Discover the emerging
technologies that will
change the world.
January 28-30, 2018
China World Summit Wing,
Beijing
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About the Event

EmTech China is hosted by MIT Technology Review, the world's oldest technology publication. MIT Technology Review finds and explains the significance of the new technologies that are disrupting existing industries, creating entirely new markets, and changing society. The purpose of EmTech China is clear: the event draws a knowledge graph for those who care about the latest development of technologies.
EmTech conferences have been running for almost 18 years now as MIT Technology Review’s premier gathering. As the biggest EmTech conference, EmTech China will cover a wide range of tech topics, from artificial intelligence to biotech, from quantum computing to blockchain.
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Animashree Anandkumar
Principal Scientist, Amazon Web Services
Her research interests are in the areas of large-scale machine learning, non-convex optimization and high-dimensional statistics.In particular, she has been spearheading the development and analysis of tensor algorithms. She is the recipient of several awards such as the Alfred. P. Sloan Fellowship, Microsoft Faculty Fellowship, Google research award, ARO and AFOSR Young Investigator Awards, NSF Career Award, Early Career Excellence in Research Award at UCI, Best Thesis Award from the ACM Sigmetrics society, IBM Fran Allen PhD fellowship, and several best paper awards.She received her B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras in 2004 and her PhD from Cornell University in 2009.She was a postdoctoral researcher at MIT from 2009 to 2010.
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Brian Behlendorf
Executive Director, Hyperledger Project, Linux Foundation
As the primary developer of the Apache web server, and founder and first President of the Apache Software Foundation, Brian Behlendorf's work supported more than half of the websites on the World Wide Web, laying a solid foundation during the early days of the internet. After departing the Apache Software Foundation, Behlendorf joined another major open source software foundation in 2003 – The Mozilla Foundation, and has been a board member ever since. Being a vanguard of the Open Source Software Movement, Behlendorf joined the Linux Foundation in 2016, overseeing the open source blockchain project – Hyperledger. His goal is to repeat the success of Apache Web Server and Mozilla Firefox Browser: to bring the revolutionary technology of blockchain to the masses. Most recently, Behlendorf was a managing director at Mithril Capital Management LLC, a global technology investment firm.
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Charles Bergan
VP of Engineering, Qualcomm
As the VP of Engineering, Bergan leads the software department for Qualcomm Research. He also oversees Qualcomm Research's robotics program. Previously, he led the software development team at Ensemble Communications, a start-up company which was one of the leading developers of LMDS point-to-multipoint wireless backhaul systems. While at Qualcomm, he has been involved in the research and development of CDMA, UMTS, UMB and LTE. Bergan has a B.S. in Computer Engineering, and an M.S. in Computer Science, both from the University of California, San Diego.
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David Berry
General Partner, Flagship Pioneering
David Berry joined Flagship Pioneering in 2005. He brings a multifaceted perspective to his work in conceiving, creating, resourcing and launching groundbreaking companies at Flagship. David holds over 200 patents and patent applications. At Flagship, David has co-founded and helped build more than 20 companies across life sciences, technology and sustainability, including Seres Therapeutics, Joule Unlimited, Evelo Biosciences, Eleven Biotherapeutics, LS9, Axcella Health, and Indigo Agriculture.
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Alexis Borisy
Partner, Third Rock Ventures
Alexis Borisy is a successful biotechnology entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience building and operating innovative science-based organizations. Borisy joined Third Rock Ventures in 2009 to focus on the formation, development and strategy of new companies. He has played key roles in launching and building several companies, including Tango Therapeutics, Warp Drive Bio, Relay Therapeutics, Magenta Therapeutics, Foundation Medicine, Blueprint Medicines, Editas Medicine, Revolution Medicine.
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Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau
CEO and Publisher, MIT Technology Review
Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau is the CEO and publisher of MIT Technology Review, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s media company. MIT Technology Review’s analysis, features, interviews, and events explain the impact of new technologies on business and society. Elizabeth is leading the growth, expansion, and modernization of MIT Technology Review’s media platforms and products, including U.S. and international websites, newsletters, events, and an award-winning print magazine. Elizabeth also serves as chair of the global entrepreneurial network MIT Enterprise Forum.
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Vern Brownell
President and Chief Executive Officer, D-Wave
Vern Brownell joined D-Wave as CEO in 2009, leading the company through its transition from research into the leader in the development and delivery of quantum computing systems and software. During his tenure D-Wave secured its first customers including Lockheed Martin, Google and NASA, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and raised over $100 million in venture funding. Brownell joined D-Wave from Egenera, a pioneer of infrastructure virtualization, a company he founded and at which he held executive roles including CEO. Prior to Egenera, Brownell served as the Chief Technology Officer at Goldman Sachs where he and his staff of 1,300 were responsible for worldwide technology infrastructure. He holds an MBA degree from Anna Maria College and a BEng. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology.
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Yin Cao
