📍 Time:
Oct 18, 5-6:30pm PST: SF-LA-Seattle
Oct 18, 8-9:30pm EST: New York-Toronto
Oct 19, 8-9:30am Taipei-SG-HK
Oct 19, 9-10:30am Tokyo-Seoul

📍 Speakers:
▧ Cheney Wang, Taiwan GM & VP of Supply Chain at Latch
▧ Christine Tsai, CEO & Founding Partner at 500 Global
▧ Richard Koo, Principal at DNX Venture Partners
▧ Interviewer - Casey Lau, Head of Asia at RISE

📍 Agenda (in PST)
4:50pm Door Open
5:00pm Session Starts
5:00-5:05pm Curation Note by Anchor Taiwan (Elisa Chiu, CEO)
5:05-5:10pm "In Figures" by DIGITIMES (Eric Huang, Vice President)
5:10-6:00pm Panel Discussion
6:00-6:30pm Q&A

📍 About Asia Venturing:
Asia Venturing is a series of monthly roundtables with roadmaps to the future focusing on the hype v.s. the reality of Asia's supply chain-boosted innovation ecosystem, jointly powered by DIGITIMES and Anchor Taiwan. We bring together leading industry luminaries, corporate strategists, experienced investors and entrepreneurs to expand your network and redefine the possibilities of cross-border opportunities.

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* Link to join via ZOOM Webinar will be emailed prior to the event.
* Real time sessions have limited capacity. We will send you the recording if we are full.


🚩 Speaker Bio:

▧ Cheney Wang, Taiwan GM & VP of Supply Chain at Latch

Cheney Wang was Latch’s 1st team member in Taiwan who joined in 2016 (NASDAQ: LTCH). He is currently the Taiwan General Manager and VP of Supply Chain at Latch, whose mission is to make spaces better places to live, work and visit through its full-building operation system. Founded in 2014 and became a unicorn / went public in 2021, Latch is in more than 1 in 10 new apartments in the U.S., with 7 out of 10 NMHC largest developers being its customers.

Prior to Latch, Cheney founded DMO to facilitate cross-border opportunities for tech companies on BD/Market research & manufacturing strategy. He was previously Head of Product Innovation at Philips in China, with a decade of experience as a tech executive in the display industry in product marketing, fulfillment operations, supply chain management and system architect.

He holds B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering degree from Carnegie Mellon University and graduated with University Honor.


▧ Christine Tsai, CEO and Founding Partner at 500 Global

Christine Tsai is the CEO and Founding Partner of 500 Global. Since the firm’s inception in 2010, she has led the growth of 500 to over $1.8B in AUM, 2,500+ portfolio companies, and a vibrant community of founders spanning more than 78 countries around the world. The 500 Global portfolio includes companies like Talkdesk, Canva, Grab, Bukalapak, Lucidchart, Intercom, Gitlab, Credit Karma (acq’d by Intuit), Twilio (TWLO), TheRealReal (REAL), and SendGrid (SEND).

Christine has spent her entire professional career building and investing in Silicon Valley. From 2003 to 2010, Christine held product marketing and operating roles at Google, including monetization and developer products such as Google AdSense, Google Analytics, YouTube APIs and syndication, and Google Developer Platform Tools.

Christine holds a B.A. in Cognitive Science from the University of California at Berkeley and was a National Merit Scholar.


▧ Richard Koo, Principal at DNX Venture Partners

Richard is a Principal with DNX (formally known as Draper Nexus), an early-stage US-Japan venture capital fund. Richard focuses on the fund’s investments in retail, e-commerce, logistics, and fintech. In addition to investing, Richard is also heavily involved in cross-border business and corporate development, advising U.S. and European-based technology companies on how to establish a presence in Japan.

He was previously a Consultant with Deloitte and holds an M.B.A in Entrepreneurial Management from Wharton and a B.S. from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.


▧ Interviewer - Casey Lau, Head of Asia at RISE

Casey Lau is the co-host of RISE, "the largest tech gathering in Asia" as part of the Web Summit family of global conferences. He is an authority on startup ecosystems and social media networks and has interviewed some of the world's biggest CEOs and tech founders.

Casey Lau is one of Asia's foremost tech startup pioneers. Born and raised in Canada, it was in Hong Kong that he had a successful e-commerce exit during the dotcom era. He went on to co-found the biggest startup community in Asia StartupsHK — re-branded as StartupsGBA to cover Hong Kong and encompass the entire Greater Bay Area of China. He has spent the past decade building startup ecosystems across Asia working with governments, corporations and investors.

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🚩 ABOUT DIGITIMES: An indispensable source of information about the global tech supply chain.

DIGITIMES, founded in 1998, takes readers to the core of the global tech supply chain, offering daily coverage of the latest developments in both Chinese and English.

Hundreds of thousands of readers, including IT professionals, managers, analysts, researchers, investors and journalists, rely on DIGITIMES and its English version, recently reshaped as DIGITIMES Asia (2021), to better understand the tech supply chain. Subscribers to its premium services include most of the major tech firms and investors around the world. DIGITIMES also devotes specific coverage to the innovation sector, highlighting latest development of corporate venturing and startups around Asia and helping readers identify potential unicorns.

Apart from news services, DIGITIMES also offers research services. The DIGITIMES Research team focuses on monitoring key trends of global market, and provides market intelligence and analysis with supply side perspectives. DIGITIMES Research is now expanding its fields of research in response to the rise of Asia supply chain with reports like Asia Supply Chain 100, featuring the long-term tracking of 100 key players in region.

DIGITIMES (in Chinese) : digitimes.com.tw
DIGITIMES Asia (in English) : digitimes.com


🚩 ABOUT ANCHOR TAIWAN

Anchor Taiwan is a platform for corporates, startups and investors to harness ecosystem building and venture capital for cross-border innovation. Since its inception in 2017, it has been a powerful conduit between the world and Asia, providing corporate advisory, business softlanding, and strategic venture investing.

Through highly curated entrepreneurial residency programs, innovation sprints, hundreds of tech events and roundtables, it has brought together thousands of innovators, hosting global leaders from Y Combinator, 500 Startups, UBS, Deutsche Telekom, Warner Bros., Uber, Microsoft, Intel and such from 15+ countries. Its Corporate Venturing Roundtables have connected executives from 70+ leading corporates, while its Women in Venture network consists of over 100 female investors.

Through these dedicated efforts, it forms thriving communities, develops unique access for meaningful collaboration, and accumulates deep expertise about innovation stakeholders for effective strategies.

Find out more: anchortaiwan.com