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.

CEO China Business Strategy

Firmly rooted in both the American and the Chinese culture, Paul Denlinger is the ideal person to set foreign business in China straight. Many of those companies failed in China, especially in technology, because they were misinformed. Paul Denlinger can set them straight.

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.

Co-founder and CEO of CIC

The internet can make or break your company and Sam Flemming explains how it works. Flemming is one of the leading speakers on the internet in China, much asked for his candid insights.

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

Rupert Hoogewerf founded Hurun Report, a luxury publishing and events company in 1999. Hurun Report produces 20 Chinese-language magazines a year aimed at China's wealth creators. Hoogewerf's close personal relationship with many of China's leading entrepreneurs provides the basis for the company's busy calendar of events.

Director, International Communication of Baidu.com

Kaiser Kuo is an American-born writer, rock musician, technology watcher and cultural commentator. In June 2010 he became director international communication of China's largest search engine Baidu.com.

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

Shaun Rein is the Managing Director of the China Market Research Group (CMR), the world's leading strategic market intelligence firm focused on China. He is one of the world's recognized thought leaders on strategy consulting in China.