Mr. Graylin is the China President at HTC, leading all aspects of the Vive/VR (VIVE.com) and the Smartphone businesses in the region. He is also currently Vice-Chairman of the Industry of Virtual Reality Alliance (IVRA.com) with 300+ company members, President of the $18B Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance (VRVCA.com) and oversees the Vive X VR Accelerators (VIVEX.co) in Beijing, Shenzhen and Tel Aviv.

While working as a day-to-day manager with internationally charting pop-star Jessie J on one of China’s most-watched TV competitions Singer 2018, Andrew Spalter realized there was a massive, undeniable disconnect between the Eastern & Western entertainment industries. With this realization and personal experience operating in Asian culture, Spalter became determined to build a bridge between the East and West and cultivate ultimate brand development for E.G.G clients. Spalter has quietly grown East Goes Global into an insanely successful company, currently developing social brands for Will Smith, DJ Snake, Yungblud, Justin Timberlake, Clairo, Jessie J, Bobby Berk and countless more.

Xiaowei Hu is a Senior journalist, editor and publisher at Art and Design, Product Design, Q and Surface media, chief content operator at Billboard China, founder of Muse3x3, dedicated to music copyright management and social communications.

In 2007, Henry Zhao joined EMI Music Publishing where he started his music career. He was in charge of Marketing of Sync and Library music. He joined SonyAtv in 2011 and was in charge of Sync Library Music and Media Marketing. He joined Sun Entertainment in 2013 and took on the work of A & R, publishing and media work. He joined Peer Music in 2015 and has been the General Manager China of Peer Music so far.

Manu Luksch is an artist-filmmaker and a founder of ambientTV.NET that is a crucible for independent, interdisciplinary projects ranging from installation through documentary, dance and gastronomy, to sound and video composition and live manipulation. Luksch is also a founding member of the arts production company Ambient Information Systems. Through her films, telematic performances and interdisciplinary works, Manu Luksch explores her preoccupation with the effects of emerging technologies on: daily life, social relations, and urban and political structures. Particular zones of focus are the borders of public space, the weave of the urban fabric, surveillance and the gaze, security and identity systems.

Shuhong (Rita) Fan is a Chinese language instructor, translator and writer based in Beijing.

Friedrich von Borries, architect and professor of Design Theory at the Hochschule für bildende Künste (HFBK) in Hamburg, Germany, operates between the blurring boundaries of urban planning, architecture, design and art. The focus of his work is the relation of design practice and socio-political development. »As scientists, we try to comprehend the world. As designers, we try to change this world. That is why we deal with such questions that determine our contemporary situation by designing and researching the matters on hand: global economic inequality, environmental destruction and climate change.

Eric Scherer is Director of Innovation and International Affairs at France Televisions. He has spent his career working for Agence France-Presse, Reuters and AFX News in a wide range of functions spanning journalism, management, business development, strategy and new media in locations across the globe including Japan, North America and the UK. He very often blogs at meta-media.fr about his favorite subject: all aspects of the digital revolution and how media and cultural industries should adapt and surf the accelerating pace of change. He is a regular speaker at conferences in Europe and North America and is the author of a glossary La Révolution Numérique (Dalloz 2009), and an essay Do We Still Need Journalists? (PUF 2011).

Gregoire Bienvenu is a French PhD student conducting research on hip-hop music in China. His main interest lies in the development of the Chengdu rap scene and how the success of these rappers offers a meaningful insight to understand China's further cultural development. Besides, he set up a recording live show with local artists (Turn Off Tune In Drop Out) and worked with some of them on different events in order to give their music more visibility in the West.

Janet Sawari is a serial entrepreneur, philanthropist and Co-founder/CFO of EducateAI. She has a Bachelors in Computer Science and Technology from Zhejiang University of science and technology, an MBA in Innovation and Entrepreneurism from Jiao tong University and part of the Big data and analytics Masters program at the University of Liverpool. She is passionate about innovative technologies in the education sector, non-profit education access initiatives and spends her time outside the office on the golf course. Janet is currently working on using AI to scale African startups.

Michiel Roosjen is an active promoter of creative industries in China. Over the past 10 years, he has worked with the private and public sectors to stimulate collaboration between China and Europe in the fields of music, design, art and education. Michiel is a founder of About Asia and co-founder of the House of China. The House of China is an initiative that connects the Chinese (electronic) music industry with the international scene and vice versa. Since 2018, The House of China has hosted the China-themed conference program of Amsterdam Dance Event.

Markus Schwarzer, born in 1988, is an entrepreneur at the interface of tech and music. His experience is based on his work in various start-ups in the field of music, tech and innovation management (since 2012) as well as on his master studies in Music & Creative Industries at the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg. He is founder of the tech-startup Cyanite in which he gives players from the music business easy access into working with AI technology. His work focuses on business models, strategic planning and design thinking.

