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Asia Business Conference 2014
Disrupting Asia: How technology is changing business in Asia
Date: March 1st, 2014
Venue: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
The largest Asia-focused business conference in the Bay Area is back for 2014! Each year students, faculty, professionals, and industry leaders gather at Berkeley-Haas to discuss pressing issues and business opportunities in Asia. .
Register for the conference at
http://bit.ly/1nen7zB.
Our official website: http://berkeleyabc.org/2014/index.html
This is a great event to network with and learn from business leaders and professionals. This year we will have three discussion panels, an interactive case study, and a student pitch competition.
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Panelist:
Jingming Li
CTO
Alipay.com- Alibaba Group
Jingming manages the technology infrastructure including core payment processing platform&networks. He oversees products directions, software development, datacenter operations and all other technology related activities, providing payment services to hundreds
of millions of online users and processing capabilities with 100+ financial institutions representing over 1 trillion China RMB in transaction value annually. Created world record of 105 million online transactions of 20 billion RMB in volume processed in
a single day.
Professional Milestone:
Jingming led the technology restructuring initiative and product overhaul that fueled the biggest turnaround in the company’s history, achieved a 500% jump in valuation in less than 2 years and made Alipay a strong household name in China.
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Panelist:
Shamil Hargovan
Group Product Manager
Applications and Service Group
Hewlett-Packard
Driven by the fascinating potential of art, commerce, and innovation to impact our daily lives, Shamil seeks out challenging opportunities to create new ways we think about and do things in our ever-changing world. His enduring quest is to understand and advance
the way technology and society can interact more harmoniously, in order to unleash human expression and fulfillment.
Shamil’s background spans several industries, including high tech research and development, consumer hardware and web services, education and non-profit organization management, life sciences, online multimedia, and management consulting.
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Panelist:
Linda Ge
Former Business Development Manager
Paypal
In Paypal, Linda led cross-functional team to research business expansion into overseas education payment market in 6 countries, including US, Canada, and UK; developed 2 to 5-year implementation strategies targeting $7Mn annually. Linda decided to pursue her
MBA in Anderson, UCLA and now working as a Product Marketing Intern in Nimble.
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Panelist:
Stephen Chan
Vice President of Engineering
Yiftee
Yiftee developed e-commerce social mobile app on iPhone, Android and Ruby on Rails. Integrated with MasterCard as
the mobile payment solution. Using big data for e-commerce and social analytics. The iPhone app won the 2013 SXSW Appy Award
Stephen Chan brings two decades of expertise building mobile, social and mission-critical high performance software.
Specialties: cloud computing, mobile app, social network app, enterprise software app, web 2.0 app, performance and architecture
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Moderator:
Andreas Weigend, PhD
Professor at Stanford and Berkeley
Andreas Weigend is an expert in data mining and e-business. As the Chief Scientist of Amazon.com, he became known for innovations in measuring, modeling and
predicting customer behavior and for the successful application of these ideas to marketing.
Andreas teaches at Stanford University the graduate course “Data Mining and Electronic Business”, as well as in China the executive course “Information and Innovation”
Andreas now works as an independent consultant with customer centric, information rich companies, bringing to them state-of-the-art methodology and his rich experience with collecting and managing information and designing web experiments. He conducts short-term
workshops on data strategy, incentive engineering, and information and interaction design that often lead to long-term engagements. Clients include Alibaba, Goldman Sachs, Swiss International Air Lines, Match.com, and Yahoo. He also enjoys advising several
cutting-edge startups.
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Discussion Panels
Consumer
Speakers: VP of Alibaba Group, Former VP of Tencent US, Group Product Manager of Hewlett-Packard, Deputy GM of Suning US, Former BD Director of Paypal China
Healthcare
Speakers: CEO of InnoSpring, CEO of Confihealth Solutions, Faculty Director of Asia Health Policy Program at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University
Finance
Speakers: Portfolio Manager of Matthews Asia, Managing Partner of Webplus Ventures
Student Pitch Competition $2,200
in cash prizes!
Tech in Asia: Innovative Ideas Competition
The student pitch competition will focus on tech ideas to disrupt business practices and tap unique business and investment opportunities in Asia.
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