Berkeley China Summit

11/06/2021

Berkeley China Summit 2021, taking place on November 12-13, will be held online and live-streamed with the world.

About this event
Berkeley China Summit (or “BCS”) , founded in 2016, is an annual conference held at UC Berkeley every fall, with the mission to highlight Berkeley‘s strengths and to encourage bilateral discussion and collaboration between the US and China. Over the past 5 years, we’ve invited over 100 high profile speakers, including Nobel Laureates, Turing Award Winners, business leaders, entrepreneurs, investors and government officials.

We are excited to host this year’s summit online, where attendees can join our online discussions, or live-stream it from anywhere around the world. This gave us a great opportunity to involve speakers and audiences from broader geographic locations including both the US and China and all over the world, enabling even more bilateral discussions on business, technology, and culture.

For more information, please check our official website: www.BerkeleyChinaSummit.org.

Get tickets at:
tinyurl.com/2021BCSTIX

Date and Time
November 12, 2021 (Fri), 5-9 PM PST
November 13, 2021 (Sat), 5-9 PM PST

Theme
Revive & Thrive: New Post-Pandemic Normal

Keynote Speakers
Ann E. Harrison
Renowned economist and Dean of the Haas School of Business

Asiff Hirji
President of Figure
Former President & COO of Coinbase

Nicholas Lane
Assoc. Prof. at Cambridge,
Director of Samsung AI

Reynold Xin
Cofounder of Databricks

Panels
Education
Environmental Technology
Healthcare
Entrepreneurship

Agenda
Nov 12th Friday PST
5:10PM-5:15PM Welcome Remarks - Susie Cohen Crumpler, interim Executive Director of Cal Alumni Association
5:15PM-5:20PM Welcome Remarks - Jeanne HuangLi, Executive Director, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
5:20PM-5:50PM Asiff Hirji - Keynote Speech
5:50PM-6:20PM Ann Harrison - Keynote Speech
6:20PM-6:30PM Sponsorship
6:30PM-7:20PM Education Panel
7:20PM-7:40PM Break & Networking
7:40PM-8:30PM Environmental Technology Panel
8:30PM-8:35PM Closing Remarks

Nov 13th Saturday PST
5:00PM-5:10PM Welcome Remarks
5:10PM-5:40PM Nicholas Lane Keynote Speech
5:40PM-6:10PM Reynold Xin Keynote Speech
6:10PM-6:20PM Sponsorship
6:20PM-7:10PM Healthcare Panel
7:10PM-7:20PM Break & Networking
7:20PM-8:10PM Entrepreneurship Panel Partnered with ACE
8:10PM-8:15PM Closing Remarks
8:20PM-9:00PM Recruitment Session Online

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Berkeley China Summit 2021: Revive & Thrive: New Post-Pandemic Normal

10/20/2021

We are honored to announce that we will have Ann E. Harrison, economist and Dean of Haas School of Business as our first keynote speaker at Berkeley China Summit 2021. Dean Ann Harrison will give a speech on “Global Leadership in Resilience” on November 12th.

Ann E. Harrison became the 15th dean of the Haas School of Business on Jan. 1, 2019. A renowned economist, she has dedicated her career to creating inclusive and sustainable policies in development economics, international trade, and global labor markets.

Harrison came to Haas from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, where she was a professor of multinational management and business economics and public policy. Before joining Wharton in 2012, she was the director of development policy at the World Bank, where she co-managed a team of 300 researchers and staff.

Harrison has deep Berkeley roots. She earned her bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley with a double major in economics and history. She also served as a professor of Berkeley’s Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics from 2001 to 2011.

Harrison is one of the most highly-cited scholars globally on foreign investment and multinational firms. She is the author of dozens of journal articles and the editor of three books, including Globalization and Poverty and The Factory-Free Economy: Outsourcing, Servitization, and the Future of Industry. In 2017, Harrison and her co-authors were awarded the prestigious Sun Yefang Prize by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The prize, given every two years, is considered one of China’s most prestigious honors in economics.

As director of development policy at the World Bank, Harrison reformed its process for allocating research funds and oversaw the institution’s flagship publications. She convinced the World Bank’s president to release all historical records on project loans, a milestone in increasing transparency.

Harrison has been interviewed about global trade policies and manufacturing by top publications including Bloomberg, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times.

