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Blair Wei
Head of Business Strategy and New Venture Investment at Shui On LandBlair focuses on strategic planning and project implementation covering consumer, prop-tech, and community innovation at Shui On Land. She also spearheads building Shui On's innovation ecosystem, developing strategic partnerships with top-tier universities, institutions, investors, tech giants, startup communities, and venture capital companies. Meanwhile, Blair is also in charge of RayVC, Shui On's VC platform with two funds currently under management, focusing on how tech startups could contribute to the sustainable growth of our future city. Before joining Shui On, she worked at a private equity investment platform with experiences in both investment and fundraising. In 2015, she co-founded the co-working startup "WooSpace" and served as the chief brand officer. Blair holds a master's degree from Harvard University and a bachelor's degree from Cornell University
魏天天
瑞安房地产 商业战略及创新投资负责人
负责瑞安在时尚消费、地产科技、社区体验领域的战略规划及创新项目落地，搭建瑞安在长三角和大湾区的科技创新生态网络，拓展与高校、商业品牌、科技企业的战略合作。同时，她也负责瑞安旗下专注早期科技投资的平台瑞奕资本，管理两只早期基金，主要聚焦科技创新如何驱动未来城市的可持续发展。加入瑞安前就职于上海国际、上海报业、上海实业集团共同出资成立的私募股权投资平台瑞力投资，参与地产基金的投资及夹层基金的募集工作。于2015年参与创办联合办公品牌"无界空间"，担任首席品牌官。拥有哈佛大学硕士学位及康奈尔大学学士学位。
Ted Lai
Chief Digital Officer at Sanofi Greater ChinaTed has over 20 years of digital transformation experience spanning pharmaceuticals, banking, media and education at both multinational and startup companies globally. He is currently the Chief Digital Officer at Sanofi Greater China, responsible for setting the strategy and driving digital transformation across the company through digital platforms/ technology, data analytics/ data science, innovation, digital partnerships, and agile ways of working. He is also a Board member of Amulet Health Technology, a fast-growing startup delivering virtual healthcare for chronic diseases, and a Digital Board Member of FountainVest Partners, a leading private equity firm focused on China investments.
Previously, Ted was Head of Partnerships, Asia-Pacific at HSBC and the Head of Digital, China, where he drove the digital makeover of the retail banking and wealth management group through partnerships with technology giants and the creation of new digital touchpoints, products and services. Prior to HSBC, he was the CEO of Zoodles, an award-winning mobile app startup personalizing kids’ education through AI/machine learning and backed by HTC.
Ted started his career tackling digital impact on the media industry. He served as an Independent Board Director of Taomee, a leading Chinese children’s digital entertainment company (NYSE: TAOM.) Ted was also BBC Worldwide’s Executive Vice President for Asia driving transformative growth, especially through digital, across TV channels, digital media, program production and distribution, consumer products, live events and Lonely Planet. Before joining BBC, Mr. Lai was Senior Vice President at Warner Bros. where he launched the WarnerTV Channel with accompanying branded video on demand service across Asia to address rising online viewing patterns, in addition to managing the program distribution and production offices in Greater China and Korea. Prior to relocating to Asia, Ted was a business development and product management executive in the US at several high-profile digital media startups, including idealab’s FreePC from inception to merger and billion dollar IPO on the NASDAQ. He also developed strategic plans for new virtual reality location-based entertainment centers and theme parks for the Walt Disney Company.
Mr. Lai earned his MBA degree at Harvard Business School and MS Engineering-Economics and BS Electrical Engineering (with Computer Science emphasis) degrees at Stanford University.
Tom Young
AI and Big Data Head, North Asia at UnileverI am an innovator with integrated expertise in business, product, technology and management. Driven by intense enthusiasm to missions that positively impact people’s life and work, I have created category defining new products in AI and big data for different industries, which generated more than hundred million revenue cumulatively, and served more than 10 million users. I am also providing data science solution/consulting to improve the efficiency and competency of retail, marketing, healthcare and finance, with the following features:
> business modeling
> automated data acquisition
> distributed storage and processing
> data visualization and live dashboard
> predictive analytics and machine learning
> insight generating and business improving
As a Data Scientist and Software Architect I have:
> Extensive experience in data science, engineering, architecture and software development
> Extensive experience on machine learning algorithms such as regression, SVM, PCA, wavelets, time-series, neural networks, genetic algorithms
> 11 years experience in R, Python and Linux Shell programming
> 9 years experience in high performance computing (HPC) and cloud computing
> 7 years experience in web technologies, front-end and back-end, business logic to data model and software architecture
> Experience in big data computing framework such as Hadoop, Cassandra and Spark
> Experience in machine learning production development and deployment under cloud infrastructure
> Experience in project management and customer relationship, strong communication and business skills
> Experience in leading an elite team of scientists/developers to accomplish time sensitive and challenging missions
> Experience in devising innovative strategy in business, product and technologies, and building up a talent team to execute the strategy in the form of products or projects
> Early adaptation for new technologies, active influence in various data science and tech communities
Ding Jin
Managing Partner at Richland CapitalDr. Ding Jin currently serves as the Partner of Richland Capital. He served as Director of Global Strategy and Business Development, Director of Global Innovation Support in the Philips Group, and R&D management positions at Lam Research. With nearly 20-year working experience in the management of strategy, business development, innovation and large projects in global top 500 enterprises and leading-edge research institutes, Dr. Jin is driven by "value of truth" to expand business scopes, and successfully built regional and global R&D teams. Dr. Jin holds a PhD degree in Material Science and Engineering from National University of Singapore.
