When

September 30, 2017

Where

Hyatt Regency Bellevue

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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, AI in Mobility & Cloud Network Optimization, AI in Practice, Foreign Investment Related Laws. 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
  • Meet recruiters on site at top corporations recruiting session and Qiao Meng Yuan career fair
  • Startup demo zone, provide the unique opportunity for startups to present themselves
  • Innovation incubators from China to showcase Hi-tech development center
  • VIP Dinner for local officials, executive directors and CEOs
  • 50 exhibitors on site to showcase local and international businesses
  • Post-conference Happy Hour to entertain and mingle with 1000 attendees

Sessions Overview

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.

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.

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.

AI in Mobility & Cloud Network Optimization

Artificial Intelligence is undoubtedly the hottest topic in technology community today. The mobile and cloud network industry are also embracing the revolution from networks, services, and devices, for both enterprise and consumer products, by leveraging the vast volume of network logs, user base, and big data. In this session, veterans from the industry will discuss how AI is shaping their world with enabling technologies, as well as challenges and business opportunities.

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.

Foreign Investment Related Laws

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.

Agenda

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 AI in Mobility & Cloud Network Optimization
Room C AI in Practice
Room D Innovators Meets Investors
Room E Technology & Innovation in Healthcare
Room F Foreign Investment Related Laws
12:30 PM
1:30   PM		 Main Stage Lunch
2:00   PM
4:00   PM		 Room A – D Top Corporations Recruiting Fair
Room E Qiao Meng Yuan Overseas Career Fair
Room F Foreign Investment Related Laws
4:30   PM
5:00   PM		 Hall Happy Hour
5:30   PM
8:00   PM		 Main Stage VIP Dinner

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2017 Keynote Speakers

Ya-Qin Zhang

Ya-Qin Zhang

President of Baidu, Former Microsoft Corporate VicePresident, Former chairman of Microsoft Asia-Pacific Research and Development

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Ya-Qin Zhang joined Baidu in September 2014. He currently serves as president in charge of technology, emerging business, and global business operations. Dr. Zhang was Microsoft Corporation’s corporate vice president and the chairman of Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D Group for a decade, leading Microsoft’s overall research and development efforts in the Asia-Pacific region.

 

 

 

 

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2017 Master of Ceremonies

Bianca Chen

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 will be coming soon!

 

2016 Session Speakers 

Jay Inslee

Allison Clark

Managing Director for business services, WA Dept. of Commerce

Nanshen Yuan

Carlton Vann

Director of International Business Development, City of Seattle

Yanping Hu

Mark Wen

President, WA State China Chamber of Commerce

Yanping Hu

Michael Christ

CEO,  SECO Development

Doug Eng

Distinguished System Architect, Wireless Network Architect and Design, AT&T Labs, AT&T

Mario Esposito

Inventor, Apple Relation Manager, Google

Xuan Chen

Managing Director, China Strategic Investment, ARM

Noelle LaCharite

Solutions Architect and Evangelist, Amazon

Dan Mo

Senior Manager, T-Mobile

Michael Li

Managing Partner, Tsing Capital

Ping Wu

Founder and President, Spreadtrum Communications, Inc.

Prakash Sundaresan

Technology industry leader, entrepreneur, advisor and investor

Jun Li

Founder and General Partner, Wisemont Capital

Tony Chang

VP, US R&D Competence Center & Corporate Chief Test Expert, Huawei

Kelvin Xiong

General Manager, LeEco

Jalen He

Jalen He, Director, Alibaba Cloud

Marcus Fontoura

Partner Architect, Microsoft Azure

Luyuan Fang

 Distinguished Engineer, EBay

Lex Liao

Founding Partner, New Highlands Ventures

Luming Wang

Head of Machine Learning, Uber Seattle

Jim Walsh

SVP of Infrastructure Engineering at Salesforce

Bruce Thompson

Sr. Product Marketing Manager, AT&T

Yujing Ma

Principal Dev Manager, Microsoft Power BI

Raj Gulati

US Country Manager, Alibaba AliCloud

Yuqing Gao

Partner Group Eng Manager, Microsoft / Distinguished Engineer, IBM

Shaobin Zhu

Associate, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

Stacey Romberg

Business Attorney

Amy L. Sommers

Partner, K&L GATES

Nelson Lee

Managing Partner, Lee & Lee, PS

Cyra Richardson

Senior Director IoT Business Development, Microsoft

Mike Chen

Founding Partner, New Highlands Ventures

Yi-Jian Ngo

Managing Director, Alliance of Angels

Wu Jian

Founder of Green Bridge

Gillian Muessig

CEO, Outlines Venture Group / Co-Founder, MOZ

Yongbai Choi

Partner of Vulcan Venture Capital

Angelina Huang

Director, US IT Capability Lead, Microsoft

Grace Jiang

IoT Program Manager, Digital Aviation, The Boeing Company

Qi Ke

Engineering Manager in Google

Shaw Chuang

VP, CTO Cloud Computing, Head of Computing Lab at Huawei Technologies

Ke Li

Data Scientist II, Microsoft

Steve Fu

VP of Security Software Engineering, Salesforce

Hong Zhang

Staff Engineering Manager, Google Cloud

Zhaohui Tang

Chairman, adSage

Grace Gu

Sr. Director, adSage

Lani Cao

Attorney, Lani Cao Law Office

Mary Vigal

MARY VIGAL, JD, LL.M. (Tax)

2016 Sponsors

Delta Air Lines
Avenue Properties
American NW Regional Center
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Partners

seattle technical forum
adsage
microsoft
Chinese Institute of Engineers
Hong Kong Business Association of Washington
geekwire
New Tech Northwest
port of Seattle
zitimes
Washington State China Relations Council (WSCRC)
China Youth Returnee Association
China Youth Returnee Association
startup Bellevue
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Media

US China Press
todayfocus
sohu
China Daily
Seattle Chinese Times

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Gaurav Sareen – Corporate Vice President at Microsoft

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Prakash Sundaresan

Prakash Sundaresan is an experienced technology industry leader, innovator, advisor & investor. Until 2014, Mr. Sundaresan served as CTO for Microsoft’s China R&D Group where he helped set the technical strategy for Microsoft’s largest R&D base outside the US. He was also instrumental in founding and building up the Microsoft Startup Accelerator in Beijing, now ranked in the top 3 accelerators in China. Over his 16-year term at Microsoft, he served in various leadership roles relating to Cloud, Big Data and Internet of Things. Currently, Mr. Sundaresan is active in the startup ecosystem in the US and Asia as an advisor and investor in several early-stage startups, while planning his next adventure.

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Kelly Ogilvie

Kelly Ogilvie is an entrepreneur at heart, lover of science and technology, macroeconomics, geopolitics, finance, business, and sports.
Specialties: Strategy, entrepreneurship, e-commerce, internet technology, industrial biology, laptop chemistry, and macro trend analysis.

