GMIC Roadshow:
What 1 Billion Mobile Users in China Means to Silicon Valley
Jun Lei , CEO, Xiaomi * Jian Wang, CTO, Alibaba * Michael Song, CEO, Skymobi
Hosted by SVCWireless and SVEntrepreneur in collaboration with GWC
Nov. 8th, 2011, 4:30pm -- 7:00pm
Cemex Auditorium, Knight Management Center, 655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA 94305
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China continues to be by far the largest mobile market in the world with over 1 billion active subscribers on its three carriers, over 350 million mobile Internet users, and over 250 million new handsets sold each year. Even at this scale, growth has not slowed down. There continues to be eight to 10 million new subscribers being added each month, with about 50 percent of them being 3G users.

 

The Global Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing is now the largest and most influential mobile internet conference in Asia drawing more that 5000 participants from 30 countries.

 

We are very glad to invite some of the top speakers from GMIC, to meet with mobile innovation leaders in Silicon Valley, the HQ for world's Mobile Innovation, and discuss the innovation and entrepreneurship cross world's two innovation centers and the opportunities of bridging them.

 

This will be a rare opportunity to listen the dialogue between the leaders to explore the opportunities.


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Agenda:

4:30pm Registration
5:00pm Welcome Remark: Stanford
5:02pm Introduction to Delegation, Chu Wen, CEO, GWC; Barrett Parkman, VP, GWC
5:05pm Interview with Alibaba CTO, Jian Wang
5:30pm Panel: Mobile Innovation & Startups for the 1Bilion Mobile Users – Greg Pickrell, Partner, Pillsbury, Joe Wu, CEO, NetDragon; Yong Wang, CEO, DeN A China; Michael Song, CEO, Skymobi
6:30pm Fireside Chat with Xiaomi Founder and CEO, Lei Jun
7:00pm Adjourn

 

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Delegation Members
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We will bring you the best of USA and China ranging from thought leaders to industr visionaries to current major players. The featured speakers and guests include:

  • Lei Jun, CEO, Xiaomi - China's most famous angel investor and CEO of China's "most ambitious startup"
  • Wang Jian, CTO, Alibaba - The world's largest online B2B trading platform for small businesses
  • Michael Song, CEO, Skymobi - China's largest Android marketplace and recently IPO'd in the US
  • Wang Yong, CEO, DeNA China (2432.T) - DeNA is Japan's largest mobile internet company and currently growing in China.
  • Joe Wu, CFO, Netdragon - Top internet and mobile gaming company - IPO'd in Hong Kong in 2007
  • Sheng Bi, CEO, Letao - Top apparel eCommerce company in China
  • Lin Bin, President, Xiaomi - Mobile handset manufacturer and app developer in China. China's "most ambitious startup".
  • Wen Chu, CEO, GWC producer of The Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC)
  • Barrett Parkman, VP, GWC producer of The Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC)

Lei Jun Wang Jian Michael Song Wang Yong Joe Wu Sheng Bi Lin Bin Wen Chu Barrett Parkman Greg Pickrell 

Delegation Biography
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Jun Lei, Founder and CEO, Xiaomi
Mr. Lei, joined Kingsoft Corporation Limited in 1992,was appointed as the general manager in 1998.Led by Mr. Lei Jun, Kingsoft was listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong on Oct 9th, 2007. In December 2007, Mr. Lei relinquished his position as chief executive officer, chief technology officer and president of the company, but remained as an executive director and vice Chairman of the board of the company.
Mr. Lei was co-founder and Chairman of Joyo.com, which was founded in April 2000 and sold to Amazon.com in 2004.
In Dec. 2006, Mr. Lei has invested UCWEB as an angel investor.
Mr. Lei received a lot of honors, including the Chinese Internet Innovator, the best Chinese Annual Angel Investor, one of the Business Leaders with Influence in the next 30 years, the Most Contributive Leader in software industry, Elite People in Chinese Internet industry, and so on.

