NECINA 2024年會 6/15

NECINA Annual Conference 

Co-host with HMS-CSSA 

Stronger Together: 

AI Application and Biomedical Discovery  

地址/Address: Embassy Hotel by Hilton, 550 Winter St, Waltham, MA 02453    

时间/Date: Saturday, June 15, 2024 

          9:00 am -5:30 pm EST  

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NECINA 2023 AI Conference “人工智能 & 我” 主题峰会

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注册参加NECINA “人工智能 & 我”主题峰会：共同探索未来

活动时间:  11月18日， 9:30am - 3:30pm 

活动地点:  牛顿市礼堂

地址: 1000 Commonwealth Ave, Newton Centre, MA 02459

停车：用Homer St. 的入口进入礼堂。礼堂附近有100以上街边车位，150以上图书馆停车位

活动费用: 免费/free to general public

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“人工智能 & 我”主题峰会

新英格兰地区一直都是技术与创新的培育中心，享誉全球。作为在新英格兰地区促进技术和创新发展的公益代表，NECINA诚邀各界人士参加“人工智能 & 我”主题峰会，一起探索人工智能在生命科学、医疗、应用软件和技术、科研以及投资等领域的多元应用。我们将通过一系列引人深思的主题演讲、实践研讨会和互动会议，共同探索人工智能的无限潜力。直接聆听该领域的领军人物的先锋思想，并建立有价值的联系。千万不要错过参与这次AI变革之旅的探讨峰会。

主题演讲嘉宾信息

• 吴恩达教授是全球公认的人工智能领域的领导者、Landing AI 的创始人兼首席执行官、deeplearning.ai 的创始人、Coursera 的联合主席兼联合创始人。他还曾担任百度公司首席科学家、谷歌大脑项目创始人兼负责人。

• 吴锦城先生是一位经验丰富的企业家，目前是泰华投资管理合伙人。曾担任Azuki的首席执行官和联合创始人，后来将其出售给爱立信。他还担任Acopia Networks的主席，该公司被F5 Networks以2.1亿美元收购。吴锦城先生的职业生涯包括在思科的领导职务，以及创办像ArrowPoint和Arris Networks等成功的创业公司。

• 孔祥重教授，是哈佛大学计算机科学和电气工程系威廉·H·盖茨教授。他的研究主题涉及人工智能在制造和医疗保健中的应用、人工智能加速器、超大规模集成设计、高性能计算、并行和分布式计算、计算机体系结构和计算机网络。

• Steve Swann博士是 TandemAI 的首席科学官。他在大型和新兴制药公司拥有近 20 年的药物和计算化学研究和研究领导经验。

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NECINA活動ABC系列#2223-102-007 沙龍研討會

1) Topic題目：Web3時代的主權實體演化The Evolution of Sovereignty in the Web3 Era

2) Time時間：8月5日晚9點 (美東時間）1 Hour+ @ZOOM

3) Introduction主題簡介：貨幣的自由競爭可以提升貨幣流轉效率，通過貨幣政策在特定行

業的精準調控，實現和社會財富增長相匹配的健康增發，促進社會公平公正發展。進一步

地，風險投資人在這個過程中替代大眾承擔了貨幣政策的風險，並因此獲得高額收益的機

會。怎樣理解數字貨幣歷史和市場走勢？比特幣和主流幣的內在價值是什麼？和傳統金融

市場如何關聯？區塊鏈創投領域和Web 3.0的最新熱點和動向如何？本期沙龍研討會我們

邀請到資深投資人和會員深度討論去中心化金融（DeFi）的歷史、現狀和趨勢發展。

4) Speaker主持人：Wayne Yee 粒子物理博士，天使投資人，投資組合經理，連續創業者，在

全球股市量化投資和web3創投領域有豐富的經驗，主導公司研究、投資、招聘和初創項

目孵化。曾在包括千禧年基金在內的多家對沖基金從事和負責投研工作。

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82768066765?pwd=VU04a3p3QmhxdjVlelVhcHNnanVyZz09

Meeting ID: 827 6806 6765 Passcode: 735653

 

Need More Details? Click here to reserve your spot COVID Disclaimer While participating NECINA's 2022 Annual Meeting, consistent with CDC guidelines, participants are encouraged to practice hand hygiene, “social distancing” and wear face coverings to reduce the risks of exposure to COVID-19. NECINA has put in place preventative measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19. However, NECINA cannot guarantee that its participants, volunteers, partners, or others in attendance will not become infected with COVID-19. In light of the ongoing spread of COVID-19, individuals who fall within any of the categories below should not engage in the ANNUAL MEETING. By attending an NECINA event, you certify that you are NOT currently or within the past fourteen (14) days have experienced any symptoms associated with COVID-19 or believe that you may NOT have been exposed to a confirmed or suspected case of COVID-19 or have been diagnosed with COVID-19. You acknowledge that participation includes possible exposure to COVID-19, and while particular rules and personal discipline may reduce this risk, the risk of serious illness and death does exist, and you knowingly and freely assume all such risks related to illness and infectious diseases. YOU HEREBY RELEASE, WAIVE AND FOREVER DISCHARGE ANY AND ALL LIABILITY, CLAIMS, AND DEMANDS AGAINST NECINA AND ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, VOLUNTEERS, AND AGENTS, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY LAW. Event Organizer NECINA, short for New England Chinese Information and Network Association, is the organizer of this panel. It is the most established and influential high-end professional organization in New England of the United States.  Founded in 1996 as a non-profit organization, NECINA set its mission to facilitate professional career development, nourish entrepreneurship, and bridge the business and culture gap between the U.S. and China. Contact Us: Any questions? Please email to marketing@necina.org.. See what's happening on our social sites:  ‌  ‌  ‌

NECINA Career Panel 2022 Dreams and Aspirations --- How to Build a Successful Career Path As the Chinese proverb says, a year's plan starts in the spring. In this season of planning students will graduate and prepare to launch their careers. It is important to ask the question of how to plan out a successful career path. As entry-level professionals, how can we best utilize our skills and play to our strengths? How can experienced professionals adapt to different changes that arise in their careers and make successful breakthroughs? NECINA invites Lucy Wang, Director of Product at Toast, to share her career story on how she transforms the valuable skills from her free-time interests into driving forces of her personal and career breakthroughs. Come and listen to her story of success through dream, courage, and dedication. Join us in our two career panel sessions with five guest panelists to discuss how can we overcome challenges and take better steps to achieve our aspirations at various stages of our career.  Agenda 7:30 – 7:35 pm Opening remarks  7:35 – 8:00 pm "Create your own success story---through dream, courage, and dedication" 8:00 – 8:40 pm “How to use your skillset and play to your strength” 8:40 – 9:20 pm “Stay focus and be flexible” 9:20 – 9:30 pm  Q&A /Closing Speakers Need More Details? SCAN THE QR CODE OR Click here to reserve your spot Event Organizer NECINA, short for New England Chinese Information and Network Association, is the organizer of this panel. It is the most established and influential high-end professional organization in New England of the United States.  Founded in 1996 as a non-profit organization, NECINA set its mission to facilitate professional career development, nourish entrepreneurship, and bridge the business and culture gap between the U.S. and China. Contact Us: Any questions regarding the career panel? Please email to marketing@necina.org.. See what's happening on our social sites:

NECINA 2021 Technology Conference ALL THINGS Electric Vehicle

 

 

A group of experts from different sectors of the electric vehicle industry will serve as panelists to discuss their views.

 

 

About This Event WHY ELECTRIC VEHICLES?   While many of the US cities are still recovering from the damages brought by tropical storm Ida, it is apparent that such an unprecedented disaster must be attributed to global warming. No doubt, gas powered passenger cars and heavy-duty trucks, among others, are a major source of the greenhouse gas pollution that causes this environmental threat. In an effort to quickly respond to this issue, President Joe Biden announced a new national target that electric cars should make up to half of all new car sales in the United States by the year 2030. In addition to cars, other electric vehicles including land vehicles, such as e-scooters, and aerial vehicles, such as drones, have gain popularity over the years. More and more people ride e-scooters for daily commute, while more and more industries rely on drones for inventory management and product delivery. Due to their electric nature, electric vehicles own the ancillary benefit that powerful computing devices are built in from the get-go. Accordingly, much better control systems oftentimes network-enabled can be implemented for electric vehicles to achieve functionalities beyond the imagination of gas-powered vehicles. Most importantly, the driving force behind every electric vehicle, namely its batteries, has been developed to have advantageous properties, such as, longer life span, fast charging and discharging, extremely safe, lightweight, to name only a few. Consequently, electric vehicle developments have become the mainstream of the 21st century technology and undeniably will change people’s life for good. 

 

 

Registration

 

 

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Our Speakers

 

 

Qichao Hu

 

 

 

Tony Ho

 

 

 

Jackie Wu

 

 

Xiao Wu

 

 

Our Moderator

 

Hsuanyeh Chang

 

 

 

Event Organizer

 

 

 

Contact Us: For more information on NECINA, please visit our website at http://necina.org/ or follow us through WeChat NECINA Interested in being a member, please register at https://www.joinit.org/o/necina-boston/.

 

NECINA YES 16.0 Coaching For Success       Overview Founded in 2005, Youth Entrepreneurship Service (YES) Program is a program designed for high school students to learn entrepreneurship and leadership skills through interactive workshops with instructors and out of class mentorship by mentors. Students are taught and motivated to discover their passion in science, technology, business and philanthropy, explore opportunities and recognize fundamentals of startups.   YES adopts the approach of Project Based Learning. The structure of all sessions encourages students to learn by applying the knowledge and skills through an engaging and interactive experience with instructors, mentors and peers. From the 10-class workshops, students learn to choose teammates, work in teams, develop business ideas and participate in a business plan contest. Students will select their own teammates based on an exercise and evaluation that determines their respective personality propensity. The program will cover Business Plans, Product Conceptualization, Company Structure, Finance, Sales and Marketing, Public Speaking and Presentation skills. Each session will be facilitated by an instructor who introduces to students a specific entrepreneurial skill or characteristics and guides them to apply these concepts to their chosen business projects. The Project Based Learning approach presents students with unique opportunities for deeper learning in-context and for the development of important skills tied to college and career readiness. Winning teams voted by a judge panel will not only win cash prizes but may be awarded internship opportunities by corporations.   To gain further insight, watch the popular YES 15 competition YouTube video:         Topic: YES - Information Session   Time: Sep 25, 2021, 09:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)   Join Zoom Meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/98121786763 Meeting ID: 981 2178 6763   Sign up from Google Form HERE to Secure Your Spot Now!     Why YES ● Think Differently Learn to listen, think, and act as a founder, creator, and team member. ●  Build Business Knowledge Gain knowledge not included in the high school curriculum. ●  Discover Solutions Explore technology trends to help solve real problems. ●  Team Building Build and manage strong teams with your peers. ●  Pitch idea Prepare and present your IDEAs to a panel of judges. ●  Internship Be considered for internships at our sponsor companies.     Program Fee   The program fee is $200 per student. Every registered student will be granted a one-year NECINA membership. Early bird registration discount fee of $150 is available through September 30th, 2021. The first two sessions are free for everyone to give you a taste of what YES program is like. If you would like to continue the remainder of the program, each student shall then pay the program fee. By registering for YES, you consent that pictures or videos featuring you may be chosen to publish for NECINA marketing purposes.       YES 16.0 Curriculum (all sessions except the info session run from 10am to 12pm) 1.09/25/2021– Information Session (free) 2.10/16/2021– Entrepreneurship 101 (free) 3.10/30/2021- Ideation 4.11/13/2021- Market Validation 5.12/11/2021- Sales and Marketing 6.01/08/2022- Accounting & Finance 7.01/22/2022- Corporate Structure and Intellectual Property 8.02/05/2022- Social Networking Marketing 9.02/26/2022- Elevator Pitch 10.              03/19/2022- Mock Competition 11.              Final Competition - 04/02/2022           Event Organizer   NECINA, short for New England Chinese Information and Network Association, is the organizer of this Innovation Challenge. It is the most established and influential high-end professional organization in New England of the United States.  Founded in 1996 as a non-profit organization, NECINA set its mission to facilitate professional career development, nourish entrepreneurship, and bridge the business and culture gap between the U.S. and China.     Contact Us: Any questions regarding the upcoming YES 16.0? Please email to ic@necina.org     See what's happening on our social sites: ‌ ‌ ‌

NECINA YES 16.0 Coaching For Success       Overview Founded in 2005, Youth Entrepreneurship Service (YES) Program is a program designed for high school students to learn entrepreneurship and leadership skills through interactive workshops with instructors and out of class mentorship by mentors. Students are taught and motivated to discover their passion in science, technology, business and philanthropy, explore opportunities and recognize fundamentals of startups.   YES adopts the approach of Project Based Learning. The structure of all sessions encourages students to learn by applying the knowledge and skills through an engaging and interactive experience with instructors, mentors and peers. From the 10-class workshops, students learn to choose teammates, work in teams, develop business ideas and participate in a business plan contest. Students will select their own teammates based on an exercise and evaluation that determines their respective personality propensity. The program will cover Business Plans, Product Conceptualization, Company Structure, Finance, Sales and Marketing, Public Speaking and Presentation skills. Each session will be facilitated by an instructor who introduces to students a specific entrepreneurial skill or characteristics and guides them to apply these concepts to their chosen business projects. The Project Based Learning approach presents students with unique opportunities for deeper learning in-context and for the development of important skills tied to college and career readiness. Winning teams voted by a judge panel will not only win cash prizes but may be awarded internship opportunities by corporations.   To gain further insight, watch the popular YES 15 competition YouTube video:         Topic: YES - Information Session   Time: Sep 25, 2021, 09:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)   Join Zoom Meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/98121786763 Meeting ID: 981 2178 6763   Sign up from Google Form HERE to Secure Your Spot Now!     Why YES ● Think Differently Learn to listen, think, and act as a founder, creator, and team member. ●  Build Business Knowledge Gain knowledge not included in the high school curriculum. ●  Discover Solutions Explore technology trends to help solve real problems. ●  Team Building Build and manage strong teams with your peers. ●  Pitch idea Prepare and present your IDEAs to a panel of judges. ●  Internship Be considered for internships at our sponsor companies.     Program Fee   The program fee is $200 per student. Every registered student will be granted a one-year NECINA membership. Early bird registration discount fee of $150 is available through September 30th, 2021. The first two sessions are free for everyone to give you a taste of what YES program is like. If you would like to continue the remainder of the program, each student shall then pay the program fee. By registering for YES, you consent that pictures or videos featuring you may be chosen to publish for NECINA marketing purposes.       YES 16.0 Curriculum (all sessions except the info session run from 10am to 12pm) 1.09/25/2021– Information Session (free) 2.10/16/2021– Entrepreneurship 101 (free) 3.10/30/2021- Ideation 4.11/13/2021- Market Validation 5.12/11/2021- Sales and Marketing 6.01/08/2022- Accounting & Finance 7.01/22/2022- Corporate Structure and Intellectual Property 8.02/05/2022- Social Networking Marketing 9.02/26/2022- Elevator Pitch 10.              03/19/2022- Mock Competition 11.              Final Competition - 04/02/2022           Event Organizer   NECINA, short for New England Chinese Information and Network Association, is the organizer of this Innovation Challenge. It is the most established and influential high-end professional organization in New England of the United States.  Founded in 1996 as a non-profit organization, NECINA set its mission to facilitate professional career development, nourish entrepreneurship, and bridge the business and culture gap between the U.S. and China.     Contact Us: Any questions regarding the upcoming YES 16.0? Please email to ic@necina.org     See what's happening on our social sites: ‌ ‌ ‌

