K.E.Y. PLATFORM 2015

Speaker Information

Plenary session

  • Key Anchor : Michael Traem Hay Group GmbH, Europe Managing Director

    Since August 2014, Michael Traem has taken over the leadership role for European countries of Hay Group. A lawyer by training, Michael has a long background in consulting, having previously held senior positions in A.T.
    Kearney, Arthur D. Little and the Droege Group.
    Michael started his career in 1986 as a Junior Barrister before joining A.T.Kearney in 1989. By 1997 Michael had been promoted to Vice President and became a member of the Global Strategy team. His professional expertise
    includes the development of growth strategies, post-merger integrations and large scale transformation assignments. In 2000 he had been promoted to Managing Director for Central Europe and became a member of the firm's Global Senior Leadership Team. By 2003 Michael had been appointed as the Managing Director Profit Centre Greater Europe (EMEA) and a member of A.T. Kearney’s Global Operating Committee holding multiple managerial and client development responsibilities. During those years Michael had also been member of EDS global leadership team in Plano (US) and a supervisory board member of EDS Germany. In 2005 Michael joined Arthur D. Little as the Global CEO. In this role Michael build the firm from a loose network of globally spread offices and branches into a “one firm”. Since Michael joined as Global CEO of Arthur D. Little, the firm has grown above the industry average year on year. Parallel to this role, Michael was also a member of the Global Group Management Committee of Altran Technologies in Paris, a large French publicly traded company which owned Arthur D. Little at this time. Besides managing Arthur D. Little, Michael was responsible for Altran’s
    global innovation activities. Given his good network in Asia, he was instrumental in building Altran’s India and China activities. He also was the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Altran Germany and Austria. After the
    sale of Arthur D. Little in 2012, Michael became a member of the management team of the Droege Group in Dusseldorf. He was responsible for the firms consulting business, the performance improvement of all its industrial portfolio companies and the acquisitions of new firms. Michael Traem regularly lectures as a guest speaker at universities, business schools and international business forums. He has written a number of books
    including Innovate your Company, The Value Growers, After the Merger, Spearheading Growth and the The 100 day Myth. Michael is a committed member of several organisations supporting humanitarian aid, community life,
    international understanding and education. Michael is married with two children and lives close to Dusseldorf.

  • Reviewer : Richard B.Dasher US-Asia Technology Management Center Director
    Stanford University Professor

    At Stanford, Dr. Richard Dasher has been Director of the US-Asia Technology Management Center since 1994 and Executive Director of the Center for Integrated Systems since 1998. He holds Consulting Professor positions in Electrical Engineering and East Asian Studies, conducting research and teaching about entrepreneurial innovation, regional innovation systems, and the impact of new technologies on industry dynamics, with focus on U.S. and Japan/Asia institutions. Dr. Dasher serves on review boards and advisory councils of major science and technology funding programs and institutes in Canada, Japan, and Thailand. He is an advisor to start-up companies, business accelerators, venture capital firms, and nonprofit organizations in the U.S., China, Japan, and S. Korea. Dr. Dasher served as a Board Director and member of the Management Council of Tohoku University from 2004 - 2010. He received M.A. (1980) and Ph.D. (1995) degrees in Linguistics from Stanford University. From 1986 – 90, he directed the U.S. State Department’s Advanced Language and Area Training Centers in Japan and Korea that provide full-time language and area curricula to U.S. and Commonwealth country diplomats. From 1990 – 93, he was a board director of two small Japanese companies in Tokyo.

  • Reviewer : Georg Vielmetter Hay Group GmbH, Europe Regional Director
    Author of <2030 leadership>

    Georg Vielmetter, Ph.D., is the regional director, Europe, for the Hay Group’s leadership and talent practice. Hay Group is a global management consulting firm that works with leaders to transform strategy into reality. Hay Group develops talent, organizes people to be more effective and motivates them to perform at their best.
    Georg works with top executives and top teams on leadership transformation aimed at improving organizational and human capital. He also acts as a business coach to CEOs and senior executives.Prior to his current role, Georg was general manager for Hay Group in Scandinavia.Before moving to consulting, Georg hold different academic posts in Germany and the USA. He is an alumnus of the German National Academic Foundation, and a member of the German Philosophical Society and the German Sociological Association. His new book (co-authored with Yvonne Sell) on the future of leadership, Leadership 2030, was published in 2014 by Amacom Books, a division of the American Management Association.Georg is a regular keynote speaker at international conferences and management meetings. You can reach him at georg.vielmetter@haygroup.com, connect with Georg on Linked In and follow him on twitter @GVielmetter.

  • Reviewer : Thomas Lehmann Embassy of Denmark in the Republic of Korea Ambassador

    Thomas Lehmann (born 10th December 1965) is Danish Ambassador to the Republic of Korea since September 2014. He held various positions in Danish Ministry of Foreign affairs: head (2010-2014), deputy head (2007-2010) of EU coordination department and head of section of EU policy department (2000-2003). He was a deputy head of mission of Minister Counselor in Stockholm between 2003-2007. Also, he worked as a deputy head of mission in Royal Danish Embassy which is located in Dublin. Before that, he was a head of section in Budget/Administration department (1993-1996) and Trade Policy department (1992-1993).
    He holds a master of Science in Economics from University of Copenhagen.

  • Speaker : Dejun Chen STO Express Chairman

    Dejun Chen, CEO of STO EXPRESS, has acted as Honorary Chairman of the Business Development Research Council, Zheijiang Province, Vice Chairman of China Integrated Logistics Association, Vice Chairman of Shanghai Integrated Logistics Association, Vice Chairman of the Association of Enterprises in Shanghai Hangzhou, and a member of the 7th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in Tongluxia .
    STO EXPRESS, a private delivery company, boasts of China’s widest network and highest coverage and has been widely acknowledged at home and abroad. It was founded in Hangzhou, in 1993 and has set up more than 20 franchise business branches in Songjiang, Pudong, Nanjiang, and Minhang, in Shanghai, China.
    Solidifying its business position in Shanghai, its home city, STO EXPRESS has systematically established its business branches based upon its high-caliber workforce, in Jiangsu, Beijing, Guangdong, Tianjin, Shanxi, and Hubei and expanded its network on a nationwide scale. When it was first launched, it set up STO-operated offices mainly in Hangzhou and Shanghai, with other branches operating based upon a franchise system. At its initial stages, the company used the franchise scheme to distribute farmers to its branches across the nation. As a result, the firm has been able to quickly enlarge its business area, successfully dominating China’s delivery market and delivering services to its clients much faster.
    For the past 20 or more years, STO EXPRESS has formed the most seamless and flawless delivery network in China characterized by more than 1370 independent business offices and branches and more than 10,000 agencies and affiliated distributors. It employs more than 200,000 workers, creating about 10,000 jobs every year. Its business volume in 2014 reached 2.4 billion cases, up 50% from a year earlier, which is deemed to be number one in the industry. In 2014, the company accounted for 17% of China’s delivery volume totaling 14.0 billion cases. In other words, one out of six deliveries in China was made by STO EXPRESS. It made 30.50 million deliveries on November 11, 2014, the highest number of daily delivery cases in China’s delivery history. STO EXPRESS has already built up a private delivery system featuring the most perfect and expansive network in China.

  • Special Lecturer : Viv Goldstein GE Director, Global Innovation Acceleration

    Viv Goldstein is Director, Innovation Acceleration at GE. She is responsible for leading FastWorks, a platform that applies entrepreneurial tools, processes and culture across GE. By providing additional resources, capabilities and coaching for critical growth initiatives, she is focused on driving, impact and competitiveness in support of GE’s focus on delivering better outcomes for their customers faster.
    Prior to this, Viv was Director of Commercial Learning & Transformation, GE Corporate Marketing, with responsibility for continuing to enhance and drive commercial capabilities across GE globally. She led the commercial curriculum development and supported the businesses and the various emerging markets to continue to drive the commercial skills.
    Previously VP Marketing, GE Money Viv was actively engaged with the Customer Centric transformation of GE Money, developing and implementing value proposition strategies for the private and co-brand credit cards for leading retailers and clients. In her previous role, Viv was Vice President of Loyalty, responsible for the introduction of new loyalty capabilities, strategies and functionalities.
    With GE Money since 1991, Viv has held various marketing and client management roles both in America and Europe. Her previous employment experience includes Bass, Johnson Wax and 3M Companies.
    Viv balances her busy work schedule with her 3 children aged 21, 17 and 12 (1 boy, 2 girls) and is actively engaged with the children's education and sports commitments.

