南加创业峰会既第五届北美UCAHP创业大赛南加州分赛 （2）大会
12.7.2014 圣地亚哥
SoCal Entrepreneurship Summit & The 5th UCAHP Startup21 Contest Semi-final is on Dec. 7th, 2014 at University of California San Diego, Price Theater. The Summit aims at stimulating innovation and inspiration in Southern California, creating a gala of SoCal start-ups and Chinese capital.
The one-day forum consists of investor panels and entrepreneur panels. Speakers include a number of leading entrepreneurs and investors from San Diego, Los Angeles, and Silicon Valley.
Invited Speakers (updating daily)
Daniel Chang, Co-founder & Chairman of AEM, Inc.
Sue ( Xiaoyu) Xu Partner , Zpark Venture
Larry Li, Partner , Zpark Venture
Tiemin Zhao, Partner IPV
Yuanyuan Zhou, Qualcomm Endowed Chair Professor at UCSD and Co-founder of Pattern Insight.
Jay S Kunin, Executive Director, Moxie incubator UCSD and President of BenSoft Inc.
Wenxiang Ma, Executive Vice President of Engineering and Operations at Arena Solutions.
Roy Kong, Founding Partner, ZPark Venture and TEEC Angel Fund; Founder and Secretary General, UCAHP.
The event takes place alongside the UCAHP Start-up Contest Semi-final with more than 10 strictly select start-up projects from Internet, Hardware (including 3D Printing), Healthcare.
Registration
Schedule
09:00 – 09:30 Opening
09:30-10:10 Fireside chat I
10:20-11:00 Fireside chat II
11:10-12:00 Pitch Session I
12:00-13:20 Lunch Break
13:30-14:20 Fireside chat III
14:30-15:20 Panel Discussion (Communication & Technology)
15:30-16:20 Panel Discussion (Healthcare & Technology)
16:30-17:30 Pitch Session II
17:40-18:00 Rewarding
Location and Parking
University of California San Diego, Price Theater
9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, California 92092
About TEEC North America Chinese Start-up Contest
The contest targets entrepreneurs in U.S. and helps them to expand business in U.S. and China. By soliciting startup projects, expert judging, mentor programs and eventual funding, the contest hopes to inspire entrepreneurial spirit, lead technology innovation, invest in promising projects and further develop the global market. The semi-final in Southern California region will be heldwith the SoCal Innovation Forum.
Last year, over 500 start-up teams in the US participated in the contest, and top 10 project teams have raised $20 million dollars after the contest.
2012 Judge team for the contest include Feng Deng (Northern Light Venture Capital),Jackie Jia (GSR Venture), Michael Jin (TEEC Angel), Roy Kong (UCAHP, TEEC Angel), PhilLibin (Evernote), Ken Xie (FortiNet,HYSTA), Xiaoping Xu (Zhen Fund), Ben Yu (SierraVentures), Jun Yu (WestSummit Capital), Jialin Wang (TEEC Angel), etc.
Organizers
US-China Association of High-level Professionals (UCAHP),Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST-SD), US-China Entrepreneurs Association (UCEA), PlusYoou, UCSD Chinese Business Society (UCSDCBS), Chinese Students and Scholars Association in SouthWestern United States (SWCSSA), Sino-American Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Professionals Association (SABPA)
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Speaker Bios
Daniel Chang
Co-founder & Chairman of AEM, Inc.
Mr. Chang is currently Co-founder & Chairman of AEM (Holdings), Inc. USA and Co-founder, Chairman, President & CEO of AEM Components, Co., Ltd. China. Daniel Chang is an active member in San Diego Chinese Society and was appointed as a member of the Science and Technology Council for City of San Diego. Formerly, Chang has worked for Philips North America and Kyocera as materials scientist, senior engineer and research manager.
Sue ( Xiaoyu) Xu Partner , Zpark Venture
A Post Doc at Stanford University, Professor Xu is a founding scientist at GlycoMira and the Regional Manager at Sundia MediTech. She has three patents and over 20 journal publicat--ions and also involved in other Ph.D laboratory spin-offs, including Carbylan BioSurgery, Sentrx Animal Care, and Glycosan BioSystem.Regional Manager, Sundia MediTech.
Larry Li, Partner , Zpark Venture
Mr. Larry Li is the Managing Partner and Founding Partner at ZPark Venture. He is the Founding Chief Executive Officer at Cauldron Technologies Inc. Mr. Li has been a founding contributor at Tsinghua 100 Eduction Fund. He has been a Founding Partner at TEEC Angel Fund. Mr. Li is a Board Member of Narvalous Inc. He is the Former Vice Chairman of TEEC North America. Mr. Li holds a M.E. from University of Florida, and a B.E. from Tsinghua University.
Yuanyuan Zhou
Qualcomm Endowed Chair Professor at UCSD and Co-founder of Pattern Insight
Prior to her appointment as a Qualcomm Chair Professor at UCSD in 2009, Professor Zhou has served as an associate professor at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is also the CTO and Co-Founder of a startup called Pattern Insight, which specializes in reducing software defects using advanced data mining technology. Professor Zhou is an ACM Fellow for her contributions to software reliability and quality.
Jay S Kunin
Executive Director, Moxie incubator UCSD and President of BenSoft Inc.
Dr. Kunin has had a varied career as an entrepreneur, executive, investor, consultant, and director of technology startups. He has been responsible for engineering of a variety of products, including astronomical and oceanographic instrumentation, medical imaging, industrial and consumer pharmacy products, as well as numerous software systems. He has been a co-founder and executive officer of many startups, most recently serving as President of BenSoft, Inc., a software company in the consumer-directed healthcare industry, which was acquired by a public company in 2008. He is also a long-time angel investor, and has served as a board member of Tech Coast Angels.
Tiemin Zhao, Partner IPV
Tiemin is a Partner at IPV Capital based in Silicon Valley USA. He has 20+ years of R&D, manufacturing, and management experience in US high-tech industry and served in executive or senior management rolesat 7 startup companies. He currently serves as General Manager at Amprius USA (an IPV portfolio company). He has also been an angel investor and advised numerous young entrepreneurs and seed/early-stage technology startups. He has served as Director of HYSTA Entrepreneur Program.
Wenxiang Ma
Executive Vice President of Engineering and Operations at Arena Solutions
With over thirteen years of experience in Product Lifecycle Management and almost twenty years of development leadership, Ma, as the Executive VP at Arena Solutions combines extensive domain knowledge with an ability to lead and motivate teams through successful product releases. Prior to joining Arena, Ma worked as senior director of development at Oracle, where he managed the overall development of the next generation Oracle Fusion PLM across worldwide development centers. Ma has also held various development management positions at Kanisa (Ernst & Young), Starfish Software and Borland International.
Roy Kong
Founding Partner, ZPark Venture and TEEC Angel Fund; Founder and Secretary General, UCAHP
Mr. Kong has over 20 years of experience in GPU, consumer electronics, and mobile applications. He is the Founding Partner of ZPark Venture, and the Founding Partner of TEEC Angel Fund. Mr. Kong is also the Founder and Secretary General of US-China Association of High-level Professionals, a non-profit organization to foster US-China collaboration on market, investment and startup opportunities. Previously, he served as the Vice President for Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd. and led the development of next generation System-on-a-Chip platform. Mr. Kong holds 5 US patents and 5 China patents.