NECINA E Club Event Inflation? Rates? New Market?     A Panel Discussion with Financial Advisors: Kevin Whalen, Trevor Byrne, Jennifer Yang     About This Event Is Inflation coming or has it already arrived? How will inflation expectations affect the direction of interest rates? Are we in a “new” market since many innovative and disruptive technologies will impact our business, our lives and our wealth? For NECINA E club members, business owners and entrepreneurs, there are so many questions to ask experts in the field these days.   Financial advisors Kevin Whalen, Trevor Byrne and Jennifer Yang from Morgan Stanley will be the panelists of our special E Club event in May. During this online panel discussion moderated by Jennifer Yang, they will discuss current market conditions with an emphasis on the outlook for interest rates and inflation and their impact on the equity and fixed income markets. They will also discuss proposed tax law changes coming out of Washington and what investors and business owners may want to consider as a consequence. They will share their views on how business owners can benefit from wealth management services that include investment, tax, estate planning, and succession planning.     Detail   Date/Time:  8:30 PM – 10:00 PM, Wednesday, May 26, 2021 (EDT)     Registration: Please Scan the QR code     Agenda     Our Panelists   Kevin J. Whalen         Trevor D. Byrne, CFP®             Jennifer Y. Yang, CFA           Event Organizer   NECINA E Club Overview: NECINA Entrepreneur Club (E Club) is a community of technology company founders and Executives. Through its partnership with other businesses or organizations, E Club organizes regular meetings/network events and provides a resourceful platform for E Club members to get training, conduct network, and promote their businesses.   Missions: The missions of the club are: • To leverage NECINA resources to connect the club members to more senior and successful entrepreneurs, VCs and service firms as well as business counterparts in Asia to seek mentors, advices and business opportunities. • To provide a social network platform for the entrepreneurs to share their successful stories and lessons learned, and help each other.   Membership Qualification: To join E Club, you need to be (1) active NECINA member, and (2) a founder/co-founder or an executive of a technology company.   NECINA E Club Event Inflation? Rates? New Market?     A Panel Discussion with Financial Advisors: Kevin Whalen, Trevor Byrne, Jennifer Yang     About This Event Is Inflation coming or has it already arrived? How will inflation expectations affect the direction of interest rates? Are we in a “new” market since many innovative and disruptive technologies will impact our business, our lives and our wealth? For NECINA E club members, business owners and entrepreneurs, there are so many questions to ask experts in the field these days.   Financial advisors Kevin Whalen, Trevor Byrne and Jennifer Yang from Morgan Stanley will be the panelists of our special E Club event in May. During this online panel discussion moderated by Jennifer Yang, they will discuss current market conditions with an emphasis on the outlook for interest rates and inflation and their impact on the equity and fixed income markets. They will also discuss proposed tax law changes coming out of Washington and what investors and business owners may want to consider as a consequence. They will share their views on how business owners can benefit from wealth management services that include investment, tax, estate planning, and succession planning.     Detail   Date/Time:  8:30 PM – 10:00 PM, Wednesday, May 26, 2021 (EDT)     Registration: Please Scan the QR code     Agenda     Our Panelists   Kevin J. Whalen         Trevor D. Byrne, CFP®             Jennifer Y. Yang, CFA           Event Organizer   NECINA E Club Overview: NECINA Entrepreneur Club (E Club) is a community of technology company founders and Executives. Through its partnership with other businesses or organizations, E Club organizes regular meetings/network events and provides a resourceful platform for E Club members to get training, conduct network, and promote their businesses.   Missions: The missions of the club are: • To leverage NECINA resources to connect the club members to more senior and successful entrepreneurs, VCs and service firms as well as business counterparts in Asia to seek mentors, advices and business opportunities. • To provide a social network platform for the entrepreneurs to share their successful stories and lessons learned, and help each other.   Membership Qualification: To join E Club, you need to be (1) active NECINA member, and (2) a founder/co-founder or an executive of a technology company. NECINA Innovation Challenge Special Presentation An Innovation Mini-Pitch Night with our Mentors/Judges!       Overview NECINA Innovation Challenge is a 7-months competition to encourage creativity and innovation that addresses a pain or social needs in any aspect of the society, no matter your idea is a physical product, intangible technology, or business process innovation. Up to now, we’ve accepted 25 high-quality innovation ideas and projects to join our program, some of them will present their ideas and listen to valuable feedback from our mentors/judges, NECINA community and improve the solution before our official award process.     Detail   Date/Time: 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM, Wednesday, April 14, 2021 (EST)   Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/3548781262?pwd=SnBiUnd6SWVTWGZ0TGMvWUVNUFJrdz09   Meeting ID: 354 878 1262 Passcode: NECINA2021   Expected Participants: Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Young Professionals, College Students, and Innovation Investors      Agenda     Necina Innovation Challenge competing projects presenting:       Necina Innovation Challenge Mentor/Judge   James Heffernan     Pei Qi       Timothy Lindeman     Charles Hsu     NECINA Innovation Challenge Special Presentation An Innovation Pitch Night with our Mentors/Judges! Time: 8:00pm-9:00pm, Saturday, March 20, 2021 (EST) ZoomLink: https://zoom.us/j/91784662977?pwd=Zmd5RkZ0dDN2cDRBaFJxN21SMHY3QT09 Memeting ID: 917 8466 2977  Passcode: NECINAIC Expected Participants Innovators, Entrepreneurs,  Young Professionals, College Students, and Innovation Investors Agenda NECINA Innovation Challenge is a 7-months competition to encourage creativity and innovation that addresses a pain or social needs in any aspect of the society, no matter your idea is a physical product, intangible technology, or business process innovation. Up to now, we’ve accepted 22 high-quality innovation ideas and projects to join our program, some of them will present their ideas and listen to valuable feedback from our mentors/judges, NECINA community and improve the solution before our official award process.  Necina Innovation Challenge competing projects presenting : Bitepal AI Direct RNA sequencing CovidSchoolTracker NECINA Innovation Challenge Mentor/Judges: Mingsheng Hong  AI & Big Data Expert, Google Dr. Mingsheng Hong leads the engineering work of Google's TensorFlow runtime, the AI infrastructure. Prior to this role, Mingsheng worked in Big Data engineering leadership roles at Google, Hadapt and HP Vertica. During his five years at Massachusetts in 2008-2013, Mingsheng was fortunate to volunteer at NECINA and served as its 17th President during the 2012-2013 term. Mingsheng obtained his Computer Science Ph.D. degree at Cornell University, and co-founded the Microsoft CEDR research project, commercialized as SQL Server StreamInsight. Mingsheng has given talks, lectures and demos at industry and academic forums such as TensorFlow Developer Summit, Hadoop World, and Harvard Business School. Xiaojun (Jun) Liu Biotech Entrepreneur, Life Science Veteran Xiaojun (Jun) is a life science veteran with >20 years of Research, Commercial and Entrepreneurial experience in both US and Chinese markets.   He started his career as a medicinal chemist at Pfizer.  He then switched to commercial side of life science industry, leading multiple new product launches in global and Chinese market for Eli Lilly and Genzyme (acquired by Sanofi).  His last corporate position was global director for Charles River Lab, managing marketing activities for its Discovery Services and Toxicology Services Divisions (> $700M revenue).  As an serial entrepreneur, Jun has co-founded several healthcare startups in US and China.  He led the exit of a drug discovery company,  Northlake International,  by successfully selling its key asset to large pharma. Jun holds a BS degree from Peking University,  MS in Chemistry from University of Pittsburgh, and MBA from Kellogg School of Management. Sean Shen Principal Engineer, Veoneer Corp. Sean Shen is currently a Principal Engineer at Veoneer Corp. which develops state-of-the-art software, hardware and systems for active safety, autonomous driving, occupant protection and brake control.  Prior to that, Sean was a Lead System Engineer in a federal funded research and developing center, applying revolutionary system engineering technologies to large government acquisition programs, providing system integration, validation and verification software systems.  Sean joined NECINA in 1997.  He started serving in the operation team in 2003. He has been a general officer, P.R. and Marketing Director, and the President of NECINA in 2011-2012. During his terms, he started the NECINA Entrepreneur Club, offered NECINA Entrepreneur Workshop and NECINA Lab programs.  He served as a NECINA board member from 2012-2014 and the current term. Sean received Ph. D. in Numerical Analysis from Peking University, M.S. in Computer Science from State University of New York in Stony Brook, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from East China University of Science and Technology. Timothy Lindeman Senior Executive, Dimensional Insight Tim Lindeman has spent his career at the intersection of information technology and China. In 2000, after graduating from university, he relocated to China to participate in China’s internet boom. Tim worked for Yonyou as business development manager. And later he served as general manager for Dimensional Insight, a data analytics software company, starting up its China subsidiary. In 2012 Tim returned to the US as a senior executive at Dimensional Insight. He remains focused on China and is active in the Boston startup community. Tim has a degree in International Relations and an MBA from MIT Sloan. Need more information?  Please check on www.necinaic.com. Any questions? Please email to ic@necina.org. Sponsors & Partners: NECINA Innovation Challenge Special Presentation An Innovation Pitch Night with our Mentors/Judges!       Overview NECINA Innovation Challenge is a 7-month competition to encourage creativity and innovation that addresses a pain or social needs in any aspect of society, no matter your idea is a physical product, intangible technology, or business process innovation. Up to now, we’ve accepted 20 high-quality innovation ideas and projects to join our program, some of them will present their ideas and listen to valuable feedback from our mentors/judges, NECINA community, and improve the solution before our official award process.      Detail   Date/Time: 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM, Saturday, March 6, 2021 (EST)   Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/97299607683?pwd=NlRlODUwOGlmN3RGSHJuQWVjZ3Uzdz09 Meeting ID: 972 9960 7683 Passcode: NECINAIC   Expected Participants: Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Young Professionals, College Students, and Innovation Investors      Agenda     Necina Innovation Challenge competing projects presenting tonight           Necina Innovation Challenge Mentor/Judge   Ben Tao     Hui Lei       John Wang       Tony Ho         Necina Innovation Challenge Partners           Event Organizer   NECINA, short for New England Chinese Information and Network Association, is the organizer of this Innovation Challenge. It is the most established and influential high-end professional organization in New England of the United States.  Founded in 1996 as a non-profit organization, NECINA set its mission to facilitate professional career development, nourish entrepreneurship, and bridge the business and culture gap between the U.S. and China.     Contact Us: Any questions? Please email to ic@necina.org Need more information? Please check on www.necinaic.com     See what's happening on our social sites: ‌ ‌ ‌

About this Event

This conference will inspire and empower you. Seize this unprecedented opportunity to hear distinctive voices from these highly accomplished speakers from Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Bay Area, Shanghai and Hong Kong. The speakers will share their life journey, discover and embrace their inner leadership, discuss challenges encountered and overcome, and how to create opportunities that fit their personality and strength. Subjects that will also be addressed are key soft skills that attributed to their success, such as, self-promotion and marketing, leadership, social responsibility, negotiation, influencing others, managing conflicts, effective communications, ability to keep work life balance, and maintain healthy relationship with their children. NECINA believes that this conference will be of enormous benefit to your professional and personal advancement.

Event Agenda:

Day 1:

January 22, Friday 8:00 PM to 10:10 PM, EST

7 :00 PM to 9:10 PM, CST

5:00 PM to 7:10 PM, PST

8:00 PM - 8:05 PM Opening

8:05 PM - 8:20 PM Keynote speaker: Kate Zhang, VP, Editas Medicine (publicly traded on Nasdaq)

8:20 PM – 9:15 PM Panel 1 - Regain balance and connect the disconnected

Panelists:

Grace Pei Shen, Partner, Eco-Power Investment, Christie, Big 4 partner consulting

Clarissa Shen, Head, EBI China Strategic Competence Develop, Sanofi

Hongbo Jiang, CEO/Preseident of BlockTest LLC

Angelene Huang, Founder and CEO at VisWise

Moderator:

Yudan Zhang, Strategy and Transactions EY Partner

9:15 PM – 10:10 PM Panel 2 – Networking and Self-Promotion

Panelists:

Grace Ling, Designer at Electronic Arts, Founder of the Design Buddies

Yangyang Cheng, Life coach, Serial entrepreneur

Stephen Lable, Founder & Managing Partner, The Lable Group

Marisa Buchheit, American Soprano, Miss Chicago and Miss Illinois

Moderator:

Cathy Peng, CEO@ROCS Global, Co-Founder, Silicon Valley Forum 100

Day 2:

January 23, Saturday 1:00 PM to 3:10 PM, EST

12:00 PM to 2:10 PM, CST

10:00 AM to 12:10 PM, PST

1:00 PM – 1:05 PM Opening

1:05 PM – 1:20 PM Keynote speaker: Amy Zeng, Dean, Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University

1:20 PM – 2:15 PM Panel 3 – Break barriers and thrive

Panelists:

Vatsatdy Sinvongxay, Trustee of the Dow Fund

Xing Quan, Director of Internal Audit at Raytheon Technologies

Vivien Li, Commission Member, Boston Municipal Lobbying Compliance Commission

Moderator:

Rui Tang(Sammi), US Site Head of Biostatistics, Programming & Medical Writing Department, Servier

2:15 PM – 3:10 PM Panel 4 – Wellness, health and work-life balance

Panelists:

Julianna Chen, MD, Child, adolescent, adult psychotherapy at MGH

Keerthi Sugumaran, Associate, Jackson Lewis

Dr. Xia Yun, Family physician

Uyen Tran, Assistant Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Moderator:

Maple Zou, Founder, LingualSmart

NECINA Innovation Challenge Special Presentation An Innovation Night with the Big3!       The Program ·    Introduction of NECINA Innovation Challenge. ·    Judge panel Cheng Wu, Serial Entrepreneur and Founder of ArrowPoint Communications, acquired by Cisco with $5.7B in 2000, Founder & Honorary Board Chairman of Necina. ·    Judge panel Bobbie Carlton, Boston’s Innovation Den Mother and the Startup Fairy Godmother. ·    Dr. Yun Raymond Fu, Serial Entrepreneur, Co-Founder of TVision Insights, First Prize of NECINA’s NEW Accelerator 2015, raised $40M and won numerous awards. ·    Q&A sessions.     Detail   Date/Time:  Jan 16 (Saturday), 2021 / 8:00pm– 9:00pm EST   Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/96794618819?pwd=NHh6OUlVMmUyOWo0UGlhQjhGS0RUQT09 Meeting ID: 967 9461 8819 Passcode: qEXtgh!   Expected Participants: Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Young Professionals, and College Students       Speakers   Cheng Wu       Bobbie Carlton       Yun Raymond Fu           Event Organizer   NECINA, short for New England Chinese Information and Network Association, is the organizer of this Innovation Challenge. It is the most established and influential high-end professional organization in New England of the United States. Founded in 1996 as a non-profit organization, NECINA set its mission to facilitate professional career development, nourish entrepreneurship, and bridge the business and culture gap between the U.S. and China.     Contact Us: Any questions? Please email to ic@necina.org Need more information? Please check on www.necinaic.com     See what's happening on our social sites: ‌ ‌ ‌

NECINA Mini Tech Conference - jointly hosted by TechTalk and E Club

About this Event

Overview:

TVision measures who watch TV and how much attention they pay at the person-level to linear and streaming video. Marketers at some of the world’s largest brands, and premiere Media Sellers and Data Partners leverage TVision’s metrics to make more effective media decisions.

