GWC & 36Kr Event: China’s Mobile Gaming Salon – Silicon Valley

Posted on February 29, 2012

China’s Mobile Gaming Salon – Silicon Valley
Date: March. 8th, 6: 00pm(PST)
Location: TBD

36Kr (36Kr.com) is the most popular blog focusing on internet startup in China. Since its start in Dec. 2010, it has been reporting over 200 well-recognized early-stage internet products in China. For the past year, it has grown from a tech blog to a multi-functional platform providing comprehensive service to startups in all of the internet related sectors.

Currently, 36Kr has been working extremely hard to create more values for their readers, entrepreneurs and investors. And now they want to connect their indigenous knowledge and experience of everything China to the Silicon Valley so that people will better understand the chinese tech environment.

In order to communicate with 36kr readers in US, co-hosted with the Great Wall Club US,  this event will focus very much on Chinese mobile gaming industry and the general startups. The panel discussion will highlight mobile gaming monetization, addressing how to make REAL money in China and US. We hope this can pave ways for opportunities on both sides.

Agenda

6:00 – 6:30pm   Registration
6:30 – 6:45pm   Opening & Introduction
6:50 – 7:50pm   Brief Keynotes

• Thomas Luo – Typical misunderstandings between startup entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and China
• Andy Parng – How to build a self-expanding O2O platform without burning money
• Bin She – Differences between successful web/social games from East and West, and how to make a successful social game in China market
• Victor Tong
• Antonio Tomarchio
• Si Shen

7:50 – 8:20pm Panel Discussion
Topic: Tactics for Mobile Gaming Monetization in China
8:20 – 8:30pm Q & A

Confirmed Speakers:

• Bin She: Bin is CEO and Co-founder of Firevale, a new social gaming startup based in Beijing. Firevale is travelling to attend Game Developer Conference in March.
• Thomas Luo: Thomas is the chief writer at CBN Weekly, the most popular business magazine in China. He moved to Silicon Valley as the publication’s US-based correspondent. He is a seasoned reporter/editor covering technology, mobile and new media and has been following the most cutting edge tech products and trends closely.
• Victor Tong: Victor is the founding Managing General Partner of Webplus Ventures, the founder of Webplus, and a “lean” angel investor. He invested in Webplus and many other companies in Internet and wireless Internet, e-commerce, online games, social networking, gaming/lottery, outsourcing, and healthcare in China and USA.
• Antonio Tomarchio: Antonio Tomarchio is the founder, President and CEO of Beintoo, based in Milan, Italy and Silicon Valley in California. Beintoo is a mobile gamification platform provider with non-intrusive mechanics that deepens player’s achievement experiences by bringing real rewards. Beintoo was awarded the top winner of the pan-Europe conference Le Web 2011 Startup Competition last December.
• Andy Parng: Andy is the founder and CEO of Specialdeals.com and Yikuair.com. As a new startup in Beijing and San Jose, Yikuair aims to build a self-expanding platform connecting online users and offline businesses without burning money. It added the “micro payment” improvement to the one-to-one traction requiring the buyer to pay only a small service to secure the discount first and then pay merchants directly the discounted price.

About 36Kr 

36Kr (36氪) is a tech blog focusing on internet startup, whose name comes from the 36th element “Krypton”(chemical symbol “Kr”) in Periodic Table. It’s said Krypton Planet is where Supermen come from.

Currently, 36Kr.com has boasted as one of the most popular blogs in Chinese internet entrepreneurship. It releases the most recent news and analysis about internet startup and technology.

Meanwhile, 36Kr opens up “Seeking for report” channel, exposing excellent startups and products in China. Besides reporting startups for free, 36Kr has constructed “36Kr Open Day(Oday)” as the press conference of new product for early-stage internet startups, which has been held around the big cities all over the country on a monthly basis.

36Kr has also built a platform for ”Seeking for funding” and “Seeking for talents”(To be released soon) for early internet startups, to provide more comprehensive service for Chinese entrepreneurs.

About Great Wall Club
The Great Wall Club (GWC) connects the mobile internet ecosystem of China to that of the world’s by enabling our members and clients to develop trusted relationships, learn market leading strategies, promote their initiatives and ultimately, grow their mobile internet business in China and the world. GWC Members include some of the world’s most influential executives, entrepreneurs, developers and investors in the mobile Internet industry such as executives from Tencent, Alibaba, China Unicomt, DeNA and Gree.

GWC is the organizer of the annual Global Mobile Internet Conference, the largest tech conference in Asia drawing 5000 tech leaders from more than 30 countries. GWC is headquartered in Beijing and has representative offices in Japan, USA, Singapore, Taiwan and Finland.

Great Wall Club USA is located in heart of Silicon Valley.

About AngelHere

Angelhere is a social network for innovative start-ups and investors in China and U.S.. We help start-ups connect with the right investors, strategic and business partners in China.

Registration

Register at gwcus-36kr.eventbrite.com
General public $10. On-site $20. Seats are limited.
For event related inquiries, please contact Mia, mia@greatwallclub.com.