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Alexander Gounares

Alex Gounares is the founder and CEO of Polyverse Corporation, a stealth mode cyber security company focused on protecting data center applications from large scale data breaches and disruption. Previously, Alex led Concurix Corporation, a maker of Node.js profiling tools.
Prior to Concurix, Alex served as AOL’s Chief Technology Officer. Alex joined AOL from Microsoft, where he was Corporate VP and CTO for the company’s Online Services Division. Prior to joining Microsoft in 1993, Alex worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has founded four startups and is also an inventor on more than 200 U.S. patents filed and pending.

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Jun Li

17 years of industry experience in Enterprise Software and Services. Expert in B2B, Cloud Computing, and Big Data Platform. Business Leader and strategy consultant. Former senior vice president of Beyondsoft leading its North America Strategic Business Group to grow from $3million to $65 million, which contributed greatly to Beyondsoft’s 2012 IPO. Extensive experience in building a sales team and high performance delivery team to deliver top of the class services to clients. Has involved in US M&A and after acquisition integration.

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Mike Chen

Mike Chen is an active investor and advisor to many start-ups. In the 90s, He invested in Yahoo in early days and achieved sizable return; invested in pre-IPO of GeoCities that was successfully acquired by Yahoo. Mike founded an internet social media company in China in 2005 and has advised or invested in several startups ever since. Mike has more than 20 years of business and leadership experience in both the United States and China with companies ranging from a major investment bank in China, to Intel and Microsoft in USA.

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Lex Liao

Lex Liao is an active investor of early stage leading internet and technology companies. He is advising startups in the US and China and helps founders get investor ready and fund raising effort. Lex was an early employee of internet startup, CacheFlow, in the 90s, and succeeded in various management roles at Microsoft for over a decade.

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Gary Ritner

Gary Ritner has been involved in the financial services industry for over 40 years. For the last 30 years he has been self-employed in the investment banking field. His main activities are raising funds for early stage companies, business brokerage, and consulting. Prior he was a stockbroker.
He has helped fund over thirty companies. He has brokered numerous business including a distribution company, a door manufacturer, and construction company. Presently, he is brokering a manufacturer of material handling equipment and a financial service app company.
He is a co- founder and Manager of the Puget Sound Venture Club, pugetsoundvc.com, a forum to review early-stage venture opportunities. Since founding in 1985, present and past members, using the Club resources and their own contacts, have invested approximately $130 million in over 830 companies. Membership is restricted to accredited investors that have a minimum net worth, not including residence, of $1 million and some history of venture investing.

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Xuan Chen

Dr. Xuan Chen is the managing director of ARM China New Business Venture, responsible for investment strategy in China. He has about 20 years’ experience in high-tech industry, including strategic engagement and investment in Cloud and IoT ecosystem, business development and marketing of Microsoft Cloud Services, and product development of various enterprise software products.

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Gillian Muessig

Futurist, serial entrepreneur, startup whisperer, and productization visionary, Gillian cuts through noise and bring clarity to strategic and tactical business decisions. With her partner at Outlines Venture Group, Gillian grows and steers startups, helps companies build intense brand communities, and creates corporate cultures that attract best in class talent. She is a sought-after keynote speaker, mentor and guest lecturer on online business and marketing issues, emerging markets, and the entrepreneurial experience.

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Allison Clark 

Managing Director for business services, WA Dept. of Commerce 

Ms. Allison Clark is responsible for inbound investment promotion for the state of Washington. She is working on multiple foreign investment projects could potentially drew $7 billion USD in our state. She will speak on WA State foreign investment incentives and trend.

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Carlton Vann

Director of International Business Development, City of Seattle

Mr. Carlton Vann has deep  knowledge and experience in international business development.  Recently, he was one of the instrumental team member in Seattle Mayor Ed Murray’s successful business and trade mission to China.  He will provide a briefing on Seattle and China mutual investment projects and Seattle’s effort attracting investment from China.

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Mark Wen

President, WA State China Chamber of Commerce

Dr. Wen has 30 years of international business investment and US China trade experiences.  He is currently VP of Global Business Development and Medical Services for Seattle Children’s Hospital. He will speak on the general trend of US China Mutual Investment and Business Opportunities.

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Michael Christ

CEO, SECO Development

Mr. Christ is a seasoned real estate developer with 30 years’ experience.  His newest EB-5 project successfully attracted many Chinese investors.  He will be presenting a case study on EB-5 investment project and working relationships with Chinese investors.

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Bianca Chen

CEO of New York OX3 TV Production, LLC

Bilingual financial TV reporter, commentator and anchor. She has appeared on various TV & Web shows such as WSJ’s Asia website, SBS, and in commercials for Western Union, Mass Mutual and Estee Lander.

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Allison Clark 

华盛顿州商务部业务发展部主任

Allison女士负责促进华盛顿州的入境投资。她正在处理近70亿美金的多个外商投资项目。她将在华盛顿州的外国投资和趋势研究会上发言。

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Carlton Vann

西雅图国际商务发展部主管

Vann先生在国际业务发展深厚的知识和经验。最近，他成为西雅图市长埃德穆雷的商业和贸易代表团访问成员之一。他将为西雅图和中国相互投资项目来吸引来自中国的投资。

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Mark Wen

华盛顿州中国商会主席

Dr. Wen拥有30年的国际企业投资和美国的中国的贸易经验。目前，他是西雅图儿童医院的全球业务发展和医疗服务副总裁。他也将为中美相互投资和商业会场演讲。

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Michael Christ

Seco地产开发有限公司CEO

Christ先生是一位有30多年的经验的房地产开发商。他最新的EB-5项目的成功吸引了许多中国投资者。他将在EB-5投资项目呈现案例研究，并在与中国投资者的关系会场上讲话。

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Doug Eng

Distinguished System Architect, Wireless Network Architect and Design, AT&T Labs, AT&T

Doug has spent over 20 years at AT&T developing the network generation mobile network architectures and designs.

Doug is currently one of 13 “Distinguished” engineers at AT&T.  Doug’s focus areas are NFV, Mobility Core and Mobility Services.  Doug is one of AT&T’s leaders in NFV, SDN, IoT and 5G.  Doug also is responsible for connecting worlds of Marketing and Network Architecture which often means translating new Marketing ideas into network design concepts and new network standards into new business opportunities.

Doug has been working in the field of data communication for over 30 years.  Doug was first introduced to cellular data communication when he joined McCaw Communications (now part of AT&T) over 20 years ago.  From the day he started at McCaw Communications Doug has worked on mobilitye, Real-T service architectures and designs.  For the first 18 years of Doug’s career at AT&T he was responsible for 20+ employees, 100+ contractors and supported over 100 projects a year.  Today Doug is an individual contributor working on next generation architecture and designs.