Founding Partner，Chief Strategy Officer, Energy Blockchain Labs
Mr. Cao Yin is the Founding Partner and Chief Strategy Officer of the Energy Blockchain Labs, the world first company focused on blockchain technology energy and green finance application.He also is the Chief Expert of Blockchain of China Cinda Security, which is the IBD of China Cinda, the biggest finance asset mgt. company in China. Mr. Cao Yin is one of the earliest proponents of the energy Internet concept in China. He participated in the formulation of China’s national definition of Energy Internet and participated in the formulation and popularization of China’s National Energy Internet Action Plan as one of the leaders of the task force. Mr. Cao has written several books, including 《Development of Energy Internet》,《Introduction of Energy Internet》, he also has written a book <Internet+: National Strategic Action Roadmap> with Mr. Ma Huateng, the Chairman of Tencent Group.   
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Huan Chen
Chief Strategy Officer, CreditEase
Mr. Huan Chen joined CreditEase in 2007 and was previously a founding member of domestic marketplace lending business and later in charge of product design and internet business planning. He now oversees corporate strategy planning, business planning and execution as Chief Strategy Officer, Director of the Risk Management Committee and a Board member of Yirendai. Chen is an active practitioner and thinker in promoting inclusive finance in China, making remarkable contribution to the industry’s standardization, digitization, professionalization and scaling-up. In recent years Chen has been at the forefront of FinTech innovation seeking to enhance the financing accessibility and experience for Chinese SMEs and overall population through internet, big data and blockchain technology, as well as to explore tech-driven risk management under an unsophisticated credit system. Chen has over 10 years of experience in internet and finance industries. He holds a master’s degree in economics from Sun Yat-sen University.
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Bill Dally
Chief Scientist & Senior VP of Research, NVIDIA
Bill Dally is chief scientist at NVIDIA and senior vice president of NVIDIA Research. He is also a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. Dr. Dally first joined NVIDIA in 2009 after spending 12 years at Stanford University, where he was chairman of the computer science department and the Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor of Engineering. Dr. Dally and his Stanford team developed the system architecture, network architecture, signaling, routing and synchronization technology that is found in most large parallel computers today. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering , a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the ACM, received the ACM Maurice Wilkes Award in 2000, the IEEE Seymour Cray Award in 2004, and the ACM Eckert Mauchly Award in 2010. He has published over 250 papers, holds over 120 issued patents, and is an author of four textbooks.
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James Ding
Managing Director, GSR Ventures
James Ding is a Managing Director at GSR Ventures, where he focuses on early-stage companies in the artificial intelligence, big data, IT-related health care, VR/AR and new media sectors. Prior to GSR Ventures, James co-founded AsiaInfo, which played an important role in the design and construction of China's Internet infrastructure. He has held various leadership positions in the company, including as Chief Executive Officer and President. He currently serves on the company’s board. While he was CEO, James led AsiaInfo to become the first Chinese high-tech enterprise listed on the NASDAQ in the United States. He is a graduate of Peking University, and earned his MS degree in information science from University of California, Los Angeles.
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Louay Eldada
CEO & Co-Founder，Quanergy
Louay Eldada is CEO and co-founder of Quanergy Systems, Inc. Dr. Eldada is a serial entrepreneur, having founded and sold three businesses to Fortune 100 companies. Quanergy is his fourth start-up. Dr. Eldada is a technical business leader with a proven track record at both small and large companies and with 70 patents, is a recognized expert in quantum optics, nanotechnology, photonic integrated circuits, advanced optoelectronics, sensors and roboti Prior to Quanergy, he was CSO of SunEdison, after serving as CTO of HelioVolt, which was acquired by SK Energy. Dr. Eldada was earlier CTO of DuPont Photonic Technologies, formed by the acquisition of Telephotonics where he was founding CTO. His first job was at Honeywell, where he started the Telecom Photonics business and sold it to Corning. He studied business administration at Harvard, MIT and Stanford, and holds a Ph.D. in optical engineering from Columbia University.
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Guoping Hu
Senior VP and Director of Research, iFlytek
After receiving his PhD in Signal and Information Processing from the University of Science and Technology of China, Mr. Guoping Hu co-founded iFlytek in 1999 with a team of his fellow student entrepreneurs. Currently, as the Senior VP and Director of Research at iFlytek, Mr. Hu is responsible for iFlytek’s ambitious Super Brain project. He is also the Director of China’s State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Intelligence, and Vice President of AITISA (Artificial Intelligence Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance). Over the past 18 years, his research lead to cutting edge results in the fields of speech synthesis, speech recognition, voice evaluation, machine translation, and handwriting recognition, while benefiting hundreds of millions of customers, and created billions in market value in the HCI, education, telecom, public safety industries. His contributions to the Chinese intelligent voice and artificial intelligence industry has twice earned him the National Science and Technology Progress Award and the Information Industry Major Technology Innovation Award. In 2017, the China Association for Science and Technology honored him with the Qiu Shi Outstanding Youth Achievement Transformation Award
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Lin-wen Hu
Director, Research and Services, MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory
Dr. Lin-Wen Hu has over 20 years of experience in nuclear reactor design, safety analysis and applications. She currently directs NRL's research and irradiation services division, which consists of reactor experiments, neutron activation and elemental analysis, neutron beam applications, and reactor physics groups. She is the Technical Lead at MITR as a partner facility of Idaho National Laboratory's Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF) and engaged in the development of a wide range of nuclear applications including advanced nuclear fuel and materials irradiation tests, radioisotope production, licensing, and safety analysis of nuclear reactors. She is currently the Principal Investigator or co-Principal Investigator on several research projects including MITR LEU fuel conversion feasibility study; Fluoride salt-cooled High-temperature Reactor (FHR) design, modeling and safety analysis, fluoride salt and materials irradiation testing; and Transient Reactor Test Facility (TREAT) modeling and instrumentation design.
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Yu Hu
Executive President and Consumer BG President, iFlytek
Yu Hu is the State Council special allowance expert. He is also the executive director of the National Engineering Lab for speech and language processing and part-time professor of University of Science and Technology of China. He is chief expert of Ministry of science and technology in 863 key project of artificial intelligence. Since 1999, YuHu co-founded IFLYTEK Co., LTD . From 2009 till now, Yu Hu is VP in IFLYTEK Co., LTD. He is in charge of speech recognition, speech synthesis, speech analysis, and speech evaluation. He was the project leader who help iFLYTEK Co.,LTD has achieved fruitful results.Yu Hu won the national information industry a significant technological invention award, national science and technology progress award, twice.
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Chin Pan Wong
CTO of Beijing SHUZIJIAYUAN Technology
Mr. Wong is responsible for the Cloud Connected Smart Devices and Software Platform R&D - from concept to final products deployments, developcore IPs and business opportunities in BI/AI computing, seamless connectivity, and cloud connected services for"Internet of Everything". His technical specialties are in Communications Systems, Software Engineering,Device HW Systems, Services on Cloud Platforms, Devices and Data Security, BI/AI Data Modeling, and End-to-End Systems Architectures. Mr. Wong has over 30 years of R&D Experience in the US and had worked in Motorola, Microsoft, and China Mobile Research Institute. In the last two years, Mr. Wong has been with the Beijing Shuzijiayuan Technology Limited leading the R&D for theEnd-to-End AI/Smart IoT Products. Mr. Wong had 23 US issued patents and was a Technical Fellow and Distinguished Innovator with Motorola. He has a Master Degree in EE from the Florida Atlantic University and BSEE from the University of Florida.
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Will Knight
Senior Editor for AI, MIT Technology Review
Will Knight is a senior editor at MIT Technology Review, covering artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, self-driving cars, and human-machine collaboration. Will grew up in London, and was previously an editor at New Scientist magazine in the UK.
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Junfeng Li
National Energy Advisory Committee，The first director of National Centre for Climate Change Strategy Research and International Cooperation
Mr Junfeng Li is a long time researcher in the fields of energy economy and energy environment, and played a key role in many drafting many of China’s important energy policy documents such as the Renewable Energy Law, the National long-term energy plan, the National Guideline on Medium- and Long-Term Program for Science and Technology Development, and China's Policies and Actions for Addressing Climate Change. He was also a main author of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s second to fourth report. In 2017, he was awarded with the Zayed Future Energy Prize in Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Gideon Lichfield
Editor-in-Chief, MIT Technology Review
Gideon Lichfield has been the editor-in-chief of MIT Technology Review since December 2017. He spent 16 years at The Economist, first as a science and technology writer and then in postings to Mexico City, Moscow, Jerusalem, and New York City. In 2012 he left to become one of the founding editors of Quartz, a news outlet dedicated to covering the future of the global economy that is now widely recognized as one of the most innovative companies in digital media. Gideon has taught journalism at New York University and been a fellow at Data & Society, a research institute devoted to studying the social impacts of new technology. He grew up in the UK and studied physics and the philosophy of science.
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Wilson Liu
CEO and founder of the Lightning Capital
Wilson Liu has deep understanding and insights in both the financial services and the equity investment industry with working experience of more than 10 years. He led investments covering TMT and consumer-related areas, including Uisee Technology, Motovis, Yunji Technology, Emotech, EIC Education etc. Prior to Lightning Capital, Wilson held VP position at National Aviation Industrial Fund, and the Partner position at Fortune Link. Prior thereto, Wilson worked for world leading financial service companies such as EY, and PwC, gaining experience in financing, mergers and acquisitions. Wilson received a MBA degree from Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, and a Bachelor degree in economics from Fudan University.
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Chaoyang Lu
Shanghai Institute for Advanced Studies, USTC- Professor of Physics
Physics Department, USTC, Bachelor& Master; Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, PhD in Physics. His research interests include Quantum computation, quantum foundations, solid-state quantum photonics and so on. PhD Lu have received several honors-Fresnel Prize, European Physical Society, China's Youth Wusi Medal, National Natural Science Fund for Exceptional Young Scholars. He also has more than 50 publications and 4500 citations.
