The agenda for 2015 MIT-CHIEF is subject to change. This page is updated on a daily basis.
Please note that all the events during 2015 MIT-CHIEF will be in English except the Pitch to ZhenFund Special Event, which will be in Chinese.

Saturday, 21 November 2015
08:00 — 09:00	Registration
09:00 — 09:10	Welcome Address
09:10 — 09:35	Opening Remarks Yasheng Huang | Associate Dean, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
09:35 — 10:00	Keynote Session 1 Bill Aulet | Managing Director, Martin Trust Center for MIT
10:00 — 10:25	Keynote Session 2 Matthew Nordan | Co-Founder and Managing Partner, MNL Partners
10:25 — 10:40	Coffee Break
10:40 — 11:55	Panel 1A: Health Care Panel 1B: New Material & Energy
12:00 — 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 — 14:45	Panel 2A: Education Panel 2B: Angel Investment Trend by SVC Angel/UCAHP
14:45 — 15:00	Coffee Break
15:00 — 15:30	Keynote Session 3 Jun Liu | Professor of Statistics, Harvard Universtiy
15:30 — 16:00	Keynote Session 4 Feng Li 李丰 | Founder, FreeS Fund
16:00 — 18:30	Business Plan Contest Finale
18:30 — 21:00	VIP Dinner (By Invitation Only)
Sunday, 22 November 2015
09:00 — 09:30	Keynote Session 5 Jijun Liu 刘继军 | Partner, China Science & Merchants Investment Management Group (CSC)
09:30 — 10:00	Keynote Session 6 Daqing Mao 毛大庆 | Founder and Chairman, Urwork
10:00 — 10:15	Coffee Break
10:15 — 11:30	Panel 3B: Big Data Panel 3A: Financial technology (FinTech)
11:30 — 12:00	Closing Remarks Zhaoyu (Jack) Zheng 郑朝予 | Partner, Zhen Fund
12:00 — 12:30	Special Event: Fifth Anniversary of CHIEF Haiquan Hu 胡海泉 | CEO/Co-founder, Beijing Zhongjin Hiaquan International Investment Management Co.,Ltd.
13:00 — 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 — 17:00	Pitch to ZhenFund (In Chinese)

Opening Remarks

Yasheng Huang Associate Dean, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management View intro » 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.

Keynote Session 1

Bill Aulet Managing Director, Martin Trust Center for MIT View intro » 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.

Keynote Session 2

Matthew Nordan Co-Founder and Managing Partner, MNL Partners View intro » 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.

Panel 1A: Health Care

Precision Medicine, is it a result or a trend? Precision Medicine is a new medical concept and model, which applies individual differences of genetic, environmental and lifestyle information to disease prevention and treatment. President Obama announced "Precision Medicine Initiative" in his State of the Union Address in January 2015, which promote the development of precision medicine mainly from five aspects: Launch a "voluntary million-person cohort”; Find genetic factors that cause cancer; Establish new assessment method of genetic testing; Develop a series of related standards and policies; Forge strong partnership with public and private sectors (Public-Private-Partnership). The development of precision medicine will set off a revolution in the global healthcare industry, along with the emergence of a lot of innovation and entrepreneurship opportunities, while facing the challenges as for establishment of disease prevention system, management and sharing of data, developing legal norms, and many other. This year, MIT-CHIEF hosts a healthcare panel with outstanding industry leaders in various fields and jointly explore this topic in depth.

Belen Carrillo-Rivas Head, Pfizer View intro » Belen is head of R&D Innovation Projects, Worldwide R&D and Biotherapeutics R&D at Pfizer Inc. At Pfizer, lead the identification, creation and implementation and of key strategic and operational initiatives in direct support of research and clinical development activities. During her time at Pfizer, have been instrumental on building Pfizer’s Biotherapeutics entrepreneurial R&D units leading a project centered valuation driven initiative that resulted in the consolidation of the current pipeline. Currently serve a crucial role in the realization of the innovative and meaningful approaches by which to integrate the R&D ecosystem bringing together key stakeholders in alignment to pursue the goal of delivering differentiated medicines of value. To this end, have identified and established partnerships and alliances with external entities to extend the scientific and development capabilities and innovation of Pfizer research teams across different therapeutic areas and Precision Medicine. In realizing this effort, established the PFE 23andme Collaboration. Instrumental in the realization of the Pfizer’s End-to-End Biologics initiative aimed transform Pfizer’s science and approach in the development of optimized biologics across all stages of the drug development process through to commercialization. In realizing this effort led the identification and establishment of the Pfizer-MIT Synthetic Biology Alliance. Served a cornerstone role in the formation and institution of the Pfizer Centers for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI)