In this NECINA mini tech conference, jointly organized with NECINA E Club, we invited our E Club member Mr. Yan Liu, Co-Founder & CEO of TVision, to join us and share his personal journey to start the company and how TVision applies computer vision technology to media measurement industry successfully.

NECINA board member, Mr. Tony Ho, will be the host of this event. Tony is the Vice President, Global Business Development, Segway Inc. He served as Vice President of NECINA and has extensive experience in entrepreneurship, both as a company founder and as a startup adviser.We welcome entrepreneurs, aspired future entrepreneurs, professionals with either managerial or technical roles, students, or anyone who is interested in learning about entrepreneurship, business strategy, or digital media and marketing technologies to join us at this joint NECINA mini tech conference and NECINA E Club event.

TVision measures second-by-second, eyes-on-screen Attention to TV and CTV content and ads. We deploy computer vision technology to passively measure how our opt-in panel of TV viewers watch TV in their living rooms. We go beyond household data to measure TV engagement at the person-level. Our data is used by brands, media sellers and data partners to understand TV viewability and attention, to quantify things like co-viewing, and more accurately value programming and ad spots.

Agenda:

• 4:00 pm- 4:05 pm Tony Ho: Open remark
• 4:05 pm – 4:45 pm Yan Liu: Attention Matters: Apply Computer Vision to Audience Measurement
• 4:45 pm – 5:00 pm Q&A

Speaker:

As CEO of TVision, Yan Liu leads product and technology innovations, as well as an international expansion for the TV engagement measurement company. He co-founded TVision, while earning his MBA at MIT. Previously, Yan founded and managed Yo-ren, a leading digital marketing agency in China. Before that, Yan worked at McKinsey in Tokyo. Yan has an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

NECINA Entrepreneur Club (E Club) is a community of technology company founders and Executives. Through its partnership with other businesses or organizations, E Club organizes regular meetings/network events, and provides a resourceful platform for E Club members to get training, conduct network, and promote their businesses.

The missions of the club are:

• To leverage NECINA resources to connect the club members to more senior and successful entrepreneurs, VCs, and service firms as well as business counterparts in Asia to seek mentors, advice, and business opportunities.

• To provide a social network platform for the entrepreneurs to share their successful stories and lessons learned, and help each other.

Membership Qualification:

To join E Club, you need to be (1) an active NECINA member, and (2) a founder/co-founder or an executive of a technology company

Contact Us:

If you have any questions, please e-mail to eclub@necina.org with your full contact info.

NECINA Presents Tech Talk Series

NECINA

Personal Ultrasound

Core Technology & Covid 19

Tech Talk Series

Invites renowned engineers and tech leaders to share stories and insights about the coolest technologies and innovations

About this Event

Dr. Kailiang Chen is invited by us as our first speaker. He is the VP of ASIC Design, Butterfly Network. During this event, he will be introducing the flagship technology – portable ultrasound device and how it can help us fight COVID-19.

About the Speaker

Kailiang Chen received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering with highest honors from Tsinghua University, China, in 2007, and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 2009 and 2014, respectively. Since 2014, he has been the Vice President of ASIC Design at Butterfly Network, Inc., where he led the development of the "ultrasound on a chip", its integration into the product, and the production ramp.

Who Should Attend

Engineers, Business Leaders, Medial Doctors, Engineering Students, Medical Students, anyone who is interested in breakthrough technologies and medical devices.

What You Will Learn

How to make a “one of a kind” medical device

How to achieve professional success as an engineering leader

Agenda

Fri, Nov 13, 2020

9:00 PM–9:40 PM

Speaker Presentation & Product Demo

9:40 PM–10:00 PM 

Q&A

Butterfly Network is a digital health company whose mission is to democratize healthcare by making medical imaging universally accessible and affordable. Driven by a cross disciplinary fusion of semiconductor engineering, AI, and connected mobile software, Butterfly iQ is the first FDA cleared and CE approved, "one probe, whole-body imaging" medical ultrasound device, that directly plugs into a smartphone, and at a 50-fold lower price tag than existing solutions. At the heart of Butterfly iQ is a highly integrated semiconductor chip, which is the key enabler of the compact form factor, the high bandwidth for multi-modal versatility, and the low power consumption. Just this October, less than 2 years from the first product release, Butterfly introduced iQ+ that brings better, faster imaging, and new powerful features like needle visualization, and auto bladder volume measurement.

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NECINA, short for New England Chinese Information and Network Association, is the most established and influential high-tech professional organization in New England of the United States. Founded in 1996 as a non-profit organization, NECINA set its mission to facilitate professional career development, nourish entrepreneurship, and bridge the business and culture gap between the U.S. and China. NECINA hosts conferences, workshops, job fairs, and various special programs every year, serving more than 4,000 members from diverse industries such as software, telecommunications, networking, bioinformatics, FinTech, robotics, investment, and law. Also, NECINA has partnered with local professional associations, research institutions, and universities for events promotion, co-hosting, and resource sharing. For more information on NECINA, please visit our website by using the QR Code below: 

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      2020注定是不平凡的一年，疫情肆虐导致求职市场动荡不安，站在风口浪尖的我们该如何应对改变？

      无论你在职场的哪一个阶段，Soft Skill都是不可忽视的重要因素，哪些Soft Skill是成为职场赢家的关键？我们又该如何武装自己，锻炼自己的Soft Skill？

       作为留学生，或是第一代移民，我们该如何突破文化障碍，找到心仪的工作？在此基础上，我们又应如何大胆设立职业目标，朝公司最高层发展？

       跟我们很多人一样，George只身一人以留学生身份来到美国，他将分享他是如何一步步通过努力成为MaloneBailey LLP公司的合伙人，又是如何打破文化障碍，实现职业目标。

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George Qin, CPA, CMA, MBA, Audit/Equity Partner at MaloneBailey

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     MaloneBailey LLP审计合伙人和管理合伙人。作为负责上市公司及非上市公司的审计业务的合伙人，George在IPO审计领域尤其是中概股美国IPO审计方面在业界享有很高的声誉。在中美高规格财经媒体上接收采访并发表专业意见， 如美国的<华尔街日报>以及中国的<财经杂志>。George于1993年赴美留学，曾任职于四大会计师事务所中的PWC, LLP 以及Deloitte & Touche, LLP，在行业工作仅十年后通过自己努力成为MaloneBailey LLP合伙人。

活动流程

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Venue: Zoom Meeting

 

12:00pm - 12:05pm

Opening Remark: 

Connie Dai, President, NECINA

12:05pm - 12:10pm 

Moderator introduces guest

12:10pm - 12:45pm

Presentation and Discussion: 

George Qin

12:45pm - 1:00pm

Q&A

Any questions, please contact: career@necina.org

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NECINA Career and Professional Development team hosts the career Bootcamp series ONLINE involving highly accomplished professionals as guest speakers to share their career development experience. During the interaction with the speakers and NECINA community members, you can gain insight from their stories.

NECINA CAREER BOOTCAMP

NECINA

Welcome to our freshly embarked NECINA Career Bootcamp. 

Please use the QR Code below to sign up at Eventbrite:

About this Event

On a monthly basis, the NECINA Career and Professional Development team will host the career Bootcamp series ONLINE involving highly accomplished professionals as guest speakers to share their career development experience. During the interaction with the speakers and NECINA community members, you can gain insight from their success and learn lessons from the failure.

If you are contemplating a career path straddles across U.S. and China; if you want to know what it takes to thrive in global business; if you want to learn how to anticipate and embrace uncertainties, or you strive to keep your key principles while adapting to unexpected changes.

You should NOT MISS this event!

Event agenda

7:00 pm - 7:05 pm

Opening Remark: Connie Dai, President, NECINA

7:05 pm – 7:10 pm

Moderator introduces guest

7:10 pm - 7:40 pm

Presentation and Discussion: Lei Sun

7:40 pm – 8:00 pm

Q&A

QUESTIONS? 

Email to: career@necina.org

Our first Series will feature Lei Sun, currently VP of Finance in Tufts Health Plan. Mr. Sun has two decades of experience in corporate finance serving companies across healthcare, consumer products, and services as well as Internet O2O sectors in China and the U.S.

Prior to joining Tufts Health Plan, Lei served as the CFO and SVP for Boston based Overseas Adventure Travel managing annual sales of $200M. Previously, he was the CFO for Dianping from 2014 to 2015 where he was in charge of raising capital as well as getting the company financial and accounting practices ready for public offering. While with Converse, Lei supervised all aspects of Converse China & APAC’s finance functions and developed a regional growth strategy to support its wholesale, retail, and licensing business. From 2007 to 2009 Lei was the Finance Director at ARAMARK, leading the 2008 Beijing Olympic Catering project. Earlier in his career, Lei also worked for Cigna in the U.S. and Andersen Consulting(Accenture) in China.

Lei holds a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and an MBA in Finance from the University of Virginia. He is also a CFA Charterholder.

NECINA, short for New England Chinese Information and Network Association, is the most established and influential high-tech professional organization in New England of the United States. Founded in 1996 as a non-profit organization, NECINA set its mission to facilitate professional career development, nourish entrepreneurship, and bridge the business and culture gap between U.S. and China. NECINA hosts conferences, workshops, job fair, and various special programs every year, serving more than 4,000 members from diverse industries such as software, telecommunications, networking, bioinformatics, FinTech, robotics, investment, and law. Also, NECINA has partnered with local professional associations, research institutions and universities for events promotion, co-hosting and resource sharing. For more information on NECINA, please visit our website by using below QR Code: 

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NECINA is launching Innovation Challenge Competition

NECINA is launching a revolutionary Innovation Challenge competition in October of 2020. The challenge is open for individuals or a team of individuals of 16 and older. Our goal is to stimulate and encourage creative and innovative ideas to alleviate a pain or respond to a need in a product or process. You will have access to NECINA’s vast resources to help turn your idea to a feasible solution.

15th Youth Entrepreneurship Service (YES) Program is coming

NECINA, Massachusetts – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, New England Chinese Information and Network Association (“NECINA”) will kick off its signature YES program for year 2020. Register at EventBrite to save your spot.

Any questions, please contact YES@necina.org.

Overview

Founded in 2005, Youth Entrepreneurship Service (YES) Program is designed for high school students to learn entrepreneurship and leadership skills through interactive workshops with instructors and out of class mentorship by mentors. Students are taught and motivated to discover their passion in science, technology, business and philanthropy, explore opportunities and recognize fundamentals of startups. From the 10-class workshops, students learn to choose teammates, work in teams, develop business ideas and participate in a business plan contest. The program will cover Business Plans, Product Conceptualization, Company Structure, Finance, Sales and Marketing, Public Speaking and Presentation skills. Each session will be facilitated by an instructor who introduces to students a specific entrepreneurial skill or characteristics and how they can be applied in the real world. Winning teams voted by a judge panel will not only win cash prizes but may be awarded internship opportunities by corporations.

Why YES

Think Differently – Learn to listen, think, and act as a founder, creator, and team member.. Build Business Knowledge – Gain knowledge not included in the high school curriculum. Discover solutions – Explore technology trends to help solve real problems. Team Building – Build and manage strong teams with your peers. Pitch idea – Prepare and present your IDEAs to a panel of judges. Internship – Be considered for internships at our sponsor companies.

Schedule and Curriculum Saturdays 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

10/17/2020 Entrepreneurship 101 10/31/2020 Ideation 11/14/2020 Market Validation 12/12/2020 Sales and Marketing 01/09/2021 Accounting & Finance 01/23/2021 Mentorship Session 1 02/06/2021 Mentorship Session 2< 02/27/2021 Mentorship Session 3 03/13/2021 Mock Competition 03/27/2021 Final Competition

Information Session on September 26th, 2020

Save your spot for online info session on September 26th

9:00am – 12:00pm Showcase yourself and team formation YES Program overview Introduction to business Ideation and market validation 1:00pm – 4:00pm Learning about sales and marketing, accounting and finance Mentor-ship session to help teams create business ideas from scratch Final presentation

Program Fee

The program fee is $100 per student. Every registered student will be granted a one-year NECINA membership. The first session is free for everyone to give you a taste of what YES program is like. If you would like to continue the remaining of the program, each student shall then pay the program fee. By registering for YES, you consent that pictures or videos featuring you may be chosen to publish for NECINA marketing purposes. NECINA has attracted thousands of people from all over the world since its establishment in 1996. They join NECINA family for conferences, projects, trainings, engagements, workshops, special interest clubs and seminars on most trendy and traditional topics in technology, entrepreneurship, career development, and professional networking during more than two decades. All projects and activities were initiated, created and executed ted by volunteers. We kept the consistence in team building, technology support and projects implementation through well-established NECINA platform. Most importantly, every volunteer gained not only valuable experience and essential skills that can be applied to any endeavor he takes, but also life- long friendships and relationships. Become our premium member by scanning the QR code. Save the Date - June 27  NECINA 2020 Annual Conference

Innovation Under Pandemic -- NECINA 2020 Annual Conference

NECINA 2020 Annual Conference

Innovation Under Pandemic

How technologies help us transition towards new normal?