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Mario Esposito

Inventor, Apple Relation Manager, Google

Mario is an engineer and a serial entrepreneur.Design a consumer experience from the ideation through prototyping then to the final stage is his talent. Building a team from scratch, lead it by example and keep it positively committed to the ultimate success is something that he has done a few times. And well. Mario have a solid and explosive creativity when it comes to creating value in the form of an experience and associated intellectual property. At M$, they called Mario “Product Delivery Ninja”. Release To Market products *is* his thing. He is a maker than understand business synergies and innovation cycles dynamics.

Mario has been an essential asset either in leading or co-inventing some amazing technologies. Like Hands Detection for XBOX ONE, Lasso for Bing Search to name a few. Nowadays Mario is publicly acknowledged as an IoT expert and blog about it.

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Xuan Chen

Managing Director, China Strategic Investment, ARM

Dr. Xuan Chen is the head of ARM Strategic Investment Team. He is the managing director of HOPU-ARM Innovation Fund and co-founder of ARM ecosystem accelerator. Dr. Chen has about 20 years’ experience in high-tech industry, including strategic investment and partnership, business development and product development in Cloud and IoT. He received Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Southern California, MBA from University of Massachusetts Amherst and Bachelor in Computer Communications from Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication. Dr. Chen is an active promoter of entrepreneurship in high-tech. He is currently serving as founding board member of Seattle Venture Investment Alliance (SVIA), judge and mentor to startup competitions organized by US-China Association of High-Level Professionals (UCAHP), TechNode and Seattle Entrepreneur Club (SEC).

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Noelle LaCharite

Solutions Architect and Evangelist, Amazon

Noelle LaCharite is a Solutions Architect and Evangelist for Amazon Alexa. She engages with Alexa developers, architects, engineers and project managers to facilitate the integration of Alexa into their products and services. She has spent many years as a technical trainer and evangelist for IBM, a Solution Architect for RedHat and in Education Leadership at Pivotal and Amazon Web Services.  She has been an enterprise developer, architect and principle consultant over a decade. She has written several books on IBM WebSphere and cloud computing for small businesses. She has been voted a top 10 presenter at RedHat Summit and has spoken at JavaOne, CloudExpo, AWS Summits and AWSome Days. As an Evangelist for Alexa she develops demonstrations, white papers and tutorials and speaks at many technical conferences and seminars.

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Dan Mo

Senior Manager, T-Mobile

Dan Mo is currently a Sr. Manager at T-Mobile and the leader of T-Mobile’s Internet of Things (IOT) group.  Previously, he served as the Director of Mobile Ecosystem Forum, a global wireless industry association.  He led multiple large-scale IT and network programs at AT&T Wireless and helped build 3 software startup companies, two of which were successfully acquired by larger companies.  He holds an MBA and M.Sc. in Computer Science with specialization in Machine Learning.  His current technical passion encompasses IOT, Big Data, Cloud Computing and Artificial Intelligence.  

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Cyra Richardson

Senior Director IoT Business Development, Microsoft

Cyra has enjoyed a long productive career in the industry.  She started working at a market research startup in Philadelphia the fledgling IBM PC to cross tabulate large data sets at 14 years old.  In 1990 Cyra joined Microsoft as a developer.  During her tenure she lead several project on Microsoft Windows CE embedded operating system and development tools including Platform Builder.  She has parted with Microsoft from time to time to run her own startups.  In 2010,  Amazon recruited Cyra to run their Mobile Web Shopping Business.  In 2013,  Cyra rejoined as the Group Program Manager for the three Windows 10 IoT editions and now focuses on IoT cross company at Microsoft.

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Bruce Thompson

Sr. Product Marketing Manager, AT&T

Bruce Thompson works in product marketing and planning for AT&T Internet of Things Solutions.  His current focus includes IoT product communications with analyst and press teams.  He has led projects in enterprise IoT and M2M product management with AT&T for 10 years, including roles in strategy and network planning, and as PM lead for SIM & service management platforms. 

Bruce has over 25 years of industry experience in networks, enterprise software, IT operations, and B2B services, including Web portals, SaaS, mobile data, performance, monitoring, diagnostics, and security.  Prior to AT&T, Bruce worked in management, sales, marketing, and product roles for startup, midsize and large technology companies including Cingular, Hewlett Packard, Mercury Interactive, WRQ, Performant, and Appliant.

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Doug Eng

系统架构师，无线网络架构师和设计，AT＆T实验室，AT＆T

Doug拥有超过20年在AT＆T公司中开发移动网络架构和研究设计的经验。道格是目前在AT＆T 公司中著名的十三名工程师之一。 Doug研究的重点领域是NFV，移动核心和移动服务。道格是AT＆T公司在NFV，SDN，物联网和5G的领导者之一。道格也负责将营销和网络架构融入在一起，这往往意味着新的营销理念融入网络设计的概念和新的网络标准纳入商业世界的新机会。

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Mario Esposito

谷歌对苹果关系部经理

Mario是一个工程师和一个不断前行的创业家。马里奥是一个在价值形式方面极具创造力的人。在微软，大家称呼他为“产品推广忍者”。马里奥对业态的充分了解让在马里奥做市场推广时游刃有余。

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Noelle LaCharita

方案架构师拓展专员 亚马逊

Noelle LaCharite是一个解决方案架构师和亚马逊Alexa的传播者。她与Alexa的开发者，设计人员，工程师和项目经理一起让Alexa将更多更好的服务融入到他们的产品。Noelle常年作为技术培训师为IBM做推广，同时也是RedHat的解决方案架构师。她一直是企业开发人员，拥有超过十年的架构师和首席顾问经验。

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Dan Mo

高级经理，T-Mobile

Dan Mo目前是T-Mobile公司的一名高级经理和T-Mobile物联网组的领导者之一。此前，他曾担任全球无线行业协会Mobile Ecosystem Forum的主管。他曾成功在AT＆T负责多个大型IT和网络的方案，并帮助建立3软件创业公司，其中两个成功地被大公司收购。他拥有MBA学位硕士及计算机科学，专攻机械学习。他目前的技术热情涵盖物联网，大数据，云计算和人工智能。

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Cyra Richardson

微软IoT商业发展部高级主管

Cyra在业内享有盛誉。她开始在费城的一家市场调研工作初出茅庐，制作大型数据集。 1990年，Cyra作为一个软件工程师加入微软。在她任职期间，她负责微软Windows CE嵌入式操作系统和开发工具，包括平台生成器等几个项目。 2010年，亚马逊招募Cyra来运行他们的移动网页商品商务。 2013年， Cyra重新回到亚马逊作为集团的项目经理，负责三个物联网Windows 10的版本和物联网跨公司技术。

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Bruce Thompson

AT&T资深产品营销经理

Bruce Thompson在AT&T公司负责产品营销和规划物联网解决方案。他在AT&T领导企业的物联网和M2M产品管理已有10年时间，其中包括战略和网络规划，并作为SIM卡服务管理平台的项目管理人。

布鲁斯拥有超过25年的网络行业经验，企业软件，IT运营，以及B2B服务，包括门户网站来说，SaaS，移动数据，性能监控，诊断和安全性。在参与AT&T工作前，Bruce曾在管理，销售，市场营销方面取得成功。其中的一些中型和大型科技公司包括Cingular公司，惠普，Mercury Interactive, WRQ, Performant和Appliant。

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Grace Jiang

IoT Program Manager, Digital Aviation, The Boeing Company

Jiang joined the Boeing Company in 2001 and successfully completed her assignments rising from a Computer Programmer, to a senior Manager in areas across Information Technology, Suppliers Management, Production Control, and Digital Aviation.

