SEEKING CAPITAL & EXPOSURE? INVESTING INTO SCALABLE STARTUPS?

Intimate and Deep Dive Event in Hong Kong!

If you are planning to launch a startup, this is a great event for you. Taste the secret sauce; hear other founders failures and successes! Get inside the heads of investors and find out how they judge! A gathering of Silicon Valley and Hong Kong founders and investors in this intimate and unconventional conference! The premier venue to connect with innovators, investors, and peers to catalyze entrepreneurship.

Don't have the time to go to Stanford?! We brought Dr. Sohila Zadran to Hong Kong. Dr. Zadran teaches AI and deep learning at Stanford University! She not only obtained her Ph.D at the age of 23 but by age 30, she's already a 4 times serial entrepreneur and has successfully sold two of her startups!

You hear about Design Thinking but how to apply it? Asiamiles' CEO, Stephen S.Y.Wong, will share his insights into Design Thinking and how as a startup, you can also leverage on this methodology to understand users needs!

SC Moatti, bestselling author and founder of Products That Count, the world largest platform for product managers, will share her prior experience in Nokia and Facebook on how to unlock new sources of growth!

And some of our many top-notch speakers also include:

• Hendrick Sin, Co-Founder and Vice-Chairman, CMGE Group

• Sammy Hsieh, Co-Founder and CEO, iClick Interactive (listed on NASDAQ)

• Lap Man, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Beyond Ventures, CEO of DYXnet Group

• Dr. Samantha Du, Founder and CEO of Zai Lab (listed on NASDAQ) and Managing Partner of Quan Venture Fund

• Bonnie Cheung, Partner, 500 Startups

• Alan Chiu, Partner, XSeed Capital, and Co-President of Stanford Angel & Entrepreneurs

• Dr. Sri Iyengar, Founder and CEO of Elemental Machines, previously co-founder of Misfit Wearables

• Danny Yeung, Co-Founder and CEO of Prenetics

• Patrick Guerra, Co-Founder, Encore Venture Accelerator

• Dr. Hobert Wai, Partner, Black Tiger Capital

• Patrick Ip, Managing Director, China-ASEAN Fund

• Brandon Ng, Founder & CEO, AMPD, Forbes 30 under 30

• Raymond Yip, Co-Founder & CEO, Clickful

And many more...visit our website to learn more: https://the-jade.org

CONFERENCE AGENDA:

How to achieve Product-Market Fit?

•Learn from Sammy Hsieh, Co-Founder & CEO of iClick Interactive on how he built his Hong Kong startup from scratch and devise a product market fit strategy for China market

•Listen to SC Moatti, Founder of Products That Count, the largest platform in the world for product managers and best selling author on Unlocking New Sources of Growth with Product-Market Fit strategy

•Interact with Alan Chiu, Partner of XSeed Capital, Co-founder of Listo Financial, and co-President at Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs

Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning Application

•Hear Dr. Sohila Zadran, a lecturer at Stanford on AI and Deep Learning, get her latest insights

•Hear from Tak Lo, Co-founder and Partner at Zeroth.AI, the only AI incubator in Hong Kong!

Agile Development, SCRUM, Lean Startup Methodology? Which one is best for me?

•Have you watched the HBO Silicon Valley series in which SCRUM has made them go faster? Watch this short excerpt: https://youtu.be/oyVksFviJVE

•Dr. Hobert Wai, Partner at Black Tiger Capital, will share with you how to use agile to create better products in less time in biotech and beyond

•Patrick Guerra, former senior executive at HP and AMD, now co-founder of Encore Venture Accelerator, will share lean startup methodology

How do you apply Design Thinking to drive innovation and growth?

•Empower others in your company with design thinking to drive innovation. Stephen S.Y. Wong, Asiamiles CEO, will talk about design thinking in action

Founders’ Stories (un-conference style)

•Nothing is better than real life stories! We bring many to you!

•Hendrick Sin, Co-founder & Vice-Chairman of CMGE Group, will share with you his quest to build CMGE into the largest publisher of mobile games in China!

•And Danny Yeung, Brandon Ng, Raymond Yip, on why they have launched their startups in Hong Kong and many more…

Meet the Investors and Founders (un-conference style)

•How to spot the billion dollar startup? What does it take to raise beyond Seed and Series A?

•Lap Man, Dr. Samantha Du, Bonnie Cheung, Wendy Kok, Alex Cheng, Tak Lo will share their insights!