Name: THE Innovation & Impact Summit 2023
Start: 2023-11-07 08:30
End: 2023-11-08 15:30
Location: Southern University of Science and Technology

Speakers

Our high-quality speakers are essential to ensuring our events engage audiences and provide relevant, up-to-date and innovative content for our delegates. If you are an innovator or influencer in your field, or know someone who is, please apply below.

Michele Acuto

Director of the Melbourne Centre for Cities and professor of urban studies

The University of Melbourne

Kirsten Andrews

Vice-president of external engagement

The University of Sydney

Phil Baty

Chief global affairs officer

THE

Ishan Cader

Director of consultancy

THE

Herbert Chen

Deputy director of the Science Park Administrative Committee

Tsinghua University

Shirley Chong

Director of communications, public relations and institutional research

City University of Hong Kong

M'hamed el Aisati

Vice-president of research analytics and data services

Elsevier

Carolyn Evans

President and vice-chancellor

Griffith University

Bill Flanagan

President and vice-chancellor

University of Alberta

Ting Gu

Deputy director general of the Shenzhen People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries

Government of Shenzhen

Wen Hai

Vice-chairman

Peking University Council

Jenny Hällen Hedberg

Head of international business development

Luxinnovation

Zhou Hong

President of the Institute of Strategic Research

Huawei

Hong Jiang

Chair of the university council

Southern University of Science and Technology

Li Jin

Vice-president

Southern University of Science and Technology

Xiaoling Kang

Director of global strategic networks

Elsevier

Thomas Kvan

Founding dean of the School of Design

Southern University of Science and Technology

Joseph Lee

President and chair professor

Macau University of Science and Technology

Sophia Li

Regional director (Greater China)

THE

Xin Li

Associate vice-chancellor

Duke Kunshan University

Hong Lo

Director of GREAT Smart Cities Institute

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 

Max Lu

President and vice-chancellor

University of Surrey

Weihua Ma

Chairman

National Fund for Technology Transfer and Commercialization

Bhavit Mehta

Senior content manager

THE

Rongping Mu

President

Chinese Association for Science of Science and S&T Policy Research

Ananya Mukherjee

Vice-chancellor

Shiv Nadar University

Tom Murphy

Former mayor

City of Pittsburgh

Boguslaw Obara

Dean of business, innovation and skills

Newcastle University

Laurie Pearcey

Associate vice-president of external engagement and outreach

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Noah Pickus

Dean for academic strategy and learning innovation

Duke Kunshan University

Sibrandes Poppema

President

Sunway University

Maria Salinas

President and CEO

Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

Thomas Schneider

Chief executive

Association of Pacific Rim Universities

Yonghua Song

Rector

University of Macau

Daniel Sui

Senior vice-president of research and innovation

Virgina Tech

Mingles Tsoi

Chief exploration officer

ParticleX

Steven Wang

Associate vice-president for resources planning

City University of Hong Kong

Christina Wong

Director of research and innovation, School of Fashion and Textiles

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Jingshen Wu

Vice-president of teaching and learning

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Youmin Xi

Executive president

Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Qikun Xue

President

Southern University of Science and Technology

Eric Yang

Vice-president of academic affairs

Wenzhou-Kean University

Liang Yu

Director of executive education

Duke Kunshan University

Yan Zheng

Chair professor with the environment and associate director of the Office of Research

Southern University of Science and Technology

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