Giorgio Vitale is an exhibition maker and artistic director based in Berlin. His area of focus is the impact of technology and the digital on society through the lens of art and the eyes of the artist. In 2017 he founded the first VR-based art gallery called synthesis. synthesis is an immersive blend of technology and art displayed under one roof, showcasing cutting-edge experiences by new wave artists and visionaries through virtual reality. In synthesis’ first two years, the gallery has produced more than ten exhibitions of VR art in Berlin and abroad and participated in several art festivals.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Justin Sweeting has over twenty years of music industry experience, centered within Asia. Justin is co-founder and Music Director of Magnetic Asia (www.magneticasia.com). Magnetic Asia operates festivals & events: Clockenflap (www.clockenflap.com), Sonar Hong Kong (www.sonarhongkong.com), regular live shows (under the ‘Clockenflap Presents’ and ‘YourMum’ banners; Ticketing (www.ticketflap.com); and offers further agency services including marketing, PR, production and consultancy to a broad reach of clients.

Andrew Jervis is Director of Artists and Labels at Bandcamp, the online music community for musicians, record labels, and music fans. Overseeing the label and artist outreach team, he helps bring in music from all over the world, and he works closely with artists and labels to define new tools and features. He also hosts the Bandcamp Weekly show, combing through the site to uncover and present weekly selections of amazing new music. Prior to Bandcamp, Andrew had his fingers in many musical pies as VP of A&R at Ubiquity Records, hosting a longtime radio show in San Francisco, DJing around the world, and writing and editing for various music publications.

Portrait XO is a hybrid audiovisual artist currently residing in Berlin. She has been expanding her music-making process and performances with technologies such as AI, AR, VR, and XR. Her debut AI music album ‘WIRE’ is set to release this fall 2020 under her own hybrid arts label SOUND OBSESSED. She recently won the Eurovision AI Song Contest Jury Vote in collaboration with Dadabots and completed her artist residency at Factory Berlin x Sónar+D. She researches computational creativity, human-machine collaboration, and explores new formats & applications for forward-thinking art and music. She pushes to evolve traditional and non-traditional approaches to music-making and immersive installations. She also works as a Creative Director and Curator for her socially charged artistic initiative CO:QUO (CO-CREATE STATUS-QUO). She co-founded the collective in 2019 to produce a collaborative artist residency with Digi-Gxl for Night Embassy Berlin by Jagermeister to push forward new narratives about multidisciplinary art.

A fan of electronic music since his teenage years, he promoted events when he was a student before securing work with Blonde Media and then well-respected directory the Music Industry Manual (M.I.M) in the UK. He took over as MD of DJ Mag when he was 25 and has seen the publication, along with the Top 100 DJs and Top 100 Clubs polls, grow exponentially with the rise of dance music internationally over the last decade. He's been at the helm of the publishing company as it has branched out into producing franchised magazines worldwide.

Antònia Folguera works at the intersection of digital arts and culture, technology, music, and communication. She is one of the curators at Sónar+D, Sónar Festival's creative technologies conference. Apart from that, currently, she is involved in the Barcelona Community Radio Network (XRCB), she organizes Dorkbot Barcelona, a meeting for people who make strange things with electricity, and she is a jury member and mentor at the Barcelona Producció Art Grants 2019-2020.

In the decade that’s passed since YEHAIYAHAN (a.k.a. ChaCha) first found her sound with legendary Shanghai bass crew Uprooted Sunshine, she has become one of China’s most prolific, dynamic, and magnetic independent musicians. Virtually none of her peers have clocked as many collaborations with world-renowned underground tastemakers — international names like Clive Chin, Kode9, High Tone and Matthieu Chedid, as well as homegrown heroes J-Fever, Purple Soul, Akin, and Soulspeak, to name a few — nor as many high-profile appearances at music festivals and industry showcases around the world.

GOOOOOSE is Han Han, a combination of music producer, composer, visual artist and software developer. He performed across Asia, Africa, Oceania, Europe and North America, including Haus der Kulturen der Welt and CTM ( Berlin), Cite De La Musique( Paris), SXSW(Austin), Nyege Nyege (Uganda), Soft Centre (Sydney), Unsound (Krakow) and Recombinant (San Francisco). His current main releases are “They” (2017, DFORCE), “DONG1”(2018, DFORCE), “PRO RATA”(2019, ANTE-RASA), “RUSTED SILICON”(2019, SVBKVLT), “JAC”(2020, SVBKVLT), among various compilations around the globe.

Cookie Zhang is a Music manager & producer, DJ, event organizer, nearly 10 years of experience in the music industry. She founded the vinyl cultural brand "Daily Vinyl", the music label "Eating Music" & "Delivery Music" to explore the diversified development possibilities of the industry, adhere to the control of quality and tonality, and always pay attention to the injection of young power.

Aaron is a musician and VR developer who has shipped 9 VR titles. Interested in experiential and transcendent applications of VR, he has been creating VR experiences since the Rift DK1 days back in 2012. His first VR endeavor was Unello Design, the studio responsible for many relaxing and meditative VR titles like Eden River, Waking Man, and Zen Zone. Aaron is a three-time Proto Awards nominee for Best Score and a member of the VRDC advisory board.