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Antoinette Matthews
VP Licensing and Communities, MIT Technology Review
Antoinette is responsible for building out the international licensing and communities line of business for MIT Technology Review, MIT’s independent media company. Her responsibilities include identifying and building out long term strategic relationships, evaluating international business opportunities, negotiating contracts, strategically building MIT Technology Review’s brand internationally, and ensuring obligations are met and quality controls are measured and adhered to. Prior to coming to the U.S.A. in 2001, Antoinette was the Relationship Marketing Manager for JD Group Pty Ltd in South Africa, at that time the largest group of national retail chains in the Southern hemisphere, and the Marketing Manager for the first IT chain South Africa. Ms. Matthews has a Bachelor's degree in Marketing and Financial Management from the University of Pretoria.
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Neha Narula
Director, MIT Digital Currency Initiative, MIT Media Lab
Dr. Neha Narula is director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative, where she teaches courses and leads cryptocurrency and blockchain research. While completing her PhD in computer science at MIT, she built fast, scalable databases and secure software systems, and she spoke about these topics at dozens of industry and research conferences. In a previous life, Dr. Narula helped relaunch the news aggregator Digg and was a senior software engineer at Google. There, she designed Blobstore, a system for storing and serving petabytes of immutable data, and worked on Native Client, a system for running native code securely through a browser. Currently, she is working on a program for MIT Media Lab and Toyota Research, pushing into blockchain tech to enable the next generation of vehicles.
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Kai Ni
Founder and CEO, HoloMatic Technology
r. Kai Ni is the founder and CEO of HoloMatic. He was also the founder of autonomous driving technology at Baidu since its start in 2013 and led the team to finish road tests on public roads in Beijing at the end of 2015. He left Baidu autonomous vehicle team in Dec. 2015 and joined LeSEE (Super Electronic Ecosystem) as Vice President. He got the Bachelor degree in Automation and the master degree in Computer Science both at Tsinghua University, in which Dr. Ni was working on THMR-V self-driving vehicle project. Later Dr. Ni got his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology. After graduation he joined Microsoft as a researcher working on 3D maps and HoloLens projects. Afterwards Dr. Ni joined Institute of Deep Learning (IDL) at Baidu as a senior scientist. He was in charge of the autonomous vehicle project and also worked on the high-precision map project.
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Tomaso Poggio
Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Dr. Tomaso A. Poggio, is the Eugene McDermott Professor in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and co-director of the MIT Center for Biological and Computational Learning. Dr. Poggio is a computational neuroscientist whose contributions range from the biophysical and behavioral studies of the visual system to the computational analyses of vision and learning in humans and machines. Among his PhD students and post-docs are some of the today's leaders in the science and the engineering of intelligence, from Christof Koch (President and Chief Scientific Officer, Allen Institute) to Amnon Shashua (CTO and founder, Mobileye) and Demis Hassabis (CEO and founder, Google DeepMind). Since 2000, Dr. Poggio has been a member of the faculty of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research.
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Dan Roth
Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science, UPenn
Dr. Dan Roth is the Eduardo D. Glandt Distinguished Professor at the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His work centers around the study of machine learning and inference methods to facilitate natural language understanding. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association of Computing Machinery, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and the Association of Computational Linguistics, for his contributions to machine learning and to natural language processing.
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Donald Sadoway
Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT
Donald Sadoway is the current John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Sadoway has been MIT faculty since 1978 and author of over 170 scientific papers and holder of 24 U.S. patents. His research is applied electrochemistry: new technologies in the field of metals extraction (molten oxide electrolysis) and energy storage (liquid metal battery). He is a founder of two companies, Boston Electrometallurgical and Ambri. Viewed 1,750,000 times, his TED talk is about inventing technology and inventing inventors. In 2012 named by Time magazine one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.
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Robert Sutor
VP- IBM Research AI, Blockchain, and Quantum Solutions
Dr. Robert Sutor leads a large global group of scientists, software engineers, and designers who create and integrate leading edge science and technologies to give IBM's clients the most advanced solutions available. His work includes cognitive and AI technologies such as machine learning, deep learning, text and image analytics, statistics, predictive analytics, and optimization. Dr. Sutor co-leads the IBM Research effort to support IBM's commercial blockchain efforts with innovations across a broad range of its embedded technologies. He leads the group developing the next generation software stack and algorithms for quantum computers.
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Xiaoou Tang
Professor, Department of Information Engineering, CUHK
