Berkeley China Summit 

8:30 am – 9:00 am      Check-in & Registration

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9:00 am – 9:30 am        Welcoming Remarks by Alumni & Student Representatives

• Faqiang Ren, Deputy Consul General of China in San Francisco

• Cloey Hewlett, Executive Director of Cal Alumni Association (CAA) 

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9:30 am – 9:40 am        Special Guest:  Phil Ting 

• California State Assembly member        

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9:40 am – 10:10 am      Keynote I: Tsu-Jae King Liu  (click to see details)​

• Dean of the College of Engineering, UC Berkeley

• Speech: Engineering Leadership in a Globally Connected Society

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10:10 am – 11:20 am   Panel I: The Future of Computing & AI

 

• Greg La Blanc(Moderator), Berkeley Haas Lecturer & Distinguished Teaching Fellow

• Michael Jordan, “The World's Most Influential Computer Scientist” by Science in 2016

• Meagan Pi, Engineering Vice President at Google

• Haining Zhang, Head of R&D for Greater China at Apple

• Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google

• Eman Safadi, COO of ObEN (AI company)

• Lingjie Xu, Director of Alibaba Cloud in Applied AI Architecture

• Andrew Kau, Managing Director of Walden International

• Vangelis Hytopoulos, Senior Director of Biostatistics at Genomic Health

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11:20 am – 11:30 am    Break

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11:30 am – 12:00 pm    Keynote II: Jack Wadsworth  (click to see details)​

• Honorary Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia

• Speech: The Third Communist Party Plenum – Dead or Alive

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12:00 pm – 1:10 pm     Panel II: The Future of Entrepreneurship

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• Richard Chan (Moderator), Partner at IronFire Capital

• Eric Ly, Co-Founder of LinkedIn

• Jack McCauley, Co-Founder of Oculus

• Ping Wu, Founder of Spreadtrum

• Wayne Dai, CEO of VeriSilicon

• Kevin Brown, Co-Founder & CEO of Innit

• Andy Li, Former CTO of Alibaba.com

• Mengyao Ella Li, Sr. Director of ZGC Capital Corp.

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1:10 pm – 2:10 pm       LunchBreak

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2:10 pm – 3:20 pm       Panel III: The Future of Media & Entertainment

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• Margaret Conley(Moderator), Executive Director of Asia Society Northern CA

• Vlad Bina, Digital Art Director for "The Lion King" and "Spiderman 3"

• Toby Zhang, CRCM Ventures

• Athena (Lu) Ning, Emmy Awards Judge & Actress "Qin Empire 3"

• Scarlett Li, CEO of Zebra Media (Former Channel [V] CEO)

• Yi Ma, Berkeley Professor & Sr. Advisor of Bytedance & Cheetah Board Member (NYSE: CMCM) 

• Chen Zheng*, Director of Product Innovations, Netflix

 

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3:20 pm – 3:50 pm       Keynote III: Randy Schekman (click to see details)​

• 2013 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine

• Speech: An international collaborative approach to understanding the mechanism of Parkinson’s Disease​

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3:50 pm – 5:00 pm       Panel IV: The Future of Transportation

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• Ching-Yao Chan(Moderator), Co-Director of Berkeley DeepDrive

• Norman Yee, President of San Francisco Board of Supervisors

• Tilly Chang, Executive Director of SF County Transportation Authority

• Alex Huang, SVP & President of Global Business Center at Segway-Ninebot

• Jean Walsh, Public Affairs Manager at Lime

• Rob Park, Business Strategy Manager at Argo AI

• Fisher Yu, Senior Researcher at Berkeley DeepDrive

• Fan Wang, Director of Autonomous Driving at Seres/SF Motors and Co-Founder of SilkRides

• Rick Wang, Managing Director of China Everbright Limited

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5:00 pm – 6:00 pm       Networking Session

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6:00 pm                          End

 

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