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| NECINA 20th Anniversary Gala & Annual Meeting（6/18） |
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| 2016/5/17 5:19:01 ｜ 浏览：2319 ｜ 评论：2 |
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Greetings!
After much anticipation, more details for the 20th Anniversary Gala and Annual Meeting taking place on June 18th have been provided! Don't miss this exciting day full of fun, networking, and enrichment. We will also be raffling off free Delta Airline tickets during the night banquet.
Also, please don't forget to renew your membership, as members receive deep discounts to our events. More details below.
On May 27, NECINA E Club will be hosting an event at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care with special guest, Peter Zhu, CEO & Founder of Brilent.
Our Financial Technology Conference took place on Saturday, April 23rd at Constant Contact HQ. A summary of the event has been provided below.
Lastly, our NEW Workshop on Product Design, Marketing & Sales was held on Thursday, April 21st. A recap has been provided below.
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NECINA 20th Anniversary Celebration - 6/18
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NECINA 20th Anniversary Gala & Annual Meeting
Overview:
We are surrounded by new technologies every single day. We had hoped they will make our lives simpler and yet it seems like every new gadget is making our lives more occupied. Our eyes are glued to the phones even when we are around our loved ones. We use all kinds of Apps to make us look busier, get to point B faster. Are we still doing the right things? Are we pushing the right buttons?
NECINA, as a proud professional organization, has seen its own shares of new technologies created by its own members. Most of these technologies are making a positive and profound impact on us. 2016 is the 20th birthday of NECINA. We want to use the special occasion to celebrate what we have created, and pause for a moment to reflect, and start the next decade on the right foot.
On June 18 we are glad to invite a group of elite founders, entrepreneurs and friends with their visions aligned with ours. We want to have a great discussion on how to use Technology to improve our lives, to leave a long lasting impact to the community and to the world that is nurturing everybody.
Our distinguished speakers and guests for 20 year conference include:
Cheng Wu
Co-Founder & Chairman, APL Software
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Dr. Robert Yung
Ph.D., Advisor of Touchmedia  |
Matthew Nordan
Investor for Nest, MNL Partners
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Bobbi Carlton Mass Innovation Nights
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Jun Chang
Founder, EventDove
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Quan Zhou
Founder, IDG China  |
Lingping Gao
Founder, CEO, NetBrain
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Agenda：
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Registration/Light Refreshment provided
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| 1:25 PM - 1:30 PM
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Opening Remarks of "Technology and Quality of Life" conference
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Keynote：Cheng Wu（Founder of Arris Networks, ArrowPoint Communications, Acopia Networks, Azuki Systems, APL-Soft, NECINA）- Message to NECINA |
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Keynote：Robert Yung（Chairman of Da Jiang, NECINA） From VR to Drones - landscape of technologies in next 5 years |
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Keynote：Matthew Nordan（MNL Partners）Build a clean future |
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Bobbie Carlton（Founder, Mass Innovation Nights）
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Jun Chang（Founder, EventDove）EventDove Story
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Quan Zhou（IDG China）VC Fireside Chat
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Coffee Break
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Lingping Gao（Founder, CEO, NetBrain）Entrepreneurship & Happiness
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| 4:15 PM - 4:35 PM
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President's Report（John Wang）
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NECINA 2016-2017 Program Overview（Tony Tian）
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| 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
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Networking |
Conference Organizers
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After the annual conference, we will have the 20th anniversary celebration banquet. NECINA's founding members, presidents, officers and VIP guests of the past 20 years will come from all over the world to celebrate this special birthday. It is a great opportunity to network with them and listen to their stories on the topic of quality of life. The celebration comes with distinguished speeches, memorable programs, high quality performance, and of course, delicious food.
Come celebrate NECINA's 20 years with us. Join our conference and also check out our VIP dinner and performance event at night.
