Discover the emerging
technologies that will
change the world.
January 19-21, 2019
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 19 years now as MIT Technology Review’s premier gathering. As the biggest EmTech conference, EmTech China covers a wide range of tech topics, from artificial intelligence to biotech, from space to blockchain.
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SPEAKERS

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Beena Ammanath
Global Vice President, HPE
Beena Ammanath is the global vice president for Artificial Intelligence, Data, and Innovation at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). She also serves on the Industrial Advisory Board at Cal Poly University and is a board advisor to several startups. She is an award-winning senior digital transformation leader with extensive global experience in AI, big data, and IoT. Her knowledge spans across e-commerce, financial, marketing, telecom, retail, software products, services and industrial domains with companies such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, GE, Thomson Reuters, British Telecom, Bank of America and a number of Silicon Valley startups. Beena is also the founder and CEO of nonprofit, Humans For AI Inc. Prior to HPE, she was the vice president of Innovation and Data Sciences at GE. She has co-authored the book “AI Transforming Business”.
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Brian Behlendorf
Executive Director, Hyperledger Project
Brian Behlendorf is the executive director of Hyperledger Project. Behlendorf was a primary developer of the Apache Web server, the most popular web server software on the Internet, and a founding member of the Apache Software Foundation. He has also served on the board of the Mozilla Foundation since 2003 and the Electronic Frontier Foundation since 2013. He was the founding CTO of CollabNet and CTO of the World Economic Forum.
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Tim Berners-Lee
Professor, MIT; Professor, University of Oxford; Co-Founder and CTO, Inrupt
Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 when he worked as a software engineer at CERN. He wrote the first Web page editor/browser (“WorldWideWeb”) and the first Web server (“?httpd“) in the world. He also established the World Wide Web Foundation to ensure an open and free Web to all people. He is also the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and author of Weaving the Web and many other publications. A graduate of Oxford University, Sir Tim teaches at MIT as a 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering and in a joint appointment at CSAIL. What’s more, he is a professor at the University of Southampton.
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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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Richard Compton
Vice President, Oxford Nanopore
Richard Compton is responsible for comprehensive operational support of Oxford Nanopore commercial units including Customer Solutions, Technical Support, Field Marketing and Corporate Expansion, including key customer relationship management and channel partners. Prioring to joining Oxford Nanopore, Mr. Compton played a key role as vice president in Illumina. He led the support of multiple population scale sequencing programs including Genomics England and deCODE genetics. Even earlier, Mr. Compton gained twelve years of experience as vice president and general manager EMEA of Dassault Systèmes Biovia unit.
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Jing Fan
Founder & CEO，Hopstem Bioengineering
Dr. Jing Fan is the co-founder, CEO of Hopstem Bioengineering Co., Ltd. After graduated from Peking University, she obtained her Ph.D in Neuroscience at University of British Columbia, Canada. After she finished her postdoctoral training at Institute of Cell Engineering and Neurology department of Johns Hopkins University in 2016, she returned to China and founded Hopstem with the help of her colleague Dr. Jinchong Xu. She has over 13 years of research experience in neurological disorders and more than 5 years on stem cell research, with more than 10 research articles published on the top journals. Hopstem team is establishing human iPSC differentiation and gene editing platform for cell therapy and drug screening of neurological diseases, including stroke, traumatic brain injury, PD, AD, autism, schizophrenia, epilepsy, etc. Hopstem has its GMP/GLP facility in Hangzhou, a strong team with MDs/Ph.Ds and top scientist/industrial advisors in the field, while just finished serial A fund raising for pre-IND study of stroke cell therapy development.
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José Fernandez Da Ponte
Executive Vice President, BBVA
José leads the Beyond Core pillar at BBVA's disruptive business unit, New Digital Business (NDB). His team builds products that leverage advances in fundamental science and technology to solve pressing problems and create new opportunities in finance. Before that, he built and led the Strategy, Business Development, and Venture Creation functions at NDB. Prior to BBVA, he had different executive positions at PayPal, Quercus Equity Partners, and McKinsey & Company. José has an MSc in Finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a B.Sc in Economics and Management from ICADE in Madrid.
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Anthony Goldbloom
Co-Founder and CEO, Kaggle (now a Google company)
Anthony Goldbloom is the co-founder and CEO of Kaggle (now a Google company), the world's largest data science and machine learning community. Prior to Kaggle, Anthony worked in The Reserve Bank of Australia in the macroeconomic modelling area, and Australian Treasury as an econometrician. MIT Technology Review has named him as one of the 35 Innovators Under 35 in 2013 and the University of Melbourne has given Anthony an Alumni of Distinction Award. He got his degree from the University of Melbourne in Commerce.