In addition to Berkeley and Wharton, Harrison has held positions at Columbia Business School, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and the University of Paris. She has lectured at most major U.S. universities and in India, China, Latin America, Europe, the Philippines, and North Africa.

Harrison earned her PhD in economics from Princeton University. She also holds a DEUG (diplôme d’études universitaires générales) from the University of Paris. Born in France, she is a dual citizen of the U.S. and France.

For more information about Berkeley China Summit 2021, please check out our website at www.berkeleychinasummit.org.

Berkeley China Summit 2021
Revive & Thrive: New Post-Pandemic Normal
Date and Time
November 12, 2021 (Fri), 5-9 PM PST
November 13, 2021 (Sat), 5-9 PM PST

Get tickets at:
tinyurl.com/2021BCSTIX

10/05/2021

Berkeley China Summit 2021, taking place November 12-13, will host attendees in Berkeley and live-stream with the rest of the world.

About this event
Berkeley China Summit (or “BCS”) , founded in 2016, is an annual conference held at UC Berkeley every fall, with the mission to highlight Berkeley‘s strengths and to encourage bilateral discussion and collaboration between the US and China. Over the past 5 years, we’ve invited over 100 high profile speakers, including Nobel Laureates, Turing Award Winners, business leaders, entrepreneurs, investors and government officials.

We are excited to host this year’s summit in a hybrid format, where attendees can join us in person in Berkeley, or live-stream it from anywhere around the world. This gave us a great opportunity to involve speakers and audiences from broader geographic locations including China and all over the world, enabling even more bilateral discussions on business, technology, and culture.

For more information, please check our official website: www.BerkeleyChinaSummit.org.

Get tickets at:
tinyurl.com/2021BCSTIX

Date and Time
November 12, 2021 (Fri), 5-9 PM PDT
November 13, 2021 (Sat), 5-9 PM PDT

Theme
Revive & Thrive: New Post-Pandemic Normal

Keynote Speakers
Ann E. Harrison
Renowned economist and Dean of the Haas School of Business
Asiff Hirji
President of Figure
Former President & COO of Coinbase

Panels
Healthcare
Autonomous Driving
Education
Clean Energy

Agenda
Stay Tuned for agenda update.

09/13/2020

2020 Berkeley China Summit (BCS) Keynote Speaker --- Rock Star Ex-Dean of Haas Rich Lyons
UC Berkeley’s 1st Chief Innovation & Entrepreneurship Officer

Who says all university top-dogs are serious academics?

Who says business schools are all about teaching you how to make money?

Berkeley’s guitar toting and song singing, could-have-been-a-rock-star Dean Rich Lyons decided to use culture to distinguish Berkeley’s Haas School of Business from other top-notch b-schools.

Lots of smart people apply to top business schools. But as a top business school, what kind of smart people do you want to attract and carry your school’s reputation out into the world? As the Dean of Berkeley’s Haas School of Business from 2008 to 2018, Rich Lyons sought to define a set of values and principles that embody the Berkeley-Haas culture and use that to attract like-minded smart people. He led a school-wide effort to create the four Defining Leadership Principles of: Question the Status Quo, Confidence Without Attitude, Students Always, and Beyond Yourself. That culture now permeates Haas and its students and alumni. They in turn carry this culture to the business world and the world at large.

After his tenure as Dean of Haas, Rich Lyons took a break to be with family, play guitar and teach finance. Then in January of 2020, he became Berkeley’s first ever Chief Innovation and Entrepreneurship Officer, overseeing the development of campus-wide ecosystem for innovation and entrepreneurship, including patenting and technology licensing. Being a rock-star will have to wait a bit longer.

We are delighted to welcome Prof. Rich Lyons as one of our keynote speakers for BCS 2020. Rich received his BS in finance from Berkeley and PhD in economics from MIT. He was an assistant professor at Columbia Business School before joining the faculty at Berkeley-Haas in 1993. He served as acting Dean of Haas from 2004 to 2005, then took a leave from Berkeley to serve as Goldman Sachs’ Chief Learning Officer before returning to Haas to serve as Dean from 2008 to 2018.

