An Invitation for a 3 day Tour to Beijing Zhongguancun Science Park (Dec. 23~25, 2007)
Agenda in Chinese
Application Form in Chinese
Who Should Participate?
Those professionals who were originated from mainland China and then educated in abroad, now think about doing business in Beijing, or even just want to take a look at today’s Beijing Zhongguancun Science Park…
When and Where and What?
- December 23d to 25th, 2007
- Staying at Beijing Ziyu Hotel (www.ziyuhotel.cn)
- Touring the Park, universities and incubators, meeting with entrepreneurs and officers, learning about how to start up business there, and networking, dinning and winning…(See attached daily Agenda for details)
What Zhongguancun Will Provide?
- Free hotel room (double occupancy) for 3 nights (May 23d through 25th)
- 8 meals during the event days
- Bus transportation for the event activities
What Do You Need to Do?
- Fill in the attached Personal Information Form and send it back to me by email
- Make your own traveling plan and purchase air ticket
- Finally, you just show up there at Beijing Ziyu Hotel to check-in later afternoon Sunday of December 23d, 2007 and you will be all set…
(Ziyu Hotel is a 4 star hotel, located at 55 Zengguang Road, Tel: 6841-1188. It is close to HuaYuan Qiao.)
We also welcome those professionals who have already returned to China some time ago, and those who will happen to be there in China for whatever reasons at the time of our event to participate.
Your spread- word for this Event will be appreciated.
Any questions? Just contact:
Frank Tan
CEO, Zhongguancun Science Park’s Silicon Valley Office
Tel: 408 406 3118
Send your Form to: ftan@zgc-usa.com
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Date: Tuesday, Oct 30, 2007
Time/Agenda:
6:30-7:15 PM Registration and cocktail reception/mix.
7:15 PM-8:45 PM Keynote speech by Frank Liu – CEO of Zhangjiang Co., followed by Q/A.
Venue: Santa Clara Convention Center, Great America 1
Address: 5001 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054
Map: Google Map
Cost: Free
RSVP: Seats are limited. (Online RSVP Closed)
Event:
Shanghai Zhangjiang (Group) Co., formerly known as Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park Development Co., has been responsible for the development of Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park since Jan. 2003. Located in the middle of Pudong Area, the Park comprises of a variety of development areas including Technical Innovation Zone, Hi-Tech Industry Zone, Scientific Research and Education Zone, and Residential Zone. With 15 years of development, Zhangjiang (Group) Co. has become a leading Hi-tech Park in China.
A team of executive management led by CEO Frank Liu of Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park will be visiting the Bay Area and would like to meet with old and new friends in Silicon Valley who are interested in Zhangjiang. They will share with us the past successes and give insights to the new business opportunities, new developments, and future directions of the Park.
Highlights of the one-hour presentation include:
·Successful Stories
·Business Model and Development Plan
·Benefits and Opportunities
·Future Direction
NACSA invites its members and other professionals who are interested in employment, investment, and entrepreneurship in Shanghai Zhangjiang Park to join us for this exciting event. To learn more about NACSA and this event, please refer to our website: www.nacsa.com.
Speaker’s Bio:
Mr. Frank Liu, CEO, Shanghai Zhangjiang (Group) Co., Ltd.
Mr. Frank Liu has been CEO of Shanghai Zhangjiang (Group) Co., Ltd. since Oct. 2005. He brings 17 years of industry and Hi-Tech Park development experience in Pudong new area and plays a key role in Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park’s recent success. Besides as CEO of Zhangjiang Group, Frank Liu is now also a deputy director of Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Zone committee, Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park Administrative committee.
About NACSA:
Founded in 1996 by a group of semiconductor professionals in the Silicon Valley, North America Chinese Semiconductor Association (NACSA) is a professional organization dedicated to the advancement of exchange and collaboration among Chinese professionals in semiconductor and related high-tech industries.
Riding the tide of globalization, the community of Chinese engineers and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and China has enjoyed a tremendous growth in recent years. Through event hosting, networking, and information sharing, NACSA has been instrumental in helping build a vibrant high-tech professional community serving the needs of these professionals. With over 4,000 members, NACSA is currently one of the largest and most active Chinese professional organizations in the US. NACSA members come from diverse fields in semiconductor and other high-tech related industries, including makers of optional devices, semiconductor chips, and PCs; system manufacturers; equipment manufacturers; design house; software; etc.
Committed to sharing information and resources and serving as a bridge between the US and China high-tech communities, NACSA’s mission is to strengthen networking among professionals, foster entrepreneurship in ethnic Chinese, and promote the exchange in the semiconductor and related high-tech industries. At NACSA, we believe in learning by doing and contributing before receiving.
