Schedule

12:45 - 13:15 Guest Check-In
13:15 - 13:35 Opening Remarks
13:35 - 13:45 Ceremonial Announcements
13:45 - 14:05 Keynote Presentation: Revolutionizing the Capital Markets: Role of Unicorn Shares Trading in the Innovation Economy

Greg Brogger, Director of Forge Global, Founder of Nasdaq Private Market and SharesPost

14:05 - 14:25 Keynote Presentation: Digitization of Global Supply Chains and Business Networks

Christian Lanng, Founder and CEO, Tradeshift

14:25 - 15:10 Roundtable Discussion: Financial Technology Empowering Industry Digitalization and Transformation
15:10 - 15:40 Intermission
15:40 - 16:00 Keynote Presentation: Transformation of Japanese Businesses Through China’s Digitalization Model

Tsuyoshi Ri, Founder and CEO, Netstars / Chuck Chen, CTO, Netstars

16:00 - 16:20 Keynote Presentation: Making Borders Matter Less for Africa

Dare Okoudjou, Founder and CEO, MFS Africa

16:20 - 16:45 Roundtable Discussion: Development Trends of Digital Crossborder Payments
16:45 - 17:05 Keynote Presentation: Technology for green finance – how it can help achieve the 30–60 targets

Christoph Nedopil, Professor of Practice in Economics and Director of the Green Finance & Development Center at FISF, Fudan University

17:05 - 17:25 Keynote Presentation: New era of Smart Energy Industry

Yinchao Wang, Board Secretary and Legal Director, GoodWe

17:25 - 18:00 Roundtable Discussion: Advancing Sustainable Development Through Financial Innovation
18:00 - 20:00 Networking Banquet

Speakers


Peilung Li

Founder & Chairman,
LUN Partners Group


Charles Chang

The Deputy Dean of Academics and Professor of Finance at FISF, Fudan University

Greg Brogger

Director of Forge Global, Founder of Nasdaq Private Market and SharesPost

Christian Lanng

Founder and CEO,
Tradeshift

Tsuyoshi Ri

Founder and CEO,
Netstars

Chuck Chen

CTO,
Netstars

Dare Okoudjou

Founder and CEO,
MFS Africa



Christoph Nedopil

Professor of Practice in Economics and Director of the Green Finance & Development Center at FISF, Fudan University

Yinchao Wang

Board Secretary and Legal Director,
GoodWe


Chung Yung Chan

Founder and Chairman,
Qisheng Technologies

Deqiang Chen

Founder and Chairman,
Qichacha Technology

Doreen Deng

Vice President of Microsoft Greater China and Global Partners Solutions Lead

Gracie Huang

President and CEO,
WIW Investment Management


Yong Wang

Senior Management Advisor, National Engineering Laboratory for Modeling and Emulation in E-Government

Yi Huang

Professor of Finance,
Fudan University



Kaede Kotsuki

Partner,
LUN Partners Group

Michael Sung

Founder and Chairman,
CarbonBlue Innovations

Kelvin Zheng

Founder and CEO,
Platinum Analytics

William Ding

CEO,
MFS Africa Asia

Carrie Chen

Partner,
LUN Partners Group

Zhaoqing Song

Founder and Chief Architect,
Lacime Architects

Shunsuke Makii

Representative, Shanghai Representative Office, Daiwa Corporate Investment Asia

Qiang Liu

Founder and CEO,
CBST


Flora Tse

Founder and CEO
BaySound


Sebastien Gaudin

Founder and CEO,
CareVoice

Companies

Forge Global serves the complex and emerging needs of the private market ecosystem by forging new connections through its technology, data and expertise. Founded in 2014, the firm operates a digital marketplace where investors and shareholders of unicorn companies can offer and trade their shares to institutional and accredited investors in the private markets. As of September 2021, the company has completed more than $10 billion in transaction volume on its trading platform, and facilitated trades in over 400 unicorn companies. Aside from its marketplace, Forge also offers enterprise-grade data services to institutional investors, customized liquidity programs to unicorn companies, and custody solutions for over 1.9 million self-directed IRA accounts. September 2021, the company announced it will be going public on the NYSE by the end of 2021.

Tradeshift is a US-based market leader in e-invoicing and accounts payable automation and an innovator in B2B marketplaces and providing access to supplier financing. Its cloud-based platform helps buyers and suppliers digitize invoice processing, automate accounts payable workflows and scale quickly. Tradeshift’s vision is to connect every company in the world, creating economic opportunity for all. Today, Tradeshift hosts a community of over 1.5 million buyers and sellers that operate in more than 190 countries and have conducted over $1 Trillion USD worth of transactions, cumulatively.

Netstars is the largest Japanese QR-code mobile payments aggregator. Netstars offers a unified in-store payment solution – StarPay, which integrates different payment providers into a single device / software solution. StarPay is connected to payment providers from both the domestic and international markets and has aggregated 37 payment providers thus far. Notable payment providers integrated into StarPay include major Japanese players such as PayPay and LINE Pay, as well as the largest overseas leaders such as AliPay and Wechat Pay. As of December 2020, the StarPay solution serves approximately 300,000 merchants in Japan.

MFS Africa is Africa’s largest digital payments hub. The company is currently focused on expanding the use of its solution and range of its customers by connecting mobile money platforms, money transfer organizations, banks, e-commerce platforms, and other financial institutions. As of June 2021, MFS Africa covers over 35 countries in Africa and has connected over 320 million users and was designated by “Fast Company” as one of the Most Innovative Companies in Africa.

GoodWe is a world-leading PV inverter and energy storage solutions manufacturer and is listed as a public limited company on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (Stock Code: 688390). With an accumulative delivery of more than two million inverters and installation of 23GW in more than 100 countries and regions, GoodWe solar inverters have been used in residential and commercial rooftops, industrial and utility scale systems and range from 0.7kW to 250kW. GoodWe has more than 3000 employees situated in 20 different countries and is regarded as the Global No.1 storage inverter by Wood Mackenzie in 2020.

Platinum Analytics & Technologies (PA) is a FinTech company specialized in providing foreign exchange, gold, and cross-asset solutions for large financial institutions. PA currently provides clients with specially designed tools, such as early-warning indicators of fluctuating rates and volatility. The Company has strong product development teams that are international and domestic experts in both technology and finance. December 2018, through the support of the Singapore Monetary Authority, Platinum Analytics launched a next-generation AI-driven FX liquidity platform.

CareVoice is a one-stop health InsurTech digital solution provider for Insurance Companies. Through its proprietary mobile application, CareVoice enhances consumer interaction with policy managers and service providers by offering instant versatile access to value-added services, which include healthcare policy management, virtual doctor, on-site medical facility process management, and automated claims reimbursement. Its solution tackles all aspects from pre-diagnosis to post-treatment. Currently the CareVoice solution has been adopted by 13 providers, including PingAn, ZhongAn, PICC, AXA, and is expanding coverage to other providers in China, Hong Kong, and overseas. The company is also engaged with PingAn Technology to research and develop a new series of InsurTech products and initiatives.


Location

Suzhou Finance Town Conference Center No 99Huatuo Road, Suzhou New District