Phil Stephens Chief Scientific Officer, Foundation medicine View intro » Dr. Stephens joined Foundation Medicine in March 2011, bringing more than a decade of experience in cancer genomics to the company. Dr. Stephens is a world-renowned expert in next-generation sequencing and cancer genome analysis and has authored numerous publications in Nature, Nature Genetics, Nature Medicine, Cell and other high-profile journals. Prior to joining Foundation Medicine, Dr. Stephens held various senior research positions during his 11-year tenure with the Cancer Genome Project at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute under the direction of Professor Michael Stratton. During this time, Dr. Stephens was a member of the team that sequenced the first two comprehensive melanoma and lung cancer genomes, and was co-lead author in the discovery of BRAF in melanoma and ERBB2 in lung cancer. Dr. Stephens received a PhD from Oxford University.

Eliezer Van Allen Research associate, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Oncologist, Dana-Farber/Partners Cancer Care View intro » Eliezer (Eli) Van Allen is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, an oncologist at Dana-Farber/Partners Cancer Care, and a research associate at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard with a focus on genitourinary cancers. His research melds his background in computer science with cancer genomics in order to develop algorithms that analyze and interpret genomic data to help patients. This research is at the front lines of precision cancer medicine, including understanding why resistance develops and identifying targeted therapies for patients. A native of Los Angeles, Eli studied Symbolic Systems, an inter-disciplinary major at Stanford University that applies computer science to other academic disciplines, including linguistics and neuroscience. After graduating from Stanford in 2003, Eli received his M.D. from UCLA, and completed a residency in internal medicine at UCSF before coming to Boston and completing a medical oncology fellowship at the Dana-Farber/Partners Cancer Care program.

Sally (Yuanheng) Wang CEO & Co-founder, DocFlight View intro » Sally (Yuanheng) Wang has an interdisciplinary career in healthcare that spans law, policy, business, science & technology. Sally Wang is a health tech entrepreneur and multidisciplinary IP & Regulatory lawyer. She is the CEO & Co-founder of the international Telemedicine startup DocFlight. She was Chief Strategy Officer, EVP of IP & Regulatory at a mobile health startup. Previously, she clerked for the Honorable Charles S. Haight, Jr. of the Southern District of New York and practiced pharmaceutical patent litigation and IP licensing at a premier IP boutique. She also worked on healthcare issues of national importance at the US Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension Committee and the US Food and Drug Administration. Prior to her legal career, Sally was a business management consultant for the pharmaceutical and biotech industry, serving several of the top 10 pharma companies as well as smaller biotech and venture capital firms. Sally has written and presented on numerous aspects of digital health, healthcare policy, and IP law. She co-authored the American Bar Association’s book “Health Care IT, the Essential Lawyer’s Guide to Health Care Information Technology and the Law.” She has spoken at Blueprint Health/Hacking Medicine, General Assembly, Yale University, Harvard Law School, Food and Drug Law Institute, and was published at BIO International, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, and Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethnics. Sally received a joint JD/MPH from Harvard Law School/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and A.B. in Biology, magna cum laude, from Harvard College.

Jimmy Zhang Vice President, Johnson & Johnson View intro » Jimmy is Vice President of Transactions at Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Asia Pacific. Previously, Jimmy was the Managing Director, MSD Early Investments - Greater China at Merck & Co. He was responsible for Merck's venture capital investments, licensing, acquisitions, external research collaboration, and alliance/partnership management in Greater China. Jimmy was also a Senior Vice President at Synergenics, LLC, a professional service and venture firm. Synergenics invests and manages early-stage companies in drug discovery, vaccine, diagnostics, and healthcare IT. Jimmy was previously a consultant at McKinsey & Company, a registered patent agent in the Palo Alto office of Morrison & Foerster, and a project manager at Chiron Corporation (now part of Novartis). Jimmy published in Cell, Nature, Neuron, and JBC, and holds multiple patents. Jimmy is a founding member and the immediate past Chairman, Board of Directors of BayHelix Group, a prestigious non-profit organization of Chinese life sciences business leaders. Jimmy is also the Strategic Advisor to both ChinaSF and China Committee of Bay Area Council, and a guest/adjunct professor at Tongji University, Shanghai. Jimmy received his BS in biochemistry from Nanjing University, and PhD in biomedical sciences from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. He received his MBA at MIT Sloan School of Management.

