hai Hong (Mentor at Suzhou Institute of Market Supervision and Management)

    Hai Hong

    Mentor at Suzhou Institute of Market Supervision and Management

    Executive director and General Secretary of Suzhou Institute of Market Supervision and Management
    Chief Editor of Suzhou Market Supervision
    MBA mentor of Suzhou University
    Member of expert panel of Intelligence Bank Media Construction China Industry and Commerce Press

    Expert in corporation-system enterprise๏ผŒestablishment of the enterprise operation, enterprise credit and risk management, small business administration.

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  • Fei Liu (Judge at Jiangsu Yinjiang Investment Co. Ltd.)

    Fei Liu

    Judge at Jiangsu Yinjiang Investment Co. Ltd.

    Graduate of The Chinese University of Hong Kong

    Top manager of Bank of Jiangsu Investment Co., Ltd.
    President of Jiangsu Hypersensitive Instruments Co., Ltd.
    Vice-president of Jiangsu Min Jia Electronic Technology Co., Ltd.
    Judge of Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology

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  • Alice Wang (Judge at JAHE (Suzhou) Engineering Cotrator., Ltd)

    Alice Wang

    Judge at JAHE (Suzhou) Engineering Cotrator., Ltd

    MBA of Suzhou University
    MSc of Applied Psychology

    State - registered administrator of human resource management
    Director of East China Human Resource Management and Applied Psychology Research Association
    Worked in world top 500 international corporation and large SOE in Suzhou Industrial Park
    Now in JAHE (Suzhou) Engineering Co., Ltd

    Experienced in resource integration, brand planning, human resources and government relations.
    Expert at the areas of exhibition, culture, education and service industry.

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  • Feng Xue (Mentor-CEO of Alibaba innovation center)

    Feng Xue

    Mentor-CEO of Alibaba innovation center

    Master of Science

    Manager of Alibaba innovation center
    National Innovation and Entrepreneurship mentor

    Expert at technical project management and business consulting
    Experienced with designing the structure of the business ownership at the primary stage of a corporation, team building, project management.

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  • Zhendan Wang (Mentor-Co-founder of EduKit ltd, London, UK)

    Zhendan Wang

    Mentor-Co-founder of EduKit ltd, London, UK

    https://uk.linkedin.com/in/zhendanwang

    Graduated from King's College London

    Companies Co-founder:
    2013 - present EduKit ltd, London, UK
    2010 - 2012 Zhenli ltd, Shanghai, China

    Winner of Sirius Programme (2014)
    International Startup Business Contest, 1 of 40 winners๏ผˆselected from 20,000 applicants, 93 countries in 2014.๏ผ‰London, United Kingdom
    Winner of Innovate UK as team EduKit (2013 - 2014)UK national wide funding competitions which help startup companies develop their idea and make them successful.London, United Kingdom
    The Best 3 min Pitch Guy (2014)
    Winner of “the best pitch guy” in Google startup idea pitching contests.London, United Kingdom

    Years UX Designing
    2007 - 2015 Website / Game UED
    2011 - 2013 Background music composer

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  • Yuhong Zhao (Mentor at Design Sprint China)

    Yuhong Zhao

    Mentor at Design Sprint China

    TEDx Ambassador in China, Founder of TEDxSuzhou and DSC (Design Sprint China). 7 years as logo designer, 5 years as soft skill trainer.

    Jade helps people to conquer their fear of public speaking and spread their ideas by storytelling.

    During the pas 6 years, he helped more than 170 speakers, including: Bjarne Stroustrup: The Creator of C++Forrest; Yao: Vice President of Tencent; KK Wong: Co-founder and VP of Xiaomi; Matt Wang: Vice President of IBM

    Awards๏ผš2013 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Scholarship

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  • Richard Tien (Mentor at Richstart Co. Ltd.)

    Richard Tien

    Mentor at Richstart Co. Ltd.

    Chairman of Richstart Co. Ltd.
    Co-founder of the Internet program, Product Channel Know-all.

    Experienced in supply chain, information management, program instruction in multinational enterprises for over 20 years, including clients such as China Sinotrans Ltd., Alston(France), Areva(France), IDEX(US).

    Leaving an international corporation for entrepreneurial career, Richard experienced the rise-and-falls of his own program for three times and deeply understands the taste of entrepreneurship; he finally realized the transformation from a manager to an entrepreneur.

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  • Yang Wang (Mentor)

    Yang Wang

    Mentor

    Nanyang Technological University, Master's degree in entrepreneurship and innovation of science and technology
    Stanford University and the University of Cambridge entrepreneurship immersion program

    Research interests: Application in the relationship of Competition and Cooperation among the Enterprises, the Internet new media operation, Industrial Intelligence.

    Top advisor of city governments in Jiangsu Province, assisting the governments with attracting investment and talents.

    Author of Happy Entrepreneurship, a professional book about how to realize the popularization of entrepreneurship in the perspective of the government and the private session.

    Responsible for the connection between official department of entrepreneurship and corporations in Jiangsu.

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  • Jifang Li (Mentor-CEO of Shanghai NQA Certification Co., Ltd.)

    Jifang Li

    Mentor-CEO of Shanghai NQA Certification Co., Ltd.

    http://www.keairenzheng.com/gsjs/index.jhtml

    MBA of Nanjing University, Outstanding Graduate.

    General Manager of Shanghai NQA Certification Co., Ltd Suzhou Branch
    Member of Jasa organizing committee

    Experienced in Enterprise Management Service for 15 years.
    Familiar with health, environmental industry and industrial product testing.

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  • Zhihui Zhang (Mentor at Suzhou Halfwater Investment Management Co. Ltd.)

    Zhihui Zhang

    Mentor at Suzhou Halfwater Investment Management Co. Ltd.

    Top manager of Suzhou Halfwater Investment Management Co. Ltd.
    Co-founder of Halfwater Incubator
    Vice-presideny of MBA alumni association of Suzhou University

    Education:
    MBA of Suzhou University

    Experience
    10-year experience in entrepreneurial field; expertise of e-commerce, entrepreneurial incubation and investment.

    Company:
    Suzhou Halfwater Investment Management Co. Ltd.was established in 2015. It focus on industry chain service of e-commerce and has formed four major businesses, entrepreneurial operation and incubation and e-commercial finance and training, becoming a full industry-chain facilitator of e-commerce. It is the National-level Business Incubator, Cross-border E-commercial Incubator Platform and the Business Incubator Base of Suzhou University MBA.

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Tickets

Ticket price includes food for the entire weekend (3 dinners, 2 lunches and 2 light breakfasts) as well as water. Make sure to attend the entire event as your team will need you until the end!
Sunday Spectator ticket only provides attendance to the Sunday night final presentations. 
Regular

With this ticket, come from Friday 7pm until Sunday 9pm (but you go back home for the nights!) and attend the full Startup Weekend, food and drinks will be included!

Sunday Observers

Come on Sunday at 5:00pm to watch the final pitches with celebration dinner and drinks

Standard Price RMB 100
Student ticket

Special offers for students