Date: June 27 Saturday, 2020 Time: 9:30 am– 15:00 EDT Venue: Online (Zoom meeting ID will be provided after registration on EventBrite) Registration:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/necina-annual-conference-2020-tickets-109549595790?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch Cost: Free to all NECINA community members and invited guests. Overview: COVID 19 is a pandemic, as declared by WHO. It has changed so many aspects of our lives. Most of NECINA community members were forced to work from home during this on-going pandemic. It has been a truly global crisis, not just a public health, but in so many fronts. However, life must go on, so must innovation. We must face the challenges caused by this unprecedented crisis, and continue to innovate and development or improve modern technologies so that we can move on as a society. So even though COVID 19 has made so much damage, but it also presented us an opportunity not only tackle the virus, but also increase the efficiency and productivity, as well as to improve our quality of life.    On Saturday June 27, NECINA Annual Conference will be held online for the first time ever in 24 years of NECINA history. We will focus on the theme of  “Innovation under pandemic - how technologies help us transition towards new normal”. We have invited distinguished speakers such as the chairman of NECINA board Cheng Wu, a successful serial entrepreneur and well-acclaimed industry veteran;  Sridhar Iyengar, CEO and Founder of Elemental Machines; Rob Toomey, CEO and co-founder of Type-Coach, Andrew Yu, Founder and CTO of Modo Labs; Sean Li, CEO and co-founder of CaterCow.com; And Dr. Mingsheng Hong of Google. You are cordially invited to join us on Zoom. Please register on EventBrite to receive your Zoom meeting ID and updated information. See you on June 27! Agenda 9:30-9:35  Open Remark, By Harry Gao, President, NECINA 9:35-9:45  Post COVID-19 Innovation, By Cheng Wu, Chairman, NECINA Board 9:45 – 10:15 What Pharma can Learn from Tesla, By Sridhar Iyengar, CEO and Founder, Elemental Machines 10:15-10:45 Remote team communication and engagement Innovations: Tools & Best Practice, By Rob Toomey, CEO and co-founder, Type-Coach 10:45-11:10  TBD, By Andrew Yu, Founder and CTO, Modo Labs 11:10 – 11:30  Listening and pivoting to what the market asks: from charity work to changing business models, By Sean Li, CEO and co-founder, CaterCow.com 11:30 – 11:50  The future of Big data and AI, By Dr. Mingsheng Hong, AI & Big Data expert, Google 11:50 – 12:00  NECINA organization culture By Chikong Shue, Founding member, NECINA Board 12:00 – 12:30  YES 14 Awards + winning team demo 12: 30 – 12:45   NECINA Officer Award 12: 45 – 13:00   NECINA new president speech ***** Extended Online Networking ***** 13:00 – 13:30    Lunch break (on your own) 13:30 – 15:30    Social Networking Event (open to all NECINA community members) Speakers: Cheng Wu  Chairman, NECINA Board Cheng Wu was CEO and co-founder at Azuki, responsible for the company’s vision, corporate strategy and setting the overall direction in the marketplace. Cheng is a successful serial entrepreneur and well-acclaimed industry veteran, having founded and led numerous businesses spanning a range of different industries. Azuki was sold to Ericsson in 2014. Before that, Cheng served as Chairman of Acopia Networks, a leader in high-performance, intelligent file virtualization solutions, which was acquired by F5 Networks for $210M in September, 2007. Cheng founded and became Chairman of Acopia Networks in December, 2001 after leaving Cisco Systems. He joined Cisco Systems in June 2000 through Cisco’s $5.7B acquisition of ArrowPoint Communications, where he held various executive positions, including Group VP and General Manager of the Content and Multiservice Edge Group (CME). CME’s technology focus was to enable the migration of existing client-server multi-protocol networks toward high value, multiservice (data, voice, and video) architectures capable of supporting the next wave of e-business applications and edge services for Enterprise and service provider customers. Prior to joining Cisco, Cheng founded ArrowPoint Communications in 1997, where he served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer leading the company to a successful IPO in April of 2000 with annualized revenues of $250M. Preceding Cheng’s time with ArrowPoint, he founded Arris Networks, a Massachusetts based startup that developed high-density Internet access products that was acquired by Cascade Communications for $217M in May, 1996. He later served as Cascade (now Lucent Technologies) Communications’ Vice President for remote access engineering. https://www.necina.org/content/necina-leadership Sridhar Lyengar  CEO and Founder, Elemental Machines A serial entrepreneur in connected medical devices and wearables, Sridhar is focused on strategy and management at Elemental Machines. Previously, Sridhar was a founder and director of Misfit, makers of elegant wearable products, which was acquired by Fossil in 2015. Prior to Misfit, he founded AgaMatrix, a blood glucose monitoring company that made the world’s first medical device connecting directly to the iPhone. AgaMatrix shipped 15+ FDA-cleared medical products, 2B+ biosensors, 6M+ glucose meters, with partnerships with Apple, Sanofi, and Walgreens. Sridhar holds over 30 US and international patents and received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University as a Marshall Scholar. Beyond Elemental Machines, Sridhar has been known to run 13.1 miles on occasion and has sometimes been spotted on stage behind a wall of drums. https://elementalmachines.io/company/team/ Rob Toomey  CEO and co-founder, Type-Coach After five years as a corporate attorney for two different large firms in Boston, Rob's career took a major pivot in 2004 when he began providing coaching and training centered around practical applications of personality type. He has personally coached and trained thousands of executives, leaders, and sales professionals in Japan, Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Sweden, and throughout the United States. His first company, An Extraordinary Life was formed in January 2004 and remains focused on assisting professionals through complex career transitions. In 2005, Rob joined forces with SpeedReading People, growing its client list to include more than 20 Fortune 500 firms. TypeCoach represents the latest incarnation of Rob's focus on delivering personal and professional results through the application of personality type. Rob's law practice began with Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault and then with Weil, Gotshal & Manges in Boston, where he focused primarily on venture capital and leveraged buy-out transactions. He holds a B.A. with honors in both Philosophy and English Literature from Trinity College in Hartford, CT, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. Rob also holds a J.D. from Boston University School of Law. https://www.type-coach.com/team Andrew Yu  Founder and CTO, Modo Labs Andrew Yu is an expert on smartphones and mobile devices, with more than 17 years of Internet and mobile software experience in the U.S. and Asia. Prior to founding Modo Labs, Andrew led a team of mobile developers from MIT to create the MIT Mobile Framework, an open source project that started in 2007 to help universities create compelling mobile web applications. Andrew graduated from Harvard University in 1994 with a BA honors degree in physics and East Asian studies. He also studied electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. Andrew also serves on Modo Labs’ board of directors. https://www.modolabs.com/team-member/andrew-yu/ Sean Li  CEO and co-founder, CaterCow.com Sean Li is the cofounder and CEO of CaterCow, a food delivery website where you can order catering from local restaurants. Since the pandemic, with business revenues down 98%+, Sean has pivoted the focus of his team to donate thousands meals to the hospital frontline from local restaurant partners across Boston, NYC, DC, SF, and LA. With the health scare hopefully subsiding, the CaterCow team is currently working on a big project that Sean hopes will reinvent how food delivery works in a sustainable and fair way to both restaurants and diners. Sean was born in Beijing, immigrated to the US at 5-years old, and grew up in Atlanta. He graduated from Princeton University and worked in investment banking at Morgan Stanley before CaterCow. Mingsheng Hong  AI & Big Data Expert, Google Dr. Mingsheng Hong leads the engineering work of Google's TensorFlow runtime, the AI infrastructure. Prior to this role, Mingsheng worked in Big Data engineering leadership roles at Google, Hadapt and HP Vertica. During his five years at Massachusetts in 2008-2013, Mingsheng was fortunate to volunteer at NECINA and served as its 17th President during the 2012-2013 term. Mingsheng obtained his Computer Science Ph.D. degree at Cornell University, and co-founded the Microsoft CEDR research project, commercialized as SQL Server StreamInsight. Mingsheng has given talks, lectures and demos at industry and academic forums such as TensorFlow Developer Summit, Hadoop World, and Harvard Business School. Chi Kong Shue  Chairman and President of SDSC Global Foundation and CentriHall, Inc. He has also been involved in the hi-tech venture and private equity investments in Taiwan, China and U.S. since 2002. He had been the Executive Vice President at Sycamore Networks (1998-2003) responsible for the R&D of intelligent optical transport & switching systems and Asia market development. Prior to Sycamore, he was the VP at Ascend Communications and a Co-Founder of Cascade, and the Vice President of Engineering. Both Sycamore and Cascade had very successful IPO’s (SCMR and CSCC on NASDAQ) in 1999 and 1994 respectively. Mr. Shue had served at Open Software Foundation and Wang Laboratories, Inc. from 1978 to 1989. Mr. Shue was born in Taiwan. He received a B.S.E.E. from ChiaoTung University in Taiwan in 1974, and an MS Degrees in both Computer Sciences and Operations Research from the Pennsylvania State University in 1978. He also studied in Sloan Graduate School of Management at M.I.T. in 1979. Mr. Shue received the Asian-American Achievement Award from the University of Massachusetts in 1998 for his contributions to the economic and social development of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He served as the President of NECINA in 2000 and as a Board Director since 1998. Mr. Shue currently holds three U.S. data communication patents and is a member of IEEE and OSA. https://www.necina.org/content/necina-leadership Harry Gao  President (2019-2020), NECINA Dr. Harry Gao is the president of NECINA for 2019-2020. He has been serving as the chair of NECINA Entrepreneur Programs – Entrepreneur Club (E Club), NECINA Entrepreneur Workshop (NEW), Youth Entrepreneur Service (YES) for many years. Dr. Gao has more than 25 years of diverse professional experience as a researcher, engineer, manager, international sales director, and business owner. Dr. Gao had worked for many famous companies such as Danaher, ThermoFisher (formerly known as Thermo Electron) etc. Dr. Harry Gao is the founder and President of GNW International, a technology company based in MA. Dr. Harry Gao is passionate about helping young professionals and students in career advancement and development, entrepreneurship and business development, particularly based on innovations in technology with huge market potentials.  Dr. Gao received a Ph.D. in Physics from University of Massachusetts Lowell. Connie Dai  President-elect (2020), NECINA Attorney Connie Dai advises emerging to well-established companies on corporate, investment, business transactions, trademark, trade secrets and employment legal matters. She also represents clients in the State and Federal courts as well as before private arbitration and mediations. Before practicing law, Connie advised and counseled business and& start-ups on marketing and growth strategies, financing options and operation optimization, and has negotiated business engagements on behalf of client companies. Earlier in her career, she oversaw the enforcement of anti-trademark infringement efforts by Coca-Cola China, as well as participated in joint venture negotiations that led to the establishment of several Coca-Cola bottling companies in China. Connie has an M.B.A. from University of Calgary and J.D from Suffolk Law School . She is an avid reader, half marathon runner, skier and tennis player. Join NECINA as a Member today to receive free tickets to all NECINA conferences in a year! About NECINA  NECINA (www.necina.org) is nonprofit organization that was founded 24 years ago by a group of highly successful entrepreneurs. Our mission is to nourish entrepreneurship, facilitate professional career development, and bridge the business and culture gap between New England and Greater China. As a non-profit organization, we have a subscription contact base of over 5000 people. We run 40+ events per year, and help startup companies raise hundreds of million dollars. The return from Companies founded by our members has been over $10 billion dollars. Our former speakers include Dean of MIT Sloan School of Management, Chairman and CEO of Qihoo 360, Chairman and President of Oriza Holdings, Partners of Atlas Venture, President of IEEE. Just to name a few. We also have built partnership with the companies like Dell Computer (EMC), Constant Contact, KPMG, Delta Air Lines, NetBrain, etc. Overview NECINA 2020 annual conference will be held on Saturday June 27 in the morning on Zoom. The theme of the annual conference is “Innovation under pandemic - how technologies help us transition towards new normal”. You are invited to join us. The topics of speech include but not limited to: - New mobility under pandemic; - New developments in robot and sensing industry - Tele medicine - Crisis and opportunities in education - Technology pros and cons for contact tracing - How AI, big Data help us improve efficiency in all business including modern logistics - how can we transition towards a “contactless“ society when we still try to live and do business normally? Please mark your calendar and join us on the first ever NECINA annual conference held online.

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Date/Time:   June 27 (Saturday), 2020 / 9:30am– 1:00pm Venue: Online Zoom meeting Registration is required: on EventBrite (for Zoom meeting ID)   Fee: Free to all NECINA community members

Agenda (Tentative) 9:30-9:35AM Open Remark: Harry Gao, NECINA President  9:35-9:45AM Cheng Wu, Chairman, NECINA Board 9:45 – 10:15AM keynote speaker: CEO of Elemental Machines 10:15-10:45 AM keynote speaker: CEO of Type-Coach 10:45-11:10 AM Speaker: Founder and CTO of Modo Labs 11:10 – 11:30 AM Speaker: CEO of CaterCow.com 11:30 – 11:50 AM Speaker: AI & Big Data expert from Google 11:50 AM – 12:00PM NECINA founding board member: Chikang Shue 12:00 – 12:30AM YES 14 Awards + winning team demo  12: 30 – 12:45 NECINA officer award 12: 45 – 1:00pm: NECINA new president speech 1:00 – 1:30 pm Lunch break  1:30 – 3:30 pm NECINA online social party (everyone will speak for a few minutes)

Speakers (Bios TBA soon)

Cheng Wu, Chairman, NECINA Board Sridhar Iyengar, CEO and Founder of Elemental Machines (https://elementalmachines.io/ ) Rob Toomey, CEO and co-founder of Type-Coach (https://www.type-coach.com/ ) Andrew Yu, Founder and CTO of Modo Labs (https://www.modolabs.com/) Sean Li, CEO and co-founder of CaterCow.com (www.catercow.com) Dr. Mingsheng Hong, Senior Staff, AI & Big Data expert from Google Chikang Shue, NECINA founding board member  Event Organizer Join NECINA as a Member today to receive Free tickets to all NECINA conferences in a year!

