The Kyunghyang Forum

Speakers

The Kyunghyang Forum 2016

Speakers

Stephen HAWKING

Theoretical Physicist, Cosmologist, Author of 'A Brief History of Time'

Stephen HAWKING

Theoretical Physicist, Cosmologist, Author of 'A Brief History of Time'

Professor Stephen Hawking is widely regarded as one of the world's most brilliant theoretical physicists. His best-selling books for a general audience have given an appreciation of physics to millions, and have probed the origins of the cosmos, the nature of time and the universe's ultimate fate. After holding the prestigious post of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years, Stephen Hawking is now Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge, where he continues to contribute to both high-level physics and the popular understanding of our universe. A true academic celebrity, he uses his public appearances to raise awareness about potential global disasters – such as global warming – and to speak out for the future of humanity.
He has achieved commercial success with works of popular science in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general; his book "A Brief History of Time" appeared on the British Sunday Times best-seller list for a record-breaking 237 weeks, and is now available in more than 30 languages. He has also co-written a trilogy of children's books with his daughter Lucy Hawking, explaining his work in science as a series of adventure stories for young readers.
He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and a recipient of many awards, medals and prizes, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States.
Professor Hawking was diagnosed with ALS, a form of Motor Neurone Disease, shortly after his 21st birthday. In spite of being wheelchair bound and dependent on a computerised voice system for communication, Stephen continues his research into theoretical physics together with an extensive programme of travel and public lectures.
Lucy HAWKING

Scientist, Daughter of Stephen Hawking

Lucy HAWKING

Scientist, Daughter of Stephen Hawking

Dr. Lucy Hawking uses story-telling to help audiences understand and engage with science. Lucy is the creator of the George Greenby books, a series of adventure stories which use dramatic story-telling to explain complex science to young audiences. Lucy has collaborated with several distinguished scientists on the George Greenby series, including her well-known father, the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. Translated into 40 different languages the books have each met with rave reviews. Lucy is currently working with Canadian animation studio DHX media to develop the series into an animated television series.
Previously, Lucy worked as a journalist in London and New York. She subsequently moved into publishing with two comedy novels for adults: "Jaded" (2004) and "Run for Your Life" (2005). While working on the George series, Lucy spent a year as Distinguished Writer in residence at the Origins Project, ASU where she was also Visiting International Scholar at the Institute of Humanities Research.
Lucy is a trustee of the Autism Research Trust which supports the work of Cambridge neuroscientist Simon Baron Cohen and his team, investigating the causes of autism. She has many other charitable interests and seeks to support people and their families with autism and Motor Neurone Disease. In 2015, Lucy was made a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in recognition of the work she has done in explaining science to a young audience. In the same year she was awarded the UNSW medal for Science Communication. Lucy won the Sapio Prize for popularising science in 2008. Lucy is one of few people worldwide whose childhood has been made into an Oscar winning movie. She is played in the film Theory of Everything by young actress Rafaela Chapman. On July 16th 2015, Lucy was awarded an honorary doctorate of sciences by Queen Mary University of London. Dr Lucy Hawking was delighted by the great honour, given to her for her work in making science accessible and entertaining for a young audience.
Mo GAWDAT

Chief Business Officer of Google X

Mo GAWDAT

Chief Business Officer of Google X

Mo Gawdat is the Chief Business Officer for X, previously Google X, and author of "Solve For Happy."
Mo has an impressive combined career of 26 years, starting at IBM Egypt as a Systems Engineer before moving to a sales role in the government sector. Venturing in to the UAE, Mo joined NCR Abu Dhabi to cover the non-finance sector. He also became acquainted with the consumer goods industry as Regional Manager of BAT. At Microsoft he assumed various roles over a span of seven and a half years, in his last role at Microsoft he headed the Communications Sector across Emerging Markets worldwide.
Mr. Mo is the author of "Solve for Happy: Engineering Your Path to Uncovering the Joy Inside You" (2017). He created an algorithm for happiness, which proved highly effective. He and his family lived by it for a decade. In 2013, it was put to the ultimate test when Mo lost his son Ali. Mo's mission now is to share these principles more widely and further the cause of happiness wherever he can.
Mo is also a serial entrepreneur who has cofounded more than 15 businesses in his career. He actively serves as a Board Member in several technology, health and fitness and consumer goods startups as well as several government technology and innovation boards in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Considering his vast background, Mohammad speaks Arabic, English, German as well as some Turkish and Russian.
Outside of work, when he's not reading up on business and the latest technology innovations and trends, Mo spends his time drawing charcoal portraits, doing mosaics, carpentry and indulging in his passion for restoration of classic cars.
Sean CAI