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Tao Jiang
Senior Vice President, iFlytek
Mr. Tao Jiang , born in 1974, co-founder of iFLYTEK , graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China. He is the Senior Vice President of iFLYTEK, the chairman of iFLYTEK Beijing, the chairman of iFLYTEK Xiongan, and the member of the 12th CPPCC Committee of Hebei Province, the Vice President of the Silk Road Industry and Finance International Alliance, won the first prize of the Beijing Science and Technology Award in 2014.
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Aaron Kimball
CTO, Zymergen
At Zymergen, Aaron is responsible for delivering the AI systems, laboratory automation, and software and data architecture that facilitates our approach to genome engineering. Prior to joining Zymergen, Aaron worked with big data enterprise software, and founded WibiData in 2010. Previously, he was the first employee at Cloudera. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and a master’s degree from the University of Washington in computer science.
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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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Chris Lewicki
Co-Founder, ConsenSys Space
Lewicki has been intimately involved with the lifecycle of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers and the Phoenix Mars Lander. Lewicki performed system engineering development and participated in assembly, test and launch operations for both Mars missions. He was Flight Director for the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, and the Surface Mission Manager for Phoenix. The recipient of two NASA Exceptional Achievement Medals, Lewicki has an asteroid named in his honor: 13609 Lewicki. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Arizona. Following the acquisition of Planetary Resources by ConsenSys, Lewicki is applying his expertise in the development of decentralized technologies for the economic development of space.
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Mike Lewis
Chief Innovation Officer, NanoRacks
Michael Lewis is currently the Chief Innovation Officer at NanoRacks, LLC, where he is responsible for overseeing the technical, scientific, and engineering direction for the company. He has developed, built, and flown experiment platforms to the International Space Station (ISS), including computer facilities, a centrifuge, and biology growth chambers. Michael helped develop the NRCSD (the NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer) system which has deployed over 200 satellites from the ISS, as well as a satellite deployer that has deployed 26 satellites off of the Orbital-ATK Cygnus spacecraft.
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Derek Haoyang Li
Founder and Chief Educational Technology Scientist, Squirrel AI Learning
As a serial entrepreneur, Derek co-founded the first education company listed in China's A-shares market. He was awarded "the Top 30 AI-Entrepreneur in China". Derek also created several ingenious educational innovations in the world, "Concepts on Nano-scaled knowledge Components", "AI-Model-Adapted Learning-Skills-Decomposition Methods", "Reconstructing Knowledge Space Theory (KST) with Students' Reasons for Mistakes", "Algorithms on Calculating the Relevance of Probability between Non-relevant Knowledge Components".
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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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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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Lei Mi
Founding Partner and Co-CEO, Casstar
Mi Lei, Founding Partner and Co-CEO of Casstar; Ph.D. of Optical Science, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of CAS; Executive Director of Shaanxi Institute of Advanced OEIC Technologies; Vice-Director of Young Scientists’ Social Responsibility Alliance. Devoted himself to industrialization of scientific and technological achievements, Dr. Mi compiled the concept of “hard & core technology”, initiated the Hard & Core Technology Innovation Alliance and pointed out that “tech entrepreneurship will be the mainstream of China’s development in the next thirty years”. With the aim of driving the regional economic development and creating the tech-startup ecosystem, Dr. Mi has founded the first angel fund and incubator that targeted at the field of hard & core technology in China, which has invested and incubated more than 240 high-tech companies, and the management scale of the platform fund reached 5.3 billion yuan.
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Patrick Murck
Special Counsel, Cooley; Fellow Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University
Patrick Murck is the special counsel at Cooley, focusing on the legal and regulatory issues facing fintech and emerging payment systems; and he also serves as a fellow with Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society where he conducts research on the law and policy implications of bitcoin, distributed ledgers and smart contracts. He is also a member of the High Level Advisory Group on FinTech of IMF. Prior to joining Cooley, Patrick was a co-founder of the Bitcoin Foundation where he served at times as general counsel and executive director. Patrick has engaged regulators and policymakers in the US and Europe on bitcoin and the emerging digital economy. He was named among America’s 50 Outstanding General Counsel for 2014 by the National Law Journal.
