Xi'an Business Forum – China's Emerging Hi-tech Hub
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Cha Li, Co-founder for DragonVest will give keynote at Mobile China 2011 Conference
Founder &CEO – Carnival Nation Media Corp
President- MotionPoster Asia
Founder & CEO – InterPro Ltd.
President - East West Communications Inc.
Co-Founder and Managing General Partner
Cha Li is Founder and Managing General Partner of Dragonvest Partners, LP. He has more than seventeen years of international business experience in the US, Europe and Asia, eight years of which involves direct experience in China as an investor and an entrepreneur. Cha Li specializes in the emerging wireless, digital media and Internet sectors in China.
Cha Li was one of the first students who left China to study in the West after the Cultural Revolution. After his graduation, he has worked in international media companies such as Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide and ZiffDavis before he started his own business in New York City. His first US start-up company, EastWest Communications, Inc. was an advertising company that helped numerous US multinationals expanding into Asia. As a serial entrepreneur himself, Cha Li has founded and run several companies in search engine technology, eLearning, online music and mobile gaming before he became a venture capitalist.
Cha Li was educated at the National Academy of the Arts in China, where he received a B.A. and the University of London, where he received an Master degree. He was also the founding Chairman of the Chinese Overseas Student Association in Europe.
Xi’an High Tech Zoon is sponsoring Mobile China 2011 Conference at Silicon Valley
Mobile China Forum Featured Sponsor: Xi’an High Tech Zoon.
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Time: Oct 23rd, 2011
Location: Santa Clara Convention Center 5001 Great America Parkway Santa Clara, CA 95054-1119  
China continues to be by far the largest mobile market in the world with over 900 million active subscribers on its three carriers, over 350 million mobile Internet users, and over 250 million new handsets sold each year. Even at this scale, growth has not slowed down. There continues to be eight to 10 million new subscribers being added each month, with about 50 percent of them being 3G users.
Event Agenda Apps Go Global App Planet China VIP Sessions We look forward to you joining us! Sponsor & Partners: |
About Xi’an
As most of people have known, Xi’an has been one of the best international tourist destinations due to its splendid history and culture. Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses, Wild Goose Pagoda, Bell tower and Ancient City Wall have attracted millions tourists all over the world every year. More than that, Xi’an city has been one of the most important cities in China in many categories including advanced education, modern technology development, aviation and aerospace. The city has more than 50 government-sponsored universities and colleges, and more than 600 research institutions, which have significantly contributed to modern industrial and technology development of China.
Xi’an Hi-Tech Zone is one of the best Hi-Tech Parks approved by State Council in 1991, with more than 100 square kilometers planning area, where more than 12000 companies have registered, including many Fortunate 500 and multinationals like GE, IBM, Emerson, Honeywell, UTC, Bosch, Oracle, Applied Materials and Intel, etc. Fully utilizing the competitive advantages of high quality talents, efficient transportation system and sufficient utilities supply, Xi’an Hi-Tech Zone has grown to one of the best Hi-Tech Parks in China.
In June, State Council approved Xi-Xian New District after Shanghai Pudong, Tianjin Binhai and Chongqing Liangjiang, and will issue significant incentives to development the area in the next ten years. Central government has decided to build Xi’an to be one of the International Metropolitans after Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. We strongly believe that the best time for Xi’an city is coming.
For any questions regarding Xi’an city and Xi’an Hi-Tech Zone, please do not hesitate to contact Richard Liu, who is the Director/Chief Representative in the States, at his email address liuxl@xdz.gov.cn or voice line 408.499.3214.
Mobile China Forum Invites you to App China Challenge: Meet with Judges from Huahong, GWC, Intel, AppNation, DNAPartners
App Developers,
Mobile China invites app developers to submit their mobile applications for selection in our annual App Challenge. The App Challenge is the highlight of the Mobile China | AppPlanet China 2011 conference 2011 event on Oct. 23rd, a one day app conference surrounding the Mobile App ecosystems between China and Silicon Valley.
Deadline for app submission is Oct 22nd. Invitation letter attached.
Meet the great judge panel:
Judge Panel:
Moderator:
Drew Ianni, Founder President, AppNation
Wen Chu ,founder and CEO ,GWC
Winston Choe, Tablet Ecosystem Director, Intel
Joe Jasin, Managing Director,DNA Partners
Judge Panel Bio attached in details
3PM App China Challenge
Judge Panel:
4:20 PM Fireside chat with the judges: The Apps who can win internationally
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He was responsible for planning of Shanghai Information Port, designing policies and implementing the construction of information application projects, as a Director of Information Office of Shanghai Municipal Government in 1995.
