When
September 30, 2017
Where
Hyatt Regency Bellevue
Seattle Biz-Tech Summit is the premier international business and technology annual conference in the Pacific Northwest hosting influential industry leaders, investors, developers and startups. With over 1,000 on-site attendees, it’s the largest Seattle-area conference dedicated to global innovation and collaboration between cross-border companies. This year, the summit theme is “Innovation meets Connection” which continue to focus on technology innovation and business exchange between Pacific Northwest and Asia. The summit will deliver cutting edge topics in Technology & Innovation in Healthcare, Cloud in Practice, Innovators Meets Investors, Intelligent Mobility and Cloud Networks, AI in Practice, Cross-border M & A Law and Practice in China and America. This year, the top corporation recruiting session and Qiao Meng Yuan career fair will provide the one on one talk opportunity with the top corporate recruiters. In addition, the startup demo zone will offer the unique opportunity for startups to demo and present themselves in front of more than thousands of attendees.
2017 Summit Highlights:
- Be inspired by influential speakers
- Network with more than 100 international delegates
- 8 Breakout sessions to present most cutting-edge technology development
- Meet recruiters on-site from top corporations recruiting session and Qiao Meng Yuan career fair
- Startup demo zone, provide the unique opportunity for startups to present
- Innovation incubators from China to showcase hi-tech development centers
- VIP Dinner for local officials, executive and CEOs
- 40 exhibitors to showcase local and international companies
- Post-conference Happy Hour to network with 1000 attendees
Sessions Overview
Qiao Meng Yuan Career Fair
Qiao Meng Yuan (QMY) High-Tech Development Zone is a startup hub created by the Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council and its’ local governments for overseas Chinese entrepreneurs. This year, there will be total 74 investors, developers, entrepreneurs, and governors from 12 hubs to attend 2017 Seattle Biz-Tech Summit and promote the business exchanges, technology collaboration, project investment and global innovation between the United States and China.
Cloud in Practice
Latest cloud computing trends, with a focus on infrastructure-as-a-service. In 2017, we see several new themes emerging: a narrowing race among public cloud providers, decrease in private cloud adoption, a renewed focus on enterprises on optimizing cloud costs, and strong growth in Docker. In this session, we will invite executives from Huawei, Microsoft, Amazon, Alibaba to share their industry insight of cloud computing.
Intelligent Mobility and Cloud Networks
The mobile network and cloud network industries are introducing intelligence to enterprise networks, consumer networks, services, and devices. This intelligence is gained by processing the vast volume of information created as data passes through these networks. In this session, veterans from the industry will discuss how Artificial Intelligence is shaping our world. We will discuss enabling technologies, business opportunities and challenges.
AI in Practice
The world is converging towards cities, fast and for the long term. In a digitized era, cities themselves are constantly evolving, calling for new ways for cities to function ever more efficiently. Recent advances in AI and data-driven approaches in general provided us with a new prism through which we can reformulate and better solve some of the grandest challenges in city management – traffic flow control, crowd monitoring and prediction, public security, city planning, utilities distribution, etc. In this session, we will invite several domain experts to share their experiences and thoughts.
Innovators Meets Investors
How do inventors find the means to turn their great ideas into great businesses? How do investors discover the “next big thing” that will deliver enormous returns on their capital? In this session, you will hear top VC investors share their successful stories and innovators discussion regarding the opportunities and challenges they face in pioneering breakthrough technologies.
Technology & Innovation in Healthcare
AI is completely reshaping life sciences, medicine, and healthcare as an industry. Deep learning solutions are at the heart of this revolution, they’re enabling a new era of biomedical advancements – from real-time pathology assessment to point-of-care interventions to predictive analytics for clinical decision-making. Learn more about how AI-driven healthcare is taking center stage.
Cross-border M & A Law and Practice in China and America
The world’s economy is more interconnected than ever. In both China and the US, prosperity of the technology startup industry vitally hinges upon the free flowing of top talent and mature capital across the Pacific. A skillful investor needs to comprehend and leverage the intricacies of the distinctive law and regulatory provisions and processes in these two countries in order to navigate the complicated landscape of foreign investment. In this session, several experts specialized in this subject will talk about their successful experience in dealing with foreign investment laws.