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New Technologies –AI, Big Data, New Energy Overview NECINA is hosting a series of Career Panels to equip you with proven career tips and techniques necessary to take you to the next level! With one click on your mobile device, you will hear from multiple seasoned senior executives share their diversified career paths, experiences, anecdotes, lessons learned, achievements made, difficulties overcome, and how they arrived at the pinnacles of their professional life! You can also interact with the panelists in Q&A session. You will gain priceless career suggestions and tips without worrying about contracting Covid-19 and do it with more than sufficient social distancing! Don't miss this great opportunity, register early, seats are limited.  The fourth Zoom panel discussion, featuring three (3) distinguished management and executives in latest technologies, will be held on Thursday, May 28, 2020, from 8 PM to 9:30 PM. The panelists are Dr. Billy Zhang, Tech Frontiers-AI/IoT/Renewable Energy, Dr. Mingsheng Hong, Senior Staff Software Engineer, TensorFlow and Google Brain, and Michael Gionfriddo, Product Manager, Mobility AI, Affeciva. The moderator will be Aaron Wen, a graduate student at Bentley university.  Aaron is also a NECINA officer. Detail Date/Time:   May 28 (Thursday), 2020 / 8:00pm– 9:30pm Venue: Online Zoom meeting Zoom meeting ID:  Contact harry.gao@necina.org for meeting ID & questions. Fee: Free to all NECINA community members Agenda 8:00 pm - 8:05 pm  Open Remark: NECINA President Dr. Harry Gao 8:05 pm – 8:10 pm Panel Discussion moderator: Aaron Wen  8:10 pm - 9:00 pm  Panel presentation and discussion: Dr. Billy Zhang, Dr. Mingsheng Hong, Michael Gionfriddo  9:00 pm – 9:30 pm Q&A Bios of Panelists and Moderator Billy Zhang Tech Frontiers-AI/IoT/Renewable Energy Billy Zhang is an independent director, who Advises other entrepreneurs, investors and governments in China on strategy, operations and fundraising, with all things smart, including smart energy, smart cities, smart healthcare, smart education, smart manufacturing, smart eCommerce, etc. Prior to becoming an independent director, Billy was Vice President at Demand Energy Networks, a Greater Seattle Area. As Vice President, Billy Articulated new paradigm of smart energy for energy efficiency to government officials charged with setting energy policies, senior executives in utilities and business leaders in C&I enterprises including nuclear, hydro, solar and wind. From 2009 to 2012, Billy was Managing Director China and Director of Sales Performance & Operations at Alstom Grid, which was renamed as GE Grid Solution, a subsidiary of GE. Billy led a global virtual team to land first-ever sale of energy management enterprise software solution for energy management into Global 100 utility key account. Besides, he led sales team through leadership in implementing sales effectiveness and efficiency processes on Salesforce.com to sustain €320 million in revenues in very tough business environment. Billy Zhang holds his Ph.D. in Material Science & Engineering at The Johns Hopkins University, MBA, Marketing at University of Maryland, and Bachelor of Science in Physics at Shandong University, China.  Mingsheng Hong Senior Staff Software Engineer, TensorFlow and Google Brain Dr. Mingsheng Hong is Tech Lead / Manager at Google, focused on developing TensorFlow, the AI infrastructure. Prior to this role, Mingsheng worked in Big Data engineering leadership roles at Google and was Chief Data Scientist at Hadapt and served as CTO at HP Vertica. During his five years at Massachusetts from 2008 to 2013, Mingsheng was an active volunteer at NECINA and served as the President during the 2012-2013 term. Mingsheng obtained his Computer Science Ph.D. degree at Cornell University, and co-founded the Microsoft CEDR research project, commercialized as SQL Server StreamInsight. Mingsheng has given talks, lectures and demos at industry and academic forums such as TensorFlow Developer Summit, Hadoop World, and Harvard Business School. He also holds Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at Fudan University. Michael Gionfriddo Product Manager, Mobility AI, Affeciva Michael Gionfriddo is a Product Manager at Affectiva, the pioneer in Human Perception AI, where he is working with the automotive industry to integrate AI technologies inside vehicles. After a couple technical roles at Fortune 500 companies, Michael has spent the majority of his career working with Boston startups to apply technical innovations to new technologies and markets. Prior to joining Affectiva, Michael was Autonomous Electrification Program Manager at WitTricity from 2016 to 2019. When Michael isn't solving technical challenges, he enjoys adventuring with his wife, Maria, and lego building with his twin toddlers. Michael gained Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Electrical Engineering at The University of Connecticut in 2007.  Aaron Wen Graduate Student, Bentley University Aaron is a graduate student with a major in Taxation at Bentley University. He was an Accounting intern at HooliHome Boston and an AP and T&E expense intern at Dassault Systems in Waltham. Aaron is now in his early career and he will be our moderator for this career panel talk.  Event Organizer NECINA (www.necina.org) is nonprofit organization that was founded 24 years ago by a group of highly successful entrepreneurs. Our mission is to nourish entrepreneurship, facilitate professional career development, and bridge the business and culture gap between New England and Greater China. Visit NECINA website As a non-profit organization, we have a subscription contact base of over 4500 people. We run 40+ events per year, and help startup companies raise hundreds of million dollars. The return from Companies founded by our members has been over $10 billion dollars. Our former speakers include Dean of MIT Sloan School of Management, Chairman and CEO of Qihoo 360, Chairman and President of Oriza Holdings, Partners of Atlas Venture, President of IEEE. Just to name a few. We also have built partnership with the companies like Dell Computer (EMC), Constant Contact, KPMG, Delta Air Lines, NetBrain, etc. Join Us！ Join NECINA as a Member today to receive free tickets to all NECINA conferences in a year! JOIN NECINA‌ NECINA Career Panel Discussion - #3 Risk Management/Quantitative/Taxation

Overview NECINA is hosting a series of Career Panels to equip you with proven career tips and techniques necessary to take you to the next level! With one click on your mobile device, you will hear from multiple seasoned senior executives share their diversified career paths, experiences, anecdotes, lessons learned, achievements made, difficulties overcome, and how they arrived at the pinnacles of their professional life! You can also interact with the panelists in Q&A session. You will gain priceless career suggestions and tips without worrying about contracting Covid-19 and do it with more than sufficient social distancing! Don't miss this great opportunity, register early, seats are limited.  The third Zoom panel discussion, featuring three (3) distinguished managers and executives in taxation, quantitative analysis and risk management field, will be held on Thursday, May 21, 2020, from 8 PM to 9:30 PM. The panelists are Xiaofeng (Frank) Xia, Founder and CEO, Pine Grove Capital, Rui Zhang, AVP & Actuary, John Hancock Financial Services, and Julia Jiang, Tax Manager, Amazon. The moderator will be Jianyi (Johnny) Liao, NECINA Officer and Sales Order Administrator, VMWare.

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Date/Time:   May 21 (Thursday), 2020 / 8:00pm– 9:30pm Venue: Online Zoom meeting Zoom meeting ID:  Contact harry.gao@necina.org for meeting ID & questions. Fee: Free to all NECINA community members

Agenda 8:00 pm - 8:05 pm  Open Remark: NECINA President Dr. Harry Gao 8:05 pm – 8:10 pm Panel Discussion moderator: Johnny Liao  8:10 pm - 9:00 pm  Panel presentation and discussion: Frank Xia, Rui Zhang, Julia Jiang  9:00 pm – 9:30 pm Q&A

Bios of Panelists and Moderator

Xiaofeng (Frank) Xia, CFA, Founder and CEO, Pine Grove Capital Frank is the founder and CEO of Pine Grove Capital, a Boston based hedge fund, focusing on quantitative investing using advanced machine learning techniques. He oversees all investing-related matters, including research, portfolio management, and product management at Pine Grove Capital.  Prior to founding PGC, Frank was Head of Quantitative Investments at Hong- Shang Asset Management, a Shanghai-based hedge fund with approximately USD 1 billion AUM. He was in charge of quantitative research and portfolio management.  From 2007 to 2017, Frank was a portfolio manager and analyst at Wellington Management Company in Boston, where he worked in the Quantitative Investment Group for almost 11 years. There he managed or co-managed four portfolios, Emerging Markets Systematic Equity, Global Low Volatility, Country Long/Short Alpha, and Event-Driven, with total AUM of $3.3 billion. Prior to coming to the U.S. in 2004, Frank worked for Oracle as software engineer for two years and was one of three founding members of Xunlei. Frank holds his bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Wuhan University and master's degrees in Applied Mathematics (Peking University), Mathematics (Emory University), and Computational Finance (Carnegie Mellon University).Frank holds his bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Wuhan University and master's degrees in Applied Mathematics (Peking University), Mathematics (Emory University), and Computational Finance (Carnegie Mellon University). Rui Zhang FSA, MAAA, Assistant Vice President & Actuary, John Hancock Financial Services Rui holds the position of Assistance Vice President, Experience Study with John Hancock Financial Services.  She is a fellow of the society of actuaries and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries.  At her current position, Rui has a leadership role as the head of the John Hancock Experience Study team, responsible for setting and monitoring experience for all product lines. Prior to this position, Rui lead the John Hancock’s IFRS valuation area responsible for financial reporting of the Long Term Care and Fixed Annuity products; and before that capital management area focusing on NAIC RBC capital, where she played a key role in developing capital management initiatives for the organization.  Holding an undergraduate degree in engineering, Rui attended Boston University where she received Master’s degree in Actuarial Science.  Rui began to work for John Hancock in 2000 as an actuarial student.  In the next several years, she rotated within the company and gained experience many actuarial functions including insurance product development, valuation, capital and risk management, and investment.  Rui received her fellowship from the society of actuaries in 2005.    Rui was also a part time faculty at Boston University Actuarial Science department between 2001 and 2014.

Julia Jiang CPA, Tax Manager, Amazon

Julia works as a tax manager specializing in Mergers and Acquisitions with Amazon in Boston. Julia started her career in JPMorgan as a fund account. Shortly after, she found her interests in taxation and joined a small CPA firm in Wellesley. After that, she went to the Big Fours and spent almost 10 years in KPMG and EY. In 2017, she left EY as a Senior Tax Manager and joined Amazon tax team as a Tax Manager and specializes in Merger and Acquisition tax reporting. She gained her bachelor’s degree in China and obtained her MBA in Cambridge College in 2006. She is a member of American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a member of Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Jianyi Liao Sales Order Administrator, VMWare

Jianyi works as a sales order administrator at VMWare. He recently graduated from Bentley University with a bachelor’s degree of Finance. Before his current job, he was working at Ivy Media as an account payable associate. Jianyi is one of the founders of Chinese Young Professionals Association (CYPA), a student organization at Bentley University. He was also the director of marketing department at CYPA, a NECINA officer. Jianyi is now in his early career and he will be our moderate for this career panel talk.

Event Organizer NECINA (www.necina.org) is nonprofit organization that was founded 24 years ago by a group of highly successful entrepreneurs. Our mission is to nourish entrepreneurship, facilitate professional career development, and bridge the business and culture gap between New England and Greater China. Visit NECINA website

As a non-profit organization, we have a subscription contact base of over 4500 people. We run 40+ events per year, and help startup companies raise hundreds of million dollars. The return from Companies founded by our members has been over $10 billion dollars. Our former speakers include Dean of MIT Sloan School of Management, Chairman and CEO of Qihoo 360, Chairman and President of Oriza Holdings, Partners of Atlas Venture, President of IEEE. Just to name a few. We also have built partnership with the companies like Dell Computer (EMC), Constant Contact, KPMG, Delta Air Lines, NetBrain, etc.