Berkeley China Summit 2020
Redefine & Reconnect: Technology Empowering the World

September18, 2020 (Friday) 6:00-9:00 PDT
September19, 2020 (Saturday) 6:00-9:00 PDT

Keynote Speakers:
Wenhong Zhang – Doctor & Head of Shanghai Medical Experts Group for the Treatment of COVID-19
Dawn Tilbury – Head of US National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate of Engineering, Berkeley Alumna
Rich Lyons – UC Berkeley’s 1st Chief Innovation & Entrepreneurship Officer, Ex-Dean of Berkeley-Haas School of Business
Feng Zhou – Founder of Youdao, Inc. (NYSE: DAO.US), a NetEase Company, Berkeley Alumnus

Panels:
Senior Care – Active Senior Living in China and US
Enterprise Services – Innovations for the Remote-First Workplace
Healthcare – Innovations Needed to Prepare the World for Future Pandemics
Entrepreneurship – Opportunities to Redefine & Reconnect Post-Lockdown

Register for free at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/berkeley-china-summit-2020-tickets-114633403596.

Berkeley China Summit (BCS), founded in 2016, is an annual conference held at UC Berkeley every fall, with the mission to encourage bilateral discussion and collaboration between US and China. Over the past 4 years, we’ve invited over 100 high profile speakers, including Nobel Laureates, Turing Award winners, business leaders, entrepreneurs, investors and government officials. For more information, please check our official website: www.BerkeleyChinaSummit.org.

Due to COVID-19, we will be holding this year‘s BCS in an online format. This gives us a great opportunity to involve speakers and audiences from broader geographic locations including China and all over the world, enabling even more bilateral discussions on business, technology, and culture.

09/08/2020

2020 Berkeley China Summit (BCS) Keynote Speaker --- Dawn Tilbury
Head of National Science Foundation's (NSF) Directorate of Engineering

Who likes and funds quirky scientists like the fictional Sheldon Cooper on “The Big Bang Theory?”

Who likes and funds “useless knowledge?”

The answer to both questions is: the National Science Foundation (NSF).

NSF is an independent federal agency that funds scientists, engineers and students to do basic research, to pursue seemingly useless knowledge that forms the foundation of humanity’s advancement in technology. NSF funded researchers have won more than 236 Nobel Prizes. They developed carbon dating of ancient artifacts, decoded the genetics of viruses, created an entirely new state of matter, and made numerous other foundational discoveries that benefit humanity.

Popular culture celebrates “technology innovation” which is often application and marketization of basic research results. Without basic research, there would be nothing to apply or bring to market. NSF funded projects have no immediate application, yet it advances humanity’s understanding of science and the universe. Despite increasing nationalism in many arenas, international cooperation is encouraged in basic research so that scientists from around the world can jointly discover the secrets of our universe.

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Dawn Tilbury as one of our keynote speakers for BCS 2020. Dawn is the Head of NSF’s Directorate of Engineering, one of seven areas of research focus at NSF. She oversees 40% of federal funding for basic research in engineering at academic institutions, distributes about 1,600 research grants each year, and helps to advance NSF’s Ten Big Ideas including The Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier, the Quantum Leap, and NSF INCLUDES. Dawn received her PhD in EECS from UC Berkeley and is a professor of both mechanical and electrical engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where she shall return after her term at NSF.

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Berkeley China Summit 2020
Redefine & Reconnect: Technology Empowering the World

September18, 2020 (Friday) 6:00-9:00 PDT
September19, 2020 (Saturday) 6:00-9:00 PDT

Keynote Speakers:
Wenhong Zhang – Doctor & Head of Shanghai Medical Experts Group for the Treatment of COVID-19
Dawn Tilbury – Head of US National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate of Engineering, Berkeley Alumna
Rich Lyons – UC Berkeley’s 1st Chief Innovation & Entrepreneurship Officer, Ex-Dean of Berkeley-Haas School of Business
Feng Zhou – Founder of Youdao, Inc. (NYSE: DAO.US), a NetEase Company, Berkeley Alumnus

Panels:
Senior Care – Active Senior Living in China and US
Enterprise Services – Innovations for the Remote-First Workplace
Healthcare – Innovations Needed to Prepare the World for Future Pandemics
Entrepreneurship – Opportunities to Redefine & Reconnect Post-Lockdown

Register for free at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/berkeley-china-summit-2020-tickets-114633403596.

Berkeley China Summit (BCS), founded in 2016, is an annual conference held at UC Berkeley every fall, with the mission to encourage bilateral discussion and collaboration between US and China. Over the past 4 years, we’ve invited over 100 high profile speakers, including Nobel Laureates, Turing Award winners, business leaders, entrepreneurs, investors and government officials. For more information, please check our official website: www.BerkeleyChinaSummit.org.

