Rufeng Liu
ACSE 25th Annual Conference -- Unlatching Opportunities and Challenges Evolved from the Digital Revolution
与时俱进，迎接智能革命带来的机遇和挑战
http://www.acse.org/2017Conference
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This year’s theme is “Unlatching Opportunities and Challenges Evolved from the Digital Revolution”. Our world is experiencing the impact of waves of innovative technology, including AI, machine learning and industrial robots. How can we prepare ourselves to capture the new opportunity? How will business revolve to maximize the benefits from innovations? How is global economy reacting to the rapidly changing landscape of technology? The 2017 ACSE annual conference is aiming to serve as a valuable platform to get some answers from a panel of industrial and academic experts. The conference provides a great social networking opportunity for entrepreneurs, engineers, and researchers to promote cooperation and exchange between US and China. This year also marks ACSE’s 25th anniversary. To celebrate this important occasion, we will have our founding president, Dr. TianYu Xiong as our greeting speaker to share his historical perspective of our organization. Former president, Dr. Lubo Zhou, as a successful senior leader in Honeywell will give an inspirational speech as well. We have invited several experts in the field of AI, machine learning as our keynote speakers. Our three breakout sessions will cover topics in big data, venture capital, and networking skills at workplace. For more details please see the attached flyer.
We offer free registration to all attendees, please register via online link at your earliest convenience. We also have good discount on banquet lunch if you pay online in advance. Seating is limited; please act promptly to purchase your lunch ticket.
Time: Oct. 7, 2017 (Sat.), 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Location：Holiday Inn of Rolling Meadows
Address: 3405 Algonquin Road, Rolling Meadows, IL 60008
Registration: 8:30 AM
Keynote Speakers in the Morning Session ( 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM):
Bill Luan, Google Great China Regional Lead at Developer Relations Team
Paul Manst, Midwest AI and Robotics Center for Humans
George Vukotich, FinTank Founder and Managing Director
Lunch Session (12:30 PM – 1:30 PM):
Inception of Big Data/AI Branch, Award Ceremony and Inspirational Speech (speaker TBD)
Breakout Sessions in the Afternoon (2:00 PM – 5:00 PM):
Session1: Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Forum
Speakers:
Melanie Swan, Emerging Technology Theorist, Purdue University;
Eric Rodriguez, Evolving Technology/Business Solutions;
Connie Ho, CEO, eCentury;
Mei Najim, Director, Arthur J. Gallagher
Session2: Venture Capital and Fund in Biopharmaceutical Industry
Speakers:
Guoyao Xia, VP, Lilly Asian Venture;
Haipeng Cheng, Head, North America, Sangel Venture Capital;
Daniel Wang, Hyde Park Angels;
Weiqing Huang, President & CEO, Henan Weiming-Getian Innovation Park
Session 3: Career Development: Effective Networking at Workplace
Speakers:
Yabing Wang, Chief Security Architect, Allstate;
Guoliang Cao, Senior Director of Statistics, Takeda;
Yang Wang, Director of Global Sourcing, Medline
We look forward to seeing you at our 25th annual conference!
ACSE
Annual Conference Committee
