WI Harper VP Fangfang Zhu recognized for her achievements in early stage investments at the 9th Silicon Valley High-Tech Innovation and Entrepreneurship Summit

From: Silicon Valley Innovation & Entrepreneurship Forum SVIEF Sept 11, 2019

From September 7 to 8, 2019, the 9th Silicon Valley High-Tech Innovation and Entrepreneurship Summit (Silicon Valley High-Creation Conference) was successfully held at the Santa Clara Convention and Exhibition Center.

At this summit, WI Harper’s Healthcare Vice-President Fangfang Zhu was awarded the SVIEF “Dune” Investment Award.

US Congressman and Honorary Chairman of the Silicon Valley Innovation & Entrepreneurship Forum, Judy Chu, sent a congratulatory letter

California Treasure, Fiona Ma sent a congratulatory letter

Wang Donghua, Consul General of the People’s Republic of China in San Francisco, sent a congratulatory letter

Santa Clara Mayor, Lisa M Gillmor sent a congratulatory letter

Silicon Valley Innovation & Entrepreneurship Forum (SVIEF) Founder and CEO, Silicon Valley High-Creation Association Chairman, Iris Lei Congratulatory Letter

The conference lasted on September 7 and 8 and the participants included nearly 100 exhibitors from all over the world and tens of thousands of viewers. SVIEF brings together high-tech industry elites, experts, entrepreneurs, innovators and mainstream media from around the world. It is a professional platform for cutting-edge technology exchanges.

This year, the conference invited Zhang Yaqin, president of Baidu, and Steve Westly, founder of the famous investment institution The Westly Group, as co-chairmen of the conference. The two hot topics of artificial intelligence and global venture capital were the core topics of the conference.  Senior executives from large companies, such as Facebook, IBM, and NVIDIA were invited to attend. Prominent scholars from top universities, such as Stanford and Berkeley, also gave a wonderful speech on these two major topics.

At the opening ceremony, US Congressman and Honorary Chairman of SVIEF, Judy Chu, and Evan G Reade, International Affairs Advisor of the Office of the Deputy Governor, delivered an opening speech. Steve Westly, founder of The Westly Group and Chairman of the 2019 Silicon Valley Initiative, spoke about New Energy. His speech explored the relationship between the world’s current pursuit of sustainable development and the end of the carbon materials era. Dr. Nuno RB Martins, an affiliated researcher at the Berkeley Institute for Aging and Education, gave an overview of his research on the breakthroughs in the human brain/cloud interaction fiend.  Bruce Dell, CEO of Euclideon, a holographic imaging company from Australia, introduced the world’s leading holographic imaging technology at the opening ceremony.

In addition, SVIEF University was officially launched at the September 7^th opening ceremony. SVIEF University is a new type of university, dedicated to cultivating innovative thinking and international perspectives for entrepreneurs and investors.  (形而上者谓之道，形而下者谓之器。大道至简，高瞻远瞩，一叶不为障目。)  SVIEF University integrates Chinese and Western cultures by drawing upon Chinese philosophy and Western science, promoting scientific and technological exchanges.  The institution’s motto is that it “takes innovation to achieve dreams,” and “promotes the innovation of enterprises” as its mission. An old Chinese saying goes, “It takes ten years to grow trees but a hundred years to rear people.” The goals of SVIEF University are to (1) combine Chinese and Western cultures, (2) connect worldwide scientists, scholars, innovation representatives and industrial resources, (3) inspect nodes of scientific and technological innovation in various countries, (4) explore innovative spirit, (5) foster entrepreneurs who have international vision and innovative abilities (6) help high-tech entrepreneurial teams learn comprehensive management knowledge, and (7) complete the transition from CTO to CEO. SVIEF University focuses on artificial intelligence, new energy & materials, biomedical and other fields.  It will bring together global wisdom, focus on combining corporate characteristics, analyze actual cases, and help enterprises use innovative technology to transform. 

There was also a Summit of Global Innovation Leaders panel, discussing the innovations in today’s technology world. Panelists included:

• Amino Capital founding partner, Silicon Valley High-Creation Council Chairman Wu Jun
• Stanford University School of Medicine and Affiliated Hospital Chief Physician, Silicon Valley High-Creation Council Chairman Qian Xiang
• WestSummit Capital Founding Partner, Silicon Valley Innovation Committee Chairman Yang Lei
• McCauley Labs Founder and President Jack McCauley
• Sffiliated researcher Nuno R.B. Martins of the Berkeley Institute for Aging and Education

Review of the opening ceremony

Here are photos of the launch ceremony of SVIEF University:

At the Artificial Intelligence Venture Capital Summit, senior executives from IBM, NVIDIA and other large companies gave speeches on the two topics of artificial intelligence and venture capital.

Review of Artificial Intelligence Venture Capital Summit

At the Artificial Intelligence Technology Summit, many artificial intelligence technology experts and audiences from AutoX, DinoPlus AI, San Jose State University and other universities shared the most advanced artificial intelligence technology, which sparked the spark of thought.

Review of the Artificial Intelligence Technology Summit (Day 1)

SVIEF Night Review

In the high-tech night known as the “Oscars” of Silicon Valley, the conference gave awards to technology stars, investment institutions and projects that have made outstanding achievements in innovation, technology and investment in the past year. Among them:

• The SVIEF “Apollo” Science Award was won by Dr. Nuno R.B. Martins, an affiliated researcher at the Berkeley Center for Aging Research and Education. He has made outstanding contributions to the field of human brain/cloud interaction technology in the past year
• SVIEF “Yosemite” technology Grand Prize: Euclideon, a holographic imaging expert from Australia
• SVIEF’s Best Incubator of the Year: Techcode
• SVIEF Outstanding Investor Award: Draper Dragon Fund and Draper Associate Partner Andrew Tang
• SVIEF Outstanding Contribution Award: Magic Sound Company CEO Noel Lee
• SVIEF “Dune” Top 15 Investor Award: Fifteen senior investors and institutions such as Wang Hao, founder of Skywood Capital Fund
• SVIEF TOP30 Innovation Award: Dilili Labs, which is comprised of 30 high-tech innovation teams, and projects such as PRTOTXX.

