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Erik Walenza
CEO of IoT ONE Inc.Erik Walenza is the CEO of IoT ONE Inc., the Chair of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) Smart Factory Task Group (SFTG), and the Shanghai Director of Startup Grind. IoT ONE is a leading source of information and insight regarding Industrial Internet of Things vendors and solutions. Companies work with IoT ONE to develop their customer bases, partner ecosystems, and innovation strategies. As Chair of the IIC SFTG, Erik works with IIC members to reduce the risk for early adopters of Industrial IoT technologies in manufacturing. Through Startup Grind Erik supports the development of Shanghai's innovation ecosystem.
Selena Chu
Vice President at DowSelena Chu is currently the Vice President for Dow Greater China. She provides leadership and general management of Greater China, Dow’s largest international market - oversight of country strategy, sites management, and people & culture development. Based in Shanghai, China, she also serves as CIO for Dow Asia Pacific to drive digital solution development and implementation, covering areas of Digital Acceleration, Enterprise Service, and Information Security. She also partners with businesses and functions to enable regional business strategies.
Selena has over 20 years of consulting and industry experience covering various leadership roles including R&D Operation, Business/Innovation Strategy, Technical Information Service, and Digitization. Prior to joining Dow in 2008, she worked for GE (General Electric), KPMG Consulting Co, with working assignment in the US.
Selena holds a master’s degree of Computer Science, and bachelor’s degree of Industrial Design, both from Zhejiang University. She was recently listed as “Top 50 Women in Tech 2021” by Forbes China, and “Top 50 Future MPW 2021” by Fortune China.
Bruce Fu
Managing Director of APCO BeijingBruce 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.
Xia Zhang
Enterprise Strategist at Amazon Web Services, Greater ChinaDr. Xia Zhang is Greater China’s Enterprise Strategist at Amazon Web Services, focusing on promoting cloud technology for enterprise business transformation and technology innovation. In his role, he helps businesses throughout China, Hong Kong SAR, and Taiwan to harness the power of cloud to deliver key enterprise systems and deploy innovative solutions to meet business needs.
Dr. Zhang has more than 20 years of experience in IT development, business development, and enterprise IT technology and management, both in the USA and China. He brings extensive experience in the fields of IT governance, cloud computing, data analytics, AI/ML and IoT, and leverages his expertise to create value through business innovation and technology adoption.
Dr. Zhang has held a variety of leadership roles, including CTO for Retail Banking and Credit Card Center, Bank of China in 2002-2006， and CTO of SAP Greater China in 2006-2012. Dr. Zhang also worked for Ford Motor Company from 1993 to 2002 in various positions, with Ford Microelectronics, Ford Research Lab, Corporate IT and Finance, and held the position of CIO of FordDirect in 2000-2002. This experience gives him deep expertise in the critical role technology plays in business transformation, and helped him to hone skills in cutting-edge areas like technology evangelism, solution architecture, data and analytics, customer engagement marketing, e-commerce operations and more.
Dr. Zhang graduated from Peking University with a B.S. degree, from Rice University with both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, and obtained a Master of Engineering Management degree from Wayne State University.
George Chen
Managing Director, Public Policy, Great China of MetaGeorge Chen joined Meta (previously known as Facebook) in January 2016 as the company’s first-ever policy representative based in Hong Kong, home for Meta in the Greater China region. Currently as the Managing Director, Public Policy, for Greater China, Mongolia, and Central Asia, George serves as Meta’s “ambassador” to engage with the people and governments across the vast and diverse regions. At Meta, George also serves as Asia Pacific supply chain policy coordinator, helping to manage metaverse product related issues.
Prior to Meta, George has held management roles in some major media organizations. George was a 2014 Yale World Fellow and he received his Master's degree in international relations from the University of Hong Kong in 2010. George has been on the Board of AmCham Hong Kong since 2019, for which he is also currently an ExCo member.
Andrew Chang
Program Director of New Energy Nexus
Oliver Pearce
Director of FGS GlobalOliver is a director at FGS Global, one of the leading advisors of strategic communications including corporate reputation, crisis management and government affairs. Based in China since 2009, he has worked for news media, agencies and in-house, and has experience across multiple marketing and communications functions. He is a passionate believer in the power of storytelling to influence stakeholders and deliver real business outcomes. At the same time, he is committed to nurturing and inspiring communications and marketing professionals to open their eyes to the world around them so that our industry can create more meaningful conversations. A volunteer at AmCham Shanghai since 2019, he is very proud to serve as Chair of the Marketing & Media Committee.
Robert He
Vice President, Head of Enterprise & Premium Services at SAPRobert He is the Vice President, Head of Enterprise & Premium Services at SAP. He is responsible for Premium Services (Management Consulting, SAP MaxAttention, Preferred Success, etc.), Eenablement Services and Enterprise Support in Greater China.
Robert worked for 17 years at SAP, including 10 years in the headquarter at Walldorf. His work experience spanned across service, support, sales and development. His industry experience includes Auto/IMC, ENR, Hi-Tech, Consumer Product, Life-Science, Public Services, etc.
