Silicon Valley Tsinghua Network (SVTN) Professional Seminar Series (2)

China IT Industry - By a Tsinghua Alum and a Beida Professor

Announcement

Curious about how China’s IT industry is shaping up? Contemplating of the possibility of going back to China to explore the opportunities in its new IT Era. Come and join us for an in-depth talk from Dr Jian Cai, a Tsinghua alumni and returnee from Silicon Valley who is current on faculty of Peking University. Dr. Cai will share his insights and perspective on China’s IT industry.

Speaker: Jian Cai, Ph.D., Guanghua School of Management, Peking University

Time: August 1 (Sunday), 1:30pm - 3:30pm

1:30-2:00 registration and networking

2:00-3:30 speech and Q&A

Location: Fenwick & West LLP, 801 California St, Mountain View, CA 94041

               Direction: www.fenwick.com/fenwickfocus/1.5.1.asp#svc

Registration: Free and open to public, but there are limited seats available, please RSVP to tsinghua_net@yahoo.com to reserve your seat.

While the market economy flourishes at an unexpected speed, Chinese IT industry is undergoing a fundamental change. Chinese governments and companies have been very active in catching up the IT trends. Western companies and native companies are fighting fiercely to seizure the profits. At the center of technology development, the Chinese high-tech professionals in Silicon Valley could take the opportunities to make a great impact on Chinese new IT era. But there are pitfalls and obstacles to moving back to China. Our impressions of China could be far from the fact. The difficulties and complexity of running a high-tech business might be beyond expectation. As a returnee, Dr. Cai has taught MBAs in Peking University and consulted for several native companies and local governments. After moving back to China for a year, he will share his experiences and discoveries, and possibly bring us opportunities. (Note: the main speech will be delivered in Mandarin).

Speaker BIO

Dr. Jian Cai is an Assistant Professor in MIS and E-Business at the Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. Prior to joining Guanghua School of Management in the summer of 2003, he was a Member of Technical Staff at the Java Web Technology and Standards Group of Sun Microsystems. He worked on various projects including J2EE1.4, Tomcat Web Server, and Java Web Services Pack. He also served as Sun’s WS-I representative. From 2002 to 2003, he was selected to join the SEED program for training Sun’s future leaders. In 2002, he founded the CO-YES group in Silicon Valley and edited the “Silicon Valley Elite Science and Technology Series” published by Tsinghua University Press. The CO-YES group then founded “coolyes.com”, the first electronic knowledge transfer platform between Silicon Valley and China. His current research interests include information system development, knowledge management, E-business, and IT strategy. His research publications appear in top academic journals. He is serving as an expert group member of the “Chinese E-Business White Book” for Ministry of Commerce of PRC. He received his Ph.D. degree in Intelligent Design Systems from University of Southern California, and a Bachelor degree from Tsinghua University.