Di Yao is now acting as Head of Legal in Google’s Shanghai office. Before Google, Di worked as Head of Legal and Business Development - APAC for GoPro and Managing Associate in King & Wood Mallesons. Di graduated from SISU Law School and received his Master of Laws in Stanford Law School. Di is studying an Executive Program in Harvard Kennedy School.

Lawrence Federman is founder and CEO of Shanghai based risk management consultancy Asia Advisers that specializes data privacy compliance and digital policy services.
Lawrence is a 24-year resident of China, with a career that has spanned work as APAC lead at an American software company in Hong Kong, Director of a state-owned enterprise in Beijing and Senior Director at Nielson in Shanghai before establishing his own firm. Along the way, he also secured China permanent residency and spent a year studying Chinese at Fudan University. Now, he focuses on helping firms in China manage their risk and navigate the rapidly evolving data privacy regulatory landscape.
Asia Advisers focuses on two types of client needs—helping multinational clients that have an overseas compliance team and need on the ground support in China, and local clients that need assistance to create their own compliance program.
Outside of his work, Lawrence continues to study Chinese and to travel extensively throughout the country.

Bruce Fu is the managing director for the APCO Worldwide’s Beijing’s office. He is also the co-lead of the APCO global tech practice. Mr. Fu has deep knowledge of China’s technical standards, IPR, and competition-related issues in the ICT sector. At APCO, Mr. Fu provides clients with counsel on government relations building, operations management, stakeholder engagement, and market entry strategy across different sectors.

Prior to joining APCO, Mr. Fu was a business manager at the EU Chamber of Commerce in China, where he worked closely with the European telecommunications industry lobbying China’s telecommunications regulators. In this role he also supported ICT Working Group members on telecommunications regulatory policies and TBT/Standards and directly engaged Chinese authorities on antitrust issues related to implementation rules of Chinese anti-monopoly law on their behalf.

Mr. Fu served as the vice chair of the ICT Working Group at the EU Chamber of Commerce in China over the past 7 years driving the EU-China dialogues and negotiations on key issues such as Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI). He holds master’s degrees in European studies and European modern history from the Catholic University of Leuven. He is fluent in English and Chinese and speaks intermediate French.

Mr. Fu obtained master’s degrees in European studies and European modern history from the Catholic University of Leuven. He is fluent in English and Chinese and speaks intermediate French.

Dakai leads KPMG’s Forensic Technology service in China as well as the forensic practice in southern China. Dakai has over 15 years of combined experiences in providing Cyber Incident Response, E-Discovery, Data Analytics and investigation services. He started his career in KPMG Holland and relocated to Shanghai in year 2011.

Dakai started his Forensic Technology career at KPMG The Netherlands and has been working with different teams across Europe ever since. He was on various international projects where he spent years working in UK, German, Belgium for projects serving different large multinational corporations.

In 2011, Dakai relocated to KPMG’s Shanghai office, where he continued to provide technology solutions to oversea companies as well as supporting engagements in regards to internal auditors, cyber security, risk and compliance, fraud prevention/detection, anti-corruption practices, FCPA and UK-Bribery compliance, due diligence, data acquisition and preservation, Anti Money Laundry, litigation support engagements.

Dakai lead various Digital investigation engagements in China to assist client and its external counsel exploring facts lay beneath different ERP data sources. He has significant knowledge working with different local ERP packages as well as global ERP solutions to identify, extract, map, modelling, analysis and visualizing data from different angles, transform such information into meaningful business interpretations.

Dakai combines his extensive knowledge of data analytics with his system development skills to assist clients from various industries. Including provide information system solution to meet client’s specific requirements on fraud/loss prevention and detection related issues.

Dakai also specialized in E-Discovery by assisting clients and their internal and external counsels to collect, preserve and analyze large volume of structural and un-structural data. He provides technical inside and identifies factual findings in related to various commercial investigations and litigations. Over the past years,
Dakai has been leading numerous large E-Discovery projects in China for pharmaceutical companies.
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n the past few years, Dakai helped clients investigate urgent cyber breaches such as ransomware, phishing attacks, etc. by providing Incident Response service in Mainland China.