Critical in this challenging time, is the ability to anticipate change, build resilience and partnerships for the future of your business and investments.

This event is for entrepreneurs, business leaders, investors, people looking to start their own business or working in Corporate Venture, CVC units and Corporate Innovation, interested in China as well as opportunities to collaborate with innovative Chinese companies internationally.

In this session we will have an opportunity to listen and discuss the insights of Edward Tse known as the 'father of management consulting in China' and founder of Gao Feng Advisory. See his profile below.

"I am so pleased to have Edward on our panel as I have found his books, articles and TV presentations about China and innovation so insightful. We are sure to have interesting perspectives and a great discussion with participants." Andrew Gaule

The technology and new business models emerging from China over the last 40 years have accelerated in their development and deployment. However, due to language and cultural barriers, and restrictions due to the Chinese Internet Firewall has limited understanding and knowledge of the development. However, challenges created by the Firewall have not precluded China's shift in moving up the value chain and exploring new markets; moving on from producing cheap commoditised products, China produces an increasing volume of sophisticated, high-end electronics (a growing proportion are now also designed in China). Over 80% of the world's 5G infrastructure is installed in China, over half of the world's electric vehicles and over 90% of drone manufacture is in China. Chinese businesses like Alibaba, Tencent, Nio, Huawei, Xiaomi, Bytedance (TikTok) are already major disruptors in China and many other parts of the world.

In addition to learning about China's disruptors, we will also discuss the new 5 Year plan for industry development. Where are these trends going, where are the opportunities for collaborations, new business creation and investment?

Join us to hear our perspectives and then join the discussion with your peers.

Format

Key Speaker for around 20 minutes

Questions and discussion

We do record the main presentation but do not publish the discussions.

Recent sessions can be seen e.g. AstraZeneca, Shell, Henkel, BMW, Williams, SVB, Evonik etc on our YouTube Channel Aimava Purpose to Performance and Gaule's Question Time Podcasts

Aimava is a global advisory firm which supports corporates in their strategic innovation, venturing and delivering Innovative New Value Chains.

The Aimava sessions are very interactive and there will be plenty of opportunity to share perspectives and questions with peers on the call to share learning and build mutual understanding.

What Aimava Do.

Aimava is a global advisory firm supporting leading corporates, business ventures and investors by

- Determining key strategic innovation P's: Purpose, aligning Process, Partners and delivering Performance with the right People who are central to effective change.

- Using well proven methods and frameworks developed in Europe, USA, China to develop people and partnerships.

- We work with leading companies to utilise Technology, Start-Ups and Global Networks to deliver new products, service solutions and business models using our Innovative New Value Chain® framework.

We also work with Angel Funds, Start-Up ventures and government funded programmes on venture development.

Dr. Edward Tse is founder and CEO, Gao Feng Advisory Company, a founding Governor of Hong Kong Institution for International Finance, Adjunct Professor of School of Business Administration at Chinese University of Hong Kong and Professor of Managerial Practice at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. One of the pioneers in China’s management consulting industry, he built and ran the Greater China operations of two leading international management consulting firms (BCG and Booz) for a period of 20 years. He has consulted to hundreds of companies, investors, start-ups, and public-sector organizations (both headquartered in and outside of China) on all critical aspects of business in China and China for the world. He also consulted to a number of Chinese local governments on strategies, state-owned enterprise reform and Chinese companies going overseas, as well as to the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. He is the author of several hundred articles and five books including both award-winning The China Strategy (2010) and China’s Disruptors (2015), as well as 《竞争新边界》 (The New Frontier of Competition), which was co-authored with Yu Huang (2020). He holds a SM and s SB in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as a PhD and an MBA from University of California, Berkeley.

No Charge: We will not charge for these sessions. We do however want to ensure people do attend when they sign up and they would find this of mutual value with the other particpants. We ask you register your interest and we will confirm your place.

We are giving the opportunity for you to donate to our nominated charities are World Vision (Global Children's Charity), Big Issue (a homelessness charity), The Silver Line (a 24 hour support line for older people), and Mind (a mental health charity).

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