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CMU SUMMIT US-CHINA INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP 2015

APRIL 25-26, 2015 Brochure Designer: Yin Zheng CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY Graphic Designers: Kenan Zhang Qiren Wang Welcome Letter from Chair Table of Content Dear All, On behalf of the organizing team of the 4th CMU Summit About CMU Summit ...... 1 on US-China Innovation and Entrepreneurship, I would like to express our warmest welcome to you. Welcome to our CMU & ...... 2 conference, to Carnegie Mellon University and to Pittsburgh. Debut on April 28, 2012, CMU Summit has become an iconic and top tier professional event in Eastern and Central US. Agenda ...... 3 In the past few years, our Summit brought huge impacts to Carnegie Mellon and its local and regional community, and Openning Remarks...... 5 gained wide media coverage. This year, we would like to carry on the legacy from the previous three conferences and to Keynote Speakers ...... 7 continue our mission of sharing the emerging challenges in China and the US. Today, we are honored to have leading entrepreneurs, Panel Speakers ...... 9 company executives, venture capitalists and researchers from both China and the US. They join us in Carnegie Mellon New Venture Competition ...... 19 Bing Zhou University to address hot issues in various domains, such as information technology, finance, energy, innovation and Executive Chair Finalists...... 21 entrepreneurship. We intend to establish a bridge between the of 2015 Conference US and China and create potential opportunities for future partnerships. Besides, we wish that our students could benefit 2015 CMU Summit Team ...... 23 and gain inspirations from this precious chance of face-to-face Bing Zhou interaction with these leading figures from their respective Companies...... 25 industries. One of the highlights of the 4th CMU Summit is going Partners...... 27 to be the New Venture Competition. This year, the competition received an overwhelmingly large volume of over 110 applications and the selection process has been very Medias...... 29 competitive. Our panel of judges consists of top tier angel investors and venture capitalists from both China and the Sponsors...... 31 US. We look forward to hearing the pitch competition of all the finalists, and we are extremely happy that CMU Summit Campus Map...... 32 becomes a platform to assist young and passionate future entrepreneurs to make their ideas come true. Last but not least, we want to give our special thanks to our speakers, partners and sponsors. Without their great support and contribution, we would not have gone this far. We would also like to thank our attendees for their interests in our Summit. We hope that you will have a great and enriching time here. We wish you every success in your future study and career. 1 2

About CMU Summit CMU & Pittsburgh

The 4th CMU Summit Conference Our Mission

The 4th CMU Summit on US-China Innovation and Entrepreneurship • To address emerging challenges in areas where China and the US is organized by the joint efforts of the CMU Summit Committee and share common interests and build up future partnershps. Chinese Student & Scholars Association at Carnegie Mellon University • To involve leading institutions of both China and the US, including (CMU-CSSA). The summit will host leading scholars, industry leaders, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh region, Pittsburgh local entrepreneurs, policymakers and venture capitalists from both the US and entrepreneurs, Chinese decision and policy makers, and Chinese China to discuss current issues including information technology, finance industry leaders and scholars, in a better mutual understanding. and capital markets, innovation and entrepreneurship, and energy. The summit is also highlighted by its New Venture Competition, breakout • To provide a great platform for exchanging ideas about current sessions and networking opportunities. technological and industrial development among leading scholars, students, industry leaders, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and potential investors from China and the US. • To promote innovation and entrepreneurship at CMU and the Pittsburgh region, which will improve US-China cooperation. Review of CMU Summit CMU and Pittsburgh

From 2012 to 2014, we have had held three CMU summits, which Carnegie Mellon University (www.cmu.edu) is a private, internationally had had significant influence and attracted wide public attention. ranked research university with programs in areas ranging from science, technology and business, to public policy, the humanities and the arts. • Over 100 high-profile speakers and experts from different More than 13,000 students in the university’s seven schools and colleges industries presented their insights; benefit from a small student-to-faculty ratio and an education characterized by its focus on creating and implementing solutions to real problems, • More than 2000 participants from 34 cities across the US interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation. A global university, attended the conference and involved in the heated discussions; Carnegie Mellon’s main campus in the United States is in Pittsburgh, PA. • Over 200 teams brought their intelligent and innovative ideas Pittsburgh is the second largest city of and the county seat to the New Venture Competition; of Allegheny County. Nationally, it is the 22nd largest urban area in the United States. Pittsburgh is known colloquially as “the City of Bridges” and • 50 media coverage and 12 media partners including CCTV “the Steel City” for its many bridges and former steel manufacturing base. , Sina, Xinhua News Agency, Youku, etc. The team was While the city is historically known for its steel industry, today its economy interviewed by WPXI (Our Region’s Business-Building is largely based on healthcare, education, technology, robotics, and financial Partnerships Between Pittsburgh and China) and KDKA2. services. Major publications often note Pittsburgh’s high livability with the city claiming the top overall spot in the United States in recent “most livable city” lists by Places Rated Almanac (2007), Forbes (2010), and The Economist (2011). In 2012, National Geographic named Pittsburgh one of the best worldwide travel destinations.

