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NECINA Global Exchange Center Seminar: Networking with delegation from Qingdao

 
Time: 6:30 PM  - 8:30 PM, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009  
Venue: Sichuan Garden II, 2 Alfred St., Woburn, MA 01801
 
Qingdao Newstar Computer engineering center is a comprehensive IT R&D and Services company founded by faculties and staffs from Ocean University of China. The company's recent products and projects include RFID readers and R&D services for Haier Group, Weichai Power Group, Beijing Capital Airport, and Qingdao Airport; Enterprise Information Management Systems for Haier Group, Hisense Group, Tsingtao Brewery Group, Qingdao Port Authority, Qingdao Iron and Steel Group; ASP service platform for Weichai Power Group, Shanxi Fast Gear Co. Ltd.; CAD systems for China Tobacco Shandong Industrial, Yunnan Hongta Group. NECINA is organizing a Networking dinner to welcome a delegation from Ocean University of China and Qingdao Newstar Computer Engineering center led by Mr. Ming Lu, Dean of College of Information Technology, Ocean University of China and Mr. Xiangqian Ding, General Manager of Qingdao Newstar Computer engineering center. 
 
 
Contact: hui.huang@necina.org

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NECINA Optics Special Interest Group (SIG) Seminar

 
Time: 2:00pm to 5:00pm, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2009
Location: Finisar Corporation, 36 Jonspin Road, Wilmington, MA 01887
Topic: Nanomanufacturing
 
Agenda:
2:00pm-2:30pm Networking Time
2:30pm-2:45pm Introduction
2:45pm-3:45pm Nanomanufacturing-Addressing the challenge of functionality and scalability of nanotechnology, Prof. Julie Chen, Co-Director of Nanomanufacturing Center, Co-Director of Advanced Composite Materials and Texile Research Laboratory, University of Massachusetts Lowell
3:45pm-4:00pm Break
4:00pm-5:00pm Forming Micro- and Nano-Structures with Femtosecond Laser Pulse Irradiations, Dr. Mengyan Shen, Associate Professor of Physics and Nanomanufacturing Center, University of Massachusetts Lowell
 
Organizers: Qingwu Wang, Yong Qiao, Hongzhi Zhao, Xifeng Qian, Xueyan Zheng, Frank Fan, and Yi Qian
 
For more information, please visit the following sites
 
NECINA Optics SIG:? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NECINA_SIG_Optics/

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NECINA Career Development Center Seminar

The Global Financial Crisis' Impact on China Employment Market 

& How to Successfully Identify and Pursue Opportunities in the Mainland China from the U.S.

 
Date:  Feb 20, 2009 (Friday)
Time 7:00-9:00PM
Venue: MIT E51-325 (Tang Center 3^rd Floor) 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
 
The unprecedented events and growing realities of a global recession are raising many questions about their impact on industries and businesses in China.  In addition, what will be the affect in the near future on the mainland employment market, as well as on job opportunities and career prospects for those who are interested in pursuing or considering career options there? To provide an updated assessment of China job market and hiring picture, Larry Wang, will deliver a presentation on The Global Financial Crisis?Impact On China Employment Market:  And How To Successfully Identify And Pursue Opportunities In The Mainland From The U.S.  Mr. Wang will share feedback and insights that we are directly receiving from our daily interaction with our international clients regarding their hiring and growth plans for China during this time.  Topics to be covered include:
 
* How is the global recession impacting multinationals in China , and in what ways are their business plans in the mainland being altered?
* In what ways are events abroad accelerating or slowing down the staffinghiring activities of companies in China , and to what degree?
*  What industries and job functions in China are feeling the greatest impact?
*  What will be China  employment and hiring outlook in the coming year?
*  How can professionals from the U.S. most effectively pursue opportunities in the mainland?
 
Agenda:
6:30-7:00PM   Networking
7:00-8:00PM   Presentation by Larry Wang, CEO of Wang & Li Asia Resources
8:00-9:00PM   Q&A + Discussion with Larry Wang
 
Larry Wang
Author of Know The Game, Play The Game
 
Larry is the Founder and CEO of Wang & Li Asia Resources, an international recruitment company, which was recognized as China 2008 Recruitment Firm of the Year,  that provides recruitment services to leading companies operating in China. Wang & Li was formed in direct response to the growing needs of expanding multinational and Chinese
businesses for high caliber, bilingual international-oriented professional and management talent.
 
For the past 15 years, Larry has dedicated his career to the hiring, development, and success of Greater China international-caliber professional talent.  He has written two books on this topic.  His first, The New Gold Mountain, released in May of 1998, was written for overseas and returnee Chinese professionals and focused on their regional career opportunities and how to best apply their bilingualinternational-oriented backgrounds.  His most recent book, Know The Game, Play The Game, released in August of 2001, speaks directly to today maturing generation of homegrown?mainland professionals.  The book provides guidance for their advancement and success within world-class organizations operating in China.  Both books provide practical insights and advice into developing the type of skills and qualities needed to succeed in today rapidly evolving business environment.
 
Larry often shares his career development advice and China job market expertise, and is a frequent speaker at leading mainland and U.S. MBA programs, as well as HR conferences and professional organizations throughout North America and Greater China.  He is often sought to provide his business insights on management and human capital issues in Greater China by media, such as CNBC, CNN, CCTV, AWSJ, Business Week, and The South China Morning Post, to name a few.
 
In 1992, he founded Chinese-American Professionals in Taiwan (CAPT), the first professional organization targeting the interests of Chinese-American professionals in Asia. In 1999, he founded Chinese-American Professionals in Shanghai (CAPS).
 
Prior to founding his company, Larry worked for 10 years in for leading consumer product and information technology multinationals.  His presence in Greater China since 1990 has included stints in Taipei, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and now Beijing, where he oversees Wang & Li regional operations.
 
Larry received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.B.A. from UCLA Anderson School of Management.

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NECINA Global Exchange Center Seminar: Suzhou Industrial Park Introduction 

 
Time: 6:00-9:00pm, Feb. 23, 2009 
Venue: Double Tree Hotel, Waltham, MA
 
Suzhou Industrial Park delegation team will visit Boston on 2/23 morning. They would like to meet entrepreneur teams who are interested in the 3rd pioneering project competition in Suzhou, China (http://techpioneer.sipac.gov.cn/sbtz/200812/t20081211_35342.htm). This is good opportunity for anyone who are going to apply pioneering project and you will have chance to pitch your business plan there and ask questions regarding the application process. Each team will have up to 1 hour meeting time with SIP delegation team. 
 
Contact: kevin.wang@necina.org

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2009 NECINA Brown Rudnick Business Plan Contest Workshop 2

Funding Your Venture

 
Time: 6:30pm ?9:00pm, Thursday February 26th , 2009
Venue: Deloitte Services LP, Tech-Venture Center, 1000 Winter St.,North Building, Suite 2000 Waltham, MA
 
Sponsor: Brown Rudnick
 
On 1/20/2009, we just had another historical year of teams with Executive Summary submission for the 2009 Brown Rudnick Business Plan Contest (BPC) despite of the downturn economy. The teams will receive mentorship from industry experts who have done it before. If you missed the above submission deadline, you can still submit full business plan to the contest and pursue your dream further by attending NECINA Entrepreneurship Center workshops.
 
The 2'nd workshop for the 2009 Brown Rudnick Business Plan Contest will focus on how to find various ways to fund your venture. You will hear from a keynote speaker Mr. Grandinetti, who not only teaches at MIT Sloan School of Management, but also has so many years of direct experience in running and funding start-up companies. You will also have the opportunity to hear from a seasoned panel of investors, advisors and successful entrepreneurs about the various options for raising capital. A networking reception for NECINA members, investors and entrepreneurial professionals will follow this interactive discussion.  This is a must-attend workshop for all BPC participants and future entrepreneurs. This workshop is free for members of NECINA. Due to the space limit (maximum 50 attendees), please pre-register to secure your seat.
 
