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Joyce Tay
Head of Programmes at StartupXFacilitator
Our facilitator is Joyce Tay. She is flying directly from Singapore specially join us at the Beijing Global Startup Weekend 2018.
Joyce is the Head of Programmes for StartupX and the outgoing Programme Head for BLOCK71 Singapore & Indonesia. Prior to this, she started her own startups in the fintech & consumer tech space. She also worked in corporate consultancy, bridging collaborations between fintech startups and traditional financial institutions.
She runs one of the largest Startup Weekends around the world in Singapore and actively supports initiatives that help grow the early stage startup ecosystem in Southeast Asia.
Andy Mok
Commentator at CCTV/CGTNJudge
Andy Mok is a contributor at China Global Television Network where he covers entrepreneurship and innovation in China as well as US-China relations and geopolitics. He is also the Managing Director of Red Pagoda Resources, helping startups in China accelerate their success from idea to investment and beyond.
AJ Warner
Co-Founder & Advisor of Touchdown CareerMentor for the micro-workshop:
Creating a fantastic team atmosphere to support your great idea.
AJ Warner is the founder of TouchdownCareer and serves as the Coach-in-Chief. Prior to founding Touchdown, AJ worked for Deloitte Consulting, one of the world's top management consulting firms, and provided strategic consulting services to Fortune 500 clients. AJ started the English-speaking Beijing chapter of Entrepreneurs Organization (EO) and served as Chapter President for 2.5 years. He recently stepped down to take a global committee position in EO helping promote leadership development throughout the organization.
Bhawna Bhatnagar
Product Operations Manager at BytedanceJudge
Bhawna Bhatnagar is an experienced product operations and communications professional with focus on mobile technology applications. With a strong academic background in science and social sciences, and professional background in media and technology, she got proven record of implementing product content strategies to gain and retain users in target markets and ensure success. She is also Co-Director of Startup Grind Beijing.
Brendan Davis
Founder of Big Fish in the Middle Kingdom podcastJudge
Experienced in storytelling, Brendan Davis is the founder of the Big Fish in the Middle Kingdom podcast, and Director, Special Ops at BangBangPictures. He was raised in Atlanta, Georgia and began his entertainment career in 1990. He moved to Los Angeles in 2002 and has been a producer on films competing at Sundance, Toronto, Berlin and other top festivals. In 2013 Davis produced a US season of Chinese TV hit "Jia Pian You Yue" featuring Stan Lee, Justin Lin, M. Night Shyamalan, Sean Astin, and others. Davis has been co-located in Beijing and Los Angeles since 2013. He has guest lectured at the Beijing Film Academy and works as a producer and consultant with global partners. Davis created the podcast “Big Fish in the Middle Kingdom” in May 2017 in an attempt to make more sense of his new home, and he co-created "How China Works" with Yingying Li to continue his journey.
Charlie Hu
Global partner at DoraHacksJudge
Charlie, Yechuan Hu, is an active technology entrepreneur, evangelist, community founder and startup entrepreneur with multiple tech startup projects experiences in the field of blockchain, AI and IOT. He worked in Rockstart one of the leading tech accelerator in Netherlands for several years. Now, he is the global partner at the tech hacker community - DoraHacks in China, also blockchain advisor of blockchain application projects such as Obelisk Network, OSA DC, former founding member of Ultrain. Charlie has been involved in the startup innovation, accelerator, blockchain and crypto fields since 2013 and went further engaged into blockchain technology & community development from 2017.
Costas Georgiou
International Legal Counsel at Chispo Attorneys at LawMentor for the micro-workshop:
Effective Networking in China and Beyond, hosted together with Petros Djakouris.
Costas is originally from Cyprus where he completed a two-year military service. During that time, he joined the ranks of the Special Forces, qualified as a Sergeant Major and graduated first of his Class.
As a first-generation university graduate, Costas studied Law at the University of Manchester. After graduating, he came to Beijing where he has been living for the past 3 years. In 2017, he co-founded BeHive, a platform that helps students, recent graduates and young professionals develop career skills. Costas is a Cyprus qualified attorney who has worked as a Management Trainee for a Chinese conglomerate and is now acting as International Legal Counsel for a Chinese IP firm.
Ida Jeng Christensen
Team Lead at TechPlomacy (Asia)Judge
Ida Jeng is an international expert and speaker on technology, diplomacy, public innovation and social entrepreneurship. Ida lives in Beijing and has previously lived and worked in New York, Nairobi and Copenhagen.