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Agenda Agenda

April 25, 2015 Saturday April 26, 2015 Sunday Registration 8:30am - 9:30am 9:00am - 9:20am Registration Outside Kresge Recital Hall, College of Fine Arts Building Outside Auditorium, Baker Hall A51

9:30am - 9:40am Welcome Remarks Keynote 4 Kresge Recital Hall, College of Fine Arts Building 9:20am - 9:50am Feng Li, Partner, IDG Ventures Opening Remarks Giant Eagle Auditorium, Baker Hall A51 Lenore Blum, Co-Director, Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Innovation and Entrepreneurship 9:40am - 10:10am Energy and Environment Panel David S. Mawhinney, Co-Director, Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 10:00am - 11:50am Panel Kresge Recital Hall, College of Fine Arts Building Lecture Hall136A, Baker Hall Giant Eagle Auditorium, Baker Hall A51 Keynote 1 Lunch event: Round Table Talk with Angel Investors and VCs (by 10:15am - 10:45am K. Jimmy Hsia, Vice Provost, Carnegie Mellon University 12:00pm - 1:30pm Kresge Recital Hall, College of Fine Arts Building registration) Singleton Room, Roberts Hall 10:45am - 10:55am Break 1:40m – 4:40pm New Venture Competition Keynote 2 Giant Eagle Auditorium, Baker Hall A51

10:55am - 11:25am Jerome Pesenti, Vice President, Core Technology, IBM Watson Kresge Recital Hall, College of Fine Arts Building 5:00m –7:30pm IDGenius Talk by IDG Ventures Giant Eagle Auditorium, Baker Hall A51 Keynote 3 Closing Remarks 11:25am - 11:55am Bo Zhu, Chief Dream Chaser, Dream Chaser Funds; Founder of Innovalley 7:30m –7:40pm Giant Eagle Auditorium, Baker Hall A51 Kresge Recital Hall, College of Fine Arts

12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch event: Networking with speakers and recruitment (by registration) Singleton Room, Roberts Hall

1:40pm - 3:30pm Information Technology Panel Giant Eagle Auditorium, Baker Hall A51

3:40pm - 5:30pm Finance and Capital Market Panel Giant Eagle Auditorium, Baker Hall A51

6:00pm - 9:00pm Private Dinner (Invited Only) Omni William Penn Hotel, Downtown Pittsburgh

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Openning Remarks Openning Remarks Lenore Blum (PhD, MIT) is Distinguished Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon, Dave Career Professor of Computer Science at was co-founder, Chairman and CEO Carnegie Mellon and Founding Director of mSpoke, an content and of Project Olympus. Project Olympus is advertising recommendation engine, was a good example of her determination to acquired in 2010 by LinkedIn, the world’s make a real difference in the academic leading professional social networking community and the world beyond. site. In 2006, Morgan Stanley’s MSCI/ Olympus has two main aims: to bridge Barra business unit acquired mSpoke’s first the gap between cutting-edge university business line, a quantitative investment research/innovation and economy- recommendation engine. promoting commercialization for the Prior to mSpoke, Dave was a General benefit of our communities and to create a Partner of PNC Technology Investors. climate, culture and community to enable Earlier in his career, he co-founded three talent and ideas to grow in the region. successful startup ventures, including Lenore is internationally recognized for Premier Health Exchange (acquired by her work in increasing the participation of Medibuy), Hawk Medical (acquired by girls and women in Science, Technology, McKesson), and Industry.Net (merged with Lenore Blum Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields. David S. Mawhinney AT&T Business Network to form Nets, At Carnegie Mellon she founded the Inc.). Co-Director Co-Director Women@SCS program. In 2004 she Center for Innovation and Center for Innovation and Dave is also an active Board Member at received the US Presidential Award for Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship MedSage Technologies (now NewCare Excellence in Science, Mathematics, Solutions LLC), EZ-FLO Injection Systems, Founding Director and Engineering Mentoring.In 2009 she Executive Director and the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Project Olympus Donald H. Jones Center for received the Carnegie Science Catalyst Alumni Association (ex-officio, Past Entrepreneurship Award recognizing her work with President.). He is an Advisory Board Project Olympus targeting high-tech Managing Director Member to InnovationWork’s AlphaLab, talent to promote economic growth in Open Field Entrepreneurs Fund Pittsburgh Equity Partners, and Carnegie the Pittsburgh region and for increasing Mellon University’s Project Olympus. Dave the participation of women in computer Director also served as Executive-in-Residence at i6 Agile Innovation System science. the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse Assistant Teaching Professor Her research, founding a theory of Tepper School of Business working with healthcare information computation and complexity over technology start-ups. continuous domains, forms a theoretical Mr. Mawhinney holds an MBA with basis for scientific computation. On the Distinction from Carnegie Mellon eve of Alan Turing’s 100th birthday in University and a B. S. in Physics, Summa June 2012, she was Plenary Speaker at Cum Laude, from Indiana University of the Turing Centenary Celebration at the Pennsylvania. University of Cambridge, England. 7 8