  • Perry Ha Draper Athena Founder and Managing Director

    Perry Ha is the founder and Managing Director of Draper Athena, a leading venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley and Seoul. He has been an active venture investor since 1997; and has invested and served on the board of many successful companies including iPivot (acq by Intel), Demandtec (IPO then acq by IBM), Imparto Software (acq by PKS), ProfitLogic (acq by Oracle), and Zantaz (acq by Autonomy). He also served as interim CEO in several companies.
    Prior to venture capital, he was a management consultant at Gemini Consulting and advised Fortune 1000 clients manage technology portfolios and develop new products. Prior to that, he managed an R&D Group at Amicon, a life sciences device company, which was successfully sold to Milipore in 1994. He was granted two design patents during his tenure at Amicon.
    He serves on the board of Korean American Society of Entrepreneurs (KASE), on the Visiting Committee at MIT, and on the Leadership Board of MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research. He earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

  • Speaker : Mikyeong Jeong MoneyToday Networks Director
    K.E.Y. PLATFORM Executive Director

    Mikyeong Jeong is the Director of MoneyToday Network and Executive Director of K.E.Y. PLATFORM. She initiated her career as a reporter for Hankook Daily and has accumulated adequate experience in all of the media platform areas ranging from newspapers and online media to broadcast and communications over the past 25 years.
    She managed the first publications of Offline MoneyToday and Media Star News, Korea's first real-time online entertainment media, in 2001 and 2004, respectively. She then took part in the establishment of MoneyToday Broadcasting Company in 2008 and the first publication of News One Korea, a private news agency, in 2011 to directly experience the process of setting up new media.
    She has coped with a variety of political, economic, social and cultural affairs, based on cool-headed judgment and balanced, fair and objective perspectives.
    At MoneyToday, she successfully launched and established the integrated newsroom system including newspapers, online media and broadcasting, a key topic in the era of media convergence.
    In the media industry that is witnessing the collapse of core business models amid a flood of content, she has a special interest in identifying new innovations and media models for the age of integration and convergence.

  • Speaker : Weon-Bae Chae MoneyToday Media Chief Editor, Department of Strategy

    Mr. Chae started his career as a Pyeong Hwa Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) reporter and has accumulated experience in media platforms ranging from online media, newspapers, and broadcasting companies for the past 22 years. After joining Money Today as an experienced reporter in 2000, he served as the leader of various teams covering bank news, Gwacheon Government Complex affairs, realty, local news, political/economic affairs, and financial news. In 2010, as a Blue House reporter, he accompanied the President to various nations and delivered insight news on the new world order that formed following the global financial crisis. For two years, starting in 2013, he actively reported news from Wall Street, the world’s financial and economic center, as a Money Today correspondent in New York.
    In April 2004, he received the “Reporter of the Month” award from the Journalists Association of Korea in recognition of his exclusive report on the National Tax Service’s tax probe into Foreign Funds including Lone Star. In March 2007, he made another exclusive report on Korea’s single biggest property development project to build an international business district in Yongsan (the simultaneous development of KORAIL’s maintenance shop site and the West Ichon-dong area) that foundered later.
    In October 2009, he, as head of the political and economic affairs team, took the lead in enabling Money Today to exclusively cover the news on Korea National Oil Corporation’s faulty acquisition of Harvest Energy Trust.
    This year, in charge of controlling the K.E.Y. Platform Desk, he is strenuously looking for answers to the following two questions which is “How should innovation be brought to the media industry?” and “Where should the media industry go?”

  • Speaker : Dae Myoung Kim Actor

    김대명은 대한민국의 배우이다. 얼마 전 종영한 '미생'에서 주인공의 든든한 선임역할을 연기해 호평을 받았다.
    김대명은 성균관대학교 연기예술학과를 졸업했으며, 출연작으로는 영화 《뷰티 인사이드》 (2014년) - 우진 역 《타짜: 신의 손》 (2014년) - 당구장 사장 역 《역린》 (2014년) - 강용휘 역 《표적》 (2014년) - 장규호 역 《방황하는 칼날》 (2014년) - 양태섭 역 《더 테러 라이브》 (2013년) - 박신우 목소리 역 《개들의 전쟁》 (2012년) - 두창 역 공연 《연극 ‘한 놈, 두 놈 삑구타고’》 (2011년) - 이낙중 역 《뮤지컬 ‘어쌔신’》 (2009년) - 존 힝클리 역 《연극 ‘동물원이야기’》 (2009년) 등이 있다. 최근 ‘20인 1역’으로 화제를 모은 영화 《뷰티 인사이드》에서 ‘우진’을 연기했다.

Breakout session 1. Expanding of the strategy for the financial industry

  • Moderator : Hans Cremer ABN AMRO Bank Innovation Center Program Director

    Hans Cremer (1966) is Program Director Innovation ABN AMRO Bank, working on radical innovations in the financial sector in the past seven years together with Prof. Dr. P.L. Iske. Last year Hans received the International Project Management Excellence Award for the build up Innovation Portfolio and his ‘best practice’ methodology developed. He is currently leading the UETP Program, creating the Economic Internet to facilitate seemless economic transactions, which is initiated by ABN AMRO and the Ministry of Economic Affairs in the Netherlands. The UETP program is set up as a FOCAFET Foundation initiative, engaging the Global Financial Sector, towards the Next Generation Bank.
    Having a strong background in the Financial Industry, Hans Cremer has set up multiple ventures supporting the Financial Sector with new innovative value propositions. An example is the joint venture between APG (largest pension provider in the world) and ABN AMRO, to provide a radical new pension offering. Before that Hans received the Global Procurement Award for enhancing the Banks efficiency ratio, by setting up a new Global Procurement Practice with strategic suppliers.
    Hans is international certified Program Director (IPMA- level A).

  • Speaker : Jesper Nielsen Danske Bank Executive Vice President
    Danske Bank Head of Business Development

    Responsibility
    Jesper Nielsen works as Head of Business Development in Personal Banking Danske Bank, where there is responsible for strategy execution, strategic projects, channel development, product development and customer analysis.
    Formel training
    Originally Jesper has a background in Economics and has completed studies in the Economic University in Prague and INSEAD in Paris.
    Achievements
    His major achievements has been to take Danske Bank through a significant financial turnaround, including new pricing strategy, reduction of physical footprint, and cost reduction programme in Personal Banking. But he has also been in charge of the launch of several digital solutions, including MobilePay which has 1,6 mio. users in DK.

  • Speaker : Boohwan Byun Sogang University Visiting Faculty

    - Visiting Faculty, Graduate School of Management of Technology, Sogang University, Seoul Korea
    - Member of advisory committee for establishment of UETP regional hub in North East Asia.
    - Senior credit analyst and approver, Financial Institutions and Country Risk Department,
    ABN AMRO HQ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
    Boohwan started his career at Korea Exchange Bank Amsterdam in 2005. In 2007 he moved to Fortis Bank Netherlands as senior credit and collateral manager in ECT-Commodities department, where he focused on global energy and agricultural commodity traders. After successful 2 years of working experience in credit and collateral management team, he joined Credit Risk department of ABN AMRO, where he delivered concise credit assessment and advice for the committee about top global commodity traders as dedicated analyst. In Feb.2015, he started new journey in Financial Institutions and Country Risk management team as senior analyst and approver in ABN AMRO.
    - Area of interests: Sustainable growth of financial industry, new role of banking sector, Good citizenship, Dynamic interaction with different culture and cultural environment, diversity, inclusion and leadership.
    He holds Master of Science degree in Business Administration (specialization in Strategy and Innovation) at the University of Groningen, and Master of Science degree in International Finance at the University of Amsterdam.