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NECINA Career Panel Discussion  #2 Medical/Pharmaceutical Date/Time:   May 14 (Thursday), 2020 / 8:00pm– 9:30pm Venue: Online Zoom meeting Fee: Free to all NECINA community members  Contact: harry.gao@necina.org for Zoom ID & questions. Scan and Join the WeChat Group below for Zoom ID and more information. Overview         NECINA is hosting a series of Career Panels to equip you with proven career tips and techniques necessary to take you to the next level! With one click on your mobile device, you will hear from multiple seasoned senior executives share their diversified career paths, experiences, anecdotes, lessons learned, achievements made, difficulties overcome, and how they arrived at the pinnacles of their professional life! You can also interact with the panelists in Q&A session. You will gain priceless career suggestions and tips without worrying about contracting Covid-19 and do it with more than sufficient social distancing! Don't miss this great opportunity, register early, seats are limited.         The second Zoom panel discussion, featuring three (3) distinguished management and executives in medical device and pharmaceutical industry, will be held on Thursday, May 14, 2020, from 8 PM to 9:15 PM. The panelists are Dr. Mei Zhang, VP, Zyno Medical LLC; Dr. Chao Yang, Medical Safety Officer and Director, Depuy Synthes Spine, Johnson & Johnson; and Dr. Zhiyong Yang, Director, Biology, Johnson & Johnson R&D. The moderator will be Ru Zheng, Senior Business Intelligence Manager, Thermo Fisher Scientific, NECINA Board of Directors.   Agenda 8:00 pm - 8:05 pm - Open Remark: NECINA President Dr. Harry Gao 8:05 pm – 8:10 pm - Panel Discussion moderator: Ru Zheng  8:10 pm - 9:10 pm - Panel presentation and discussion: Mei Zhang, Chao Yang, Zhiyong Yang 9:10 pm – 9:30 pm Q&A Panelists and Moderator Dr. Mei Zhang, VP, Zyno Medical LLC         Dr. Mei Zhang is the Vice President of Quality Assurance, Regulatory Compliance and Engineering at Zyno Medical LLC. She leads R&D, sustaining engineering, manufacturing, quality assurance, global supplier management, and regulatory compliance for class II medical devices. Her passion for innovation has resulted in about 20 patents. She has successfully directed the team developing and obtaining FDA 510k clearance for multiple new medical device families. Prior to joining Zyno Medical, Mei worked at an engineering consulting firm, Metis Design Corporation and Sensata Technologies, a global leading supplier of sensing, electrical protection, control and power management solutions with operations and business centers in 12 countries. Mei obtained her PhD in Mechanical Engineering from SUNY at Stony Brook and completed her post-doctoral research at MIT. Dr. Chao Yang, MD, Medical Safety Officer and Director, Depuy Synthes Spine (Johnson & Johnson)         Dr. Yang currently works as Medical Safety Officer with Johnson & Johnson. He oversees product safety issues for Spine and Sports products. He also builds strategic medical affairs, sciences and safety stewardship for DePuy Synthes Orthopedics products in assessing potential safety signals. In addition, he develops and executes risk management in new product development and maintenance, provides medical expertise in Preliminary Risk Assessment (PRA), Health Hazards Evaluations (HHE), and Post-Market Surveillance plans (PMSPs) and report (PMSR). In addition, he serves as medical monitor in multiple clinical studies to provide medical perspective in study design and safety management. Provide product Risk-Benefit Assessment and review of Clinical Evaluation Report (CER).  Dr Yang has medical device industry experience for over 10 years with combined vision in clinical and business development.         Dr. Yang also possesses MD degree with more than 10 years of surgical/orthopedics practices (Spine) and 4-year post-doctoral research training at Mayo Clinic. Dr. previously worked at Kimberly-Clark Roswell, GA as a Medical Director / Associate Medical Director. He was the only medical director of KC Healthcare.  He is a product vigilance expert for safety evaluation and risk management activities for marketed and investigational products. He implemented regulatory requirement and quality procedures into the product safety review. He provided clinical decision in MDR, medical evaluation (ME), health hazard evaluation (HHE) and field action, risk management documents including FMEA. Dr. Yang was awarded of Ten Best doctors issued by Tianjin Red Cross Hospital in 1998 and 1999.  Dr. Yang earned a Mini MBA in Medical Technology Management: Strategies for Medical Technology Company Growth from St. Thomas University Minneapolis, MN. He also has a Doctor of Medicine (MD), Medicine from Tianjin Medical University Tianjin, China. Dr. Zhiyong Yang, Director, Biology, Johnson & Johnson R&D         Dr. Zhiyong Yang is a Director of Biology (Metabolic Complications) at Johnson & Johnson R&D. Prior to joining J&J in 2018, Dr. Yang had a combined 18 years of drug discovery research experience, with roles as a Senior Scientist, Principal Scientist, Senior Principal Scientist, and Associate Research Fellow at Wyeth and Pfizer, mostly in the Inflammation and Immunology research fields.  Dr. Yang has extensive experience in leading research groups as well as cross-functional drug discovery project teams, with goals to develop novel therapeutics (both small molecules and antibodies) to treat chronic kidney diseases, chronic liver diseases, and inflammatory diseases associated with the lung and the joint.         Dr. Yang received his bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from Nankai University in 1989, and his Ph.D. degree in molecular/cell biology from Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1995. He then conducted post-doctoral research at Yale University and Harvard University in the fields of gene regulation, signal transduction and inflammation. In 2014-2015, Dr. Yang served as the president of Chinese American BioMedical Association. Ru Zheng, Senior Business Intelligence Manager, Thermo Fisher Scientific         Ru Zheng is a natural relationship builder and enjoys bringing out the best of others. As a certified Dale Carnegie Trainer with over 10 years of training experience, she is passionate about communication and leadership training, team building and executive coaching.         As a Sr. Business Intelligence Manager in a Global Fortune 500 company, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Corporation, Ru oversees a global sales analytics team for the company’s Lab Product Group, a $1.6 billion division. She has over twenty years of business leadership experience in various functions, including Supply Chain strategic sourcing, Supplier management, Process Improvement, Financial Strategic Planning and Analysis, ERP deployment, Sales Operation, Strategic Pricing, and Client Relation Management and Researching, Team Building and Organization Development and Sales Training. Event Organizer Join NECINA as a Member today to receive free tickets to all NECINA conferences in a year! About NECINA          NECINA (www.necina.org) is a nonprofit organization that was founded 24 years ago by a group of highly successful entrepreneurs. Our mission is to nourish entrepreneurship, facilitate professional career development, and bridge the business and culture gap between New England and Greater China.         As a non-profit organization, we have a subscription contact base of over 5000 people. We run 40+ events per year and help startup companies raise hundreds of million dollars. The return from Companies founded by our members has been over $10 billion dollars. Our former speakers include Dean of MIT Sloan School of Management, Chairman and CEO of Qihoo 360, Chairman and President of Oriza Holdings, Partners of Atlas Venture, President of IEEE. Just to name a few.         We also have built partnership with companies like Dell Computer (EMC), Constant Contact, KPMG, Delta Air Lines, NetBrain, etc. Reads 9 NECINA Career Panel Discussion - #1 Essential Skills for Career Advance and Success Overview Are you a recent graduate, a young professional, or mid-career advancer? Are you working from home due to the Shelter in Order or figuring out your next career move? Covid-19 can isolate you in the house, but it shall not diminish your enthusiasm to learn and put in use various essential skills and techniques needed to advance and grow your career – networking, communication, collaboration and team work, creative and critical thinking, leadership, initiative, integrity, problem solving, the list goes on. NECINA is hosting a series of Career Panels to equip you with proven career tips and techniques necessary to take you to the next level! With one click on your mobile device, you will hear from multiple seasoned senior executives share their diversified career paths, experiences, anecdotes, lessons learned, achievements made, difficulties overcome, and how they arrived at the pinnacles of their professional life! You can also interact with the panelists in Q&A session. You will gain priceless career suggestions and tips without worrying about contracting Covid-19 and do it with more than sufficient social distancing! Don't miss this great opportunity, register early, seats are limited！ The first panel discussion of Essential Skills for Career Advance and Success will be held through Zoom on Thursday. Three panelists are David Hosmer, Executive Career Coach, Tony Ho, VP, Global Business Development, Segway, NECINA board member, and Huijuan Li, Executive Director, Moderna Inc. The moderator will be Connie Dai, Partner, Cutler & Wilensky, LLP, Vice President of NECINA. Detail Date/Time : May 7 (Thursday), 2020 / 8:00pm– 9:30pm Venue: Online Zoom meeting Zoom meeting ID:  929 651 7048 Fee: Free to all NECINA community members Contact harry.gao@necina.org for any questions.  Agenda 8:00 pm - 8:05 pm  Open Remark: NECINA President Dr. Harry Gao 8:05 pm – 8:10 pm Panel Discussion moderator: Connie Dai 8:10 pm - 9:10 pm  Panel presentation and discussion: David Hosmer, Huijuan Li, Tony Ho 9:10 pm – 9:30 pm Q&A Panelists and moderator David Hosmer Ed.M., CPLP, CCM David Hosmer has 25 years of experience in varied industries in the areas of organization development (OD); diversity and inclusion; management and leadership coaching; and talent development. 15 years as director in several renowned domestic and global organizations. Mr. Hosmer specializes in OD consulting, executive coaching, career services—exploration, advisory, planning, resume writing, and interview preparation; design and facilitation of learning programs at the micro and macro levels. In addition, he has extensive experience in developing and delivering practical workshops to hundreds of participants globally. Speech topic includes diversity and inclusion/unconscious bias; creating individual development plans; strategic thinking, team building, coaching employees, leadership/management development, and more. Mr. Hosmer worked in leadership positions at MIT, Charles River Laboratories, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Wyeth (Pfizer), Boston Edison (Eversource)., Private Healthcare Systems, Fleet Boston (Bank of America), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Mr. Hosmer has a Master of Education degree from Harvard Graduate School of Education, a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Boston University, and Personal and Professional Coaching from Cambridge College. Mr. Hosmer published many books as follows: ♦ Surfacing Bias for Better Career Coaching, Career Convergence, 2019 ♦ Managing Your Career Chapter in Finding Your Fit. Best Seller Published by ATD. 2016 ♦The Manager’s Guide to Employee Development. TD @ Workbook published by ATD, 2015 ♦ How to Gain Support for Employee Development. ATD, 2015 ♦Why Employee Development is a Necessity” 5 Most Popular Posts of 2015. ATD, 2015 ♦Cascading Coaching: Building a Culture of Peer Development. OD Practitioner, 2006 Huijuan Li Ph.D. Head of Analytical Development, Moderna Inc. Dr. Huijuan Li is currently Head of Analytical Development at Moderna Inc. Her responsibilities are to develop science-driven, phase appropriate and risk-based analytical development strategies to support development projects from lead optimization, candidate nomination to clinical development and commercial manufacture. She oversees analytical method development, transfer, qualification and validation characterization and applications to process and product development from discovery through to regulatory filing of mRNA therapeutics and vaccines. She also leads CMC and development teams to work closely with discovery, preclinical and clinical teams for the development mRNA medicines. Prior to join Moderna, Dr. Huijuan Li was the Director in both Biologics Discovery (GlycoFi site) and later in Bioprocess Development, Merck Research Laboratory. Dr. Huijuan Li oversaw method development, characterization and applications to cell line, process and product development from early discovery to regulatory filing for all modalities of Biologics. Huijuan led CMC and development teams to work closely with discovery, preclinical and clinical teams for the development of biologics at all stages, including post approval technical, strategic support and life cycle management. She worked with physician scientists in oncology, infectious disease, diabetes, immunology and immune-oncology. Dr. Huijuan Li was involved in preparing various official and regulatory documents for regulatory and other agencies including IND, IMPD, BLAs, MAA and JNDA; Annual reports; handling of responses to regulatory agencies regarding questions of complex development issues including CMC, safety or efficacy. Dr. Huijuan Li and her team have successfully supported the development, regulatory filing and commercialization of two monoclonal antibodies, KEYTRUDA® and ZINPLAVATM. Dr. Huijuan Li also worked at Biotechnology Development at BMS briefly in supporting the manufacturing of ORENCIA®. Dr. Huijuan Li, together with her team, have published over 50 scientific papers in scientific journals and books, including Science, Nature Biotech, PNAS and Glycobiology. Huijuan has also published over 10 patent applications with one issued patent. Dr. Huijuan Li received her BSc in 1990 and MSc in 1993 from Lanzhou University, China. She received her PhD from University of Melbourne, Australia in 1998. From there she pursued her postdoctoral studies at Biology Department, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.  Dr. Huijuan Li currently serves on USP Expert Committee (2015-2020) and Sino-American Pharmaceutical Professionals Association–New England/Boston (SAPA-NE) Executive Committee (2018- present).  Tony Ho Vice President, Global Business Development, Segway Inc. Tony is leading Segway’s effort in developing mid to long term growth opportunities, and building strategic partnership with key players in the mobility ecosystem, including municipalities, infrastructure providers, automotive and tourism industries. Tony was a serial entrepreneur and an advisor to a number of early stage technology companies. He was formerly board member and Chief Operating Officer for Fangjia.com, a home valuation website based on big data and vertical search technology. Prior to that he was VP of Product and Director of Business Development for Myvu/MicroOptical, as well as other roles in technology early stage companies. Tony also worked for Procter & Gamble as a Manager in a variety of functions. Tony attended Harvard Business School where he earned his MBA, the University of Toronto, where he earned a M.Sc. Degree in Mechanical Engineering, and the University of Manitoba where he earned a B.Sc. Degree in Mechanical & Industrial Engineering. Tony was a long time NECINA alumni, and former VP before returning to China. He led the effort in successful launch of the first NECINA Business Plan Competition in 2005.  Connie C. Dai JD, MBA, Partner, Cutler & Wilensky, LLP Attorney Dai is a partner of law firm CUTLER & WILENSKY LLP. She represents clients with regards to dispute resolution including mediation, litigation in state and Federal courts, as well as before private arbitration. She has also mediated business disputes. Attorney Dai has handled cases involving partnership and investment transactions by Chinese and U.S. companies in breach of contract, misappropriate of trade secrets, and misappropriate of company funds. She also represents local companies in business and employment disputes. In addition, Attorney Dai is general counsel to emerging to well-established companies in private equity, biotech, language services, healthcare services, medical device, culture exchange, educational consulting, online shopping, medical research, and logistics. She has a B.A., Business English from Shanghai University and an M.B.A. from University of Calgary in Canada. She obtained the Juris Doctor degree from Suffolk University Law School in Boston. Attorney Dai has been honored by Super Lawyers. Attorney Dai was recognized as one of the Rising Stars in New England in 2014 for her expertise and experience in Business/Corporate law. She has been a volunteer officer with NECINA serving as a director for sponsor and partner development. She also speaks frequently about business and employment law in the entrepreneurship community in Greater Boston Area. Event Organizer NECINA (www.necina.org) is nonprofit organization that was founded 24 years ago by a group of highly successful entrepreneurs. Our mission is to nourish entrepreneurship, facilitate professional career development, and bridge the business and culture gap between New England and Greater China. Visit NECINA website As a non-profit organization, we have a subscription contact base of over 4500 people. We run 40+ events per year, and help startup companies raise hundreds of million dollars. The return from Companies founded by our members has been over $10 billion dollars. Our former speakers include Dean of MIT Sloan School of Management, Chairman and CEO of Qihoo 360, Chairman and President of Oriza Holdings, Partners of Atlas Venture, President of IEEE. Just to name a few. We also have built partnership with the companies like Dell Computer (EMC), Constant Contact, KPMG, Delta Air Lines, NetBrain, etc. Join Us！ Join NECINA as a Member today to receive free tickets to all NECINA conferences in a year! JOIN NECINA‌ See what's happening on our social sites:

How to Land A Job During the Uncertain Market Environment

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NECINA Webinar
How to Land A Job During the Uncertain Market Environment (Without Stress, Wasting Your Efforts & Not Knowing What Went Wrong)

疫情之下如何找工作

Date/Time: April 30(Thursday), 2020/5:30pm- 7:00pm

Venue: Online Zoom meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/6015850165928/WN_w0YTwVimTbiFL1n7Vm2M9A

Contact harry.gao@necina.org

Fee: Free to all NECINA community members 欢迎各求职者参加

Overview:

Have you been trying to apply for jobs extensively online for months, but couldn't land an interview?

Are you feeling disadvantaged because you need H1-B sponsorship and you don't have much related work experience in the US?

Or, you are just eager to find out what creative strategies you can use in the CHANGING & UNCERTAIN market environment———

You are invited to join the webinar on How to Land A Job During the Uncertain Market Environment (Without Stress, Wasting Your Efforts & Not Knowing What Went Wrong)

In this webinar, you will learn:

1.         The Latest Hiring Situation: The market changes day by day. Understand who is still hiring, how the recruiting process has changed and what should you do differently. 

2.        Effective Virtual Networking Strategies: Virtual conferences, virtual meetups, 1:1 zoom calls..... you can spend hours contacting people but most people won't get back to you. What are the most effective ways to make people open doors for you? 

3.          How to present yourself and package your stories to make you stand out during networking and interview: You only need to meet 60% of the qualifications to get a job, the rest of how to say it and you sell yourself. 

4.         Why Networking Is More Important Than Ever: 80% of the jobs were offered through networking.  The majority of the online applications go silent for months without any feedback. I will share with you my top strategies of landing 10 interviews without applying online.  

Agenda: 

5:30 - 5:35 pm Openremarks by NECINA president Dr. Harry Gao

5:35 - 6:30 pm Speaker: Dr.Nancy Li webinar

6:30 - 6:45 pm Q&A 

Speaker:

Dr. Nancy Li is an Entrepreneur, a Group Product Manager, and a YouTuber. She moved to the US with $800 in her pocket 10 years ago. Within just a few years, she became one of the youngest engineering PhDs and now she manages a team of senior product managers at Verizon. She is the only female manager in a 100-person product management organization. She is also an alumnus of BU and MIT. Her goal is to bring more diverse candidates to tech companies as product managers and tech leaders. You can learn more job hunting tactics at Nancy’s Youtube channel: Dr. Nancy Li and her website.  

