Entrepreneurship Seminar

Founded in 1991, CASPA has developed into the largest Chinese American semiconductor professional organization worldwide. It is an officially registered non-profit organization with both the Internal Revenue Service and the State of California.CASPA charters1. Provide networking and business expansion for corporate sponsors and individual members2. Facilitate collaboration and communication among professionals and companies in the semiconductor industry3. Promote the welfare of the members by supporting their interests4. Exchange information regarding job opportunities and career development globally.CASPA consists of individual members, corporate sponsors, board of directors, board of advisors, board of volunteers, and honorary advisors. The board of directors consists of 20 members including Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary, CFO. Every year after the annual conference, the new board select Vice Chairman from qualified candidates. The Vice Chairman becomes the Chairman in the following year to guarantee continuity of leadership of CASPA. The board of advisors consists of current year's chairman and past six year's former chairmen. In addition, there are 7 Honorary Advisors since 2000. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, CASPA has 11 local chapters worldwide: Albany New York, Austin & Dallas Texas; Phoenix Arizona; Portland Oregon; HsinChu Taiwan, Pearl River Delta (Hong Kong, ShenZhen), San Diego California, Shanghai, Beijing and Singapore. CASPA also forms alliance with other associations to promote welfare of its members. In 2004, CASPA reciprocates memberships with two of the largest professional organizations in the industry, SEMI and FSA.Currently CASPA has more than four thousand individual members covering multiple disciplines. Most of them are semiconductor professionals working in Silicon Valley, Southern California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Texas, New York, China, Taiwan, and Singapore. CASPA also has more than 70 corporate sponsors, including EDA, design, IDM, foundry, packaging / test, venture capital, science and technology development parks, legal and financial service companies located in the United States, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Singapore and Japan.1. Bi-monthly dinner meetings2. Conferences, Seminars, Workshops and Symposiums3. International and domestic Job Fairs4. CASPA Delegations to China, Taiwan, and Asia Pacific countries5. Hosting Delegations from China, Taiwan, and other Asia Pacific countries6. Annual banquet and special summer program.1. Semimonthly eLtters2. Quarterly newsletters3. Annual Conference Proceeding4. Other conference and delegation proceedings

Chinese American Semicon Professional Association

Topic 1: "Lesson learned in launching a startup" 
Speaker: Mr. Avery Lu, Co-Founder & Managing Director of Investments at ActionSpot Startup Studio
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Avery Lu is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Investments at ActionSpot Startup Studio. Previously, he co-founded and served as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Palo Alto Scientific. He also co-founded and serves as Senior Director of Business Development, at WBGlobalSemi. Mr. Lu also served as Vice President of Business Development at Focus PDM (Products Designed to Market). Avery held various senior roles in business development for NXP, Infineon, Toshiba, Cypress and Xilinx. Mr. Lu serves on the board of directors of CASPA and a Senior Member of IEEE and the former Chair of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, Santa Clara Valley (2015-2016). Avery also serves on the advisory boards of Santa Clara University’s Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship.
Topic 2: “Legal Considerations"
Speaker: Jame M Wu, Partner of JW Law Group 
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Jim Wu is the founder of JW Law Group. He has over 20 years of experience focusing primarily in the area of patent procurement, international and domestic IP counseling, IP/business strategy, portfolio management, technology transfer, patent analysis and patent litigation. Jim has assisted many multinational clients with various aspects of intellectual property rights in the United States as well as in Asia. Before founding JW Law Group, Jim was an attorney at several U.S. based international and domestic law firms. Jim also worked as an in-house IP attorney for a leading programmable logic device (PLD) Semiconductor Company.
 
Topic 3: "Startup setup and operation”
Speaker: Christina Yu, CEO of IntoBenefits
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Christina is the CEO of IntoBenefits, Inc, a leading provider of employee benefit consulting firm that engages directly to customers’ operation. The company provides operation consultation to more than 500 startup companies. Christina is a successful entrepreneur and business executive with expertise in and passion for building businesses. After doing extensive research in optimizing the business start-up process, Christina went on to build and help businesses in industries. Prior to her entrepreneurial endeavors, she worked in a CPA firm and had overseas investment banking experience.
 
Topic 4: "Brand building"
Speaker: Yuping Chung, co-founder and senior vice president of Anitoa Systems LLC
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Yuping Chung is the co-founder and the Senior Vice President of Anitoa Systems LLC, a medical device startup in Palo Alto, California. He brings in 25+ years of semiconductor experience and prior training of microbiology and biochemistry together for business management and product development. Prior to Anitoa, Yuping served as the General Manager of Faraday Technology USA. Prior to that, he held several senior marketing and sales management positions at Macronix Taiwan, Etron USA, and Mitsubishi USA (now Renesas).  Yuping was the Chairman and President of CASPA (2013-2014) and now he is a member of the Board of Advisors for CASPA.

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