9:00-9:50 Registration

10:00-12:30 Session 1: The S-Curve

13:30-15:30 Session 2: The Renaissance

15:30-16:00 Tea Break

16:30-18:30 Session 3: The Timeless

Speakers include scientists tackling artificial intelligence, researchers understanding neuroscience, inventors of drones, doctors bringing in technological applications to medical fields, designers of ergonomics, and entrepreneurs of economic paradigm shifts (ie. share economy and virtual currency).

Speakers:

Zhao Yong

Entrepreneur making computers understand the world, Co-inventor of Google Glass.

Zhao Yong founded DeepGlint, a company dedicated to making computers understand the world through visual perception technology that enables computers to see everyday actions like humans do. Before DeepGlint, he was a Senior Researcher at Google X, where he co-invented Google Glass. He received his Ph.D in Computer Vision from Brown University.

Zhang Xiangdong

700Bike Co-founder, Promotor of city bike and cycling culture, former Founder and CEO of NASDAQ listed company.

As a serial entrepreneur, he founded the first Chinese mobile Internet company listed on the NASDAQ. At the same time, he loves writing and cycling, boasting well-known works including Fleeting Flight, etc. In 2013, he completed the most beautiful cycling routes across five continents. Recently, out of his genuine love for bikes, he started a new venture in 700Bike.

Liu Qian

Global Senior Economist, China Director of the Economist Intelligence Unit.

As the first Chinese analyst to join The Economist Group’s research arm, she led EIU’s Access China service to expand into a global team of analysts covering China’s 31 provinces and 287 key prefectures. Her work involves deep cleaning of extensive and often highly problematic data and detailed quantitative forecasting using econometric modelling. She is a regular commentator in media outlets and has published research articles in several highly-regarded academic journals.

Zhang Yichi

Entrepreneur who transforms education with Artificial Intelligence.

After dropping out as a Ph.D Candidate in Computer Science from Cambridge University, Yichi and his team have been committed to making computers understand human expressions with the overall aim of initiating a real education revolution. For the first time in China, 1Course liberalized teachers from trivial mechanical work and allowed them to dedicate more time to creative teaching, thus becoming a real catalyst for a new age of education enlightenment.

Zhang Xiaobei

Film Critic, Screenwriter, Film Producer.

Prior to 2010, he was mainly involved in film reviews and script writing and was one of the creators of the most influential CCTV program “The 10th Screening Room”, as well as the co-creator of “Weekly Film Review”, by far the most influential chinese film review program on the internet. After 2010, he co-founded China's largest movie trailer and film promotion material production company and delivered content and marketing service for numerous films including Love is not blind, The Piano in a Factory and The Golden Era.

Yu Kai

Renowned Machine Learning Scientist and Head of Baidu Deep Learning Institute.

He has been committed to creating top-class research institutes in China parallel to Bell Lab and Xerox PARC Lab. They’ve been focusing on building new technology engines to connect human beings and physical worlds more closely. He is the "National One Thousand Talents Project” expert, publishing more than 70 dissertations at top conferences and within academic journals globally, which have been peer cited more than 6000 times.

Li Zhifei

Founder of the leading smart voice product “Chu Men Wen Wen” making human machine interaction simple.

Before starting his enterprise, he worked as a researcher at Google's US headquarters. An expert in natural language processing, he was the main developer of the Google offline translation system, as well as the main developer of Joshua, the international machine translation software. He graduated from John Hopkins with a Ph.D in Computer Science.

Speakers and performers include publishers, dancers, craftsman, vintage shop owners, and artists.

Speakers:

Miao Wei

Writer, Deputy Director of Life Week Magazine, Editor in Chief of Wissen Magazine.

Miao Wei has worked in Life Week since 1993, and since has shown through his writing that boring lives can turn interesting and lively. He started to write personally in 2008, publishing such pieces as the travel log Go to the glamours World, and the novels Flying in Dark Night, and I have a disease. His latest work There will be bread will be published soon. He will tell a story about an elegant old magazine in the new media age.

Zhang Di

The Flutist.

