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silicon valley summit may 2018 key participants Speakers: Charles Freeman, Senior Fellow, Brown University’s Watson Institute; Former Assistant Secretary of Defense; Former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (confirmed) Yukon Huang, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment; Former Country Director for China, World Bank (confirmed) Gary Locke, Former U.S. Ambassador to China; Former Governor of Washington; Former Secretary of Commerce (invited)   PANEL II: Belt and Road Initiative Launched in 2013 by President Xi Jinping, the Belt and Road Initiative is aimed at building infrastructure to connect China to a range of Southeast Asian, Central Asian and European countries. This panel will explore potential impact on global economic growth and development as well as geopolitical implications from the initiative. Speakers: Fan Gang, Director of National Economic Research Institute, China Reform Foundation (confirmed) David Lampton, Chairman, The Asia Foundation; Professor and Director of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (confirmed) Henry Wang, Founder and President of Center for China and Globalization (confirmed)    PANEL III: Tech Entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley and China Over the past decade, U.S.-China technology and innovation have evolved exponentially. The Chinese government has recently committed to economic transformation and supporting innovation and entrepreneurship. How will this affect future collaborations between the U.S. and China in technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship? Speakers: John Chambers, Former Executive Chairman and CEO, Cisco Systems (invited) Chi-Foon Chan, President & Co-CEO, Synopsys, Inc. (confirmed) Jonathan Woetzel, Director, McKinsey Global Institute; Senior Partner, Shanghai McKinsey & Company (confirmed) Zhang Yaqin, President, Baidu, Inc. (confirmed)   Fireside Chat on Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence has gone from futuristic speculation to present-day reality. As China speeds up investment in the AI industry while President Trump calls for budget cuts on R&D investments in AI, our panel of experts will explore the state of U.S.-China AI technology advancement, its impact on both economies and the larger implications for the longterm U.S.-China relationship. Speakers: Li Fei-Fei, Chief Scientist, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), Google Inc., and Professor of Computer Science and Director of AI Lab, Stanford University (confirmed) Jerry Yang, Co-founder and Former CEO, Yahoo! Inc. (confirmed) Zhang Yaqin, President, Baidu, Inc. (confirmed)

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