Past NACSA seminar speakers include prominent CEOs, senior executives, and entrepreneurs from such well-known companies as Intel, Applied Materials, Cadence, MIPS Technology, Spreadtrum, UMC, TSMC, Go2Silicon, ViMicro, Broadcom Inc., Cypress Semiconductor, Keysi International, SH Zhangjiang, HK Science & Technology Parks, Goldman Sachs, and many others. NACSA seminars are well received and well attended with an average audience size of 300. Besides seminars and discussion forums, NACSA also hosts Spring/Summer picnic and forms special task teams. Each year, NACSA organizes delegations to China and hosts meetings with visiting high-tech delegations from China.
Please refer to our website for more information: www.nacsa.com.
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( 3 / 355 )SCEA Annual Meeting October 20, 2007 : Globalization, Innovation, & Entrepreneurship
硅谷中国工程师协会(SCEA) 第十八周年年会隆重登场: 全球化 创新 创业
Website: http://www.scea.org/events/AM2007 /
Location: Santa Clara Convention Center , 5001 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara
When: from Sat Oct 20, 2007 3:00 pm to Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:00 pm
* Learn globalization from technology industry leaders
* Update your knowledge on new technology an business trends
* Get first hand information from the world most prestige venture on its new investment philosophy
* Share your business ideas with your peers, friends and future investors
* Network for your business and social connections
* Enjoy food, music and friendship
Online Registration Deadline: October 19, 2007
Day Program
2:00-3:00 pm Registration, networking
3:00-3:15 pm Conference Agenda introductions, Greeting from Honorable
3:15-3:50 pm Afternoon Keynote Speaker Warren Packard (Globalization as VC)
3:50-4:40 pm Panel Discussion: Web Today and Tomorrow
* Paul McNamara: CEO at Coghead
* Ismael Ghalimi: Chief Executive Officer at Intalio
* Sridhar Vembu: CEO at AdventNet/ZOHO
* Etay Gafni: Sr. Director, User Experiences and Web2.0, SAP
* Andy Lee: Venture Capitalist, Startup founder)
4:40-5:00 pm Global and China IPO (Jim Chapman)
Break
5:10-6:00 pm Panel Discussion on Entrepreneurship (Moderator: Fred Greguras)
* Richard Lim: Mayfield Managing Director
* Tom Buckholtz: Ex-CIO US Gov.
* Patrick Houghton
* George Wu: CMO of hiSoft.
* Soo Boon Koh: Founder and Managing partner of iGlobe Partners
Evening Program
1) 6:10 - 7:00 pm SCEA Annual Distinguished Speaker: Michael Moe, Thinkequity CEO.
Theather Topic: "How to find the next Google?"
2) 7:00-8:30 pm Dinner Reception and Awards (SCEA Business Plan Winners)
Dinner Venue: Great American Room
3) 8:40-10:00pm Art, Entertainment/ Performance (choir/dancing/ music band)
Keynote Speakers:
Michael Moe, CFA, Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, ThinkEquity Partners LLC
Michael Moe is a founding partner of ThinkEquity Partners LLC and was formerly Director of Global Growth Stock Research and a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch in 1998, Michael was a Senior Managing Director and Director of Growth Stock Strategy at Montgomery Securities. Michael has been named to Institutional Investor's "All American" research team and has been awarded "Best on the Street" by The Wall Street Journal. He has also testified in front of the U.S. Congress on the subjects of education technology, the new economy and initial public offerings, and he has also appeared before the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee. Michael is frequently cited in publications such as The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times for his opinions on growth companies. Michael also appears regularly on financial programs on CNBC and CNN and is a contributor to the AlwaysOn Network - a blog site about new media technology and venture capital news. Michael earned his BA in Political Science and Economics at the University of Minnesota. He is a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts, a member of the San Francisco Analyst Society and is a past advisor for the Center for Innovation. In 2007 he published his first book, Finding The Next Starbucks: How to Identify and Invest in the Hot Stocks of Tomorrow.
For more information click on http://www.thinkequity.com/about/management.html
Warren J. Packard, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Warren Packard is a Managing Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He currently serves on the Boards of Anagran, BinOptics, CastTV, EoPlex, Imago Scientific Instruments, Media Lario, and Ooma. Mr. Packard also leads the firm's investments in CallGate, Jaxtr, Microfabrica, Primet Precision Materials, TicketsNow, and YeePay. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Packard co-founded Angara Database Systems, a main memory relational database company, which was acquired by Personify. Prior to co-founding Angara, he was an Associate at Institutional Venture Partners, investing in early-stage technology companies. Before IVP, Mr. Packard was a Senior Principal Engineer in the Advanced Product Development Group at Baxter International. Mr. Packard is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University and holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering: Smart Product Design. He received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. For more information click on http://www.dfj.com/team/warren_bio.shtml
For more information, contact us at info@scea.org
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( 3 / 589 )Weiming Forum
- Hosted by Peking University Alumni Association of Northern California (PKUAANC)
You are invited to Weiming Forum hosted by Peking University Alumni Association of Northern California (PKUAANC).
