Last year’s MIT Asia Business Conference drew over 500 attendees: professionals, faculty, MIT alumni and students, students from other universities, and more featuring prominent keynote speakers including the Chairman of A.T. Kearny Japan, the Co-CEO of Rocket Internet Asia Pacific, the Managing Executive Officer of Yamaha Motor. And it was covered by more than 40 medias such as CNBC, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Fortune Magazine China, and Nikkei Asian Review.
This year -"Decoding Business Landscape in Asia" - will further deep dive the latest challenges and trend in Asia around sustainability, finance, technology and entrepreneurship.
TECHNOLOGY KEYNOTE Mr. Alan Dowdell - Managing Director at Thermo Fisher Scientific, Former President at Corning Display Technologies China
TECHNOLOGY PANEL Mr. Albert Chang - Partner at McKinsey & Company Taipei Office Mr. James Chen - Senior Executive Officer at Rakuten Dr. Ruimin He - Head of Behavioral Insights and Strategy at Grabtaxi Mr. Amish Parashar – Venture Partner at Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory
FINANCE KEYNOTE Mr. Tong Cao - Chairman at Xiamen International Finance Technology Ltd., Former President at WeBank
FINANCE PANEL Mr. Alex Hao - Partner at Junhe Law Firm Mr. I-Cheng Liu - Senior Executive Vice President at CTBC Bank Corp. Mr. Takashi Oyagi - Chief Strategic Officer, Managing Director, Board of Director Member at Monex Group Mr. Jun Zhang, General Manager at China Construction Bank New York Branch
ENTREPRENEURSHIP KEYNOTE Mr. Anis Uzzaman - General Partner at Fenox Venture Capital
ENTREPRENEURSHIP PANEL Mr. Ryo Ishizuka - Co-founder & CEO at Mercari Mr. Chijin Liu - Chairman at The Pan-Pacific Group Mr. Imran Sayeed – Senior Lecturer, Entrepreneurship & Innovation at MIT Sloan School of Management Mr. Krating Poonpol – Venture Partner at 500 Startups
SUSTAINABILITY KEYNOTE Green Supply Chain: Dr. Enki Tan - Executive Chairman at Giti Tire Green Energy: Mr. Troels Beltoft - Founder & CEO at Beltoft & Company Smart City: Prof. Kent Larson - Principal Research Scientist at MIT Media Lab