Agenda
6:30-7:00 pm Registration and networking (pizza and drinks will be served)
7:00-8:00 pm Keynote Speaker Presentation
8:00-8:30pm Panel presentation and Q&A
8:30?:00pm Networking
 
Keynote Speaker: Mr. Mike Grandinetti
 
Mr. Mike Grandinetti has a unique cross-disciplinary background. He has deep operating experience as a serial entrepreneur, holds long-standing faculty appointments at MIT Sloan School of Management and the
Technical University of Denmark Center for Technology, Economics and Management and has been deeply involved in regional and national economic development, with a distinct focus on global entrepreneurial
coaching and enablement, as well as advanced technology commercialization and tech transfer, in the US, Canada, and Europe.
 
As a serial entrepreneur, Mr. Grandinetti has helped lead four venture-backed companies to successful exits for his investors. Until recently, he served as Chief Marketing Officer for Virtual Iron, a leading provider of data center virtualization software solutions. Virtual Iron raised $65M in venture and strategic capital from top US VCs as well as Goldman Sachs, SAP and Intel.  Prior, he was SVP & CMO for Yantra, a leading provider of Supply Chain solutions. He was part of the executive leadership team that was responsible for selling Yantra to ATT for 6X trailing revenues. Other companies that Mike has helped lead to a successful exit include Viewlogic, Raptor Systems, and Connected Corp. Mike co-led the IPO road show at Raptor, which raised $70M and had a 100 per cent investor success rate. He has also been involved in M&A
from the buy side, both while being a McKinsey consultant and as an operating executive, as several of his companies acquired young ventures to expand their solution set and fuel their growth.
 
Mr. Grandinetti has been consistently successful launching several emerging technology companies & scores of new products & in creating several new product categories. He has been an executive in some of the fastest growing US companies in their respective industries. Prior, he worked at McKinsey, where he consulted with executives on a broad range of strategic engagements, including M&A analysis; and at HP, where he managed a national corporate account sales program for General Electric and was responsible for selling computer –aided engineering software solutions to GE businesses across North America. While Mike is best known for his world-class entrepreneurial Go-to-Market skills he has also held roles including VP Business Development, where he was executive sponsor of relationships with Global Strategics including Accenture, Intel, IBM, HP, Microsoft and others. As GM of a Professional Services P&L, he grew a highly profitable consulting business within a software company, achieving $10M in revenues in less than one year.
 
Mike's primary operating expertise is in enterprise software (business apps, IT infrastructure, security, engineering and manufacturing ?leveraging SaaS, open source and traditional models), semiconductors & systems. He also has significant experience as a coach to companies in medical devices & equipment, Health 2.0, Hospital IT, bioinformatics, enterprise search, patent search software, wireless broadband, Web 2.0 / 3.0, 3D visualization, renewable energy, IT (business application & data services) consulting, aircraft engines, factory floor equipment, and nutrition.
 
Mr. Grandinetti is very active in working with US and global entrepreneurs on many levels, as a lecturer, coach and board member. He holds an appointment as Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management in the Entrepreneurship Center, and is a Core Member of the MIT Global Entrepreneurship team. He has extensive experience coaching and teaching non-US entrepreneurs and advising international economic development agencies.
 
He received his BS in Engineering, magna cum laude, from Rutgers, where he was unanimously elected to both the National Engineering Honour Society and National Engineering Honour Fraternity. He also received his MBA from Yale, where he was named the annual Jess Morrow Johns Memorial Scholar & was the recipient of Procter & Gamble prestigious Marketing Leadership Award and a Yale Teaching Fellowship.
 
Panel:
There will be a panel discussion among industry experts on how to fund your venture after keynote speaker presentation. 
 
Fee: Member: free (Online Registration required) Non-member: $15
 
Contacts:  Harry Gao (harry@gnwLaser.com), Chen Yi (contest09@necina.org <mailto:contest09@necina.org> )

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NECINA Career Development Center Seminar

Financial Planning in an Uncertain Economy

 
Time: 6: 00 pm - 9:00 pm, Thursday March 19, 2009
Venue: Foley Hoag, 1000 Winter Street, North Entrance, Suite 4000, Waltham, MA 02451
Cost: Free for NECINA members and guests
 
Are you looking for financial planning advice during this uncertain economy? Are you planning your retirement for success or failure? Are you changing jobs or will be separated from your current employer soon?
 
If your answer is YES to any of the questions above or you have a general interest in seeing your investments grow, you cannot afford to miss this NECINA career development seminar!
 
At this session, you would learn how the evolving economy can become an opportunity to grow your savings and investments. We have the views of three Financial Advisors with proven experience. They have committed to giving NECINA Members Best Known Methods and concrete information about finances, the do's and the don'ts.
 
Agenda:
 
6:00pm - 7:00 pm Pizza and Networking
7:00pm - 7:05pm Opening Remarks
7:05pm - 7:45pm Speech: Today's Financial Planning and Wealth Management
7:45pm - 8:30pm Panel discussion: How to protect your golden nest in uncertain economy
8:30pm - 9:00pm More Networking
 
Speakers Bio:
 
Eric Guenard & Clark Page are both Financial Advisors at Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc., Charlestown, MA.
 
The speech focus is on Personal financial planning for retirement, education funding, retirement plan distribution, retirement income strategies, protection planning family security, investments, wealth preservation strategies and tax management strategies.
 
VIP Panelist: Kaibin Wu
 
Kaibin Wu, LUTCF, is a Registered Financial Services Representative with 16 Years experience in the field. His achievements include Leaders Conference Award and Million Dollar Round Table Award. He is the Board member of O.C.E.A.N. (Overseas Chinese-American Entrepreneurs Association Network), and Chair of Investment Club in O.C.E.A.N.

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Shinning Through the Dark Clouds

 
Next Generation Software - SaaS and Cloud Computing
 
Technology leaps always bring back confidence to current economy (think Google in last recession). What would be the next breakthroughs that would shed new light through the economic dark clouds over technology and our community? Come to meet and participate in a panel discussion with investor, innovators, entrepreneurs, technologists in SaaS and Cloud Computing from Highland Capital, CloudSwitch, EMC, and NetApp.
 
Traditional software application deployment cycles inside companies can take years, and consume massive resources. Considering current economy condition, it seems making more sense to subscribe software monthly based on usage instead of large up-front payment. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is a software deployment model where an application is licensed for use as a service provided to customers on demand. Cloud computing is another emerging computing model where users can gain access to their applications and data from anywhere through their connected devices.
 
Some industry analysts think SaaS is a subset of cloud computing and some think cloud computing is one enabling technology for SaaS and provides ideal infrastructure for SaaS to run. All major IT vendors have rolled out their cloud computing serviceproduct lines or strategies. Amazon expects its EC2 and S3 cloud platforms to be the company't next major growth point. IBM announced its Blue Cloud's computing initiative. IBM believes that cloud computing could help IT managers dramatically reduce their complexities and costs. Microsoft has made cloud computing as one of five top priorities for 2009. EMC created new cloud computing division based on its two recent acquisitions. Google has struck a deal allowing Saleforce.com to use Google Apps service as a platform for SaaS
delivery.
 
If you're engineers, entrepreneurs, or users in the software industry, you may still have these questions: What are the areas entrepreneurs will likely build SaaS applications competing with traditional packaged software? Why are SaaS and cloud computing so hot today? How can entrepreneurs be part of it? What are the market opportunities? What are the options to address the concerns around SaaS and cloud computing? What kinds of applications make sense to offer through SaaS? From the users?side, what are the enterprise IT organizations?strategies for cloud computing and SaaS? What are the benefits from adopting cloud computing and SaaS based application? What are the obstacles and challenges? Pleasecome to join the discussion with technologists, entrepreneurs, users, and investors to look at the emerging opportunities in SaaS and cloud computing and how you can be part of it.
 