Panel 1B: New Material & Energy

Leaner, faster, greener – new materials are critical components of emerging technologies that promise to be major growth areas for the economy, such as less expensive solar power, electric-car batteries that can go longer between charges, lightweight portable electronic devices, and implantable medical devices for personalized medicine. However, investment in new materials and clean tech is in general capital intensive. What are the best practices, for startups and also for investors? Can clean tech actually be lean? How to leverage global resources to navigate through the valley of death, which is usually deeper and wider for material or energy industry? What is the role of China in this game?

Qichao Hu CEO, SolidEnergy Systems View intro » Dr. Hu is the CEO of SolidEnergy Systems, which he founded while conducting his PhD and Post-doctoral research at MIT. He received PhD in Applied Physics from Harvard University and his BS in Physics from MIT.

Tod Hynes CEO, XLHybrids View intro » Tod manages XL Hybrids’ corporate strategy and operations. He also recruits the company’s team of employees and advisors and coordinates relations with key customers, stakeholders and investors.  He lectures at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught the graduate course “Energy Ventures” for four years.  Tod was the director of alternative energy at Citizens Energy for five years and started that company’s wind development business.  Before working with Citizens Energy, Tod founded a consulting and engineering company in the distributed power generation market. Tod also co-founded the MIT Clean Energy Prize and co-chaired the Energy Committee of the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Conventions (CERC), the organization that greened the 2004 U.S. presidential Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee.  He has a Bachelor of Science in management science from MIT.

Jiangang Luo Chairman, China Cleantech Group LLC. View intro » Jiangang Luo is the chairman of Co-Founder of Faith Asset Management LLC., a global investment firm focused on the clean energy sector, and Managing Partner of Prime Science & Technology, Inc., a currently EFOI convertible note holder. Mr. Luo is also the Chairman of Tsinghua Alumni Association in New York. In 2009, Mr. Luo co-founded U.S.-China Cleantech Forum, a platform to foster and create dialogs and collaborations between cleantech industries and institutions in the U.S. and China for venture financing, technology exchange and market expansion. The Forum has organized many large-scale conferences and seminars and built trusted relationships with many American and Chinese clean energy enterprises and investors over the past 5 years.

Jaime Mateus Founder and CEO, Anfiro Inc. View intro » Jaime is the founder and CEO of Anfiro Inc., a CleanTech startup focusing on designing reverse osmosis membranes for desalination and water treatment. He worked in Flagship Ventures in 2012 as an Associate within Flagship VentureLabsTM, after completing the Flagship VentureLabs Entrepreneurial Fellows program. Before joining Flagship, Jaime was a Lecturer at MIT teaching Statistics and Design of Experiments to graduate students and also started and operated JM Analytics, a company providing statistical consulting and data analysis services to clients in academia and industry. He holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Biomedical Engineering from MIT, which was supported by a Fellowship Grant from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, Portugal). He also has an S.M. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT, and an M.Eng. in Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College London.

Matthew Nordan Co-Founder and Managing Partner, MNL Partners View intro » 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.

Panel 2A: Education

Chris Dede Professor, Harvard School of Education View intro » Chris Dede's fundamental interest is developing new types of educational systems to meet the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century. His research spans emerging technologies for learning, infusing technology into large-scale educational improvement initiatives, developing policies that support educational transformation, and providing leadership in educational innovation. He is currently conducting funded studies to develop and assess learning environments based on virtual worlds, augmented realities, transformed social interaction, and online teacher professional development. Dede is a leader in mobile learning initiatives and has developed a widely used Framework for scaling up educational innovations. From 2001 to 2004, he served as chair of the Learning & Teaching area at HGSE.

Sam Hwang CTO, Education International Cooperation Group View intro » As founder and Chief Executive Officer of New Pathway Education & Technology Group in Shanghai, Sam M. Hwang brings a solid background in entrepreneurship and engineering to his work, along with a demonstrated record preparing students for success at some of the top universities worldwide. At the helm of New Pathway since 2009, Mr. Hwang founded his business to ready high school students for the SAT I, though soon expanded its mission to include K-6 English Education and various boarding school and college admissions consulting services. Since then, Sam M. Hwang’s company has launched new campuses in Shanghai, Beijing, and Boston; built a strong online presence; and helped more than 300 high school students in China alone achieve scores of 2300 or higher on the SAT. With a philosophy that positive social change begins with a high-quality education and continues outside of the classroom, Sam M. Hwang and his colleagues at New Pathway provide opportunities that develop both accomplished and well-rounded students. Prior to the formation of New Pathway, Sam M. Hwang spent seven years in undergraduate and, later, graduate coursework at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a Master of Science in Materials Science and Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. In tandem with his studies, Sam M. Hwang served as a Technical Specialist for a leading intellectual property law firm, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett and Dunner LLP; interned at the Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet & Society; and worked as a Research Assistant in multiple labs at MIT. Among his numerous academic achievements, Sam M. Hwang took first place in the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors Society competition at MIT, was selected to join the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, and contributed research toward articles in Science, among other peer-reviewed publications. More information on Sam M. Hwang and his current activities can be found at npathway.com.