  • Speaker : Floris Kleemans FOCAFET Foundation Founder

    Floris Kleemans, MSc in Economics (1971) is Founder of the FOCAFET Foundation.
    FOCAFET facilitates the co-creation of the Uniform Economic Transaction Protocol, or in short UETP. UETP will bring to us the economic internet, just like HTTP brought us the internet of information. With UETP, which is free to use, we can connect our economies directly. Imagine that you have a smart transaction receipt that automatically pays for the transaction, does it taxes, accounting, automatically delivers the goods and services across the world and translates the invoice in the language of the buyer. What started 14 months ago as a two page idea, is rapidly gaining acceptance and cooperation of large technology companies, systemic banks, logistics companies and governments all over the world.
    Before founding the FOCAFET Foundation, Floris Kleemans was Group Head of Strategy for ABN AMRO Bank, following commercial, investment, risk and operational roles in the financial industry with ABN AMRO Bank and ING Investment Management. In addition, Floris is founder and co-owner of Verderis, a green energy company with activities in Brazil and Uruguay.

  • Speaker : Job Ten Bosch Debatrix Managing Director

    Great economic progress is often the result due to the emergence of new standards. HTTP brought us the internet. GSM gave us the mobile phone. The moment we agree on a common language rapid growth is often unlocked. Does UETP also hold such a potential?
    Job ten Bosch is a specialist in Innovation Management and Behavioral Design. As Managing Director of Debatrix he advises many financial institutions in their compliance and change programmes. Moreover he has a knowledge of strategic communications concerning standard development. As a supporter of the UETP-programme he shares insights on what benefits and challenges lies ahead.
    Job ten Bosch holds degrees in Innovation Management (Msc) and Technical Management (Beng) and has done extensive professional tracks in Energy Management and Business Valuation. He is owner of WellWoods which has subsidiaries such as Debatrix (Persuasion & Behaviour Consulting), Infograaf (visual design firm), InfusionMarketing (Marketing Automation). He published books about both persuasion and new venture acceleration. Job is associated with FOCAFET on its UETP project.

  • Speaker : Paul Iske Maastrict University Professor

    Paul Iske is Professor at the School of Business and Economics, University Maastricht, Netherlands, focusing on Open Innovation and Business Venturing. Special topic: Combinatoric Innovation (Innovation by Combination). He is member of the Management Team of the Service Science Factory (www.servicesciencefactory.nl) and he is on the Board of the Network of Social Innovation.
    Paul Iske is Chief Dialogues Officer,initiator and Director of the Dialogues House, ABN AMRO’s center for outside-in and future-proof thinking and behaviour (www.dialogueshouse.nl). The holistic approach taken by Dialogues has been awarded the Banking and Finance Innovation Award for 2008.
    Paul founded the ‘Institute of Brilliant Failures’ (www.brilliantfailures.com), which is a web 2.0-approach to highlight the importance of experimentation and entrepreneurship to achieve paradigm shifts and breakthrough innovation and to get acceptance for failing as an inevitable part of innovation processes.

  • Speaker : Justus Brouwers HP Enterprise Services EMEA Managing Partner in Strategic business development

    Justus Brouwers (1970) is a strategic business development executive within HP’s EMEA strategic sales team. Since 1939, HP has been a leader in technology and corporate culture, inspiring innovators and entrepreneurs around the globe. Hewlett-Packard started Silicon Valley out of the garage and is, through continuously innovating and transforming, now a leader in Converged Cloud, Security and Big Data. Justus is responsible for analyzing industry and client challenges, on which basis he prepares the qualification and investment decision to further develop, pursue and implement compelling value propositions and business cases. Once approved he continues to lead the dialogue with clients to increase, accelerate and industrialize mutual business impact. With over 15 years of experience working internationally in the IT service industry, Justus brings a wealth of sales and operations knowledge from technology, process, transformation and strategic perspectives. He has created and implemented differentiating customer service-driven strategies for a wide range of European and Global companies such as Societe Generale, ING, Syngenta, Royal Dutch Shell and ABN AMRO Bank. Justus holds an MBA in Dutch private law and is on the board of directors/advisors of several cultural and sports organizations in his home city of Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

  • Speaker : Damien van der Bijl InnovationQuarter Investment Manager

    Damien van der Bijl, MBA (1977) is Investment Manager with InnovationQuarter’s investment fund. InnovationQuarter is the regional economic development agency for the Dutch region of West Holland. The mission of InnovationQuarter is to strengthen the regional economy of the area that includes the Port of Rotterdam, The Hague and the cities of Leiden and Delft. In close cooperation with all major corporations, educational and research institutions - like the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Delft University of Technology and Leiden University - and government organisations, InnovationQuarter supports technological developments, encourages entrepreneurship and invests in start-up companies. The investment fund is currently at €60 million, and will grow to around €100 million.
    Before joining InnovationQuarter, Damien van der Bijl worked in several functions in the region of West Holland, with a focus on stimulating innovation. Between 2005-2007 he managed an international network of innovative regions, including West Holland, Helsinki, Paris, Shanghai, Greater Washington DC, Austin, and many others. From 2007-2013 he worked at the Knowledge Alliance West Holland, a triple helix organisation promoting open innovation between companies, knowledge institutes and government organisations in the region. In 2014, he joined InnovationQuarter’s investment fund, where he focuses mostly on early stage cleantech deals.

Breakout session 2. Asian clustering

  • Speaker : Andy Zain Mountain Kejora Ventures Managing Director

    Andy Zain is the Managing Director at Mountain Kejora Ventures a startup accelerator & tech company builder in Southeast Asia, a JV with Mountain Partners Group, a Zurich based tech venture group with over 200 portfolios in Europe, China, Latin America, Brasil, India and Middle East. Prior to joining Mountain, held position as Director in SkyBee Tbk, an Indonesian Stock Exchange (IDX) listed company in technology, media & telecommunication sector.
    Andy also sit in the Board of migme Limited, a publicly listed company in Australia Stock Exchange (ASX: MIG) which provides social entertainment platform for mobile & Internet users in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Middle East & Africa.
    For almost 20 years, Andy has been a serial entrepreneur launching multiple technology based startups & assisting global Internet brand such as Disney Mobile, Yahoo! Mobile, Cartoon Network, EA Games, and Gameloft on their entry strategy to the emerging market.
    Deeply rooted to the regional innovation ecosystem as Director of Jakarta Founder Institute and Chairman for MobileMonday Indonesia, also member of the Myanmar Innovation Council. He established ideabox, a telco focused tech startup accelerator in partnership with Indosat (www.ideabox.co.id), and launched Kejora, a startup co-working space in Jakarta (www.atkejora.com)

  • Speaker : Choong Huei Seow Jobstreet Corporation Berhad President

    Seow Choong Huei is Head of Investments for Jobstreet Corporation Berhad. He specializes in the coverage of ICT software and services, Internet, mobile and general industries.
    Choong Huei has over 20 years of industry and investment work experience in senior roles, covering a wide scope of investments from Venture Capital/Private Equity, fund management, family office investments and strategic corporate investments/acquisitions. He previously was with Templeton Asset Management, Target Asset Management, Walden International Investment Group, and the family office of a leading Asian business family.
    Choong Huei received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Engineering from MIT and an MBA (with Honors, Dean's List) from the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business.

  • Speaker : Hoanh Tien Nguyen VNG Vice President

    Hoanh Tien Nguyen is the Vice President of VNG JSC, a leading internet and social media company in Vietnam. Established in 2004, VNG has been the largest domestic web portal (Zing.vn) along operated the leading OTT (Over-the-Top) mobile messenger – Zalo in Vietnam . The company offers a comprehensive package of online entertainment products such as music, games, video sharing, and news, as well as an online social media community and E-commerce to approximately 20 million Vietnamese subscribers.
    Tien has more than 10 years of experience in high-tech industry, ranging from technical design, network planning, technical operations, marketing to general management in telecom and data networking both in Vietnam and overseas. Before joining VNG, Tien served at SAP (Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung), working to improve various operation management system aspects for the Center of Excellence, a fast-growing entrepreneurial division of SAP AG and leading the Business Systems Consulting group to initiate and facilitate business innovations, process redesign and strategic application of IT for major U.S., European and Middle East corporations. He is co-founder of US Guide (US Study Guide) and Connek (Converge Network Technology Group), two major volunteer and professional networks; and is a member of the Advisory Board for Circle of Friends - a volunteer charity group. Tien has also provided personal development coaching for many young Vietnamese business and technology talents since 1999.