Prof. Xiao’ou Tang is considered one of the most influential scientists of artificial intelligence in China. He is also Associate Director of Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of Chinese Academy of Science. He served as the Director of Visual Computing at Microsoft Research Asia from 2005 to 2008. In his academic and corporate roles, Prof. Tang taught or mentored many Ph.D students and researchers in the areas of computer vision, pattern recognition, and video processing.Prof. Tang received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2009. His work on facial recognition became the first face recognition algorithm that surpassed human performance. The work was awarded Outstanding Student Paper Award at one of the most prestigious AI conferences - AAAI 2015. Prof. Tang is an IEEE fellow, a program chair of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2009, and a general chair of ICCV 2019. He currently serves as the Editor in Chief of International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), one of the two best known journals on computer vision.
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Aaron VanDevender
Chief Scientist, Founders Fund
Aaron VanDevender is the Chief Scientist and a Principal at Founders Fund. He monitors the scientific impact of the portfolio, works with portfolio companies, assesses new technologies, and conducts his own research. Prior to Founders Fund, Aaron was CTO of enterprise war games firm The Prosperity Institute. Aaron has designed single-photon and single-atom quantum computers in academia and government (NIST), advanced the quantum-mechanical theory for microscopic black holes, patented the fastest transparent optical switch, and is a co-inventor of yoctotechnology (named after the smallest unit prefix on the SI scale). He then developed next-generation DNA sequencing technology at Halcyon Molecular. His broad scientific interests encompass energy, biotech, nanotech, and computing. Aaron received a SB from MIT and a PhD in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition to entrepreneurial science, Aaron is a professional skydiver.
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Oriol Vinyals
Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
Dr. Oriol Vinyals is a researcher working on Deep Learning and applications at Google DeepMind (previously at Google Brain). He focuses his efforts on both understanding and developing of new ideas around machine learning, neural networks, and reinforcement learning. Currently, he is working to create computers that can teach themselves how to play and win complex games—not by hard-coding the rules but by enabling them to learn from experience. Dr. Vinyals holds a Ph.D. in EECS from University of California, Berkeley, and a Masters degree from University of California, San Diego.
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Jian Wang
Chairman of Technology Steering Committee, Alibaba Group
Dr. Wang Jian joined Alibaba Group as Chief Architect in September 2008. He is responsible for the formulation and implementation of Alibaba Group’s technology development strategy. As the founder of Alibaba Cloud and YunOS Operation System, he also served as the President of Alibaba Cloud Computing since its inception in September 2009 until September 2013. Dr. Wang served as Chief Technology Officer of Alibaba Group from September 2012, and was appointed as Chairman of Steering Committee of Alibaba Group since May 2015.Before joining Alibaba Group, Dr. Wang served as Assistant Managing Director at Microsoft Research Asia, where he worked since 1999. Prior to this, he worked at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China as a professor and head of the psychology department.
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Shaojun Wang
Chief expert of NLP, Ping An Tech
Dr Shaojun Wang joined Pingan Technology as Assistant Director of its research lab and head of its NLP division in September of last year. Dr Wang has an extensive academic record, having received his undergraduate and graduate degree in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University, and a Masters of Mathematics and Ph.D. of Electrical and Computer Engineering from UIUC. Before joining Pingan, Dr Wang held brief roles at Wright State University and Baidu's Silicon Valley AI Lab; won research grants from The National Science Foundation and Google Research Awards; and published over 60 papers in top Machine Learning and NLP conferences such as NIPS, ICML, ACL, EMNLP, KDD etc. With over 20 years of research experience in speech recognition, NLP, machine learning, and especially Deep Learning, Dr Wang is invaluable for Pingan's foray into the fields of Language Models, Q&A Systems, reinforcement learning, NLP, knowledge graph, and computer vision.
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Xiaogang Wang
Managing Director of SenseTime Research Institute
Xiao Gang Wang is the Managing Director of SenseTime Research Institute. He is also associate professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The SenseTime-CUHK team led by him won multiple championships in ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC) in 2016 and 2017. Prof. Wang’s research area covers computer vision and deep learning. He has published over 200 papers on top conferences and journals. His publications received over 17,000 citations on Google Scholar. Prof. Wang received PAMI Young Research Award Honorable Mention in 2016, and Hong Kong RGC Early Career Award in 2012. He was the area chair of CVPR 2017, ICCV 2017, ICCV 2015, ICCV 2011, ECCV 2016, ECCV 2014, ACCV 2015, and ACCV 2014. Prof. Wang received his Bachelor degree in Electronic Engineering and Information Science from the Special Class of Gifted Young at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2001, M. Phil. degree in Information Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2004, and PhD degree in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009.
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Gansha Wu
Cofounder & CEO of Uisee Technology
Gansha Wu is the founder and CEO of Unisee Technology, focusing on providing leading-edge products on autonomous driving and transformative services on mobility on demand. Before he took this role, he was Director of Intel Labs China and Principal Engineer and led the big data research, primarily focused on in-memory analytics and data monetization. He is an experienced engineer with business know-how's, hes also a leader who's using disruptive innovation to push society to become more efficient.
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Wayne Shiong
Partner of China Growth Capital
