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Amanda Ma
Marketing Director | Head of InnoSpace Labs at InnoSpaceInnoSpace is a community for entrepreneurs and startups, providing effective incubation and open innovation services. It encompasses cube for startup incubation, labs for industry acceleration, college for talent development, club for connecting entrepreneurs, investors and industry experts, and funds for angel investment. Together, these form a comprehensive and robust support ecosystem for startups. As one of China’s pioneer ‘New Generation Incubator’, InnoSpace has nurtured over 450 startups.
Thibault Genaitay
Head of China at Le WagonThibault is a software developer building applications for the Chinese market, Partner and general manager of Le Wagon China (www.lewagon.com), a coding school for creative entrepreneurs operating in Shanghai, Chengdu and Shenzhen. Its cutting-edge curriculum and world-class teachers gave 4000+ students all the skills and tools needed to kick-start their tech career, land an exciting new job, or launch their own startup. From 2010 to 2016 he worked with international luxury brands such as Guerlain, Shangri-La, Richemont, Berluti to shape their digital strategy for the Chinese market. Thibault lectures at Le Wagon / Shanghai University UTSEUS / Tongji university College of Design / Jiaotong university Antai School of Economics / ESSCA Shanghai / Condé Nast Center. He often shares nerdy articles on WeChat, Medium and Linkedin.
Carol Zhou
Head of Shiseido China Business Innovation & Investment Representative Office at ShiseidoAs head of the newly created China Business Innovation & Investment office for Shiseido, Carol is helping to shape the next phase of transformation for the company. By leveraging the dynamic ecosystem and entrepreneurial talents in China, Carol will help to accelerate the implementations of innovations and new business models, to create new beauty business as the next growth driver of the Shiseido group on a global level. Previously, she has held a number of management positions at multinational firms such as Unilever, Burberry, L'Oreal, and Marriott where she has led global strategy & innovation functions across regions and categories.
Carol received her undergraduate degree from New York University's Stern Business School and her MBA from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Ryan Shuken
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Lean Venture PartnersRyan Shuken is a China market early stage venture capital specialist. With 15 years of experience in Shanghai, China building businesses and investing in over 150 early stage startups with SOSV. He is the Founder and Managing Partner at Lean Venture Partners, Growth Hacker in Residence at Chinaccelerator and SOSV, founder of the China Startup Pulse Podcast and startup entrepreneur.
Yi Zhou
Director of Silicon Valley BankMs. Yi Zhou joined Silicon Valley Bank in Shanghai as a director to manage top VC fund relations. Silicon Valley Bank offers products such as venture loans, GP loans, capital call line facilities, introductions to excellent startups and LPs to VC partners to better their portfolio and funds.
Prior to that, Yi joined S&P as their China Market Development Leader in 2013. On behalf of S&P Capital IQ, Yi’s role is to help understand the China market in depth, develop actionable business strategies, and build stronger relationships with local partners, clients and regulators. Prior to joining S&P Capital IQ, Yi worked at Wind, China’s largest desktop provider, coordinating their partnerships and managing their international department.
Yi holds undergraduate degrees in Korean and Economics from Peking University as well as a Master’s degree in Education from Harvard University. She had a book of essays published during college and paid college tuition with it. She writes for various public WeChat accounts and hosts events for MBA associations. She currently serves as Vice President of Harvard Club of Shanghai.
Paul Wong
Vice President - Innovation at ExploriumPaul is an innovation evangelist. He is passionate about technology and keen to apply technologies to digitally transform traditional businesses to be future ready. Paul started his career as open-source developer in Los Angeles, then joined Li & Fung in Hong Kong. As the founding member of Explorium, he is currently managing the innovation center inside the Explorium, a globally-connected open innovation ecosystem for supply chain and retail.
Paul has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Yan Qing Wang
BD of Developer Ecosystem, IBM Digital Business Group at IBMFocus on the construction of the ecosystem, working with the developers, start-ups, ISVs, communities, VCs to expand IBM image and develop related business.
Focus on new technology trends, such as Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain, IOT, gathering all kinds of experts, communities, associations to find out new business opportunities.
Rong Yu
CTO at Microsoft for Startups ShanghaiRong Yu leads technology & innovation assessment, technical enablement, and partnerships with startups. He is also responsible for leading technical engagement with ecosystem partners such as VCs, industry-leading enterprises, and 3rd party incubators & accelerators. He has 10+ years of experiences working in Microsoft. Prior to joining Microsoft Accelerator Shanghai, Mr. Yu led product management of MySQL Database on Azure in R&D in Microsoft China Cloud Innovation Center. He and the team built the product from ground zero and successfully released General Availability in 18 months with average over 20% MoM growth in the following 12 months. Previously Mr. Yu also worked in the Windows server group as a program manager. Prior to joining Microsoft, Mr. Yu was a development manager in WebEx Communications (now part of Cisco Systems) responsible for all manageability solutions for WebEx Online Meeting services.
Bill Ni
Executive of Digital Platform and Developer Ecosystem at IBMBill Ni, executive of Digital Platform and Developer Ecosystem, IBM GCG. Whom is taking responsibility for digital marketplace platform business and developer ecosystem in GCG. Bill is also the Chief Advocate of Call For Code program in GCG, advocate call for code, executive call for code program in GCG