Partner at Softbank China&India Holdings

As a VC William Bao Bean has first-hand access to key-industries in Asia: the media, the technology, the internet. On top of his knowledge, he offers flair in presenting and moderating on-topic panels and debates. Bean travels from Shanghai.

leading author and journalist

Jasper Becker is one of the leading voices on China's development, setting his reputation as an author with a monumental work "Hungry Ghosts" on China's secret famines that changed the world's perception on China. He worked over twenty years as a foreign correspondent in China.

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CEO Spil Group Asia

One of the most successful foreign business people in China, founder of the country's largest video hosting firm and now heading a leading gaming company. By moving both fast and careful, he is a telling example of successful dealing with China's murky realities.

CEO, Greater China, J. Walter Thompson

Tom Doctoroff is the leading authority on branding and advertising in China. A provocative speaker, much wanted for his engaging style of debate.

Associate professor in sociology, Sophia University, Tokyo

James Farrer associates playfully China's economic and sexual revolutions in an engaging, informal style. He adds academic robustness to a subject, well, that is fun anyway.

Associate professor Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Former New York Times correspondent in Africa, Japan, China

Howard French has called Africa, the Americas, Japan and China as his home, and got the best out of it. As a professional photographer he had a very keen eye for those details that matter. As correspondent for the New York Times, he was not only an alert observer of the society he was in, but was able to compare and connect between those worlds, much to the benefit of his audience.

Publisher and editor of Danwei.org

South African long-time Beijing resident Jeremy Goldkorn is a much asked speaker on Chinese media and advertising, Internet business and culture and Sino-African relations. In a witty, sometimes provocative style, Goldkorn engages his audiences. With more than a decade of experience in China's print media, Internet and advertising industries. He has also worked as a media consultant to the South African embassy and writes for publications suchs as the the Far Eastern Economic Review about Sino-African relations and trade.

Founder and compiler of the Hurun China Rich List

Now in its tenth straight year, the Rich List has been a benchmark for China's change and the position of its rich. By combining a thorough knowledge of China's society and British flair, Rupert Hoogewerf is a much wanted speaker. He is spearheading a wide number of related initiative and list, making him one of the few foreigners in China who has become a real celebrity.

Group Director, Digital Strategy, Ogilvy China

Leading speaker on China and the dramatic changes the internet has triggered off in this country. Kuo challenges the major flaws in Western views on China, without become a China apologist. A frequent speakers and panelist on all things digital.

Documentary maker and journalist

Name a controversial subject in China, and Sylvie Levey has done it: China's first transsexual, the redevelopment of Shanghai, China's prisons. Touching stories from the ground give Levey an excellent view on this fast changing society.

Founder and Managing Director of the China Market Research Group (CMR)

An impressive list of media references, Business Week, Forbes, the International Herald Tribune, underlines Mr. Rein's unchallenged position as opinion leader on the Chinese consumer market research. He talks and writes about the mistakes foreign companies make, the Chinese middle class, the Chinese youth culture.

Chairman OMI Group CMM Intelligence China; ClubFootball FC

Who says soccer in Beijing mean Rowan Simons, the Briton who has taught the Chinese how to love football, against all odds. In his compelling book "Bamboo Goalposts" he describes lively the Long March of soccer in China, and the dilemma's it brings about.

Chairperson, CEO Trombly Ltd

A seasoned business and technology journalist, turned media entrepreneur, Maria Trombly is now outsourcing journalism from US magazines to China and other developing countries, changing the paradigms in the media world.

Writer, journalist, social commentator

Zhang Lijia became the Chinese equivalent of a self-made woman, escaped from the state-owned enterprise where she worked, to a UK-educated commentator on contemporary issues in China.