Mr. Xia was also responsible for supporting and coordinating Hua Hong NEC project, which was China’s first 8 inch semiconductor processing line, as Director of Shanghai 909 Project Office.
After being appointed as President of Shanghai Hua Hong Micro-Electronics Corporation in 1998, Mr. Xia started Hua Hong Design Corporation, acquired Beiling Semiconductor Company and Jitong Intelligent-Card Company. Mr. Xia was the first President of Hua Hong Group after he organized Hua Hong Group.
Wen Chu, CEO, Great Wall Club
As a serial entrepreneur in mobile Internet, Wenchu successfully sold his 1st company to a Nasdaq listed company in 2004. He founded Moabc in 2005, and made it as a leading mobile community with +10 million users. Great Wall Club was founded by Wenchu in Mar.2008. He speaks Chinese, and English.
Winston Choe, Intel
Winston Choe is currently the Tablet Ecosystem Director in the Intel Netbook and Tablet Group, where he
manages development of the ecosystem through engagements with key-customers, strategic-partners,
venture-ecosystem, and new market-development. His background covers 20 years in the Mobility,
Communications, Software, and Services industries, where he has developed businesses at startup ventures
and multinational-corporations across the US and Asia.
Winston founded three software ventures in business-networking, mobile cloud-computing and networked-
multimedia, which he developed from concept to commercialization. Prior to joining Intel, he was the Founder
at Confidantly, a business-networking software company where he established the team, completed product-
development, and launched Beta services through online, social and affiliate-marketing. Previously, Winston
has managed sales and business-development organizations in the HP Handheld, Nokia Mobility, Sun
Consumer Mobile, and DEC Global Services groups where he managed carriers, strategic-partners, and new
market-development.
Joe Jasin
Managing Director,DNA Partners
Joe Jasin has built an international career within the wireless telecommunications and digital media distribution industries, establishing a cross-border depth of USA – Asia experience that includes: mobile internet, venture capital, and corporate development.
He currently serves as Managing Director of DNA Investment Partners, LLC an early stage venture investment firm. DNA is investing in companies based in the USA and China, industries centric to IP Communications and Digital Media Distribution.
He recently served as Vice President of Corporate Development for SK Telecom, in Seoul Korea. Joe Jasin is also the founder of ICE Wireless, Wireless Blueprint. Prior to those activities, he was at Sprint/Nextel as a Director of Product and Business Development. He is chair of the Software Development Forum’s Mobile internet group, formal advisor to the U.S. State Department’s – APEC Office of Commerce, and a founding member of CTIA’s Wireless Internet Caucus.
Mobile China Forum Presents: Apps Go Global at Linkedin Sep 27
Mobile China Forum invites you to this great event hosted at Linkedin:
Agenda:
5:30PM Networking
6PM Introduction
6:10PM Opening Remark
Kiran Prasad, Director of Engineering Mobile, Linkedin
6:25PM Speakers
Moderator: Vivien Wang, Partner, Deloitte
Barrett Parkma,Vice President, International Marketing and Growth, Great Wall Club
Christopher Griffin, Founder & CEO of Betable
Damien Patton, Founder and CEO at Banjo
Ajay Mishra, Co-Founder and Chief Customer Officer, MobileIron, Inc
Raymond Wei, Co-founder & CEO, Weaver Mobile, Inc.
7:10PM Panel Discussion
8PM Networking
More details, visit:
http://www.m-china.org/events/31640352/
Speaker Bio
Kiran Prasad, Director of Engineering Mobile, Linkedin
Vivien Wang, Partner, International Tax,Deloitte Tax LLP
Vivien Wang has over 12 years of public accounting and international tax experiences, providing tax consulting, compliance and tax accounting assurance services to various high-tech and venture capital clients. Her experience includes structuring and globally managing both U.S. inbound and outbound investments. Vivien assisted in the planning and implementation of the worldwide restructurings, mergers, acquisitions, and IP migrations for multinational clients.
Vivien is also the National Tax Function Leader of Deloitte’s US China Services Group, specializing in China strategy planning for US companies and investment funds. Vivien travels frequently to Asia and is fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese. She is also a frequent speaker in Atlas, the Council for International Tax Education (CITE), HYSTA, etc.
