Changing Perceptions and Empowering Future Leaders at the 2018 Women in Leadership Forum -“Driving Change through Social Innovation”

2018 Women in Leadership forum will shed light on governmental relations, investment and technology as well as social enterprises through creative topics and angles on Nov. 28th, 2018!

Despite concerns of the sell-off in emerging markets stocks, China’s slowing growth and the US-China trade war, Silicon Valley’s most notable investors stayed bullish on investment opportunities. On August 31, Cheung Kong Graduates School of Business’s Chuang Community hosted Helen Liang, Managing Partner of FoundersX Capital, Ram Parameswaran, Partner of Altimeter Capital, and Luis Guilherme Ronchel Soares, Founding Partner of Nucleo Capital spoke of the future on investment trends at a talk titled, “China, US, India, Brazil: Global Outlook for Investment Trends and Opportunities” in Beijing.

US-China Business Council (USCBC) President John Frisbie will share viewpoints from Washington, USCBC advocacy priorities and perspectives on the trajectory for US-China commercial relations under the Trump Administration, before engaging in a dialogue with Prof Liu Jing, finance professor at CKGSB, and a Q&A session with the audience.

Now in its ninth year, this high-level forum will showcase speakers from across government, academia and the private sector and will host sessions on fintech, AI & blockchain, retail and entrepreneurship. CKGSB’s Founding Dean Xiang Bing, Professors Liu Jing and Zhang Weining and Assistant Dean Ji Bo will each deliver keynote speeches.

CKGSB and Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) are again collaborating to host the 2nd Annual Global Symposium — A New Business Civilization — in Beijing, following on from last year’s inaugural symposium held at Harvard at which more than 150 top business leaders attended.

CKGSB Associate Dean Liu Jing said China still remains a ‘Blue Ocean’ in Asia, as it has plenty of long-term growth potential by promoting domestic consumption and encouraging innovation within the business community, at an international forum hosted by Korea’s largest media group Chosun Media Group.

VIPKID, CKGSB MBA alumna Cindy Mi’s start-up that aims to help children in China to learn English through teachers in North America, has been backed by Bryant Stibel, which was cofounded by Kobe Bryant & Jeff Stibel. This marks Bryant Stibel’s first ever investment in education, as well as the firm’s second investment in China.

Close to 600 senior participants and media attended the CKGSB-HKS 2nd Annual Global Symposium — A New Business Civilization — following on from last year’s inaugural symposium held at Harvard, itself a product of a five-year collaboration between the two schools. Nine academics from universities such as CKGSB, Harvard and Oxford joined more than a dozen speakers from the business community to shed light on sustainable entrepreneurship.

Liu Jian, the Consul General for the People’s Republic of China in Los Angeles, and CKGSB Dean Xiang Bing were among those in attendance at the launch ceremony of CKGSB’s US West Coast Alumni Association, which also included an Innovation Forum.

The recent annual gathering of China’s two parliamentary bodies, known as ‘Lianghui’, recently concluded in the capital, with topics including the economy, Internet Plus and access to education all being discussed. CKGSB professors share their views on some of the hottest topics.