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SoCal Innovation Forum 2019
SoCal Innovation Forum(SIF) has aimed at boosting and celebrating Southern California entrepreneurial ecosystem as a cross-border platform between U.S. and China. As the most influential forum of its kind in Southern California, the 8th SoCal Innovation Forum continues inviting visionaries to share the most genius ideas to encourage innovations. Featuring a variety of themes in 2018 including Future Retail and Technology Innovations, SIF covers topics from 5G, Robotics,Emerging Biotech, D2C, content creation, and cross-border investments.
The whole day conference brings together 800 + entrepreneurs, investors, and professionals to share and learn fresh advanced perspectives. Come, mingle, and get inspired to forge the path you have yet to discover.
拨开迷雾，起航硅滩
南加创新论坛2019
在全球化高速前进的时代，国际的边际越来越模糊，俯瞰硅滩（南加州），它已发展为全球最大海外优秀创业华人的聚集地。普创立足硅滩，对接中美资源服务于南加创业社区。2019年，由普创主办的SIF(南加创新论坛)迎来了第8次峰会，本次论坛涵盖了新消费、新内容、新科技三大主题。此外，普创聚集了众多海外高端人才，中美投资机构，上百个优质创业团队，以及行业领军企业齐聚硅滩，为中美华人连接世界，探索2019最新前沿科技与投资机遇，开创跨境硅滩新时代。
Future Content
New Retail
Emerging Technology
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AGENDA
Morning Session
9:00am–9:30am
Guest check in
观众入场
9:30am–9:40am
Opening Remarks
大会开场致辞
9:40am- 10:00am
Speech - The innovations in Cloud Robotics by
Karl Zhao, VP of Engineering, CloudMinds
故事 - 云智能机器人的未来
10:00am-10:40am
Panel : How AI empowers creative content creation in NBA and more
Nikhil Jain, CEO, ObEN
Dahntay Jones, 2016 NBA Champions, Cleveland Cavaliers
Henry Shi, Managing Partner, the Bold Capital
主题对话 - 人工智能遇见NBA激发出新内容
10:40am-11:20am
Panel: Emerging Immunology Technology
Savan Devani, Founder, BioTrillion
Tony Chen, Founder, PrimeVax
主题对话 - 癌症免疫治疗的新风向以及中国市场前景
11:20am–11:50am
Speech : Tech Titans of China how China's tech innovators are getting ahead by
Rebecca A. Fannin, Founder, Silicon Dragon
主题演讲 - 福布斯专栏作家亲述中国科技巨头与资本如何引领未来
11:50am–12:10pm
Speech - How we grow from 0 to an influencial new media company?
Ien Chi, Creative Director, Jubilee Media
主题演讲 - 全网粉丝过千万的新媒体是如何起家的
12:10pm–1:30pm
Lunch Break 精致午餐休息
1:30pm–2:00pm
Fireside Chat - Consumer Brands : Content, Community, Commerce, which first?
ZiYouJun, Famous Himalaya Podcast Host
Jake Liu, Founder, Outer
对话 - 打开消费品市场的钥匙——中美社群经济与新零售品牌营销
2:00pm–2:30pm
Fireside Chat - Cross-Border Gaming I.P. featuring Creative Contents by
Michael Zhang, Founder & CEO, Firefly Games
William Chen, Founder, HayMaker Game; Vice GM, Tencent Games
对话 – 直击跨境游戏I.P.的诞生，传播及前沿
2:30pm-3:10pm
Panel: Future mobility & Delivery Robots
Phillip Weicker, CoFounder, Canoo
Xu Yan, Head of Battery & Power Management, PostmatesX
主题对话 - 未来出行的电动汽车与“最后一公里”
3:10pm–3:30pm
New Retail: Creative Content Creation & User Growth
演讲 – 内容创作与粉丝运营的一线报告
by ShuaiSoserious，Influencer，Youtube
SPEAKERS
Rebecca A. Fannin
Founder, Silicon Dragon
As journalist, author, and media entrepreneur, Rebecca founded Silicon Dragon and provided insights to strategize and profit in the world’s top innovation centers.
Rebecca 是Silicon Dragon这个三万全球创新精英社区的创始人，科技作者，媒体企业家，福布斯、CNBC、IBC长期签约作者。Silicon Dragon聚集了高管、投资人、创业者，Rebecca也曾与沈南鹏等知名投资人企业家一道，为国际顶尖科技创新带来新洞察。
Dahntay Jones
2016 NBA Champions
Cleveland Cavaliers
Dahntay is a professional basketball player, sports analyst, business man and philanthropist widely respected as one of the strongest defenders in NBA history.
