Tech & China: How US startups can break in & Chinese startups can expand out

RSVP's CLOSED. Please email eve@1ke.co before 5pm today if you want to join!

Our bootcamp partners from BSD Academy in Hong Kong are coming to the States for our first ever 1KE (http://1ke.co) Tech Talk in San Francisco!

We'll be connecting our SF participants with Chinese viewers via livestream and will facilitate discussions & questions between both countries.

If you're a SF startup looking to adopt tools like the WeChat API (or if you've never heard of it), this should be a really helpful talk for you.

Simultaneously, tonight will be a chance for SF startups to share their stories and get feedback from Chinese users directly.

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Our Awesome Hosts: Runway Incubator (http://runway.is/)

The fantastic folks at Runway Incubator (http://runway.is/) will kick off the night by giving everyone a brief intro into what they do & how they're working with the China-focused tech community!

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Guest Speaker: BSD Academy (http://bsdacademy.com/)

We'll begin with our talks with Chris, the CEO of BSD Code & Design Academy (http://bsdacademy.com/) outlining some of the ways the tech scene in China is unique.

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Guest Speaker: RethinkDB (http://rethinkdb.com/)

Next, Jorge Silva (http://twitter.com/thejsj), Developer Evangelist at RethinkDB (http://rethinkdb.com/), will explain how Chinese users can Rethink their databases with RethinkDB (http://rethinkdb.com/)! In this talk we'll show how this model makes building modern, realtime apps dramatically easier -- you'll learn how to get a scalable realtime web app running with RethinkDB (http://rethinkdb.com/) in a
fraction of the time with fewer engineering resources.

With so many Chinese apps coming out & even hitting the global market, this is sure to be enlightening presentation!

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Guest Speaker: ShanghaiTech University (http://www.shanghaitech.edu.cn/eng/)

Professor R. May Lee, Dean, School of Entrepreneurship and Management and ShanghaiTech University will share her insights on the Entrepreneurship & Education in China and accelerating the development of future generations of creative leaders while she joined THINK School of Creative Leadership.

Lightning Talks

After that, we'll have a series of lightning talks from SF startups about the tools they think can be most helpful for Chinese startups, entrepreneurs, & developers.

• RainforestQA (https://www.rainforestqa.com/)

• 1KE

• Leo- Sponsorship Director HackUMass II: How Hackathon Culture in the US can be applied to Chinese Universities

• You? Email eve@1ke.co with the idea for your 5 minute talk to be added to the list

Round Table Discussion

Finally, we'll have a round table discussion on some of the challenges US startups face when trying to attract Chinese customers and how those challenges can be over come. Our translators will be busy facilitating questions from Chinese & SF viewers to each other.

For more info on 1KE (http://partners.1ke.co), please check out http://1ke.co or English partner page here (http://partners.1ke.co).

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