Jian Wang, CTO, Alibaba
Wang Jian is chief architect for Alibaba Group and president of Alibaba Cloud Computing. He joined Alibaba Group in September 2008.
Prior to this, Wang Jian was assistant managing director at Microsoft Research Asia. Before joining Microsoft Research Asia in 1999, Wang Jian worked at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China as a professor and as head of the psychology department. He graduated from the psychology department of Hangzhou University in 1990 and has a Ph.D. degree in engineering.
Wang Jian is a standing committee member of the China Computer Federation (CCF), which recognized him in 2008 with an award for outstanding contribution. He was honored by the CCF Young Computer Scientists & Engineers Forum as one of China's 10-year outstanding young IT professionals.
Wang Jian was the chair of the 2010 CCF Conference and a co-chair of the 2011 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work.

Michael Song, CEO, SKY-MOBI
SKY-MOBI Inc., a high-tech software enterprise was invested by American VC. The company was established in 2005. SKY-MOBI becomes one of the largest mobile application software providers only in 3 years. SKY-MOBI develops mobile application softwares for mobile phone operators, manufacturers and service providers. At present, SKY-MOBI Inc. has developed many mobile application softwares. It is including mobile whether report software, touch screen software, mobile stock trading software.
SKY-MOBI Inc. headquartered in Hangzhou, and has offices in Shanghai, Shenzhen and Beijing, China. There are more than 200 employees working for SKY-MOBI Inc. which including 90% of the college graduates or above. The average age of the employees is about 27. All of the core team members came from the world class telecommunication enterprises. Every core team member has more than 5 years experience. The Philosophy of SKY-MOBI: Create more values for our customers!

Yong Wang, CEO, DeNA China
Mr. Yong Wang has over 10 years experience in mobile wireless management and operation, and has successfully established a number of companies in both China and the United States.
Mr. Yong Wang is the CEO of DeNA (TSE:DENA) China. In this role, he is fully in charge of the company’s management and daily operations. Meanwhile, he also pursues the investment opportunities in China.
Prior to that, Mr. Wang served in CA Mobile, one of the largest mobile advertising companies in Japan. During his tenure in CA Mobile, he established the first mobile advertising company in China—CA Mobile China in 2003 and took the role as COO. In 2006, he established the first virtual mobile social networking service—Ixenland in the U.S. and played the role as President and CEO.
Prior to CA Mobile, Mr. Wang served in NTT(NYSE:NTT), the largest telecommunication company in the world, to provide global telecommunication management consulting service to Japanese entrepreneurs.
In the mean time, Mr. Wang is also the CEO of the Chinese largest mobile SNS-- TX.com.cn, which is the first finished investment project of DeNA in China.
Mr. Wang holds the MBA degree from University of Illinois at Chicago and a Bachelor’s degree from Mie University of Japan.

Joe Wu, CFO, Netdragon
After joining us in January 2004, Mr. Wu has been responsible for sales and marketing in the PRC, the overseas business development and the operations in the USA. He is currently responsible for our corporate finance and financial management matters. He is also in charge of the business development and the operation of the mobile internet business division in NetDragon.
Mr. Wu graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1994, and a Master’s degree in business administration from Duke University in 2004. He has over 10 years of experience in business and management experience. He was the vice-president in the marketing of Beso from 1995 to 1999. From 2000 to 2002, he was the Chief Operating Officer of Octant Communications Inc.

Sheng Bi, CEO, Letao
Mr.Bi has rich experience in IT industry since 1998. He served as assistant to Chairman of HC International Inc (HK8291), one of the earliest e-commerce companies in China. Then he joined into Robin Li’s Baidu (Nasdaq:BIDU) founding team as director of marketing. He spent 3 years on marketing strategy and execution of Baidu, from an unknown company to No.1 internet brand in China and No.1 network traffic in Asia. His multi-marketing model is called Baidu Marketing Model by industry. In 2005, Mr.Bi witnessed the IPO of Baidu and served as marketing strategic consultant of Baidu until the end of 2006.
In 2008, Mr.Bi founded Letao (www.letao.com) with Ceyuan Ventures. In 2010, as the largest shoe e-commerce company in China, Letao built up collaboration with international brands such as NIKE, Adidas etc and received $10M investment from Tiger Global Management Fund, one of the largest global hedge funds.
Because of the rapid growth of and high conversion rate, Letao received another round $30M investment from Tiger Global Management Fund at the end of 2010.

