Keynote Speakers

Bill Aulet is the managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship at MIT and also a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. The center is responsible for entrepreneurship across all five schools at MIT starting with education but also extending well outside the class room with student clubs, conferences, competitions, networking events, awards, hackathons, student trips and most recently accelerators.

Haiquan Hu is the CEO/Co-founder of Beijing Zhongjin Hiaquan International Investment Management Co.,Ltd., and the Co-founder of Beijing Jujiang Culture Development Co.,Ltd. Managing and operating the Haiquan Fund, Qianxiang Haiquan Fund, and Beijing Hezhong Chuangtou Fund. In addition, Haiquan Hu and Xiaoping Xu co-founded the innovative cultural investment fund, named “Yule Gongchang”. At the same time, he served as the WWF and Greenpeace Chinese ambassador. Haiquan obtained EMBA from Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB), and currently enrolled in EMBA program of Peking University.

Yasheng Huang is the International Program Professor in Chinese Economy and Business and a Professor of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also an Associate Dean at MIT Sloan School of Management.

Huang founded and runs the China Lab and the India Lab, which aim to help entrepreneurs in those countries improve their management skills. He is an expert source on international business, political economy, and international management. In collaboration with other scholars, Huang is conducting research on human capital formation in China and India, entrepreneurship, and ethnic and labor-intensive foreign direct investment (FDI). Prior to MIT Sloan, he held faculty positions at the University of Michigan and at Harvard Business School. Huang also served as a consultant to the World Bank.

Feng focuses on Education, TMT, and Deep Technology. He pays strong attention to E-commerce, Fintech, online education, new generation lifestyle businesses and O2O enterprises. Previously as a partner at IDG-Accel, he led investments on a series of successful projects, including CreditEase, Zhubajie, Prosper, Three Squirrels, Tongbanjie, Didapinche, Bilibili, Coinbase, and etc. Among them, Zhubajie, CreditEase and Prosper successfully joined Billion Dollar Club. The return of investment at seed stage for Three Squirrels, Yiqichang, Tongbanjie, and Wangli Fiance Group is now up to 50 times. Feng led the establishment of IDG-Accel’s post-investment service system, providing help to early stage startups services include public relations, marketing, and human resources. He promoted topic investment strategy including Internet brand, Internet finance, the 90s entrepreneurs project, C2C of O2O and economy sharing approach.
Feng obtained B.S. in Chemistry from Peking University, and M.S. in Chemistry from University of Rochester.

Jun S. Liu (Chinese: 刘军; pinyin: Liú Jūn; born 1965) is an award-winning Chinese-American statistician focusing on Bayesian statistical inference and computational biology. He received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2002. Liu is a professor in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University and has written many research papers and a book about Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms, including their applications in biology. He is also co-author of the Tmod software for motif discovery.

Liu was an IMS Medallion Lecturer in 2002 and a Bernoulli Lecturer in 2004. He was elected a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2004 and of the American Statistical Association in 2005.

Daqing Mao is the founder and chairman of Urwork with more than 20 years work experience in the real estate industry. Daqing is the Distinguished Professor of Architecture Department in Southeast University. He is also a guest professor of some prestigious schools such as University of International Business and Economics; School of Continuing Education, Tsinghua University; MBA centre, Chinese Academy of Sciences; and School of Postgraduate, Tsinghua University. He is an Extramural Instructor in the Law School of Peking University, and a standing director in China Private Economy Research Institute. As a honorary member of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyor(RICS), a tutor of Institute of Western Returned Scholars Association, and a Registered architect (PRC), Daqing Mao also serves as the head of Beijing Co-working Space Alliance.

Before his startup program Urwork, Daqing served as the SVP of China Vanke and before that, he was the regional general manager of CapitaLand, which is one of Asia's largest real estate companies.

I'm a managing partner at MNL Partners, where we develop energy and environmental projects in global markets, with a focus on China. I also serve on the boards of five audacious tech start-up companies. Finally, I'm co-founder and chairman of the investment committee at PRIME Coalition, a pioneering 501c3 nonprofit that's bringing philanthropic capital to energy innovation. In past lives I made venture capital investments at Venrock, co-founded and led Lux Research, and forecasted technology futures at Forrester.