Time: 4:00pm to 6:00pm, Sunday Oct 14th, 2007
Location:
Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport
1333 Bayshore Highway, Burlingame, CA
Cost: $15 at the door
$10 pre-registration
$5 student
Registration: email to pkuaanc@yahoo.com
At this second annual Weiming Forum, PKUAANC invited Professor Yin Tian, a reknowned scholar and Professor from Peking University, to talk about the law he drafted -- Property Right Law. As you probably heard from various sources including "Economist", "New York Times" and "Los Angles Times" among others, the passage of this law marks a new era in China. Professor Yin will tell us everything you want to know about this law.
For more detailed information, please visit http://pkuaanc.selfip.com/jforum1/posts/list/177.page or http://www.nacsa.com/archives/files/all ... 142007.pdf
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( 3 / 564 )NACSA presents:
Clean-Tech Innovation and Entrepreneurship in China
Date: Wed, Oct 3, 2007
Time: 7:30PM (7:00 networking), Light snacks and drinks provided.
Venue: Hyatt Regency Santa Clara, Ballroom A
Address: 5101 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054
Google Map
Cost: $10 w/ RSVP
$20 at the door.
RSVP: Please RSVP online by 9/28
China’s tremendous growth is fueled by a commensurate appetite for energy. At the same time, the country is facing an enormous environmental challenge as it prepares to face the world during the 2008 Olympics. What is the solution that allows China to continue to grow without polluting the air and water? The answer is obvious – clean, renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, biomass.
China has become a major world player in renewable energy, in particular solar energy. (NACSA hosted an event focusing on the solar industry in China last October.) However, the growth has been primarily in manufacturing based on lower costs. What about China as an innovator for clean-tech? How do innovators in China stack up against the high-profile start-ups in the US or Europe? When will China become a major consumer of renewable energy instead of just a supplier? These are exciting questions for technologists and investors to follow.
As a part of a continuing series on solar and clean-tech, NACSA has invited a panel of outstanding speakers to offer different perspectives on answering these questions.
Entrepreneur Perspective – Dr. Zheng Xu, founder and CEO of Sierra Solar, an innovative thin-film startup, will share with us his insight and experiences as an entrepreneur and as an innovator both in the US and in China.
Presentation Handout
Investment Perspective – Mr. Richard Lim, Managing Director of GSR Ventures will high-light hot areas that investors are currently focused on and what investors look for when they evaluate an innovative start-up.
Presentation Handout
Legal Perspective – Mr. Paul Sieben, Corporate Counsel from O’Melveny will focus on the differences between startups in China versus their US counterparts and share experiences of how his firm has guided startups through the legal minefields.
Innovation Perspective – Prof. Peter Peumans, Stanford University will share with us some of the latest in research and innovation to improve efficiency and drive down costs.
NACSA invites its members and other professionals with interests in solar technology and entrepreneurship to join us for this exciting discussion. To learn more about NACSA and this event, please refer to our website: www.nacsa.com.
Speaker’s Bios:
Dr. Zheng Xu, CEO and Founder, Sierra Solar Power Inc.
Dr. Xu founded Sierra Solar Power Inc with a vision to make solar electricity more affordable through high volume automatic production and improved solar cell conversion efficiency.
Prior to Sierra Solar Power, Dr. Xu was an executive at Applied Materials, Inc. for 15 years. Most recently, he was corporate vice president and general manager of CPI products business group, a metal thin film products group in Applied Materials. In his role, Dr. Xu spearheaded the development, the market penetration, and the manufacturing cost reduction of leading edge thin film products such as Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD), atomic layer deposition (ALD) and Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD). By 2006, the CPI business group significantly improved product differentiation, market momentum, and business performance, and achieved > $1.2B revenue, with 73% market share in metal thin film market and >55% gross margin. Recently, Dr. Xu also initiated the new product development in Xi’an, China, built the team and infrastructure, and developed the first 300mm semiconductor equipment in China.
Dr. Xu joined Applied Materials in 1992 as a process engineer; he was a team member of an internal startup, the PVD products division. During his tenure, he advanced rapidly from technology manager, senior manager, director, managing director, general manager of metal CVD division, general manager of PVD division, and vice president.
Dr. Xu began his career at Toshiba Corporation as a thin film engineer after he received his Ph.D. in materials science from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He also owns a doctoral degree in electrical engineering from Osaka University in Japan. He received his B.S. in semiconductor devices from Zhejiang University in China. Author of numerous technical papers, Dr. Xu holds 69 US patents and 13 US patents pending.
