Two ways to win a GMIC BJ ticket at our first contest from Jan 25 to Feb 16. We will give the winners of following two categories one free GMIC standard ticket. The runner will receive a 80% discount for the ticket.

1 Best twitter: send tweets or retweets
The person who has the maximal mention or retweets to @greatwallclubus

2 Best GMIC tweet: write great tweet
The account which has the maximal retweets for a tweet mentioning @greatwallclubus

To qualify: you must nominate your tweet and send original tweet by DT to @greatwallclubus

First contest deadline: Feb 16 3PM

Grand Prize deadline: April 19th 3PM

Grand prize:
After April 19th 3PM, GWC team will select the person who won the maximal number of contests in all categories by April 19th . The winner will be invited to our GMIC VIP dinner with top CEOs. Restrictions apply.

All tweets must friendly to Great Wall Club and not a promotion of third party product or service. Great Wall Club USA reserve to reject any content.

The Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) is Asia’s largest and most elite mobile Internet conference. It is specifically designed for mobile Internet leaders to connect with each other, to learn from top industry influencers, and to promote their initiatives.

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China National Convention Center
No.7 Tianchen East Road, Chaoyang District
100105, Beijing, China

The Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) is Asia’s largest and most elite mobile Internet conference. It is specifically designed for mobile Internet leaders to connect with each other, to learn from top industry influencers, and to promote their initiatives.

Featured Speakers including:

Charles CHAO                                                                LEI Jun 

CEO Sina.com                                                               Angel Investor, CEO Xiaomi

LIU Chengmin                                                                 Takeshi Natsuno

Senior Executive Vice President Tencent                             Inventor of Imode

Shainiel DEO                                                                   Manzi XUE

CEO Halfbrick Studios (Fruit Ninja)                                      Angle investor

Lifen WANG                                                                  Joe Hu

CEO Umiwi.com                                                             CEO NetDragon Boyuan

Check Out the speaker from Last Year

The Masterminds of Mobile from China

Lei Jun CEO, Xiaomi, Ron Conway of China and CEO of China’s “most ambitious startup”

Wang Jian, CTO, Alibaba, The world’s largest online B2B trading platform for small businesses

Michael Song, CEO, Skymobi, China’s largest Android marketplace and recently IPO’d in the US

Wang Qiangyu, CEO, Duanqu

Yong Wang, CEO, DeNA China, DeNA is Japan’s largest mobile internet company and currently growing in China.

Bin Lin, President, Xiaomi

Chu Wen, CEO, Great Wall Club, GWC producer of The Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC)

Yiqun Bo, Presient, Great Wall Club China

Barrett Parkman, VP, Great Wall Club, Trip organizer, producer of The Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC)

Local Speakers:

Haim Mendelson

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Professor of Electronic Business and Commerce,and Management, Stanford
Dhirubhai Ambani Faculty Fellow in Entrepreneurship for 2011- 2012

Charles Fan, SVP, VMWare

Jack Jia, Founder, Chairman & CEO, Baynote, Inc. Partner, GSR Ventures, Board Member and Former President of HYSTA

Jeff Haynie, CEO Co-founder, Appceleartor

Anil Dharni , Co-Founder, President and COO of Funzio

Greg Pickrell, Partner, Pillsbury

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If you joined us at Japan Night I or Japan Night II, you know you’re in for some awesome new tech from the land of the rising sun. The revival continues!

Visit http://www.sfnewtech.com to see if you can score a discount (or free!) ticket!

The following 6 startups were chosen by our friends at btrax (out of dozens of entries!) to make the cross-Pacific flight to our stage. Straight from Japan, please welcome:

• SnapDish: a free iPhone application that allows users to take pictures of food, record the location, price and other meta data, and share via your preferred social networks. http://snapdi.sh
• Facematch: The best service in Breakthrough Camp 2011 Summer. This is the App where we can meet opposite sex friends on Facebook. The app helps you try to connect with people of similar interests by using the Facebook Friend API.
• Midokura: a cloud-enabling company developing a technology to replace the conventional physical devices, such as routers, with a virtual entity that can be managed on the web. http://www.midokura.com
• PIRIKA:  App which help us pick up the trash and clean the environment. http://www.pirika.org/
• Grow!: a social Patron platform that allows blog readers to submit tips to blog publishers. you can tip the blog author.  http://growbutton.com
• Joho Planet, Inc.: If you use multiple computers. Synclogue helps you synchronize the configuration of plug-ins for apps you’ve specified in each computer. http://www.synclogue.com

Register @ http://japannight3.eventbrite.com/

China’s tech companies are a force to be reckoned with.  With the aim to inform, educate, and promote sharing between the East and West, the GMIC Roadshow USA will bring 8 C-Level executives and topGMIC speakers, who are China’s top mobile leaders, to Silicon Valley on November 5th – 12th.  We’ll be introducing our first executive in our delegation, Wang Jian, the CTO of Alibaba, and President of Alibaba Cloud Computing.

