China veteran and lawyer Mark Schaub, senior partner at King & Wood Mallesons, has released a new book Unlocking International Joint Ventures: Keys to Formation Success through Cultural, Commercial, and Legal Decision-Making together with Dr. Alan MacCharles, partner at Deloitte Consulting. Read More →
High praise for the book Our Next Reality: Preparing for the AI-powered Metaverse, co-authored by Alvin Wang Graylin on how AI and the metaverse will format our future, by Carol Goyal in Brand Equity.Read More →
AI and XR expert Alvin Wang Graylin, co-author of Our Next Reality: Preparing for the AI-powered Metaverse, discusses in a virtual fireside chat with Dr. Tom Furness, co-founder of the Virtual World Society (VWS), the current state of XR. Graylin, Global VP of Corp. Dev., HTC, recently took the helm of the VWS as board chairman.Read More →
Marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok dives into 40 years of marketing innovation that has put China in a leading role right now. A showreel giving an overview of Ashley’s amazing career and deep involvement with leading companies, both foreign and domestic, in China.Read More →
China veteran Ian Johnson, author of China’s Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future (September 2023), announces he will leave as senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations and move from New York to Berlin. He will work as a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and work from Berlin starting on July 1, 2024, writing a new book on the misuses of religion in Xi’s China in the summer of 2024.Read More →
Bestseller author Shaun Rein’s post-pandemic book on US-China relations, “The Split: How US-China Conflict is Changing China’s Economy and Consumer Behaviour” is ready for pre-order and will appear in early September 2024.Read More →
The book by AI expert Alvin Wang Graylin and Louis Rosenberg “Our next reality” is available as an e-book and audiobook here. The book will be released on June 4, 2024.Read More →
Book reviews of Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future by China veteran and Pulitzer prize winner Ian Johnson start to come in, rightfully, like this overview in Public Discourse by Robert Carle. “In Sparks, Ian Johnson tells the stories of people such as Lin Zhao and Hu Jie—Chinese journalists and filmmakers who explore the darkest episodes of Chinese communism, often at great risk to themselves.”Read More →
The China Speakers Bureau is happy to announce Sharon Gai is joining its stable of high-profile speakers. Sharon Gai is based in San Francisco and has worked at top management positions in Alibaba and other e-commerce companies.Read More →
At the China Speakers Bureau, we have been looking for possibilities to resume our activities, after China started opening up its borders to the outside world earlier in 2023. It took a while, but we saw some careful signs we might be able to restart our operation. Some speaking opportunities are emerging, although at a low level. Potential new speakers have been sending inquiries to see how they can join the CSB. Travel to and from China has become slightly easier, although the number of people using international flights has been limited.Read More →
The China Speakers Bureau is happy to announce Alvin Wang Graylin is joining its line-up of speakers. Graylin is a thought leader on AI and the metaverse and is currently the China President at HTC. Graylin has over 28 years of business leadership experience in the tech industry, including 20 years in Greater China. He travels from Beijing.Read More →
Travelers from China are trying to secure visas for the first post-Corona summer holidays, but are running into problems as issuing visas for both the Schengen countries as the US face severe delays, up to three months before applicants can get an interview, according to the South China Morning Post. For the reverse track, visas for visitors into China, the article does not give information, but the logistic process might face similar problems.Read More →