CTO of ZTE

Sean CAI

CTO of ZTE

As Vice President of Operator Solutions, Sean Cai is responsible for innovation and new technology, as well as global marketing strategy development. He leads a team of end-to-end technical expert in the United States, working closely with global operators to provide the latest solutions in ICT transformation. Sean regularly participates in industry forums and represents the company on the committees of numerous industry organizations. He is a key contributor to the development of leading 4G solutions, such as TDD/FDD LTE, multiple-antenna technologies, Small Cell, network functions and solutions virtualization, and next-generation technologies such as 5G.
Sean has over 20 years of professional experience in telecommunications industry, specializing in advanced wireless products research and ICT network solutions development. Prior to joining ZTE in 2002, he held various senior positions in infrastructure system development with AMCC, STMicroelectronics, and Nortel, and has been awarded multiple international patents in telecommunications.
Joy Tan

President of Corporate Communications of Huawei

Joy Tan

President of Corporate Communications of Huawei

As the President of Corporate Communications, Ms. Tan is responsible for setting and executing the media and communications strategy for the company.
Prior to this position, Ms. Tan was responsible for the corporate branding efforts and led the brand transformation initiative to build Huawei into a global brand. Ms. Tan joined Huawei in 2007 and was responsible for integrated marketing communications efforts for the US market before taking the corporate positions.
Prior to Huawei, Ms. Tan worked at several large companies including Verizon where she was responsible for consumer strategy and digital marketing; and TXU Energy where she led business customer acquisition efforts in the newly-deregulated energy markets. Ms. Tan also had experiences in start-up telecom companies where she was responsible for business strategy, operations as well as merger and acquisitions.
Ms. Tan studied Biology at Tsinghua University in China, holds a Master's Degree and Ph.D candidacy in Neuroscience from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and MBA in Marketing from University of Texas at Dallas.
JOO, Youngsup

SME Minister, Small and Medium Business Administration (SMBA)

JOO, Youngsup

SME Minister, Small and Medium Business Administration (SMBA)

Education
Ph.D., Industrial Engineering of Pennsylvania State University, USA
M.S., Production Engineering of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
B.S., Mechanical Engineering of Seoul National University, Korea
Professional Experience
SME Minister, Small and Medium Business Administration
Senior Member, National Engineering Academy of Korea
Member, National Economic Advisory Council (Advisory Board for the Korean President)
Chairman, Industry Collaboration Committee, College of Engineering, Seoul National University
Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University
Professor, Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology, Seoul National University
Managing Director, Office of Strategic R&D Planning, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE)
President & CEO, Hyundai Autonet (Hyundai Motor Group)
President & CEO, Bontech (Hyundai Motor Group)
President & CEO, GE Thermometrics Korea (GE Group)
Charles ADLER

Co-founder of KICKSTARTER

Charles ADLER

Co-founder of KICKSTARTER

Charles Adler is a social entrepreneur, Co-founder and former Head of Design at Kickstarter, the ground-breaking crowd-funding website. As a leading entrepreneur and designer, his work ranges from systems design to interaction and communications design, interface design to information architecture.
Charles co-founded Kickstarter in 2009 and shaped it into the world's largest marketplace dedicated to funding independent creative endeavours. Since it's inception, Kickstarter has raised over $1 billion from over 6.4 million people for over 64,000 successful projects ranging from computer games to music albums, technology, fashion, educational projects and even full length feature films.
As the Kickstarter phenomenon continues to grow and find an ever-expanding userbase, Charles has been widely recognised as one of the digital era's most exciting innovators. In 2013 he was named as one of Forbes Magazine's Top 12 Most Disruptive Figures in Business.
Charles Adler previously co-founded the online art publication Subsystence, a platform dedicated to leveraging the web to provide global exposure to the work of independent artists. He also co-founded Source-ID, where he operated as Principal Creative Director from 2004 to 2009.
Benjamin JOFFE