Jones曾经效力于骑士队，也与詹姆斯等一道获得了2016年NBA的总冠军荣誉。退役后，Jones关注了许多人工智能的应用，也与obEN这家领先的人工智能公司合作，建立了虚拟人物形象PAI
Karl Zhao
VP of Engineering , CloudMinds
CloudMinds is a startup that focuses on Cloud Robotics. Karl has extensive experience from OpenX and AT&T as a technical leader.
Karl Zhao着力打造链接所有云机器人及IOT设备的中枢智能平台。同时，他还负责结合AR与机器人智能的智能视觉识别等CloudMinds多项AI科技研究，曾在AT&T以及OpenX等Fortune 100 或上市企业担任重要技术管理职位。
William Chen
CEO of HayMaker Game
William has extensive experience in gaming. He served as CTO at Shanda Games and Vice GM at Tencent Games.
在美国做过16年的主机游戏，参与制作过二十几款包括使命召唤，星际大战，最终幻想等作品。在2010年回国前担任过动视和迪士尼等公司的技术总监等职。2010回国后先后担任了腾讯副总裁，盛大CTO等。
Shuai Li
Fitness Influencer
Shuai has 3 million+ fans with 200MM Hits across platforms. Brand partners include Under Armour, UNIQLO, NBA, Alibaba.
帅soserious于2016年至今，全平台已积累300万+粉丝，播放量2亿余次。粉丝定位20-35岁爱好健身的年轻人. 内容通过Vlog+健身干货结合的形式,传达积极向上的生活态度。其合作品牌包括:NBA、Alibaba、Under Armour、UNIQLO等
Xu Yan
Head of Battery & Power Mgmt Postmates X
On-demand delivery and pick up platform Postmates Inc. Yan is responsible for developing delivery robots in the Postmates X
闫旭，现任独角兽Postmates的PostmatesX部门，致力于实时按需送餐机器人的研发 (On-demand delivery and pick up platform)，是未来改变微出行的重要人工智能产品之一。曾就职于Bosch research center 和 Faraday Future。
Michael Zhang
CEO, Firefly Games
As a serial entrepreneur in the gaming space, Michael has 18 years of experience focusing on I.P. collaboration, Game Development and Distribution
Michael是游戏行业与电商的连续创业者，曾经是ZQGame的海外负责人，负责国际布局，M&A，游戏发布与IP授权等。最近，Firefly Games合作开发了11月上映的终结者主题游戏，与影片同时首发。
自由君 Mr. Zi You
随口说美国
The Top1 most listened cross-border podcast host on Himalaya. FM, Dr. Zi You has developed many very popular shows, with 100MM+ hits.
自由君，目前是最火的跨境IP主播，节目全网点击过亿。从上市公司高管，到跨境创业者，自由君是“跨界知识网红”。
Savan Devani
Founder of BioTrillion
Before starting the BioTrillion, which develops AI platform BioEngine4D to assist drug development; Savan Devani has participated in 40+ IPO/M&A in Biopharma field including Amgenm Eli Lilly, Masimo, Medtronics.
曾参与过350亿美金的40个IPO/M&A项目。曾在中国主要负责了最大的两个IPO项目上海医药和复星制药。BioTrillion现在专注于开发人工智能平台BioEngine4D去帮助神经信号收集，数据驱动药物研发和疾病检测
Caroline Dillingham
CEO of Wavelets Entertainment
Caroline M. Dillingham has been a serial entrepreneur with background in marketing. Wavelets Entertainment is a Los Angeles based production company funded by China's Alibaba and Hong Kong's Media Asia, specialized in developing feature films and series for the streaming market in China.
Caroline有着接近十年运营市场营销公司的经历，她最新的公司Wavelets娱乐得到了环亚与阿里的投资，运用好莱坞的创作能力，拍出受中国市场欢迎的电影I.P.
Tony Chen
Founder & CEO of PrimeVax Immuno-oncology
Tony Chen Tony Chen负责执行和监督施行PrimeVax的所有临床试验策略。他曾在管理、公共政策、策略咨询、临床研究服务等医疗健康领域从事核心工作，并就职于美国卫生及公共服务部。他曾协助于免疫肿瘤和罕见疾病药物在美国与欧洲的临床使用，并推动了奥巴马医疗法案的实施。在过去的5年中，Tony Chen带领PrimeVax从构想发展到临床实验阶段。
Jiake Liu
Founder & CEO of Outer
户外家具DTC品牌创始人Jiake Liu，将与我们分享他如何找到DTC翘楚Casper的高管一同创业，填补户外家居品牌的空白，实现爆发式用户增长。达到平均没几分钟，就有客单价超过2000美金的订单。Jiake曾经带领过两支创业团队分别完成数百万级美金的早期融资。他重点关注早期创业，Saas，D2C垂直电商等领域，也是多家创始公司和孵化器的导师与天使投资人。
Ien Chi
Creative Director of Jubilee
Ien Chi is the creative director, writer, and filmmaker at Jubilee Media, which creates shareable human-centric videos that bridge people together, challenge conventional thinking, and inspire love. Jubilee has over 400 millions followers on YouTube.