Keynote Speakers Keynote Speakers Dr. Hsia is the Vice Provost for Bo Zhu is the founder and chairman of the International Programs and Strategy Innovalley Accelerator/Incubator in China. of Carnegie Mellon University, and his He is also a founder of the Dreamchaser role is to support and help coordinate investment management fund in Shenzhen programs at the university level with and is acknowledged as one of the top the goal to enhance and ensure the high ten most successful angel investors in quality of education, research and student China. Mr. Zhu had served as CMO of experiences for all international programs business and software product line unit on all campuses. He is also the director of and the President of Internet business at the Global Enterprise for MicroMechanics Huawei. He has held both engineering and Molecular Medicine, or GEM4, which and executive positions at Qualcomm and was founded by CMU President Subra American Express. He founded NeTrue Suresh to carry out interdisciplinary Communications, a global VoIP service research and education at the interface provider that reached IPO on the Canada Jimmy Hsia of engineering, biological sciences and Bo Zhu Stock Exchange. He was also the founder of medicine. Dr. Hsia is also the co-editor-in- Cgogo in 2004, which received institutional Vice Provost chief of a new academic journal, Extreme Chief Dream Chaser financing. His investment portfolio International Programs and Strategy, Mechanics Letters, published by Elsevier. Dream Chaser Funds includes CoverMe, DownTown, xTV, Carnegie Mellon University Founder Weendy, and BoostInsider, super syllabus, Innovalley gift talk, jianzhe mao, dajiatou etc.

Jerome is Vice President, Core Technology, Feng Li is actively involved in investment at IBM Watson. He leads a team of in education, consumer services, TMT developers and researchers in charge and other high-tech related fields. In the of Watson Developer Cloud - a set of joint of internet and finance, Mr. Li led cognitive services that anybody, students, the investments into Credit Ease, Ripple, start ups or fortune 500 companies, can Coinbase, Baifendian and Wacai. Mr. Li integrate through the cloud. Jerome joined once launched two start-ups, after that, IBM after its acquisition of Vivisimo, the he joined New Oriental Education & innovative search solutions company he Technology Group, where he worked co-founded fourteen years ago. Before for eight years and held several core Vivisimo, Jerome was a visiting scientist management roles, such as the core at Carnegie Mellon University’s computer education system, sub-brand’s establishment science department, carrying out research and promotion, distant education and on document clustering, data mining and subsidiary products. After leaving New Jerome Pesenti artificial intelligence. Feng Li Oriental in early 2007, he created Miaozhen System, a renown big-data driven Vice President Partner Core Technology, IBM Watson IDG Capital Partners advertising company. Mr. Li once served at China Renaissance, where he was involved in leading many financing cases. 9 10 David Lu Vice President ,Business Solutions Development and Technology Panel Speakers Development, AT&T Services, Inc. David, Vice President – Business Solutions Development, is responsible for Business Sales IT reSHAPEs the world and Contracting, Global Service Assurance, Managed Services Platforms, Field Operation Dispatching, and Business Billing Solutions at AT&T. He leads an organization with more than 3,000 people across the globe. Since joining AT&T Bell Labs in 1987, he has served in • SmartHome various leadership positions at AT&T. He holds 31 patents and has frequently appeared as a guest speaker at technical and leadership seminars and conferences throughout the world. • Health Care • Autonomous Car Jerome Pesenti • Portable Device Vice President, Core Technology, IBM Watson • Education Jerome is Vice President, Core Technology, at IBM Watson. He leads a team of developers and researchers in charge of Watson Developer Cloud - a set of cognitive services that anybody, students, start ups or fortune 500 companies, can integrate through the cloud. Jerome joined IBM after its acquisition of Vivisimo, the innovative search solutions company he co-founded fourteen John Vu Moderator years ago. Before Vivisimo, Jerome was a visiting scientist at Carnegie Mellon Director, M.S. in Biotechnology Innovation and Computation University’s computer science department, carrying out research on document Program ;Distinguished Career Professor ,School of Computer clustering, data mining and artificial intelligence. Science;Former Chief Engineer and Technical Fellow, The Boeing Company Xiaoliang Wei