Venue: Radisson Hotel and Suites Chelmsford 10 Independence Drive, Chelmsford, MA
Time:9:00 am ?12:00 pm, Saturday March 28^th , 2009
(Free for members; $15 for general public; breakfast & lunch included)
 
Conference Speakers:
 
1.Keynote: Liberating the Data Center: How Cloud Computing Is Changing Enterprise IT? John Considine, CTO and Founder, CloudSwitch
2.Keynote: Next Generation Software ?SaaS and Cloud Computing? Neill Occhiogrosso, Principle, Highland Capital Partners
3.Panelist:   Feng Zhang, Senior Technologist, EMC CTO Office Michael Zhang, Senior Product Manager NetApp Neill Occhiogrosso, Principle, Highland Capital Partners John Considine, CTO and Founder, CloudSwitch
4.Moderator: Kevin Wang, Director of Engineering, ITA Software 
 
Conference Committee:
 
Kevin Wang, Committee Chair, Kevin.Wang@necina.org
Hui Huang, NECINA Technology Center Director, Hui.Huang@necina.org
 
About the Speakers 
 
John Considine, CTO & Founder, CloudSwitch
 
John Considine brings two decades of technology vision and proven experience in complex enterprise system development, integration and product delivery to CloudSwitch. Before founding CloudSwitch, John was Director of the Platform Products Group at Sun Microsystems, where he was responsible for the 69xx virtualized block storage system, 53xx NAS products, the 5800 Object Archive system, as well as the next generation NAS portfolio.  John came to Sun through the acquisition of Pirus Networks, where he was part of the early engineering team responsible for the development and release of the Pirus NAS product, including advanced development of parallel NAS functions and the Segmented File System. John has started and boot-strapped a number of start-ups with breakthrough technology in high-performance distributed systems and image processing. He has been granted patents for RAID and distributed file system technology. John began his career as an engineer at Raytheon Missile Systems, and holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
 
NEILL OCCHIOGROSSO, Principal, Highland Capital Partners
 
NEILL OCCHIOGROSSO is a Principal at Highland focusing on software and infrastructure technologies investments.  Prior to joining Highland in 2007, Neill was a Product Manager at InnaPhase Corporation, a venture-backed vendor of laboratory information management systems. Prior to InnaPhase, Neill was the Director of Information Technology at Tangerine Technologies, a venture-backed enterprise software firm.  He also was a consultant for The Chapel Hill Group, a technology education start-up.  Neill holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Duke University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
 
Feng Zhang, Senior Technologist, EMC
 
Feng Zhang is a Senior Technologist at EMC. Feng joined EMC in June 1998. Feng is a member of the Advanced Technology Ventures Group inside EMC Office of the CTO, where Feng is responsible for new strategic initiatives like cloud computing as well as identifying and articulating new technology opportunities for investment consideration. During his time at EMC, Feng also worked in a variety of roles in the areas of engineering, field operation and management.  Prior to joining EMC, Feng worked for China Telecom and Beijing Chemical Group. Feng holds a MBA from Babson College, Master in Computer Science from SUNY at stony brook and Bachelor of Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.
 
Mike Zhang, Sr. Product Manager, NetApp
 
Mike Zhang has been Sr. Product Manager with NetApp since 2006, responsible for NetApp storage virtualization solution and caching solution. Past experience includes product management of Storage Resource Management software at EMC and 8 years experience on OracleDB2 and storage performance analysis in general.

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Interactive Mobile Web: from chasm to mainstream

2009 NECINA Mobile Internet Conference

 
Time:9:00am - 12:00pm, Saturday January 10th , 2009
Venue: Radisson Hotel and Suites Chelmsford, 10 Independence Drive, Chelmsford, MA
 
3G Wireless networks are being deployed world wide rapidly. iPhone and Google G1 are breaking sales records. Mobile Web is becoming a part of our daily life with new applications such as Mobile Social Networking and Location Based Services. It will no longer be a dream to access any data from any mobile device anywhere. And yet to come ahead of us lies the best, the most exciting, and the most profitable days of the Mobile Internet.
 
New England Chinese Information and Networking Association (NECINA) is proud to invite distinguished speakers from the wireless industry, venture community, and academia to share their knowledge, experiences,
and visions on the future of Mobile Internet.
 
Agenda:
9:00am ~ 9:15am                 Registration, networking and breakfast
9:15am ~ 9:20am                 Opening remarks
9:20am ~ 9:50am                 Cheng Wu, Chairman, Azuki Systems
9:50am ~ 10:20am               Mark Lowenstein, Managing Director, Mobile Ecosystem
10:20am ~ 10:30am             Break 
10:30am ~ 11:00am             Dr. Huifang Sun, VP and Research Fellow, Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab
11:00am ~ 11:30am             Dan Rosen, Principal, HighlandCapital Partners
11:30am ~ 12:00pm             Ramji Raghavan, Founder & CEO, Movik
12:00pm ~ 1:00pm               Q&A, Networking and Lunch
 
Free for NECINA Members, $15 for general public.
Breakfast, Lunch and networking included.
 
About the Conference Speakers
 
Cheng Wu is a co-founder and Chairman at Azuki Systems, responsible for the company vision, corporate strategy and setting the overall direction in the marketplace. Cheng is a successful serial entrepreneur
and well-acclaimed industry veteran, having founded and led numerous businesses spanning a range of different industries.
 
Most recently, Cheng served as Chairman of Acopia Networks which is a leader in high-performance, intelligent file virtualization solutions. Acopia Networks announced it agreed to be acquired by F5 Networks for $210M in August, 2007. Cheng founded and became Chairman of Acopia Networks in December, 2001 after leaving Cisco Systems. He joined Cisco Systems in June 2000, through Cisco $5.7B acquisition of ArrowPoint Communications, where he held various executive positions, including Group VP and General Manager of the Content and Multiservice Edge Group (CME). CME technology focus was to enable the migration of existing client-server multi-protocol networks toward high value, multiservice (data, voice, and video) architectures capable of supporting the next wave of e-business applications and edge services for Enterprise and service provider customers.
 
Prior to joining Cisco, Cheng founded ArrowPoint Communications, where he served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer leading the company to a successful IPO in April of 2000 with annualized
revenues of $250M. Founded in 1997, ArrowPoint provided Web switches and Web network services (WebNS) software that allowed customers to optimize the use of the Web for e-commerce and content delivery.
 
Preceding Cheng time with ArrowPoint, he founded Arris Networks, a Massachusetts based startup that developed high-density Internet access products that was acquired by Cascade Communications for $217M in May, 1996.  He later served as Cascade (now Lucent Technologies) Communications?Vice President for remote access engineering.
 
To highlight his career in the networking and communications industry - which extends more than 20 years - Cheng was named to InteractiveWeek Magazine Top 25 Unsung Heroes of the Internet?list in 2000 and named
the Key Industry Player by Massachusetts Telecom Council in 2002.
 
In addition to functioning as Chairman of Azuki, Cheng also serves on the board of eIQNetworks.
 
Cheng has a bachelor degree in electrical engineering from ChiaoTung University, Taiwan and a master degree in computer science from Indiana University.
 
Mark Lowenstein is a leading wireless industry executive, advisor, and commentator. Most recently, Lowenstein was a member of the senior leadership team at Verizon Wireless, where as Vice President of Strategy he led the company efforts in product and business planning, market segmentation, national pricing, and customer intelligence for both consumer and enterprise markets.
 
