Wednesday, August 6, 2008

  Distinguished Author Series

Speaker:

Rebecca Fannin, Author, International Business Journalist

Topic:

SILICON DRAGON: How China is winning the tech race

 Presented in co-operation with the Women's Leadership Circle^®

China now has over 500 million cell phones and over 200 million Internet users.  In the past 10 years, companies started by Chinese entrepreneurs who studied and started careers in the U.S. have rapidly emerged as clones  of companies like Google, eBay, and Amazon.  More recently, a new class of entrepreneur and venture investor has emerged: purely Chinese trained.

Rebecca Fannin, author of SILICON DRAGON: How China is Winning the Tech Race, debuts her book based on inside stories on more than a dozen of China’s most successful entrepreneurs. 

Fannin has covered China as a financial journalist for 15 years and has covered global trends in business, innovation and entrepreneurship. Her new book reflects interviews and research over several years with the entrepreneurs and venture capital investors for high-tech new business ventures all over China, including Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba, Robin Li, founder of Baidu, Peggy Yu Yu, co-founder of Dangdang, and others. Find out who the new innovators in China are and how they will revolutionize the future of technology.

Exclusive Women’s Leadership Circle® Roundtable following the event. 
To participate, you must be a member of the Women’s Leadership Circle®, be registered for the event and RSVP to Nicole Charles at ncharles@boardoftrade.com by Friday, August 1, 2008.

Purchase SILICON DRAGON: How China is Winning the Tech Race on-line

Event#

090406

Date:

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Time:

Registration: 11:45 a.m.
Lunch & Program: 12:15 – 2:00 p.m.

Location:

Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Downtown – Ballroom
1133 West Hastings Street

Sponsors:

Presented in co-operation with the Women’s Leadership Circle^®

and The Hong Kong-Canada Business Association

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