Qiuqiang Kong
Research Scientist at ByteDanceQiuqiang Kong received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Surrey, Guildford, the UK in 2020. Following his Ph.D., he joined ByteDance AI Lab as a research scientist. His research topic includes the classification, detection, and separation of general sounds and music. He is known for developing attention neural networks for audio tagging and winning the audio tagging task in the detection and classification of acoustic scenes and events (DCASE) challenge in 2017. He has co-authored over 40 papers in journals and conferences including IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP), ICASSP, INTERSPEECH, IJCAI, DCASE, EUSIPCO, LVA-ICA, etc. He has been cited 773 times, with an H-index 15 till Aug. 2020. He was nominated as the postgraduate research student of the year at the University of Surrey, 2019. He is a frequent reviewer for over ten world well-known journals and conferences including TASLP, TMM, SPL, TKDD, JASM, EURASIP, Neurocomputing, Neural Networks, ISMIR, CSMT, etc.
孔秋强于2020在英国萨里大学获得博士学位，目前就职于字节跳动，任职研究科学家。他的研究方向包括音频和音乐信号处理。他的代表作包括基于弱标签的音频事件检测和分离，大规模音频分类系统，及构建大规模音乐数据集等。孔秋强已于音频领域顶级期刊和会议发表多篇文章，包括TASLP, TMM，ICASSP等。截至2021年9月，他的谷歌学术引用为1300余次，H指数为19。孔秋强是音频领域内多个顶级期刊和会议审稿人，并参与筹办了DCASE2018，LVA-ICA2018等多个国际学术会议。最近，他收集并转谱了世界上最大的钢琴数据集GiantMIDI-Piano。
Nishtha Mehta
Corporate Innovation Coach| Leadership Trainer | Change Facilitator at CollabCentralAs a lean innovation coach and executive change facilitator with China, Asia and cross border international experience of over 18 years, Nishtha designs, facilitates and delivers collaborative leadership and digital innovation capabilities acceleration for corporate workplaces with the purpose to manage uncertainities, change management, infuse start-up, co-create new business/ new service model innovation pipeline and intrapreneur culture.
Program offerings are across 4 key pillars of growth and impact - a) Frame, b) Immerse, c) Train and d) Develop.
Done both physically or/and virtually (remotely). And format ranges from team/1:1 coaching, stakeholder engagement sessions,
digital transformation discovery/pathway/framework/go-to-market workshops, co-creation accelerator programs, custom training workshops to prototyping hackathons, market learning expeditions and go-to-market new business models development.
Delivered in collaboration with internal change agents and open innovation partners in the ecosystem.
Client partners range from the Fortune 500 companies across different industries – Beauty, Sports, Lifestyle, F&B, FMCG, Mother & Child, Health Tech, IoT, New Retail and more.
An active mentor in the startup & tech community (Chinaccelerator, startup next, startup weekend, failfaster, startup leadership program (SLP), industry keynote speaker and an avid enabler of cross-industry talent collaboration, recognised as 2018 China Digital A List talent, 2015 Asia Pacific 40 under 40 talent by Campaign Asia. And TEDx speaker. Nishtha lives with the moto - 'commit to the uncomfortable’
Bin (William) Xu
Digital Innovation Lab Lead, China & APAC at Pfizer Inc.Based in Shanghai, Bin (William) Xu is Pfizer’s Digital Innovation Lab Lead responsible for China & APAC. Joined Pfizer in April 2020, he has been driving the pharma giant’s open innovation initiatives across a wide spectrum of R&D and Commercial priorities, actively engaging Pfizer with the start-up and emerging technology communities in Asia and worldwide. For example, he runs Pfizer’s Vaccine Open Innovation Challenge and pilot accelerator for China and co-led the 2020 Healthcare Fintech Alliance (HFA) Innovation Challenge on patient accessibility and affordability across EM Asia. He has also represented Pfizer as a avid contributor of a number of key industry events and high-profile government-sponsored programmes – for example, the Global Bio-Economy Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition in China and Enterprise Singapore’s SLINGSHOT HealthTech, BioTech & MedTech track – designed to support healthcare start-ups in partnership with both the public and the private sectors.