Jiang received 2010 Asian American Engineer of the year Award. She is a WOC Technology All Star Award winner in 2009.

Jiang currently works as an IoT program manager at Digital Aviation in Commercial Aviation Service.   She is leading the strategy for digital supply chain and other IoT projects.

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Steve Fu

VP of Security Software Engineering, Salesforce

Steve Fu started his engineering career in Silicon Valley.  He was one of the early developers of PREfix static analyzer.  After joining Microsoft in 1998, he participated and led many software product development, including Windows CE, Passport, MSN, Visual Studio Team System, Windows Hyper-V.  Steve joined Amazon AWS in 2009 as one of the early AWS Development Managers. He built and ran the EC2 Security Engineering and Development team, defending the largest public cloud on the Internet.  Currently Steve is the VP of Security Software Engineering in Salesforce’s Seattle office, leading the company’s infrastructure transition of software defined security.   Steve has filed 8 patents and is the expert in software engineering tools, virtualization, cloud security and agile development methods.

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Kelvin Xiong

General Manager, LeEco

Kelvin Xiong is a technology/product leader with 12+ years of experience building sophisticated and highly scalable technologies and products. Specialize in marketing, advertising, growth, relevance and e-commerce. Currently lead the global growth marketing at LeEco.

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Marcus Fontoura

Partner Architect, Microsoft Azure

Marcus is currently a Partner Architect at Microsoft, where he works on the end-to-end architecture for Azure compute. In his previous roles at Microsoft, Marcus worked on the production infrastructure for Bing and in several Bing Ads projects.

Prior to Microsoft, Marcus was a Research Scientist at Google (2011-2013) where he worked in the Search Infrastructure team. His focus was on the serving systems powering Google.com search. At Google, Marcus worked in many projects including performance and scalability of retrieval engines, novel compression schemes, indexing systems, and networking. He also worked in retrieval techniques for large-scale machine learning systems.

Marcus is an ACM Distinguished Member and an IEEE Senior Member. He has more than 25 issued patents and more than 50 published papers. Marcus has been in several program committees over the years, including SIGIR, WWW, WSDM, KDD, and CIKM. Recently Marcus was a co-chair of the WWW 2013 developers track. You can find more about him at his personal web-site http://fontoura.org

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Luming Wang

Luming Wang

Head of Machine Learning, Uber Seattle

Luming leads the Machine Learning Algorithm and Deep Learning team in Uber. Previous to this, he held various leadership positions in Microsoft, Amazon and Cognos.  Luming  is a graduate of University of Science and Technology of China , and holds Master’s degree of Information Science from Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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Ke Li

Data Scientist II, Microsoft

Ke Li is a data scientist II at Microsoft. He works on building machine learning models to influence business growth strategy for Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise. Before that, he worked at Amazon as a research scientist in modeling transaction fraud risk. He had his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Washington in 2015. He is a guest lecturer at the University of Washington. He was a former chair of Chinese Student and Scholar Association at the University of Washington in 2011 and the current chair of Chinese Microsoft Employee Network. 

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Raj Gulati

US Country Manager, Alibaba AliCloud

Raj has 15+ years track record of spearheading high impact market and business development initiatives for several companies.  Prior to Alibaba Cloud, Raj drove Alliances, marketing and go-to-market strategy initiatives for VMware, including Hyper-converged Infrastructure, Networking, DBaaS and Big-Data.

 

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Yunjing Ma

Principal Dev Manager, Microsoft Power BI

Yunjing Ma is working as a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft. She has extensive experience in data area Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and traditional product development. She has worked in big data platform (Microsoft Data Lake), data analytics (PowerBI), cloud data services (SQL Azure), cloud-scale distributed computation platform (Azure Information Service), and database systems (SQL Server Engine) at Microsoft.   During the past four years, Yunjing was focused on research and development work in Query processing and data analytics parts of big data platform.

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Yuqing Gao

Partner Group Eng Manager, Microsoft / Distinguished Engineer, IBM

Dr Yuqing Gao is an accomplished technical scientist, innovator and R&D leader in cutting-edge technology research and product development.  Proven track record of success (20+ years of successful professional career in leading R&D organizations) in leading rapid technological advancement, innovation, and highly competitive environments.  Broad range of skills from initiating research breakthroughs to achieving marketable product development.  Renowned expert and technological visionary in the fields of enterprise middleware, cloud computing, data centric computing, workload optimized systems and appliances, business analytics, big data and analytics, social media and multimedia, speech and natural language processing.

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Michael Li 

Managing Partner, Tsing Capital

Michael Li is a Managing Partner of Tsing Capital, focusing on renewable energy & environment protection, new materials, IoT (Internet of Things), robotics & AI, sustainable transportation, cleaner production and green supply chain. Mr. Li brings more than 20 years of combined experience in venture capital, investment banking and technologies. Previously, Mr. Li was a partner at KPCB China, making investment in cleantech and internet. Prior to that, he was a general partner of Pine Tree Equity and a principal at NewMargin Ventures, focusing on hi-tech investments in software, telecom, internet services and semiconductor at various stages.

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Ping Wu

Founder and President, Spreadtrum Communications, Inc.

Ping Wu is the co-founder of Summitview Capital China Venture Capital Funds and has invested in more than 30 start-up companies since 2010.

Prior to co-founding Summitview Capital China Venture Capital Funds, he was the co-founder, president, Chief Executive Officer, and the chairman of Spread rum Communications Inc, a Nasdaq listed leading fabless semiconductor provider in China with advanced technology in 2G, 3G, and 4G wireless communications standards, since its inception in April 2001. Wu also served as a senior director at Mobilink Telecom Inc. from 1997 to 2001; and as a senior design manager of Trident Microsystems, Inc.

Wu holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, a master’s degree, and a doctorate in electrical engineering from China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics.

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Prakash Sundaresan

Technology industry leader, entrepreneur, advisor and investor

Prakash Sundaresan is an experienced technology industry leader, innovator, advisor & investor. Until 2014, Mr. Sundaresan served as CTO for Microsoft’s China R&D Group where he helped set the technical strategy for Microsoft’s largest R&D base outside the US. He was also instrumental in founding and building up the Microsoft Startup Accelerator in Beijing, now ranked in the top 3 accelerators in China. Over his 16-year term at Microsoft, he served in various leadership roles relating to Cloud, Big Data and Internet of Things. Currently, Mr. Sundaresan is active in the startup ecosystem in the US and Asia as an advisor and investor in several early-stage startups, while planning his next adventure.