Justin Reich Executive Director, MIT Digital Learning View intro » Justin Reich is an educational researcher interested in the future of learning in a networked world. He is the executive director of the PK-12 Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a research scientist in the MIT Office of Digital Learning, and a lecturer in the Scheller Teacher Education Program. He is also a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and the co-founder of EdTechTeacher, a professional learning consultancy devoted to helping teachers leverage technology to create student-centered, inquiry-based learning environments. He was previously the Richard L. Menschel HarvardX Research Fellow, where he led the initiative to study large-scale open online learning through the HarvardX Initiative, and a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He earned his doctorate from Harvard University, where he created the Distributed Collaborative Learning Communities project, a Hewlett Foundation funded initiative to examine how social media are used in K-12 classrooms. He writes the EdTechResearcher blog for Education Week, and his writings have appeared in Science, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Educational Researcher, the Washington Post, Inside Higher Ed, the Christian Science Monitor, and other publications. His forthcoming book, Massive: The Future of Learning at Scale, is under contract with Harvard University Press. Justin started his career teaching wilderness medicine, and later taught high school world history and history electives, and coached wrestling and outdoor activities.

David Rose Lecturer , Harvard Graduate School of Education Co-founder, CAST (Center for Applied Special Technology) View intro » David Rose is a developmental neuropsychologist and educator whose primary focus is on the development of new technologies for learning. In 1984, Dr. Rose co-founded CAST, a not-for-profit research and development organization whose mission is to improve education, for all learners, through innovative uses of modern multimedia technology and contemporary research in the cognitive neurosciences. That work has grown into a new field called Universal Design for Learning which now influences educational policy and practice throughout the United States and beyond. Dr. Rose has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education for nearly three decades. As a researcher, Dr. Rose is the Principal Investigator on a number of U.S. Department of Education and National Science Foundation grants, and is currently the principal investigator of two national centers created to develop and implement the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS). With the increasing prominence of UDL as a field within education, Dr. Rose has become a frequent keynote speaker at national and international conferences.

Matt Wilkerson Founder & CEO, Paragon One View intro » Matt is the Founder & CEO of Paragon One, a curated invitation-only community, cultivating authentic career mentorship between international students, entrepreneurs, and leaders from America’s top companies. Its mission is to help talented and ambitious international students obtain the most competitive internships and jobs in the United States which can offer visa opportunities. Matt previously co-founded AHAlife.com, a curated luxury marketplace for discovering 1,000+ designers and artisans from 45+ countries, which successfully listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. Matt oversaw a number of operating and business development roles as Chief Financial Officer, in addition to the fundraising of over $20M in venture capital from Rakuten, VIPShop, DCM, and notable individuals such as John Mack and Ari Emanuel. Before launching AHAlife, Matt sourced, executed, and oversaw consumer internet investments with Technology Crossover Ventures, a $10Bn venture capital fund. Prior to TCV, Matt began his career in the Media & Telecom Investment Banking Group at Morgan Stanley, focusing on M&A, IPO, and debt issuances for new media and telecom companies. Matt holds both a B.S. degree in Computer Science & Engineering and a B.S. in Management Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Panel 2B: Angel Investment Trend by SVC Angel/UCAHP

What are Angels or in general VCs actually investing in? You may have heard a lot about investing in track or investing in people. So how to become/get the right people and how to choose the right track? How to raise money from VCs? What factors are most important when doing fundraising? And how to succeed as a Chinese entrepreneur in US? A group of highly experienced Chinese-born entrepreneurs and investors are going to share their experiences and views on any questions you have regarding startups and fundraising.

