James Farrer In the second half of the 1990s, I now and then assisted James Farrer as he was doing field work for his groundbreaking book on the sexual revolution in Shanghai, Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai. So, it is interesting to hear him revisitRead More →
The China Speakers Bureau is getting its communication channels in place. You can not only call us at different places in the world over more conventional phone lines, if you prefer that. Are you interested in one of our speakers? Call: Our Asia office: +86 139 1734 4564Our Europe office:Read More →
Shaun Rein Every time when you do not pay attention for a second, CMR president Shaun Rein is trying to kill one of the holy cows we have been cherishing in China. One of those standing assumptions is that most Chinese as we know them in the mainland save muchRead More →
Who is in the audience?via Wikipedia Who is in the audience? For us it is the first question: who is coming to an event? It is the first question we ask during a client briefing and it might most easily be the most important question to ask. All too oftenRead More →
Shaun Rein As our operation as a speakers bureau gets into shape, a growing number of speakers have committed themselves to work with us. Later the website will give a more complete overview – although we can never put all our speakers online.Among the people who have joined already weRead More →
Not yet a Facebookvia WikipediaSome great insights from William Bao Bean, VC at the China/India Softbank, triggered off by Thomas Crampton, He argues against the common cliche that Chinese companies do not innovate. While a Chinese Facebook is still far away, China has its own Sillicon Valley style garages. ToRead More →
A welcome from me too. Please get in touch for your speakers’ business over my new email address: fons.tuinstra@china-speakers-bureau.com.Read More →
You are probably familiar with that famous children’s game, where children queue up in a line, a message is whispered into the ear of the first child and is passed on till the last. In almost all cases the original messages has been changed profoundly. In business conversation withRead More →
“We cannot ask Peter again, can we?” Before starting to give tips on how to look for a professional speaker, we have to see how we get to the point where we actually start to look for outside help. In many cases you can find people with enough qualifications insideRead More →
One day your company, organization or government department has an uncommon challenge: to find a professional speaker. That might actually be the reason you came to us in the first place. We are in business since August 2008 with the China Speakers Bureau and since then we have been learningRead More →
Alvin Wang Graylin is a thought leader on AI and the metaverse. He worked for decade at leading technology companies like Intel and HTC. As a born Chinese, he grew up and was educated in the US. He is publishing in 2024 his book “Our Next Reality – How the AI-Powered Metaverse will Reshape the World”. He is fluent in Chinese, English and Cantonese.Read More →
Ann Rutledge is a founding principal and CEO of R&R Consulting, which is a pioneer in dynamic structured credit modeling tools. An adjunct assistant finance professor at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong, Ms. Rutledge has consulted to high-level representatives of China’s MIIT (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology), CCDC (China Bond), CFOs of large SOEs, SOE banks and security companies, municipal and commercial leaders of Hangzhou, Tianjin, Shanghai and Beijing cities, and national accounting and statistics bureaus under the Ministry of FinanceRead More →