Barbara Li is the Head of Corporate of Rui Bai Law Firm based in Beijing and also leads the TMT and FinTech practices. With almost three-decades’ solid experience working at the Beijing and London offices of leading international law firms as well as in-house role, Barbara brings a wealth of enormous expertise in advising international companies, financial institutions and Chinese businesses on doing business in China and globally.

Barbara has a particular interest in TMT and FinTech sectors, with extensive experience advising international and Chinese companies, financial institutions, tech companies and PE funds on achieving data and cybersecurity compliance and managing risks related to digital transformation and deployment of emerging technologies such as AI, big data, cloud and blockchain. Barbara is widely recognized in Corporate, M&A, TMT and FinTech categories and she won the China Top TMT Lawyer Award 2020 ranked by Asian Legal Business.

Barbara works closely with the industry and she is frequently invited to write and speak at reputable international and regional professional and industry conferences and events. She is ex-vice chair of the Cybersecurity Sub-Working Group of the EU Chamber of Commerce in China.

She is admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales and also holds the PRC Bar Qualification Certificate. She is bilingual in English and Chinese.

Mr. Shaoqing Guan, has joined Daimler since 2008. He is currently heading the strategy function as EVP for Daimler Greater China, responsible for corporate strategy, market intelligence, and transformation projects.

​Brent A. Young is Vice President of Intel Corporation and GM of the China Corporate Strategy Office where he is responsible for Intel’s overall corporate strategy in China.

Young joined Intel in 2006 as an open source software strategist where he helped shape Intel’s strategy and execution in open source. He was then selected for Intel’s coveted technical assistant and chief of staff program supporting Tom Kilroy, the EVP of worldwide sales and marketing, and his staff where Young led overall staff operations, prepared executive communications and keynotes, and led global coordination for customer and government engagements. Young then moved to China and was the managing director of China Tech Ecosystem (CTE) Sales and China Product Marketing Group where he led Intel’s overall product marketing in China as well as sales, customer, and go-to-market strategies in the CTE. Under his leadership, the CTE sales team received Intel’s highest honor, the Intel Achievement Award.

Prior to joining Intel, he spent 5 years developing core product features in various software engineering and technology evangelist positions at two startups, Curl Corporation and
ShoppingList.com.

He is a member of Montage Technology Group Limited’s board of directors, on the American Chamber of Commerce in China’s board of governors where he is Vice Chair in 2021, a board member for the Cornell Alumni Club of Beijing, and an executive-in-residence at Tsinghua University’s X-labs. Young earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from Cornell University and an MBA focusing on strategy, marketing, and finance from Kellogg.

Wei-Wei Tu is Vice President, Principal Scientist, of 4Paradigm Inc., board member of ChaLearn. He has rich experience in large-scale distributed machine learning system architecture, large-scale machine learning algorithm design and application, and online marketing system. Wei-Wei Tu was engaged in computational advertisment-related work in Baidu Fengchao, and designed and developed Baidu's machine learning computing framework ELF.

Currently Wei-Wei Tu is working in 4Paradigm Inc., he is the designer of the core large-scale distributed machine learning framework GDBT for 4Paradigm's Sage platform. He has applied AutoML and transfer learning at over 12,000 real applications and achieved significant results.

Wei-Wei Tu has published over 20 papers in AAAI, IJCAI, KDD, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR and other conferences and workshops. Wei-Wei Tu served as the competition chair of PAKDD 2018/2019, chair of PRICAI 2018 AutoML Workshop, co-chair of KDD 2020 AutoML Workshop, program co-chair of International Workshop on Federated and Transfer Learning 2021 (IJCAI 2021), main organizer of ICCV 2021 Understanding Social Behavior in Dyadic and Small Group Interactions Workshop, the main organizer of NeurIPS 2018 AutoML competition, organizer of IJCNN 2019 AutoCV competition, main organizer of NeurIPS 2019 AutoDL competition, and main organizer of the first and second KDD Cup AutoML competitions , main organizer of WAIC 2019 AutoNLP competition, main organizer of ACML 2019 / INTERSPEECH 2020 AutoSpeech and AutoWSL competition, co-founder and guest editor of IEEE TPAMI's first AutoML special issue. Wei-Wei Tu also served as the co-chair of NeurIPS 2019 CiML Workshop, advisor of NeurIPS 2019 / ICML 2020 / NeurIPS 2020 New In ML session.

Alfredo is responsible for overseeing The Economist Corporate Network in Beijing. Based in China since 2013, he has focused on analysing the business implications of policy, economic and political developments for companies investing and operating in China, and in the broader Asian region. This with the aim of distilling complex issues and conveying clear takeaways on how to capture business opportunities and respond to emerging challenges.

Before joining The Economist Corporate Network, Alfredo was Associate Director for KPMG's Global China Practice, where he led and contributed to numerous thought leadership projects, including flagship reports, customised business briefings, and policy proposals for Chinese authorities. He also played a large role in events programming and outreach, including leading the design and coordination of high-profile events aimed at senior executives. Prior to that, Alfredo worked for J Capital Research, Eurasia Group and the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Alfredo has a Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) from Georgetown University, and a BA in Political Science and International Relations from Mexico's Center of Research and Teaching in Economics (aka. CIDE).