Wayne Shiong is a Partner at China Growth Capital, a Beijing-based early stage technology investor since 2006. Wayne leads frontier technologies sector at the firm with investments like JingChi Corp., DeePhi, Mech Mind, HealthBio, Sobot, Tezign etc. He was a Partner at Bertelsmann Asia Investments (BAI) with led investments like iClick (NASDAQ: ICLK), Mogujie, Douban and domob (sold to BlueFocus SZSE 300058) etc. Prior to BAI, Wayne was a Partner with WI Harper Group, a cross border early stage investor in technology and healthcare where he worked on Maxthon, Go Mobile (NASDAQ: GOMO), Mapbar (sold to NASDAQ: RENN), ChIVD (sold to Actis), Edan Instrument (Shenzhen Stock Exchange: 300206) and Innovation Works. Wayne started his investment career as Consultant to Piper Jaffray's Internet equity research team. Prior to Piper Jaffray, he was a co-founder of a Bluetooth start-up funded by Mobile Internet (Asia). Wayne grew up in Beijing with a B.A. in Economics from Peking University.
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Song Yao
CEO and Co-Founder of DeePhi Tech
Song Yao is the CEO and Co-Founder of DeePhi Tech, a startup devoted to provide more efficient deep learning platform including algorithm, software, and chip for intelligent video surveillance and data center industry. DeePhi Tech has received $5M investment in angel-round from GSR Ventures and $20M in A-round from Xilinx, MediaTek, and Tsinghua Holdings. Song graduated from Department of Electronic Engineering in 2015. He was the president of EE Student Association of Science and Technology during 2014 to 2015 and he has been awarded the National Scholarship and Nanxiang Jiang Scholarship in Tsinghua Univeristy. Since 2012, he has been doing research in 3-D IC, compiler design, and deep learning acceleration. He was a visiting researcher in Stanford University in 2014. Song has received awards including Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia, Top 30 AI Entrepreneurs in China, and FPGA 2017 Best Paper.
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Lei Zhang
Founder & CEO of Envision Energy
Lei founded Envision Energy in 2007. He has led Envisionto become a world leading energy technology company. With the vision to create the "Android" of energy system, he pioneered the concept of energy IOT platform and has successfully created the world's largest Energy IoT platform - EnOS™. Lei was named as one of the "Top 10 Sino-U.S. Innovators of the Year" by Forbes Magazine and he was elected as the “Top Business Leader in China” by China Business Network media in 2016.Lei is a commissioner of Global Energy Transition Commission (ETC) now.
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Tong Zhang
Director, AI Lab, Tencent
As the executive director of Tencent's AI Lab, Dr. Tong Zhang leads a team of 50 research scientists and 200 application engineers. The lab focuses on fundamental research in AI, mainly about computer vision, automatic speech recognition, natural language processing, and machine learning. Before joining Tencent, Dr. Zhang worked as a distinguished AI scientist for IBM, Yahoo and Baidu. Prior to that, he was a professor at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He was a member of the big data committee of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and led many big data research projects funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Dr. Zhang was the chairman of several top machine learning conferences, including the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) and the Conference on Learning Theory. He has a master's and a doctoral degree in computer science from Stanford University and a bachelor's in mathematics and computer science from Cornell University.
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Yining Zhao
Co-Founder & President of Asia-Veritas Genetics Inc
Dr. Yining Zhao is Venture Partner at Lilly Asia Ventures (LAV) responsible for cross-board investment between US and China. He also co-founded several biotech companies in US, and is currently CEO of Just Biotherapeutics (China) and Veritas Genetics (Shanghai), which are specialized in biologics development and genetic testing, respectively. Prior to his entrepreneurial career, Dr. Zhao has been working in the areas of Strategy Management, Business Development, Product Development and M&A at multinational biopharmaceutical companies for 15 years. He was Executive Strategy Director at Global Commercial Operations of Amgen based in Thousand Oaks, California where he was leading the market entry strategy, business development and commercialization of biosimilars in 30 countries outside US and EU. Prior to Amgen, Yining was the Asia Strategy Lead at Pfizer based in New York, overseeing the Asia strategy across small molecule, biologics and vaccine.
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Ming Zhou
Principal Researcher and Manager, Natural Language Computing Group, Microsoft Research Asia
Dr. Ming Zhou is a principal researcher and manager of the Natural Language Computing Group at Microsoft Research Asia. He is the chair of the Chinese Computer Federation’s (CCF) Chinese Information Technology Committee and an executive member of the Chinese Information Processing Society.
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Hongbin Zhuang
CEO & Co-Founder of Emotech
In 2014, Hongbin founded Emotech in London, aiming to redefine the relationship between humans and technology with AI. In the previous decade, Hongbin worked at Renren.com as the Product Director and the chairman of Product Committee. He developed Renren into the largest social network in China, which facilitated its IPO on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011. Hongbin was awarded Distinction on MSc Degree in Human-Computer Interaction and Ergonomics in University College London (UCL) where he also won the 2nd Place of UCL Entrepreneurathon. This inspired the beginning of Emotech. Soon after, Emotech was selected by TechCrunch as one of the Top 14 European Startups and then Top 30 Business Cases in China by Financial Times China. Early 2017, Olly Robot, the world’s first home robot with personality, won 4 CES Innovation Awards. This was a first in the 50 year history of CES. In June 2017, Olly Robot and Emotech was featured in BBC ONE ‘Invented In England’ Documentary Series.
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CONFERENCE THEMES

