Fwd: 浙江大学波士顿校友会2012秋季创业论坛暨感恩节聚会(11月25日）正在注册中，欢迎踊跃参加

[Zhenhua Lai]

Dear Alumni and Friends,

This is just a kind reminder of the upcoming forum organized by ZJUAA-Boston. Please note that we changed the start time from 2pm to 1pm this Sunday, so that we can have more time to share.

On another note, one of the speakers (Guo, Lei) had unexpected conflict with the event, a new speaker, Chen, Caipeng will join us instead. Please see Chen's bio below.

We look forward to seeing you this Sunday at MIT!
ZJUAA-Boston committee

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 8:30 PM, ZJUAA BOSTON <zjuaa...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Alumni and Friends,

The Zhejiang University Alumni Association Boston Chapter will launch its 2012 entrepreneurship forum this fall. The forum has a focus on "Translate Innovation, Science and Technology to Future Start-up Ventures". We have invited speakers from our successful alumni working in business, industry and academia with multiple disciplines at Boston area and in China. We aim to set up this platform for YOU to learn the nitty-gritty of entrepreneurship, to build up network with entrepreneurs, and to commit yourself to transforming your great ideas to future enterprises. This event is also co-organized by our brother club Weiming-Zijing venture club this year.

Forum Topic: Translate Innovation, Science and Technology to Future Start-up Ventures
---- Start with your Alumni around You

Time: Start from 1:00pm on 11/25/2012 (Sunday)

Place: MIT Sloan School of Management, Building E51 (Tang center), Room 325

Parking: Visitors can park in any non-gated lot on campus after 5 PM on weekdays, and all day on weekends and MIT holidays. You could consider the MIT parking lot located at 42.360673,-71.084797 (google map) or park on the street free on Sunday.

Invited speakers:

Zhang, Shiwei, PhD

Dr. Zhang is currently the CEO of The Research Institute for Innovation at Insigma Group (浙大网新创新研究院）, responsible for commercializing its innovation achievements and fostering new business. He is also a guest research professor at the College of Public Administration of Zhejiang University and at the Top 500 Enterprise Research Center of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. He has been a visiting scholar and research fellow at MIT Sloan School of Management since August 2009.  Previously he was working as a Research Director, CTO and VP at two MIT technology-based companies respectively, and was also a visiting assistant professor at Department of Chemistry of MIT. He is the author or co-author of 35 peer-reviewed articles published in international scientific journals, and the co-inventor of five patents, and two of them were respectively licensed to a Japanese company and a US company for the practical commercialization.

Guo, Jian, PhD
Dr. Guo is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health. His main research interest covers computational online advertising, search techniques for social media and location-based service, and large-scale machine learning algorithms based on cloud computing. Before joining Harvard, he had working experience at Yahoo! Lab while pursuing his PhD at University of Michigan .He also co-founded start-ups for tutoring college students while he was studying at Tsinghua University.

Chen, Caipeng
Chen, Caipeng majors in Mechanical Engineering at Boston University. In the past 2012 MIT-CHIEF business plan contest last week, he lead his team of  Around Sensing to win the first place in the Healthcare Track.  Around-Sensing is a healthcare company focusing on developing portable sensing devices and sensor-based App to monitor environmental and personal health. He will share his story of founding Around Sensing and experience of winning the MIT-CHIEF contest.

Moderator: Miao, Qing, PhD
Dr. Miao is an associated professor at the College of Public Administration, Zhejiang University. He is currently a visiting professor at MIT Sloan School of Management. His research interests include leadership and entrepreneurship, labor relationship and human resources management, and he has unique insights on mobile &Internet industry development and venture opportunities. With experience and passion in both the theory and practice of entrepreneurship, he has advised and supervised many start-up teams both at Boston and in China. He is also serving as a distinguished reviewer of 2012 MIT-CHIEF business plan contest.

Please register at the following link:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGNmMFJlZEg0VHFjMV9zWmtHaHFWOHc6MQ

Early registrants will have the chance to get a lottery award at the end. Also, light snack will be provided during the forum. Please come to join us to embrace this opportunity and to witness the first-year launch of this forum. 

Best regards,

ZJU Alumni Entrepreneurship Club
Zhejiang University Alumni Association Boston Chapter

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The Boston ZJU Entrepreneurship club is affiliated to the Zhejiang University Alumni Association Boston Chapter. The club is committed to provide a platform for the young talents at the Great Boston Area to communicate entrepreneurial ideas, to foster potential start-up collaborations, and to connect the talent and advanced technology at US with the fast growing resources and improving entrepreneurial environment in China.

The club organizes a serials of seminar events in flexible formats, such as speeches given by invited speakers, sharing of personal entrepreneurial experience by our fellow members, or interactive "brainstorm" type of discussion.

In the fall of 2012, we start to collaborate with Weiming-Zijing Venture Club at Great Boston which is affiliated to Peking University Alumni Association at New England & Tsinghua Alumni Association in Great Boston. Our fellow members work at Harvard, MIT,  Massachusetts General Hospital, and etc, and the organized events are gaining more and more popularity at Boston area.

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