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Jonah Myerberg
Co-Founder and CTO, Desktop Metal
Jonah Myerberg is a co-founder and chief technology officer at Desktop Metal, a company committed to accelerating the transformation of manufacturing with end-to-end metal 3D printing solutions. Prior to joining Desktop Metal in 2015, Myerberg held senior positions with a variety of organizations focused on battery development and performance, including Renovo Motors and Boston Impact, which he founded, and A123Systems. At A123Systems, Myerberg established a new business unit focused on the development of high performance batteries. His team designed a new high performance cell for Formula One, as well as number of automotive partners. Myerberg earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University and his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing from Johns Hopkins University.
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Yipin Ng
Founding Partner, YUNQI PARTNERS
Since entering venture capital industry in 2000, Mr. Yipin Ng has worked in the industry for 18 years. He is a shuttle traveler between China and the United States and is very familiar with start-up ecosystems in both countries. Mr. Yipin Ng has long focused on early and mid-term investment opportunities in the fields of mobile internet, IoT, robot, AI and Big Data. He has played a leading role in investment in Chinese and the U.S. startups, including ACC Technologies (02018), SINOSUN (300333), Meihua Biotech (600873), xFire, Heptagon, PingCAP, TigerGraph, Precision and Aidriving.com .Mr. Yipin Ng boasts rich experience in intelligent hardware entrepreneurship and supply chain management. Before founding Yunqi Partners, Mr. Yipin Ng had a long service at GGV Capital. From 2004 to 2008, he worked at GGV’s Silicon Valley Office to help develop the company’s intelligent hardware investment business in the United States. From 2008 to 2014, he worked at GGV’s Shanghai Office. In 2014, he and Mr. Michael Mao co-founded YUNQI PARTNERS. From 2000 to 2004, Mr. Yipin Ng worked at GIC, Singapore government investment company. Prior to that, he worked at Sun Microsystems and the Singaporean Navy. Mr. Yipin Ng holds a Master’s degree from Stanford University, an MBA from Nanyang Business School,and a Bachelor’s degree from University of San Francisco.
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Yuya Nakamura
President and CEO, Axelspace
Yuya Nakamura is the president and CEO of Axelspace Corporation, a microsatellite startup based in Tokyo. Prior to that, he served as a researcher at the university for one year and a half. He founded Axelspace with two of his colleagues. He is also a member of the Committee on National Space Policy since 2015. He earned Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University of Tokyo, after having been actively involved in 3 nanosatellite projects at the university, including the world’s first successful CubeSat.
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Colin Parris
Vice President of Software Research, GE Global Research
Dr. Colin Parris is currently the vice president, Software Research at the GE Global Research Center in Niskayuna, NY and is an officer of the General Electric Company. Along with his present role, Dr. Parris also is a member of the Board of Directors of APTIV. Dr. Parris joined GE in 2014. Previously, he worked at IBM from 1994 to 2014 – 16 years as an IBM executive in roles that spanned research, software development, technology management, and P&L management. He was vice president, System Research at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Division; vice president, Software Development, of IBM’s largest system software development lab; vice president of Corporate Technology; and the vice president and general manager of the IBM Power Systems where he was responsible for IBM’s $5 B+ P&L Unix System and Software business. Colin received a Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, a Master’s in Management from Stanford University (as a Sloan Fellow), and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering at Howard University (B.S.E.E.).
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Radia Perlman
Fellow, Dell EMC
Radia Perlman’s work has had a profound influence on how the Internet moves data, making the Internet more robust, self-managing, and scalable. She is the author of the textbook “Interconnections” (about network layers 2 and 3) and coauthor of “Network Security”. She is a Fellow at Dell EMC. She has been recognized with many industry honors including induction into the National Academy of Engineering, the Inventor Hall of Fame, the Internet Hall of Fame, Washington State Academy of Science, and lifetime achievement awards from Usenix and SIGCOMM. She holds over 100 patents, and has a PhD in computer science from MIT.
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Kimberly Powell
Vice President of Healthcare, NVIDIA
Kimberly Powell is vice president of healthcare at NVIDIA. She is responsible for the company’s worldwide healthcare business, including hardware and software platforms for accelerated computing, AI and visualization that power the ecosystem of medical imaging, life sciences, drug discovery and healthcare analytics. Previously, Powell led the company’s higher education and research business, along with strategic evangelism programs, NVIDIA AI Labs and the NVIDIA Inception program with over 4,000 AI startup members. Powell joined NVIDIA in 2008 with responsibility for establishing NVIDIA GPUs as the accelerator platform for medical imaging instruments. She spent her early career in engineering and product management of diagnostic display systems at Planar Systems. Powell received a B.S. in electrical engineering with a concentration in computer engineering from Northeastern University.