About Alibaba: The B2B E-Commerce Giant

The publicly listed (HKSE:1688.HK) Alibaba Group [阿里巴巴集团] is headquartered in Hangzhou’s East Software Park. It’s flagship company, Alibaba.com, is the world’s largest online business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce company,  with 18 million registered users on its international English site and 44 million more B2B users registered in China.  A behemoth of a company, in 2010, Alibaba.com had a $8.8 billion market cap and netted $225 million on revenue of $853 million.

What’s been making headlines in US tech news though, is Alibaba’s interest in acquiring Yahoo, which currently has a 40% stake in the parent Alibaba Group.  After Carol Bartz’s recent ousting as CEO of Yahoo, the company has been in search of of new leadership.  Consequently, Alibaba has prepared more than USD $20 billion with the intention to take over Yahoo.

Alibaba Group and its affiliated entities:

Alibaba operates two marketplaces. The first is an international marketplace based in English, and is tailored to global importers and exporters in China.  The second is a Chinese marketplace that focuses on suppliers and buyers trading domestically in China.

Alibaba.com (HKSE: 1688) – E-commerce for small businesses (B2B)
Taobao Marketplace – Consumer-to-consumer (C2C) online shopping platform
Taobao Mall – Business-to-consumer (B2C) online retail marketplace
eTao – Search engine designed for online shoppers
Alibaba Cloud Computing – Advanced data-centric cloud computing services platform
China Yahoo! – One of China’s leading internet portals
Alipay – A third-party online payment platform, currently holding the largest market share in China, and the largest online payment system in the world by value of transactions

About Wang Jian: CTO, Alibaba Group; President, Alibaba Cloud Computing

Wang Jian (王坚) joined Alibaba Group in September 2008, and is the Chief Architect (CTO) for Alibaba Group and President of Alibaba Cloud Computing, reporting directly to Alibaba Group’s CEO and Chairman of the Board, Jack Ma.  Wang Jian is in charge of the technology architecture and underlying technology platform that supports Alibaba’s markets for SME customers.  Involved in Alibaba’s most recent foray into the mobile space, Wang Jian is also the spokesperson for Alibaba’s recent smartphone, ‘Aliphone’, which runs on the Android-based Aliyun OS.  The Aliphone provides integrated access to some of Alibaba’s most popular cloud-based services, including search, cloud storage (customers will get 500 GB for free), instant messaging, and Web browsing.

Prior to Alibaba, Wang Jian was the Executive Vice President at Microsoft Research Asia, and lead several initiatives including user interface, machine learning, large-scale data processing, research and Beijing’s adCenter Labs.  Wang Jian also lead the invention and implementation of digital ink technology used in the Tablet PC, OneNote 2003, Windows XP Tablet PC edition 2005, Windows Vista and the next generation of Windows and other products.

Catch the GMIC Roadshow USA

This year’s GMIC Roadshow USA is unmatched in the number and caliber of delegates traveling from China to the US.  Interested in finding out more about China’s mobile Internet industry? Don’t miss out on the GMIC Roadshow USA, and stay tuned for future exposés on our trip’s delegates.

About the GMIC Roadshow USA: The Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) in Beijing is now thelargest and most influential mobile internet conference in Asia drawing more that 5000 participants from 30 countries. There is no other event that draws the same level of speakers or provides the same level of insights on mobile business in Asia. Today, we are excited to announce that Americans will be able to experience the GMIC on a small scale without leaving the US through the GMIC Roadshow USA. See a list of the other attending executives.

For more information, contact barrett [AT] greatwallclub dot com.