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Lex Liao

Founding Partner, New Highlands Ventures

Lex Liao is a co-founder and Managing Partner of the micro venture capital firm New Highlands Ventures (NHV), and a board member of Seattle Venture Investment Alliance (SVIA). Lex has been an active angel investor for many years. He is currently an investor and mentor of TechStars, a top tier startup accelerator in the US. Lex has nearly two decades of experience in high tech industry with expertise in network security, enterprise product development, and cloud computing. Prior to NHV, he worked at Microsoft in various senior management roles over 10 years. In the 90s, he was an early member of engineering management team at CacheFlow, an internet startup that set the 9th biggest first-day percentage gains by an IPO in the US history. Later it became BlueCoat which was only recently acquired by Symantec for $4.6 billion in 2016. Lex has a Ph.D. in Physics from McGill University.

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Mike Chen

Founding Partner, New Highlands Ventures

Mike is a co-founder and Managing Partner of the micro venture capital firm New Highlands Ventures (NHV), and the President and board member of Seattle Venture Investment Alliance (SVIA). Mike has been an active investor and advisor to many start-ups for many years, he has more than 20 years of corporate business development, major contract negotiations, and strategic sourcing experience in high tech industry. Companies he held sr. positions with included CITIC Investments in China, and Intel and Microsoft in the United States. Besides investing, Mike also helps companies doing M&A activities in USA.

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Jun Li

Founder and General Partner, Wisemont Capital

Li is Wisemont Capital’s founding Partner and General Partner. As a business Leader and strategy consultant, Li was senior vice president of Beyondsoft, led its North America Strategic Business Group to grow from $3million to $65 million, which contributed greatly to Beyondsoft’s 2012 IPO. Extensive experience in building a sales team and high performance delivery team to deliver top of the class services to clients.  Has involved in US M&A and after acquisition integration.Li is an expert and consultant for Multinational Companies on their China go to market strategy.

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李立伟

青云创投管理合伙人

李立伟先生是青云创业投资基金管理合伙人。关注的投资领域包括：新能源及环保、新材料、物联网、机器人及人工智能、虚拟和增强现实，可持续交通、清洁生产和绿色供应链。李立伟先生有超过20年风险投资，投资银行和高科技行业的经验。加入青云创投之前，李立伟先生是凯鹏华盈（KPCB）中国基金合伙人，进行清洁技术和互联网等领域的投资；在此之前，曾担任美国汉柏基金合伙人及上海联创（现上海永宣）投资总监，主要关注高科技领域的投资，包括各个阶段的软件、通讯、互联网服务及半导体创业企业，并支持了若干企业成功实现IPO或并购，包括主导和参与投资宜信 (NYSE: YRD)，恺英股份 (SZ: 002517)，立凯电能 (并购 TW: 00729)，汉王科技 (SZ: 002362)，富基旋风 (NASDAQ: EFUT)和RFWaves (并购 NYSE: VSH)。目前，李立伟先生担任七家受资公司的董事。

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武平

武岳峰资本创始合伙人

武平先生先后获得清华大学学士学位，中国航天科学院硕士和博士学位。其曾在MobiLink Telecom公司任 VLSI 设计主管，在 Trident Microsystems 担任设计组经理及在瑞士 Biel 从事 IC 设计工作。在系统集成电路、混合信号技术方面拥有丰富的设计经验和技术管理经验。2000 年和一群海外学者决定怀着为祖国解决核心技术的理想，回国创业。2001年一同创立展讯通信（上海）公司。武平先生曾任硅谷高创会创业大赛首席评委。

 

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廖乐祥

New Highlands Venture合伙人

廖乐祥博士是美国新高地投资联合创始人和西雅图华人创投会董事，也是美国著名创业孵化器TechStars在西雅图分点的投资合伙人和导师。他主要从事早期和种子期创业公司的投资，目前已经投资了多家移动互联网，企业服务，移动医疗和教育领域的项目。在创办新高地之前，廖乐祥先生曾在美国微软(Microsoft)担任各种高级管理职位，拥有17年的互联网技术，软件开发和云计算业界经验，是软件与开发领域的专家。在上世纪九十年代，他是美国一互联网初创企业(CacheFlow)的高级技术经理，并帮助该公司从创业到成功上市，并创下了美国历史上十个首日收益率最大的上市公司之一。廖乐祥先生拥有麦吉尔大学物理学博士学位。

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Mike Chen

New Highlands Venture合伙人

Mike Chen是美国New Highlands Ventures创始合伙人，西雅图华人创投会会长。中山大学管理学院毕业，美国工商管理硕士，他拥有超过20年的在中国的主要投资机构和在美国100强公司如英特尔 (Intel), 和微软(Microsoft)等的高管经验。同时在企业并购，股权投资和地产投资等领域有着丰富的经验。他目前除投资外， 注重帮助中国企业在美做并购及技术引进。

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陈轩

中国战略投资集团股份有限公司常务董事

陈轩博士是ARM 中国战略投资负责人，厚朴ARM创新基金董事总经理，ARM生态系统加速器联合创始人。陈轩博士在高科技领域有近二十年的经验，曾负责云计算和物联网领域的战略投资和合作，业务拓展及产品研发 。他拥有美国南加州大学（USC）计算机博士学位，马萨诸塞大学(UMA)工商管理硕士学位和北京邮电大学计算机通信本科学位。陈轩博士积极推动高科技领域的创业，他是西雅图华人创投风会的创始董事，并在美中高层次人才交流协会，动点，西雅图创业俱乐部等多个组织的创业大赛担任评委和导师。

 

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李峻

Wisemont Capital创始人

李峻女士有着17年的业界经验，是企业软件与服务领域的专家。 她曾任博彦科技高级副总裁。作为博彦科技在西海岸的第一个员工，她开拓并管理了公司北美的战略客户业务。在她的领导下，她在几年时间里将原来$3million的业务发展成为$65million的业务。她的团队最多达到2000多人，其高效优质的交付受到来自世界100强企业客户的称赞。她还参与了博彦科技公司在中国的上市和其在美国的公司收购和对美国并购公司的业务整合和管理。对于在美国开拓业务，管理全球销售和交付团队她深有心得。李峻擅长在强烈的竞争市场上找到差异化的市场策略，从而开发出对于客户有独特价值贡献的服务。

李峻女士活跃于硅谷地区和华盛顿地区和的华人创业圈子，支持社区创业活动。她多年来支持并辅导当地华人的创业活动，并多次在创业大奖赛中担任评委。李峻还是清华企业家协会美西分会副主席，硅谷天使会秘书长，西雅图华人创投会董事长，西雅图清华校友会理事。

 

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Kelvin Xiong

乐视总经理

Kelvin Xiong是营销，广告和电商行业技术产品领导者，有12年以上行业经验，专注互联网企业营销，广告，推荐系统和产品。

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Qi Ke

Engineering Manager in Google

Qi is currently working on Application Diagnostics on Google Cloud Computing Platform. Qi believes cloud is the future for not just startups but also enterprise. Monitoring and diagnostics are critical for micro-services.  Before that, she designed and built the CloudBuild system in Microsoft that is serving thousands of developers, cutting build time from tens of hours to minutes and seconds. Even before that, Qi worked on billing and payment systems that handled large volume online and subscription transactions.

