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AAMA SPEAKER SERIES DINNER "CHINESE INNOVATION: PAPER TIGER OR GLOBAL PLAYE...

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Tue, March 21, 2017

5:30 PM – 8:30 PM PDT

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Chef Chu's Restaurant

1067 N. San Antonio Road

Los Altos, CA 94022

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Join AAMA for a Networking Reception and Keynote Dinner Featuring Gary Rieschel, Founding Managing Partner of Qiming Venture Partners

China is in the midst of a digital revolution. Innovative companies are revolutionizing social technology, cloud computing, mobile connectivity, increasing data-driven logistics, and integrating offline experiences into online return. As a global leader in the digital industry, China is posed to demand expanding its infrastructure and creative engineering, which will continue to drive modernization of the digital landscape.

The AAMA Speaker Series celebrates the accomplishments of extraordinary individuals creating leading-edge solutions in the Silicon Valley and Asia. On March 21, AAMA is honored to welcome Gary Rieschel, Founding Managing Partner of Qiming Venture Partners. Gary will share his experiences as an investor in Asia and provide an update on rapidly changing innovations in China.

Mr. Rieschel will look at how the advances of Asian technology are driving change across the globe and give an update on China’s digital evolution. Topics will include:

Which emerging technologies are triggering innovation across businesses and industries
How technology is transforming the way individuals work and companies compete
The disruptive consequences new technologies place on companies that are ill-prepared.
How companies can leverage trends and adapt their business models to become nimbler and maintain customers

Gary is a highly sought after speaker on Asia-U.S. relations, regarded as an international expert by entrepreneurs, founders and respected organizations including the Council of Foreign Relations. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from the foremost venture capitalist who led the growth of the dot com scene, and brought the Silicon Valley model to Asia to help advance Chinese investments and innovation to the global stage. Join AAMA for an evening of networking, and gain insights from Mr. Rieschel’s experience and life work.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Gary Rieschel has over 25 years of operating and investing experience. He is widely recognized as a leading venture capitalist in the U.S. and China and is Founding Managing Partner of Qiming Venture Partners, a $2.8B USD fund focused on early stage investments in IT, Intersumer, Healthcare, and CleanTech in China. Beginning in 1995, Gary was the founder or lead investor in major venture capital firms in the U.S. and China including SOFTBANK Venture Capital, Mobius Venture Capital, SAIF Partners (China), and Ignition Partners (U.S.). Gary served on Softbank’s Board of Directors for five years. Prior to being a venture capitalist, Gary held senior executive positions at Cisco Systems, Sequent Computer Systems and Intel. FULL BIO

Top-Left: China-U.S. Business Forum hosted by Peking University, Guanghua School of Management. April 2015
Top-Right: Gary Rieschel and Duane Kuang talked to Michael Phelps and Lang Ping (PRNewsFoto/Qiming Venture Partners)
Bottom-Left: Oxford China Business Forum 2014
Bottom-Right: Gary Rieschel at Technonomy 2016