Jun Lei , CEO, Xiaomi

Jian Wang, CTO, Alibaba

Michael Song, CEO, Skymobi

Brought to you together with SVCWireless in collaboration with GWC

Date: Wednesday, Nov 9th, 2011

Time: 7:15 – 7:30pm Registration

7:30 – 8:00pm Networking Cocktail

8:00 – 8:30pm Introduction to Delegation

8:30 – 9:30pm Networking Cocktail

Venue: California Cafe

700 Welch Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304

China is the largest Internet and Mobile Internet market in the world. Major players like Alibaba and Tencent have grown to be global leaders in eCommerce and social networks respectively while innovative startups like Xiaomi and Skymobi are leading the wave of mobile revolution in China.

During this very special event, we are delighted to bring you a delegation of elite VIPs from the Internet and Mobile Internet in China consisting of top-profiled venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and C-level executives.

It’s your chance to take advantage of this intimate networking event in order to secure funding for your startup, build partnership with China largest Internet companies, or just hobnob with the industry movers and shakers from China.

Seats are extremely limited. Register earlier and mark your calendar. Do not miss out on this golden opportunity.

Delegation Members:

Jun Lei, CEO, Xiaomi - China’s most famous angel investor and CEO of China’s ”most ambitious startup”

Jian Wang, CTO, Alibaba - The world’s largest online B2B trading platform for small businesses

Michael Song, CEO, Skymobi - China’s largest Android marketplace and recently IPO’d in the US

Yong Wang, CEO, DeNA China – DeNA is Japan’s largest mobile internet company and currently growing in China.

Joe Wu, CFO, Netdragon - Top internet and mobile gaming company – IPO’d in Hong Kong in 2007

Sheng Bi, CEO, Letao - Top apparel eCommerce company in China

Bin Lin, President, Xiaomi – Mobile handset manufacturer and app developer in China. China’s “most ambitious startup”.

Wenchu, CEO, GWC – producer of The Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC)

Barrett Parkman, VP, GWC – producer of The Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC)

Delegation Member Bio:

Jun Lei, Founder and CEO, Xiaomi

Mr. Lei, joined Kingsoft Corporation Limited in 1992,was appointed as the general manager in 1998.Led by Mr. Lei Jun, Kingsoft was listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong on Oct 9th, 2007. In December 2007, Mr. Lei relinquished his position as chief executive officer, chief technology officer and president of the company, but remained as an executive director and vice Chairman of the board of the company.

Mr. Lei was co-founder and Chairman of Joyo.com, which was founded in April 2000 and sold to Amazon.com in 2004.

In Dec. 2006, Mr. Lei has invested UCWEB as an angel investor.

Mr. Lei received a lot of honors, including the Chinese Internet Innovator, the best Chinese Annual Angel Investor, one of the Business Leaders with Influence in the next 30 years, the Most Contributive Leader in software industry, Elite People in Chinese Internet industry, and so on.

Jian Wang, CTO, Alibaba

Wang Jian is chief architect for Alibaba Group and president of Alibaba Cloud Computing. He joined Alibaba Group in September 2008.

Prior to this, Wang Jian was assistant managing director at Microsoft Research Asia. Before joining Microsoft Research Asia in 1999, Wang Jian worked at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China as a professor and as head of the psychology department. He graduated from the psychology department of Hangzhou University in 1990 and has a Ph.D. degree in engineering.

Wang Jian is a standing committee member of the China Computer Federation (CCF), which recognized him in 2008 with an award for outstanding contribution. He was honored by the CCF Young Computer Scientists & Engineers Forum as one of China’s 10-year outstanding young IT professionals.

Wang Jian was the chair of the 2010 CCF Conference and a co-chair of the 2011 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work.

Michael Song, CEO, SKY-MOBI

SKY-MOBI Inc., a high-tech software enterprise was invested by American VC. The company was established in 2005. SKY-MOBI becomes one of the largest mobile application software providers only in 3 years. SKY-MOBI develops mobile application softwares for mobile phone operators, manufacturers and service providers. At present, SKY-MOBI Inc. has developed many mobile application softwares. It is including mobile whether report software, touch screen software, mobile stock trading software.

SKY-MOBI Inc. headquartered in Hangzhou, and has offices in Shanghai, Shenzhen and Beijing, China. There are more than 200 employees working for SKY-MOBI Inc. which including 90% of the college graduates or above. The average age of the employees is about 27. All of the core team members came from the world class telecommunication enterprises. Every core team member has more than 5 years experience. The Philosophy of SKY-MOBI: Create more values for our customers!

