China-US Business Mixer with 2 Speakers

RSVP Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/china-us-business-mixer-with-2-speakers-tickets-48117551893

Join us for this month's China-US Business Mixer, San Francisco's biggest China-related networking event. At this event, you will meet dozens of entrepreneurs, business professionals, engineers and attorneys and CPAs with China-related work experiences, business experience, and interests. Very often you will meet people very familiar with the Chinese market, China-US import/export, Chinese manufacturing, healthcare and Internet startups in China.

We welcome anyone with an interest in working on China-related project or business. If you are a student looking for internships and jobs, You should join us too! If you have friends who might benefit from this event or the group, please tell them to join our group and RSVP to this event.

If you are interested in speaking to the group about an area of expertise you have that is either China-related or from which China-US comparison can be drawn, please send us a note by filling the form mentioned below.

Agenda
6.30PM Sign-in and Mingling

We will facilitate you to meet others with similar interest as you. Please tell us what areas you are interested in when you RSVP.

7pm - 7.30pm

Designing for China and Western Tech
by Elaine Ann

In the 1980's China's economy was only 1/20th of the U.S., today it is over half the size of the U.S. economy and growing. If the way we have been designing has been based on the Western culture, how are things different when we have to design for users stem from a very different culture and background? Especially when Chinese consumers are traveling globally and are the leading consumers, how will that affect the way we research and design?

Elaine Ann will share with our group what she has learned in the past 16 years helping Western companies understand China users to strategize their products/services for the China market; the do's and don'ts in conducting Design Research in China and how to design for the next billion people market.

We'll also love to engage in a lively discussion on what this means to the international design/research community, the impact to the industry, exchange views and debunk myths about design/innovation in China.

7.30pm - 8pm

Building YC-Backed Tech Startup in Silicon Valley as A Chinese Founder
by Wen Sang

Smarking is a team of data scientists, PhDs, engineers, and business professionals who set out on a journey to bring cutting-edge solutions to the parking world. Frustrated by the stagnation of data analytics and yield management technologies in parking, the Smarking team is working to make the lives of parking professionals and parkers easier by bringing innovation to this hundred-billion-dollar global industry. Since the launch at MIT in 2014, Smarking has graduated from Y Combinator (Winter 2015), attracted world-class investors including Khosla Ventures, a great number of happy customers, and grown into a team with experts from both parking and tech.

Wen will share his experience starting a tech startup in Silicon Valley as a Chinese founder, the challenges that he and his team overcame and how he is envisioning Smarking to change the face of parking management around the world.

Front-end/back-end Engineer Job Opportunities
at Smarking

Smarking is also hiring for backend engineer, senior backend engineer and senior front end engineer. They are on Python stack but they are open to experience in other stacks as well. If you think you are interested in exploring working with them, send resume or Linkedin URL to benzhangpro@gmail.com and you will get direct access to the hiring manager at Smarking to ask any questions and will receive $2000 reward if you end up getting hired by Smarking and stay for at least 3 months. More details on job descriptions here: https://www.smarking.com/careers

8pm - 9PM Mingling continues

Chat more with the speakers and other attendees.