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Dan Roth
Professor, University of Pennsylvania
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 the winner of the 2017 John McCarthy Award by the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) – for major conceptual and theoretical advances in the modeling of natural language understanding, machine learning, and reasoning. He is also a Fellow of AAAS, ACM, AAAI, and ACL. Roth is involved in several startups in the Machine Learning and NLP areas, and the CTO of NexLP, Inc.
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Beatriz Sanz Sáiz
Global Analytics Partner, Leader for Advisory Services, EY
Beatriz Sanz Sáiz is a forward-thinking professional with experience in strategy and deep knowledge in artificial intelligence and analytics. She has been a partner with EY for more than a decade. She served in various roles within EMEIA and Asia-Pacific and leads more than 9,000 professionals. During her career, Beatriz has also held senior positions with leading companies in financial services where she was responsible for establishing analytics and innovation as core competencies. Beatriz holds a master’s degree in Mathematics and Statistics from Complutense de Madrid and serves as professor at IE Business School at the International Masters of Big Data & Analytics.
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Anand Sanwal
Co-Founder and CEO, CB Insights
Anand Sanwal is the CEO & Co-founder of CB Insights, a technology market intelligence platform that provides predictive intelligence into emerging technology trends, startups and corporate strategy. Prior to founding CB Insights, Anand managed the $50 million Chairman's Innovation Fund at American Express and worked in VC and corporate M&A. Before AmEx, Anand worked at Kozmo.com, one of NYC's most infamous dot com companies. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and in finance and accounting from the Wharton School of Business.
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Viral Shah
Co-Creator, Julia; Co-Founder and CEO, Julia Computing
Dr. Viral B. Shah is one of the creators of the Julia language and co-founder and CEO of Julia Computing. Julia combines the ease of use of Python with the speed of C. It has been downloaded over 3 million times, and is now taught at MIT, Stanford, and many universities worldwide. The Julia co-creators were recently awarded the prestigious James H. Wilkinson prize for Numerical software. Apart from Julia, he is also one of the authors of Circuitscape, an open-source program which borrows algorithms from electronic circuit theory for ecological conservation. In the Government of India, he was an early member of the country’s national ID project - Aadhaar, where his work on re-architecting India’s social security systems led to a significant increase in social and financial inclusion, while simultaneously saving the exchequer over a billion dollars. Viral has a Ph. D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
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Wayne Shiong
Partner, 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 WeRide (a.k.a JingChi), DeePhi (sold to NASDAQ: XLNX), Mech Mind, HealthBio, Sobot, Landscape Aerospace etc. He was a Partner at Bertelsmann Asia Investments (BAI) with led investments like iClick (NASDAQ: ICLK), Mogujie (NYSE: MOGU), 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. China Growth Capital is a Beijing-based early stage technology investor since 2006, managing $1B to back companies from seed stage to early growth. Notable portfolio companies include SMZDM, Wish, Miss Fresh, 2Dfire, RippleLabs, PingCAP, WeRide, Tongdun etc.
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Dawn Song
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley; Founder and CEO, Oasis Labs
Dawn Song is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley, and founder and CEO of Oasis Labs. Her research interest lies in deep learning, security, and blockchain. Prior to joining UC Berkeley as a faculty, she was a faculty at Carnegie Mellon University from 2002 to 2007. She is the recipient of various awards including the MacArthur Fellowship, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35, and etc. She is ranked the most cited scholar in computer security (AMiner Award). She obtained her Ph.D. degree from UC Berkeley.
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Sophie Sun
Vice President & Head, Merck China Innovation Hub; Head, Merck Strategy and Transformation China
Sophie Sun, Vice President, Head of Merck China Innovation Hub, Head of Merck Strategy and Transformation China. In this role, she leads the China Strategy & Transformation department to drive group strategic planning and innovation and digitalization initiatives across the three business sectors of Healthcare, Life Science and Performance Materials in China. Sophie is a member of the global leadership team of Group Strategy & Transformation, and a member of China Country Council for Merck. She is also the Chair of China Digital Council for Merck.
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Katia Sycara
Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Katia Sycara is the professor in the Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and the director of the Laboratory for Advanced Robotics Technologies. Prof. Sycara is a fellow of IEEE and AAAI as well as the recipient of the ACM/SIGART Agents Research Award and the Research Award of the Group Decision. She has served on various industry scientific advisory boards, such as France Telecom, Siemens and multiple standards committees. She is a founding member of the International Foundation of Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS) and a founding member of the Semantic Web Science Association. She earned a B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University, M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Tomotaka Takahashi