EmTech China is your opportunity to discover future trends and to understand the technologies that will drive the new global economy. It's where tech, business, and culture converge, and where you gain access to the most innovative people and companies in the world.
Quantum Computing
What is the promise of quantum computing?
Machine Learning
What are the limitations of machine learning and other current approaches? What comes next?
Sustainable Energy
How will new technologies help us survive and thrive in the face of climate change?
Blockchain
The potential for blockchain in commodities trading, and beyond.
Rewriting Life
Reprogramming our bodies to make us healthier.
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AGENDA

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8:00

Registration

9:30

Opening Remarks

9:35

Learning Machines: A View from the Labs

An update from experts who are pushing the boundaries of AI research, and reimagining collaboration between humans and machines.

• Dan Roth, Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science, UPenn
• Xiaoou Tang，Professor, Department of Information Engineering, CUHK
• Tomaso Poggio, Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
10:40

Tea Break

11:00

Creating an AI personal assistant with a personality and emotions

• Hongbin Zhuang, Co-Founder & CEO, Emotech
11:10

AI Storm on the Clouds

How are the world’s leading companies activating artificial intelligence within their cloud environments?

• Jian Wang, President, Alibaba Technology Committee
• Animashree Anandkumar, Principal Scientist, Amazon Web Services
• Shaojun Wang, Chief Expert, Ping An Tech
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12:15

Lunch&Networking

13:30

AI on the Chips

How are we building hardware to facilitate the next generation of artificial intelligence technologies?

• Bill Dally, Chief Scientist & Senior VP of Research, NVIDIA
• Charles Bergan, VP of Engineering, Qualcomm
• Xiaogang Wang, Managing Director of SenseTime Research Institute
14:35

Connected Home with Everything listening to you

• Zhanpeng Huang, CTO, Kinstalk
14:45

Tea Break

15:05

AI in the Enterprise

A lab-to-market examination of intelligent solutions, from lab research to deployment, in enterprises around the world.

• Ming Zhou, Principal Researcher and Manager, Natural Language Computing Group, Microsoft Research Asia
• Lei Zhang, CEO, Envision Energy
• Tong Zhang, Director, AI Lab, Tencent
• Guoping Hu, Senior VP and Director of Research, iFlytek
16:20

AI vs. StarCraft

A look into how Google is tackling various artificial intelligence challenges through gameplay.

• Oriol Vinyals, Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
• Will Knight, Senior Editor for AI, MIT Technology Review
17:00

Cocktail Reception

19:00

Dinner Party (VIP and by Invitation Only)

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8:00

Registration

9:30

Opening Remarks

9:35

The Fission of Ultimate Energy

What kind of revolution we are expecting when the energy world is in a rapid transforming period?

• Donald Sadoway, Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT
• Lin-wen Hu, Director, Research and Services, MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory
• Junfeng Li, Member, National Energy Advisory Council;Former Director General, National Center of Climate Change Strategy
10:25

Tea Break

10:45

The Next Goldmine: Invest in Biotech

Pioneers of bio-tech companies are sharing their experience.

