深圳市创新创业推介会 China's City of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

China's City of Innovation and Entrepreneurship is designed to facilitate and promote bilateral investment and trade between companies from the City of Shenzhen, China and the Greater San Francisco Area. It will be hold on June 10 at Silicon Valley.

Gain insight into the information technology industry by listening to an array of private and public sector professionals from Shenzhen, China, who will be in Sillicon Valley to meet U.S. companies with an eye toward promoting trade and investment activities. Representatives from China’s BYD (high-tech and green transportation), ZTE (telecom), VanceInfo (IT outsourcing), and the Research Institute of Tsinghua University (R&D and Incubator) as well as Microsoft will be speaking.

Located in mainland China, adjacent to Hong Kong, Shenzhen was established as the first Special Economic Zone by the Chinese government in the late 1970s. Being the original “gateway” for doing business in China, Shenzhen is now reputedly one of the fastest growing cities in the world, a global financial center and home to numerous high-tech companies like Huawei (“Cisco”of China), Tencent (on-line messaging and games), Alibaba (e-commerce), Mindray (medical devices) and many others that operate in sectors in which Washington state excels as well. Microsoft maintains a facility in the Shenzhen Hi-Tech Industrial Park as do other foreign global companies, demonstrating that Shenzhen is an ideal location for foreign direct investment. The Shenzhen Software Industry Association and the WTIA have been partners since 2007, sharing mutual commitments to expand international trade and commerce opportunities for both their member companies. Sponsors of this event include North American Representative Office of Shenzhen, China; Pacific Prestige, Inc.; Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle; Washington Department of Commerce; and Washington State China Relations Council.

Date: Thursday, June 10, 2010, 8:00am-12:00pm

Venue: Hilton Santa Clara, 4949 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054

Admission Free; breakfast provided

Agenda

08:00-09:00am Registration and Breakfast

09:00-09:05am Introductory Remarks

Mr. Andrew Pan, Chief Representative, North American Representative Office of Shenzhen, China (the host)

09:05-09:15am Welcome Remarks

Mr. Deyou Tian, Consul and Director of Economic & Commercial Office of the Chinese Consulate General in SF

Representative from HYSTA

09:15-09:45am Keynote Speech

Ms. Ling Wang,Deputy Director General of Shenzhen Science, Industry, Trade and Information Technology Commission (Shenzhen SITIC) “Shenzhen –China’s City of Innovation and Entrepreneurship”

09:45-10:05am Presentations

Mr. David Wallerstein, Senior Executive Vice President of International Business, Tencent

10:05-10:15am Coffee Break

10:15-11:15am Presentations (continued)

Mr. Junbo Liu, Executive VP and Chief Business Development Officer, Shenzhen VanceInfo Creative Software Technology Ltd.

Mr. Guanping Feng, President, the Research Institute of TsinghuaUniversity in Shenzhen

Mr. Jason Huang, Business Development Manager, BYD U.S.A. (Each presenter will be allocated roughly 5 minutes for Q&A after his/her 15-minute presentation)

11:15-11:45am Networking

11:45am Adjournment

 

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