Clay Chandler

Chair, Brainstorm Design; Executive Editor, Asia FORTUNE

Clay Chandler is Fortune’s Asia editor. Based in Hong Kong, Clay oversees Fortune’s editorial operations throughout the region, contributes feature articles, commentary, and news analysis to the magazine and Fortune.com, and leads the Asia- and China-based conferences. Clay writes Eastworld, a twice-weekly newsletter with analysis of developments in Asian business, finance, and technology. Clay returned to Fortune after a six-year stint at McKinsey & Company. He worked previously for Fortune as Asia Editor in Beijing, and before that covered business, economics, and technology in the U.S. and Asia as senior staff writer for the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. Clay has lived in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, and Tokyo, and reported from every major Asian capital. He speaks Mandarin and Japanese, is a graduate of Harvard University and a former fellow of Harvard’s John King Fairbank program on Chinese studies.

Ye Yin

CEO of BGI Group, Vice Chairman of the Board of BGI Genomics Co., Ltd.

Ye Yin is the CEO of BGI Group, Vice Chairman of the Board of BGI Genomics Co., Ltd., PhD from Copenhagen University, Senior Scientist in genomics research, Adjunct Professor in Dalian University of Technology, Member of Expert Panel on Human Genetic Resources Management in China, Committee Member of Chinese Society for Measurement in Biology, Standing Committee Member of CACA Committee on Cancer Public Education.He is an expert manager in China’s biotech industry.During his lengthy career, he has been actively promoting the research and development of genomics and the commercialization of genomics applications.He participated in the decision making and negotiation of BGI’s acquisition of DNA sequencer manufacturer Complete Genomics and led the IPO of BGI Genomics Co., Ltd.His latest commitment is promoting the globalization of BGI Group.He has won national and provincial award including China Outstanding Quality Person Award, China Industry-University-Research Collaboration and Innovation Achievement Award and Nanyue Innovation Award.Finally, he is eager to promote public understanding of the benefits brought by the latest bio-technology.He has published 5 books such as The Great Gene, and keeps running a radio talk show named “Ye's! Gene Talk” on a daily basis and has many followers.

Wei Zhou

Founding Partner of CCV

Zhou Wei is the founding partner of CCV.He has 11 years of successful entrepreneurship experience and 15 years of venture investment experience.In 2007, Wei joined KPCB as a member of the KPCB China's founding team.He then served as a managing partner of KPCB China and led the technology investment team in Greater China.In 2017, Wei founded CCV, where he adheres to a selected investment strategy, and focuses on early investments in artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomous driving, and other fields.He has kept a track record of yielding at least one unicorn each year from his investment portfolio.The companies he invested in include: JD.com (NASDAQ:JD), JD.com, Ximalaya FM, VenusTech (SZSE:002439), CreditEase (NYSE:YRD), Rong360 (NYSE:JT), Arrail Dental (HKSE:06639), Perfect Corp(NYSE:PERF), Shukun Technology MetaApp, Cowa Robot, Transsnet Financial, IceKredit, Quicktron, PPIO, U POWER Technology, etc.Wei has been awarded the Most Influential Venture Capitalist by Fortune, Best Venture Capitalists by Forbes, FT China Leader Venture Capitalist, and Best Venture Capitalist by China Venture and Zero2IPO.Wei also serves as the treasurer of China Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (“CVCA”), the oldest and longest-running trade group representing the venture capital and private equity investment industry in Greater China.Wei holds an M.B.A.degree from Wharton, University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.

Guanchun Wang

Chairman and CEO of Laiye

He graduated from Princeton University in 2011 with a Ph.D.in machine learning, and obtained a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in Shanghai Jiaotong University.In 2012, he founded Jinwankansha (means what to watch tonight) as co-founder and CEO which has helped millions of users to recommend personalized movies.In November of the same year, Jinwankansha was acquired by Baidu, after which he served as Head of Baidu HCI APP.In 2015, Arvid founded the Artificial Intelligence company Laiye, with a vision to build digital assistants for everyone.It is now the pioneer of the Work Execution System, a business and technology framework built around synergy between human and digital workers.Laiye’s software brings together in one platform the disparate tools businesses use to carry out digital tasks, such as Robotic Process Automation, Intelligent Document Processing, Conversational AI, Process Mining and others.Both Laiye's Conversational AI and RPA products have been recognized in Gartner Magic Quadrant respectively.Laiye has a global presence in Europe, China, South East Asia, and the Americas.