Speakers
Dr Benjamn BAI
PARTNER
Allen & Overy
Dr Bai heads Allen & Overy’s China IP practice and has about 20 years of experience in protecting IP in China, the U.S. and Europe. A native Chinese and U.S. trained patent lawyer, he concentrates on representing multinational companies in protecting, licensing, and enforcing IP rights in China, and Chinese companies in resolving IP disputes overseas. With the unique combination of a strong technical background and unique expertise in international IP disputes, Dr Bai has a winning track record for IP disputes and is a trusted advisor to the world’s top companies on IP protection. One client remarks that he is “a pre-eminent litigator with an astounding scientific understanding of the technology behind every case.” Another client appreciates his “very practical approach to dealing with matters, based on logic and the likelihood of success.”
Dr Bai is a prolific writer and speaker on IP issues. He has lectured on Chinese IP issues around the world. As a thought leader on IP and innovation, he is frequently interviewed by Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, and Fortune on such issues.
Professor Yuk-Chow SO
DEAN
Faculty of Business Administration
University of Macau
Professor So is currently the Dean, Chair Professor of the Faculty of Business Administration at University of Macau and Co-Director of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Economics.
Professor So was a consultant for many corporations and law firms. He was a visiting scholar and/or consultant of the Federal Reserve Bank in Chicago, Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis, Office of the Small Business Administration (SBA), Washington D.C
Mr Charles FAN
CTO
Cheetah Mobile
Mr Fan has been the Chief Technology Officer of Cheetah Mobile since February 2016. Mr Fan joined us from VMware, a leading cloud computing company, where he served as Senior Vice President leading its storage and big data businesses. Mr. Fan was also the founder of VMware and EMC's China R&D Centers and grew them from 0 to over 1,000 engineers within three years.
Mr Fan started his career as an entrepreneur, co-founding file virtualization startup Rainfinity, which was acquired by EMC in 2005. Mr Fan is an expert in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure and big data, holding a PhD and Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.
Mr Daniel KALUTKIEWICZ
SENIOR SOLUTION ARCHITECT
IBM China
Mr Kalutkiewicz is Senior Solution Architect of IBM Watson IoT in IBM China/Hong Kong Limited with over 15 years in enterprise software solutions specializing in international technical sales and implementations.
Mr Kalutkiewicz has worked in R&D and led many projects to develop capabilities for IBM Analytics solution portfolio across industries, including Energy & Utilities, Government, Retail, and University sectors. He has attended multiple worldwide conferences as one of the keynote speakers, including IBM Pulse, IFMA Integrate, NRTA & Advance Energy Conference.
Professor Desmond LAM
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Faculty of Business Administration
University of Macau
Professor Lam is currently the Acting Programme Director of Hospitality and Gaming Management
Programme.
His research interest lies in gambling behavior, cross-cultural consumer decision-making, word-of-mouth communication, brand and customer loyalty and internet marketing. His research work has been published in leading journals such as Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, Journal of Hospitality Marketing and Management and Journal of Gambling Studies.
He completed his Bachelor of Business in Marketing, La Trobe University and PhD in Marketing at the University of Western Australia.
Professor Rose Neng LAI
ASSOCIATE DEAN
Faculty of Business Administration
University of Macau
Professor Lai is currently the Associate Dean (Research and Development) in the Faculty of Business Administration at University of Macau. She is a professor in Finance and a director of Asian Real Estate Society (AsRES).
Her research interest lies in Option Pricing Models, Risk Management, Real Estate Finance and Behavioral Finance. Her research work has been published in leading journals such as Journal of Real Estate, Journal of Youth Studies and Journal of Property Investment and Finance.
Mr Victor CHUA
INVESTMENT DIRECTOR
Gobi ASEAN
Mr Chua is an Investment Director at Gobi ASEAN, working closely with portfolio companies, providing hands-on counsel and value-added services to help them achieve sustainable growth. Prior to Gobi, he was an Investment Manager with MAVCAP where he invested in early stage high growth tech companies. He was also associated with 500 Startups, through their ASEAN extension, 500 Durians.
With the experience of researching and evaluating the capabilities of different asset managers around the region, he brings to the panel valuable insights that will help firms uphold best practices in their investment process.