Chief Product Officer, UBTECH Robotics; Research Associate Professor, University of Tokyo
He developed several noted robots who maintain four Guinness World Records.Mr. Takahashi won the RoboCup for five consecutive years and was selected as one of the “Coolest Inventions of 2004” by Time magazine.
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Ning Tang
Founder and CEO, CreditEase
Mr. Tang studied mathematics at Peking University, and gained a bachelor’s degree in economics at the University of the South (Sewanee) in the US.Mr. Tang founded CreditEase in Beijing in 2006. After efforts of 12 years, CreditEase has grown into an internationally leading fintech enterprise, promoting the development of inclusive finance and wealth management career in China. On December 18, 2015, CreditEase listed its online consumer finance and wealth management subsidiary, Yirendai, on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:YRD), the first fintech company IPO from China in the global capital markets.During his early career, Mr. Tang joined Wall Street investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette where he worked on IPO, bond issuance and M&A in the areas of financial services, telecommunications, media and technology.  
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Zhonglin Wang
Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology; Founding Director and Chief Scientist, Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dr. Zhong Lin Wang is the Hightower Chair in Materials Science and Engineering and Regents’ Professor at Georgia Tech, and founding director and chief scientist of the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prof. Wang’s discovery and breakthroughs in developing nanogenerators establish the principle and technological road map for harvesting mechanical energy from environment and biological systems for powering a personal electronics. His research on self-powered nanosystems has inspired the worldwide effort in academia and industry for studying energy for micro-nano-systems. He coined and pioneered the field of piezotronics and piezo-phototronics. From SCI database, Wang’s entire publications have been cited for over 135,000 times with an h-index of 180, ranking No. 1 in Google Scholar public profiles in Nanotechnology and Nanoscience in total citations and h-index impacts.
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Joshua Xiang
CTO & SVP, CreditEase
Joshua Xiang has over 20 years of experience in software, networking and Internet industry. He is currently CTO & SVP at CreditEase, a global fintech leader where he is leading system development and technology innovation using AI, big data and cloud computing technologies.He was EVP of R&D and GM of Global Research at Suning Commerce Group, leading a global product development and technology innovation team. Before joining Suning, Joshua was CTO of Secoo, China’s largest luxury e-Commerce company. Prior to that, Joshua was Director of Technology Strategy & Technical Advisor to the chairman of Microsoft Asia Pacific R&D Group, responsible for overall technology strategy and implementation. Prior to Microsoft, he was engineering director at Trend Micro’s Silicon Valley R&D center. Before that, he held senior technical and management positions at Cisco, CA, Dell and several Silicon Valley start-ups.
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Tao Xie
Founder and CEO, Beijing Commsat Technology Development
Xie Tao, the founder and CEO of Beijing Commsat Technology Development Co., Ltd (COMMSAT), director of Applied Engineering of Satellite Research Center of Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, with experience of more than 10 years at China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND) and other national agencies in space industries. He has participated in China’s top space projects including Chinese Lunar Exploration Program (CLEP) and multiple crewed spacecraft missions. COMMSAT was founded in 2015, focusing on smallsat design, constellation construction, and innovation in satellite application. COMMSAT and Xie proposed “Sharing Satellite Constellation” for the Belt and Road Initiative associated countries, prophesied the approaching era for individual owned satellites, practice promoting China’s new space to meet the international competition, and to make smallsat the new hot-spot for startups and investors. In February 2018, COMMSAT launched its first satellite Young Pioneer-1, which is still operating in good condition in orbit. COMMSAT launched “Ladybeetle” project of 7 satellites with a single rocket by the end of 2018 to fulfill the most complicated validation in China’s new space, and will commence constellation networking in 2019, then provide formal IoT/M2M satcomm service worldwide.
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William Xu
Director of the Board and Chief Strategy Marketing Officer, Huawei Technologies