尊敬的NECINA同仁及波士顿地区的华人同胞们：

        相信在过去的两个多月里，我们都曾彻夜不眠、急切关注中国发生的新冠肺炎病毒抗疫的实况，大家也非常踊跃地参与了由WeStar组织的波士顿地区华人、华侨献爱心、支援武汉的募捐活动！

        最近新冠肺炎病毒的魔爪伸向了世界、伸向了我们赖以生存的第二故乡美国家园，当我们从电视中看到麻州医院的医护人员由于没有PPE（Personal Protect Equipments)被感染的严重惨状，我们心如刀割、非常痛心。

        经董事会讨论决定立即从协会的紧急基金中拿出2万5千美元做为基数鼓励NECINA会员积极募捐，同时还得到董事会元老及NECINA 资深会员追加的各1万元美金捐款。总共4万5千的美金将以1:1的方式匹配到大家的捐款数额中。所有善款将用于捐助或者购买医疗物品支援麻州的医院，争取在联邦救援物资到达麻州前（最快两周）送到需要救助的医院，甚至直接捐款到相关医疗机构，以最快速度帮助到麻州的抗疫行动中。

       目前一个由董事会5位成员，管理团队5位主要负责人，加NECINA自愿者组成的抗疫募捐行动组的成员们正在连夜加班加点定购PPE。

        我们诚挚地希望得到大家的帮助、以积累更多的资金帮助麻州医院的白衣天使在奉行人道主义的同时保护好自己。您的任何爱️捐款，无论多少都会被感动😹，都会直接传递到医护的第一线。最后让我们团结起来、凝成一股绳、为美国的抗疫做出应有的贡献！

永远与您们站在一起的

NECINA抗疫募捐行动组

3/29/2020

You can make a difference to this unprecedented fight to Covid-19 with the generous support of NECINA! NECINA is solemnly pledging to match any amount of your donation DOLLAR TO DOLLAR up to an aggregated amount of $45,000 to healthcare facilities most need of protective personal equipment ("PPE") to cure Covid-19 patients. Out of this enormous matching amount, $25,000 is from NECINA's reserve, $10,000 is from a senior board of directors, and $10,000 from a NECINA alumni. NECINA is enthusiastically and aggressively responding to the surging and acute need for PPE by healthcare workers as a result of unexpected exacerbated fight against Covid-19. As of March 28, 2020, 4257 people have been tested positive and 44 death in Massachusetts. Many medical facilities have shortage of PPEs that would keep frontline medical professionals performing their jobs unprotected and unsafely. NECINA is matching up to $45,000 to the total donation and up to $500 for each donation. We have identified multiple healthcare facilities in Massachusetts who can benefit from your donations and NECINA's match up funds. NECINA will make our best effort to donate cash and/or PPEs to the healthcare facilities within the next Two (2) weeks. This is your chance to make a difference in this critical time. We need your donation within the next Ten (10) days as the need is at its peak right now. Your donation is tax deductible. No amount is small amount. Donation shall be sent to NECINA through one of the three ways below: Paypal at master.NECINA@gmail.com. BOA ACH Routing 011000138, Account number 000012262852. Pay by check, payable to NECINA, P.O. Box 715, Needham, MA 02494 When sending the money, leave your full name, e-mail, and address. NECINA will keep you updated on the total amount of donation, and the specific amount and/or number and types of PPEs being delivered to which healthcare facility. Established in 1996, NECINA is a 501(c)(3) non­profit organization founded by Chinese professionals in New England. It is a trailblazer in offering unmatchable value to its members by fostering entrepreneurship and leadership, facilitating career development and professional networks, promoting cutting edge technologies, and bridging gaps between high tech and other business communities between the United States and Asia. For more information about NECINA visit www.necina.org. Contact Harry Gao, President of NECINA, at harry.gao@necina.org for any inquiries. The impact of COVID-19 has affected all of us in some way.  It has done damage to many local businesses, some of which we frequent on a regular basis. NECINA has partnered with WeStar Alliance for an online seminar to discuss the how small businesses can stay afloat during this time of crisis. The online seminar will take place on Tuesday, March 31st and will be in Chinese. Please see more details are below. We wish you the best, being healthy and stay safe during this unprecedented situation. NECINA Marketing

COVID-19：How to survive for your business  - 3/31

COVID-19：How to survive for your business  帮助企业和餐馆度过难关 专业讲座 Date/Time: March 31 (Tuesday), 2020 / 2:00pm- 3:30pm Venue: Online Zoom meeting Contact harry.gao@necina.org for meeting ID Fee: Free to all NECINA community members 欢迎各位业主老板参加 Overview: Small businesses across the U.S. are already feeling the financial crunch from Covid-19 outbreak and restriction. Businesses in New England are also no exception. NECINA and WeStar Alliance 企业组 will hold an online seminar to help and guide business owners with details of the new laws, regulations, relief programs and lending programs in response to the outbreak of covid-19, analyze their impact on the businesses and suggest coping strategies. This seminar will be in Chinese. 本次讲座用中文. We are honored to have the following 3 speakers for this special online seminar: 1. Connie Dai, Partner, Cutler & Wilensky, LLP. Subject: Covid-19 Related Paid Leave Law.  To introduce the newly passed The Family First Coronavirus Response Act, which goes effective on April 2, 2020 and mandates small and medium size employers to pay paid leave to employees who are negatively impacted by Covid-19). 2. Stephanie Chang, Partner, Anchor America Group. Subject: Covid-19 Tax Relief Overview.  To introduce tax related relief program in details offered by IRS. 3. Claire Jin, VP, JP Morgan Chase Bank. Subject: SBA Lending Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan.  To help small business owners understand and apply SBA Express Bridge Loan (EBL) Pilot Program and Disaster Loan from Chase Bank to survive the covid-19 outbreak. Agenda: 2:00 - 2:05 pm Open remarks by Dr. Harry Gao 2:05 - 2:30 pm Claire Jin:   SBA Lending Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan 2:30 - 2:55 pm Connie Dai:  COVID-19 Related Paid Leave Law. 2:55 - 3:20 pm Stephanie Chang:  COVID-19 Tax Relief Overview.  3:20 - 3:30 pm  Q& A   Speakers:    CONNIE C. DAI, ESQ. J.D. M.B.A. Attorney Dai is a partner of CUTLER & WILENSKY LLP. She represents clients with regards to dispute resolution including mediation, litigation in state and Federal courts, as well as before private arbitration. She has also mediated business disputes. Attorney Dai has handled cases involving partnership and investment transactions by Chinese and U.S. companies in breach of contract, misappropriate of trade secrets, investment fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, misappropriate of company funds. She also represents local companies in business and employment matters and disputes. In addition, Attorney Dai is general counsel to emerging to well-established companies in private equity, biotech, language services, healthcare services, medical device, culture exchange, educational consulting, online shopping, medical research, and logistics. STEPHANIE CHANG, CPA Stephanie has over 12 years experiences in taxation, accounting and financial service. Stephanie began her career at Taiwan Securities Company as an investment Analysis and later joined PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC). She has expertise on financial, private equity, transportation, retail, technology, and food industries as well as law films and high net worth individuals. Stephanie believes her experience would help client making intelligent financial and tax planning decisions.  CLAIRE JIN, VICE PRESIDENT, JP MORGAN CHASE BANK Claire joined JPMorgan Chase Bank 15 years ago and managed a team of Business Relationship Managers towards increased profitability and portfolio growth in great Houston area. Her team focuses on managing and developing client relationships, leveraging deposits growth, treasury services, SBA lending and other financial services to provide operational and fiscal foundation to growing businesses in the region.   Recently Claire has joined the New England market expansion team to build this critical market. Claire is always very active in the community and as an established leader at JP Morgan Chase, and she has been recognized with numerous awards. As part of her commitment to leadership and the community, Claire served on the board of The Asian Chamber of Commerce, Houston, Texas, and the board of VN TeamWork Inc, Houston Texas. Event Organizer: NECINA E Club Overview: NECINA Entrepreneur Club (E Club) is a community of technology company founders and Executives. Through its partnership with other businesses or organizations, E Club organizes regular meetings/network  events, and provides a resourceful platform for E Club members to get training, conduct network, and promote their businesses. Missions: The missions of the club are: To leverage NECINA resources to connect the club members to more senior and successful entrepreneurs, VCs and service firms as well as business counterparts in Asia to seek mentors, advices and business opportunities. To provide a social network platform for the entrepreneurs to share their success stories and lessons learned, and help each other Membership Qualification: To join E Club, you need to be (1) a NECINA member, and (2) a current or former founder/co-founder or an executive of a technology company Contact Us If you have any questions, please e-mail to eclub@necina.org with your full contact info and business web address.

NECINA has joined WeStar for Wuhan relief efforts! WeStar has formed a coalition with three dozen Chinese NGO to raise fund, procure protective gears and ship them directly to doctors and nurses in the hospitals in Wuhan and surrounding area.  WeStar is a volunteer organization founded in Weston on November 2019. As one of the first organizations in Boston which has realized the humanitarian hardship in Wuhan, our volunteers have started fundraising to buy and ship protective gear to front line doctors. Now WeStar is working with multiple associations in Massachusetts, including but not limited to NECINA, Chinese American associations of Lexington and Needham, respiratory doctors, and photographers Over $150,000 has been raised by all participating organizations. Six freights have been shipped from JFK directly to China via free freight forwarding by China Southern Airline and Air China. Two more shipments are on the way now. NECINA has raised $1650 so far, but we need your help to donate more so that WeStar volunteers in US and China can purchase and deliver urgently needed protective gears and medical equipments to the doctors and nurses asking for help now. We have more than 300 hospitals so far which WeStar has received urgent request and verified by WeStar teams  in China. NECINA Donation Channel: 1) PayPal ( send to NECINA account: Master.NECINA@gmail.com) 2) BoA, Zelles, Venmo or any other transfer. Please contact Harry Gao (harry.gao@necina.org) for instructions. Please add note : Wuhan in any donation payment Please follow us on WeChat for up-to-date info regarding donation and Wuhan relief activities. Thanks. NECINA Marketing  Registration is now open for our 2020 Career Conference.  If you are a recent graduate, or young professional job searching or looking for a career change, this is a great opportunity. This event is free to all students. Please reach out to Connie Dai at connie.dai@necina.org if interested in sponsoring or mentoring at the Career Fair. The second event is the annual Chinese New Year Gala, which NECINA is excited to be a co-organizer for this annual event. Join us on Feb 1st to celebrate the Chinese New Yaer with other great organizations! NECINA Marketing

2020 NECINA Career Conference - 02/08

The 2020 NECINA Career Conference is co-hosted by NECINA, CABA and LIEPIN North America. This historical career event is expected to attract between 200 to 400 attendees, including recent graduates, young professionals and mid-career advancers. This year's recruiting employers are bringing sizable job openings to this well-attended event. The conference will start with two main panels. Panel One will address Do's and Don'ts for new graduates and young professionals when seeking jobs. Panel Two will discuss essential skills necessary for advancing careers in all stages of professional life. Panelists consist of HR Manager from Thermo Fisher and Simcere of America, Executive Director from Moderna, VP of United Health, Senior Director of PTC, an Executive Coach.   More than thirty (30) experienced professionals across a variety of industries and functions will be mentors for Speed Mentoring Session. One-on-one conversation will happen between an attendee and a seasoned professional, chosen by attendee within his/her particular industry and/or occupation. This provides a unique opportunity for attendees to learn about insights of the job and industry and have his/her personal questions addressed. Industry tracks include (a) Biotechnology, pharma, life science, medical device, healthcare, (b) Statistics, risk management, investment, finance, quantitative, tax and banking, (c) IT, AI, Blockchain, Robotics and related high technology, (d) Strategy, operation, marketing, communication and general business. Attendees are encouraged to review mentors' bios and select a suitable industry track. Number of attendees for each industry track is limited between 8 and 10. Register early. Followed by Speed Mentor is our traditional mock interview and resume critique. Mock interviewers also come from diversified sectors. Attendees should read interviewer's bios in advance, choose the interviewer of his/her fit, bring a resume and sign up for interviewer at the registration table. Spots are not guaranteed and will be given out on first come first serve basis.  Non-stop free shuttle van service will be provided between Quincy Adams Red Line T station and the venue from 8:15 AM to 9:45 AM. Look for a minivan with "NECINA" sign. Agenda 8:30-9:00 AM Registration9:00 - 9:10 AM Brief introductions by NECINA, CABA, LIEPIN and HPHC9:10 - 9:50 AM Panel One: Dos and Donts for Career Newbies9:50 - 10:30 AM Panel Two: Essential Skills for Career Development - Networking, Initiative, Leadership, Inner Entrepreneurship, Relationship building10:30 - 10:45 AM Break10:45 - 12:15 PM Speed Mentoring12:15 PM - 1:15 PM Mock Interview and Resume Critique9:00 AM - 1:30 PM Job Fair Booth, Networking, Lunch Please click here for more information, including speaker bios.

We are excited to kick off the new year with two major events. The first one will be NECINA's first Lab Session. The NECINA Lab program is focused on the very premise of learning by doing. For the first session, we're going to build a lane detection application through the session. The second event is the annual Chinese New Year Gala, which NECINA is excited to be an organizer for another this prominent event. Join us on Feb 1st to celebrate the Chinese New Yaer with other great organizations! In addition, please save the date for Feb 8th, and be on the lookout for future announcements on our annual Career Conference. If you are a recent graduate, or young professional job searching or looking for a career change, this is a great opportunity.  Please reach out to Connie Dai at connie.dai@necina.org if interested in sponsoring or mentoring at the Career Fair. NECINA Marketing  NECINA Lab Session 1: Building Lane Detection for Autonomous Driving - 1/11 Limited seats, please register to reserve the seat.  To participate in this event, attendees must bring laptops. Many of you have attended conferences, seminars on computer vision, and have also spent countless hours reading online materials. However, learning new technical skills is like riding a bike, cannot be learned by reading about it. NECINA Lab program is focused on that very premise -learning by doing. Computer vision gives eyes to computers. It has been the most active subfield of machine learning. It takes advantage of the recent machine learning breakthroughs and advances. In turn, most of the matured machine learning models and algorithms are in computer vision applications. Lane detection is such a fundamental basis for autonomous driving, we're going to learn how to implement the lane detection by using from openCV to neural network. We're going to build a lane detection application through the session, please prepare the following before the session. Python3 Pycharm NECINA Lab is going to initiate a series of projects that crosses different areas, such as machine learning, blockchain, edge computing and etc. All the projects are led by the lab members, by joining and contributing to the project, here's what you'll gain through the project: Deep understanding of the technology that you're eager to learn by turning the ideas demo, even products. Working with the talents that shares the same interests with you. Leading the project that you're most interested in. Monthly offline meetups, and more frequently online interaction to communicate and share

5G Conference Recap - 10/19 New England's China Information Network Association's "5G Technology Conference" began with current President Harry Gao offering opening remarks. Wufu Chen providing the keynote speech. Other sessions include NECINA Board Member and PTC Vice President Ben Tao's Fireside Chat with M/C Venture Partner Brian Clark on "5G Trends and Investment Landscape". Vice President of Parallel Wireless, Yang Cao spoke about "5G Technology and IoT development ". Red Hat's CTO, Huamin Chen talked about " Introduction of key developments in 5G, IoT, and MEC ". In the Keynote speech, Wufu Chen, the founding president of NECINA, told the audience that 5G technology will lead another paradigm shift in networking industry. However, due to the need for massive number of baseband to support its operation, the development and deployment of 5G technology will be a gradual process. Countless business opportunities for 5G networks that target specific needs will emerge. 5G is the next generation of cellular networks. Beginning in 2019, 5G services are being launched everywhere. People are expecting 5G to be much faster than 4G and its average download speed should be 1GB per second. However, the 5G service launched, such as by Verizon in Rhode Island, did not give people the impression of lightning speed, low latency and super data processing capability that 5G promised.Wufu Chen said that 5G technology will allow artificial intelligence to perform to its extreme in a closed environment. Activities that use real-time computing of big data, such as autonomous driving, deep machine learning, etc. could be realized. Chen Wufu believes the Internet industry is entering another paradigm shift, including computing speed, storage capacity, network availability, intelligent Internet of Things (IOTs), security, and virtual computing, storage, Network and terminal equipment, etc. But most importantly, artificial intelligence with big data machine learning capabilities has replaced a large part of the human brain function, which is more subversive than the industrial revolution that replaced manpower. To support these multiple functions, the 5G architecture must change dramatically. Due to the high data rate and the physics of signal transmission that shortens the distance, the number of base stations have to be increased significantly. To avoid out of control costs, the base station functions should be divided into several levels to allow sharing of valuable base station processing resources.Wufu Chen believes that in the foreseeable future, people should not expect homogenous 5G networks, because the cost is too high to be practical. Conversely, there will be specific 5G networks developed to meet different needs. In the Q&A session, Wufu Chen pointed out the startup opportunities that will come along with the emergence of 5G technology development will include RU Antenna array technologies with beam forming, DU technology and its management, CU with slicing, End to end applications adaptation layer, Edge computing, Small cell applications, 5G and Wifi 6G integration, Wireless local loop, Industrial 4.0 applications, etc. Wufu Chen himself is currently helping a friend in raising a fund to invest and support 5G-related startups.