Selected clients:
Marvell, MPS, Trina Solar, GCL Solar, Spreadtrum, Oplink, VeriSilicon, DCM Venture, Vantage Venture, DFJ Venture, Fuse Capital, Silicon Valley Bank
Barrett Parkma,Vice President, International Marketing and Growth, Great Wall Club
Barrett Parkman is Vice President of the Great Wall Club where he oversees international growth and business development. In the past 2 years, Barrett and his Chinese business partners have built the Great Wall Club into a global platform for mobile internet leaders and grown their annual event, The Global Mobile Internet Conference into the largest and most elite event of its kind in Asia.
He has become a key connecting point and trusted partner between tech industries of China, the US, and other countries and has worked with companies such as Tencent, Sina, Google, Facebook and LinkedIn. Barrett is passionate about assisting Chinese companies expand into foreign countries, supporting international companies to access China’s market and fostering trusted relationships between industry leaders.
Christopher Griffin, Founder & CEO of Betable
As Betable’s Founder and CEO, Christopher E. Griffin has four years of gambling and gaming experience. Chris drives Betable’s vision, innovation, strategy, product direction and business development. With Betable’s newest product, a platform that gives game developers the ability to legally add real-money gambling to their games, he aims to change both the gaming and gambling industries forever.
Chris began his career as a venture capitalist at VB, LLC, where he created hundreds of millions of dollars of value. He has raised $60M over his career, including $43m for a medical device company in one of the largest Series A rounds in medical device history. He also has served as a business development and financing consultant for multiple companies, and he is on the Board of Advisors for Alphabet Energy.
Damien Patton, Founder and CEO at Banjo
As a four-time entrepreneur, Damien has built his career on making ideas a reality. A powerhouse of energy and innovation, Damien has spent the last several months building Banjo, a social discovery service where people can discover and connect with those around them regardless of where they are, who they know or what social networks (if any) they belong to.
Damien can often be found speaking at conferences on subjects ranging from social media to online accessibility. Damien enjoys leading teams on innovative projects, and has won multiple awards at technology hackfests such as StartUp Weekend and Google Campout. From think-tanks and boardrooms to dirt bikes and race cars, Damien is a risk taker who likes his life challenging and fast paced.
Ajay Mishra, Co-Founder and Chief Customer Officer, MobileIron, Inc.
Before MobileIron, Ajay co-founded enterprise wireless pioneer, Airespace (acquired by Cisco for $450M in 2005). He defined the initial product requirements for the company’s products, working hand-in-hand with 20 teaching customers. Ajay also chaired the WLAN-Mobile Convergence (WMC) task force within the WiFi Alliance and launched two new WMC certifications. Ajay is a frequent speaker on mobile convergence and its implications for the enterprise.
Before Airespace, Ajay ran product management for the Cisco Mobile Office Network (MNET). He integrated the acquisitions of JetCell and Exio, built the products team, and successfully launched the Cisco MNET solution at GSM World Congress in 2001. Ajay started his career as an engineer at Motorola, where he was part of the team that designed the world’s first commercial GSM handset in 1990. He was also instrumental in developing Motorola’s first CDMA handset in 1993.
Ajay has an MS in Computer Science from the University of Southern Mississippi and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
Raymond Wei, Co-founder & CEO, Weaver Mobile, Inc.
Raymond Wei, Co-founder & CEO, Weaver Mobile, Inc.
Raymond is a technology veteran in Silicon Valley. Joining Netscreen Technologies in its early times, he was one of the key contributors to the company’s phenomenal success, going public in less than four years. Raymond served as Director of Advanced Systems when Juniper acquired Netscreen. He later served as CTO and VP Engineering at Topsec Networks, Beijing. After investing and getting deeply involved an internet startup, he developed strong interests in internet technologies serving consumers. In April 2011, he co-founded Weaver Mobile with two former Netscreen colleagues, developing mobile applications.
Weaver Mobile’s first product is WeConnect, a mobile application to facilitate interactions and communications in real-world social events. Specifically serving the scenarios where online social and offline social intertwine, it strives to solve the problem where event goers rely on multiple tools and social platforms for their typical actions on an event, such as, to preview attendee information, exchange contact information, keep notes, and follow up with people. WeConnect allows event goers to smoothly interact and communicate with other attendees in a seamlessly integrated environment, eliminating the need to go in and out of disparate set of social tools and to synchronize information among them.