Mr. Xu is Director of the Board and Chief Strategy Marketing Officer at Huawei Technologies, and also a member of the company's Executive Management Team. Currently, Mr. Xu takes charge of investment decision-making regarding Huawei's products and solutions, and develops the company's mid- and long-term development strategies. He is also responsible for partnerships, investments, and mergers & acquisitions related to key technologies and capabilities. In 1991, Mr. Xu joined Huawei's Research & Development, leading the development of the first generation of Huawei's public program for controlled switches. In 2005, Mr. Xu was appointed as President of Huawei's European Area and charged with developing the European market. From 2008 to 2011, Mr. Xu served as Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer and Chief Sales & Service Officer, and he was responsible for managing Huawei's global sales and services. In 2013, Mr. Xu was appointed as Chief Strategy Marketing Officer, a position he has held ever since. In 2017, he also worked as the Chairman of the Investment Review Board. Mr. Xu holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from Southeast University in Nanjing, China.
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Baogang Yao
CTO, SF Express; CEO, SF Technology
Mr. Baogang Yao joined SF in June 2018 as CTO of SF Express (Group) Co., Ltd. and CEO of SF Technology Co., Ltd. He’s currently leading SF Technology to drive innovation and business growth in logistics and supply chain industry. Mr. Yao has previously served as Group Product and Engineering Director and senior Global Partner of Microsoft, and Vice Managing Director and Engineering Director of Google China. Mr. Yao got his Bachelor’s Degree from Fudan University and Master’s Degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne
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Ruilin Zhao
Partner, CD Capital
Ruilin has 20+ years experience in management in healthcare industry. Prior to joining CD Capital, Ruilin was the Vice President and General Manager of Commercial Operations for Greater China at Illumina.  He also held several leadership positions at Thermo Fisher, including China head of Corporate Marketing and Commercial Operations. Prior to Thermo Fisher, Ruilin held roles as Vice President of Finance at OrbusNeich and Vice President of Business Development at Microport Medical (Group) Co. Ruilin received his doctorate in medical engineering and medical physics from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, a Masters of Business Administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, a master's in electrical engineering and computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a bachelor's in biomedical engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University.
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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.
AI Era
From agriculture to energy, and from healthcare to manufacturing, technology is revolutionizing industries. Artificial intelligence (AI), one of the new driving forces impacting every industry today, is poised to deliver fundamental changes across sectors. What will the impact be, what are the challenges, which industries will prosper, and which will get left behind?
Computing Power: Bridge to the Future
The shrinking of transistors has powered 50 years of advances in computing—but now other ways must be found to make computers more capable. Technology companies are working hard to offer new use cases for computers as the exponential growth of computing power advances. Traditional hardware and software manufacturers now blur the boundaries between their respective roles, as technologies like AI renders chip design more feasible, and quantum computing advances challenge the status quo.
Blockchain and Fintech
The revolution in financial services is underway: emerging technologies such as blockchain, AI, cloud computing, and data analytics are changing how services are distributed, consumed, and priced. Fintechs are succeeding as stand-alone businesses, reshaping customer expectations, and setting higher bars for the user experience. Incumbents are adapting and are retaining many of their customers. How will Fintech innovation change the global economy?
The Future of Work
AI and robotics are driving rapid and radical workplace transformation across all industries, for companies large and small. These and other emerging technologies, like cloud computing, AI, advanced manufacturing, and Internet of things (IoT), are changing jobs and business models in industries ranging from manufacturing to medicine to retail. Will these changes empower the human workforce and open new areas of economic growth, and what are the unintended consequences?
Rewriting Life
The sheer volume of medical data available today, and the tools for analyzing this information, are revolutionizing the field of biomedicine. Algorithms can predict the risk of certain common diseases and suggest drugs to ward them off. Cancer drugs can now be customized as the promise of personalized medicine unfolds. Advanced manufacturing techniques and new materials are moving the possibilities of bioprinting organs from the research lab to the surgical setting, and advances in genomics hold both peril and possibility.
The World of Data
Emerging technologies fostering industrial automation, digitization, and predictive analytics are transforming businesses, increasing efficiencies, optimizing performance, and enabling new business models. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning applications are poised to profoundly impact the economy and the competitive landscape. How are industry leaders responding, and what are the present and future impacts of these advances, cross-industry?
Space
The pursuit of autonomous flight and transportation technologies is reshaping the aerospace industry. New technologies such as AI raise questions of human agency and safety, while topics like interstellar travel, space labs, and asteroid mining promise to become significant in the future. Startups around the world are joining aerospace giants like SpaceX and Blue Origin in developing commercial rocket launches and data sharing. Is the new space frontier today’s Gold Rush?
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AGENDA