活动地点:  Hilton Boston/Woburn

Ballroom 3rd floor, 2 Forbes Rd, Woburn MA 01801

活动时间:  8:30 AM – 12:30PM, Saturday, October 19, 2019

活动费用: Free to NECINA and VIP guests, $25 non NECINA members

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什么是 5G?

第五代移动通信技术是最新一代蜂窝移动通信技术。从2019年开始，5G将在全球范围内部署。借助最先进的技术和现代研究，5G能够提供比当前4G连接更快的连接速度，预计平均下载速度为1GBps。尽管速度的显着提高是5G技术的显着特征，但其影响远不只是速度，它还提供了广泛的创新性变化，例如物联网，5G在其中充当基础设施，使快速传输大量数据成为可能，让世界更加紧密相连。

5G的主要性能

5G具有多种性能，主要包括：

更高的数据速率—— 5G网络的数据传输速率远远高于4G，据说比先前的4G LTE蜂窝网络快100倍。这意味着可以在5G网络上不到10秒的时间内下载完整的高清电影。

较低的网络延迟——使用手机及其他设备时感受到的网络延迟更少。4G网络下的延迟一般为40-50毫秒，5G的响应时间低于1毫秒，几乎察觉不到。

更大的容量——从互联汽车和IoT（物联网）设备，再到VR，5G能够一次性更好地应对许多高需求应用。

为什么要关心5G发展?

5G是当下人们讨论的焦点，且在未来十年内都将成为发展趋势。

5G力压各种各样的媒体技术，成为目前最热门的话题之一，世界各地的人们都在讨论它。公众已经适应了网络及移动传播技术的快速发展。4G存在了十多年，其发展也到了急需突破的时候。此外，由于中美之间的贸易战，从事5G技术研发的华为也被推到了风口浪尖。5G被认为是中国迈向世界甚至领先世界的可能性产业。

一项新技术时通常伴随着反对的声音，正是这些争议引起人们的关注。不论这是下一个骗局，还是大卫•科波菲尔（David Copperfield）的魔术，这些谈话都很可能会引起其他人的兴趣。然而，基于有限的信息，谣言经常散布。许多讨论更多只是闲聊，但并未触及其核心。许多基本元素通常会被大家忽略，例如：

5G和4G之间的根本区别是什么？只是速度的提高吗？

从3G到4G其创新性并没有那么显著，那么5G能成为真正的技术创新吗？

5G将对我们每个个人产生什么影响？

5G真正部署和使用后，哪家公司将从中受益？会不会有新的创新公司登场，撼动技术行业？

中国5G技术的发展如何？它会从众多竞争对手中脱颖而出吗？

5G时代的网络安全趋势将会如何？

如果你想进一步了解5G，欢迎参加我们的会议并与他人建立联系。

 活动内容

NECINA 5G技术会议将由企业家, NECINA联合创始人Wufu Chen先生概述5G技术及其对我们生活的影响。之后，PTC副总裁Ben Tao先生将与M / C Partner的风投资深人士Brian Clark先生进行炉边谈话，讨论如何将趋势与炒作区分开，以及如何利用5G机会，赢得投资者并避免陷阱。茶歇后，Parallel Wireless的Yang Cao博士将介绍5G技术开发和物联网应用。最后，红帽CTO办公室的Huamin Chen博士将讨论5G，IoT和MEC的关键发展，重点是基于开源的系统架构，软件开发和客户应用程序部署。

会议提供赞助机会。

有意请联系Harry.Gao@necina.org咨询。

活动议程

8:30 – 9:00 AM 开放注册•赞助商展位开放

9:00 – 9:05 AM NECINA致辞

9:05 – 9:45 AM 主题演讲：“ 5G技术及其对我们生活的影响”

9:45 – 10:20 AM 炉边谈话：“ 5G趋势与投资前景” Brian先生（M/C Partners合伙人），由PTC副总裁Ben Tao先生主持

10:20 – 10:40 AM 茶歇

10:40 – 11:25 AM 曹阳博士（并行无线副总裁）的演讲“ 5G技术和物联网开发”

11:25 – 12:00 PM 陈华明博士（首席技术官办公室红帽）介绍“ 5G，物联网和MEC关键技术简介”

12:00 – 1:00 PM 交流，赞助商业务展示

1:00PM 所有会议活动结束

嘉宾介绍

Wu-Fu Chen

陈先生是知名企业家，已经创立了十几家公司，包括Cascade Communications（在纳斯达克上市，价格为$ 10B），Cameo Communications（台湾上市），GaoHong（在中国上市），Xinwei Telecom（中国上市，价格为$ 30B），Arris Networks （被Cascade收购），Ardent Communications，Navini Networks（被思科收购）和Shasta Networks（被北电收购）等。陈先生在行业内获得了无数奖项，以表彰其卓越的运营能力和企业家精神。比如，《华尔街日报》首页称其为“Germinator”，《红鲱鱼》杂志将他评为2000年十大企业家，Optix授予其终身成就奖，Light Reading认为他是光网络中的重量级人物（Heavy Weights in Optical Networks）。

陈先生还是Acorn Campus，, Genesis Campus, 及iD SoftCapital 的共同创始人。2002年，《福布斯》杂志将他列为美国百强风险投资人之一。

陈先生曾在加州大学伯克利分校攻读CS博士学位，并获得了佛罗里达大学盖恩斯维尔分校的电子工程硕士学位和国立台湾大学的电子工程学士学位。

Brian Clark

Clark先生于2001年加入M/C Partners，主要致力于移动，宽带基础设施和物联网（IoT）领域的投资机会。他目前在PR Wireless的Neutral Connect Networks董事会任职，主要负责Omega Wireless。先前的董事会席位包括：Cellular One of East Texas（由Chinook Wireless收购），Lightower Holdings（由Berkshire Partners收购），Mobi PCS（由Verizon收购）和Public Mobile（由Telus收购）。克拉克先生还负责过Triad 700，他之前还曾在MetroPCS（IPO）担任观察员董事会席位。在加入公司之前，克拉克先生曾在全球电信企业融资集团Salomon Smith Barney任职，专注于电信行业有线和无线领域的并购。

克拉克先生曾获得安阿伯密歇根大学的工商管理学士学位，主修金融和会计双学位，并拥有会计硕士学位。

Ben Tao  (炉边谈话主持人)

Ben Tao目前是PTC企业发展副总裁。在担任该职务期间，他与公司和部门业务领导团队紧密合作，制定了收购战略。他从事大量的并购交易，尤其是在物联网，增强现实和大数据分析领域，帮助转变了PTC的业务。

在加入PTC之前，他已经担任了六年的管理顾问，为客户提供有关高科技，零售，化工和私募股权等多个行业的广泛战略和管理挑战的咨询服务。在开始担任管理顾问的职业生涯之前，他曾在多家领先的技术公司（包括Oracle，Microsoft和Ericsson）担任技术专家。

Ben在2014-2015年度担任NECINA总裁。他是NECINA的董事会成员之一。Ben拥有北京大学计算机科学学士学位和威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校计算机科学硕士学位。他还拥有巴布森学院的MBA学位。

Yang Cao

加入Parallel Wireless之前，曹博士曾担任Q Factor Communications大客户技术副总裁，负责创新，开发，发现新的商机以及与主要客户的技术互动。在此之前，曹博士是Sycamore Networks的首席架构师，他主要负责孵化颠覆性移动宽带3G和4G优化概念，领导新产品线的技术开发工作，端到端架构解决方案和控制平面标准化。

在加入Sycamore Networks之前，曹博士是贝尔实验室-朗讯技术公司和空军研究实验室的光学网络部门的研发工程师。

到目前为止，曹博士已就3GPP移动宽带优化，分组交换技术和智能光网络设计申请了数十项专利。曹博士及其联合发明人的最新专利涵盖了适用于任何3G / 4G RAN的分布式内容缓存解决方案。曹博士在众多国际会议上作了演讲，包括OFC，NFOEC，OPTINET和EURASIA-SUMMIT。

曹博士分别在莱特州立大学和斯坦福大学完成了计算机科学与电气工程的研究。

Huamin Chen

Chen Huamin Chen博士目前在Red Hat CTO办公室担任首席软件工程师，专注于Kubernetes，Linux容器，存储，无服务器和AI。之前，他在IBM T.J.沃森研究中心，EMC，Netezza以及几家成功的早期和后期创业公司开发了存储产品。他还是包括KubeCon和OpenStack Summit在内的高度选择性的技术会议上的频繁发言人。陈博士是一位多产的发明家。他在存储，云计算，无服务器，容器，网络，人工智能和区块链方面拥有90多项美国专利申请。陈博士加州大学戴维斯分校计算机科学专业获得博士学位。

关于 NECINA

Founded in 1996,

NECINA成立于1996年，是面向企业家和高科技专业人士的一流非营利组织，通过全球信息交流和本地专业网络，不断学习新技术和最佳业务实践以及拥抱和加速创新和成功发展技术创新。

关于 NECINA的会议计划

NECINA has organized hundreds 

自成立以来，NECINA已组织了数百次商务和技术会议与活动，涵盖对我们的生活产生深远影响的先进技术。过去会议的主题包括AI，大数据，云计算，医疗保健，物联网，BlockChain和Fintech中的数字转换。我们的技术会议一直吸引着整个新英格兰的数百名企业家，投资者和高科技专业人士。我们邀请过的嘉宾包括麻省理工学院斯隆管理学院院长，奇虎360董事长兼首席执行官，奥里扎控股有限公司董事长兼总裁，阿特拉斯风险投资公司的合伙人，IEEE总裁，TripAdvisor首席执行官等。

We are excited to announce our 5G Technology Conference to be held on October 19 at the Hilton Boston/Woburn. Come hear from subject matter experts about this emerging topic, and connect with like-minded individuals interested. Also, this Saturday will the be the information session for YES 14.0 at ThermoFisher in Waltham. This is event is free to public, so stop by if you want to learn more about this great program. NECINA held our first 领航计划(LH) event at Bentley University last Sunday. This event focused on professional development advice from several guests through discussion of their own experience. Please see below for more details for all events. NECINA Marketing  NECINA 5G Technology Conference - 10/19 Venue: Hilton Boston/Woburn Ballroom, 3rd floor, 2 Forbes Rd, Woburn, MA 01801 Time: 8:30 AM - 12:30PM, Saturday, October 19, 2019 Cost: Free to NECINA and VIP guests, $25 non NECINA members Online Registration required: Register Here Join NECINA member at www.necina.org to attend all conferences for free. What is 5G? 5G technology is about next-generation cellular network. Starting in 2019, 5G is being launched across the whole world. With the cutting-edge technology and modern research, 5G are able to offer connections that are multitudes faster than current 4G connections. It is expected to have an average download speed of 1GBps. Although the dramatic speed improvement is an outstanding feature of 5G technology, its impact goes far beyond just speed, providing a wide range of innovative changes such as Internet of Things, where 5G acts as the infrastructure to make transporting large amount of data available and hence a more connected world. Key Features of 5G Faster Speed - 5G is said to be much faster than 4G and some are saying like 100 times faster. This would mean the ability to download a full HD movie in under 10 seconds on a 5G network Lower Latency - We'll see much less delay or lag when we're using our phones and other devices. With 4G networks, latency is typically around 40-50 milliseconds. With 5G it should be 1 millisecond or less, which is undetectable to the user. Greater Capacity - 5G will be able to cope better with many high-demand applications all at once - from connected cars and IoT (Internet of Things) devices to VR. Why Do You Need to Care About 5G? 5G as one of the hottest topics out there have overwhelmed various kinds of technology media and it is being discussed at every corner by all kinds of people in the world. Public has been getting used to the lightening development of Network and Mobile Communication technology. 4G has been around for more than 10 years, it is time for a breakthrough. Besides, thanks to the trade war between US and China, Huawei, who does research and development of 5G technology, has been pushed to the cusp of general opinion. With regarding to that, 5G has been considered as a possible industry for China to step ahead of the world, or even lead the world. Sponsor opportunities are available. Contact Harry.Gao@necina.org for inquiry. Agenda: 8:30 - 9:00 AM Registration open. Sponsor booth open 9:00 - 9:05 AM Open remark by NECINA 9:05 - 9:45 AM Keynote speech: "5G technology and impact to our life" by Mr. Wufu Chen.  9:45 - 10:20 AM Fireside chat: "5G Trends and Investment Landscape" Mr. Brian Clark (parter of M/C Partners), host by Mr. Ben Tao (VP of PTC) 10:20 - 10: 40 AM Coffee Break 10:40 - 11:25 AM Presentation "5G Technology and IoT development" by Dr. Yang Cao (VP of Parallel Wireless)  11:25 - 12:00 PM Presentation "Introduction of key developments in 5G, IoT, and MEC" by Dr. Huaming Chen (Principle at Red Hat, CTO office)  12:00 - 1:00 PM Networking, Sponsor Business Showcase  1:00 PM All meeting activities Wrap-up.  Please click here for more information and speaker bio! YES Workshop Information Session - 9/28 Recap of NECINA 领航计划 episode #1 - 9/22 On Sep 22 2019, 领航计划(LH) was held at Bentley University. This event is 3 hours long, and we had 31 audience. During the event, we have Yilin Wei, Nick, and Claire Jin as our speaker. Yilin was a master student who newly graduate from Bentley University and is currently working in Deloitte, she introduced her job hunting experience in last autumn. Nick has intern experience in State Street, worked for JPMorgan Chase, and now he fulltime work for his startup company Academy9. He demonstrated his methodology regarding networking. Claire is VP in JPMorgan Chase, and she has 14 year in this company. She was interviewed by Johnny and shared her understanding towards campus recruiting, career development, and insights of JPMorgan. Volunteers are Xiangyu Zhang. Xiuzi Zhou, Johnny, Ashley, Aaron, and Peijun Yang. Open Positions at NetBrain (NECINA Sponsor) Please click on each Job Title for more detailed information Contact: https://www.netbraintech.com/company/careers/ -        Technical Writer - Junior to Mid Level -        Technical Writing Intern -        Senior Systems Architect -        Senior Network Development Engineer About NECINA NECINA is a nonprofit organization that was founded over 20 years ago by a group of highly successful entrepreneurs. Our mission is to nourish entrepreneurship, facilitate professional career development, and bridge the business and culture gap between New England and Great China. As a non-profit organization, we have near 400 active members and a member base of over 3000 people. We run 40+ events per year, and help startup companies raise hundreds of million dollars. The return from Companies founded by our members has been over $10 billion dollars. Our former speakers include Dean of MIT Sloan School of Management, Chairman and CEO of Qihoo 360, Chairman and President of Oriza Holdings, Partners of Atlas Venture, President of IEEE. Just to name a few. We also have built the partnership with the companies like EMC, Constant Contact, KPMG, Delta Air Lines, NetBrain, etc. NECINA is Sponsored By

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