  • Speaker : Manh Tuong Nguyen Mservice Vice President

    Manh Tuong currently is the Executive Vice President at M Service, the pioneer and leading mobile money and payment company in Vietnam. MService provides Over-the-counter money transfer services, mobile money – a service to provide financial inclusion for 40 millions low-income customers and mobile one click payment platform with bank and financial institution.
    Tuong has brought to M Service 15 years of experience in different roles from both Vietnam Company such as EIS, Inc and Multi National Company such as Cisco Systems. Tuong co-founded and led Circle of Friends Youth Volunteer Organization to run diverse community projects and internal capacity building program for a couple of years. He also was former President of Us Study Guide, a group to provide information and support Vietnamese students to study in the U.S. institutions.
    Tuong graduated from Hanoi University of Technology (HUT) in 2002 with a B.S. degree in Electronic and Telecommunications. After HUT, he earned his M.S in Computer Science from State University of New York at Buffalo, U.S.A in 2005 and M.B.A from Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, U.S.A in 2010.

  • Speaker : Aaron Yeoh It Ming Shop & Go JSC Vietnam CEO

    Aaron Yeoh is CEO of Shop & Go JSC Vietnam. Shop & Go JSC Vietnam is the biggest chain of convenience stores in Vietnam. Shop & Go is a familiar and reputable brand name among the Vietnamese community. Shop & Go has over 130 stores in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
    Aaron Yeoh graduated from Deakin University, Australia with a degree in Accounting and Economics. Prior to joining Shop & Go, Aaron worked in Dell Computers and Toray Industries Japan. In addition, Aaron has more than 10 years of experience in business development, strategic planning and retail industry. Aaron started with Shop&Go in 2006 when there was only 4 stores and he grew the stores to over 130 stores over 8 years. Today, Aaron manage over 750 employees. Shop & Go has partnered with many giant E-Commerce companies and suppliers.

  • Moderator : Seung Kwon Bae TRADECOS Co., Ltd President

    Mr. Seung Kwon Bae had worked as an investment fund manager for public equity at Korea Investment Management Co., Ltd for 6 years and last 3 years of his career he had managed Vietnam equity investment fund at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Prior to Korea Investment Management Co., Ltd., he had worked at global accounting firm and multinational fast moving consumer goods company. He is also MBA holder from Columbia University and BA at Korea University. Presently he has been running his own startup business at online commerce area in Vietnam for 2 years.

  • Speaker : Vachara Aemavat Computerlogy CEO

    Vachara Aemavat, MBA in Information System, is CEO of Computerlogy. Computerlogy is focusing on deliver marketing technology platform with advanced technology in big data. The company got series A funding from InTouch Holding in late 2013. Computerlogy is only one SEA-based company who badged Facebook Marketing Partner with Community Management specialty. Currently, Computerlogy has two products in the market and being number social media tools providers in Thailand.
    Vachara Aemavat is also Vice-President of Thailand Tech Startup Association (TTSA). The association's main objectives are to unite the community; drive the industry through collaboration with all stakeholders, including entrepreneurs, investors and the government sector; and accelerate Thai start-ups in respect of meeting the international standard. The association has also been formed to be the linkage between the tech start-up community and other stakeholders in the entire ecosystem. It is aimed at driving the leapfrogging growth of the industry, to bring Thai tech start-ups to the forefront of the tech industry in the region - and eve on the global stage.

Breakout session 3. Game changing innovation through East Asia collaboration

  • Speaker : Tianxiao Shi GameGrapes Partner

    Tianxiao Shi is the Partner of the GameGrapes. The GameGrapes is a leading content platform in the Game industry that provide valuable gaming news, review, analysis to gamers. The GameGrapes also holds salons and conferences for gamers and invests in entertainment area.
    Before joining the GameGrapes, Tianxiao Shi worked in the Internet industry for 8 years, focusing on Client, Web and Mobile Game area. Currently Tianxiao Shi is leading the GameGrapes’s Content, Marketing and Investment team, building content platform and service for all gamers who are looking for better communication environment.

  • Speaker : Hao Xu PinGuo Technology CEO

    Hao Xu was born and raised in Chengdu, China. He founded his first company, Chengdu’s first digital music studio, at the age of 18. After studying computer science at Chengdu University, Mr. Xu continued his path of serial entrepreneurship, pursuing various ventures into 2D/3D barcodes, interactive media, and digital imaging technology. He is the creator of more than 20 digital imaging software products, as well as China’s first colored 2D barcode. Mr. Xu co-founded Camera360 in 2010, in conjunction with the application’s launch on the Android platform. Camera360 has since won numerous awards, including global recognition at the 2011 PCWorld Global Tech Forum (Top 100 Global Technology Product).Today, Camera360 has more than 400 million users around the world, and continues to grow at a rapid pace.

  • Speaker : Gang Lu TechNode, TechCrunch China Founder

    Dr. Gang LU is the founder and CEO of TechNode.com which is the leading tech media in China covering Chinese technology and startups news. As TechNode is the official partner of TechCrunch which is the leading tech media in U.S., Dr. Lu also run TechCrunch China and manage its local business. Gang Lu is one of the most influential tech blogger from China in global Internet industry. He co-founded the well-known co-working space and accelerator, theNode international innovation center located at 751 DPark, Beijing helping early stage startups. He is the initiator of the annual ChinaBang Awards which is a very respected event rewards the best Chinese startups of the year. Gang Lu was the Asia Business Development Director of Netvibes.com, the world leading personalized homepage and widget technology provider. He is one of the first introducing widget economy and Open Platform into Asian market. Prior to joining Netvibes, he was is the department of research and development working on Multimedia Messaging Service platform and 3G applications in Dialogue Communications Ltd. a leading mobile messaging service provider in UK. Dr. Lu is now also the chief researcher at Hunan University Media Lab (Shenzhen) with focus on entrepreneurship. Dr. Lu got his PhD in wireless communications from the University of Sheffield, UK.

  • Speaker : Louisa Cao INTSIG Senior Marketing Director

    She has been leading the global marketing team of top business and productivity apps CamCard and CamScanner to have acquired more than 100 million users out of China, and drive the global market growth & monetization. She has the hands-on experience to lead the strategic partnership with Samsung, LGe, Huawei, Motorola, Softbank Mobile, KDDI. Before joining CamCard, she has been the head of online media content in Shanghai Media Group, 2nd largest TV network in China.

  • Speaker : SuChi Hsu Winking Digital Entertainment Corp. CEO

    Mimi (Hsu, Su-Chi) is CEO of Winking Digital Entertainment Corporation. Winking Digital is a well-known gaming developer and now a publisher in the industry and in Taiwan. Winking Digital has workforce comprised of approximate 100 marketing strategists, designers, programmers, developers and project managers. All of which were contributed to the brand reputation and today’s mobile/handheld entertaining excellency.
    Before joining Winking Digital Entertainment, Mimi worked as chief operating officer in the mobile game and online game division in Cube Magic and was vice president of mobile game business unit in the Dream in Shanghai. With her leadership and nearly 15 years of market experiences, It’s not surprising ”Pili Heroes” can made such a triumph to the market in Taiwan and an impact to the industry.
    Under Mimi’s management, Winking Digital will be a fully functional gaming company with the ability to develop, operation, and publishes mobile/handheld entertaining products. As she plans, to utilize equally on self-developing and publishing, together Winking Digital will be able to expand foreign market as well as to penetrate deeper in Asia.
    As Winking Digital revealed, before 2016, Mimi and her R&D team will launch 3 more self-developed IP games. Two of them are joint efforts with movie titles. This announcement brings in more inquiries from the show business and we will expect more collaboration to come.