General Partner of HAX

Benjamin JOFFE

General Partner of HAX

Benjamin Joffe is a Partner at HAX (www.hax.co), a Shenzhen and San Francisco-based global accelerator solving the world's problems through hardware. With over 150 IoT, robotics and health tech portfolio companies, HAX is a global leader in early stage hardware investment. Notable companies include Makeblock, NextThing (makers of the $9 computer) and Simbe Robotics. HAX B2C startups ran over 60 successful crowdfunding campaigns with an average funding above $400,000, including 8 in the world's Top 100.
Benjamin has lived in China, Japan and South Korea since 2000 where he worked in strategy, telecom, Internet and gaming before turning to hardware in 2013. Born in Paris, Benjamin speaks English, French, Japanese and a fair bit of Mandarin. Benjamin is also an angel investor and a frequent speaker in global tech conferences including TechCrunch Disrupt, Pioneers and TEDx. He has been a guest columnist for TechCrunch, China Entrepreneur Magazine and has been featured in numerous media such as Forbes, WIRED, Bloomberg and The Economist.
LIU, Bo

Managing Director of TusStar Investment Management

LIU, Bo

Managing Director of TusStar Investment Management

Ms. Liu got double bachelor's degree at the Harbin Institute of Technology and Master's degree from MIT-Tsinghua SEM international MBA program. Moreover, she won the course certificate of Sloan Management School of MIT and also studied at Fuqua School of Duke University as an exchange student.
Ms. Liu has worked in various enterprises, which include world top - 500 transnational firms, private listed companies, as well as state-owned enterprises. The positions Ms. Liu has served include Assistant of Director, Financial Executive, Strategic Investment Executive, the partner of investment companies, etc. Due to the rich multi-industry and investment working experience, Ms. Liu now is an expert in equity management, strategic consultation, capital operation, financial management and investment management.
Ms. Liu seek Seed, Angel and Venture Capital round innovative business models or high-tech driven investment opportunities that leverage China's market, economic, or human resource advantages to build exceptional, lasting enterprises for the global economy. The investment sectors she continuously focus on include TMT, energy conservation and environmental friendly technology, biomedical technology, advanced manufacturing, new materials, new energy, modern-service, etc. Ms. Liu has participated in the investment management of the most TusStar's portfolio companies, including Sumavision (the most professional, leading system integrator and equipment provider), ChineseALL (the pioneer of Chinese publication), and Highlander Data (the leader of Chinese marine electronics and naval defense information technology), etc.

※ TusStar was started in 1999, and registered as TusPark Business Incubator Co., Ltd. in 2001. The company establishes the developing model of "incubation+investment" and the objective of professional incubator. It awards the Advanced Incubator Service Institution in National High-tech Parks and the Best Incubator Environment of High-tech and Innovation Base of Beijing, identified as one of the national incubators by the Torch Center and received the Award of Best Practice of Science Incubator. TusStar Angel Investment was origin from 1999, it has accumulated more than 300 startups and invested over 2 billion so far. Now it owns and manages 50 million funds in total.
SHIN, Donghoon

Senior Vice President of Samsung Electronics

SHIN, Donghoon

Senior Vice President of Samsung Electronics

Education
MSc. Engineering Business Management, University of Warwick, UK
Professional Experience
Senior Vice President/Home Appliances Product Strategy Group/Samsung Electronics
Senior Vice President/Europe Business/Home Appliances/Samsung Electronics
Team Leader/Sales&Marketing Team/Kitchen Solution/Samsung Electronics
LEE, Jeongdong

Professor of Seoul National University

LEE, Jeongdong

Professor of Seoul National University

Professor Jeong-Dong Lee received his Bachelor's, Master's, and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering at Seoul National University. He is a professor of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program on Technology Management, Economics and Policy (TEMEP) and the Department of Industrial Engineering in the College of Engineering at Seoul National University, Korea. His main research topics include industry and firm dynamics, productivity and efficiency analysis, evolutionary economics, and innovation policy. He published five books and edited two including "Productivity, Efficiency and Economic Growth in the Asia-Pacific Region" by Springer Verlag in 2008. Professor Lee also published more than 60 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals, such as Economic Modelling, Industrial and Corporate Change, Energy & Environment, Energy Economics, Scientometrics, Journal of Productivity Analysis, Small Business Economics, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Technovation, Mathematical and Computer Modeling, and Asian Journal of Technology Innovation. He served as the Principal Coordinator for the Asia-Pacific Productivity Conference (APPC) in 2006 and as the President for the Korean Productivity Association (KPA) in 2011, and is President-elect for the Korean Corporation Management Association (KOCOMA) for 2017. He was the principal investigator of UNDP (United Nations Development Program) project for the innovation policy case studies for developing countries from 2011-2013. He is one of the editorial board members of Technovation, one of the editorial advisory board memebrs of Science and Public Policy, one of the international advisory board members of National Research University-Higher School of Economics (Moscow), one of the editorial board member for ‘Science, Technology and Innovation Studies' of Springer Pub. co. Professor Lee now actively consults for the government and private sector.