Prior to his role at Verizon Wireless, Lowenstein was Managing Director of consulting firm, Mobile Ecosystem, where he advised companies and C-level executives across the landscape of wireless communications on market, product, and industry strategy. Prior to founding Mobile Ecosystem, Lowenstein spent ten years at the Yankee Group, where he founded and led the company wireless practices on a global basis. He also managed Yankee Group overall research activities in Canada, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. Lowenstein also spent a year as VP, Strategy at Informio, a wireless software and applications firm that raised $40 million from leading VCs.
 
During the course of his fifteen-year career as an industry consultant, Lowenstein has advised nearly all of the major players across the mobile value chain, as well as top advertising agencies, media/entertainment firms, and industry associations. Lowenstein has also had advisory roles with several leading venture capital and private equity firms. He has been on the advisory boards of Telephia, SeaPoint Ventures, Visage Mobile, East Peak Advisors, and Froghop. In 2006, Lowenstein was selected by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino to be part of an executive team to determine wireless strategy for the City of Boston. Lowenstein also founded the Boston Wireless Braintrust, a group of twenty CEOs and wireless industry thought leaders who meet quarterly, on a proprietary basis, to discuss key industry issues, opportunities and challenges.
 
As one of the wireless industry thought leaders, Lowenstein is a sought-after speaker, delivering keynote addresses at major industry and private corporate events. He has also published extensively. His Lens on
Wireless newsletter is read by more than 12,000 industry executives; he authored a monthly opinion column in Wireless Week for five years; and he has written columns for leading trade and business media.
 
Lowenstein has appeared as an expert witness on the wireless industry in several proceedings, and has been engaged in several prominent cases with the FCC. Lowenstein has also been an adjunct faculty member at Tufts University, where he taught a course on the business of Wireless Communications?
 
Dr. Huifang Sungraduated from Harbin Military Engineering Institute, China, and received the Ph.D. from University of Ottawa, Canada in 1986. Dr Sun joined Electrical Engineering Department of Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1986 and was promoted to Associate Professor before he moved to Sarnoff Corporation in 1990. He joined Sarnoff Lab as a member of technical staff and was promoted to Technology Leader of Digital Video Communication later. In 1995, Dr. Sun joined Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) in 1995 and currently is a Vice President and Research Fellow. His research interests include digital video/image compression and digital communication. He has coauthored two books, more than 150 Journal/and conference papers and holds 48 US patents. He is now an Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. Dr. Sun is an IEEE Fellow.
 
Dan Rosenis a Principal at Highland Capital Partners, focusing on communications and financial services sectors. Dan represents Highland on the boards of PerkStreet Financial, picoChip and TriStar. In addition, he currently is or has been actively involved with Highland's investments in Optasite, Cyren Call, Quattro Wireless and Radiospire.
 
Prior to joining Highland, Dan worked at HarbourVest Partners, LLC,where he invested in and worked closely with several growth-stage technology and communications businesses, including Axerra Networks, eHelp (acquired by Macromedia), MobileAccess Networks, Nuera Communications (acquired by AudioCodes), and Quallaby (acquired by Micromuse).
 
Dan has also worked in corporate development at RSA Security (RSAS, acquired by EMC), as a software consultant for American Management Systems (AMSY, acquired by CGI Group), and independently consulted to
several communications start-ups.
 
Dan has a Bachelor degree in Finance and Information Systems from University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

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In Memory of NECINA Chairman Ed Soong

(01/09/09 NECINA Speech at Funeral)

 
Dear Friends,
 
It is our grief to learn that our beloved NECINA Chairman, Ed Soong had passed away at the beginning of this New Year. The sad news came as a shock to us. Just last month, he helped to establish and sealed the NECINA sponsorship from Ningbo. We learned yesterday at the Wake that many of those communication emails came from his hospital bed.
 
Ed was a founding member and past president of NECINA. He influenced the lives of so many of us with his warmth, frankness and generosity. His advice to us just sounded like yesterday. While he dedicated his career to the technology industry since his leadership at Wang Lab and is best known for his book and business achievements at Anew Technology, the impact Ed had on others goes far beyond technology and business.
 
His commitment to integrity and his genuine concern for NECINA members and their families established the foundational theme for this NECINA term as catering for more dreams and teams from NECINA members that still defines NECINA today.
 
Ed also served for local community as president of Greater Boston Chinese Cultural Association, the board of Monte Jade Science and Technology Association, the board of the New England Association of Chinese Professionals and the Chinese Economic Development Council.
 
Ed left a strong spiritual heritage that will light the path for generations to follow as his legacy encompasses strong relationships, faith, and a focus on serving others.
 
Let us turn our grief into action to make a better community. We will dedicate 10 seconds of silence in memory of Ed Soong at NECINA Mobile Conference tomorrow. The conference is dedicated to Ed Soong.
 
As many friends told me, it is a great loss to NECINA and our community. But I believe Ed is still with us, and will be with us, as always!
 
Sincerely,
 
Nick Ning, NECINA President

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Optical Imaging



Time: 2:00pm to 5:00pm, Saturday, April 11, 2009
Location: Finisar Corporation, 36 Jonspin Road, Wilmington, MA 01887

Agenda:

2:00pm-2:30pm Networking Time
2:30pm-2:45pm Introduction
2:45pm-3:45pm Computational Photography: From Epsilon to Coded Photography - Professor Ramesh Raskar, Media Lab,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3:45pm-4:00pm Break
4:00pm-5:00pm aNIRS: towards ambulatory monitoring of cerebral vascular diseases-Prof. Quan Zhang, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Organizers: Xifeng Qian, Hongzhi Zhao, Qingwu Wang, Yong Qiao, Xueyan Zheng, Frank Fan, and Yi Qian

Abstract: Computational Photography is an emerging multi-disciplinary field that is at the intersection of optics, signal processing, computer graphics+vision, electronics, art, and online sharing in social networks. The field is evolving through three phases. The first phase was about building a super-camera that has enhanced performance in terms of the traditional parameters, such as dynamic range, field of view or depth of field. I call this Epsilon Photography. Due to limited capabilities of a camera, the scene is sampled via multiple photos, each captured by epsilon variation of the camera parameters. It corresponds to the low-level vision: estimating pixels and pixel features. The second phase is building tools that go beyond capabilities of this super-camera. I call this Coded Photography. The goal here is to reversibly encode information about the scene in a single photograph (or
a very few photographs) so that the corresponding decoding allows
powerful decomposition of the image into light fields, motion deblurred images, global/direct illumination components or distinction between geometric versus material discontinuities. This corresponds to the mid-level vision: segmentation, organization, inferring shapes, materials and edges. The third phase will be about going beyond the radiometric quantities and challenging the notion that a camera should mimic a single-chambered human eye. Instead of recovering physical parameters, the goal will be to capture the visual essence of the scene and analyze the perceptually critical components. I call this Essence
Photography and it may loosely resemble depiction of the world after high level vision processing. It will spawn new forms of visual artistic expression and communication. In this talk, I will focus on Coded Photography. 'Less is more' in Coded Photography. By blocking light over time or space, we can preserve more details about the scene in the recorded single photograph. I will show several applications and describe emerging techniques to recover scene parameters from coded photographs.

Prof. Ramesh Raskar joined the MIT Media Lab in spring 2008 as head of the Camera Culture research group. The group focuses on developing tools to help us better capture and share the visual experience. This research involves developing novel cameras with unusual optical elements, programmable illumination, digital wavelength control, and femtosecond analysis of light transport, as well as tools to decompose pixels into perceptually meaningful components. Prof. Raskar's research also involves creating a universal platform for the sharing and consumption of visual media. Prof. Raskar received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he introduced "Shader Lamps," a
novel method for seamlessly merging synthetic elements into the real world using projector-camera based spatial augmented eality. In 2004, he received the TR100 Award from Technology Review, which recognizes top young innovators under the age of 35, and in 2003, the Global Indus Technovator Award, instituted at MIT to recognize the top 20 Indian technology innovators worldwide. He holds 35 US patents and has received four Mitsubishi Electric Invention Awards. He is currently co-authoring a book on computational photography. http://raskar.info

Abstract: Near-infrared spectroscopy and diffuse optical imaging
(NIRS-DOI) is a new technology. Because of its noninvasive nature, it arouses more and more scientists' interest to see if NIRS-DOI can be used to diagnose cerebral vascular diseases and women's breast cancer.
More and more papers has been published in this area.

