Junli Gu

Vice General Manager, Chery AUTOMOBILE Co., Ltd.; General Manager, ZDrive.ai

Dr. Gu Junli, leading figure in autonomous driving in China and the United States, an international expert in artificial intelligence. Vice general manager of Chery AUTOMOBILE Co., Ltd. General manager of ZDrive.ai. Responsible for the global business development of autonomous driving. From 2016 to 2017, she has been worked at Tesla (USA) as Head of Machine Learning, leading Autopilot AI team and successfully developed Autopilot 2.0 system and AI software system on FSD chip. From 2017 to 2020, she has been working at Xpeng Inc. as Vice President of the Autopilot R&D Center, she was in charge of the Sino-US team that led the design of the XPilot system, which became the leading system for autopilot in China. She has been awarded more than 12 U.S. invention patents and published more than 18 high-level academic papers.

Allen Xiong

Vice President of Gotion Corporate Strategy and Opertation, Gotion

Allen Xiong (1980-) graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and Bei Hang University (BHU). He is the Vice President of Gotion Global of Gotion High-Tech., in charge of Gotion Corporate Strategy and Operation.

Participated in many university-enterprise cooperation projects and national 863 science and technology projects; served as a special reviewer for ASME and 15 papers in SCI, EI, Chinese core journals was published. He was responsible for the analysis and research of electric vehicle dynamics, simulation and optimization of chassis dynamics of light cargo vehicles, hybrid power system development and control, etc. Besides, he owned 22 years of engineering development experience in the field of new energy.

He has led and participated in the product planning and engineering design development of several hybrid models, pure electric models, and energy storage systems. 15 years of experience in the development of new energy power batteries and high voltage electric systems. He was contributed to the construction of new energy experimental platforms, the introduction of hybrid system joint venture platform technology and the localization development of power battery.

He is currently responsible for corporate strategy and product planning of passenger vehicle, commercial vehicle, and energy storage battery systems in Gotion. With company strategy, he lead a team for making 5-year strategic plan and yearly operational plan, including product design, manufacture, logistics and operation,   deputy for global business operation center.

Dongxing Yin

Vice President, SVOLT; General Manager, Dr. Octopus Intelligent Technology

Yin Dongxing, as the vice-president of SVOLT and the general manager of Dr. Octopus Intelligent Technology, he is also responsible for processes, equipment, trial production, and intelligent manufacturing sectors. He has 17 years of experience in the power battery industry,. Since the industrialization of the first generation of power batteries, he has been responsible for planning, equipment development, import and other large-scale projects of more than a dozen lithium battery factories at home and abroad, and the process development and process innovation of the whole series of products. Also he has led the development of the world's fastest blade battery high-speed laminating machine and high-speed assembly line, the independently developed third-generation laminating machine has increased the efficiency of single chip production from 0.5 seconds to 0.125 seconds. With the advantages of large-scale, extremely simplified, integrated and intelligent manufacturing, he has assisted in the mass production of SVOLT short blade battery cells and Dragon Armor Battery Pack.

FRANKIE YUAN

CEO, GAC Capital

Mr. Feng Yuan has been with GAC Group for 15 years and been in charge of multiple important jobs, including market value management, investor relationship, direct financing and investing, and general manager of GAC Capital since 2019. During that time, the market value of GAC has grown from RMB 45 billion to 180 billion. He also invented the concepts of ‘investment empowers mobility’and ‘investment embraces changes‘ and based on the ‘new four modernization in auto industry, he devoted to promote ESG investment in quality developing intelligent networks, new energy and future mobility. Over the past three years, GAC Capital has invested in over 40 projects and among them,85% of the investments volume focused on Automobile ‘New Four Modernization’. Among the investments in Automobile New Four Modernization, 50% investments are intelligent driving and 50% are new energy battery. During the year of 2020, under Yuan Feng’s leadership, GAC Capital invested more than RMB 1.1 billion in some very famous projects, including CALB（China Lithium Battery Technology Co., Ltd）, Qingtao Development, COSMX, Horizon Robotics, JINGWEI HIRAIN and meanwhile participated in some high tech projects incubating, including Great Bay Tech and Galaxy Auto Tech. Those projects successfully help GAC Group find the leading technology in new energy car production.

Anqi Yang

New Media Associate Executive Editor, FORTUNE China

Anqi Yang joined FORTUNE China in September 2014 as Senior Editor. From 2013 to 2014, Yang worked as a senior reporter of 《Caijing》Magazine, a famous Chinese business media. From 2009 to 2013, he worked as a senior reporter of 《Global Entrepreneur》Magazine, when he published 10 cover stories in four years. Before that, he also worked as a reporter of 《Beijing Business Today》from from 2008 to 2009. Yang Anqi graduated from China University of Mining and Technology, and majored in Urban Planning. After graduation, Media Scholarship winner of Renmin University，EMBA Media Scholarship winner, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University.