Prior to joining Pfizer, Bin ran his own start-up consultancy and provided end-to-end advisory solutions to early- and growth-stage tech ventures in Europe and Asia on issues spanning market analysis, business modelling, commercial and operational due diligence, financial planning and fundraising. Before this entrepreneurial endeavour, he had held various positions in public and private equity investment, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), strategy consulting and NGOs/think tanks, specialised in healthcare and technology.
Bin was awarded an MBA with a scholarship from Judge Business School, University of Cambridge in 2017. He also holds an MSc in Risk Management & Financial Engineering from Imperial College London and a BSc (Hons) in Biotechnology with Industry Placement from University College London, University of London.
Thunder Zhang
Co-Founder of NexPCBZhang Wang is a serial entrepreneur.
NexPCB has been making China's top supply chain resources available to international IoT product teams since 2015. The company enables groundbreaking IoT hardware projects to launch and scale through innovative engineering, productization and industrialization services. At present, the company has customers in more than 50 countries around the world. Key industries cover agritech, smart cities, smart transportation, medtech, and aerospace.
Ladder Education Technology started with smart classrooms in 2013 and has now become a leading educational information company in the country.
Ladder Technology has focused on the innovation and application of embedded technology since 2005.
Thunder is also an angel investor and a mentor in the local startup communities.
He has mentored hundreds of startups with a unique market acumen and strategic thinking, and angel invested in 10 early-stage teams.
In 2015, he helped the Startup Weekend community establish itself in Ningbo city, which has hosted 15 events up to date. Along with his China activities, Thunder actively participates in innovation ecosystem activities in New York, Boston, Silicon Valley, etc.
In 2013, he co-founded Bigbang Ningbo, the most active startup community in the city that is a part coffee shop, a part startup incubator.
张望是一位连续创业者
1.阶梯科技自2005年起专注于嵌入式技术的创新与应用，阶梯科技，您成功的阶梯。
2.阶梯教育科技起源于阶梯科技教育事业部，自2013年起以智慧教室为抓手，2015年独立发展，现已成为全国领先的教育信息化企业。让教室，比教师更懂你。
3.NexPCB自2015年起以中国产业链资源为基础结合全球创新要素和供应链资源，为全球数字化转型的创新团队提供物联网技术的工程化、产品化和产业化服务。目前客户已覆盖全球50多个国家。行业覆盖智慧农业、智慧城市、智慧交通、智慧建康、航天等。
张望是一位天使投资人，创新生态的给予者(Giver)
1.2013年联合创办无中生有创业咖啡，成为宁波最活跃的创业社群。
2.宁波创业周末活动的主要推动者之一，帮助和支持团队成功举办了15场创业周末(startup weekend), ；积极参与纽约、波士顿、硅谷等的创新生态圈活动。
3.在过程中以独到的市场敏锐度和战略思考，辅导了近百个创业公司，并天使投资了10个早期团队。
Rebecca Liang
China Alternative Protein Program - Head of Acceleration at BrincI’m a dot connector, who is endlessly fascinated by how disruptive technology will shape the future of the human species, especially in our basic needs like how we eat. As such, I have dedicated my professional life helping entrepreneurs in Food Tech, finding alternative protein solutions to make meaningful changes to our plates, and impacts to our planet.
Sern Hong Yu
Founding Partner at Enviro Tec CreativesSern is a founding partner of Enviro Tec Creatives (ET.C), the strategy arm of the larger global group Enviro Tec. The company focuses on integrating well the various aspects of community-based developments which include: spatial experiences, design aesthetics, branding & product strategies, data insights, people relationships, sustainability mechanisms and business flexibility, all of which to holistically drive towards making sense of the ecosystems and to leverage well the various products within and enable them to grow effectively and sustainably.
ET.C works closely with several top-tier developers and also start-ups, to develop innovative systems, co-create solutions for their various Products and to conduct workshops exploring enhancement strategies with the companies’ in-house innovation teams. Their clients include Shui On Land, Capitaland, The Paradise Group, etc.
Previously, Sern was an executive of WeWork Greater China (2017-2020). He was the Head of Product , where he built the Product team that designed and delivered more than 100 WeWork locations, in just over 3+ years, across 12 cities, and initiated new product innovation and business lines to cater for the regional markets.