Dr. Zhang has been engaged in scientific research of NIRS-DOI since 1998 and published more than 20 papers in this topic. Today, his talk will focus on the following issues:
1. Basic principle of Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) and Diffuse Optical Imaging (DOI);
2. aNIRS: ambulatory Near Infrared Spectroscopy; Current related projects and results; Towards ambulatory monitoring of cerebral vascular diseases; Dr. Quan Zhang joined Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Harvard Medical School as an assistant professor in 2007. Since 2004, he has been the director of two laboratories, i.e. Biomedical Optics Laboratory, the Center for Engineering in Medicine and Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, Neural System Group. He has also been the consultant in photon migration modeling in Intelligent Medical Devices,
LLC, Cambridge, MA, and the consultant in Near-infrared (NIR)
spectroscopy and imaging the director Advanced Research Technologies
Inc, Montreal, Canada. Currently, his group focuses on two areas:
1) Non-invasive fast optical imaging of visual and motor processing, which aims to non-invasively monitor neural activity using methods that may be suitable for functional brain imaging in populations with developmental disorders;
(2) Diffusion optical tomography (DOT) and fMRI studies of visual
perception and imagery, which conducts a systematic validation of the true potential and limitations of DOT as a cognitive neuroscience tool in adults by recording simultaneously DOT and fMRI data during established visual stimulation paradigms

Prof. Zhang received his PhD from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 1998. He holds at least 5 US patents.
http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/martinos/people/showPerson.php?people_id=193
 

NECINA SemiTech Special Interest Group (SIG) Seminar NECINA SemiTech Special Interest Group (SIG) Seminar

NECINA SemiTech Special Interest Group (SIG) Seminar

Time: 6:30pm to 9:00pm, Thursday, April 16, 2009
Venue: Foley Hoag LLP, 1000 Winter St, North Entrance, Suite 4000, Waltham, MA


Topics:            
o Technologies for Analog, Mixed Signal, RF and mmWave ICs

Analog and RF ICs are key enablers for advanced communications which have dramatically changed our daily life in many ways. This talk will first review the semiconductor IC market and the evolving applications.It will then cover different technology options and technology roadmap from leading foundry for analog/RF/mmWave IC designs. Device menus for advanced RFCMOS, SiGe BiCMOS, and high performance RF passives will be
presented. It will provide insightful guidance in choosing proper technologies for appropriate applications with considerations of device performance scaling impact, system requirement, and cost.

o CMOSSilicon on Insulator:  Enabling changes in RF designs  

Silicon on insulator (SOI) refers to the use of an insulator substrate instead of conventional silicon substrates in semiconductor manufacturing to reduce device parasitic and improve performance. After a journey of more than 20 years and leveraging with low currents consumption and high speed, SOI triumphantly shows off its successes in digital and mixed signal IC, from processors to game consoles. Benefiting from low cost and high integration, it is also quietly reaching into high performance RF/MW field which traditionally is dominated by III-V compound. The purpose of this talk is to give an overview of SOI from RF circuit designers?perspective, and to share with you what SOI has substituted, and what kind of innovations may be enabled in multi-mode multi-band front end module as well as in millimeter wave fields.

Agenda            

6:30pm-7:00pmNetworking (Pizza will be served)
7:00pm-7:40pmRF/Analog Technology (Dawn Wang)
7:40pm-7:55pmQuestions and Answers
7:55pm-8:15pmRF CMOS SOI (Dr. Yang Li )
8:15pm-8:30pmQuestions and Answers

Speakers            

Dawn Wang isa senior foundry application engineer in IBM Microelectronics. She had also held various senior technical positions in Texas Instruments and TriQuint Semiconductors in technology and product development for RF, Analog/Mixed Signal (AMS) integrated circuits. Dawn has published technical papers and holds US patents in RF/AMS designs. She is a member in wireless working group of International Technology Roadmap of Semiconductor (ITRS).

Dawn Wang received her BSEE and MSEE from Tsinghua University in China. She also received her M. S. in Solid State Physics from Arizona State University.

Dr. Yang Liis a principal engineer in Skyworks developing 3G/LTE power amplifier and front-end module. Before joining Skyworks, he was with Peregrine Semiconductor working on RF front-end designs on SOI. He also co-founded XEL focusing on short-range wireless communication technologies.

Yang Li received his B.S. and Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1996 and 2001, respectively.

Organizers:

Bo Zhang bzhg2000@gmail.com
Dawn Wang dawn_wang@verizon.net
Yang Li edwardliyang@yahoo.com
 

2009 NECINA Brown Rudnick Business Plan ContestWorkshop IV 2009 NECINA Brown Rudnick Business Plan ContestWorkshop IV

2009 NECINA Brown Rudnick Business Plan ContestWorkshop IV
Pitch your business idea& Team building


2009 NECINA Brown Rudnick Business Plan Contest has received 25 full business plans to compete for the final prize. Before semifinalist announcement, we would like to create an opportunity for Business plan teams to pitch their business idea and demonstrate their business idea or product prototype to you.

Welcome to join the workshop and find out the most innovate business ideas. Business Plan teams would like to listen to your feedbacks and comments to better position themselves. Meanwhile, it is also a great opportunity for you to be part of their ventures and build a success business in the near future.

Time: 9am to 12pm, Saturday, April 18th, 2009
Venue:Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142
Fee: Free for NECINA members, BPC teams and Babson ABF members. $10 for general public. (Refreshment will be served.)

Agenda:
9:00 - 9:30am Registration & Networking (booth setup)
9:30 - 9:40am Welcome Speech by NECINA
9:40 - 11:00am Presentation by BPC teams.
  o 5 minutes presentation without Q&A for each team
  o We will provide a feedback sheet for every audience and collectit at the end of workshop for teams?reference. (The feedback will be anonymous)
11:00am - 12:00pm Demonstration productservice & Networking
 

Entrepreneurship Case Study Seminar Entrepreneurship Case Study Seminar

2009 NECINA Entrepreneurship Case Study Seminar

Date and Time:Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 6:30 pm ?8:50 pm
Venue:IBM Innovation Center, 404 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02451-1280
Sponsor:IBM INNOVATION CENTER

Greetings everyone! NECINA continues its series of dynamic events with a seminar featuring case studies of two start-ups ?Solar Engineering Solutions (SES) and WebNotes.In this session, these two entrepreneurial teams will discuss their ideas and products, share their experience in dealing with challenges of building their companies, and raise questions and solicit input from panelists and the general audience.There is a twist of the seminar format in that we encourage all audience to play a more active role in offering their perspective of how they would handle the challenges themselves.

The seminar will also feature an esteemed group of experienced, well-qualified panelists including John Manning of Deloitte & Touche, Jo Tango of Kepha Partners, who will provide feedback on these two  presentations.Following the moderator抯 questions, the panelists will use the studies as a springboard to a more general discussion over best practices that will hopefully be helpful to all aspiring, current and
future entrepreneurs.In short, the seminar will provide an opportunity for all audience members to learn the basic principles of being a successful entrepreneur.

