Chinese IT Association NZ

• Thursday 16 July 2026 · 7:00 PM NZT (3:00 PM Beijing Time)
• Online (Microsoft Teams) —
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  Meeting ID: 498 925 048 462 20
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• 45-minute talk + 15–30 minute open Q&A

Everyone is talking about AI. Far fewer can tell you what it looks like when AI actually lands inside a real business — and starts doing the work.

CITANZ is hosting an online session with Yifan Gan, Co-Founder of Rolling AI. A former strategy consultant at BCG, Yifan moved into enterprise AI in 2022 — leading one of the earliest teams focused on helping companies actually adopt and deploy it, not just talk about it. Rolling AI has since served 100+ enterprise clients, with engagements ranging from single-digit to tens of millions of RMB.

Their approach is simple to say and hard to do: treat AI as a new employee. Put it on the frontline — in stores, sales, and customer service — and train it on the tacit "street smarts" experienced staff carry, until it can genuinely hold down the job. (In the industry, the people who do this embedding work are increasingly called Forward Deployed Engineers — but the real story is in the how, not the acronym.)

In this session Yifan will walk through what it actually takes to get AI working inside a company: real cases, the organisational traps that stall adoption, and how to tell when a business has gone from "company + AI" to genuinely "AI + company." He'll also share his own "AI mindset" — how AI has concretely changed the way he works, thinks, and lives — and what all of this means for technologists in a smaller, slower-moving market like New Zealand.

• Who it's for: technologists and leaders driving AI adoption inside their organisations, and anyone curious about real-world enterprise AI.

Bring your questions — we'll take a selection live in the Q&A.

# Speaker Bio
With a bubbly personality, Catherine Wang (Recruitment Experience Consultant – Technology at Westpac) prides herself on her ability to develop an in-depth understanding of the business areas and the skills which are in demand, interpreting the business requirements and translating them into successful recruitment solutions. She enjoys talking with candidates and clients to meet both parties’ expectations and ethically handles sensitive and confidential information.

She started her recruitment career in New Zealand in 2020. Prior to that, she was a key account executive in a top American IT consultancy. Prior to working in recruitment, she had 10 years of B2B sales experience, including business management and key account relationship management at the C-suite level. Working for Chinese state-owned enterprises and multinational companies had made me a natural international businessperson. Such extensive industry experience has fuelled her career development in management, market analysis and relationship management skills.

Outside of work, she likes snowboarding, reading, playing golf, playing the piano and BBQing with friends.

# Agenda:
09:30 - 10:00 am Registration & Networking
10:00 - 10:30 am Opening
10:30 - 12:15 am Presentation and Q&A

# Location:
Trust Waikato Community Centre
4 Little London Lane, Hamilton Central, Hamilton

# Admission Fee:
Free for CITA members
$5 donation for non-members
Account Number: 06-0513-0847960-00
Account Name: CHINESE IT ASSOCIATION NZ

# Notes:
This event will be delivered in Mandarin.
Light refreshments and drinks will be provided.