October 2, 2010
Marriott Santa Clara   2700 Mission College Blvd   Santa Clara, CA 95054
 
Agenda
Time Agenda
8:00 AM Registration
9:00 AM Morning Keynote by Yingyi Qian
10:15 AM Intermission
10:30 AM Demystifying Science Parks in China Cleantech The Drivers for growth and Innovation for the China Outsourcing Industry Global Services Showcase Speeches and Showcases by Delegations from China
11:30 AM Lunch
1:00 PM China Leading the Next Wave of Innovation Investments from VC Perspective Case Studies:
How Do Market Leaders, Nokia, Adobe and Yahoo Capitalize China Global Services for Growth and Innovation?
2:00 PM Intermission
2:15 PM Thinking Through Exit Strategies Impact of Social Enterprises on Entrepreneurship Return to China
3:15 PM Intermission
3:30 PM Afternoon Keynote by Qi Lu
5:00 PM Conference Concludes

*Panel sessions start after morning keynote. Please check final schedule of panel sessions when you are onsite.

Highlights of this year's panel discussions

Clean Tech: Moving Traditional Economies forward
With advances in this sector from both the US and China, the enthusiasm for cleaner technologies has grown at a rapid pace though these feelings are mixed with caution against hype. Is clean tech really necessary to continue economic growth and stability? What needs to be done to stay at the forefront of these technologies? What role does policy play in the success of "clean" businesses? Where are the real opportunities? What are the lessons learned? In this discussion our clean tech experts will share their hands-on experiences and inspirational thoughts with entrepreneurs, investors and executives alike.

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Investments from VC Perspective
While venture capitalists in the US expect their market to contract in next few years, China venture industry is experiencing another year of strong growth. What are the major venture investment trends in the US and in China, amidst uncertain global economic outlook? What sectors are VCs are investing in? How could aspiring entrepreneurs raise capital to fund their growth? Listen to a panel of esteemed venture capitalists share their forward-looking views on the venture investment market, explain how they pick the most promising and resilient startups to invest in and help them succeed. Highly successful entrepreneurs and legal professionals will also join the panel for a vivid discussion.

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Global Services
Formed by HYSTA Global Services Chapter and the top-tier China outsourcing firms, CGSA (China Global Services Alliance) will proudly presents global services sessions in 2010 HYSTA annual conference. As China's software and information service outsourcing industry remarkably advances, China-based outsourcing companies have become critical business partners for increasingly more enterprises, aiming at gaining maximized profits in the current competitive market. This year, the global services chapter offers two sessions of panel discussion:

  • Morning session - "The Drivers for growth and Innovation for the China Outsourcing Industry". Our panelists are consist of senior executives and personnel from major outsourcing companies at China, including CGSA founding companies such as VanceInfo, hiSoft, iSoftStone, Achievo and many other outstanding China based outsourcing firms.
       Speakers
    • Ed Yang, Chairman, iSoftStone North America
    • Gene Tsai, Senior Vice President, hiSoft
    • David Cao, VP of Mobile, BeyondSoft
    • Jeff Wu, Executive Vice President & Chief Globalization Officer, VanceInfo
    • Paul Liu, CIO and Head of Managed Services, Freeborders, Inc.
    • Julio Leung, Chief Financial Officer, Achievo
  • Afternoon session - "Case Studies: How Do Market Leaders, Nokia, Adobe and Yahoo Capitalize China Global Services for Growth and Innovation?". This is a rare opportunity to hear directly from experienced China Global Services Clients.  This session is especially beneficial for companies  thinking of China as a destination or Outsourcing to China for Growth and Innovation.  The speakers, Mr. Jari Salomaa Nokia Innovation Sourcing Manager and Mr. Francis Tsang, Adobe Sr. Director Globalization will share their strategies and executions of engaging China-based Global Services Providers to achieve their corporate goals.
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China Leading the Next Wave of Innovations
China has successfully established itself as the "World's Factory", now it is eagerly embarking on a mission to be the "World's Innovation Center".
As you have noticed recently, from the forces of government endeavor on "Industrial Upgrade" and the "1000 People Plan", to the large Chinese corporations' effort on attracting overseas returnees as "Sea Turtles". Not to mentions the hundreds large and small industrial and high-tech parks all over the cities big and small. The desire for innovation is strong, and the effort is huge, but results may vary.
We have assembled the distinguished and diversified panel to exams the all major aspects of China's push for innovation:

1. Is the"Innovation Wave" real or just a a government push?
2. Can China go beyond innovation within its border or mostly within?
3. How government policies have been helping or slowing the innovation?
4. What are good strategy for Chinese companies to innovation, such as M&A?
5. How are companies and governments learning from Silicon Valley's success?
6. What are the hot areas for innovation thus investment?
Please join us, and get excited about and participate the next wave of China's transformation to become a bigger world power.