19 January 2019

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9:00

Opening Remarks

• Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau, CEO and Publisher, MIT Technology Review
• Irene Chen, CCO, MIT Technology Review China
• Administrative Committee of Zhongguancun Science Park
9:20

AI Era

Artificial intelligence (AI), one of the new driving forces impacting every industry today, is poised to deliver fundamental changes across sectors. What will the impact be, what are the challenges, which industries will prosper, and which will get left behind?

• Anand Sanwal, Co-Founder and CEO, CB Insights
• William Xu, Director of the Board and Chief Strategy Marketing Officer, Huawei Technologies
• Dan Roth, Professor, University of Pennsylvania
• Colin Parris, Vice President of Software Research, GE Global Research
• Tao Jiang, Senior Vice President, iFlytek
• Kimberly Powell, Vice President of Healthcare, NVIDIA
• Derek Haoyang Li, Founder and Chief Educational Technology Scientist, Squirrel AI Learning
• Will Knight, Senior Editor, MIT Technology Review
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14:00

Computing Power: Bridge to the Future

The shrinking of transistors has powered 50 years of advances in computing—but now other ways must be found to make computers more capable. Traditional hardware and software manufacturers now blur the boundaries between their respective roles, as technologies like AI renders chip design more feasible, and quantum computing advances challenge the status quo.

• Viral Shah, Co-Creator, Julia; Co-Founder and CEO, Julia Computing
• Tim Berners-Lee, Professor, MIT; Professor, University of Oxford; Co-Founder and CTO, Inrupt
• Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau, CEO and Publisher, MIT Technology Review
15:45

Blockchain and Fintech

Fintechs are succeeding as stand-alone businesses, reshaping customer expectations, and setting higher bars for the user experience. Incumbents are adapting and are retaining many of their customers. How will Fintech innovation change the global economy?

• Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger Project
• Dawn Song, Professor, UC Berkeley; Founder and CEO, Oasis Labs
• Patrick Murck, Special Counsel, Cooley; Fellow, Harvard University
• José Fernandez Da Ponte, Executive Vice President, BBVA
• Joshua Xiang, SVP & CTO, CreditEase
• Gideon Lichfield, Editor-in-Chief, MIT Technology Review

20 January 2019

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The Future of Work

The emerging technologies, like cloud computing, AI, advanced manufacturing, and Internet of things (IoT), are changing jobs and business models in industries ranging from manufacturing to medicine to retail. Will these changes empower the human workforce and open new areas of economic growth, and what are the unintended consequences?

• Radia Perlman, Fellow, Dell EMC
• Katia Sycara, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
• Tomotaka Takahashi, Chief Product Officer, UBTECH Robotics; Research Associate Professor, University of Tokyo
• Jonah Myerberg, Co-Founder and CTO, Desktop Metal
• Zhonglin Wang, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology; Founding Director and Chief Scientist, Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Lei Mi, Founding Partner and Co-CEO, Casstar
• Will Knight, Senior Editor, MIT Technology Review
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14:00

Rewriting Life

The sheer volume of medical data available today, and the tools for analyzing this information, are revolutionizing the field of biomedicine.