Michael (Xuecheng) Jin 金学成 CTO, International Green Chip Managing Partner, TEEC Angel Fund

Roy (Dehai) Kong 孔德海 Managing Partner, SVC Angel Fund CEO, SVC Angel Club View intro » Former VP at Actions Semiconductor (NASDAQ: ACTS, Shanghai). Twenty years R&D and management experience in Silicon Valley, involved in five startups. Founding partner of three angel funds and one VC fund. Invest in deep technology and new industrial revolution enabler, such as Internet, big data, sensing, control, computer vision etc., as well as biomedical, new material, new energy and smart manufacturing etc.. roy.kong@svcangel.com

Jun Li 李峻 Founder and General Partner, Wisemont Capital View intro » 17 years of industry experience in Enterprise Software and Services. Expert in B2B, Cloud Computing, and Big Data Platform. Business Leader and strategy consultant. Former senior vice president of Beyondsoft leading its North America Strategic Business Group to grow from $3million to $65 million, which contributed greatly to Beyondsoft’s 2012 IPO. Extensive experience in building a sales team and high performance delivery team to deliver top of the class services to clients. Has involved in US M&A and after acquisition integration.

Henry (Hong) Xue 薛宏 Partner, Silicon Valley office of Cybernaut Investment Managing Partner, Westlake Ventures

Keynote Session 3

Jun Liu Professor of Statistics, Harvard Universtiy View intro » 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.

Keynote Session 4

Feng Li 李丰 Founder, FreeS Fund View intro » 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.

Business Plan Contest Finale

We have a number of experienced judges for this year's Business Plan Contest Finale:

Keynote Session 5

Jijun Liu 刘继军 Partner, China Science & Merchants Investment Management Group (CSC)

Keynote Session 6

Daqing Mao 毛大庆 Founder and Chairman, Urwork View intro » 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.

Panel 3A: Financial technology (FinTech)

Financial Technology (FinTech) companies are easing payment processes, reducing fraud, saving customers' money, promoting financial planning, and ultimately moving industries forward. The diversified choices of services provided by these new FinTech companies have taken a sizable market share out of traditional banks by personalized services. Examples include online currencies, p2p lending, mobile wallets, investment planning and banking that connects to social networking platforms. Successful FinTech ventures work when they increase customer access to information, improve the customer experience, and lower transaction fees, through swift reflexes that large banks are incapable of. Our topic may include, but not limited to: third party payment; Bitcoin; P2P lending; crowdfunding

Paul Chou Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder, LedgerX View intro » Paul L. Chou is an experienced securities trader, software engineer and financial entrepreneur. Prior to assuming his current position, Paul co-founded and ran Opez, a software company which received funding from the prestigious Y Combinator program, a startup accelerator fund which has sponsored Dropbox, Reddit and Airbnb. Prior to Opez, Paul was a trader on the Quantitative Cash Trading desk within the Securities Division of Goldman Sachs, where he was responsible for the development, trading and risk management of algorithmic equity trading strategies for U.S. and Japanese markets. Paul received a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While at MIT, he worked in the Laboratory for Financial Engineering to develop models of market participant behavior in limit order books given the introduction of stochastic, asymmetric information.

Mitchell Dong Managing Director, Pythagoras Investment Management View intro » Mitchell Dong (Harvard College AB'75) is a hedge fund manager and entrepreneur in the energy sector. Mitchell Dong is a serial entrepreneur who has started a dozen businesses over the last 40 years. In college he started an energy and environmental consulting business. For most of his career he was a developer of independent power plants, including solar, hydro, and cogeneration facilities in the USA, China, and Africa. He also developed ammonia fertilizer plants. As hedge fund manager, he developed quant models for trading mutual funds, electric power, and uranium. Today he is developing algorithmic models for trading bitcoin. Having sold several of his companies, he invests the sales proceeds through his family’s investment office and is an active private investor. He has advised many students on their start up ventures. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and is a member of the International Advisory Council of the Harvard AIDS Initiative.

Joshua Lim Vice President, Treasury and Trading Operations, Circle Internet Financial View intro » Joshua is the current head of treasury and trading operations at Circle, which is a consumer Internet company focused on transforming the world economy with secure, simple, and less costly technology for storing and using money. Prior to that, he worked as an associate at Goldman Sachs for five years as a trader specializing in exotic derivatives. Joshua is an MIT alum.

Kelvin Teo Co-founder and CEO, Funding Societies View intro » Kelvin Teo is the Co-Founder of Funding Societies, the first few marketplace lending platforms in Southeast Asia for small-medium businesses. Since its inception, Funding Societies has won numerous awards including Tech in Asia and is working with government agencies to drive the fast-maturing FinTech industry in Southeast Asia. Prior to Funding Societies, Kelvin served as a consulting professional at KKR Capstone, McKinsey and Accenture with work experience in the 5 major economies across Southeast Asia. Kelvin comes from Harvard Business School and National University of Singapore. He is a certified Chartered Accountant and serves on the advisory committee of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants.