John Vu is the Director of the M.S. in Biotechnology Innovation and Co-founder, SmartStudy and SmartPigai Computation program as well as Distinguished Career Professor in the School of Computer Science. John was a Chief Engineer and Technical Co-founder of SmartStudy and SmartPigai, CEO and CIO, chief constructor of Fellow (retired) at The Boeing Company where he led several successful product and content, responsible for the construction and design of the SmartStudy programs including the integration of computer design systems for the 777, platform, the standardization of the research and development of the teaching IT integration into Lean Manufacturing and various company wide software content, the data mining algorithm of the SmartStudy platform, and the design improvement initiatives. of the user behavioral analysis system. Builder of the teaching system of GRE and GMAT writing in China, chief instructor, published seven books on admissions tests. Former assistant to Vice President of Beijing New Oriental Vision Overseas Karen Feinstein Consulting Co., Ltd., , founder and former director of 66XUE.com, New Oriental CEO, Jewish Healthcare Foundation Education & Technology Group.

Dr. Feinstein is president and chief executive officer of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) and its two supporting organizations, the Kang(Kevin) Yin Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI) and Health Careers Futures CTO , Cisco Research & Development Center in Greater China (HCF). Appointed the Foundation’s first president, Dr. Feinstein has Co-Director,Tsinghua-Cisco Joint Research & Innovation Lab made JHF and PRHI a leading voice in patient safety, healthcare quality Kevin Yin has been working in networking and communication industry for 24 and workforce issues. When Dr. Feinstein founded PRHI, it was among years. Prior to joining Cisco, he worked in Bell Lab of Lucent technologies as the the nation’s first regional multi-stakeholder quality coalitions devoted member of technical staff. His interests area in signaling, network architecture simultaneously to advancing efficiency, best practices and safety in health as well as IP multi-media system design. He is one of frequently invited keynote care through the use of industrial engineering principles. speaker and panelist in industry forums in China and AsiaPac. He appeared as guest judge in CCTV “Win in China” program as well as several case competition programs in China. Currently, He servers as a member of China national IT experts committee as well as China national cloud experts committee.

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Panel Speakers Mr. Sam Gong is the managing partner and co-founder of 3CM, an Future Decisions with Innovation, New Policies & Globalization investment firm focused on Chinese outbound cross-border acquisitions. He has extensive, hands-on transaction experience as well as deep understanding of the subtlety of cross-border, cross- culture investment that requires solid execution. Mr. Gong began his career at Wanxiang America Corporation’s Merger and Acquisition Department. He also served • Differences and trends of internet finance between the U.S. as deputy GM of strategic investment of China Wanxiang Holding, and and China members of Board of Directors for AllinPay and Tonglian Venture Capital. • Impacts of new China and U.S’s financial policies Charles Kennedy • The new investing opportunity with innovative technology Chief Investment Officer, Carnegie Mellon University • The future of consulting with the development of Big Data Mr. Charles Kennedy is currently the CIO of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He served as an interim CIO from 2007 to 2012. Before joining CMU, Mr. Kennedy was a principal investment banker at RBC Capital Markets, formerly Dain Rauscher Wessels (DRW), in Minneapolis and Carol B. Goldburg Moderator Boston. While at DRW, he managed transactions for companies in a variety Executive Director, the Undergraduate Economics Program, of industries before joining the network technology team in 1997. Kennedy Carnegie Mellon University and the team managed six of the top 10 network technology IPOs of 1999. Dr. Carol B. Goldburg is the Executive Director of the Undergraduate Economics Program at Carnegie Mellon. She had worked as research assistant in UN.Since Fei Yin earning her doctorate, Goldburg has supervised undergraduate research and honors Managing Director, Guotai Junan Securities theses at Dartmouth College and Carnegie Mellon. Experienced M&A banker with over $20 bn in executed transactions. Over 7 years of experience working on a variety of transactions in TMT, Yunson Du automotive, metals and mining, industrials and healthcare industries. Managing Director, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Specialized in complicated, cross border deal making. Experienced in leading all aspects of M&A origination an execution including due 1988, BS in space physics, University of Science and Technology of China diligence, preparation of marketing materials, financial analysis, deal 1988, China-U.S. Physics Examination and Application structuring and negotiations. Transactional experience includes numerous 1988­-1993, Ph.D in Nonlinear Dynamics University of Maryland, College cross­border transactions, distressed situations, public buy­side and sell­side Park transactions, carve­outs and financial sponsor transactions. 1993-­1995, Research Associate at University of Chicago 1995-1996, Cooper/Neff Associates 1996­-Present, SMBC Capital Markets Managing Director, Head of Front Jenny Yu Office (Sales, Trading, Research), Board member Vice President, BNY Mellon