In the SVIEF Star Entrepreneurship Competition, 16 entrepreneurial teams competed fiercely and finally six teams took home the first, second and third prizes. Among them, PROTXX won the first prize, Integem Inc and PixelDisplay won tied for second, CTIONE, SWFT Pay and VisionX all won the third prize. In addition, a large number of investment experts gave speeches at the Venture Capital Summit.

9/8 SVIEF Star Entrepreneurship Competition & Global Venture Capital Summit Review

SVIEF Star Jury List:
Ranger Wang, Founding Partner of Skywood Capital
Miao Hong, Partner of Silicon Valley Future Captial
Helen Heseri, Partner, SSR Capital
Wally Wang, capital director Fosun RZ
Tao Wang, Partner of SAIC Capital
Fangfang Zhu, VP of WI HARPER
Hong Xue, Partner of VXP
Connie Sheng, Managing Partner of Nautilus Venture
Shu Cao, Partner of Heuristic Capita
Andrew Tang, Draper Dragon Fund III Managing Director
Aviram Jenik, Partner, 408 Ventures
Scott Armanini, Managing Partner, Expo Ventures
Brian Kang, Managing Director, Sparklabs Ventures
Lokendra Jain, Partner and Managing Director, Marrs Blue Water Fund
Scott Russell, CEO & Founder, SoftTech Crossover Ventures Corp
Marisa Alma McGinnis, Managing Director, Golden Seeds
Lin Qing Hong, Co-founder, DOGIgames
Chen Ming, Founding Partner, Essence Associates
Liu Yong, Vice President at Huya
Ivy Liang, Newgen Venture Partners
Wade Ren, General Partner, Adaptive Capital
Arisa Hu, Vice President, Ciming Medical
Henry Shi, Chairman & Founding Partner, Redstone Venture Capital
Geoffrey Liu, President, Wanda Americas
Gayathri Radhakrishnan, Venture Capital Product Management, Micron Technology
Marco Demiroz, Co-founder & General Partner, the VR Fund
Greg Berkin, Managing Director, Concours Ventures
Mike Xu, managing Director, Fosun Capital
David Lane, Managing Partner, Flourish Capital
Chenxi Wang, Founder & General Partner, Rain Capital

SVIEF Star Award Winners and Awards Review:

The Artificial Intelligence Technology Summit (Day 2) continued the excitement of the first day. Experts and audiences from companies, such as IBM Watson, Genesys, UCLA and higher education institutions discussed the topic of artificial intelligence in depth. The audience enthusiastically asked questions and the scene was very enthusiastic.

Review of the Artificial Intelligence Technology Summit (Day 2)

List of winners of this conference

SVIEF “Apollo” Science Award

Winner: Nuno R.B. Martins, Associate Research Fellow, Center for Aging Research and Education, University of California, Berkeley. Reasons for winning: Dr. Martins has made outstanding contributions to the research of human brain/cloud interaction technology in the past year.

SVIEF “Yosemite” Technology Award

Winner: Euclideon, Australian holographic imaging expert.
Reasons for winning: Euclideon has world-leading technology in the holographic projection industry
Winner: Pony AI, Automated Driving Specialist
Reasons for winning: Pony AI has outstanding achievements in autonomous driving technology research

SVIEF Outstanding Investor Award

Winner: Andrew Tang, Partner, Draper Dragon Fund & Draper Associate

SVIEF Outstanding Contribution Award

Winner: Noel Lee, Founder & CEO of Monster

SVIEF 2019 Annual Incubator

Winner: Techcode
Winner: Luke Tang, President of Techcode Global

SVIEF “Dune” Investment Award

Winners (sorted by initials):
Shu Cao, Partner of Heuristic Capital
Sanjit Dang, U First Capital
Helen Heseri, Partner of SSR Capital
Miao Hong, Partner of Silicon Valley Future Captial
Jon Qiu, Managing Director of Fosun RZ Capital
Connie Sheng, Managing Partner of Nautilus Venture
Tao Wang, Partner of SAIC Capital
Ranger Wang, Founding Partner of Skywood Capital
Liangchen Xu, Partner of Fortune Capital
Fangfang Zhu, VP of WI HARPER
Hong Xue, Partner of VXP

 SVIEF TOP30 Innovation Award

(in alphabetical order)
ACTON, Inc
AI Incorporated
Bot3, Inc
Dilili Labs
Dinoplus ai
DxChain Network
Flivery
Gausscode
iGlass
Indicade Media (Artemis)
Inspirit IoT
Integem
InteMedic
Magic Weaver
Medic AI
Novumind
PETcoil
PIX MOVING
Polarr
PROTXX
ROBOTERRA
SilkRides
Soteria Battery Innovation Group
TacSense Inc.
Xvisio Technology Corp.
Yuneec
Zendure USA Inc.

This year’s EXPO gathers high-tech exhibitors from all over the world. The exhibits cover many popular fields such as artificial intelligence, autonomous driving, medical health, smart city and so on. There is also a “Silicon Valley Window” featured in this conference to showcase high-tech products.

EXPO wonderful review

EXPO and Silicon Valley Window Review

Tanslated from: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/nQVASiM3FOgLqruvGNfZ3Q