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Angelina Huang

Director, US IT Capability Lead, Microsoft

Angelina Huang is currently the Director of IT Capability at Microsoft. Since joining Microsoft in 2008, Angelina held a series of increasingly responsible positions from IT solution design and delivery, business process reengineering, sales strategy and execution to most recently leading IT capability strategy and roadmap for the US subsidiary.

Prior to Microsoft, Angelina spent 7 years at Capital One Financial where she led 6 cross functional Agile delivery teams and was accountable for Capital One’s online product innovation and delivery.

Angelina received Circle of Excellence Awards from both Microsoft (2015) and Capital One Financial (2006) for her contribution toward the advancement of company’s transformation and growth.

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Jim Walsh

SVP of Infrastructure Engineering at Salesforce

Jim is responsible for the storage platforms and services that power the Salesforce cloud. He is also Salesforce Site Director in Seattle.

Jim was previously at Microsoft for 23 years, has founded or co-founded four startups, holds 25 patents, and has launched a number of interesting projects including Bing Image Search, and Cosmos–Microsoft’s exabyte-scale big data platform behind Azure.

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Shaw Chuang

VP, CTO Cloud Computing, Head of Computing Lab at Huawei Technologies

Senior organizational leader and technology executive with a proven track record of building and leading high-performing and collaborative product teams, fostering exceptional innovation, and delivering enterprise-grade platform products in fast-paced, dynamic organizations.

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Deng Li

Chief Scientist of AI, Microsoft

Dr. Deng is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Acoustical Society of America, and the ISCA. In 1999, he joined Microsoft Research, where currently he leads R&D of deep learning as the Partner Research Manager of its Deep Learning Technology Center. Since January 2016, Dr. Deng has also taken new responsibilities in the company as the Chief Scientist of AI in Microsoft’s Applications and Service Group (ASG). He recently received IEEE SPS Technical Achievement Award (2015) for “Outstanding Contributions to Deep Learning and Automatic Speech Recognition”.

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Grace Gu

Sr. Director, adSage

Ms. Grace Gu is a seasoned digital marketing professional with 16 years of experience in global marketing communications and social media marketing. She leads WeChat marketing business in adSage. Her team serves enterprises and organizations who target China market or Chinese audience overseas.

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Jalen He

Director, Alibaba Cloud

Prior to joining Alibaba as Sr. Cloud Architect in San Mateo office, Jalen worked for Microsoft, Expedia, Myspace and Redfin to lead both development and testing team. He is a veteran with years of experience on R&D, infrastructure, team management, across industries such as display/search ads, social networks and travel.

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Zhaohui Tang

Chairman, adSage

Dr. ZhaoHui Tang joined adSage as the CEO in 2010. In the past years, he has worked at Microsoft Corporation. There, Dr. Tang was positioned as the Lead Program Manager of the BI team for SQL server from 1999 to 2005, managing the Data Mining business for SQL Server. In 2006, Dr. Tang took part in building adCenter Lab and became the Principle Program Manager for adCenter until 2010, taking charge of several key projects in the field of Relevance and Revenue of Paid Search/ Context Ads. At the same time, Dr. Tang invented the Keyword Service Platform which is the first web service platform focusing on the keyword technique.

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Lani Cao

Attorney, Lani Cao Law Office

Founded in 2007, Lani Cao Law Office is a professional law firm specializing in immigration law. Our main services include the following: family- based immigration (I-130, K-1, adjustment of status, and consular processing) and employment- based immigration (EB-1, EB-5, , H-1B, L-1, TN, PERM, etc.).

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Stacey Romberg

Business Attorney

Stacey Romberg has practiced law for twenty five years, focusing her practice on estate planning, probate, and business law. She has been recognized by Seattle Magazine for her estate planning practice, being named as a Five Star Wealth Manager for 2009, 2010, and 2011. She is a member of the Seattle Estate Planning Council. Stacey has been quoted by the Seattle Times in relation to estate planning, and has spoken on estate planning at various continuing legal education programs sponsored by the Washington State Bar Association. She has published articles related to estate planning in the King County Bar Bulletin, DeNovo (the publication of the Young Lawyer’s Division of the Washington State Bar Association), and (March 2011) the Puget Sound Business Journal.

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Amy L. Sommers

Partner, K&L GATES

Amy Sommers is a partner in the firm’s Seattle and Shanghai offices. Her practice focuses on advising on investment and operation in restricted sectors, such as real estate, travel, ecommerce, financial services and education. She is also known as a practitioner in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and antibribery compliance.

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Shaobin Zhu

Associate, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

Shaobin Zhu has helped dozens of Chinese companies resolve their U.S. IP litigations. He focuses his practice on patent litigation in U.S. district courts; Section 337 investigations at the ITC; and client counseling and patent prosecution, with an emphasis on computer software, Internet technologies, videogames, telecommunications, video processing, LEDs, 3D printing, wearable devices, robots, and electronic technology. He also has handled patent invalidation proceedings at the USPTO. Mr. Zhu teaches a graduate course on U.S. IP law at Renmin University of China Law School, and serves as a program professor at the University of Science and Technology of China School of Public Affairs.

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Susan DelBene

Congresswoman

Congresswoman Suzan DelBene represents Washington’s 1st Congressional District, which spans from northeast King County to the Canadian border, and includes parts of King, Snohomish, Skagit, and Whatcom counties.

First sworn into the House of Representatives on November 13, 2012, DelBene brings a unique voice to the nation’s capital, with more than two decades of experience as a successful technology entrepreneur and business leader in the private sector.  Her depth of experience and focus on achieving concrete results allows DelBene to break through Congressional gridlock and get things done, earning her praise from the Everett Herald, who called her “the most prolific, effective member of her freshman class.” 

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Jian Wu

Founder of Green Bridge

The founder of Green Bridge, Jian has more than 20 years of global experience and knowledge of cross-border investment, venture capital investment, and strategic consulting acquired through diverse consulting and industry experience in the U.S. and Asia.  With deep insights on cross-border transaction and cross-cultural leadership, Jian focuses on cross-border investment and venture capital investment for clients across a wide range of industries.

