ChinICT
Company type | Private |
---|---|
Industry | Tech Conference |
Founded | 2005 |
Founder | Franck Nazikian |
Headquarters | , |
Website | www |
CHINICT (Simplified Chinese: 科技明星在中国 - literally meaning "Tech Stars In China") is a conference[1][2] including a Hackathon[3][4][5] focused on the China tech innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem.[6][7] CHINICT takes place once a year at the end of May in Beijing at Tsinghua University Science Park.
Since 2005, CHINICT has been featuring policy-makers, financiers, entrepreneurs, innovators and technologists both from China and the West.[8][9][10]
Franck Nazikian
The conference was founded in 2005 by Franck Nazikian (Simplified Chinese: 方克纳),[11][12][13][14][15][16] a tech entrepreneur and investor. He is the CEO & co-founder of WowTune, a company focused on creating VR singing and spoken voices, and several other enterprises.[17] Together with Renaud Laplanche, Franck co-founded TripleHop Technologies, acquired by Oracle.[18] Franck also served as a managing director at Gemplus International, making venture capital investments in tech companies, and runs DEVELOPNEUR,[19] a series of pitch competitions & hackathons[20] which he created in 2011.[21]
References
- ^ CHINICT: China's largest tech conference will be livestreaming on TechCrunch
- ^ CHINICT on Tumblr. Archived 2014-05-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Feature Report on CHINICT - China's largest tech conference. CNC World
- ^ Hackathon + "DEVELOPNEUR" = Best Seed-Stage Investment Opportunities?. Huffington Post
- ^ China's innovation challenge. CNC World Archived 2013-08-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Silicon Valley really is here and now. China Daily
- ^ Startup, dropout: The China tech IPO boom is only beginning. Fortune (magazine)
- ^ CHINICT: China's biggest tech conference, streaming right here on TechCrunch. TechCrunch
- ^ CHINICT China Technology Live On TechWeb TV. InformationWeek
- ^ PEOPLE'S DAILY live coverage of CHINICT. People's Daily
- ^ Franck Nazikian : « La Chine est devenue une nouvelle Silicon Valley ». Les Échos (France)
- ^ 中国互联网备军国际化. Forbes Archived 2012-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ If you can make it in China, you can make it anywhere. China Daily
- ^ CHINICT: China's largest tech conference will be livestreaming on TechCrunch
- ^ Silicon Valley really is here and now. China Daily
- ^ Startup, dropout: The China tech IPO boom is only beginning. Fortune (magazine)
- ^ [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/franck-nazikian/ Franck Nazikian's Profile on The Huffington Post
- ^ Oracle and TripleHop. Oracle
- ^ Hackathon + "DEVELOPNEUR" = Best Seed-Stage Investment Opportunities?. Huffington Post
- ^ Developers, Entrepreneurs, Executives & Investors Talk About DEVELOPNEUR.
- ^ DEVELOPNEUR Official Website.