Ida is the team lead for Denmark's TechPlomacy-initiative in Asia and a senior tech advisor to Denmark’s (and the world’s first-ever) tech ambassador. Based out of Beijing, Ida oversees TechPlomacy in Asia — a new, forward-leaning strategic priority in Danish foreign policy. Prior to joining the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ida worked for the Centre for Humanitarian Data, a data-startup within the United Nations. Inspired by the possibilities of new technology, Ida led OCHA's data lab in Nairobi, Kenya, covering 25 countries in East and Southern Africa. Prior to joining OCHA, Ida worked as a director for the award-winning technology organization, Refugees United (REFUNITE), and spent nearly five years scaling mobile projects in the Middle East and Africa. Ida spent the first seven years of her career working on digital communication, public sector innovation and digitization of the private and the public sector. She worked for a United Nations agency in New York, as a technology blogger for a national Danish newspaper and as an advisor at a management consulting firm. Ida holds degrees from the University of Cambridge, Copenhagen University, and Copenhagen Business School. Ida has completed MIT’s executive program in management and leadership.
Martin Barnes
Presentation Trainer, Conference Speaker at Mountains of Imagination (MoI)Mentor for the micro-workshops:
A) Elevator Pitching Starter Skills - how to structure a clear and compelling message;
B) Perform with Confidence - how to prepare mentally and physically for the spotlight;
Martin Barnes is a well-known presentation skills trainer experienced in supporting corporate, founders and early stage startups in gaining valuable knowledge with regards to communicating key elements of their businesses to the right audiences. He is the creative director of Wheels Plus Wings, a social venture whose aim is to improve mobility for disabled children and bring positive effects to their independent future. He is also the founder of Mountains Of Imagination, a creative studio with focus on visualization and presentation design so that you can be memorable, connect, stand out and enjoy the most of your spotlight moments. His coaching credentials include support to TEDxBeijing, Chinaccelerator, Volkswagen, Starbucks, NBA China, and many others.
Namulun Tsogt
Communications Manager at WI Harper GroupMentor of the micro-workshop:
How to tease VCs and investors with a deck to get the next call for a meeting
Namulun Tsogtbaatar (Nami)
Ms. Namulun Tsogtbaatar is the Communications Director at WI Harper Group, a leading global venture capital firm, based in the Beijing office. Ms. Tsogtbaatar is mainly responsible for investor relations, fundraising and international markets deal flow.
Ms. Tsogtbaatar is a young professional from Mongolia with a dynamic and rich international background. She was raised in Australia and UK, obtained an International Baccalaureate Diploma from a Swiss boarding school, and later became a special recipient of the Chinese Government Full Scholarship to attend Peking University where she earned a LLB degree from the School of Law.
Petros Djakouris
International & Offline Marketing at ColorfulClouds TechMentor for the micro-workshop:
Effective Networking in China and Beyond, hosted together with Costas Georgiou.
Petros studied Economics at the University of Nottingham in the UK. After working and studying in China, he founded BeHive, an NGO that operates across Beijing to help students become more employable through professional skills training. Petros has served in the Special Forces as a Sergeant Major and has recently been recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Global Shaper. Other than being an avid supporter of youth empowerment and entrepreneurship, he handles international marketing at a technology startup where he bridges China with the rest of the world through AI-powered translation services. Petros, 26, is from Cyprus, and will be mentoring at Startup Weekend for the 2nd time.
Prakhar Khanduja
Seasoned Tech EntrepreneurJudge
Prakhar is a seasoned tech entrepreneur from India. He built companies in recruitment, livestreaming, content/social space. His last two companies InstaLively and Pulse were acquired by Hike Messenger(Tencent)After leading Product Growth at Hike Messenger in India he joined Holla Group as VP Product and Strategy at their Beijing office. Lately he has been helping/consulting with companies and various TMT funds with India and SEA expansion. Prakhar is also one of the most active evangelist of China India Startups interaction, and he runs the largest Chindia startup community.
Qiyi Ye
Senior product manager at Sinovation Ventures AI InstituteMentor for the micro-workshop:
How to apply the AI superpower on your product?
QIyi Ye is a senior product manager in Sinovation Ventures AI Institute. Rior to explore new AI application in Sinovation Ventures, Qiyi was the first product manager and strategy analyst of Yitu, one of the top AI startups in China. During Qiyi’s time in YItu, Yitu transformed from project-driven company to product-driven company and grew wildly fast from 60 employees to over 1000 employees. Early to that, QIyi was an investment analyst in GGV and Liuhe Capital. Meanwhile, QIyi organized AI product manager meetup in shanghai to create an platform for people to exchange difficulties and solutions in the very new area.
Ying Ying Li
Founder of Yingfluence, Inc.Judge
Yingying has a decade of experience working as a cross-cultural management consultant. She is a Communication Coach at Own the Room, a trilingual correspondent of Caixin Media (part of China's most influential financial media group). She is also an expert on cross-cultural branding, aiming to help the growth of multinational brands in China and Chinese companies go global. She frequently shares her expertise with others through lectures and speaking engagements at universities and millennial communities, startups, investor groups and other institutions around the globe.