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Demystifying Science/Industrial Parks in China
Since China started her ambitious reform in 1980s, science and industrial parks have been playing a critical role in alluring foreign investments, technologies, and talents. At the same time, they also become the cradle for numerous Chinese domestic high-tech companies, some of which now have gained worldwide recognition. As of today, there are dozens of parks governed by different regulations and offering various benefits.
This panel invites the representatives from some of the leading parkas and aim to demystify some common misunderstanding among oversea Chinese. The panel would address:

1. The overview of science/industrial parks and government policies in China,
2. What the parks offer, eligibility, pros/cons, and alternatives,
3. Experiences of companies in science parks, as well as lessons learned.

   Speakers

  • Imin Lee, Co-Founder/CEO, AccelOps
  • Jason Zhou, Provost, LegendStar (Department of Incubator Investment, Legend Holdings Ltd)
  • Robert “Bob” Fraser, Business Development Manager,North American Representative Office of Shenzhen, P. R. China (NAROS)
  • Daisy Gao, Deputy Director, Suzhou International Science Park (SISPark) & Suzhou Industrial Park Science & Technology Development Center

Thinking Through Exit Strategies
Year 2010, the dormant IPO market springs back to life. Also in the year, the "buried" M&A (merge and acquisition) market shows signs of revival. It is big payoff time for entrepreneurs who fought through the economic crisis and successfully executed their exit strategies.
HYSTA proudly presents a distinguish panel who will share their experiences and insights of their successful IPO or M&A stories. You may have heard the stories through out the year, Fortinet, TeleNav, Tesla, AsiaInfo, Hi-Soft and Playdom. The panel provides a diverse "insider" view of thinking through a viable exit strategy even in a "dooming" market.

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Impact of Social Enterprises on Entrepreneurship
Social Entrepreneurship is one of the most alluring terms on the problem-solving landscape and on the cusp of the US national mainstream. As part of our efforts to promote entrepreneurial leadership in the social sector, HYSTA has made significant contributions to the field of social entrepreneurship. This panel of social entrepreneurs, insiders and investors addresses issues unique to technology, innovation, leadership and entrepreneurship as well as current trends and opportunities. Some key topics that will be covered are:

  • Social Venture Financing: How did they do it?
  • Promote, grow and seek funding for your social venture.
  • Scaling your social venture: lessons from successful social ventures.
  • Critical legal issues and policy directions.
  • Social enterprise and opportunities and challenges: Trends, challenges and promising new ventures.

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China Delegations
This year we are greatly honored to have multiple delegations from China. These delegations represent both government and private sectors. They will actively engage in panel discussions, showcases. Top officials and senior executives will give speech about opportunities, trends and talents needs in China. They will answer live questions and inquiries from audiences. Among confirmed delegations are:

  • Shanda Interactive Entertainment and Shanda Games Limited (NASDAQ: SNDA & GAME ), the leading game and media company in China.
  • Beijing Overseas Talent Center, the government ran recruiting agency that specifically focuses at bring overseas Chinese elites back to China.
  • Beijing ZhongGuanCun Management Committee, the managing organization that oversees and supports the largest science and high tech park in China.
  • Mayor's office, ShenZhen.
  • Beijing Legend Star, the leading private organization that focuses at nurturing entrepreneurship in China.
  • ZhangJiang High-Tech Park, Shanghai, the largest science and technology park at Shanghai.
  • SuZhou Industrial Park Development Company, Suzhou, the largest Hi-Tech and Industrial Park in Jiangsu Province.

   Speakers

  • Jean Zhang, Vice President, Human Resource Shanda
  • Andrew Pan, Chief Representative and Managing Director, North American Representative Office of Shenzhen, P. R. China (NAROS)
  • Daisy Gao, Deputy Director, Suzhou International Science Park (SISPark) & Suzhou Industrial Park Science & Technology Development Center

Return to China
The rapid and unrelenting economic growth in China for the last two decades is accompanied by ever-expanding waves of oversea returnees, who helped to shape the country’s growth and development in countless ways while pursuing seemingly limitless opportunities in their familiar yet profoundly changed homeland. For many of us in Silicon Valley, the opportunities and challenges these returnees faced, and the potential we ourselves can realize by becoming returnees are always alluring topics. We have invited a distinguished panel of returnee entrepreneurs and executives, to share their insight and personal experience on returning to China:

  • What kind of opportunities China offers today and in the near future for returnees.
  • What kind of impact on China’s innovation and growth can returnees create to best grasp the growth opportunities, by leveraging their processional expertise, global perspective, and oversea connections.
  • What are the challenges new returnees will face, and pitfalls to avoid.
  • Strategies, best practices, and success stoires for future generation of returnees.

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