Harry Edelson Jenny Yu is a Vice President at BNY Mellon. She manages model risk review team and is responsible for auditing hundreds of the models that are used for risk President/ Founder, Edelson Technology Partners management and investment strategies. Jenny has 16 year experience in investment analysis, risk management, and quantitative modeling, covering areas including Harry Edelson has had a distinguished career as an investment manager, Asset Management, Risk Management, BASEL, CCAR, Security Lending, Global venture capitalist, securities analyst and engineer. In his investing career, Markets, and Asset/Liability Management, and real estate investment. At BNY 11 of his early stage investments attained valuations of $1BN to $80BN. For Mellon, Jenny is the co­founder of Asian­American Affinity Network whose mission the decade that he worked on Wall Street, he was the most quoted securities is to develop and encourage an inclusive and open environment. She is a founding analyst in the world. Edelson Technology Partners invested in over 100 member of Pittsburgh China Chamber of Commerce and she serves as treasurer of companies throughout the world. In 10 of those investments the Edelson the Greater Pittsburgh Sister City Association. Funds were the first VC investor in companies that achieved market capitalizations in excess of $1BN.

9 10 13 14 Bo Zhu Chief Dream Chaser, Dream Chaser Funds Panel Speakers Founder, Innovalley Imagine the Unimaginable Bo Zhu is the founder and chairman of the Innovalley Accelerator/ Incubator in China. He is also a founder of the Dreamchaser investment management fund in Shenzhen and is acknowledged as one of the top ten • Key factors of translating intellectual property into economical most successful angel investors in China. Mr. Zhu had served as CMO outcomes of business and software product line unit and the President of Internet business at Huawei. He has held both engineering and executive positions at • Decision-making on investment of venture capitalists Qualcomm and American Express. He founded NeTrue Communications, • Comparison of innovation and entrepreneurship environment in US a global VoIP service provider that reached IPO on the Canada Stock Exchange. He was also the founder of Cgogo in 2004, which received and China institutional financing. His investment portfolio includes CoverMe, • The investment trends and themes for the next decade DownTown, xTV, Weendy, and BoostInsider, super syllabus, gift talk, • Rational and wise allocation of investment jianzhe mao, dajiatou etc.

Zhaoyu Zheng Bowen Gui Moderator Principal ,ZhenFund International Business General Manager, Miyabaobei Zhaoyu Zheng is a Principal at ZhenFund where he focuses on education Miyabaobei was founded in 2011. It is currently the largest vertical and O2O sectors. Prior to joining ZhenFund, Zhaoyu was Vice President of e-commerce company for baby and maternal products in China. Ms. Education International Corporation, one of China’s leading providers in Gui is in charge of global supply chain, FTZ business and international overseas study. He also served as Principal at Taiyuan New Oriental School. procurement etc.. Before joining Miyabaobei, Ms. Gui was working for BlackRock as a project manager. She was a consultant for SheerWind Inc, and the deputy general secretary for RS Capital. She also founded GUI Strategies LLC which mainly focusing on financial advisory and Qiang(Larry) Li angel investment. She received her master degree of Information System Managing Partner, zPark Capital Management from Carnegie Mellon University. Larry is Managing Partner and Co-Founder at zPark Capital. He also co-founded of zPark Venture Fund and TEEC Angel Fund. Larry has invested more than 50 David Motley companies, including Darma, Assmblage (acquired by Cisco), Droplet, Skycatch, Co-Founder and General Partner, BlueTree Venture Fund Koinify, Orbeus, Mugeda, Woomoo, Veetle, Narvalous, TrustLook, etc. Larry currently serves on the Board of Director for Droplet, Darma and Candy House, David Motley is a Senior Managing Director with HEADWATERSSC. Mr. etc.He is a founding contributor of Tsinghua 100 Education Fund, Vice Chairman Motley offers a blend of consulting and executive level operating expertise of TEEC North America, and Vice President of Tsinghua Business School Alumni in the client engagements that he supports. During the past several years Association at North America，and board member of UCAHP. with Headwaters, he has focused primarily on client engagements in the healthcare and medical device industries. Clients have benefitted from his considerable consulting and operating experience in the areas of governance, strategy, marketing, and product development.

