On November 10th, 2017, the first stop of the Cross-border Summit of the Future of Talent, co-sponsored by Plug and Play and Beijing Vanke International Technology Innovation Acceleration Center, was officially launched in Beijing Vanke Center. 15 of the world's top entrepreneurial projects, as representatives of PNP Silicon Valley ecosystem, made their collective debut. For the site government leaders, business executives, VC representatives and other guests brought a wonderful project road show.
[The vitality of a smart city lies in its complete ecosystem]
Mr. Han Shufan, Deputy Director of Zhongguancun Management Committee, said, "The integration of culture and science and technology is the direction of Beijing's future development. When foreign entrepreneurial teams enter China for the first time, the most important thing they need to know is the policy environment and related services in different regions, and choose the right park according to their own business characteristics."
PNP Global co-founder Dr. Chen Xiaochun said in a speech, "PNP cross-border projects are selected from thousands of projects in the PNP global project library. Our project sources come from more than 20 countries around the world. Our screening criteria are very strict. Only international projects with the strongest technology, the best team, the best VC investment background and the initial market verification can be introduced to China."
"At present, every industry is facing changes," he stressed. "PNP is not only to help the growth of entrepreneurial projects, but also to help the transformation and development of large enterprises, and inject innovation into the development of enterprises."
"In the process of urban renewal and industrial development, Vanke hopes to cooperate with international innovative companies like PNP to promote the application of science and technology in the industry while transforming into an urban supporting service provider," said Mr. Yuan Zhui, general manager of Office Building and Industrial Park Division of Vanke.
Peter Davison, an early investor in PayPal and founder of Fishburners, as a cross-border mentor of PNP, concluded: "Smart cities cover a wide range of areas. In addition to infrastructure construction, it is important that cities provide a better environment for citizens to participate and give full play to the potential of each citizen." He also shared the smart system cases of smart cities around the world, and the combination of this cross-border project and China's smart cities.
[Innovation platform provides personalized services for smart city residents]
As the first roadshow project, People Power has a professional technical team, pragmatic series of products and a grand corporate vision to provide intelligent hardware facilities with higher security for aging urban families. The cross-border team, which has major multinational clients such as China Mobile, has started a Series C funding round. IoT project Sentiance attracted the attention of investors present. Their products serve a variety of business models in the mobile scenario, providing data collection and analysis, mobile cloud computing and other B2B services suitable for smart city development. The project Nopassword demonstrated the application of their face recognition technology in the field of enterprise security. Their mature products and rich experience in cooperation with large enterprises attracted the attention of the corporate guests present.
International projects present for roadshow include Sentiance, Mans International, EnGIS Communications, Nopassword, ZipGo, Babylon VR, DarbeeVision, BluePrintLab, Igloohome, SafeChats, EyeMynd Brainwave VR, harpPlus, YouStake, Bouxtie, Ponder, People Power, etc.
After the roadshow, the guests had one-on-one in-depth communication with the cross-border projects, and had in-depth discussion on further investment and enterprise cooperation. Jack, founder of Babylon VR, exclaims, "In just five minutes, I have already added 20 investors to the wechat I just registered yesterday!"
Next, the cross-border project will continue to Zhengzhou to participate in the activities of the Zhengzhou Station of the Cross-border Summit on the Future of Shark Wisdom to be held in Jinshui District, Zhengzhou City. After that, they will also travel to Chengdu, Wuhan and Shenzhen for the cross-border summit road show and exchange. We will continue to follow the trip.