Having studying traditional ethnic orchestra for more than 20 years, Zhang Di has been conducting ensembles incorporating both traditional Chinese flutes and European Jazz. He once performedResonance with Yanni and his band at CCTV Snake Year Spring Festival Gala. After experimenting with numerous instruments in the realm of Pop, Classic, World, Blues, Jazz, Experimental, Soul, Rock, he recently returned to the wonder of a single flute.

Zeng Yanbing

Managing Editor of VOGUE China, Best-selling Writer on Lifestyle.

Zeng Yanbing is a media veteran in fashion and currently the Managing Editor of Vogue China. She recently published the new work Love is Dinings Together, which is the first lifestyle book in China on table-setting. In collaboration with the renowned “China celebrity wedding photography” Chai Studio, it narrates a story of expressing love with flowers, food and hearty togetherness.

Philip Tinari

China Contemporary Art Curator.

Philip Tinari is Director of UCCA, where he organizes an exhibition program devoted to established figures and rising talents both Chinese and international. He founded the bilingual, international art magazine LEAP and served as executive director. He previously served as the China advisor to Art Basel and lecturer at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He holds degrees from Duke and Harvard, and sits on advisory boards for institutions including the Guggenheim and the Asia Society.

Elisabeth Koch

The only Huate Couture handcraft hat designer in China.

With a keen eye for colour, design and fashion, Elisabeth Koch has been sewing, drawing, moulding and generally involved in various creative projects since she was a child. She set up Elisabeth Koch Millinery in 2007 to realize the hats in her sketchbooks. Every hat is a handmade work of art and no two are alike. Her hats and hair pieces have been worn by royalty, movie stars and have gone to the Royal Ascot, the Melbourne Cup and weddings world-wide, as well as been on the covers and editorials of Vogue, Bazaar, ELLE, and other top international magazines.

Yu Jia

Marathon runner and CCTV sports commentator.

He used his footprints to measure the city, running across major cities in US, Europe and China. Two months ago he participated in the "Polar Bear Cup Marathon Challenge” in the Arctic, completing a full marathon and a half with a total time of 8 hours 12 minutes as well as 38th overall ranking. Also through “Jia’s Friends Running” he spread Marathon running in China, inspiring “One man run” to more people running together. Meanwhile, he is a NBA Arena commentator and hosts NBA Forefront on CCTV.

Hou Ying

Pioneer Choreographer based in US, known as “Kafka in dancing”.

Before establishing Hou Ying Dance Theater in Beijing, she has been quite active in New York, and was profiled in New York Times as a dancer "who had the audience gasping at the speed of her chaîné turns with windmill arms”. She was once with Shen Wei Dancing Company, and choreographed together with him on the eight-min “Painting Scroll” in the 2008 Olympic Games. Due to her focus on body languages exploring human inner souls and spirits, she was nicknamed “Kafka in dancing”.

Guest speakers include those exploring the world’s most eternal things regardless of time. They are astronomers looking up into the sky, environmentalists protecting our homeland, musicians hybridizing traditional and modern tones, and philosophers and poets putting our future into words.

Speakers:

Chen Chen Chen

Chief Creator of Spice Band.

He has created three solo albums and a lot of experimental music soundtracks, and meanwhile as the chief creator of the Spice Band independently released three EPs, landing major national music festivals. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D degree in philosophy, mentored by Prof Chen Jiaying, who was generally regarded as “The one most likely to be entitled with philosopher in China”.

Zhu Jin

Renowned Astronomer, Curator of Beijing Planetarium.

Zhu Jin is head of Beijing Planetarium and Beijing Ancient Observatory station, as well as Editor in Chief of Amateur Astronomer Magazine and Representative of Beijing People's Congress. He has achieved groundbreaking academic research on asteroids, and presided on the BAO Schmidt Asteroid Program that discovered thousands of asteroids and a comet, later called "Zhu - Balam" comet.

Bonnie Bo

Storyteller, Writer.