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Thomas Rowley Founder, Rittle Associates Panel Speakers Former CIO, China National Offshore Oil Corporation(CNOOC) The Future of Energy: Innovation, Partnership and Responsibility Thomas Rowley is the founder of Rittle Associates, a professional services partnership dedicated to providing value driven business solutions to companies aspiring to excel in China. Thomas has over 17 years experience in information technology senior leadership roles for global corporations primarily in the process industries. His decade long tenure as Executive Director of Technology and CIO • Smart City, Green Living for some of the largest Chinese state owned corporations, such as China National • Transformation of global energy sector brought by the technological Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) and ChemChina has provided a unique development in renewable energy industry insight to the developing information technology and energy industries of China. • China’s environmental revolution and U.S. participation • The innovation of clean technology on conventional energy industry Matthew Stanton CEO and Co-founder, SolePower • US-China bilateral collaboration in energy security and policy Matthew Stanton is the CEO and co-founder of SolePower, a startup in Pittsburgh, PA developing a power-generating shoe insole for charging cell phones and other portable electronics just by walking. The company was started while Matt and his Louis Schwartz Moderator co-founder were undergraduates in the mechanical engineering department at Carnegie Mellon University. Matt has received a number of awards including being President, Chinese Strategy LLC named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Energy Category, 2014 Popular Science Invention of the Year, and 2014 Africa Innovator of the Year. Mr. Louis Schwartz, a lawyer and China specialist who is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, is president of China Strategies LLC. Through China Strategies, Mr. Schwartz provides clients research and analysis, due Thomas A.Sarkus diligence, merger and acquisition, public and private equity investment Division Director, Major Projects Division, US Department of and other support on a wide range of matters involving China’s legal Energy’s (US DOE’s) National Energy Technology Laboratory system, economic development and trade and investment, with a particular Thomas A. Sarkus has 36 years of technical and managerial experience, emphasis on China’s burgeoning energy and metals sectors. including 29 years in project management at the US Department of Energy’s (US DOE’s) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). He Khee Poh Lam is currently the Division Director of NETL’s Major Projects Division, Office of Major Demonstrations, Strategic Center for Coal, and provides expert Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University guidance and consultation to major DOE-funded clean coal technology and Member of the Board of Directors, Energy Foundation carbon sequestration demonstration projects. Prof. Lam is an educator, researcher, architect and consultant who specialize in life cycle building information modeling and computational design support systems for total building performance analysis and building Seth Wilmore diagnostics. He is actively working on a range of R&D activities including Environmental Manager, EverPower green building codes and standards, education and training, as well as sustainable design demonstration projects in the US and China. He has also Seth Wilmore is the Environmental Manager of EverPower, a fast growing completed several major award winning projects in the private and public developer, owner, and operator of utility scale wind projects in the US. Mr. sectors in Singapore, China and the USA. He is currently Visiting Professor Wilmore’s job is about management of environmental studies and permitting at the School of Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Tsinghua compliance associated with development, construction, and operation of EverPower University, China and the National University of Singapore. projects. In addition, involved in the latest guidance and regulations related to wind energy environmental and permitting policies.

13 14 17 18 Bo Zhu Chief Dream Chaser, Dream Chaser Funds New Venture Competition Founder, Innovalley Bo Zhu is the founder and chairman of the Innovalley Accelerator/ Introduction Incubator in China. He is also a founder of the Dreamchaser investment management fund in Shenzhen and is acknowledged as one of the top ten most successful angel investors in China. Mr. Zhu had served as CMO The New Venture Competition is one of the core sessions of CMU Summit. The of business and software product line unit and the President of Internet Competition aims to build a communication platform for Chinese and American business at Huawei. He has held both engineering and executive positions at students. In entrepreneurial ecosystem, we play a vital role in bridging resources Qualcomm and American Express. He founded NeTrue Communications, and ability. The Competition is a platform for identifying, nurturing and showcasing a global VoIP service provider that reached IPO on the Canada Stock emerging entrepreneurs in and out the city of Pittsburgh. In this year’s competition, we Exchange. He was also the founder of Cgogo in 2004, which received got strong support from BlueTree Venture Fund, Cybernaut Investment, IDG Capital institutional financing. His investment portfolio includes CoverMe, Partners, Innovalley, PreAngel LLC, WI Harper Group, ZhenFund, zPark Capital as DownTown, xTV, Weendy, and BoostInsider, super syllabus, gift talk, well as academic and industrial field. 119 teams from top universities all over the US jianzhe mao, dajiatou etc. and China participated in the New Venture Competition, among which top 12 teams from Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard University, the University of Chicago, the Zhaoyu Zheng University of Maryland, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, Yale Principal at ZhenFund University, etc. make break into the final round. This year, we also got sponsorhip from Zhaoyu Zheng is a Principal at ZhenFund where he focuses on education Sinovator, which offers cash award for the our special awards in this year’s Competition. and O2O sectors. Prior to joining ZhenFund, Zhaoyu was Vice President of Education International Corporation, one of China’s leading providers in Judge List overseas study. He also served as Principal at Taiyuan New Oriental School. Zhaoyu received a Master’s Degree in Management from Peking University and a PhD in Education from Beijing Normal University. Feng Li Partner, IDG Capital Partners Hong Xue Feng Li is actively involved in investment in education, consumer Managing Partner, Westlake Ventures services, TMT and other high-tech related fields. In the joint of internet Partner, Silicon Valley office of Cybernaut Investment and finance, Mr. Li led the investments into Credit Ease, Ripple, Hong has over 20 years experience across engineering, product Coinbase, Baifendian and Wacai. Mr. Li once launched two start-ups, management, market development, venture capital fund management. His after that, he joined New Oriental Education & Technology Group, where technical expertise includes Mobility, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Wireless he worked for eight years and held several core management roles, such Telecommunications. His career includes technical management positions as the core education system, sub-brand’s establishment and promotion, in Fortune 500 companies and Start-ups with international working distant education and subsidiary products. After leaving New Oriental experiences in countries like United States, China and India. He earned an in early 2007, he created Miaozhen System, a renown big-data driven MBA with e-Commerce concentration from Tepper School of Business of advertising company. Mr. Li once served at China Renaissance, where he Carnegie Mellon University and his B. S. EE in China. was involved in leading many financing cases.