  • Moderator / Speaker : Bin Dai App Annie (China) Country Director

    Bin is leading App Annie’s business in Greater China, to provide direct support to App Annie's partners and clients with comprehensive market data of application stores from iOS AppStore and Google Play, with in-depth data analysis, and most importantly, a global vision.
    Bin has been playing an active role in China’s Mobile Internet Industry since 2009. As organiser of Mobile Monday Beijing, he had been maintaining an efficient and pleasant platform for different actors of the whole ecosystem to meet, share, and setup cooperation.
    His previous works at Orange and Samsung had helped Mobile Internet companies to establish meaningful partnerships with these two important corporates in the industry.
    Now at App Annie, Bin enjoys working with friends from different sectors of the Mobile Internet realm, exploring a variety of opportunities in the global market.

  • Speaker : Qian Cheng MOJI CO., LTD Vice President

    Qian Cheng is VP of MOJI. MOJI CO., LTD is a weather software technology company which was established on March 2010. The main product is the application named “MoWeather” which has perfect interactive design, accurate and professional weather data, stable and high-speed system, first-class lifestyle service, satisfying our honorable users. In the past five years, “MoWeather” has won 350 million users, and has been the first camp of the application.

  • Speaker : Peter Wang AdsMogo CEO

    Peter Wang, founder and CEO of AdsMOGO - the largest mobile Ad Exchange in China. As a leader in China’s mobile advertising space, AdsMOGO is managing over 1.2-billion Ad req. daily for 80,000+ Apps. AdsMOGO Mobile Ad Exchange (AMAX) is currently working with 100+ DSPs/SSPs/Ad Networks worldwide, and helping thousands of advertisers to cover more than 300 million mobile devices on monthly basis.
    In 2011, Peter started AdsMOGO with a strong belief that mobile is the future of Internet and mobile advertising is the fuel to power a prosperous mobile eco system. By providing a sophisticated yield optimization service, AdsMOGO helped more than 80,000 Apps world wide to increase average income by at least 20%. At the same time, by providing almost 1 billion mobile Ad req. per day thought RTB, AdsMOGO become one of the driving forces to lead China’s mobile advertising industry towards a more efficient and targeted programmatic buying mode.

  • Moderator : Doyle Chung App Annie (Korea) Korea Country Director

    Doyle graduated California State University (CSUC) in 2003 with majoring in computer Engineering. For last 10 years, He went through various IT global & venture companies. Licensing manager for i-Station who invented PMP (Portable Multimedia Player) first in the world, Korea sales manager at BARCO, Sr. BD manager at Gartner, MBA (KUBS & Boston University), Head of Korea sales at GfK. In Nov. 2014 he joined App Annie as Korea Country Director. Based on his diverse experience and deep insight in the field of IT hardware, mobile and retail market, he surely help Korean clients with building concrete mobile strategies based on App Annie’s insights, eventually would make to clients successful in very competitive mobile market.

Breakout session 4.Practical Creativity Education in Sweden

  • Moderator : Jisung Park Sense & Sustainability of HBS Founder

    A native of Lawrence, Kansas, and Seoul, South Korea, Jisung is the founder and Director of Sense & Sustainability, a non-profit dedicated to bridging the gap between theory and practice on sustainable development issues. He is also currently a research fellow, teaching fellow, and PhD Candidate in Economics at Harvard University. His research focuses on policy applications of economic analysis, most notably on issues pertaining to economic growth, labor productivity, and human capital accumulation. His public commentary has been published in a number of outlets, including Bloomberg Business, and Al Jazeera.
    Before coming to Harvard, Jisung attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship. Jisung’s undergraduate education was in Economics and Political science at Columbia University, where he was also an editor for Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development. He has worked in finance and consulting, as well as for Environmental Defense Fund, a major non-profit. In his free time, he enjoys playing basketball, spending time hiking and camping outdoors, and singing a cappella.

  • Moderator : Mallory Dwinal Oxford Day Academy Founder

    Mallory Dwinal is an MBA candidate in her final year at Harvard Business School; she is also the Lead
    Founder of Oxford Day Academy, a proposed blended-learning public charter high school in Silicon
    Valley. Using the skills and understandings provided by her MBA experience, Mallory has redesigned
    the school’s cost structures so as to allow teachers to use elite instructional models while still operating
    on a public school budget.
    In 2009, Mallory was selected as a U.S. Rhodes Scholar and, while at Oxford, completed her doctoral
    research in teacher labor economics. After that, she served as a 2011 Teach for America corps member,
    where she was a high school Spanish teacher and Department Chair in the Anacostia Ward of
    Washington, D.C. Mallory holds a PhD in Education from the University of Oxford and a BA in Spanish,
    Economics, and International Studies from Northwestern University.

  • Speaker : Peter Varbrand Linkoping University Vice President, Professor

    Peter Varbrand is Vice President with responsibility for External Relations and Innovation at Linkoping University (Sweden), he is also a Professor in Optimization/Operations Research.
    Linkoping University has strong connections and extensive collaborations with the surrounding society. Collaboration includes activities such as research and development together with the regional business sector, commercialization and innovation support of ideas and research stemming from both researchers and students, and activities for fostering an entrepreneurial spirit among students. One specific example is the Demola project, which is a collaboration activity between the university and private companies and organizations. A goal with Demola is to give students opportunities to develop business ideas at an early stage. Students from diverse study programs and preferable from different faculties, complement each other’s skill sets, and when a final project result satisfies the company, the company can buy back the result.

  • Speaker : Stefan Holmlid Linkoping University Associate professor

    Stefan Holmlid works as an assistant professor of interaction and service design at a Linkoping University. He is currently teaching Interactive Media project for Graphic Design and Communication, Interaction design, User-driven product development, and Service design.
    His research takes as its starting point the power of the designer and design thinking. Currently research projects make a deep dive into the realms of services, especially concerning the expressive powers of design methods and techniques in service development and service innovation.
    The idea that design objects and design materials can be both dynamic, active and that the design is co-created "in use", drive the research of relevant theoretical grounding for design, inspire the design research on materials, and challenges the way we understand how to prototype design objects for user involvement.
    The road to these projects has led through a critical stance towards the institutionalized arena of user-centered design, through projects on the role of learning for usability, and the importance of interaction design and usability in business development and IT-procurement processes, over a dedication in developing and maintaining high quality design courses for a wide range of programs at the university.

  • Speaker : Jan Wickenberg Chalmers University of Technology Associate professor

    Jan Wickenberg works as a Senior Lecturer at the Division of Innovation Engineering and Management and is connected to Center for Business Innovation (CBI). He has professional experiences covering product development work in multi-project environments in large industrial organizations, including work roles such as line manager, project manager, quality assurance manager, and business change manager.
    His research interests concern improving innovation capability through increasing organizational awareness and transparency of communication.
    He has published many research papers since 2001 about organizational features, organizational political behaviors, and collaborative developments. He also has done projects named as ‘The feature Leadership Study’ and ‘The iSurvey’.

  • Speaker : Eva Wiberg Lund University Vice President, Professor

    Professor Eva Wiberg is Vice President at Lund University and has special responsibility for first-, second- and third-cycle education and associated quality assurance. Eva Wiberg is the chair of the Education Board at Lund University she is also responsible for international affairs.
    Eva Wiberg is also a Professor of Italian. Her research concerns second language acquisition and bilingualism, with a focus on Italian. Eva Wiberg has long experience of teaching and supervision. She is a Dame of Stella della Solidarieta Italiana (Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity) for her outstanding contribution to the development of Italian at Lund University.
    Eva Wiberg is Executive Director of the global university network Universitas 21, chair of the network USI – Universities and Swedish institutes around the Mediterranean in collaboration for internationalisation, Member of LERU Rectors assembly and member of the steering group for the LERU Vice-Rectors for Teaching and Learning Community.