Ien是Jubilee Media这个新媒体公司的内容创作总监，他会和我们分享3个创业以来最重要的课程，如何运营粉丝，选择GenZ和代表未来的选题，探讨更深层的人生话题，广受好评。
Phillip Weicker
Cofounder, Canoo
Phil has applied his strong technical and engineering management background and cofounded Canoo. The first Electric vehicle that is subscription model only. Canoo has release the model couple days ago.
Phillip是第一个按需租赁电动车Canoo的创始人之一，他也是电动清洁能源的强力推动者。Canoo保证了十亿美金的A轮融资用于造车。他也是能源，车载电池，高压电动系统等方面的工程专家
Nikhil Jain
CEO, ObEN
Nikhil is a serial entrepreneur thath as cofounded OnGreen and Up and Running Software before starting ObEN. ObEN is an artificial intelligence company that is building a decentralized AI platform for Personal AI (PAI), intelligent 3D avatars that look, sound, and behave like human.
作为连续创业这的Nikhil，曾经也创立过OnGreen等软件公司。 ObEN是他最近在做的人工智能公司，与NBA，娱乐明星，大型连锁线下集团都有紧密的合作，还是2019春晚撒贝宁虚拟形象的创造者。
Joan He
Global BD Manager, Wanda Entertainment
Joan He serves in the Business Development Department of Wanda Media. She has held her own Studio Velf, which produced many creative titles that have been recognized as global advertisement awards recipient.
Joan He在万达传媒美国负责全球商务拓展，也曾创立了Velf工作室，独立制片作品多次获得国际顶级广告奖。她曾任职阿里集团大文娱美国，负责商务拓展与市场营销。
Henry Shi
Partner at AI List / BOLD
Henry Shi is the Managing Partner of AI List Capital and a Venture Partner with BOLD Capital Partners. Henry is an early investor in over 20 AI-driven startups, three of which are at or approaching unicorn status. His portfolio companies have attracted follow-up investments from Sequoia, GV, Accel, KPCB, SoftBank, Tencent, and many others. Previously, Henry was a Venture Partner with Zuma Ventures, a studio-style incubator for emerging tech companies.
Ryan Witt
COO, Immix Biopharma Inc
Ryan Witt is COO of Immix Biopharma Inc, a clinical-stage cancer therapeutics company focused on inhibiting tumor resistance development. Ryan also serves on Biocom's Capital Development and Startup Resources committees respectively, and is an active member of Tech Coast Angels. Previously, Ryan held leadership roles at venture-backed companies that built products servicing tens of thousands of clinicians and millions of patients.
Calvin Chen
CEO, CrossLinkBio
Calvin runs CrossLinkBio which is a company that brings Chinese biotech companies to the US and vice-versa. They are also an accelerator for biotechs.
Calvin is local in LA / OC and Ryan is checking to see if he is free.
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普创（PlusYoou）是美国加州注册的501(c)(3)非营利组织，自2011年成立以来，秉承着 “服务在美华人创业，打造第一南加华人创业社区” 的理念，为中资企业出海、海外优秀项目回国落地提供支持和服务；为海外优秀人才提供职业发展机会；为创业团队对接中美优质资源和人才。普创与近百家知名公司建立了长期合作关系，其中包括IDG资本、真格基金、君联资本、光华资本、腾讯、百度、乐视、美图等。
七年来，普创逐步发展为硅滩规模最大的华人创投平台，举办过近千场创业交流活动，并成功打造了“南加创新论坛”、“南加华人创业颁奖典礼”、“创业训练营”、“创业下午茶”、“行业沙龙”等极具口碑的品牌活动，多次被洛杉矶时报，福布斯杂志，TechCrunch，腾讯新闻，凤凰美洲等主流媒体报道。
PlusYoou is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization bridging business resources between China and U.S. Founded in 2011. It has organized hundreds of high-quality entrepreneurial events in Southern California, incubated about 200 startups and helped raise over 20 million dollar angel fund for start-ups in Southern California. Unleashing the rising power of Silicon Beach, PlusYoou believes that bringing the best out of both China and the U.S. will create opportunities and ideas that could shape the future. PlusYoou promises to provide the best services for entrepreneurial community.
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