Prior to founding Green Bridge, Jian served at Spencer Stuart, a leading global executive recruiting firm, covering Industrial, Medical and Technology spaces in Greater China and Asia. Before that, he spent 16 years at Weyerhaeuser, where he served most recently as managing director of Weyerhaeuser China and chairman of Weyerhaeuser’s Chinese joint venture. Prior to that, he led the establishment and management of the Hong Kong sales office covering the Asia Pacific region including Greater China, Korea, Australia, India and countries in Southeast Asia.

Jian graduated from Northwest University of Agriculture, and holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Washington.

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吴剑

绿桥创始人

吴剑博士曾在美国、香港、中国大陆等地居住和工作，拥有20多年的跨境投资与并购、风险投资、战略咨询等方面的广泛知识和实践经验。他所创立的绿桥公司主要从事中美之间的跨境投资与并购及风险投资，同时管理着一家注册于美国西雅图的风险投资基金。

在创立绿桥之前，吴剑博士服务于世界著名猎头公司 Spencer Stuart (史宾沙)，成功地为众多的跨国公司、私募/风险投资公司、及中国公司招募贤才，职位包括亚洲区总裁、大中华区总裁等职。

在加入史宾沙公司之前，吴剑博士曾服务于美国惠好公司（财富500强）多达16年，离职前担任该公司中国董事总经理及中美合资公司的董事长。他还曾建立和领导过覆盖亚太地区的香港销售办事处，其中包括大中华区、韩国、澳大利亚、印度和东南亚各国等。在此前，他曾服务于该公司的研发中心。

吴剑博士毕业于中国西北农业大学、并获得美国华盛顿大学博士学位。

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曹霄鹤

曹霄鹤律师事务所专业移民律师

曹霄鹤律师事务所是一个专业的移民律师事务所。成立近十年来， 以大西雅图地区为中心，竭诚为海内外华人以及其他族裔客户提供申请美国移民和非移民签证的全方位法律服务。主要专业领域包括：EB－5投资移民，亲属移民，工作移民，EB－1杰出人才移民，H-1B签证， L-1签证， PERM劳工证，I-485身份调整和领事程序等。

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朱韶斌

美国飞翰律师事务所

朱韶斌律师来自美国飞翰上海办公室，他帮助几十家中国企业成功解决美国知识产权诉讼。他的执业领域包括美国联邦地区法院诉讼、美国国际贸易委员会（ITC）337条款调查、客户咨询、以及专利申请，重点领域包括计算机软件、互联网技术、电子游戏、电信、多媒体图像处理、发光二极管、3D打印、可穿戴设备、机器人、和电子技术。此外，他还处理在美国专利局挑战专利有效性的程序。他在中国人民大学法学院和商学院为研究生教授关于美国知识产权法的课程，还担任中国科技大学公共事务学院法律课程项目教授。

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Susan DelBene

国会女议员

Susan DelBen是华盛顿州第一国会选区代表。

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Stacey Romberg

商业律师

Stacey Romberg有25年商业法律从业经验。连续被提名为2009、2010、2011年度Five Stars Wealth Manager.在Puget Sound Business Journal等知名杂发布过多篇文章。

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Amy L. Sommers

K&L GATES合伙人

Amy L. Sommers专注于受限制行业的投资与操作，例如房地产、电子商务等金融服务。Amy同时致力于海外反腐和反贿赂工作。

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唐朝晖

adSage董事会主席

唐朝晖在2010年以CEO身份加入adSage. 在这之前三年时间，唐朝晖博士在微软负责对SQL Server的数据勘探。

 

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Jalen He

阿里云主管

Jalen He拥有多年云技术工作经验，在加入阿里云之前在微软、Expedia、Redfin等多家大型公司负责云技术管理。

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Grace Gu

adSage高级主管

Grace Gu拥有16年数字营销工作经验，专注全球化市场和传媒营销。现在Gu在adSage负责微信营销业务。

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Hong Zhang

Staff Engineering Manager, Google Cloud

Zhang is the Tech Lead on Google API Platform and Google API Design. Previously manager of Google enterprise mobile products.

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Gillian Muessig

CEO, Outlines Venture Group / Co-Founder, MOZ

Futurist, serial entrepreneur, startup whisperer, and productization visionary, Gillian cuts through noise and brings clarity to strategic and tactical business decisions. With her team at Outlines Venture Group, Gillian grows and steers startups, helps companies build intense brand communities, and creates corporate cultures that attract best in class talent. She is a sought-after keynote speaker, mentor and guest lecturer on online business and marketing issues, emerging markets, and the entrepreneurial experience.

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Yi-Jian Ngo

Managing Director, Alliance of Angels

Yi-Jian Ngo, Managing Director, leads the Alliance of Angels. A network engineer by training, Yi-Jian stumbled into the startup world when AT&T rebooted its corporate venture fund and recruited him as a founding team member. Working closely with entrepreneurs and helping them build their companies turned out to be such a blast that he continued that work at Microsoft. More recently, he was a venture capitalist at Sierra Ventures, where he focused on investments in mobile and enterprise/infrastructure software & services from around the world. Yi-Jian holds an MBA from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell.

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Mary Vigal

MARY VIGAL, JD, LL.M. (Tax)

Mary has practiced tax law for more than 37 years and is certified as a tax specialist byThe State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization since 1979. She is admitted tothe State Bar of California and Washington. She works as an independent taxconsultant in collaboration with businesses or professional firms that are in need ofan experienced tax professional.Ms. Vigal is a director with the Survive a Stroke Foundation, a 501 ( c )(3) organization.She organized the foundation and received its tax exempt status with the IRS. Shefrequently speaks on tax exempt organization planning, including foundations andcharitable trusts.

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Luyuan Fang

Distinguished Engineer, EBay

Luyuan Fang is Distinguished Engineer at eBay, focusing on applying Machine Learning (ML) to networks. From 2013 to 2016, Luyuan was Principal Network Engineer at Microsoft Azure, where she invented the Hierarchical SDN architecture for hyper-scale Cloud/Data Center (DC) networks; as part of the Azure SDN DevOps team, she developed VM-based IPv6 Security features; and she prototyped network diagnostics tools using Azure IoT and ML. From 2006 to 2013, Luyuan worked at Cisco as Principal Engineer in SP Networking, DC, SDN, and NFV. Prior to Cisco, Luyuan was with AT&T Labs. (1998 – 2006) as Principal MTS, where she played a key architect role in building AT&T’s IP/MPLS Backbone and MPLS/BGP VPN Services.

Before networking, Dr. Fang held several research positions in AI and Deep Learning in Australia, Canada, and US, where she used Neural Networks for speech recognition, handwriting recognition, image compression, and AI tools for network devices. Her Ph.D. thesis was Design of Computational Neuron Networks.

Luyuan has co-authored 14 IETF RFCs for Internet Standards. She has been a frequent speaker in many prominent Global Networking Conferences in SDN, NFV, and MPLS. She has over 100 publications, including IEEE/ACM articles, conf. papers and industrial speeches.