Agenda

6:30-7:00 pm: Networking
7:00-7:05 pm: Introduction of NECINA, Excubator Program, Venture Club
7:05-7:10 pm: Introduction of IBM Innovation Centers
7:10-7:30 pm: Presentation by Solar Engineering (including 5 minute Q & A)
7:30-7:50 pm: Presentation by Webnotes (including 5 minute Q & A)
7:50-8:30 pm: Panel discussion with panelists led by a moderator
8:30-8:40 pm: Q &A session
8:40-8:50 pm: Closing Remarks & Survey

Descriptions of Teams

Solar Engineering Solutions (SES)
SES offers a solar solution for cooling and heating needs in large commercial buildings. It harnesses clean solar thermal energy and delivers to buildings at a greater energy savings than any other solutions. This solution also enables peak-time electricity demand shaving.

Their Solar Air Conditioning System (SACS) utilizes solar energy to heat up water to both drive the air-conditioning system and satisfy hot water demands for large buildings. Customers will benefit from energy savings of up to 80%, with a payback period of 3-5 years; this payback period can be further reduced to 1-2 years with tax incentives and rebates from government.

SES has been awarded laboratory space on an MIT building for demonstration purposes. They have discussed with potential customers who have shown keen interest in their technology and products.

Webnotes

PR firms spend hundreds of hours every week performing online research to track client coverage, competition, and industry news, tediously copying and pasting information from the web into Word documents which are formatted and emailed to clients.By making it easy to capture and
organize content from web pages and PDFs and automatically generate
professional reports, /_WebNotes _/(www.webnotes.net) allows firms to
save up to 50% of their time at half the cost of competing products.

Ryan Damico, WebNotes' co-founder & CEO, graduated from MIT in 2005 with
a degree in Computer Science.Prior to founding WebNotes, Ryan was a
Program Manager at Avid Technology.

 


_Panelists_


John Manning:

John F. Manning is Partner, Assurance & Advisory Services at Deloitte &
Touche.John has 22 years of public accounting experience, specializing
in multi-national complex businesses, in the media, technology and life
sciences industries.He serves a number of our office抯 largest,
fastest growing clients and has extensive experience in mergers and
acquisitions work, public company reporting issues, and multi-national
companies.John is one of the Boston office抯 professional practice
directors, having served as a deputy in that position for 8 years.In
addition, he is a frequent speaker at industry events on topics such as
software revenue recognition and business combinations.John has served
or represented more than two-dozen large companies in New England. He is
member of American Institute of Certified Public Accountant and
Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants.


Jo Tango:


Jo Tango founded Kepha Partners. He has invested in the
e-commerce, search engine, Internet ad network, wireless,
supply chain software, storage, database, security, on-line
payments and data center virtualization spaces.


He has been a founding or first institutional investor in
AutoVirt, Azuki Systems, Bit9, ByLedge, ExaGrid, StreamBase
Systems, Vertica Systems, and Virtual Iron, getting involved
nearly always at the company inception phase. Other
investments include Ask Jeeves (Nasdaq: ASKJ), Digital Market
(acquired by Agile Software), and NextCard (Nasdaq: NXCD).


Jo previously was at Highland Capital Partners for nearly 9
years, where he was a General Partner. He also spent five
years with Bain & Company, where he was based in Singapore,
Hong Kong and Boston, and focused on technology and start-up
projects.


Jo attended Yale University (B.A., summa cum laude and Phi
Beta Kappa) and Harvard Business School (M.B.A., Baker
Scholar). He serves on the board of NECINA (New England
Chinese Information and Network Association) and is very
active with the MIT Deshpande Center.

 

Fee:

Member: $5.00

Non-member: $20.00

 

Contacts:Harry Gao (harry@gnwLaser.com <mailto:harry@gnwLaser.com>),
Haifei Zhang (hfazhang@gmail.com <mailto:hfazhang@gmail.com>)

 

You are welcome to join NECINA at http://www.necina.org/member.htm.

About NECINA

The New England Chinese Information and Networking Association (NECINA),
a non-profit and non-political organization, was founded in March 1996
by a group of Chinese professionals from network computing industries.
It serves local community and members with a mission to advance
technology, entrepreneurship, and global reach. Today NECINA spans
across a diversity of industries including software, telecommunications,
networking, semiconductor, bio-tech, medical devices, clean
technologies, venture capital, finance and law. For more information,
visit http://www.necina.org <http://www.necina.org/>.
 

NECINA Venture Club/Excubator Conference NECINA Venture Club/Excubator Conference

NECINA Venture Club/Excubator Conference
Move Dream Forward? ?You can do it, too!
& Funding Trends from East to West?Venture Capital Opportunities in Tianjin, China and Boston, MA

Time: 9:00am to 2:00pm, Sunday, May 3, 2009
Venue and Event Sponsor: Foley Hoag LLP, 1000 Winter St, North Entrance, Suite 4000, Waltham, MA
Free to NECINA members and general public

Are you considering start a business but hesitating to take the plunge? How to move your dream forward after you have a business plan? Is it possible to raise money in the downturn economy? How to bootstrap a business in difficult times? Please come and join us to listen to entrepreneurs who have done it before. You can do it, too!

NECINA Venture Club and Excubator at the Entrepreneurship Center are proud to present Jimmy Chen, founder and chairman of GotoBus.com (NECINA sponsor) and Coach Wei, founder and chairman of Nexaweb to share their views and experiences.

Also welcome Tianjin Venture Capital Association invited by our event sponsor Foley Hoag. Please join us for a unique opportunity to meet our special guests from Tianjin, China, learn how to raise money and prevail in a slow economy and discuss venture opportunities in China.

Following the event, please sign up your team with Venture Club and Excubator for future event and services, and network one-on-one with guest venture capitalists and Excubator service providers.

Agenda

9:00 - 9:30am Registration & Networking Light refreshments will be served.
9:30 - 9:50am Open Remarks by NECINA Organizer & Sponsor
9:50 - 10:20am Keynote: 揜aise Money in Difficult Times? Coach Wei, Founder & Chairman, Nexaweb
10:20 - 10:50am Keynote: 揃ootstrap to Prevail? Jimmy Chen, Founder, Chairman & CEO, GotoBus.com
10:50 - 11:00am Break
11:00 - 11:30am Keynote: 揤enture Opportunities in Tianjin? Tianjin Venture Capital Association
11:30am - 12:00pm Q & A
12:00 - 1:00pm Lunch & Networking
1:00 - 2:00pm One-on-one Meetings with Venture Capitalists

About the Speakers
Jimmy Chen, CEO and Chairman, GotoBus.com
Jimmy (Xiangping) Chen founded IvyMedia Corporation aka GotoBus.com in the Summer of 2000 with the mission of providing affordable and easy-to-use solutions for e-commerce and content management. Since then GotoBus.com has become the leading online bus ticketing service provider and was named Best of the Web by Washington Post in February 2007. Before founding IvyMedia Corporation/GotoBus.com, Jimmy held various software development and management positions at PTC and SolidWorks. He is also active in computer science research and his publications (eg. CAD Vol 27.9, ISBN:0-89791-672-7, CAD Vol 27.12 and CAD Vol 28.1) were
well received in the Computer Aided Design research community. Jimmy has a Ph.D. from Computer Science at Purdue University; a Master's and a Bachelor's from Zhejiang University.

Coach Wei, CEO, Yottaa Inc. and Chairman, Nexaweb Technologies, Inc.
Coach is CEO of Yottaa Inc. He is also Chairman of Nexaweb technologies, an Enterprise Web 2.0 software company he founded in 2000.  He served a variety of roles at Nexaweb including CEO, VP Engineering, CTO and marketing from 2000 to 2008.  Before Nexaweb, Coach designed software for managing storage networks at EMC Corporation.  He is a frequent speaker at industry events and has many publications on various technical journals. Coach obtained his master抯 degree from MIT, holds six patents and maintains a blog on startups, web 2.0 technologies and entrepreneurship at http://www.coachwei.com.