  • Speaker : Viktor Owall Lund University Dean Technical Faculty, Professor

    Viktor Owall is Professor in Circuit Design and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, LTH. From 2009-2014 he was Head of the Department of Electrical and Information Technology. He initiated the VINNOVA Industrial Excellence Center in System Design on Silicon in 2008 and was its Director until he became Dean in 2015.
    He is currently a member of the technical program committee of the IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS) and Norchip. He is also a member of the Technical Committees for VLSI Systems and on Biomedical Circuits and Systems of the IEEE Circuit and Systems Society. He was a member of the TCP of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD) 2002-2005.
    Viktor Owall is also one of the founders of the start-up company within the field of digital holographic imaging, Phase Holographic Imaging AB. The company was emerging from research projects within the VINNOVA Competence Centre CCCD.

  • Keynote Speech : Urban Ahlin Swedish Parliament Speaker of the Riksdag

    Urban Christian Ahlin is a Swedish Social Democratic Party politician and the Speaker of the Riksdag since 2014. He has been a member of the Swedish parliament since 1994. Since 2005 he is chairman of the Social Democratic Party in Skaraborg County. In Parliament he held a number of different positions. He was a member of the Advisory Council on Foreign Affairs, a member of the War Delegation, and a deputy member of Committee on European Union Affairs.
    Before that, between 1991 and 1998 he was chairman of the Social Democratic Party in Mariestad, Skaraborg County, and from 1999 to 2002 he was the deputy secretary general of the Social Democratic Party.
    Ahlin studied at the specialist teacher-training course at Karlstad University from 1985 to 1990. He then worked as a teacher at an upper level elementary school in Mariestad, teaching mathematics and general science, until being elected to the Swedish parliament in 1994.
    Urban Ahlin also has been a member of many different non-profit organizations. He is a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations ECFR. He is also a member of the Swedish group of Trilateral Commission. He has been a director of the influential American "think and do tank" EastWest Institute.

  • Speaker : Su Mi Dahlgaard-Park Lund University Professor

    Dr. Su Mi Dahlgaard-Park is currently professor at Institute of Service Management, Lund University where she has been head of research previously. She has been distinguished visiting professor at large numbers of universities, among others, Tsukuba, Shandong, Yuan Ze, Verona, Yonsei Universities. Her research areas have been Strategic Quality & Service Management, Business/Organization Excellence, OT, Learning and Knowledge Management, and Organizational Change. Within these areas she has published approximately 150 research papers and more than 20 books and edited volumes. Several of her articles are listed as the top five most cited or most read articles of the journals. She has worked as advisor in many private and governmental organizations in all continents and is often corporate speaker and has delivered keynote speeches in large number of international conferences and symposium.

  • Speaker : Hans Adolfsson Stockholm University Vice President , Professor

    Hans Adolfsson is Vice President at Stockholm University and Professor in organometallic chemistry. He is a member of the University's senior management, with responsibility for teacher education and international relations. He has been involved in several external relation projects representing Stockholm University.
    Adolfsson´s research focuses on synthetic method development within organic chemistry. The primary goal is the development of simple, robust and environmentally friendly catalytic protocols for the selective formation of useful organic compounds.

  • Speaker : Hakon Leffler Lund University Professor

    Since 1985 my research has focused on galectins, a family of carbohydrate-binding proteins, which I was part of discovering and naming (review 1994 cited 1000 times). This has included identification and defining galectins regarding their binding-specificities, and functions in cellular systems, in particular novel roles in intracellular membrane traffic. Together with organic chemist Professor Ulf Nilsson we have developed galectin inhibitors with low nM affinities, uniquely potent for a carbohydrate binding protein. With others, these are now being used to galectin function in cell culture, and to develop therapeutics against cancer, inflammation and fibrosis. Thus, with Tariq Sethi, Head of Lung Medicine, Kings College, London, we are scientific co-founders on Galecto Biotech AB, which develops galectin inhibitors (now in Phase 1 clinical trials) towards use against idiopathic lung fibrosis and other diseases. The project exemplifies all the steps between very basic academic research to clinical development in a company setting.

Plug-in & Talk - Exploitation / Utilization of outside knowledge

  • Moderator : Ki Chan Kim Catholic University Professor

    Kim Ki-chan is a professor of Business Administration and head of the Startup Center at the Catholic University of Korea. Professor Kim, former advisor to Samsung Electronics and Hyundai Motor Company, has been elected as the next chairman of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB). ICSB functions as a platform connecting enterprises and universities, contributing to crafting small business policies in 70 nations across the world. He is a renowned scholar in platform management and has recently published a book titled “Look at the World through the Eyes of a Platform.”
    He is also actively working as Vice Chairman of the Korean Academy of Commodity Science & Technology, General Manager of the Korean Academy of Motor Industry, and Director of the Korean Academic Society of Business Administration. He is a research fellow of various industry councils and has had a special interest in B2B relationships, marketing research, and the theories of strategy. He is currently working as the Chief of the Center for Business Ethics at the Institute for Industrial Policy Studies, a member of the Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights Commission of Korea and the Korea Fair Trade Commission, a research fellow of MIT IMVP (International Motor Vehicle Program), and a member of Gerpisa (the International Network of the Automobile).
    He earned his Ph. D. in Business Administration at Seoul National University and was a visiting professor at Harvard University and MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). He received the ‘Excellence in Dissertation Award’ as an editor of the Korean Association of Small Business Studies and the ‘Top Excellence in Dissertation Award’ at the General Academic Conference attended by 32 business administration-related societies including the Korean Academic Society of Business Administration.

  • Speaker : Byong Hun Park TNO Director of Sales, Korea

    Byong-Hun Park is serving as a Director of Business Development, TNO. TNO is a research institute that was established by the law of Netherlands, on 1932. TNO’s mission is to enable innovation by bridging Scientific Research institutions and Business research institutions. Also, TNO drives innovative ideas into business modelling, via supporting venture capitals and IP supports, under the name of TAPinto. All of these missions are only possible when open innovation is thoroughly understood and executed, with entrepreneurial maneuvers within the market served.
    Byong-Hun Park’s main role is to expand these efforts to Korea, with the expertise in High Tech industry such as Semiconductor, Display, and Photovoltaics. Before TNO, he served as a Director of Marketing, LED Division of LG Innotek, and Director of Applications Engineering for Asia/Japan of Entegris.
    Byon-Hun Park is a Polymer Science Engineer by Education and Training, and holds MBA from KDI School of Public Policy and Management.

  • Speaker : Dean Sivara SAP Vice President

    Dean is Vice President of Strategy & New Businesses, in the Products & Innovation (P&I) Group.
    The Strategy and New Businesses practice is one of SAP’s global innovation and commercialization engines, looking to capitalize on industry disruptions and building new businesses in adjacent markets. The New Businesses group creates detailed business cases to evaluate new ideas that will provide future competitive advantages for SAP, leveraging assets in five strategic areas: enterprise applications, analytics, mobility, cloud, and database & technology. The goal is to incubate new businesses that will either be integrated into existing lines of business or form the core of new units. He recently incubated/investigated new adjacencies like Digital Genomics, IOT, Connected Car, Connected Farm, Bitcoin for Enterprise and Wearables.
    Once ideas are approved to become new business lines, Dean helps hire the new startup management team and incubate the new ideas. He works with the startup management team to develop their business and Go-to-Market strategies, while helping leverage SAP assets and resources, by connecting startups with SAP executives in the areas of marketing, development, legal, and ecosystem. Once strategies and solutions have been created, Dean then provides business development support, by introducing startups to targeted SAP customers & partners. He also works closely with the Silicon Valley ecosystem, collaborating with Venture Capitalists, research groups, and universities.
    On the strategy side, Dean creates and drives key business and GTM strategies with existing business units. Most recently he worked with the Cloud Development organization (Ariba, Success Factors, Customer Engagement & sFin) to create/execute a strategic planning program to help SAP’s largest 250 SCP accounts better migrate to the cloud, via a hybrid approach. He has also worked with SAP Ventures to identify possible synergistic opportunities for portfolio companies.
    Before joining SAP, Dean worked for Cisco Systems, where he had a number of roles. His last job at Cisco was in the Emerging Technology Group, where he was a leader in the Startup Incubator, which was a group of resources dedicated to helping new businesses scale & grow at Cisco.
    Before Cisco, Dean was a management consultant with companies such as Deloitte Consulting, Ernst & Young and Kurt Salmon Associates.
    Dean holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton Graduate School of Business.

