CENTI
HI! Tech Season
Welcome to CENTI HI! Tech Season (HITS), together with global innovators and tech enthusiasts to shape tomorrow’s world.
- Introduction -
CENTI HITS originated from London, and will reach out to more cities in Europe and China, aims at promoting European advanced technology to the Chinese market, facilitating industrial communication, technology transfer, and business collaborations between China and Europe.
CENTI brought the London Tech Week to China in 2018, and successfully held two grand events in Shanghai and Shenzhen. This is the first overseas appearance of the most influential technology feast. This year, CENTI created HITS to increase the influence to more European and Chinese cities, and to facilitate the world’s technology industry communication and cooperation.
CENTI HITS convenes most influential experts and leaders from technology, industry, academic, and investment institutions from both Europe and China. CENTI HITS will focus on technology innovation advantages of different regions in Europe and the industrial characteristics different cities in China, to establish an official and high-quality Sino-Europe science and technology communication platform. CENTI HITS will create an international display stage for advanced technology and bring valuable business opportunities for attendees.
- Sino-European communication and discussion of industrial development trend
- Understand global technology industry policy and innovation environment
- Exhibition of outstanding international technology projects
- Explore potential cooperation and investment opportunities
- Demonstrate China's technological innovation to the world
- Increase international awareness and influence for Chinese companies
5 Main Industries focus
AI
New Energy
Intelligent Manufacturing
Health Tech
Aerospace
2019 EVENT AGENDA
· April 25th
China Wuxi High-level Talents Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference
Wuxi High-level Talents Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference, started in 2017, is hosted by the Wuxi Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government, and co-organised by the National "Thousand Talents Program" Expert Association.
Wuxi is the birthplace of China's modern national industry and commerce, shapes the "Southern Jiangsu model", and created the earliest microelectronics industry in China and the fastest supercomputer in the world.
In recent years, Wuxi has made great breakthroughs in industrial development. Wuxi now is the home to most top 500 Chinese enterprises, top 500 Chinese manufacturing enterprises, top 500 Chinese service enterprises, top 500 Chinese private enterprises and domestic and overseas listed companies in Jiangsu. This put Wuxi in a leading position comparing with similar cities across the country.
There are more than 2,000 IoT companies in Wuxi, generating over 200 billion yuan revenue every year, which accounts for half of the IoT segment revenue in Jiangsu and one fourth of the country. The output value of the integrated circuit industry is more than 890 billion yuan, ranking second in the country.
Wuxi government puts great emphasis on talents and has a fine tradition of attracting talents. Wuxi has established a solid industrial foundation, created an open and liveable environment, and set pragmatic and effective policy to supports business and talents development.
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Promoting the construction of a “one-stop” talent service platform
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Setting up “Taihu Talent” Financial support funds
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Establishing talent financial services products such as “talent loans” and “talent investment”
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Building roadshow platform for outstanding projects and providing strong financial support for future development
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Providing assistant to housing, health care, child education, entry and exit, etc.
Previous Events Review
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2017 Conference
There are 12 major events during the conference, including "Thousand Talents Plan" expert technology achievement exhibition fair, Manufacturing HR innovative service summit, Overseas talent project road show, Industry, academic, and research collaboration facilitating fair, Overseas talents concert, etc…
During the event Wuxi collected more than 500 talent innovation and entrepreneurship projects from home and abroad, and facilitated their negotiations with the industrial parks and major enterprises and institutions. Among them, there are 85 national “Thousand Talents Program” projects, 93 overseas talent entrepreneurship projects, and 392 industry, academic and research projects.
In addition, the host designed seven different field trips for guests to choose, in order to help attendees to get a deeper understanding and experience the real Wuxi.
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2018 Conference
During the two-day conference, there are a variety of activities including themed conference, sector + talent + industry parallel forums, high-level talent project road show, industry-academic-research collaboration conference, human resources service summit, outstanding overseas students field trip, etc...
Experts from different industries shared their latest research results and innovative insights, covering various hot topics, such as flexible electronics, genetic science, mathematical theory, and innovative drug research and development. This year, the event has attracted 639 high-level talent projects from home and abroad, covering IoT, intelligent manufacturing, medical and health, and other fields.
There was also a specific pitch event for 10 international projects from Asia and Europe. The projects has successfully use their advance technology raised the interests from over 50 investment institutions and enterprises. After the event, there are seven projects reached the agreement with the attendees, with contract value over 30 million yuan.
Previous Speaker
Mingjiu XIA
Party member of Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China
Wenlu YING
President, Addor Capital
Lixin NAN
CEO, CY ZONE
Quan WANG
Mayor of Wuxi
Qiuyong TANG
General Manager, HRoot
Suyang ZHANG
Managing Partner, Volcanics Venture
Yingyi QIAN
President of the National "Thousand Talents Program" Expert Association
Dean of the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University
Bo LIU
Vice-President, Shenzhen Capital Group
Yigong SHI
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Vice President of Tsinghua University
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Xiaomin LI
Member of the Standing Committee of Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee
Secretary of Wuxi Municipal Party Committee
Jan-Christer Janson
Professor at Uppsala University
International renowned protein separation scientist
Winner of the China International Science and Technology Cooperation Award
Winner of the Chinese Government “Friendship Award”
Haitao LIU
President, Wuxi IoT Industrial Research Institution
President, World Sensing Net
Shouyu ZHU
Director, National Laboratory of Industrial Big-Data Application Technology
Vice General Manager, CASI Cloud, China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation
Chenyang XU
Professor at Peking University
Professor of Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Future Science Award - Mathematics and Computer Science Award Winner
Gang CHEN
Academician of U.S. National Academy of Engineering
Academician of American Language and Academy of Sciences
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Enhui YANG
Academician of Canadian Academy of Engineering
Academician of Canadian Royal Academy of Sciences
Tenured professor of University of Waterloo,
Academician of American Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Zhonglin WANG
Foreign academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tenured professor of Georgia Institute of Technology
Director of Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems ,
Eni Award Winner
Xiaodong WANG
Academician of U.S. National Academy of Sciences
Foreign academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Director of Beijing Life Science Research Institute
Founder of BeiGene (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
Han DING
Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dean of School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Director of Digital Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, State Key Laboratory
Xiaoliang XIE
Academician of U.S. National Academy of Sciences
Academician of U.S. National Academy of Medicine
Foreign academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tenured Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
Previous Participants