2012 Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) Top 10 Highlights

Posted on January 26, 2012

1. Mobile Internet Ethics

•       Intellectual property protection
•       Data security and privacy
•       Copycats and clones

2. Mobile Internet Impact

•       Charities and good causes
•       Women in mobile
•       Education
•       Cultural impact of Weibo and Twitter

3. Mobile Advertising and Monetization

•       Ad Networks
•       Virtual Good sales
•       Freemium is the future?
•       Alternative business models

4. Future of Mobile

•       Next generation (4G/LTE)
•       Cloud computing
•       Mobile Apps for Business
•       Internet of Things (M2M)
•       Augmented Reality (AR)

5. App Distribution 

•       Android, iOS, Windows Phone, RIM
•       HTML5
•       Independent app stores
•       Carrier involvement
•       Handsets

6. Globalization 

•       How to target developing world? (SMS, Feature phones)
•       How can foreign companies be successful in China?
•       How can Chinese companies grow globally?
•       Should your startup go global or stay local

7. Entrepreneurship and Startups

•       Getting funded
•       Idea generation
•       User acquisition
•       Revenue models
•       Team motivation

8. Entertainment

•       Games
•       Mobile Audio
•       Mobile Animation

9. E-commerce goes to Mobile

•       Social Local Mobile Commerce (SOLOMOCO)
•       Mobile payment (NFC etc.)
•       Online to Offline

10. Investment 

•         Chinese IPOs
•         VIE Structures
•         Venture Capital
•         Angel investing and incubators

Join Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) and Meet with Top Leaders

Posted on January 26, 2012 Updated on January 26, 2012

Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) team would like to invite you to be a part of the amazing event- the 4^th Global Mobile Internet Conference, 2012 on May 10^th-11^th in Beijing, China.

Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC)| May 10-11^th| Beijing, China
GMIC is Asia’s largest and most elite mobile Internet conference. It is specifically designed for mobile Internet leaders to connect with each other, learn from top industry influencers and promote their initiatives.

2011, GMIC drew over 3200 tech leaders from 26 countries. The GMIC should be the one that definitely worth going, especially for those who want to get connected with influential guys in mobile industry. The theme for GMIC 2012 is “Crossing, Merging, Changing” and will highlight all the latest trends in mobile Internet in China and across the globe.

The conference consists of 3 stages: the Executive stage, appSpace developer stage and the G-Startup stage. Combined, these stages cover the full spectrum of the mobile ecosystem making GMIC the preeminent platform to promote mobile technologies and initiatives in China.

Here are some confirmed top speakers:

                                                              

Charles CHAO                                                      LEI Jun 
CEO Sina.com                                                      Angel Investor, CEO Xiaomi

LIU Chengmin                                                       Takeshi Natsuno
Senior Executive Vice President Tencent          Inventor  Imode

                                                                
Shainiel DEO                                                        Manzi XUE
CEO Halfbrick Studios (Fruit Ninja)               Angle investor

Joe Hu
CEO NetDragon Boyuan

Previous speakers include:  Tecent CEO, Gree CEO, Lenovo CEO, Rovio CEO, Kaifu Li, Renren CEO, Opera CEO, Sohu CEO, Google China CEO, Skype Founder, DeNA COO, Motorola VP, Nokia VP Dave McClure, Softbank EVP

Previous media coverage includes: Techcrunch, CNN, CCTV, PC Magazine, Bloomberg, Reuters, Forbes, Venturebeat, ReadWriteWeb

Mark your calendars and head over to HERE to grab your tickets.  See you there!

Top Sponsors

About GWC

GWC connects the mobile internet ecosystem of China to that of the world’s by enabling our members and clients to develop trusted relationships, learn market leading strategies, promote their initiatives and ultimately, grow their mobile internet business in China and the world. GWC Members include some of the world’s most influential executives, entrepreneurs, developers and investors in the mobile Internet industry such as executives from Tencent, Alibaba, China Unicomt, DeNA and Gree.

GWC is the organizer of the annual Global Mobile Internet Conference, the largest tech conference in Asia drawing 5000 tech leaders from more than 30 countries. GWC is headquartered in Beijing and has representative offices in Japan, USA, Singapore, Taiwan and Finland.

Great Wall Club USA is located in heart of Silicon Valley.

If you are a big fan of social media, especially Twitter, join our Twitter contest to win the free tickets to Beijing! More information here   

Agenda：Mobile Innovation Across Border China vs. U.S

Posted on November 5, 2011

China continues to be largest mobile market in the world with over 1billion active subscribers, over 350 million mobile Internet users, and over 250 million new handsets sold each year. We are very glad to invite some of the top speakers in China Mobile Internet industry, to meet with mobile innovation leaders in Silicon Valley, the HQ for world’s Mobile Innovation, and discuss the innovation and entrepreneurship cross world’s two innovation centers and the opportunities of bridging them.

Place：

Stanford Graduate School of Business

655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA. (Map)

Agenda：

4:30 p.m. Registration

5:00 p.m.Opening: GCBC

5:02 p.m. Welcoming Remark: Stanford GSB Faculty

5:04 p.m. Delegation Introduction: CEO of GWC

5:07 p.m. Dialogue of the Masterminds: From Cloud to Mobile Internet

Moderator: Haim Mendelson, Professor, Stanford

Speakers: Jian Wang, CTO, Alibaba

Charlies Fan, SVP, VMWare

5:30 p.m.  Panel: Mobile Innovation & Startups for the 1Bilion Mobile Users

Moderator:  Greg Pickrell, Partner, Pillsbury

Speakers:    Mike Song, CEO, Skymobi

Yong Wang, CEO, DeNA China

Yiqun Bo, President, GWC China

Jeff Haynie, CEO Co-founder, Appcelerator

Anil Dhami, President & COO, Funzio

6:30 p.m. Interview with Lei Jun, CEO Xiaomi: lessons learned from leaders: Google And Apple

Interviewer: Jack Jia, Partner GSR. CEO Baynote

6:58:p.m. Final remarks

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