Bin Lin, President, Xiaomi
Beijing Xiaomi Technology Co., Ltd is a growth enterprise which is engaged in development of Android, and the members of leader team are from Google, Microsoft, and Kingsoft. It started in April, 2010, and was invested by well-known Business Angel, Morningside and Qiming.
Bin Lin:
2011: President of Beijing Xiaomi Technology Co., Ltd.
2006-2011: Vice-president of Google China Engineering Research Institute, Engineering director of Google
1995-2006: Project supervisor, Senior development manager of Microsoft Asia Pacific R&D Group, Development director of Microsoft Corporation.
1992: Master's Degree in Computer Science, Drexel University
1990: B.S. In Electronic Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University

Chu Wen, Founder and CEO, GWC
As a serial entrepreneur in mobile Internet, Wenchu successfully sold his 1st company to a Nasdaq listed company in 2004. He founded Moabc in 2005, and made it as a leading mobile community with +10 million users. Great Wall Club was founded by Wenchu in Mar.2008. He speaks Chinese, and English.

Barrett Parkman, Vice President, International Marketing and Growth
Barrett Parkman is Vice President of the Great Wall Club where he oversees international growth and business development. In the past 2 years, Barrett and his Chinese business partners have built the Great Wall Club into a global platform for mobile internet leaders and grown their annual event, The Global Mobile Internet Conference into the largest and most elite event of its kind in Asia.
He has become a key connecting point and trusted partner between tech industries of China, the US, and other countries and has worked with companies such as Tencent, Sina, Google, Facebook and LinkedIn. Barrett is passionate about assisting Chinese companies expand into foreign countries, supporting international companies to access China’s market and fostering trusted relationships between industry leaders.

Greg Pickrell, Partner, Pillsbury Law 

Mr. Pickrell is a partner in the Emerging Growth & Technology practice group in Pillsbury's Palo Alto office. Mr. Pickrell has been a corporate and securities lawyer for over 25 years, with a focus on the representation of high-technology companies.

His clients have reflected the growth of Silicon Valley and range from typical startups to the Fortune 500/Global 100 companies. He has broad experience advising companies in a wide range of technologies, including computer hardware, software, Internet, semiconductors, telecommunications and cleantech. He has a wealth of experience in transactions involving Asia, particularly China and Japan.

Mr. Pickrell started his legal career in Silicon Valley with the firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati, which he left to found Coudert Brothers' first Silicon Valley office. He also served as managing partner of that firm's Tokyo office. He was a cofounder of the firm’s Shanghai Office and China Practice.

Mr. Pickrell frequently speaks and writes on his various areas of practice including venture capital financing, mergers and acquisitions and international transactions. 

 

About GMIC Roadshow

The Global Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing is now the largest and most influential mobile internet conference in Asia drawing more that 5000 participants from 30 countries. There is no other event that draws the same level of speakers or provides the same level of insights on mobile business in Asia. The GMIC Roadshow US will bring some of the same high quality speakers, content and networking to Silicon Valley for the first time. The GMIC Roadshow USA is an exceptional opportunity for Silicon Valley based companies to learn about opportunities in China, build relationships with top leaders and promote their initiatives in Asia without even leaving the Bay area.

 

About SVCWireless

Silicon Valley-China Wireless Technology Association (SVCWireless) is a leading non-profit professional association to bridge the mobile/wireless industries between China and the United States. The organization is founded in year 2000 and now has more than 5000 members and 30 partners around the world. SVCWireless promotes entrepreneurship, innovation, and venture investment with the support from our members, sponsors and partners. http://www.svcwireless.org

 

About SVEntrepreneurs

Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs (SVEntrepreneurs) is a fast growing mobile Entrepreneurs community. SVE is also one of the most active entrepreneur communities in Silicon Valley.
SVE currently organizes the following activities

  • Business Meeting: From Mobile Apps to Startups
  • Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs Toastmasters
  • App Entrepreneurs Accelerator with mentoring sessions
  • Networking Events
  • Startup Challenges
Silicon Valley China Wireless Technology Association
www.svcwireless.org

Gold Sponsors

IBM

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UCWeb

Mobile ETown

Pillsbury Law

Beijing Economic Technological Development Area

 

Silver Sponsors

K & L Gates

 

 

Xi'An High-Tech Industrial Development Zone

Huawei

 

Corporate Members

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Media Sponsors

Singdao Daily 

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99People

Service Sponsors

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