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Tony Chang

VP, US R&D Competence Center & Corporate Chief Test Expert, Huawei

From 2008 till present, Tony is the VP of Huawei US R&D Competence Center, Corporate R&D Tools Planning & Test Authority, leading the evolution and innovation of the company’s overall R&D Model, Methodology, Tools, Quality, Global Lab Effectiveness and Customer Test Partnership in order to improve the efficiency and TTM.

Prior join Huawei, Tony held a number of senior roles at Nortel from 1987 till 2008 including Director of MCI Development & Deployment, Director of Carrier Verification, Sr. Director of Wireless Verification , Corporate Test Environment Design Authority.

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房路渊

Ebay 杰出工程师

房路渊博士现任eBay杰出工程师，专注于应用人工智能来辅助和优化大规模数据网络的设计与菅理。从2013年至2016年，路渊作为首席网络工程师在微软的Azure工作，她发明了分层SDN架构用于低成本超大规模云计算/数据中心网络设计; 作为Azure SDN DevOps团队的一员，她开发了VM based的IPv6的安全功能; 她还研发了利用Azure物联网和机器学习能力创制的网络诊断工具原型。从2006年到2013年，路渊在思科作首席工程师, 从事于运营商网络，数据中心，云计算, SDN和NFV等前沿技术开发 。在此之前，路渊在AT＆T工作 （1998 – 2006）, 作为首席工程师，她在建设AT＆T的IP / MPLS骨干网和MPLS / BGP VPN虚拟网服务中发挥了重大作用。

 

在致力于网络工作之前，房博士曾在澳大利亚，加拿大和美国, 任职于多个人工智能和深度学习研究岗位, 她用神经网络作语音识别，手写识别，图像压缩，和网络设备的智能工具。她的博士论文是计算神经网络的设计。

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Doug Eng

AT＆T卓越系统架构师，无线网络架构师和设计

道格（Doug）拥有超过20年在AT＆T公司中开发移动网络架构和研究设计的经验。道格是目前在AT＆T 公司中十三名卓越工程师之一。 道格重点研究的领域是NFV，移动核心和移动服务。道格是AT＆T公司在NFV，SDN，物联网和5G等领域的领导者之一。道格负责的工作还包括将营销的和网络架构融入在一起，这往往意味着将新的营销理念融入到网络设计的概念中和将新的网络标准转换成商业世界的新机会。

道格在数据通讯领域已有三十几年的经历。道格在二十几年前加入McCaw 通讯（现在是AT&T的一部分）就接触到蜂窝数据通信。从到McCaw 通讯的第一天，道格就开始从事移动通讯，实时服务，构架和设计。在AT&T最初的18年中，道格每年管理20多个正式职员，100多个合同人员，负责100多个项目。目前道格是独立技术工作者，从事下一代的架构和设计。

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Mario Esposito

谷歌对苹果关系部经理

马里奥（Mario）是一个工程师和一个不断前行的创业家。马里奥从概念到原型到产品极具创造力。马里奥已好几次从零开始建立团队，以身作则，至始至终得投入直至成功。涉及到经验和知识产权，马里奥具有扎实而爆发创造力在曾微软，被大家称呼为“产品推广忍者”。给市场提交产品是马里奥的专长。与其说他理解商业和创新的动态，和更是一个制造者。

马里奥领导和创新上是公司至关重要的财富。比如，他在微软是曾为XBOX ONE的手探测，为BING 检索的套索等技术作了重要的贡献。现在马里奥是大家公认的物联网专家。

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Noelle LaCharite

亚马逊公司解决方案架构师和产品传播者

Noelle LaCharite是亚马逊公司解决方案架构师和智能音响产品Alexa的传播者。她协助Alexa的开发者，设计人员，工程师和项目经理将Alexa更好融入到产品中并提供更多更好的服务。Noelle曾多年作为技术培训师为IBM做推广，同时也多年作为解决方案架构师服务于RedHat等公司。她拥有超过十年软件开发人员，架构师和首席顾问的经验。她出版了好几本关于IBM WebSphere和云计算的书。她曾被当选为RedHat大会的最佳十个演讲者，增在JavaOne, CloudExpo, AWS Summits and AWSome Days等大会上演讲. 作为Alexa的传播者， 她编制了演示，白皮书，和辅导教程，并多次在技术大会和研讨会上演讲。

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Bruce Thompson

AT&T资深产品营销经理

Bruce Thompson在AT&T公司负责产品营销和规划物联网解决方案。他目前的工作重点包括与分析和新闻团队交流有关产品的信息。他在AT&T领导企业的物联网和M2M产品管理已有10年时间，其中包括战略和网络规划，并作为SIM卡服务管理平台的项目管理人。

布鲁斯拥有超过25年的网络行业经验，企业软件，IT运营，以及B2B服务，包括门户网站，SaaS，移动数据，网站性能监控，诊断和安全性。在加入AT&T工作前，Bruce曾在管理，销售，产品市场营销方面取得不少成功的经验， 涉及到初创公司，中型和大型科技公司包括Cingular公司，惠普，Mercury Interactive, WRQ, Performant和Appliant。

 

Bruce 获得Amherst College文学学士学位。在Dartmouth从事过科研工作。他居住在西雅图地区，有时间时，他喜欢骑自行车，帆船和徒步。

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Cyra Richarson

微软物联网商业发展部高级主管

Cyra在业内享有长期的盛誉。她14岁初出茅庐，就开始在费城的一家市场调研工作，制作大型数据集。 1990年，Cyra作为一个软件工程师加入微软。在她任职期间，她负责微软Windows CE嵌入式操作系统和开发工具，包括平台生成器等几个项目。 她也好几次离开微软成立她自己的公司。2010年，Cyra受亚马逊招募来运行移动网页商品商务。 2013年， Cyra重新回到微软作为集团的项目经理，负责三个物联网Windows 10的版本和整个公司的物联网技术。

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Dan Mo

T-Mobile高级经理

Dan Mo是T-Mobile公司的一名高级经理和T-Mobile物联网组的领导者。此前，他曾担任全球无线行业协会(Mobile Ecosystem Forum) 的主管。他曾成功地在AT＆T负责多个大型信息和网络技术的项目，并帮助建立3软件创业公司，其中两个成功地被大公司收购。他拥有MBA学位和计算机科学硕士学位，专攻机械学习。他目前的技术热情涵盖物联网，大数据，云计算和人工智能。

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Tylor Moynihan

Senior Director of Business Development, Zillow

Tyler Moynihan is Senior Director of Business Development at Zillow, where he oversees partnerships and strategic initiatives. Prior to joining Zillow, Tyler held business development roles at WhitePages and INRIX, where he created partnerships with web and mobile firms. Prior to INRIX, Tyler served various business development and marketing functions at AOL, including positions in the mobile, search and online advertising divisions. Tyler holds an M.B.A from Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business and a B.S. in international politics from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service.

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