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China 2.0 at Stanford University, May 24-25, 2010

This two-day forum looks at the rise of China as a digital superpower.

May 2010 marks 15 years of China's first connection to the public Internet and 15 years of digital mobile communications. Home to 400 million online and 750 million mobile consumers, China is giving birth to innovative start-ups and established multi-billion dollar enterprises in social networking, games, video, music and e-commerce.

Companies thriving in China will increasingly shape the global digital economy, either by their sheer scale at home or through investments and mergers and acquisitions in the United States and other developed economies.

Join this invitation-only forum to meet with industry leaders from China and overseas to assess the likely future shape and implications of China's rise for consumers, industry players, investors, researchers and policy makers.

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China 2.0 Introduction

Video: Tencent, Taobao and Baidu 

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  MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010
8:30 - 9:00 Registration and Light Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15 Session 1--Welcome Remarks and Introductory Presentation
  Marguerite Gong Hancock, Forum Co-Chair/Associate Director, SPRIE, Stanford University
  Duncan Clark, Forum Co-Chair/Chairman, BDA China; Visiting Scholar, SPRIE, Stanford University
9:15 - 10:00 Session 2--Case Studies of China 2.0 Leaders: Tencent, Taobao & Baidu
  Duncan Clark & Liu Ning, BDA China Presentation
  Moderator: Gady Epstein, Beijing Bureau Chief, Forbes
10:00 - 10:45 Special Session--Reporting China 2.0
  Loretta Chao, Reporter, Beijing Bureau, The Wall Street Journal
  Gady Epstein, Beijing Bureau Chief, Forbes
  Moderator: Daniel Sneider, Associate Director for Research, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University
11:00 - 12:15 Session 3--Enabling China 2.0: Infrastructure, Devices and Access
  Håkan Eriksson, CTO, Ericsson presentation
  Stanley Chia, Senior Technology Consultant, Vodafone Group R&D
  Moderator: Duncan Clark, Forum Co-Chair/Chairman, BDA China; Visiting Scholar, SPRIE, Stanford University
12.15 - 1.15 Lunch
1.15 - 2.15 Session 4--Digital Music in China
  Gary Chen, CEO, Top100.cn presentation
  Eric Priest, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon presentation
  Moderator: Loretta Chao, Reporter, Beijing Bureau, The Wall Street Journal
2.15 - 3.45 Session 5--China's Future TV Landscape
  Graham Kill, CEO, Irdeto presentation
  Caroline Pan, Director-China Strategy Office, Intel presentation
  David Strehlow, Director of Marketing, Media Solutions, Huawei
  Moderator: Andrew Lih, Associate Professor, USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism
3.45 - 4.00 Break
4.00 - 5.30 Session 6--e-Commerce in China
  James Jianzhang Liang, Co-Founder and Chairman, Ctrip
  Alan Tien, General Manager, PayPal Beibao China
  Fritz Demopoulos, CEO, Qunar.com
  Moderator: Mei Fong, Wall Street Journal Correspondent & Visiting Professor, USC Annenberg School of Communication & Journalism
5.30 - 6.30 Networking Reception
  TUESDAY, MAY 25, 2010
8:30 - 9:00 Registration and Light Breakfast
9.00 - 10.30 Session 7--Online & Mobile Games
  Jason Wang, Partner, Cypress River Advisors, LLC
  Ben Sternberg, Executive Director, Raine Group
  Lisa Cosmas Hanson, Managing Partner & Founder, Niko Partners
  Liu Ning, Principal Analyst - New Media, BDA China
  Moderator: Loretta Chao, Reporter, Beijing Bureau, The Wall Street Journal
10.45 - 12.15 Session 8--Financing China 2.0: VC & IPO Outlook
  York Chen, Founding Managing Partner, iDTechVentures presentation
  Olivier Glauser, Managing Director, Steamboat Ventures presentation
  Richard Hsu, Managing Director, Intel Capital China presentation
  David Lam, Managing Director, WI Harper Group presentation
  Moderator: Martin Haemmig, Senior Advisor on Venture Capital, Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
12.15 - 1.15 Lunch
1.15-2:45 Session 9--How Can Global Firms Thrive In & With China
  Alan Tien, General Manager, PayPal Bei Bao China
  Graham Kill, CEO, Irdeto
  Carter Agar, Former VP, GM, Walt Disney Internet Group (China), VP, Altius Education
  Jason Wang, Partner, Cypress River Advisors, LLC
  Moderator: Gady Epstein, Beijing Bureau Chief, Forbes
3:00 - 4:30 Session 10--China 2.0 Firms: The Talent Dimension
  Mark Baldwin, CEO, Oxus and Founder, Zhaopin.com
  Kelly Sang, former General Manager, Alibaba.com Americas
  David Strehlow, Director of Marketing, Media Solutions, Huawei
  Moderator: Kyung H. Yoon, CEO, Talent Age Associates LLC
4:30 - 4:45 Wrap-up

Audience 

Media & tech executives, entrepreneurs, academics and researchers, venture capitalists/private equity investors, policymakers.

