Speakers Corner
July 1, 2009
Green dam, the Party capitulates
Tom Doctoroff, North Asia Area Director of JWT advertising firm, describes in The Huffington Post the decision to at least delay the compulsory censorship software Green Dam on PC's shipped in China as an unique capitulation of the Communist Party. De decision was published at the official newswire Xinhua just hours before midnight, when the regulation would have been in force.
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Kuo, Kaiser
Technology observer, cultural commentator, and rock musician
Travels from: Beijing
Consultant, International, Youku.com
Co-founder of one of China's most successful rock bands, Tang Dynasty.
Kaiser Kuo is an American-born writer, rock musician, technology watcher and cultural commentator. He currently divides his time between consulting for China's leading Internet video site, Youku.com, where his brief includes international trade marketing, media relations, and multinational advertiser/agency relations.
In 2007, he joined the leading advertising agency Ogilvy as their director of digital strategy, but left in early 2009 to devote more time to writing and to his advisory work for several Chinese Internet startups. Before joining Ogilvy, had worked extensively in China's booming Internet and mobile sectors. As an opinion leader in his industry, Mr. Kuo worked at the famous magazine Red Herring, as their Beijing bureau chief, but his activities have not been limited to that leading publication.
He is a frequent guest on CCTV-9 program Dialogue, where he has debated issues ranging from Internet vigilantism to Feng-shui. Mr. Kuo has been the anchor columnist for the popular English-language monthly magazine that's Beijing and its successor, The Beijinger, for almost eight years, contributing a satire column called "Ich Bin Ein Beijinger." An anthology of 60 of his columns will be published in a volume of the same title in mid-2009.
In his one-and-a-half decades in China he worked has a technology and business writer for such publications as Time, China Economic Review, Asia Inc., and the South China Morning Post. He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and holds an MA in East Asian Studies from the University of Arizona. Mr. Kuo was co-founder and lead guitarist of one of China's most successful rock bands, Tang Dynasty. He continues to be active in Beijing's rock scene as lead guitarist of Chunqiu. He lives in Beijing with his wife and two young children.
His animated and passionate style of delivery has earned him much praise at the multitude of events he joined as a professional speaker. Mr. Kuo tries to stay away from statistics and PowerPoint presentations, and has a reputation as an edgy and often humorous speaker.
He is currently working on a new book on Sino-American relations at a people-to-people level.
Topics Kaiser Kuo can cover:
Technology Innovation in China
China's internet culture
China's music industry
Mobile trends in China
Youth culture/trends in China
US-China relations
In our speakers' corner and weblog:
Olympic emotions show a different country
Beijing 2008: the first web2.0 Olympics
Telling the world how the internet is changing the world
Get in touch with us to check the availability of this speaker
Digital Watch: Beijing 2008: The First Web 2.0 Olympics
Reuters: Forget "The Great Firewall of China," please
Kaiser Kuo on Censorship, Culture & Chinese Netizens
Travels from: Beijing
Consultant, International, Youku.com
Co-founder of one of China's most successful rock bands, Tang Dynasty.
Kaiser Kuo is an American-born writer, rock musician, technology watcher and cultural commentator. He currently divides his time between consulting for China's leading Internet video site, Youku.com, where his brief includes international trade marketing, media relations, and multinational advertiser/agency relations.
In 2007, he joined the leading advertising agency Ogilvy as their director of digital strategy, but left in early 2009 to devote more time to writing and to his advisory work for several Chinese Internet startups. Before joining Ogilvy, had worked extensively in China's booming Internet and mobile sectors. As an opinion leader in his industry, Mr. Kuo worked at the famous magazine Red Herring, as their Beijing bureau chief, but his activities have not been limited to that leading publication.
He is a frequent guest on CCTV-9 program Dialogue, where he has debated issues ranging from Internet vigilantism to Feng-shui. Mr. Kuo has been the anchor columnist for the popular English-language monthly magazine that's Beijing and its successor, The Beijinger, for almost eight years, contributing a satire column called "Ich Bin Ein Beijinger." An anthology of 60 of his columns will be published in a volume of the same title in mid-2009.
In his one-and-a-half decades in China he worked has a technology and business writer for such publications as Time, China Economic Review, Asia Inc., and the South China Morning Post. He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and holds an MA in East Asian Studies from the University of Arizona. Mr. Kuo was co-founder and lead guitarist of one of China's most successful rock bands, Tang Dynasty. He continues to be active in Beijing's rock scene as lead guitarist of Chunqiu. He lives in Beijing with his wife and two young children.
His animated and passionate style of delivery has earned him much praise at the multitude of events he joined as a professional speaker. Mr. Kuo tries to stay away from statistics and PowerPoint presentations, and has a reputation as an edgy and often humorous speaker.
He is currently working on a new book on Sino-American relations at a people-to-people level.
Topics Kaiser Kuo can cover:
Technology Innovation in China
China's internet culture
China's music industry
Mobile trends in China
Youth culture/trends in China
US-China relations
In our speakers' corner and weblog:
Olympic emotions show a different country
Beijing 2008: the first web2.0 Olympics
Telling the world how the internet is changing the world
Get in touch with us to check the availability of this speaker
Digital Watch: Beijing 2008: The First Web 2.0 Olympics
Reuters: Forget "The Great Firewall of China," please
Kaiser Kuo on Censorship, Culture & Chinese Netizens