Mr Sanjeev KUMAR
DIRECTOR
HPE
Mr Kumar is a Director of Enterprise Group Pre-Sales, SEATH, for HP Enterprise. He has total 24 years of extensive IT experience in diverse global IT and consulting organizations as an expert consultant, visionary leader and evangelist
Mr Kumar previously held various roles in Infosys Technologies, Digital Equipment, HP Services, HP Software Services & Technology Consulting services organization and currently heading Pre-Sales & Enterprise Architects for South East Asia, Taiwan & Hong Kong (SEATH) sub region and have managed a diversified team size of 270+ people in Asia. Mr Kumar earned an MBA in General Management from University of South Australia and Advanced Certificate for Executives in Management, Technology Innovation, Entrepreneurship from MIT Sloan Boston. He currently serves as a mentor in Indian School of Business & actively mentoring few key talents in HPE as Pan HPE Key talent initiative.
Professor Zhaotong LIAN
PROFESSOR
Faculty of Business Administration
University of Macau
Professor Lian is currently the Programme Coordinator of Accounting Information Systems. He also chairs the Guangdong and Macau Association of Logistics Study since 2012.
His research interest lies in logistics and supply chain management, stochastic models and service operations.
He completed his BSc in Mathematics at Beijing Normal University and PhD in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Mr Wilson HO
GENERAL MANAGER
SAS HK
Wilson is the General Manager of SAS Hong Kong, responsible for the company's overall business operations - formulating the go-to-market strategy; driving the company's "Big Data, Big Analytics" intiatives in the market and helping the enterprise to glean business insights from the data assets with analytics.
Since joining SAS in 2015, Wilson has dedicated his energies to building strong and trustd relationships with clients by providing them with advanced analytics solutions to meet the challenges of big data, and collaborating with statistical and analytics pioneers in academia in nurturing new analytics talents and data scientists in Hong Kong who make a notable contribution to the local community. An industry veteran of 25 years, Wilson brings a wealth of leadership and sales management experience, gained with leading technology companies, to SAS Hong Kong.
Mr Haitao LI
CTO
Dang Dang
Mr Li is the vice president of Dangdang Inc. He obtained his bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University and Master’s degree from Cambridge Unversity. With over 15 years working experience in the internet industry, he served as product developer and manager in many renown enterprises including Microsoft, Taobao and Sohu Inc.
Mr Li is very experienced in internet technologies including large-scale communication networks, searching system, e-commerce system, sorting and advertising algorithms. Currently, he is in charge of platform development, system architecture, search advertising big data, system operation, R&D project management in Dangdang Inc.
Mr Tom PRESTSTULEN
MANAGING PARTNER
Elkem AS
Tom Preststulen is Managing Partner at Elkem AS, one of the world’s leading producers of industrial materials such as silicon, alloys, carbon and microsilica. He has more than 30 years’ experience as an investor and executive across the natural resources, clean technology, agriculture and logistics sectors around the world.
Tom has extensive knowledge of working in China and holds a number of directorships with businesses in the Asia Pacific region including Gaia Mariculture Pte Ltd, Euro Nordic Logistics BV, Masterbulk Pte Ltd, Temasys Communications Pte Ltd and the Greenship Group.
Dr Jie SHEN
VICE PRESIDENT
Wuxi Internet of Things Research Institute
Dr Jie SHEN is the Vice President of Wuxi Internet of Things Research Institute. He is the ISO/IEC 30141 IoT Reference Architecture Project Editor, the leader of General Group of National IoT Basic Standard Working Group in China, Vice Chair of TC10 of Chinese Communication Standard Association. He has about 14 years researching experience in IoT and sensor network.
The winner of Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award, Outstanding Graduate Award of Shanghai Universities and Outstanding Technician Award in Jiangsu in 2008, he has applied for more than ten national patents and has been authorised three. He has published more than 10 papers in leading domestic and foreign journals.
Ms Cynthia MENG
MANAGING DIRECTOR
HEAD OF TMT EQUITY RESEARCH
Jefferies
Cynthia is the founder and CEO of Credence Investment Holding, a private equity investment and advisory firm focusing on the fast growing new economy sectors in Internet and Technology industries. She was the managing director, head of greater China TMT equity research at Jefferies until May, 2016. Her research has a particular focus on consumer Internet behavioural changes as a result of emerging technologies, and long term shift in China's population demographics.
She has over 17 years of experience in the global TMT industry including strategy consulting for technology companies, and working as equity analyst for JPMorgan, BofA Merrill and Jefferies. Cynthia graduated with an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University.
Mr Bent RYE
CEO
Temasys Communications
Mr Rye came to Temasys after almost 20 years with Cisco where he held leadership positions with both local and global responsibilities from start-up in Europe to HQ in Silicon Valley.