17 18 19 20 David Motley Co-Founder and General Partner, BlueTree Venture Fund New Venture Competition David Motley is a Senior Managing Director with HEADWATERSSC. Mr. Motley offers a blend of consulting and executive level operating expertise Judge List in the client engagements that he supports. During the past several years with Headwaters, he has focused primarily on client engagements in the healthcare and medical device industries. Clients have benefitted from Yong Liu his considerable consulting and operating experience in the areas of governance, strategy, marketing, and product development. Managing Partner , SVTech Venture Partner ,WI Harper Group and Legend Star Don Morrison Dr. Yong Liu is Managing Partner of SVTech and Venture Partner of WI Chairman, Deal Flow , BlueTree Allied Angels Harper Group & Legend Star. Previously he was head of Lenovo and open innovation efforts in the US, including strategic investment As Chairman of Deal Flow for BlueTree Allied Angels, Don collaborates and partnerships. He served as a key contributor in several cross-border with his screening teams to identify quality deal flow, recruit new members M&A deals including Lenovo-Moto acquisition. He co-founded Lenovo and partners to the group, and facilitates BlueTree’s Formal Screening LeFund in 2010, which was recognized as China top 10 angel funds by Meetings.Outside his work at BlueTree, Don is actively involved in Zero2IPO in 2014. Currently he is VP and board member of Nanjing mentoring and coaching numerous start-ups and early stage companies University Alumni Association San Francisco Bay Area. in the region through Alpha Lab, Alpha Lab Gear, The Thrill Mill and the eCenter@LindenPointe. Lijie Wang Founding Partner, PreAngel LLC Lijie Wang, recognizing himself as one of the most diligent angel investors in Zhiyu Jiang China, founded and owned the angel investor brand “PreAngel”. He manages a Founder and CEO, VESS LLC decent number of venture capital funds such as “Li Ningbo LeiLi 150 million”, Dr. Zhiyu Jiang is a senior consultant at a consulting firm that located in “Shanghai LeiLi 3 million”, “JianRui capital 400 million HuiYi capital 10 million” the bay area. His mission is to promote innovation restructuring for many and “ PreAngel LLC 700 million dollars of direct investment to the United States”. start-ups and Fortune Global 500 through global data cloud services and His main focus is early stage investment in mobile Internet technology. Wang IoT. He worked for National Synchrotron Light Source, Fermi National focuses his investment mostly on the opportunities brought by innovative mobile Accelerator Laboratory, and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, while Internet services and new core technologies to upgrade and transform traditional he also worked for NASA Ames Research Center. He made significant industires Starting from 2011, he has invested more than 180 start-ups. contribution to the found of top quark and X-ray free electron laser technology at FNAL in 1994. He also worked for Lookheed Martin’s Kang (Kevin) Yin department of homeland security as the CTO, led the big data team for Bearing Point, designed information architecture for IBM GBS, and led CTO ,Cisco Research & Development Center in Greater China the data center transition team for Dell Global Services. Co-Director ,Tsinghua-Cisco Joint Research & Innovation Lab