About Tianjin Venture Capital Association

Tianjin Venture Capital Association (TJVCA) is one of the earliest specialized venture capital organizations in China. TJVCA, an industrial, non-profit non-governmental organization, is voluntarily organized by institutions and agencies in venture capital, relevant guarantee, consulting, and services, venture capital enterprises and professionals in venture capital.. The association is under the guidance of Tianjin Municipal Science & Technology Association and the
supervision and administration of Tianjin Administration Bureau of Corporation. After renaming and reorganization in 2002, according to the principle of "serving members, strengthening self-discipline of field, promoting standardized and healthy development of Tianjin venture capital undertaking, contributing to support high-tech industry and social economy development", the association has made remarkable achievements in improving new venture capital system with Tianjin characteristics; implementing venture capital practitioners management, training of talents; carrying out the communication and cooperation with the fraternity at home and abroad; conducting field survey and investigation; participating in formulation of the relevant local preferential policy, which enabled the association to win the honorable title of "Tianjin Advanced Mass Organization" for consecutive two years in 2003 and 2004. At present, the association has 45 members with investment of nearly RMB 4 billion. The investment scope covers information technology, biology technology, new energy, new material, software development, telecommunication, medicine and many other fields.

About NECINA Venture Club

NECINA Venture Club is an exclusive entrepreneurial community for members to share experience, network and best practice across global economy. NECINA Venture Club organizes advanced workshops and discussion forums specific to challenging issues faced by the executives. Club membership is limited to advisors, corporate executives, established entrepreneurs with mature business operation and selective early stage entrepreneurs with concrete business plan. The Venture Club is the
premier networking club in New England focusing on entrepreneurship and bridging the gap between business in the US and Asia.

About NECINA Exubator Program

NECINA Excubator Program is a service oriented pilot program as an extension to global venture incubators helping business teams in the bootstrapping stage from business plan inception to successful seed funding. As a platform aligning NECINA resources in areas such as engineering, marketing, sales, legal, finance, venture capital, human resource, it provides continuous services to NECINA business teams and all stage entrepreneurs.
 

NECINA Career Development Center Seminar NECINA Career Development Center Seminar

NECINA Career Development Center Seminar
Emotional Intelligence at Work and at Home


Time: 6: 00 pm ?9:00 pm, Friday, April 24th, 2009
Venue: Deloitte, 1000 Winter Street, North Entrance, Suite 2000,Waltham, MA 02451
Cost: Free for NECINA members and $15.00 for general public

Emotional Intelligence affects every aspect of our lives, and it is more viewed as the differentiation and competitive advantage in the job market today.  The bar has been raised, and employers are looking for high Emotional Quality (i.e. EQ) employees.  It is a learned skill set involving managing the emotions of ourselves and others. Emotional competency is important at work and at home.

The work place is a unique community. The way we work with employers, colleagues, clients, and subordinates is an art of emotional intelligence. How do we be assertive at work? How do we ask for a raise?

Home is the foundation of our society. Maintaining a strong and healthy relationship at home is vital to our well beings. How do we have difficult conversation with family members? How do we handle emotions that arise at home?

Brown University professor, Jin Li, will provide practical solutions on successful strategies at work places, help us understand every stage of human development, and help parents raise emotional healthy children.  Dr. Jin Li is also an expert in Asian American child development. She devoted her knowledge and time studying the leaning beliefs of American Chinese under the impact of two cultures. Dr. Jin Li will share many solutions including how to take care of pre-school children and how to communicate with teenage young adults. Be ready and bring all your questions.

Agenda:
6:00pm ?7:00 pm         Pizza and Networking
7:00pm ?7:05pm          Opening Remarks
7:05pm ?8:30pm          Speech: 揈motional Competency at Work and at Home?
8:30pm ?9:00pm           More Networking

Speakers Bio:

Jin Li, Professor of Brown University

Dr. Jin Li is an associate professor of education and human development at Brown University. She originally came from China. She received her undergraduate degree in German from the Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Languages in 1982 and taught German language and literature there. After immigrating to the United States in 1985, she studied first at the University of Vermont, and then earned her Master's degree in foreign language education from the University of Pittsburgh, 1988. She received her second Master's degree in administrative planning and social policy in 1991 and her PhD degree in human development and psychology from Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1997. Dr. Li participated in education reform in the United States at Harvard Project Zero under the leadership of Howard Gardner. She teaches courses in human development. Her research focuses on children's beliefs in learning, motivation, self-concepts, and self-conscious emotions across cultures and ethnic groups in the United States.

Contact information:

Please contact Miss Kitty Huang by e-mail  Kitty.Huang@NECINA.org <mailto:Kitty.Huang@NECINA.org> or call 617-983-0209.

 
 

Wuxi Binhu District Investment Conference Wuxi Binhu District Investment Conference

Global Search for Technology Leaders?
Wuxi Binhu District Investment Conference


Do you have innovative ideas but find it is hard to make the dreams coming true in the current economic downturn? Would you be interested in how China is prepared with a view from the corner of a local governments stimulus package? Are you the top talent they are searching for to contribute to the fast development in China?

A delegation from Wuxi municipal government and Wuxi K-Park will visit US to promote their newly developed initiative "530 Plan"(Please see http://www.wuxi530.org/go530detail.aspx?id=64 for more details in Chinese). During their trip, we are honored to have this opportunity to invite them to stop by Boston and bring this event to the local community by NECINA Global Exchange Center and NECINA Sponsor iSoftStone.

Throughout the event, you will have the chance to hear what they have planned to implement the Wuxi 530 Initiative, how you can approach to them to present your ideas and business plans so that you can get their support and enjoy the great benefits of this program. In the delegation,there will be officials who are directly in charge of this program and they will be able to answer your questions and initiate your contact.

Please join us along with innovators, entrepreneurs, and business people from China and US for a great networking event.

Time:5pm to 7pm, Sunday, April 19th, 2009
Venue: Double Tree Hotel, Waltham, MA

Fee: Free if register by April 15^th ; Afterwards $10 for members and
$15 for general public.

Conference Agenda:
5:00 - 5:20pm Registration & Networking
5:20 - 5:30pm Welcome Speech by NECINA
5:30 - 5:50pm Keynote: Innovation, Across Borders? TW Liu, CEO of iSoftStone
5:50 - 6:10pm Keynote:  Global Search: Wuxi 530 Initiative? Wuxi Municipal Government Official
6:10 - 6:30pm Keynote:  WuxiK-Park and You? Head of Wuxi K-Park
6:30 - 7:00am Q&A Discussion

About Speakers:

Tianwen(TW) Liu, Chairman & CEO, iSoftStone

Mr.Tianwen(TW) Liu is the founder, Chairman and CEO of iSoftStone Information Service Corporation, one of the fastest growing IT outsourcing companies in China. He has over 20 years of experience in IT services sector. Before starting iSoftStone, Mr. Liu co-founded AsiaEC.com in 1999, and led the effort to build the company from ground up and grow it to become China's largest on-line office supply and services provider. AsiaEC has been acquired by Office Depot, the largest office supply provider in USA. Prior to AsiaEC.com, Mr. Liu served as the GM of Siemens Business Services and Siemens Nixdorf Information Technologies in 1996-1999, responsible for IT consulting, system integration, and outsourcing businesses in China. During that period, He has successfully conducted and led many large-scale enterprise consulting and information system projects.  Before that, Mr. Liu worked for several consulting and IT companies in US, including BECHTEL and DEC. Mr. Liu is a Sloan Fellow and holds MBA degree of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as the Masters degree of Electrical Engineering from University of Massachusetts.
 

Introduction of Shijiazhuang National High-Tech Industry Development Zone Introduction of Shijiazhuang National High-Tech Industry Development Zone

ShiJiaZhuang - Your Hi-Tech Partner
Introduction of Shijiazhuang National High-Tech Industry Development Zone

Are you looking to invest in China but unsure where to go beyond Beijing and Shanghai? Are you looking to expand your business in booming China market but don抰 know where to start? Are you excited about China perspectives but lack of information on how to take advantage of the best policy? If so, don't miss this rare opportunity to learn about Shijiazhuang National High-Tech Industry Development Zoneright here in Boston.

