Exploring China’s Innovation: Trends, Ecosystem, and Inspiration

This 1h30 live webinar or online conference (depending on the number of participants) is designed to help you deepen your understanding of China’s innovation landscape and ecosystem, and to draw inspiration from it:

• China’s innovation trends and cutting-edge technologies, illustrated with concrete examples from key sectors: Artificial Intelligence, New Energy Vehicles, Smart Logistics, Industrial Automation and Robotics, Financial Technology (Fintech), Flying Cars, and the Low-Altitude Economy.
• China’s innovation ecosystem: how it works, key success factors, distinctive characteristics, opportunities and challenges, and cases studies
• Cultural factors shaping high-tech industries: a comparative perspective between China and Europe
• Insights and inspiration for France and Europe
• Q&A (15-20 min)

The presentation is based on desk research, in-depth analysis, the speaker’s own experience and observations, industry reports, and discussions with leaders from China’s innovation-driven companies and relevant decision-makers.

The webinar or conference will be conducted in English or French, depending on the participants’ background and preference, while the supporting presentation will be in English.

About the speaker:

• Chunyan Li, born in China, a graduate of Peking University and HEC Paris, has been living in France since 2003 and traveling between East and West.
• To date, she has acquired 20 years of experience in China and France across various domains, including strategy consulting; management of international, cross-functional, and transformation projects; marketing and digital; business development; intercultural management and training; and media and communication.
• She founded FEIDA Consulting in November 2014 in Paris, and the company has served French, Western, and Chinese companies, including some of the largest. Previously, she mainly worked for former Accor Services (now Edenred) in Beijing, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants in Paris and Alcatel-Lucent in Paris.
• She was also a freelance columnist for “Vue de Chine” in the French weekly newspaper La Tribune, addressing innovation topics in China. She’s the author of the books Succeeding in the Chinese Market (Eyrolles, Dec. 2014), Cyrano, Confucius and me (L’Archipel, Feb. 2021), as well as the Chinese edition of the latter (Shanghai Educational Publishing House, March 2024). She regularly participates in TV debates and programs on French television.
• For further information, you can visit www.feidaconsulting.com.

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