Kevin Yin has been working in networking and communication industry for 24 years.. Prior to joining Cisco, he worked in Bell Lab of Lucent technologies as the Qiang(Larry) Li member of technical staff. His interests area in signaling, network architecture Managing Partner, zPark Capital as well as IP multi-media system design. He is one of frequently invited keynote Larry is Managing Partner and Co-Founder at zPark Capital. He also co-founded speaker and panelist in industry forums in China and AsiaPac. He appeared as of zPark Venture Fund and TEEC Angel Fund. Larry has invested more than 50 guest judge in CCTV “Win in China” program as well as several case competition companies, including Darma, Assmblage (acquired by Cisco), Droplet, Skycatch, programs in China. Currently, He servers as a member of China national IT experts Koinify, Orbeus, Mugeda, Woomoo, Veetle, Narvalous, TrustLook, etc. Larry committee as well as China national cloud experts committee. currently serves on the Board of Director for Droplet, Darma and Candy House, etc.He is a founding contributor of Tsinghua 100 Education Fund, Vice Chairman of TEEC North America, and Vice President of Tsinghua Business School Alumni Association at North America，and board member of UCAHP. 21 22

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Pitch Competition Poster Session

Demere David Engle, Carnegie Mellon University BreatheWise, LLC Eric Wise, Carnegie Mellon University

Julia Kurnik, Harvard University FOCUS Foods Inc Community Honor Fund Dawn Lu, University of Virginia

In-Situ Nucleic Acid Detection and Wei-Che Hsieh, Carnegie Mellon University AbiliLife Courtney Williamson, Carnegie Mellon University Signal Amplification (I-NADSA) Jiahui Edutainment Jiahui Pan, University of Pennsylvania Airport Sherpa Patrick DellaValle, University of Pennsylvania Kegg Apps Dan Eberhart, Drexel University Nebulus Hayden Cardiff, Carnegie Mellon University LunchBrother Lvyuan Chen, University of Maryland RAY Academy for Parents Allie Wang, Yale University Low-Cost Autonomy Aditya Sharma, Carnegie Mellon University The Brightwater Bottle Tessa Roscoe, Carnegie Mellon University Locus Social Inc Shaofeng Yang, Carnegie Mellon University The David Yuhan Long, Carnegie Mellon University

MPOWER Financing, Public Benefit Manu Smadja, Village Capital ThirdEye David Ongchoco, University of Pennsylvania Corporation

ViviPulse Zhen Li, Yale University NexGenDoc Trisha Black, Carnegie Mellon University

Weelio Xiaozhou Zhu, University of Chicago Vebronix Pu Wang, Purdue Univeristy

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Founder and Chair of 2012 Conference: Rui Ma Speaker/Panels Conference Advisor, 2013 Conference Executive Co-Chair: Pengxuan Chen IT Panel Energy Panel Director: Haohan Wang Director: Dudong Feng Executive Chair of 2015 Summit : Bing Zhou Associate Director: Yingkai Gao Associate Director: Zhiyuan Cheng Xuezi Zhang Weiyu Zhang Vice Chairs: Haohan Wang Member: Ruiming Zhou Member: Jia Guo Yingkai Gao Qian Wan Haichao Wu Xuezi Zhang Ruijian Wang Wei Fu Shanghang Zhang Qingqing Wei Xiaochen Zhang Secretaries Public Relation & Marketing Jia Guo Director: Yin Zheng Finance Panel Innovation and Entrepreneurship Panel Associate Director: Qifang Cai Director: Tai Jin Sponsor Relation Director: Xiaochen Zhang Kenan Zhang Associate Director: Zihan Zeng Associate Director: Yingkai Gao Co-director:Mengyao Wei Member: Huihan Wang Yimin Xie Advisor: Bin Xie Xi’er Mei Yihong Chen Member: Mengyao Wei Member: Kenan Zhang Member: Ninghao Sha Weiyu Zhang Qifang Cai Xuezi Zhang Yufei Zhang Ruijian Wang Meiqi Liu Shanghang Zhang Huihan Wang Jia Guo Zhao Zhang

Human Resources Competition Co-director:Mengyao Wei Co-director: Yingkai Gao Huihan Wang Xiaochen Zhang Associate Director: Xuezi Zhang Tech/Design Kenan Zhang Member: Haohan Wang Tech Director: Xuezi Zhang Yin Zheng Design Director: Kenan Zhang Meiqi Liu Advisor: Qiren Wang Ruijian Wang Associate Director: Yunan Jiang Qian Wan Yin Zheng

Operation 20 Director: Yingkai Gao Associate Director: Jia Guo Member: Ruiming Zhou Ruijian Wang Zhiyuan Cheng

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