Philip Zhao

VANTIQ​ Greater China GM

VANTIQ大中华区总经理

Philip has worked in IT industries for 23 years and 12-year management experience in China and Asia. His career grows with the evolution of the technologies from telecom, software, SaaS and Cloud, to big data and AI. Currently, he is working with VANTIQ as the GM of Greater China. Prior to VANTIQ, Philip created his own company offering big data platform to K-12 schools in China, and the company has been acquired lately. Before that, Philip was the sales director at Parallels, responsible for all sales and channel activities in the Greater China's market. Previously, he was the general manager of CCH Greater China at Wolters Kluwer, leading the sales, marketing and product development functions.

Erik Walenza-Slabe

CEO, IoT ONE​

Shanghai Director, Startup Grind​

Co-chair, American Chamber of Commerce Technology & Innovation Committee​

Erik Walenza is the CEO of IoT ONE, the Co-chair of the American Chamber of Commerce Technology & Innovation Committee, and the Shanghai Director of Startup Grind. As Co-chair of the AmCham Innovation Committee, Erik works with members and partners to develop and exchange best practices for innovation strategy and technology trend mapping and, through Startup Grind, supports the development of Shanghai's innovation ecosystem. He has interviewed over 50 CEOs, VC partners, and domain experts to build one of Shanghai's largest networks of entrepreneurs and investors. He regularly advises early stage entrepreneurs and provides introductions to help small teams leverage external resources to drive their growth. 

Thibault Genaitay

Head of China at Le Wagon​

Thibault 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.

Frederic Bazin

Co-founder at Coderbunker​ and Agora Space​

Agile practitioner since 1999, passionate about building software products, I use LEAN startup to develop business.

Programmer since 1994, I can combine a broad range of technologies to deliver business value and amazing user experience. I embraced methodologies such as XP, SCRUM, TDD and Refactoring in the early days and use all these agile tools on daily basis to boost software engineering throughput.

With 20 years experience building software, managing developers and implementing engineering best practices, I can lead or support your Software projects.

I also have expertise working on high availability and platform operation. Thus I can cover the whole product lifecycle, from requirements analysis to running production.

I spent the past 5 years exploring data project. Acquired in depth expertise about webscraping and keep learning about data science every day.