American social media & e-commerce specialist being China since late 2007, I'm passionate to help companies do business in Asia leveraging the power of content marketing and e-commerce. I host a weekly podcast GlobalFromAsia.com to help businesses understand how to do business in China and other parts of Asia. After years of hosting the blog and podcast, we now have a Asia business marketplace, GlobalFromAsia.com to help making doing business here as easy as buying online. While I originally to source products for my e-commerce business - over the years I've transformed into working with Western companies market entry into China, as well as assisting Chinese entrepreneurs reach their goals & take chances to build their own business.
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Member of the Planning Commission
Dr. Athar Osama is the Member of the Planning Commission and one ofthe leading science and innovation policy adviser to the Government ofPakistan. He also the founder of PakistanInnovation Foundation (PIF)and the Muslim World Science Initiative. At PIF, Dr.Osama has spearhead fundraising and executive responsibility for developing anddelivering several innovation programmes including a National Innovation GrandChallenges (NIGC) initiative, an annual Conference (Pakistan Innovation Forum),and National Innovation Awards. Prior to this, Dr. Osama was the Director of Middle East and Asia for Angle Plc. - a UK-based technology commercializationconsulting, management, and venture capital firm that specialized innovationprogrammes, incubators, and research parks in Europe, North America, and theMiddle East. From 1999-2006, Dr. Osama worked at the RAND Corporation - one ofthe world's leading public think tanks where he helped develop US Army'sVenture Capital Fund. Dr. Osama has advised and consulted for several state andnational governments across Asia, Middle East, Europe, and North America andinstitutions like DfiD, ADB, UN, The OIC, The Carbon Trust, and The RoyalSociety, among others. Dr. Osama is the Fellow of the New York-based WorldTechnology Network (WTN) and a Young Global Leader (2013-18) for the WorldEconomic Forum (WEF). Dr. Osama graduated with a PhD in public policy from thePardee RAND Graduate School in Santa Monica, CA and has a Bachelors degree inAeronautical Engineering from Pakistan Airforce Academy where he won thecoveted 'Sword of Honor'
Project Manager, iCog Lab
HruyTsegaye, BA degree majoring in Journalism and Literature and with a minor inEconomics. Hruy Tsegaye began his professional career as a Program Officer fora governmental agency called HIV AIDS Prevention and Control Office (HAPCO). Hehad worked there for two years and came back to the capital and Joined FortuneNewspaper as a junior reporter. Working in the largest English weekly newspaperhas its merits when it comes to understanding what’s going on in your country.After that, Hruy Tsegaye started working for a company called 4Afri MobileTechnologies as Head of Idea Development. Now, he joined the iCog Lab companyas its 4th permanent staff and currently besides sharing 10% of the iCog makersInitiative as a Project Manager. iCog Labs (aka iCog-Labs Software Consultancy)is a research and development company based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,collaborating with international AI research groups and serving customersaround the world. The company has helped its customers with a variety ofprojects, but our core specialty is artificial intelligence, including machinelearning based data analysis, computational linguistics, computer vision,mobile robots and cognitive robotics, cognitive architectures, and artificialgeneral intelligence.
Víctor Gustavo Freundt Meléndez
Prom
Pomperu MarcaPeru LabManager
Victor Freundt is an Industrial Designer from
Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP). He is Manager of MarcaPeru Lab
from PromPeru, which is the Commission for the Promotion of Peru for Export and
Tourism. His function is to encourage the development of 21st Century Skills
and strategies for co-creation, through the use of Exploration and Fabrication
Technologies and STEAM methodology between coworkers. He also plans innovative
solutions to promote Peru in brand new fields based on the raise of new
Information and Communication Technologies and Digital Fabrication Techniques.
He is also consultant of Ministry of Education for building upcoming
Makerspaces in high schools from rural areas of Peru to learn about
entrepreneurship and creativity. He is a FabLearn Fellow from Stanford
University and Co-Founder of FabLab in Peru. He was winner of MIT Technology
Review, Innovators Under 35 years old in Peru in 2013. He is a strong believer
that in order to innovate in production, services and experiences, the first
aspect is the positive transformation of mindset in citizens with a high
priority in empathy, imagination and team work without judgment and fear of
making mistakes. He also likes to take risks to acquire more inputs for future
development projects.