Yong Wang, CEO, DeNA China

Mr. Yong Wang has over 10 years experience in mobile wireless management and operation, and has successfully established a number of companies in both China and the United States.

Mr. Yong Wang is the CEO of DeNA (TSE:DENA) China. In this role, he is fully in charge of the company’s management and daily operations. Meanwhile, he also pursues the investment opportunities in China.

Prior to that, Mr. Wang served in CA Mobile, one of the largest mobile advertising companies in Japan. During his tenure in CA Mobile, he established the first mobile advertising company in China—CA Mobile China in 2003 and took the role as COO. In 2006, he established the first virtual mobile social networking service—Ixenland in the U.S. and played the role as President and CEO.

Prior to CA Mobile, Mr. Wang served in NTT(NYSE:NTT), the largest telecommunication company in the world, to provide global telecommunication management consulting service to Japanese entrepreneurs.

In the mean time, Mr. Wang is also the CEO of the Chinese largest mobile SNS– TX.com.cn, which is the first finished investment project of DeNA in China

Mr. Wang holds the MBA degree from University of Illinois at Chicago and a Bachelor’s degree from Mie University of Japan.

Joe Wu, CFO, Netdragon

After joining us in January 2004, Mr. Wu has been responsible for sales and marketing in the PRC, the overseas business development and the operations in the USA. He is currently responsible for our corporate finance and financial management matters. He is also in charge of the business development and the operation of the mobile internet business division in NetDragon. Mr. Wu graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1994, and a Master’s degree in business administration from Duke University in 2004. He has over 10 years of experience in business and management experience. He was the vice-president in the marketing of Beso from 1995 to 1999. From 2000 to 2002, he was the Chief Operating Officer of Octant Communications Inc.

Sheng Bi, CEO, Letao

Mr.Bi has rich experience in IT industry since 1998. He served as assistant to Chairman of HC International Inc (HK8291), one of the earliest e-commerce companies in China. Then he joined into Robin Li’s Baidu (Nasdaq:BIDU) founding team as director of marketing. He spent 3 years on marketing strategy and execution of Baidu, from an unknown company to No.1 internet brand in China and No.1 network traffic in Asia. His multi-marketing model is called Baidu Marketing Model by industry. In 2005, Mr.Bi witnessed the IPO of Baidu and served as marketing strategic consultant of Baidu until the end of 2006.

In 2008, Mr.Bi founded Letao (www.letao.com) with Ceyuan Ventures.  In 2010, as the largest shoe e-commerce company in China, Letao built up collaboration with international brands such as NIKE, Adidas etc and received $10M investment from Tiger Global Management Fund, one of the largest global hedge funds.

Because of the rapid growth of and high conversion rate, Letao received another round $30M investment from Tiger Global Management Fund at the end of 2010.

Bin Lin, President, Xiaomi

Beijing Xiaomi Technology Co., Ltd is a growth enterprise which is engaged in development of Android, and the members of leader team are from Google, Microsoft, and Kingsoft. It started in April, 2010, and was invested by well-known Business Angel, Morningside and Qiming.

Bin Lin:
2011: President of Beijing Xiaomi Technology Co., Ltd.
2006-2011: Vice-president of Google China Engineering Research Institute, Engineering director of Google
1995-2006: Project supervisor, Senior development manager of Microsoft Asia Pacific R&D Group, Development director of Microsoft Corporation.
1992: Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Drexel University
1990: B.S. In Electronic Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University

Chu Wen, Founder and CEO, GWC

As a serial entrepreneur in mobile Internet, Wenchu successfully sold his 1st company to a Nasdaq listed company in 2004. He founded Moabc in 2005, and made it as a leading mobile community with +10 million users. Great Wall Club was founded by Wenchu in Mar.2008. He speaks Chinese, and English.

Barrett, Vice President, International Marketing and Growth

Barrett Parkman is Vice President of the Great Wall Club where he oversees international growth and business development. In the past 2 years, Barrett and his Chinese business partners have built the Great Wall Club into a global platform for mobile internet leaders and grown their annual event, The Global Mobile Internet Conference into the largest and most elite event of its kind in Asia.

He has become a key connecting point and trusted partner between tech industries of China, the US, and other countries and has worked with companies such as Tencent, Sina, Google, Facebook and LinkedIn. Barrett is passionate about assisting Chinese companies expand into foreign countries, supporting international companies to access China’s market and fostering trusted relationships between industry leaders.

