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April 8, 2013   HK Forum Preview Issue                         www.silicondragonventures.com
FEATURED EVENTS 
  
   HONG KONG
From Startup to Scale
  
Speakers:
Fritz Demopoulos
Co-Founder & CEO, Qunar
 Founder, Queen's Road Capital
Melissa Guzy
Managing Partner & Founder
Arbor Partners Asia
Thomas Britt
Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton
 Anna Lo
Manager & Co-Founder
Softbank's Bodhi Fund
Tytus Michalski
Managing Director
Fresco Capital Advisors 
Ted Lai
Executive VP-Asia
BBC / AngelVest 
 Nisa Leung
Partner, Qiming Ventures
Richard Chan
Managing Partner 
Iron Fire Capital
Yat Siu
Founder & CEO, Outblaze
Anthony Zameczkowski
 Head of Music
YouTube Asia Pacific
  
  Cyberport venue
  
WHERE:
Cyberport, Hong Kong
WHEN:
April 18, 4-9PM
PROGRAM:
VC & Angel Investor Panels, Tech Chats, Networking, Q&A, Dinner & Drinks  
  
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Thanks to our sponsors:
Debevoise & Plimpton, KPMG, InvestHK  
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BEIJING
Tech Stars of Tomorrow
Neil Shen
 
Speakers:
Neil Shen
Founding Managing Partner
Sequoia Capital China
Hans Tung
Managing Partner
Qiming Venture Partners
Kai-Fu Lee
Founder & CEO
Innovation Works
Stella Jin
Partner, Keytone Ventures
Ke Geng
Partner, O'Melveny & Myers
Alan Guo
Founder & CEO  
Light in the Box
Jack Xu
Founder, PaPa
Benjamin Joffe
Founding Partner, CMUNE
Shunee Yee
President & CEO
CSoft International
Chen Nian
CEO, VANCL   
Where:
Microsoft Research Asia
WHEN:
May 29, 2013, 6-10PM
PROGRAM:
Investor Panel, Tech Chats, Q&A, Networking,
Dinner & Drinks
  
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  SHANGHAI
China's Venture Hub 
WHEN:
September 12, 2013, 5-9PM 
WHERE:
Knowledge & Innovation Community
 KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Gary Rieschel
Founder & Managing Partner
Qiming Venture Partners
Thanks to Our Sponsors:
Cooley, KPMG
 
SILICON VALLEY
Dragon Innovators Go East
 WHEN: October 3, 6-9PM
WHERE:
Rosewood Sand Hill
  
 HONG KONG
Entrepreneur/VC Award 
November 14
  
  
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 This cool-looking UFO-type structure just happens to be the site of our Silicon Dragon HK Forum, April 18, 4-9PM.

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 Speakers at Silicon Dragon HK 2013 Forum

 

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Vicky Wu, Fritz Demopoulos, Nisa Leung, Melissa Guzy, Tytus Michalski, Rebecca Xu, Anthony Zameczkowski, Ted Lai, Thomas Britt, Anna Lo, Richard Chan, Yat Siu

 

Moderators Thomas Crampton of Ogilvy & Mather, Napolean Biggs of Web Wednesday, Frederik Balfour of Bloomberg BusinessWeek

MC & Moderator: Rebecca Fannin, Silicon Dragon 

  

The World's Four Top Tech Capitals To Watch

#1 Hong Kong

#2 Washington, DC

#3 Tel Aviv

# 4 London

A handful of tech hubs in the world are working overtime to follow in the footsteps of Silicon Valley. Forbes scoped out several world cities that are doing their best to earn their own "Silicon (something)" monikers. Forbes took a look at why these cities were inspiring techonomies, with an eye toward Hong Kong's prospective place among the very top tech hubs on the planet.

What makes the city worth watching is Hong Kong's perhaps unrealized potential. With a community of innovative and ambitious entrepreneurs on one side and a population of internationally traveled, wealthy tycoons on the other, Hong Kong could be a powder keg of a techonomy waiting to explode.

See Top Tech Capitals.

http://onforb.es/XZuVwC

 

Can A Startup Culture Take Hold In Hong Kong?

I see the beginnings of a startup hub happening in Hong Kong - a good thing since Hong Kong has seemed destined to be left behind by the high energy found in the tech clusters of Beijing and Shanghai.

It can be difficult to name a successful tech startup from Hong Kong, home to real estate tycoons and investment bankers.  But innovations from all kinds of startups - mobile gaming, clean energy, education, healthcare - are bubbling up.

See Startup Culture

http://onforb.es/Wp4LSF

 

Silicon Dragon London 2013
Alexander Trewby of Enterproid tells how his mobile tech startup grew up in Hong Kong and is going global

 

 

Kowloon's Hip New Hotels, Malls 

Give Tsim Sha Tsui An Edge 

Ritz-Carlton HK: still the world's tallest hotel?

 

Kowloon has often been looked at as the other Hong Kong, the one that is on the wrong side of the proverbial tracks (or harbour in this case). But with the new upscale shopping centers and five-star hotels that have recently opened, coupled with a planned redevelopment of the old Kai Tak airport where planes used to fly in next to skyscrapers, Kowloon is looking up.
See Silicon Dragon Review.  http://onforb.es/1212kq5
  

  

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Silicon Dragon NY 2013, March 21. Webcast  http://bit.ly/YJu7IM

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