GAO, Xudong

Professor of Tsinghua University

GAO, Xudong

Professor of Tsinghua University

Professor Gao Xudong is faculty at the School of Economics and Management (SEM), Tsinghua University, and senior research fellow and vice director of the Tsinghua University Research Center for Technological Innovation. He also serves on the Telecom Economy Expert Committee of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, People's Republic of China. He offers courses such as Technology Strategy, Managerial Thinking, Strategic Management, and High Tech Entrepreneurship. His major research interests are in technology strategy, management of technological innovation, and strategic management. He holds a Ph.D. in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management, a M.A. in industrial economics from the Renmin University of China, and a B.E. in industrial management engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology. His book, Indigenous innovation at firms: Strategy and methods (In Chinese, 2007, the Intellectual Property Right Press), is among the first books in managing indigenous innovation in China.
NOBEOKA, Kentaro

Professor of Hitotsubashi University

NOBEOKA, Kentaro

Professor of Hitotsubashi University

EDUCATION
Ph.D., Business Administration, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
M.B.A., Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
B.S., Engineering, Osaka University, Japan
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University (2008~Present)
Professor, Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University
Faculty Fellow, The Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry
Associate Professor, Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University
Research Associate, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Research Assistant, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Mazda Motor Corporation
Expertise / Research Field / Projects
Corporate Strategy; Organization Science; Management of Technology
Research on Strategy and Management of Technological Innovation at Global Corporations
Publications
"The importance of technology integration capabilities: Evaluating the impact of 3D technologies on product development performance in Japan and China," International Journal of Product Development, Vol. 16 (2012)
"Reorientation in Product Development for Multi-project Management: The Toyota Case", in Management of Technology and Innovation in Japan, edited by C. Herstatt, Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany (2005).
"Thinking Beyond Lean", co-authored with M. Cusumano, Free Press/Simon & Schuster (1998).
"The Influence of Customer Scope on Supplier Learning and Performance in the Japanese Automobile Industry", co-authored with J. Dyer and A. Madhok, Journal of International Business Studies, Vol.33, 4 (2002).
"Creating and Managing High Performance Knowledge-Sharing Network: The Toyota Case", co-authored with J. Dyer, Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 21, No. 3 (2000)
Rim, Jihoon

CEO of Kakao

Rim, Jihoon

CEO of Kakao

Education
B.S. in Industrial Engineering, KAIST
Professional Experience
Founder & CEO of K Cube Ventures
Principal at Softbank Ventures Korea
Associate Consultant at Boston Consulting Group
NHN Corporate Strategy Team
Analyst at Accenture
RYU, Jung-hee

CEO of FuturePlay

RYU, Jung-hee

CEO of FuturePlay

Jung-hee Ryu is an inventor, entrepreneur and investor with 20 years experiences in business and academia. He was a co-founder and CTO of Iconlab Inc., and invented "InterCode" which is 2D barcode optimized for mobile camera phone scanning and de-facto standard for Korean operators. Mr. Ryu founded Olaworks Inc. in 2006 and worked as CEO and CSO until Intel's acquisition in 2012. He created "ScanSearch" in Olaworks, the mega-hit mobile augmented reality service with over 2mil users. He worked as Strategic Planner in PEG-IPG-ICG, Intel Corp after the acquisition until 2014. Now he is Partner and CEO of FuturePlay Inc., which builds and invests tech-centric startups innovating the post-smartphone ecosystem. Also he is a partner of MashupAngels, an angel investors' network in Korea founded by serial entrepreneurs. Dr. Ryu got his Ph.D. from EECS in Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST), and he was adjunct professor at Graduate School of Information and Media Management(KSIM) and Graduate School of Culture Technology(GSCT) in KAIST until 2010.