  • Speaker : Gyoung Ho Kim DSM New Business Development

    Gyoung-Ho K. Kim (1970) is a thinker for the society and a doer for the people, currently working for DSM at Global Business Incubator within DSM Innovation Center.
    Gyoung-Ho joined DSM in 2007 after earning his MBA degree from the Rotterdam School of Management of the Erasmus University in the Netherlands. He has been an essential part of DSM’s innovation and successes in enabling its “Bright Sciences to create Brighter Living for people today and for generations to come.” His contribution has been highly appreciated both in the business innovation projects - polyamide downstream business, high performance composite materials - and in the climate change induced innovation projects –advanced biofuels, bio-based chemicals, renewable energies, specialty proteins of the future, lightweight intermodal containers, plant nutrition & health, just to name a few.
    Gyoung-Ho is a certified professional in management accounting and project management, having academic backgrounds in engineering and finance, but his interests go beyond to the intercultural communication and the international investments and human rights. He always likes to find a Black Swan at the interface between innovation and socioeconomic complexity.

  • Speaker : Flemming K. Fink Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation(CEI) Director
    Aarhus University

    Since 2008 F.K.Fink (MScE) has managed CEI with focus on entrepreneurship teaching, student incubator and facilitation of knowledge cooperation between SME’s and university researchers. CEI assists with entrepreneurship and knowledge cooperation across all professional areas.
    Before that F. K. Fink was Director of Studies for the engineering programmes in Electronics and IT from 1993 to 2005 at Aalborg University. He established Centre for Continuing Professional Development - CPD-Aalborg - in 2001, offering professional development in all areas of engineering and technology. He also served as Director for UNESCO Centre for Problem Based Learning (UCPBL) in the start-up process from 2002 to 2004 at Aalborg University.
    Fink has published more than 50 papers in journals, conference proceedings and books on Problem Based Learning, University – Industry co-operation and Continuing Professional Development. Fink has taken initiative to several national and international co-operative projects - mainly on development of new methods for Continuing Engineering Education. He has been involved in national and international boards such as SEFI's Working Group on Continuing Engineering Education, and as President of International Association on Continuing Engineering Education (IACEE) for the term 2008 - 2010.

  • Speaker : Claus Kjeldsen Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies(CIFS) CEO

    Claus Kjeldsen is the CEO of the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, CIFS is an independent not-for profit think tank. The objective of the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies is to strengthen the basis for decision-making in public and private organizations by creating awareness of the future and highlighting its importance to the present. CIFS has a multi-disciplinary approach to futures studies taking into account social science, behavioral science, technology, Economy, etc. Through the last 45 years CIFS has been advising private and public institutions in more than 50 countries, helping them to adapt to the future, take advantage of the opportunities change are creating.
    Claus Kjeldsen is an internationally known key note speaker giving presentations on various topics related to futures studies in a strategic perspective. Claus is also working with international and global companies on larger strategic projects using futures studies to strengthening strategy, Innovation and business development.

  • Special Lecturer : Xiao Zhen Wang Anchu CEO

    Hangzhou Anzhou E-commerce has promoted farming-on-demand via an industrial chain model composed of an e-commerce platform, delivery centers, and base stations (joint ventures and farms), grafting e-commerce to the agricultural sector and distributing C2B marketing models. The company has provided fresh and high-quality farm products through standardized production systems, specialized distribution systems, and data-based route management, offering information on farming-related firms and agricultural e-commerce. Under the management philosophy of health promotion via ecological agriculture and with the spirit of producing quality products and promoting the attitude of sharing, it has sold top-quality products, recommending exemplary companies and facilitating a higher-quality of life.
    Before establishing the company, Wang Xiaozhen worked for Shanghai MYLIN, the Investment Inducement Team of the Tonglu Xian Economic Development Zone Management Committee, the STO.Express Project Team, and Zhejiang China Travel Agency. He served as General Manager of Zhejiang China Travel Agency (Tonglu Branch Sales Team) and Tonglu & Jing’an Auto Sales Service Co., Ltd. Wang Xiaozhen, the current CEO of Hangzhou Anzhou E-commerce, has always been positive, independent, and optimistic, overcoming his limitations to realize his ideal and continuously donating his possessions to society. His life motto is “maintain a strong commitment and act flexibly”.

  • Speaker : Yasuhiro Ito ITO PRECISION CO.,LTD. CEO

    He is CEO and President of ITO PRECISION CO.,LTD. and was born in 1966.
    ITO PRECISION has supplied precisely cut and processed parts and assembly units to auto companies and communications device manufacturers. It has also developed and provided product carriers to firms in diverse manufacturing industries including automakers. Its products have been widely used not only in Japan but also in China, Vietnam, and Mexico.
    Before joining ITO PRECISION, he worked for seven years at NEC Group as an FA system engineer. He engaged in setting up systems for NEC’s cellular phone production lines, Panasonic’s logistics centers, and large insurers’ computer centers
    In 1997, he joined ITO PRECISION which his father founded. Since 2003, he has acted as CEO and President of the company.

  • Speaker : Takeshi Osugi Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation Senior Manager
    in Kobe

    Takeshi Osugi, Ph.D. is a member of Pro-Cluster Kobe in FBRI. The Pro-Cluster Kobe is promoting the bio-cluster formation for Life Science to support the enterprises in Kobe. FBRI is leading the international cooperation with foreign clusters. For example, FBRI is collaborating with FlandersBio (BELGIUM), Medicon Valley Alliance (DENMARK & SWEDEN), China Medical City (CHINA) and Life Science Nord (GERMANY) to promote the technical collaboration and business matching between the clusters and Kobe cluster. FBRI is also encouraging the foreign enterprises to establish offices and research facilities in Kobe area.
    After finishing his doctor course in Osaka University, Takeshi Osugi worked in the Dept. Pharmacology, medical school in the University as an assistant professor and Lecturer for 10 years. In 1995 he joined a German Pharmaceutical company, Boehringer Ingelheim, as a principal investigator and Manager in the Kobe Pharma Research Institute and Dept. Legal (Intellectual Property) for 20 years. Currently Takeshi Osugi is active in the roles of supporting the enterprises in Kobe, promoting the collaboration with foreign clusters and managing the Intellectual property in FBRI to promote the further development of Kobe Biomedical Innovation Cluster.

  • Speaker : Jenny Kang Symantec Director of Globalization

    Jenny Kang is Director of Globalization at Symantec. Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help customers – from consumers and small businesses to the largest global organizations. Symantec's unique focus is to eliminate risks to information, technology and processes independent of the device, platform, interaction or location. For the past 9 years at Symantec, Jenny Kang has been responsible for various functions - from program management, engineering, operations, research to Globalization leader who enables and oversees the global readiness and businesses of security and storage offerings. Jenny reports to VP of Product Development Excellence organization that spearheads the efforts of improving quality, efficiency and customer satisfaction for the company thru Agile and innovation.
    Prior to joining Symantec, Jenny Kang worked at Sun Microsystems, Walt Disney also as a freelancer. Jenny is an active member of Silicon Valley Globalization Leaders Forum, and invited as a guest speaker at various events organized by Localization World, KOTRA, Symantec cutting edge technology conferences.

