CIC is a sovereign wealth fund responsible for managing part of the People’s Republic of China’s foreign exchange reserves with over US$740 billion AUM. Mr. Guo Xiangjun is Executive Vice President of CIC. Immediately prior to this, he was the Chief Risk Officer of CIC, the Head and Managing Director of CIC’s Risk Management Department.

Adam focuses primarily on investments in enterprise infrastructure, big data/analytics, datacenter technologies, and artificial intelligence. At age 13, Adam enrolled as a full-time student at UC Berkeley, where he studied pure and applied mathematics and conducted research in number theory and machine learning. Prior to Lightspeed, he was an early product manager at Rubrik (a Lightspeed portfolio company) where he launched a product line.

Hans Tung joined GGV Capital in 2013 as a managing partner to focus on consumer mobile internet, cross-border ecommerce, IoT, and mobile social communication investments in both China and the U.S. Hans was one of the earliest investors in, and a former board member of, Xiaomi.

Scott Nolan is a Partner at Founders Fund, where he focuses on investments in technology-driven companies across sectors including energy, biotechnology, aerospace, healthcare and advanced manufacturing. Scott is a board member at CollectiveHealth, Tachyus, Tribogenics and two other companies currently in stealth mode.

LimeBike is a dock-less bike share system, aims to revolutionize urban mobility and solve the first and last mile transportation challenges.

Larry Zhang is managing director and head of public equity for China Investment Corp., where he is responsible for investments in the global public equity market. Before joining CIC, Zhang was a partner and head of the global equity team at GSA Capital.

John Mannes writes about machine learning and AI for TechCrunch. He maintains a longstanding interest in the venture capital funding landscape and the ways in which it incentivizes macro innovation. His work has also been featured in The Washington Post and Education Week.

Vanessa Larco joined NEA as a Partner in 2016 and focuses on enterprise and consumer investing. Prior to joining NEA, she was the Director of Product Management for web and mobile apps at Box where she worked on building the next generation of productivity apps. Her passion for design and analytics stems from her experience in the gaming industry, which includes leading the Speech Recognition Experience team at Xbox Kinect, and building and running a top grossing gaming studio at Disney Social.

Nathan joined TCV in 2014, bringing a combination of investment, technology, and management experience to his role as General Partner and Head of Investor Relations. Nathan leads TCV’s engagement with Limited Partners and spearheads the Firm’s strategy and execution around raising capital.

Ethan focuses on investments in consumer technologies and developer platforms. He is particularly excited about consumer video start-ups and companies “developerizing the enterprise,” his phrase for companies that provide non-technical business users with powerful tools and potential impact without requiring them to code.

Align Commerce is a global payment company that offers solutions enabling small businesses to send and receive payments in local currency. Using blockchain as a payment rail, the company eliminates the need for intermediary banks, therefore reducing costs for small- and medium-sized businesses.

Cami Samuels joined Venrock in 2014 and focuses on healthcare with an emphasis on biotech, medical devices, and consumer health. Prior to Venrock, Cami was a Managing Director at Versant Ventures for a decade where she led investments in Achaogen (AKAO), Kythera (KYTH), Novacardia (acquired by Merck), and ParAllele (acquired by Affymetrix), among others. She was also a board observer at several companies including Genomic Health (GHDX), Fluidigm (FLDM), and Syrrx (acquired by Takeda).

Jui Tan is a General Partner with BlueRun China. He joined the firm in March 2001. He focuses on communications, software and semiconductor investments. Jui has 15 years of experience managing international investments and operations.

MedGenome’s state-of-the-art NGS platforms generate high quality sequencing data from gene panels, exomes, whole genomes and transcriptomes. They recently closed their Series B round from Zodius Capital and Sequoia Capital.

Mark Milian is a technology editor at Bloomberg in San Francisco leading coverage of venture capital and startups. Before that, he was a tech writer for CNN and the Los Angeles Times. He’s the author of “Letters to Steve: Inside the E-Mail Inbox of Apple’s Steve Jobs,” published in 2011.

Embroker is a tech driven commercial insurance company that’s radically improving how businesses buy and manage coverage. By leveraging a free online technology platform, data, and the expertise of a team of experienced commercial brokers, Embroker delivers better outcomes. Their Series A round was led by Canaan Partners.

RealtyShares is an online crowdfunding platform for real estate investments. The company allows investors to browse through investment opportunities, review investment details and make investments.

Chris Nicholson is co-founder and CEO of Skymind, the company behind Deeplearning4j, which is the most popular deep-learning framework for Java. Skymind is Cloudera for AI, and has the backing of Tencent, Y Combinator and SV Angel.

David is a pioneer, believer, and a passionate leader of entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. He has founded several companies in the valley and also created Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs & Startups, the world’s largest entrepreneur community, Silicon Valley Android Developers, the largest Android F2F community, and a variety of other grassroot communities in Silicon Valley.

Brewer had previously led Pacific Crest’s international investment banking business with an emphasis on Asia and other key emerging markets. Works with technology growth companies on M&A, private financings, and global strategy across Internet and digital media, fintech, next gen hardware and software.

As Collective Health’s CEO, Ali brings more than 15 years of technology startup and executive management experience to the company. Ali also brings a strong personal motivation to improve the quality and cost of company-sponsored health care after experiencing a major health problem while employed at a growing technology company.

Abhishek is passionate about working with mission-driven founders who are aiming to build transformational companies in technology and healthcare. Abhishek has been an entrepreneur and business builder prior to joining Nexus. He co-founded HelloIntern.com, a marketplace for internship search. Most recently, he worked with eBay on partnerships with marketing technology startups.

Alexander Rusli, assumed the role of President Director and CEO of Indosat in November 2012 after serving as an Independent Commissioner since January 2010. Before November 2012, Mr. Rusli was a Managing Director in Northstar Pacific, a private equity fund which focuses on Indonesian and Southeast Asian opportunities. Prior to his role in Northstar Pacific, Mr. Rusli served the Government of Indonesia for nine years.

David Chen is co-Founder and former Vice Chairman & President of VanceInfo (which later merged with HiSoft to form Pactera), one of the largest China based IT services firms with more than 20,000 associates. He oversaw strategy and daily operations between 2001 and 2010. Before it went public in 2007 at NYSE, VanceInfo was backed by prominent VCs including DCM, Sequoia Capital and Legend Capital.

Connie Sheng is the founding managing partner of Nautilus Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley venture capital fund focusing on early stage investments in mobile and IoT areas. Connie is also a member of Silicon Valley China Angel and CFO of Silicon Valley Association of Industrial Innovations. Connie currently sits on the board of DriveScale, MasterImage 3D, and a couple of other companies.

Ms. Ying Wang joined Kinzon Capital in 2014, bringing with her 11-years experiences in venture capital, especially in FinTech and consumer internet space. Fosun Group has $150B Asset under management, and through its insurance & multi-industry business, generates over $20B investible assets each year for deployment. Ying leads Fosun’s high-tech investments in the US, including FinTech, pioneering technology, digital health, and consumer internet.

Jiang Long is Vice Chairman and CEO of Goertek Inc. He obtained his Ph.D. degree of Strategic Management from University of Maryland and Master degree of Management Science from Renmin University of China as well as Bachelor degree of Materials Engineering from Tsinghua University. In 2004, he joined the company and ever served as vice president of the company, senior vice president, executive vice president.

David is a Managing Partner at Machine.vc, the newly launched Series A focused fund for Hardware SaaS startups. Previously, David held a GM role at PCH International overseeing all startup hardware initiatives including Highway1, and prior to that held multiple executive roles at Apple.