Due to COVID-19, we will be holding this year‘s BCS in an online format. This gives us a great opportunity to involve speakers and audiences from broader geographic locations including China and all over the world, enabling even more bilateral discussions on business, technology, and culture.

08/23/2020

2020 Berkeley China Summit (BCS)
Keynote Speaker --- Feng Zhou, founder and CEO of Youdao, Inc.

Dr. Feng Zhou is the founder, CEO and director of Youdao, which he originated in 2006 as NetEase Youdao, becoming Youdao, Inc. in October 2019 following the successful completion of its IPO.

As CEO, Dr. Zhou is responsible for the overall direction and strategy of the company.

Dr. Zhou previously led the formation of key Youdao projects, including Youdao Dictionary and Youdao Cloudnote, both of which rose to become star apps gaining significant market share in their respective category offerings. In 2014, NetEase Youdao entered the online education market with the launch of a new online education product – Youdao Premium Courses.

Dr. Zhou is passionate about technology and has broad interest and experience with computer systems, artificial intelligence and other areas of computer science. He has authored more than a dozen academic papers published by top-tier international conferences and influential journals during his doctoral studies, with a research focus on software infrastructure, operating systems and programming languages that are designed for large-scale services.

Dr. Zhou grew up in Yixing, Jiangsu Province and he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from Tsinghua University. His Ph.D. in computer science is from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Berkeley China Summit 2020
Redefine & Reconnect: Technology Empowering the World
September18, 2020 (Friday) 6:00-9:00 PDT
September19, 2020 (Saturday) 6:00-9:00 PDT
🔥 Register for free at:🔥
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/berkeley-china-summit-2020-tickets-114633403596.

07/29/2020

2020 Berkeley China Summit (BCS)
Keynote Speaker --- Dr. Zhang Wenhong (张文宏)
“Dr. Fauci of China”
Professor and Head of the Center for Infectious Disease, Huashan Hospital in Shanghai

Just as Dr. Fauci does the straight talking about COVID-19 in the United States, Dr. Zhang Wenhong does it in China. Dubbed the Gatekeeper of Shanghai, Dr. Zhang led the team of experts that guided Shanghai, a mega-city with 30 million people, in its fight against COVID-19.

Dr. Zhang shot to fame and gained tens of millions of followers for his frank talk about the disease and for assigning communist party member doctors to the front-lines whether they liked it or not. Compared to empty rhetoric from the government, Dr. Zhang’s no-nonsense release of useful information, accompanied often with humorous quotes, made him into a beloved celebrity across China.

“If you don’t stop seeing your friends, you will see them again in the ICU.”

“You’re bored to death? Then you’re boring the virus to death too!”

“If doctors are the only soldiers in this war, then we’re sure to lose. From now on, everyone is a soldier, even if you’re staying at home.”

“When the curtain of this coronavirus epidemic falls, I will silently leave the stage and go back to reading in my corner.”

We are absolutely delighted to welcome Dr. Zhang Wenhong as one of our keynote speakers for Berkeley China Summit (BCS) 2020. Dr. Zhang is a graduate of Shanghai Medical University and has held visiting scholar and postdoctoral fellow positions at the University of Hong Kong, Harvard Medical School, and Illinois State University at Chicago.

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Berkeley China Summit 2020
Redefine & Reconnect: Technology Empowering the World

September18, 2020 (Friday) 6:00-9:00 PDT
September19, 2020 (Saturday) 6:00-9:00 PDT

🔥 Register for free at:🔥
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/berkeley-china-summit-2020-tickets-114633403596.

06/21/2020

The Live had raised discussions about the roles of technology in culture and business among speakers and audience. Click for more highlights! 🔥🔥🔥

The theme of was “Technology Permeating Culture and Business”. In modern day society, technology is no longer kept in academia and large companies. It is kept in everyone’s pockets. Across industries ranging from finance to transportation and across the developing and developed countries, technology permeates cultures and lives.

06/12/2020

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The 4th annual Berkeley China Summit (BCS) took place on October 6, 2019 at the University of California, Berkeley. Throughout the full-day conference, hundreds of attendees heard from and engaged in discussion with world renowned speakers in business, science and academia. Berkeley China Summit was born in the age of Internet and technology and continues to track and contribute to its growth and development.