Registration: http://gmic-networking-dinner.eventbrite.com/

About GMIC Roadshow

The Global Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing is now the largest and most influential mobile internet conference in Asia drawing more that 5000 participants from 30 countries. There is no other event that draws the same level of speakers or provides the same level of insights on mobile business in Asia. The GMIC Roadshow US will bring some of the same high quality speakers, content and networking to Silicon Valley for the first time. The GMIC Roadshow USA is an exceptional opportunity for Silicon Valley based companies to learn about opportunities in China, build relationships with top leaders and promote their initiatives in Asia without even leaving the Bay area.
About SVCWireless

Silicon Valley-China Wireless Technology Association (SVCWireless) is a leading non-profit professional association to bridge the mobile/wireless industries between China and the United States. The organization is founded in year 2000 and now has more than 5000 members and 30 partners around the world. SVCWireless promotes entrepreneurship, innovation, and venture investment with the support from our members, sponsors and partners.

About SVEntrepreneurs

Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs (SVEntrepreneurs) is a fast growing mobile Entrepreneurs community.  SVE is also one of the most active entrepreneur communities in Silicon Valley.

SVE currently organizes the following activities

• Business Meeting： From Mobile Apps to Startups
• Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs Toastmasters
• App Entrepreneurs Accelerator with mentoring sessions
• Networking Events
• Startup Challenges

Founder &CEO – Carnival Nation Media Corp
President- MotionPoster Asia
Founder & CEO – InterPro Ltd.
President - East West Communications Inc.

Co-Founder and Managing General Partner

Cha Li is Founder and Managing General Partner of Dragonvest Partners, LP. He has more than seventeen years of international business experience in the US, Europe and Asia, eight years of which involves direct experience in China as an investor and an entrepreneur. Cha Li specializes in the emerging wireless, digital media and Internet sectors in China.

Cha Li was one of the first students who left China to study in the West after the Cultural Revolution. After his graduation, he has worked in international media companies such as Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide and ZiffDavis before he started his own business in New York City. His first US start-up company, EastWest Communications, Inc. was an advertising company that helped numerous US multinationals expanding into Asia. As a serial entrepreneur himself, Cha Li has founded and run several companies in search engine technology, eLearning, online music and mobile gaming before he became a venture capitalist.

Cha Li was educated at the National Academy of the Arts in China, where he received a B.A. and the University of London, where he received an Master degree. He was also the founding Chairman of the Chinese Overseas Student Association in Europe.

Mobile China Forum announced that, CEO of Great Wall Club – Partner of the first China focused App Conference outside china, will speak at the conference. We Chu will alos be the judge for the App China Challenge.

GWC is also the organizer the annual Global Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing, which draws over 3000 tech leaders from more than 25 countries. GWC is headquartered in Beijing and has representative offices in Japan, USA, Singapore, Taiwan and Finland.

Wen Chu,
CEO, Great Wall Club

As a serial entrepreneur in mobile Internet, Wenchu successfully sold his 1st company to a Nasdaq listed company in 2004. He founded Moabc in 2005, and made it as a leading mobile community with +10 million users. Great Wall Club was founded by Wenchu in Mar.2008. He speaks Chinese, and English.

Mobile China Featured Speaker: Chia Li, Co-Founder and Managing General Partner, Dragonvest
Chia has more than seventeen years of international business experience in the US, Europe and Asia, eight years of which involves direct experience in China as an investor and an entrepreneur. Cha Li specializes in the emerging wireless, digital media and Internet sectors in China.

Cha Li was one of the first students who left China to study in the West after the Cultural Revolution. After his graduation, he has worked in international media companies such as Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide and ZiffDavis before he started his own business in New York City. His first US start-up company, EastWest Communications, Inc. was an advertising company that helped numerous US multinationals expanding into Asia. As a serial entrepreneur himself, Cha Li has founded and run several companies in search engine technology, eLearning, online music and mobile gaming before he became a venture capitalist.

Cha Li was educated at the National Academy of the Arts in China, where he received a B.A. and the University of London, where he received an Master degree. He was also the founding Chairman of the Chinese Overseas Student Association in Europe.

About Mobile China:

Come to join us at Mobile China | App Planet China 2011 Conference, a one day app conference of SVIEF surrounding the Mobile App ecosystems between China and Silicon Valley!

http://mobile-china.org