• Jing Fan, Founder & CEO, Hopstem Bioengineering
• Richard Compton, Vice President, Oxford Nanopore
• Aaron Kimball, CTO, Zymergen
• Sophie Sun, Vice President & Head, Merck China Innovation Hub; Head, Merck Strategy and Transformation China
• Ruilin Zhao, Partner, CD Capital
15:45

The World of Data

Emerging technologies fostering industrial automation, digitization, and predictive analytics are transforming businesses, increasing efficiencies, optimizing performance, and enabling new business models. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning applications are poised to profoundly impact the economy and the competitive landscape. How are industry leaders responding, and what are the present and future impacts of these advances, cross-industry?

• Beena Ammanath, Global Vice President, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
• Anthony Goldbloom, Co-Founder and CEO, Kaggle (now a Google company)
• Beatriz Sanz Sáiz, Global Analytics Partner, Leader for Advisory Services, EY
• Baogang Yao, CTO, SF Express; CEO, SF Technology
• Yipin Ng, Founding Partner, YUNQI PARTNERS
• Gideon Lichfield, Editor-in-Chief, MIT Technology Review

21 January 2019

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Space

The pursuit of autonomous flight and transportation technologies is reshaping the aerospace industry. Startups around the world are joining aerospace giants like SpaceX and Blue Origin in developing commercial rocket launches and data sharing. Is the new space frontier today’s Gold Rush?

• Chris Lewicki, Co-Founder, ConsenSys Space
• Mike Lewis, CTO, NanoRacks
• Yuya Nakamura, President and CEO, Axelspace
• Tao Xie, Founder and CEO, Beijing Commsat Technology Development
• Wayne Shiong, Partner, China Growth Capital
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35 Innovators Under 35 China 2018 Awarding Ceremony

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SPECIAL SESSION: 35 Innovators Under 35

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 slove 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. 21st, 2019, the 35 selected innovators will be announced and will be presented in EmTech China.

·Time：afternoon, Jan. 21st, 2019

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VENUE

Date: Jan. 19th – 21st 2019
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
  • Early-bird pass for 3 days
  • Early-bird pass for 3 days
  • On-site lunch 19th – 21st Jan.
  • VIP pass of the main forum for three days
  • On-site lunch 19th – 21st Jan.
  • Dinner banquet with speakers
  • 1-year subscription of MIT Technology Review magazine
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FAQs

Purchasing the ticket

-When is the deadline for booking my event registration ticket?
The deadline for booking a ticket is Jan. 15th. Tickets may be sold out early, so book now.
-How to book my ticket offline?

Please pay by wiring to:

Account: Beijing Yan Yi Technology Co. Ltd.

Account No.: 11050160550000000009

Bank: China Construction Bank Beijing Chaonei Street, sub-branch

and email emtech@mittrchina.com your payment information, and we will contact you directly.

-How do I get my ticket(s)?
We will send the QR code within 30 days before the event after successful payment. You need the QR code on-site to get your badge for admittance to EmTech China.
-What does my ticket "3-day early bird ticket with lunch" include?
Lunch on the 19th, 20th and 21st will be included in this type of early-bird ticket together with access to the summit on the 19th, 20th and 21st.
-About the invoice
On the “purchasing page”, click "get the invoice", and choose “conference ticket cost” as invoice content; and after the required information is entered, we will send the invoice by mail within one month’s time.
-About Cancellation Policy
The registration ticket is non-refundable once purchased, but it is transferable to another name. Please contact emtech@mittrchina.com in order to record the updated ticket info.
-Reserved seats onsite

Early-bird tickets and 3-day pass holders will not have reserved seating.

VIP areas are reserved for the VIP tickets holders only.

-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.
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We're an innovative, digitally oriented global media company whose reach is rapidly expanding. Our mission is to equip our audiences with the intelligence to understand and contribute to a world shaped by technology. Founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review derives its authority from the world's foremost technology institution and from our editors' deep technical knowledge, capacity to see technologies in their broadest context, and unequaled access to leading innovators and researchers. Accuracy and independence are our highest priorities: our coverage is independent of any influence, including our ownership by MIT.

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