Tone Vays Head of Research, BraveNewCoin View intro » Tone has been working on Wall Street for almost 10 years starting as a risk analyst at Bear Stearns and later becoming a VP at JP Morgan Chase in the aftermath of the financial crisis. His expertise is in Economic Trends, Trading and Risk Analysis. Ever since getting involved in Crypto Currencies in early 2013 he has been very active in spreading the relevance and importance of this technology to people looking to better understand the current financial system. He is the Head of Research at BraveNewCoin where you can find his latest work after previously writing at CoinTelegraph. Tone still attempts to maintain his personal blog LibertyLifeTrail focused on sound economics, privacy, free-thinking and adventurous travel. Tone holds a Masters Degree in Financial Engineering from Florida State University along with Bachelor Degrees in Mathematics and Geology.

Wenwen (Wendy) Wang Founding Partner, Tops Fund View intro » Ms.Wendy Wang is a founding partner of Tops Fund, she earned an MBA from the University in Connecticut and worked many years in the United States for big four accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. Subsequently she returned to China and became a series entrepreneur, working on high-end e-commerce industry and location-based services start-ups. She is also a bitcoin enthusiast. Now, she is devoted to provide help for entrepreneurs by founding Tops Fund, which she believes will be one of the most important platforms of early startups of the next decade.

Panel 3B: Big Data

Matt Conway Founder, Towards 50 - Percent Energy Savings (Towards50.com) View intro » In 2014 Matt Conway founded the advocacy group Towards 50 - Percent Building Energy Savings. The organization strives to advance high efficiency equipment; methods for integrating building systems and installation practices that can cost effectively increase energy efficiency in most buildings by 50 percent. Matt’s experience has included the development of data analytics software to quantify energy opportunities, utilizing novel financial vehicles to enable real estate improvements and optimizing building designs to achieve peak efficiency. Most notable achievements include business development of five energy upgrade projects that are projected to reduce total building energy consumption by more than forty percent, collaboration on the formulation of the Massachusetts miles per gallon rating for buildings, redesign of the US Army Medical Command world-wide energy master planning program, and leadership of the most successful Massachusetts energy pilot program in 2012.

Guodong (Harris) Huang Investment Director, VCSPARK View intro » HUANG Guodong is the Investment Director of VCSPARK Investment Banking Department. HUANG has both computer science and business administration background, achieved the master degree in Business Administration from UCAS(University of Chinese Academy of Science) and bachelor degree in computer science from Communication University of China. Prior to VCSPARK, HUANG worked for Intel、Motorola. As an expert in computer science field, HUANG is mainly focusing on the TMT investment. As the Investment Director of Investment Banking Department, HUANG says: “ we are the angel investor who would love to work with the entrepreneurs and assist them to fulfill their dreams.

Kelly Jin Lead of Mayor Walsh's data team, City of Boston View intro » Kelly leads data visualization for the City of Boston and is a member of Mayor Walsh’s Citywide Analytics Team. She oversees the Mayor and Chief data dashboards and works with Departments to better find insights from data to improve service delivery for Boston residents.Kelly recently served in the White House Domestic Policy Council and as an advisor to the Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). Previously as a management consultant, Kelly advised federal, state, and city governments on strategic planning, process improvement, and change management.

Yuanyuan Li Co-founder & Managing Director, Mobvoi

Drew Volpe Venture Partner, Procyon View intro » Drew Volpe is an investor, entrepreneur, and technologist with a deep experience in search, data, and mobile technologies. He's currently a partner at Procyon Ventures and invests in early-stage, technology-focused startups. He previously was co-founder/CTO of Locately and lead the development of Locately's location-based mobile market research platform from inception through the company's successful acquisition by SMG. Prior to Locately, Drew was Director of Product Development at Endeca Technologies, a pioneer in search and unstructured data management acquired by Oracle. Drew holds an AB in Computer Science from Harvard University.

Closing Remarks

Zhaoyu (Jack) Zheng 郑朝予 Partner, Zhen Fund

Special Event: Fifth Anniversary of CHIEF

Haiquan Hu 胡海泉 CEO/Co-founder, Beijing Zhongjin Hiaquan International Investment Management Co.,Ltd. Co-founder, Beijing Jujiang Culture Development Co.,Ltd. View intro » 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.