On Friday, July 30th, 2021 Q Bay Center will co-host The Global Chinese Entrepreneurs Alliance (GCEA) Startup Contest online. GCEA is a Virtual Venture Pitch Competition aimed at accelerating innovation and supporting the startup ecosystem despite the recent pandemic. This event is co-organized by students passionate about entrepreneurship from Stanford, UC Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, MIT, and the Wharton School of UPenn.<\/p>\n
GCEA, and Q Bay Center\u2019s collaborative mission is to support rising entrepreneurs from universities and connect early-stage investors with founders. This competition is open to all individuals or teams with an early prototype, an IP-protected technology, or just an innovative idea. This year, we categorize all startup teams into 3 specialized tracks, Software, Deeptech, and Biotech.<\/p>\n
*All events are in Eastern Time 21:00 – 21:10 Openings<\/p>\n 21:10 – 21:25 Opening Remarks 21:25 – 21:40 Keynote Speech 21:40 – 21:55 Keynote Speech 21:55 – 22:35 22:35 – 23:15 23:15 – 00:45 Software + AI Track Demo (8 teams) + Awards Ceremony 00:45 – 00:50 Preview for Day2<\/p>\n Saturday<\/strong> 19:15 – 21:10 Biotech Track Final Pitch (5 teams) + Awards Ceremony 21:10 – 22:20 DeepTech Track Demo (6 teams) + Awards Ceremony 22:20 – 22:35 Closing Ceremony<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" virtual
\nFriday<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nFiona Ma, California State Treasurer<\/p>\n
\nYi Cui, Director, Precourt Institute for Energy and Professor of Material Science and Engineering, Stanford University
\nTopic: Carbon Neutrality and Material Energy Technology<\/p>\n
\nJean-Marie Lehn, Nobel Laureate (Chemistry 1987)<\/p>\n
\nPanel Discussion 1 – Innovation and Investment in the Post-COVID Economy
\nModerator: Qian Chen, Co-founder of HedgeBee, TV reporter at CNBC Asia
\nPanelists:
\nMing Lei, Founding partners of AIBasis Ventures, Baidu’s Co-Founders
\nLi Feng, Founding Partner of FreeS Fund
\nYutong Zhang, Managing Director of GSR Ventures
\nEmma Yin, Managing Director of ZhenFund<\/p>\n
\nPanel Discussion 2 – Female Leadership in Entrepreneurship and Investment
\nPanelists:
\nLixin Nan, Founder and CEO of Cyzone
\nDiana Lu, Chairman of IGI, Founder of Diana Lu Couture
\nHolly Zheng, CEO and President of BlueFocus International
\nHong Yu, Partner of Meituan Longzhu
\nCarolyn Bao, CEO of Futu Holdings, VP of Marketing of Facebook<\/p>\n
\nHiCourt
\nNMBIM collaboration platform
\nAI Skin Doctors
\nMai
\nXiaobing Inn
\nEasyDD
\nInFlux
\nProcess mining<\/p>\n
\n18:30 – 19:15 Keynote Speaker
\nDavid Schaffer, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Bioengineering, and Neuroscience at University of California, Berkeley, Director of the Berkeley Stem Cell Center and the Director of QB3-Berkeley.
\nTopic: Directed Evolution of Novel Viral Delivery Vehicles for Clinical Gene Therapy<\/p>\n
\nAlteron Therapeutics
\nBiospex
\nFlexible ECG
\nN1 Life
\nYDS Medicine<\/p>\n
\nCLEAN CO2
\nBlink Tech
\nHIPAIC
\nMageCosmos
\nLighTrace Tech
\nDimaxer<\/p>\n
\nEvent Ended<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245,"template":"","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"America\/Los_Angeles","_EventStartDate":"2021-07-30 18:00:00","_EventEndDate":"2021-07-30 22:00:00","_EventStartDateUTC":"2021-07-31 01:00:00","_EventEndDateUTC":"2021-07-31 05:00:00","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"prefix","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[208],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[35],"class_list":["post-716","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-global-pitch-day-zh","cat_global-pitch-day-zh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamingodesign.us\/QBay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamingodesign.us\/QBay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamingodesign.us\/QBay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamingodesign.us\/QBay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flamingodesign.us\/QBay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/flamingodesign.us\/QBay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/716\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamingodesign.us\/QBay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamingodesign.us\/QBay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamingodesign.us\/QBay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamingodesign.us\/QBay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}