• David Berry, General Partner, Flagship Pioneering
• Alexis Borisy, Partner, Third Rock Ventures
• Yining Zhao, Co-Founder & President of Asia-Veritas Genetics Inc

Special Panel Moderator：Wayne Xiong, Partner, China Growth Capital

11:50

Lunch&Networking

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13:30

Limited World, Unlimited Blockchain&FinTech

How can blockchain rebuild trust in business world and the value network of human society?

• Huan Chen, Chief Strategy Officer, CreditEase
• Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger Project, Linux Foundation
• Neha Narula, Director, MIT Digital Currency Initiative, MIT Media Lab

Special Panel Moderator：Yin Cao, Chief Strategy Officer, Energy Blockchain Labs

14:40

Ai's Next Quantum Leap

How does new quantum technology move us further up the AI ladder?

• Aaron VanDevender, Chief Scientist, Founders Fund
• Robert Sutor, VP of Cognitive, Blockchain, and Quantum Solutions, IBM Research
• Vern Brownell, President and Chief Executive Officer, D-Wave

Special Panel Moderator：Chaoyang Lu,Professor of Physics,University of Science and Technology of China

15:45

Tea Break

16:05

Road to autonomous vehicle

Technology, cost and market, are you ready for the new ride?

• James Ding, Managing Director, GSR Ventures
• Louay Eldada, Quanergy CEO
• Gansha Wu, Cofounder at Uisee Technology
• Song Yao, CEO and Co-Founder of DeePhi Tech

Special Panel Moderator：Jiong Liu, Founder, Itcapital

17:30

End

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08:00

Registration

09:00

Opening Remarks

09:05

Keynote Speech: Youth and Innovation

09:25

Panel Discussion

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12:10

Award Ceremony

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SPECIAL SESSION: Innovators Under 35

Meet the Innovators Under 35 China

Established in 1999, the annual list recognizes outstanding innovators who are younger than 35. We are searching for individuals whose superb technical work promises to shape the coming decades. Our goal is to recognize the development of new technology or the creative application of existing technologies to solve problems. We also reward ingenious and elegant work that matters to the world at large—not just to peers in a particular field or industry.

On Jan 30th, the 35 selected innovators will be announced and present at EmTech China.

·Time：8:00 am - 12:00 pm, Jan 30th, 2018

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VENUE

Date：Jan 28th – 30th 2018
Venue：China World Summit Wing，Beijing
Perched above the heart of Beijing, China World Summit Wing, Beijing, offers amazing views of the city. Starting on level 64 of the China World Tower and moving upwards, this sanctuary of luxury sits at the very hub of Beijing’s Central Business District, right above China World Shopping Mall and China World Trade Centre. Guests can easily get access to the connected underground Guomao Subway Station.
The Beijing International Airport is approximately 45 minutes away via expressway, while world-famous landmarks like The Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square are an easy 15-minute drive from the hotel. Learn More
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RESERVE YOUR SPOT NOW

General Admission
  • Registration includes two full days of conference sessions (Jan 28-29, 2018) and the ceremony on the third day for Innovators Under 35 (Jan 30, 2018).
  • Wiring fee not included
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Premium Pass
  • Registration includes two full days of conference sessions (Jan 28-29, 2018) and the ceremony on the third day for Innovators Under 35 (Jan 30, 2018).
  • Premium pass also includes one VIP dinner reception on Jan 28th 2018.
  • Wiring fee not included
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FAQs

About Ticket Booking

When is the deadline for booking my ticket?
The deadline for booking a ticket is Jan. 24th. Tickets may be sold out early, so book now.
How can I get the ticket?
Before the conference, you will receive a QR code, which is your ticket. You will not receive your QR code ticket immediately after purchase, but will receive it in your email before the conference.
Is there discounted registration for MIT alumni and MIT ILP members?
Yes. We are pleased to offer discounted registration to MIT alumni, MIT ILP members, past attendees, and other select groups. Please email emtech@mittrchina.com with questions.
About Cancellation Policy
If you cancel your registration for EmTech China for any reason, please notify us in writing before December 15, 2017 for 70% of full price as a refund. Cancellations on and after December 15, 2017 are nonrefundable. You may transfer your registration to another person at any time by providing authorization to us in writing. All cancellations and transfers requests should be sent to emtech@mittrchina.com.

About Registration

How do I register?
Please bring your QR code ticket to registration, the staff of conference will scan your ticket QR code and give you badge.
Is there a simultaneous interpretation service at the conference?
Yes. You can pick up translation equipment with proper ID card /passport. After the conference, please return the equipment to get your ID card/passport back.
How can I get to the venue in Beijing?
You can search China World Summit Wing on Baidu.com map.
More questions?
Please contact: emtech@mittrchina.com.
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