Agenda:
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5:00 PM - 6:00 PM |
Cocktail networking,
special slideshow highlighting NECINA's 20 years |
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6:00 PM - 6:30 PM |
Ballroom open for seating |
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6:30 PM - 9:30 PM |
20th Anniversary Celebration Banquet |
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Highlights：
NECINA founding presidents, Wufu Chen and Cheng Wu will co-address the opening remark.
Keynote speaker：Dr. Rosalind W. Picard, Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, Co-Director of Things That Think
Topic：Emotion Technology for a Better Life
Technology is being given the ability to measure emotion. This talk will highlight some of our most surprising findings using wearable sensors to improve lives. Our adventures include measuring autonomic stress, helping people with autism to be better understood, and finding surprising patterns that can detect seizures. Our next ambitious goal is to forecast mood and happiness, as part of a novel effort to improve mental health and well-being
Performances by professionals and NECINA officers
Newly made movie with NECINA feature stories
Award ceremony by former NECINA presidents, officers, sponsors, youth program, etc.
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| Wufu Chen,
NECINA Founding Member
NECINA 1st President |
Cheng Wu
NECINA 2nd President |
Dr. Rosalyn Picard
Professor of Media Arts & Sciences Co-Director, Things that Think |
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Membership Renewal & Board Members Election
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Time for a reminder to renew your membership. We offer deep member discount to our events. We will also raffle free Delta Airline tickets during the night banquet.
Most importantly, you will need to have a valid NECINA membership before June 6 to exercise your voting right for our board members. See notice below:
New England Chinese Information and Networking Association, Inc.
（"NECINA"）
Notice of 2016 Annual Meeting of Members
and Nomination of Candidate for Board Election
May 16, 2016
Dear NECINA Members：
Notice is hereby given that the 2016 Annual Meeting of Members of NECINA will be held on June 18, 2016, followed by NECINA's 20th anniversary gala. You are cordially invited to attend the Annual Meeting.
Time：June 18th, 2016（Saturday）, 1:00pm - 9:30pm
Venue：Boston Burlington Marriott Hotel
1 Burlington Mall Road
Burlington, MA 01803
NECINA's current fiscal year will end on June 30, 2016. The term of office for four members of NECINA's Board of Directors will expire on June 30, 2016, resulting in four openings on the Board. According to NECINA's By-laws, two of such openings are filled by the Board and the remaining two openings will be filled by the votes of NECINA's members at the Annual Meeting.
Accordingly, NECINA is now accepting nominations for candidates to fill two（2） board openings, for a three-year term starting on July 1, 2016 and ending on June 30, 2019. A candidate must be a NECINA member in good standing. A candidate also must provide a written petition signed by 10 or more NECINA members. From among the eligible candidates, two directors will be elected at NECINA's upcoming Annual Meeting on June 18, 2016. Only members who maintain current membership as of June 6, 2106 will be eligible to vote at the Annual Meeting.
If you are unsure of your membership status, you can find out whether you are currently registered as a member by emailing membership@necina.org.
If you wish to nominate a member as a board candidate, please gather the signatures of at least 10 NECINA members using the form attached to this notice. Please submit（i）the signed petition and（ii）a short biography（not to exceed half a page）of the candidate to NECINA's legal counsel, Linda Ji, by email（lji@nixonpeabody.com）or by fax （855-768-1804） not later than June 6, 2016.
We look forward to seeing you at the Annual Meeting and at our 20th anniversary gala!
By the order of the Board of Directors
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NECINA E Club Event - 5/27
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NECINA E Club will host its May event at 12 PM on Friday, May 27 at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. We will invite Peter Zhu as our feature speaker. Peter is the CEO and co-founder of Brilent. He is a serial entrepreneur who is passionate about applying big data analytics solutions to key existing market pain points. Peter draws upon his experience of successfully building analytics companies from the ground up including FocusKPI Inc., FocusOptimal, DataReward and Fortelligent. Aside from his entrepreneurial success, Peter utilized his data science expertise as an AVP at Bank of America, as a Director of Analytics at Staples, and as a Senior Consultant at Oliver Wyman Consulting.