| TIME | LOCATION | EVENT |
| 8:30 AM | Hall | Registration Opens |
| 9:00 AM 5:30 PM |
Hall | Exhibition |
| 9:00 AM 4:00 PM |
Hall | Startups Innovation Exhibition |
| 9:00 AM 10:15 AM |
Main Stage | Opening & Keynote Presentation |
| 10:20 AM 10:45 AM |
Hall | Coffee Break |
| BREAKOUT SESSIONS | ||
| 10:45 AM 12:30 PM |
Room A | Cloud in Practice |
| Room B | Intelligent Mobility and Cloud Networks | |
| Room C | AI in Practice | |
| Room D | Innovators Meets Investors | |
| Room E | Technology & Innovation in Healthcare | |
| Room F | Cross-border M & A Law and Practice in China and America | |
| 12:30 PM 2:00 PM |
Main Stage | Lunch |
| 12:30 PM 2:00 PM |
Main Stage | Qiao Meng Yuan Promotion Session |
| 2:00 PM 4:00 PM |
Room A | Huawei Session |
| Room B | Entrepreneurship & Labor Law | |
| Room C | Washington State Commercial Real Estate Investment | |
| Room D | Qiao Meng Yuan Overseas Career Fair | |
| Room E | Top Corporations Recruiting Fair | |
| 4:30 PM 5:00 PM |
Hall | Happy Hour |
| 4:30 PM 5:30 PM |
Hall | VIP Dinner Registration |
| 5:30 PM 8:00 PM |
Main Stage | VIP Dinner |
Ya-Qin Zhang
President of Baidu, Former Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Former chairman of Microsoft Asia-Pacific Research and Development
Swami Sivasubramanian
VP, Amazon Web ServicesFudong Xia
Deputy Director, Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council
Fudong is currently the Deputy Director of Economic and Technical Department of Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council. He also as former Director of Economic and Technical Department, Director of Economic Department, and Deputy Secretary-General of Chinese Overseas Business Investment Association. He has received a graduate degree and served as senior engineer.
2017 Session Keynote Speakers
Rimma Nehme
GPM, Microsoft
Rimma is currently an GPM and previously was an Architect in Azure Cosmos DB and the Open-Source Software Analytics team at Microsoft. Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s globally-distributed, multi-model database service- representing the next big thing in the world of massively scalable cloud databases. Previously, Rimma was a principal engineer with 10 years of experience in both systems building, database management systems, Big Data, query optimization and data storage. At Microsoft, some of her accomplishments include jump-starting Polybase technology and shipping it in both SQL DW, SQL Server PDW and SQL Server 2016, developing the cost-based query optimizer in SQL Server PDW.
Bianca Chen
Finance Correspondent at Thomson Reuters
Bianca Yijia Chen, a bilingual financial TV reporter, commentator and anchor, has established herself as the New York-based expert on financial and equity markets, seen, heard and read daily by a more than a 100 million-strong audience in China and across the world’s Chinese diaspora through her daily “live from New York” spot on CCTV Business Channel’s evening news, her daily radio segment on China Central Radio, and her columns on Sina Finance and Fortune Life Magazine.
2017 Session Speakers
AI in Practice
Kirk Li
Sr Data Scientist, Microsoft Cloud Analytics
Yuqing Gao
Head of Knowledge Graph, Microsoft; Distinguished Engineer of IBM Watson
Luna Dong
Head of Knowledge Graph, Amazon
Luming Wang
Distinguished System Architect, Wireless Network Architect and Design, AT&T Labs, AT&T
Elaine Chang
Sr PM, Microsoft Bot Framework
Yan Ke
CTO, CloboticCloud in Practice
Rimma Nehme
Architect, Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB
Lijiang Fang
Partner Group Engineering Manager, Microsoft
Chengliang Zhang
Staff Software Engineer, Google
Hongqiao Li
Group Engineering Manager, Microsoft
Landong Wei
Sr Manager, Amazon AWS
Technology & Innovation in Healthcare
Mark Wen
Ph.D. Vice President of Seattle Children’s Hospital, in charge of Global Medical Services
Samuel Browd
MD, Ph.D. Neurosurgeon, Director of Integrative Brian Research, Seattle Children Hospital, Founder and CMO of VICIS
Aaron Rose
President & CEO of ROI3. Inc.
Intelligent Mobility and Cloud Networks
Doug Eng
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at AT&T
Paul-André Raymond
SVPTechnology at B. Yond
Humberto J. La Roche
Principal Engineer, Cisco
Salman Taj
Head of Incubation, Chief Innovation Office, Ericsson
Ying Wang
Director of AI, Microsoft
Pei Zheng
Director, Head of R&D Lab, Samsung Electronics America
Innovators Meets Investors
Jian Wu
Founder of Green Bridge
Cross-border M & A Law and Practice in China and America
Lani Cao
Attorney, Lani Cao Law Office
Shaobin Zhu
Associate, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
Xiaoming Liu
Senior Partner of Longan Law Firm
2017 Invited VIP Gust
- Mark Russinovich, CTO, Microsoft Azure
- Marcus Fontoura, Partner Architect, Microsoft Azure
- Corey Sanders, Head of Product, Microsoft Azure Compute
- Lin Liao, Senior Staff of Google
- Jian Pei, Chief Data Scientist, Tech VP and Head of AI, Huawei
- Jordi Ribas, VP, Microsoft
- Zhi Chang, VP of Marketing, Huawei Carrier Network BG
- Mark Li, Former VP of LeTV and former VP of JD.com, Former Director of Google China
2017 Sponsors
Partners
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