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Agenda

 1:10 PM   to  4:40 PM  – Panel Discussions & Networking

Hosts:

Carrie Wang, Senior Vice President of GLOGDA

April Zheng, Vice President of GLOGDA, Co-Chair of GLOGDA Young Professionals Division

George Zhou, Senior Vice President of GLOGDA

Edward Chen, Co-Chair of GLOGDA Young Professionals Division

​1:10 pm - 1:30 pm:  Opening Remarks

Moderator: Carrie Wang, Senior Vice President of GLOGDA

  • Xiaofeng Zhang, President of GLOGDA

  • Pengfei Gao, Chief Science & Technology Consul, Consulate General of the PRC in San Francisco.

 

1:30pm - 2:30 pm: Panel Discussion (60 min.)

Moderator: April Zheng, Vice President of GLOGDA

  • Professor James Sweeney, Stanford University, Advisor of GLOGDA.

  • Patrick Burt, Council Member & Former Mayor of the City of Palo Alto

  • Benjamin Xu, Chairman and Founding Managing Partner, XCapital Management

  • Jian Zhang, Founder and CEO of CFEX

 

2:30 pm - 2:50 pm: Group Photos and Tea/Coffee Break (20 min.) 

 

2:50 pm - 3:30 pm:  Renewable Energy and Storage with Grid Edge

Roundtable Forum 1 (40 min./5 speakers)

Moderator: George Zhou, Senior Vice President of GLOGDA

  • Guangyi Liu, Chief Scientist, Envision Digital; CSEE Follow 

  • Wendy Zhang, Director of ESS Business Development & Policy at CATL USA

  • Gang Xiong, Director of California Technology Center, First Solar, Inc.

  • Linhui Sui, President of International System Business Unit, Trina Solar

  • Ye Zheng, Associate Consultant, Energy & Environmental Economics

 

3:30 pm - 4:10 pm: Innovation and Investments 

Roundtable Forum 2 (40 min./5 speakers)

Moderator: Edward Chen, Co-Chair of GLOGDA Young Professionals Division

 

  • Paul McEntire, Chairman of Palo Alto Advisors; Officer of Stanford Farmers Angel investment fund; Board member and CFO of GLOGDA

  • Pengwei Wang, Chairman of Guorun Capital

  • Yiyi Jin, General Counsel of NewsBreak, a Silicon Valley company; Board member and Legal of GLOGDA.  

  • Guangting Chen, Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; GLOGDA Young Professionals Division

  • Eva Lu, Global Lead, partnerships of Google Cloud learning services.

 

Closing Remarks: Xiaofeng Zhang, President of GLOGDA

 

4:10 pm to 4:40 pm: Activities with GLOGDA Young Professionals

Moderator: Edward Chen, Co-Chair of GLOGDA Young Professionals Division

  • Introduction of Young Professionals @ GLOGDA (5 min.)

  • GLOGDA volunteer awards announcement (5 min.)

  • Activities/Entertainment (20 min.)


4:40 pm to 5:00 pm: Networking & Closing

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