Bonnie’s passion of storytelling started in childhood, and she used storytelling to build a complete imagination of the world. When she was 22 years old she published her first book Love you like loving Bonnie. In the most recent years, she published Old Girl and Seeing the Good. As a scriptwriter for over a decade, she has also been involved in numerous TV programs and films including Ballad of Ocher Land, the new version Dream of the Red Chamber and Spoiled women have the best life.

Liu Lirong

Director of Happiness Project providing micro-loans to poor mothers.

Once a history teacher in high school, Liu Lirong now is working for the China Population Welfare Foundation that helps poor mothers by providing micro-loans to them. Happiness Project was initiated by Councillor Peng Peiyun, and led by committee directors Wang Guangmei and Gu Xiulian. Through micro-loans it helps poor mothers directly and makes mothers support a whole family again. So far this project has helped more than 300 thousand mothers.

Wang Yun

Chief architect in ATELIER Fronti, Associate dean at the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Peking University.

He founded Atelier Fronti in 2002, starting from the white cube shape Artelier Fronti contemplates stressing thinking over pattern, as well as harnessing the human spirit within structure and form. After he gained a doctorate degree from Tokyo University in Japan, he has been lecturing at Peking University and conducting research in tribes around the world. He recently created the Architecture Research Centre of Peking University.

Chang Jing

Zheng performer, Cross-disciplinary musician.

She is the Royal teacher of a Thailand princess and once performed a solo Zheng during the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony. Her music is ethereal and soulfully beautiful and artistically lingering as a Chinese landscape painting. She introduced traditional Chinese culture in a modern way through distinctive playing and singing with a mix of eastern and western instruments. She delivers the expression of Zheng (Chinese Zither) in a fresh way and once participated in film music recordings such as Under the Hawthorn Tree and Ashes of Time.

Zhai Yongming

The Poet.

Zhai Yongming completed the poem anthology Women, known as the beginning of feminine poetry in China. Until now she has been a prolific poetry creator experimenting various styles and possibilities. She has published poems in Europe and the US, and has achieved many accolades including the Ceppo Pistoia Literature Prize in Italy. She also opened White Night Bar with friends, curating literary and art events.

Stanley Chan

Renowned Chinese Sci-fi writer, with works including The Waste Tideand Thin Code, and currently works in China’s internet industry.

You Yang

Deputy Director of UCCA, Art activities Planner, Columnists on Art and Music.

Ellen

TEDx Ambassador China, TEDxFactory798 Curator, Entrepreneur in Art and Content.

Joey

TED Fellow, TEDxFactory798 Curator, Artist and Entrepreneur born in the US and resides between Beijing, Jingdezhen and Doha.

TED is a cross-disciplinary think tank, a platform for dialogue, and a stage for realizing ideas. As an annual innovation festival, TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design. TED was founded by Richard Wurman in California in 1984, and it was originally a brain spa among friends from different fields. They are architects, scientists, educators, poets, drama writers, entrepreneurs and designers passionate about the future and at some points disobedient, discussing the newest and coolest ideas, as well as how to change the world together. The uniqueness of TED lies in the magic of “storytelling.” Each speaker has 18 minutes to narrate his/her story, and it starts the moment he/she is on stage. In 2002, TED was bought by Media Guru Chris Anderson. Before that, Chris founded Business 2.0, and deeply trusted in the power of web 2.0. He incorporated TED into his non-profit organization Sapling Foundation, and then started to put past talks on TED.com, making it widely watched by the world. For the past 27 years, TED has been covering a full spectrum of topics from the environment, global issues, Africa, and various startups. TED speakers include Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Jane Goodall, Al Gore, Bono, and many more.

TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience in the spirit of ideas worth spreading, where x = an independently organized TED event. “Factory 798″, also known as 798 Art Zone in North-East Beijing, is the largest and most influential art district in China that houses a thriving artist community and hosts world-class international and Chinese exhibits. It is also the location of UCCA. However, “Factory 798″ stands for far more than a place name. “Factory” being the core originator and catalyst of the modern world stands for growth, innovation, and change. The three digit number “798″ symbolizes the country’s cutting edge art movement led by a new generation of change makers. “Factory 798″ has been embracing the most original ideas in the burgeoning country.