Sern co-founded ET.C with Ming Zhou, who previously led the design and development efforts of the Orange Hotel brand in the region for the Huazhu Hotel Group. Both Ming and Sern first met when they interned at the same design company about 22 years ago in Singapore, and they re-grouped again here in Shanghai in 2020 to create the ET.C brand, believing strongly the potentials of integrating technology, systems, brand-conscious strategies in the design process, as well as the organic approach in the formulation of innovative products customized for the ecosystems of the various clients’ portfolio.
Zeyu Zheng
CEO of Zhiyi TechnologyZheng Zeyu co-founder and CEO of Zhiyi Technology, a company committed to utilizing cutting-edge AI, data mining technologies in the field of apparel industry manufacturing, changing the status quo of low informatization and dataization in apparel design and production, and providing enterprises with integrated services of design and supply chain. Zheng Zeyu has fully leveraged many years of experience in AI projects, and through the latest AI deep learning tool TensorFlow, quickly led the team to realize the analysis and processing of massive information, and completed the three major products of Zhiyi, Zhikuan and Yixuan. At present, Zhiyi Technology products have acquired thousands of apparel users including Peacebird, Hailan House, UR, GXG, Mark Wafer, Smith Barney, Ruhan, ARTSMAN, raising over 200 million yuan investment funds from well-known venture capital companies such as Hillhouse Capital.
Zheng Zeyu graduated from Peking University in 2011 and was awarded Outstanding Graduate of Peking University, writing the top ten graduation thesis of the School of Information Science and Technology. Later, he furthered his studies at Carnegie Mellon University (USA), obtaining an MS in computer science. Zeyu was named a Siebel Scholar and has many years of research experience in the field of machine learning and AI, publishing many academic papers at top international conferences such as SIGIR, ACL, ICDM, and ICWSM. Zheng Zeyu published the first domestic AI TensorFlow book "TensorFlow: Practical Google Deep Learning Framework", which was rated as the most popular technical book by Electronics Industry Press in 2019.
Zheng Zeyu co-founded Caiyun Technology in 2016 and served as the Chief of Data Science, responsible for the development of AI platforms and algorithms. He led the team to successfully develop the first mature distributed TensorFlow AI platform (Clever) in China. Based on this platform, the Caiyun big data team provided targeted AI solutions for multiple industries such as security, e-commerce, finance, and logistics, and is a pioneer in the implementation of artificial intelligence in China. Before returning to China to start a business, Zheng Zeyu was a senior engineer at Google in the US. Since joining Google in 2013, Zheng Zeyu has participated in and led a number of big data projects as a key technician. The product clustering project proposed and led by Zeyu is used to connect Google Shopping and Google Knowledge Graph data, making knowledge card advertisements gradually replace traditional product listing advertisements, and opening a new era of Google Shopping advertisement delivery on search pages.
郑泽宇，现任知衣科技联合创始人兼CEO。知衣科技致力于将人工智能和数据挖掘领域的前沿技术转化为服装行业生产力，改变服装设计、生产环节中信息化和数据化水平低下的现状，为企业提供设计和供应链一体化的服务。郑泽宇充分发挥多年人工智能项目经验，通过最新的人工智能深度学习工具TensorFlow，快速带领团队实现了对海量信息的分析处理，并完成了知衣、知款和易选三大产品。目前这些产品已经获取包括太平鸟、海澜之家、UR、GXG、马克华菲、美邦、如涵、港仔文艺男在内的上千家服装行用户，知衣科技也获得了高瓴等知名资本超2亿元投资。
郑泽宇2011年毕业于北京大学，荣获北大优秀毕业生称号及信息科学与技术学院十佳毕业论文。之后在美国卡内基梅隆大学（国际计算机排名第一）深造，获得计算机硕士，并被评为Siebel Scholar。郑泽宇在机器学习、人工智能领域有多年研究经验，在SIGIR、ACL、ICDM、ICWSM等顶级国际会议上发表多篇学术论文。郑泽宇出版了国内第一本人工智能TensorFlow书籍《TensorFlow：实战Google深度学习框架》，该书被评为2019年电子工业出版社最受欢迎的技术书籍。
郑泽宇于2016年联合创办才云科技并担任首席大数据科学家，负责人工智能平台和算法的开发。他带领团队成功开发了国内首个成熟的分布式TensorFlow人工智能平台（Clever）。基于此平台，才云大数据团队为安防、电商、金融、物流等多个行业提供有针对性的人工智能解决方案，是国内人工智能落地的开拓者。归国创业之前，郑泽宇曾任美国谷歌高级工程师。从2013年加入谷歌，郑泽宇作为主要技术人员参与并领导了多个大数据项目。由他提出并主导的产品聚类项目用于衔接谷歌购物和谷歌知识图谱（Knowledge Graph）数据，使得知识卡片形式的广告逐步取代传统的产品列表广告，开启了谷歌购物广告在搜索页面投递的新纪元。