Monday, October 31st
9:00am -9:10am
Opening Remarks by TechCrunch
9:10am – 9:40am
Fireside chat with Pony Ma (Tencent), with Sarah Lacy
9:40am – 10:10am
Fireside chat with Peter Vesterbacka (Rovio), with John Biggs
10:10am – 10:40am
Why Silicon Valley Needs China To Survive: Hosain Rahman (Jawbone), with Sarah Lacy
10:40am – 11:00am
BREAK
11:00am – 11:40am
Fireside chat with Kai-Fu Lee (Innovation Works), with Sarah Lacy
11:40am – 12:10pm
Android Fever: Why China Is Betting So Heavily on Android: Wang Hua (Innovation Works), John Lagerling (Google), David Chao (DCM), with Greg Kumparak
12:10pm – 12:40pm
Founder Stories with Steve Chen (YouTube), with Sarah Lacy
12:40pm – 1:50pm
LUNCH
1:50pm – 2:20pm
Fireside chat with Niklas Zennström (Atomico, Co-founder of Skype), with Sarah Lacy
Startup Battlefield with Richard Robinson
2:20pm – 3:20pm
Session One
Judges:
John Lagerling (Google)
Rocky Lee (Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP)
Wallace Pai (Motorola Mobility)
Hans Tung (Qiming Ventures)
3:20pm – 3:30pm
BREAK
3:30pm – 4:30pm
Session Two with Duncan Clark (DBA)
Judges:
Robin Chan (GX Groupe)
Elton Jiang (NLVC)
Derek Ling (Tianji.com)
Benjamin Joffe (+8*)
4:30pm – 4:45pm
BREAK
4:45pm – 5:45pm
Session Three with Duncan Clark (DBA)
Judges:
Chris Evdemon (Innovations Works)
Sebastian Kübler (Taishan Angel Fund)
Matthew Prince (CloudFlare)
Si Shen (Papaya Mobile)
Tuesday, November 1st
7:30am – 8:30am
Investor / Startup breakfast — by invitation only. Co-hosted by NLVC
9:00am – 9:10am
Opening Remarks by TechCrunch
9:10am – 9:40am
Fireside chat with Lei Jun (Angel Investor, Co-founder of Xiaomi), with Sarah Lacy
9:40am – 9:50am
Xiaomi Demo
9:50am – 10:15am
Founder Stories with Kevin Systrom (Instagram), with Gang Lu (Editor of TechNode.com)
10:15am – 10:40am
Attack of the Clones: How Some of the Largest Group Buying Companies are Killing Groupon in China: Yinan Du (24quan), and Xing Wang (Meituan), with Bill Bishop
10:40am – 11:00am
BREAK
11:00am – 11:30am
Ecommerce Panel: Ecommerce Finally Takes Off In China, Lu Dong (La Miu), Ye Haifeng (Mbaobao), Fangfang Wu (Greenbox), with Bill Bishop (Digicha)
11:30am – 12:00pm
Why do Westerners Always Fail in China? With Fritz Demopolous (Qunar.com) and Sarah Lacy
Startup Battlefield with Richard Robinson
12:00pm – 1:15pm
Final Session
Judges:
Peter Fang (Innovation Works)
Steve Ji (Sequoia Capital)
Hurst Lin (DCM)
Hugo Shong (Accel-IDG)
Greg Tseng (Tagged)
1:15pm – 2:30pm
LUNCH
1:45pm – 2:30pm
Lunch-time Startup Marketing Roundtable; experts provide tips for best marketing practices
Hosted by Ogilvy & Mather
2:30pm – 3:00pm
Building the Anti-Zynga: Founder Stories with Phil Libin (Evernote), with Sarah Lacy
3:00pm – 3:30pm
Is the IPO Party Over? The Future of Returns In China: Steve Ji (Sequoia Capital), Rocky Lee (Cadwalader), Hugo Shong (Accel – IDG), Hans Tung (Qiming Ventures), with Sarah Lacy
3:30pm – 3:45pm
BREAK
3:45pm – 4:15pm
Founder Stories with David Li (YY.com) and John Biggs
4:15pm – 4:45pm
ShoeDazzle: Where Chinese Manufacturing Meets Kim Kardashian: Brian Lee (ShoeDazzle), with Sarah Lacy
4:45pm – 5:15pm
Internet Memes and How Everyone is Ruining Content with Ben Huh (Cheezburger)
5:15pm – 5:45pm
Closing Awards Ceremony
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SPEAKERS
Speakers will be announced soon on a rolling basis.