  • Speaker : Perry Ha Draper Athena Founder and Managing Director

    Perry Ha is the founder and Managing Director of Draper Athena, a leading venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley and Seoul. He has been an active venture investor since 1997; and has invested and served on the board of many successful companies including iPivot (acq by Intel), Demandtec (IPO then acq by IBM), Imparto Software (acq by PKS), ProfitLogic (acq by Oracle), and Zantaz (acq by Autonomy). He also served as interim CEO in several companies.
    Prior to venture capital, he was a management consultant at Gemini Consulting and advised Fortune 1000 clients manage technology portfolios and develop new products. Prior to that, he managed an R&D Group at Amicon, a life sciences device company, which was successfully sold to Milipore in 1994. He was granted two design patents during his tenure at Amicon.
    He serves on the board of Korean American Society of Entrepreneurs (KASE), on the Visiting Committee at MIT, and on the Leadership Board of MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research. He earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

  • Speaker : Helder Antunes Cisco Senior Director

    Helder Antunes is a Senior Director, Corporate Technology Group at Cisco. Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in IT that helps companies seize the opportunities of tomorrow by proving that amazing things can happen when you connect the previously unconnected.
    As a member of Cisco’s Chief Technology & Strategy Office, Antunes is charged with aligning technology development and corporate strategy to enable Cisco to anticipate, shape, and lead major market transitions. He helps direct technology and operational innovation across the company and oversees strategic partnerships, mergers and acquisitions and incubation of new technologies.
    Before joining the Cisco, Antunes worked in various Silicon Valley startups. As a leader, he has earned a reputation for exceeding expected results through relentless and methodical execution and building exceptional teams to identify solutions that address complex global challenges. Outside of Cisco, Antunes is also a General Partner at Pereira Ventures and a counselor to the Regional Government of the Azores, Portugal. Antunes has received many awards for his work at Cisco and with the Portuguese government and is a much sought after speaker in various innovation, IoT and Security related topics.

  • Speaker : Vikas Krishana CA technologies VP, Mobile Application

    As VP of Products, in the area of Enterprise Mobility Management & IT Management, Vikas is responsible for the strategy, design, development, and delivery of mobility products at CA Technologies where he has worked since August 2013.
    Prior to CA Technologies, Vikas directed R&D at Ricoh, a $25B Japanese company with an innovation hub in Silicon Valley and later served as its Chief Software Architect leading a large software initiative that brought together many Ricoh and multi-brand products towards higher value services, while providing software strategy and technology guidance to Ricoh teams in the US, Japan, and India.
    Prior to Ricoh, Vikas worked at IBM’s prestigious R&D labs in senior technical and management roles in the areas of net mining, B2B information exchange, intelligent content processing, and smart contact center technologies. There, he received a corporate award for driving a technology to an ‘IBM Outstanding Accomplishment’ with significant impact on IBM’s services business along with several ‘IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement’ and ‘IBM Outstanding Innovation Achievement’ awards.
    Vikas is a frequent speaker at key events such as Mobility USA, Super Mobility Week, CA World, Gigaom, TechTarget and CTO Forum. He has co-edited two books on Service Science and System Systems by Springer, which were rated among the top 25% in their category. He in an inventor on over 30 patents and an author of over 25 publications.
    Vikas holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology and two Masters degrees in Engineering from North America. In his spare time, Vikas follows the evolution of commercial aviation and is an avid tennis player.

  • Moderator : Jin Woo Jung MoneyToday Media Reporter

    Immediately after graduating from Sogang University in 2005, where he majored in Economics, Jeong Jin-woo joined Shinhan Bank and worked as a banker for two years. At the bank, he learned how capital markets function and got acquainted with financial matters and capital flows.
    He started working for Money Today as a reporter in 2007. By early in 2009, he covered construction and housing markets as a member of the real estate team. Witnessing the real estate market boom and collapse after the global financial crisis, he has studied Korea’s realty market.
    From 2009 to 2010, he conducted research on local and global financial markets at the Finance team, writing related articles. He has made reports on the soundness of the banking industry and the revitalization of financial markets. Discussing the future of the financial industry with key decision makers in capital markets, he has actively worked as a reporter specializing in economics.
    Since 2011, he has been a Korean government reporter, covering the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, the Ministry of Employment and Labor, the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, and the Korea Fair Trade Commission. Reporting on government policies, he has seen economic policies get crafted and scrapped and has monitored whether government policies are carried out reasonably.

  • Speaker : Jon Wolske Zappos Culture Evangelist

    Jon Wolske is the Culture Evangelist for Zappos Insights, a part of the Zappos Family of companies headquartered in Henderson, NV. Jon has over 5 years’ experience in the Zappos Family. As the Lead Culture Guide, Jon helped Zappos office tours grow to an average of over 1300 visitors each month. Jon speaks with a focus on culture and customer experiences and their importance in business today. Jon can tailor presentations to suit the needs of the group/industry he is addressing and strives to make each talk insightful and inspiring. Jon has presented at meetings and conferences for companies from around the world, including Humana, Bath & Body Works, Aetna, Merck, Samsung Electronics, Eli Lilly, State Farm and gave his first TED talk at TEDxLoyolaMarymountU this year! Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW5BGsmpYXo

  • Speaker : Hans Cremer ABN AMRO Innovation Center Program Director

    Hans Cremer (1966) is Program Director Innovation ABN AMRO Bank, working on radical innovations in the financial sector in the past seven years together with Prof. Dr. P.L. Iske. Last year Hans received the International Project Management Excellence Award for the build up Innovation Portfolio and his ‘best practice’ methodology developed. He is currently leading the UETP Program, creating the Economic Internet to facilitate seemless economic transactions, which is initiated by ABN AMRO and the Ministry of Economic Affairs in the Netherlands. The UETP program is set up as a FOCAFET Foundation initiative, engaging the Global Financial Sector, towards the Next Generation Bank.
    Having a strong background in the Financial Industry, Hans Cremer has set up multiple ventures supporting the Financial Sector with new innovative value propositions. An example is the joint venture between APG (largest pension provider in the world) and ABN AMRO, to provide a radical new pension offering. Before that Hans received the Global Procurement Award for enhancing the Banks efficiency ratio, by setting up a new Global Procurement Practice with strategic suppliers.Hans is international certified Program Director (IPMA- level A).

  • Speaker : Georg Vielmetter Hay Group GmbH, Europe Regional Director
    Author of <2030 leadership>

    Georg Vielmetter, Ph.D., is the regional director, Europe, for the Hay Group’s leadership and talent practice. Hay Group is a global management consulting firm that works with leaders to transform strategy into reality. Hay Group develops talent, organizes people to be more effective and motivates them to perform at their best.
    Georg works with top executives and top teams on leadership transformation aimed at improving organizational and human capital. He also acts as a business coach to CEOs and senior executives.Prior to his current role, Georg was general manager for Hay Group in Scandinavia.Before moving to consulting, Georg hold different academic posts in Germany and the USA. He is an alumnus of the German National Academic Foundation, and a member of the German Philosophical Society and the German Sociological Association. His new book (co-authored with Yvonne Sell) on the future of leadership, Leadership 2030, was published in 2014 by Amacom Books, a division of the American Management Association.Georg is a regular keynote speaker at international conferences and management meetings. You can reach him at georg.vielmetter@haygroup.com, connect with Georg on Linked In and follow him on twitter @GVielmetter.

  • Moderator / Speaker : Richard B.Dasher US-Asia Technology Management Center Director
    Stanford University Professor

    At Stanford, Dr. Richard Dasher has been Director of the US-Asia Technology Management Center since 1994 and Executive Director of the Center for Integrated Systems since 1998. He holds Consulting Professor positions in Electrical Engineering and East Asian Studies, conducting research and teaching about entrepreneurial innovation, regional innovation systems, and the impact of new technologies on industry dynamics, with focus on U.S. and Japan/Asia institutions. Dr. Dasher serves on review boards and advisory councils of major science and technology funding programs and institutes in Canada, Japan, and Thailand. He is an advisor to start-up companies, business accelerators, venture capital firms, and nonprofit organizations in the U.S., China, Japan, and S. Korea. Dr. Dasher served as a Board Director and member of the Management Council of Tohoku University from 2004 - 2010. He received M.A. (1980) and Ph.D. (1995) degrees in Linguistics from Stanford University. From 1986 – 90, he directed the U.S. State Department’s Advanced Language and Area Training Centers in Japan and Korea that provide full-time language and area curricula to U.S. and Commonwealth country diplomats. From 1990 – 93, he was a board director of two small Japanese companies in Tokyo.