Silicon Dragon NY 2018
Event Information
Description
SPEAKERS
4pm DOORS OPEN / REGISTRATION
4:25pm WELCOME REMARKS
Rebecca Fannin, Founder/Editor, Silicon Dragon (MC)
Skip Braun, Partner, Grant Thornton
4:30pm KEYNOTE VC TALK
Hans Tung, Managing Partner, GGV Capital
4:45pm BOOK TALK
Roseann Lake, Author, Leftover in China: How Women Are Shaping the World's Next Superpower
with Dorinda Elliott, Senior VP, Director - Center for Business, China Institute
4:55pm CHINA BRAND TALK WITH TECH LEADERS
Adam Lisberg, Corporate Communication Director, DJI
Donovan Sung, Director, Product Management, Xiaomi
Peter Prodromou, CEO & President, Racepoint Global
with Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Business Editor, The Economist
5:20pm BLOCKCHAIN INNOVATION & INVESTMENT
CHINA CRACKDOWN & JAPAN, SINGAPORE, KOREA UPSIDE
Jalak Jobanputra, Founding Partner, Future Perfect Ventures
Paul Brodsky, Partner, Pantera Capital
Lou Kerner, Co-founder & Partner, CryptoOracle.io
Mitchell Dong, Managing Director, Pythagoras Investment Management
with Lori Ioannou, Senior Editor, CNBC.com
5:50pm VC DEALMAKER PANEL & Q&A
Nan Zhou, Director, Baidu Capital (1-1 Q&A)
Jim Robinson, General Partner, RRE Ventures
Brian Cohen, Founding Partner, NYVP / Chairman, NY Angels
Robin Li, VP, GGV Capital
Mason Du, Angel Investor, Board Member, HBS Alumni Angels
Sean O'Sullivan, Managing General Partner, SOSV
Geoffrey Levin, Partner, Sidley Austin
6:30pm PITCH CONTEST
12 founders compete to win trip to Beijing finals and prizes up to $200,000
Winners Named at Reception
7:30pm CHINA PRIVATE EQUITY CHAT
Ma Xiaoqiu, Founder and President, Dingyifeng Group
with Bianca Chen, Finance Correspondent, Thomson Reuters
and Tom Limongello, Senior Director, Product Management, Quotient Technology
7:45pm DINNER NETWORKING RECEPTION
THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
Sidley Austin, Grant Thornton, OTEC, Racepoint Global
SUPPORTING PARTNERS
China Institute, Lair East Labs, CKGSB, SUNY-CIB, Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, NY Intl, VentureOut NY, UniCareer
MEDIA PARTNERS
Forbes, A Better Mousetrap, SupChina, The Internationalist, Overseas Press Club
Organizer Silicon Dragon
Organizer of Silicon Dragon NY 2018
Silicon Dragon publishes news of technology, venture capital and startup trends in emerging markets and hosts forums in innovation hubs globally: New York, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, London, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Tel Aviv.
Silicon Dragon was formed in 2010 by Forbes journalist, author and media entrepreneur Rebecca Fannin. Ms. Fannin has been covering tech innovations trends globally for 15 years, beginning with Red Herring magazine during the dotcom era. She is the author of three influential and well-received books, Silicon Dragon (McGraw-Hill, 2008) and Startup Asia (Wiley, 2011), including her new book, Tech Titans of China (Hachette, 2019).
Silicon Dragon spans a global network of startups, emerging companies, venture capitalists, angel investors and startup stakeholders. The group is based in Silicon Valley with offshoots in New York City and Hong Kong.
For more info, see:
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccafannin/
@rfannin
@silicondragon