He brings broad experience in direct and partner sales, scaling of business operations and large deal management.
Mr Constantin STAHLKNECHT
SR. BUSINESS GROUP LEAD, WINDOWS & DEVICES
Microsoft HK
Constantin Stahlknecht is the Business Group Lead of Windows & Devices in the Marketing & Operations Group (M&O) in Microsoft Hong Kong. M&O Organization is at the core of leading the Hong Kong subsidiary in landing the mission of Microsoft in the local community: to empower everyone and every organization to do more and achieve more in the mobile-first and cloud-first world. He is responsible for leading product operations, landing marketing strategies holistically and overall business performance for Windows & Devices.
Prior to his current role, Constantin Stahlknecht was the Category Lead for Microsoft Switzerland responsible for the Device strategy for the Swiss Consumer Market. Before that he held several Sales and Marketing roles with focus on Business Development and New Product Implementations in Switzerland & Germany, starting with the role of Business Manager for the OEM Division for the Microsoft Western Europe Region overseeing the performance of 12 countries, based in Munich, Germany.
Mr Michal SZCZECINSKI
ANALYTICS SCIENTIST
GoGoVan
Michal is an experienced analyst with strong IT skills and a passion for data analytics. He’s naturally curious, loves to learn and to solve challenging problems with pragmatic solutions using leading edge technology.
He is motivated to use his skills at the intersection of business, statistics and IT to add considerable value to any business.
Ms Yvonne TSUI
COUNTRY MANAGER
FireEye HK Ltd
Ms Tsui is the Country Manager of FireEye Hong Kong and Macau. A veteran with 20 years of experience in the information technology sector, Yvonne is responsible for leading and directing the growth, profitability and market share leadership of FireEye in Hong Kong and Macau.
Prior to joining FireEye, Ms Tsui was a sales director in Symantec, through the acquisition of Veritas, managing the enterprise account team in Hong Kong. She received her Bachelor of Arts with major in marketing from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Australia.
Mr Kwek Ping YONG
CENTRE DIRECTOR
Greater China Centre for Private Equity
Mr Yong is the CEO of Inventis Investment Holdings, the largest private equity growth fund in China with over USD6.2 billion of capital
under management. The Inventis funds spread across three different mandates: the Greater China fund, a global investment fund and a Korean country specific fund.
He is a TED speaker and the author of two acclaimed books on China, Private Equity in China: Challenges and Opportunities (Wiley 2012) and Due Diligence in China: Beyond the Checklists (Wiley 2013). He teaches private equity courses at the Wharton School, Singapore Management University, London Business School, Imperial College Business School and the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo in Russia. Yong is also the Centre Director of the Greater China Centre for Private Equity (GCCPE) and an Adjunct Scholar at the University of Macau, China and a Senior Fellow of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Ms Abby TANG
DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Damballa
Ms Tang is the Director of Business Development at Damballa, which specializes in networking monitoring for advanced threats. Damballa monitors nearly 15% of the world’s Internet activity and protects more than 0.5 billion devices.
Ms Tang has extensive experience in IT security enterprise solutions within the Asian market, while engaging in research and development projects into various firewall and proxy authentication technology. She received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from University of California, Irvine.
Mr James TSO
CHIEF TRANSFORMATION OFFICER
EMC
James is the Chief Transformation Officer in EMC. His current role is to lead a highly professional service team across the EMC family of companies engaging with enterprise customer through strategic partnership jointly formulate and redefine their Digital Transformation journey in meeting the key business objectives with its associated execution plan focusing on initiatives like Application Modernization, Infrastructure Automation and Orchestration as well as Service Definition on their Operating Model and Strategy.
James joined EMC in 2005 as a Client Solutions Director from their Consulting Practice when it’s global operations started expanding into the Asia Pacific region as a strategic initiative to promote and develop a trusted relationship with major customer by adopting a highly consultative and solution driven approach.
Mr Baofei ZHANG
VICE DIRECTOR
Huawei, Noah's Ark Lab
Mr Zhang is the Vice Director of Noah’s Ark Lab for data mining, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). With over 14 years of experience in telecommunications industry, software design and
development, software and system architecture design and engineering within Huawei Technologies Co Ltd.
He also took an active part in his country’s experts meetings on national telecommunication standards and also on international telecommunication standards (mainly ITU-T), and is a member of core expert group in National “Important Special Projects of Crucial Electronic Devices, Hi-end General Chips and Basic Software Products” Program.