Shijiazhuang (???) is a prefecture-level city and the capital of Hebei province, China. It is about 200-milessouth of Beijing.

The Shijiazhuang High-tech Industrial Development Zone <http://www.shidz.com/> (Shijiazhuang HIDZ) was established by the State Council in 1991, and has a planned area of 18 km2.  It consists of three zones, including the eastern zone, the western zone and the Liangcun Park.  More than 2000 enterprises have set up in the HIDZ, the annual technical, industrial and sales revenue was 82.2 billion RMB ($12.2 Billion) in 2008.

Shijiazhuang is the home of the North China Pharmaceutical Group, Shijiazhuang Pharmaceutical Group and Yiling Pharmaceutical and many others.  Numerous foreignenterprises such as Fujitsu, NEC, Sumitomo, Hoechst AG, Monsanto, Hughes, TMD, National Grid, Lion Group have built their facilities in Shijiazhuang HIDZ to take advantage of its business-friendly environment.  In addition to local government investment funds having capital available for entrepreneurs to tap into,
there are 18 institutions of higher learning in Shijiazhuang with technical training, industrial liaison and commercialization programs.

To find out more about the Shijiazhuang HIDZ please attend an informational event and briefing co-hosted by the Massachusetts Office of International Trade &Investment, the Investment Promotion Agency of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, and the New England Chinese Information & Networking Association and sponsored by IBM.   The event will be held on December 7, 2009 at the IBM Innovation Center in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Organizers:
?The Massachusetts Office of International Trade & Investment(MOITI <http://www.moiti.state.ma.us/>)
?Investment Promotion Agency of Ministry of Commerce, P.R.C.(CIPA <http://tzswj.mofcom.gov.cn/>)
?New England Chinese Information & Networking Association(NECINA <http://www.necina.org/>)

Sponsor:
?International Business Machines Corp. (IBM <http://www.ibm.com/>)

Date & Time:  December 7, 2009, 6:00 pm ?8:30 pm
Venue:    IBM Innovation Center, 404 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02451-1280

Agenda:

   6:00 pm - 6:30 pm Registration and Networking
   6:30 pm - 6:40 pm Welcome remarks by Ted Carr, the Executive Director of Massachusetts of International Office of Trade and Investment
   6:40 pm - 6:44 pm Speech by Joseph Perry, Regional IBM Innovation Centers Manager, Eastern Region, ISV & Developer Relations, IBM Corporation
   6:45 pm - 6:50 pm Speech by representative from NECINA
   6:50 pm - 7:00 pm Introduction of CIPA by Yu Hua <http://www.ship.gov.cn/index.asp?bianhao=13685>, Deputy Director-General of CIPA
   7:00 pm - 7:30 pm Introduction of Shijiazhuang HIDZ by Gao Jinguang, Director General of Shijiazhuang HDIZ
   7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Dinner Buffet & Networking

 

NECINA Legal Seminars NECINA Legal Seminars

2009 - 2010 NECINA Legal Seminars

Legal Seminars #1: Starting a business
Dates and Times: Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Venue: Brown Rudnick LLP, One Finance Center, Boston, MA, 02111
Sponsor: Brown Rudnick LLP
Fee: NECINA member: free, Non-member: $20.00
Contacts: Letao Qin (letao.qin@necina.org

So you've decided to take the plunge and start your own business. What do you do first? Should I incorporate, and if so where? Do I form an LLC? Do I form a Limited Partnership?

The decisions you make in forming your new venture will have long lasting legal, tax and other implications and you may only have one chance to make these decisions correctly.

Presenting the first seminar in 2009-2010 NECINA Legal Seminar Series will be two experienced partners from the international law firm Brown Rudnick LLP, Mr. Ed Pease and Ms. Jessica Collins. In this seminar, Mr. Pease and Ms. Collins will explore the possible entities an entrepreneur may choose within which to start a new venture and demystify the process of setting up a new entity. After attending this seminar, the entrepreneur will have the tools needed to reach informed decisions about the launch of his or her new venture.

Agenda:

6:00 pm - 6:30 pm: Networking
6:30 pm - 6:45 pm: Introduction
6:45 pm - 8:15 pm: Presentation
8:15 pm - 8:45 pm: Q & A
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm: Concluding remarks and Survey

Speaker Biographies:

Mr. Ed Pease is a member of Brown Rudnick's Corporate Department, and the co-chair of the Emerging Technologies practice. He practices in the areas of corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, securities laws, venture capital financing, licensing and strategic partnerships. In addition to his transactional experience, Mr. Pease has significant experience counseling early-stage, growth-oriented companies operating in emerging high technology industries and has frequently represented the venture capital investors investing in these enterprises. Mr. Pease has considerable experience representing public company clients in a broad range of matters ranging from compliance with ongoing reporting
requirements and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, to analyzing and implementing anti-takeover measures as well as a number of other matters affecting public companies and their officers and directors.

Ms. Jessica Collins is a member of Brown Rudnick's Corporate Department. She represents publicly traded corporations and domestic and international emerging growth companies, primarily in the medical device, high technology and semi conductor industries. Ms. Collins counsels clients on public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, securities law compliance matters, corporate governance issues and general corporate matters. She also has significant
experience representing venture capital firms in private placement transactions.
 

2009 Events 2009 Events

Dec. 9 NECINA Career Seminar
Dec. 7 ShiJiaZhuang - Your Hi-Tech Partner
Dec. 1 2009 - 2010 NECINA Legal Seminars
Oct. 27 NECINA Entrepreneurship Case Study Seminar
Oct. 24 Immigration Law Seminar for Professionals & Business
Oct. 9 THE QUEST for Innovation
Sept. 19 2009 Beijing Investment Promotion at Boston
Sept. 16 Conversation Over Dishes [EpochTimes
Aug. 14 Dinner Meeting with Wuxi BridgeBio
Aug. 22 NECINA Summer Outing 2009
May 3 NECINA Venture Club/Excubator Conference: "Move Dream Forward? - You can do it, too!", "Funding Trends from East to West - Venture Capital Opportunities in Tianjin, China and Boston, MA"
April 24 NECINA Career Center Seminar: Emotional Intelligence at
April 19 NECINA Global Exchange Center Conference: "Global Search for Technology Leaders" - Wuxi Binhu District Investment Conference
April 18 2009 NECINA Brown Rudnick Business Plan Contest Workshop: Pitch your business idea & Team building
April 16 NECINA SimeTech SIG Seminar: RF/Analog Technology and RF CMOS SOI
April 11 NECINA Optics SIG Seminar: Optical Imaging
Mar 28 NECINA SaaS & Cloud Computing Technology Conference: Shinning Through the Dark Clouds
Mar 19 NECINA Career Center Seminar: Financial Planning in an Uncertain Economy
Feb 26 NECINA Brown Rudnick Business Plan Contest Workshop: Funding Your Venture
Feb 23 NECINA Global Exchange Center Seminar: Suzhou Industrial Park Introduction
Feb 22 NECINA Youth Entrepreneurship Service Program (YES4.0) Kick Off
Feb 20 NECINA Career Center Seminar: The Global Financial Crisis - Impact on China Employment Market
Feb 8 Lantern Festival Celebration
Jan 24 NECINA Optics SIG Seminar: Nanomanufacturing
Jan 22 NECINA Energy SIG Seminar: Clean-Techology@China: Business & IP Strategy
Jan 14 NECINA Global Exchange Center Seminar: Networking with delegation from Qingdao
Jan 10 2009 NECINA Mobile Internet Conference: "Interactive Mobile Web: from chasm to mainstream"