Format 

  • Presentations by the on-the-ground pioneers of China 2.0 
  • Roundtable discussions on key issues and emerging trends
  • Premiere of "vox pop" video interviews of Chinese Internet users filmed in Beijing, Chengdu, Nanjing, Wuhan, Xiamen and Xi'an
  • Conference highlights to be available online (subject to speaker approval)
  • Interactive event, including a mobile application custom-made for participants

Participation and Pricing

Participation is by invitation-only. For more information, please contact SPRIE by email at sprie-stanford@stanford.edu.

The USD $50 fee covers conference sessions and materials, continental breakfast, lunch, and refreshments. A limited number of free spaces are available for current Stanford faculty, students and staff.

Agenda (subject to change)

Map and parking:

The conference is being held in the Bechtel Conference Center, located at 616 Serra Street on the first floor of Encina Hall. Free event parking is available at the Galvez Field Event Parking Lot, located at Galvez and Campus Drive East. It is less than .5 mile from the parking lot to the event. If you park at a meter, be aware that parking is $1.50/hour and is monitored from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

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Although South Korea is recovering relatively quickly from the worldwide recession in the wake of the U.S. financial sector crisis, it must address major structural weaknesses if it is to sustain growth over the long term. The Korean manufacturing sector is one of the world’s strongest and most efficient, but the services and (much smaller) agriculture sectors remain weak. Former senior South Korean economic policy official Byongwon Bahk argues that only by benchmarking the near miraculous success of its manufacturing sector can Korea convert traditionally weak sectors into new sources of job creation and foreign currency earnings. He will explain the necessity of, and obstacles to, inducing capital, technologies, and marketing from advanced companies in advanced countries; supporting R&D activities and education and training in weak sectors; and opening weak sectors to domestic and foreign competition.

Byongwon Bahk, a former senior South Korean government official, is the Korean Studies Program’s 2009-2010 Koret Fellow. During the past decade, he was in charge of the management of Korean macro-economic policy at the Ministry of Finance and Economy, including as vice minister. Most recently, he served in the Blue House as the senior economic advisor to President Lee Myung-bak. He received a BA and an MA in Law from Seoul National University, an MA in Industrial Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Korea, and an MA in Economics from University of Washington.

This event is supported by a generous grant from the Koret Foundation.

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Shorenstein APARC
Stanford University
Encina Hall E301
Stanford, CA 94305-6055

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Byongwon Bahk, former Senior Advisor to President Lee Myung-bak of Korea, joined the Korean Studies Program as the recipient of the Koret Fellowship for 2009-10 academic year.

Mr. Bahk served as Vice Minister of the Ministry of Finance and Economy in Korea and was a senior advisor to President Lee Myung-bak briefly.  While at the Center, he will lead a reach project on economic affairs of Korea in relations to the U.S.

The Koret Fellowship, generously funded by the by Koret Foundation of San Francisco, was established at the Center in 2008 to bring leading professionals in Asia and the United States to Stanford to conduct research on contemporary U.S.-Korean relations, with the broad aim of fostering greater understanding and closer ties between the two countries.

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Where has the venture capital industry been, and where is it headed? Recently Dr. Martin Kenney (Professor, UC Davis) delivered a fascinating presentation for a SPRIE audience, tracing venture capital from its pre-WWII angel investor beginnings all the way up to the present, which he sees as the most difficult circumstances the industry has ever faced. Dr. Kenney's presentation is available on the SPRIE site and the audio from the event is forthcoming.

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About the talk:

Korea's National System of Innovation (NSI) is characterized by a group of 'strong large firms and weak small firms'--innovative large firms able to exploit technological and market opportunities abroad, and laggard small firms. Under the liberalized environment that emerged rapidly after the 1990s financial crisis, coordination and networking of innovative actors and resolution of mismatches in the system of innovation have become urgent issues in Korea's bid to become active in knowledge generation and to effectively utilize technology from abroad.

Lim shall discuss the characteristics of and changes in the Korean NSI, a system which has experienced a radical shift to adapt to the global environment after the 1997 financial crisis. His 3-year research project on the Korean NSI is part of an international research project published as Small Country Innovation Systems (Edward Elgar).

About the speaker:

Chaisung Lim has focused his research on management of technology in catching up with advanced country firms in his capacity as leader of the Research Institute for Global Management of Technology for Catching Up (GMOT). He has participated in committees and project teams providing consultation on industrial and technology policies for the Korean and Turkish Governments. He is currently a Professor at the Miller School of MOT and the MOT/MBA program at Konkuk University, Seoul. He received the PhD in Technology Management at SPRU at the University of Sussex. He previously worked for the industrial analysis division of the Korea Development Institute, a leading think tank in Korea.

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Shorenstein APARC
Stanford University
Encina Hall, Room E-301
Stanford, CA 94305-6055

(650) 723-6530
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Chaisung Lim has focused his research on management of technology in catching up with advanced country firms in his capacity as leader of the Research Institute for Global Management of Technology for Catching Up (GMOT). He has participated in committees and project teams providing consultation on industrial and technology policies for the Korean and Turkish Governments. He is currently a Professor at the Miller School of MOT and the MOT/MBA program at Konkuk University, Seoul. He received the PhD in Technology Management at SPRU at the University of Sussex. He previously worked for the industrial analysis division of the Korea Development Institute, a leading think tank in Korea.

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