Mr. Richard Lim, Managing Director, Mayfield China (GSR Ventures)
One of the founding Managing Directors of Mayfield China (GSR Ventures). Richard is an entrepreneur and focuses on early stage investments in the semiconductor and internet sectors. He is currently on the boards of Baihe, Mobert, Qunar, Sierra Solar, and UiTV. Richard was previously founding CEO of iMarket (acquired by Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE:DNB) and Co-nect (acquired by Pearson (NYSE:PSO)). He was also involved in founding Quickdot and was an executive at Lotus Development Corporation. Richard has an MBA from Stanford University.
Mayfield China/GSR Ventures is one of the most active early stage investors in the semiconductor industry in China. Investments include companies in consumer products (Mobert, PLM and SMIT), clean technology (LatticePower, Sierra Solar) and logistics (Quantum Radio)
Mr. Paul Sieben, Corporate Counsel, O’Melveny & Myers, LLP
Paul Sieben is a counsel in O’Melveny & Myers LLP’s Silicon Valley office and a member of the Firm’s Transactions Department and Corporate Practice. Paul specializes in corporate and securities law. He has extensive experience with various types of transactions, including representing issuers, investors and underwriters in mergers and acquisitions, spin-off and buyout transactions, venture capital financings, recapitalizations, public equity offerings and private debt offerings.
Paul also counsels both private and public technology and emerging growth companies with respect to securities law and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and other corporate governance matters, and he serves as a member of the Firm’s corporate governance committee. Paul further represents such entities on a variety of other matters, including formation, founders’ agreements, securities offerings, equity restructuring and buybacks and other general corporate matters. He also represents a large number of venture capital firms and investment banks in various securities and transactional matters.
He has served as lead counsel on more than 150 venture capital and private equity financings, over twenty-five merger and acquisition transactions ranging in size from $1 million to over $2 billion and a large number of recapitalizations, public offerings and other transactions.
Paul’s clients include companies in a wide range of technology markets. He has substantial experience with companies in the semiconductor, security, storage, electronic design automation and enterprise software markets, and has significant experience with investments in life science companies. Paul also has significant experience representing Cayman entities doing business in China.
Professor Peter Peumans, Stanford University
Peter Peumans obtained his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 2004 and is now an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering conducting research in renewable energy. He is an expert in organic and inorganic device modeling, fabrication and characterization. He has developed several efficient solar cell device architectures and has contributed to today's understanding of the mechanisms that play a role in organic solar cells. Peumans also contributed to the development of vapor phase deposition techniques that lend themselves to reel-to-reel processing of organic and organic/inorganic nanocomposite solar cells. Two of Dr. Peumans' publications are in the top-20 cited papers in the field of solar cells. He holds 10 patents and has 5 or more pending. He is a co- founder and the Chief Scientific Advisor of NetCrystal, a Silicon Valley startup focusing on low-cost microconcentrator solar cells using a technology developed by Peumans' group at Stanford. Dr. Peumans is also on the advisory board of Soltaix. Prof. Peumans is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award.
About NACSA:
Founded in 1996 by a group of semiconductor professionals in the Silicon Valley, North America Chinese Semiconductor Association (NACSA) is a professional organization dedicated to the advancement of exchange and collaboration among Chinese professionals in semiconductor and related high-tech industries.
Riding the tide of globalization, the community of Chinese engineers and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and China has enjoyed a tremendous growth in recent years. Through event hosting, networking, and information sharing, NACSA has been instrumental in helping build a vibrant high-tech professional community serving the needs of these professionals. With over 4,000 members, NACSA is currently one of the largest and most active Chinese professional organizations in the US. NACSA members come from diverse fields in semiconductor and other high-tech related industries, including makers of optional devices, semiconductor chips, and PCs; system manufacturers; equipment manufacturers; design house; software; etc.
Committed to sharing information and resources and serving as a bridge between the US and China high-tech communities, NACSA’s mission is to strengthen networking among professionals, foster entrepreneurship in ethnic Chinese, and promote the exchange in the semiconductor and related high-tech industries. At NACSA, we believe in learning by doing and contributing before receiving.
Past NACSA seminar speakers include prominent CEOs, senior executives, and entrepreneurs from such well-known companies as Intel, Applied Materials, Cadence, MIPS Technology, Spreadtrum, UMC, TSMC, Go2Silicon, ViMicro, Broadcom Inc., Cypress Semiconductor, Keysi International, SH Zhangjiang, HK Science & Technology Parks, Goldman Sachs, and many others. NACSA seminars are well received and well attended with an average audience size of 300. Besides seminars and discussion forums, NACSA also hosts Spring/Summer picnic and forms special task teams. Each year, NACSA organizes delegations to China and hosts meetings with visiting high-tech delegations from China.
Please refer to our website for more information: www.nacsa.com
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