If you are an entrepreneur or a corporate senior manager, you are invited to the meetup. Lunch will be provided with free parking. Seats are limited, please RSVP at：http://doodle.com/poll/gy7s4ri3utcvf48v
NECINA Entrepreneur Club（E Club）is a community of technology company founders and executives. The mission of the club is to help member companies grow by
- connecting club members to more senior and successful entrepreneurs, funding sources, service firms as well as business counterparts in Asia to seek mentors, advice and business opportunities.
- providing a social network platform for members to share knowledge, success stories and lessons learned, and to help each other.
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Financial Technology Conference Recap - 4/23
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NECINA's Annual Fintech Conference took place on April 25 at Constant Contact in Waltham. Keynote speaker, David Saul, the SVP and Chief Scientist at State Street started off his presentation proposing the question of "Do you know where your data is?" He then stated that the financial crisis that occurred in 2008 was due to this misunderstanding. He encouraged that the way to improve financial data was through incorporating the Financial Industry Business Ontology（FIBO）standards, which utilizes semantic data to ensure transparency and comprehension of regulations among the financial sector. He then gave an example of how State Street is using FIBO when it comes to their data management. The next speaker, Mitchell Dong told 3 stories to illustrate his hypothesis - Engineering is more than art and science. Good engineers are good with people. He gave one example that they don't have to be extroverts, but instead emphasized how introverts are good listeners, who have the ability to teach, and can learn and adapt quickly. He quoted the words from his mentor "Have a microscope in one eye and have a macroscope in the other eye". It's important to see the big pictures while remaining focus on the present of the day.
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Albert MA discussed several challenges/difficulties about learning from source code, such as structured programming syntax vs. infinite ways of implementation, "flat" algorisms vs. complex nature and etc. However, he states that despite these challenges, academic researchers and software vendors are starting to look at how they can effectively apply machine intelligence into their software development. Cherry Zhang discussed "Mobile Financing", in terms of mobile banking and mobile payment, which has started roaring and will continue to do so as anticipated. She discussed that from the application development's perspective, there are three main directions, namely, Native Apps, HTML5 web app and Hybrid apps; so the question becomes, how do we choose? In addition, there are upwards trends for Mobile Disruptors such as loT, Visual Reality, and Wearables, which is only the beginning. Natty from Prattle described sentiment analysis and it can be applied to resolve complex data. She proceeded to give an overview on what they do at Prattle, which is marrying expertise and analytics to impose structure. Furthermore, it is using innovative textual analysis methods, to provide investment decision-making solutions. The day concluded with a panel discussion, where the speakers reiterated the association of technology to better understand the complex data in the financial sector. |
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NEW 4.0 Workshop：Building Winning Products, Drive Marketing & Sales Recap - 4/21
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On April 21st, NEW hosted the Marketing sessions entitled："Building Winning Products, Drive Marketing & Sales". Audience members came away with best practices and ideas on how to create a better marketing strategy for products or business. Guest speaker, Bobbie Carlton gave her background on the different orgs she is involved with and how social media is used to promote them. She stated that when it comes to social medial, it's best to keep it simple and start with great content to initially attract and capture attention. She provided insight on how social media provides credibility and cited Twitter as an example. When used properly, the differences of a company with minimal content and followers compared to a business that tweets to engage their followers. Todd Horton talked about his journey working in Korean where a simple idea for building a business on gift cards came about. Throughout Kangogift's life cycle, their business model has been transitioning from gift card, to employee recognition to later using data to later identify milestones to receive gifts. He emphasized the importance of understanding the people your business is geared towards to and to make every decision with them in mind. After the speakers, two startup organizations in the NEW program, presented their pitches to the audience and fielded questions.
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As part of the NECINA Career Conference Program, we have developed the NECINA job site（http://jobs.necina.org/node/20）to connect employers and applicants 24/7.
Employers can post their opening positions, and applicants can post their resumes and apply for available job positions. The service is free to all applicants.
Partial list of new job postings：
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