Robert received his Master degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and University of Edinburgh. He is a SAP certified business transformation master, Project Management Professional (PMP), Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, ITIL Certified Operation Expert.
Tommie Lo
Founder and CEO of PrefaceTommie is the founder and CEO of Preface, an A.I.-powered education technology company that provides personalized education, disrupting the traditional form of classroom and school systems. Under his leadership, the work of Preface is expanding from Hong Kong to global operations, including Tokyo and London; as a result, Preface was the first Asian company crowned with the EdTechX Global Award in 2018.
Tommie graduated with the Departmental Scholars Award from the Economics department at UCLA. He was
also a PhD student from LSE in Economics before he dropped out and fully committed himself to build his disruptive project to revolutionize the education industry.
His ground-breaking work in education has continuously won him awards and honors from the entrepreneurial community and international media as a scalable education system to move from standardized education to a personalized one.
Patrice Nordey
Managing Partner, International Strategy & Operations at FABERNOVELPatrice Nordey is an experienced executive and a seasoned entrepreneur with over 20 years of multicultural experience with large corporates, agencies and startups across US, Europe and Asia.
As Managing Partner and Member of the Executive Committee of EY FABERNOVEL, he supports international groups to design, deploy and accelerate digital and innovation programs globally.
Thomas Nunlist
Senior Analyst, Tech and Data Policy, at Trivium ChinaTom works as Senior Analyst for Trivium China, a leading Chinese government policy research consultancy. Tom’s work focuses on the intersection of politics and technology, both in China’s domestic environment and international relations, where he has further specialized in the emerging area of data policy. He also advises leading global corporations on government relations and communication. Prior to Trivium, Tom spent more than three years in risk consulting, where he helped clients understand political and regulatory risks in China and Southeast Asia, and develop scenario-based mitigation strategies. Tom graduated with a B.S. in journalism from Northwestern University. He has lived in Shanghai full-time since 2013.
David Pan
Partner at Llinks Law LLPDr. David Pan is the head of Corporate Compliance Service Group. Dr. Pan obtained his LL.M. from Harvard Law School, and his Doctor of Jurisprudence from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Dr. Pan was admitted to practice law in 2002. He is also admitted in New York State, USA.
Dr. Pan has practiced law in China and in the U.S. over 20 years. He accumulated an in-depth knowledge on Chinese and international business culture and legal systems. Dr. Pan has once worked in two well-known Chinese law firms, and most recently worked for a Fortune 500 Company as its General Counsel for Greater China. In addition to his corporate services such as mergers and acquisitions, joint venture, technology license etc., Dr. Pan specializes in various compliance matters including anti-trust, anti-corruption, cybersecurity and data protection. The clients that he represented spread over various industries, including auto, investment, energy, pharmaceutical, chemical, medical, food, advanced manufacturing, internet, fintech, sports and entertainment, retail and consumer, real estate,.
Based on his thorough understanding on business operations, Dr. Pan also specializes in providing companies practical solution-oriented services in the regulatory compliance areas of anti-business corruption, antitrust, and anti-unfair competition.
In the early 2000s, Dr. Pan started to represent MNCs in data and cybersecurity related legal matters, such as offshore server, log records storage and filing, personal data collection and use, data integrity, centralized data process, differentiation between trade secrets and state secrets etc. In the course of handling these cases, Dr. Pan gained solid practical experiences in this field. Dr. Pan has served clients in automobile sales, tourism, e-commerce, retail, education, services, finance, healthcare, and manufacturing in the establishment and improvement of compliance system in the whole process of data collection, storage, usage, transfer, and destruction, and provided compliance solutions for cyber security, data transaction, digital transformation, and big data.
Dr. Pan is recommended as top lawyers in fields of corporate, compliance, antitrust and competition, cybersecurity and data protection by rating agencies, such as ALB, Chambers, Legal 500, LEGALBAND, Who’s Who Legal.
Dr. Pan is the adjunct professor in Law School of Shanghai Jiaotong University, reviewer of Shanghai United Assets and Equity Exchange, and a panelist expert for Shanghai NPL pilot program.
Chun Yin Cheung
Lead Partner of Cybersecurity & Privacy Services in Central China at PwCCY is the in charge partner of PwC’s cybersecurity and privacy services in central China. He is based in Shanghai with over 20 years of experience including 5 years in Hong Kong. He is the person chiefly in charge of PwC’s cybersecurity and privacy business and has led a series of China for China (CfC) projects. He is specialized in helping multinational companies in China to comply with the data and technology security related laws and regulations. He is the engagement leader of many data security compliance projects and served a large number of US companies across industries, including pharmaceutical, automotive, manufacturing, financial services, internet companies, etc. which most of them set up their head office in Shanghai. CY has extensive experience working with regulatory authorities, including CAC, MPS, MIIT, PBOC, CBIRC and CSRC.
Jason Zhang
Data Protection Officer at BPWith 18+ years of experience in Cybersecurity, Compliance and Data Privacy & Protection experience, Jason has served multiple industries including Security Firms, Manufacturing, Health Care, Electronic Manufacturing Services and Energy Industry. He has solid technical background, and risk management/security compliance experience. In the past 6 years, he dedicatedly lead and manage security compliance program globally