Jef Vreys is the founder and music director for New Noise China, one of the most respected concert promoters in China. Since 2009 New Noise has promoted over 700 concerts for international bands such as Mogwai, MEW, Explosions in the Sky, Iron & Wine, Men I Trust, The Radio Dept., Big Thief, Deafheaven, toe, ... Jef Vreys also works as a booking agent for a dozen Chinese festivals such as Strawberry, Westlake festival, and Cactus festival. Other than promoting shows within China, New Noise also is a booking agency representing bands in Asia such as MONO, This Will Destroy You, Tortoise, and the Not.

Heiko Hoffmann is VP of artist & industry relations at Beatport. Prior to that, he's been editor-in-chief of Groove magazine, an industry-leading electronic music magazine for almost two decades. He's an adjunct professor at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University.

“It all started from boredom and a common goal” said Brian in an interview describing how he founded Spunite, the most prominent electronic music event company in Taiwan since 2002. Spunite spearheaded in promoting various electronic music genres such as Trance and Hardstyle through events creating brands such as True2Trance and Black Party and built music festivals such as Sweet Party, Masago Beach Massive, Danceport and Galaxy. In recent years, Spunite has teamed up with international partners to bring the largest electronic music events on the island.

Harry Yeff (AKA Reeps One) is an award-winning artist who specializes in voice and tech-based performance. Yeff’s expertise in vocal musicianship and creative direction has generated an online global following, rendering over 100 million views and recognition as a pioneer of experimental vocalism. In 2018 Yeff completed his third artist residency at Harvard University and acquired the title of ‘Culture Leader’ with the World Economic Forum.

Kalam is a cofounder of Sound Obsessed, a new Hybrid Arts Collective + Label of musicians working at the intersection of art, sound, science, and emerging technologies. He previously led music tech venture partnerships at Native Instruments & is a co-founder of Marathon Artists LABs, an accelerator that supports music tech startups to grow in the music business. He has worked with startups, tech investors and accelerators for over a decade across London, Berlin, and Israel. Kalam is dedicated to bringing technologists & artists together to explore new forms of expression and new ways for creators.

Lutz Leichsenring is a consultant, keynote speaker and one of the world’s leading authorities on protecting creative communities. Lutz started after high school to build one of the largest platforms for music event listings in Germany. He went on to run a music club and restaurant until 2010, and today is one of the chief shareholders of a Berlin-based talent recruiting event company "young targets" and Amsterdam based night time advocacy consultancy "VibeLab". Lutz has been the spokesman and executive board member for the Berlin Clubcommission and fought for the rights of Berlin’s vast underground club scene by organizing protests, conferences, workshops and by speaking at round tables and parliamentary committees. During the Corona crisis, Lutz initiated United We Stream, a global music streaming platform to create awareness about club culture affected by Covid-19 and nighttime.org to support nighttime governance to set up a Global Nighttime Recovery Plan.

For Xinzi Han the path of music started with managing artists for "STORM" festival back in 2015. Later she continued to promote dance music culture joining Asia's largest booking agency Supermodified Agency in 2017. While obtaining her responsibly looking over more 60 month shows only within China, she consulted exclusively in utilizing Chinese internet to develop branding for artists and labels, such as Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Lost Frequencies, Ummet Ozcan, Vicetone, Monstercat, STH, etc for music projects with Tiktok, Bilibili, Huya, PandaTV and many more starting as early as in 2016

Yuening Cai is an artist and electronic musician active in both artistic and underground scenes in Shanghai. She is currently a resident artist at Zhu Zheqin Sound Lab of Tongji University. Her work was selected in the 18th edition of the Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival. In 2019, she founded the conceptual music label Metasonar. In 2020, she curated the online performance project HYPERSCREEN, which explores the potential of the internet and interactive technologies for the building of the aesthetic community.

Li Zhenhua is an international known curator, since 1996 work in the contemporary art scene in China and internationally, focus on media art, poetry and experimental crossover projects since 2013 work as inauguration curator for K11, Shanghai, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, Ginkgo Art Space, Beijing, A4 Art Museum, Chengdu. Since 2014 work in the Film sector for Art Basel in HongKong. Li also worked as a major jury for Transmediale (2010), CCAA (2012), etc. In 2013 published his first curatorial book TEXT in China, the English version shall be published by Flash Art soon.

Patricia was born 1980 in Arnstadt (Germany), she 2009–2015 fine art at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, Germany, Diploma with honors. Detmering currently works as a media artist in Berlin and has had numerous international exhibitions, in cities including Berlin, Tokyo, Denver U.S., Tel Aviv, Krakow, Valencia. She has received various awards including the "Deutschlandstipendium", and different project awards.

Peggy Schoenegge is a curator and project manager at the curatorial exhibition platform peer to space and board member of the media art association in Berlin. In her international group exhibitions, she deals with the conditions and effects of the digital age in our culture and society. Besides others, Peggy curated SPECULATIVE SPECIES. A Virtual Reality Art Exhibition ( Parsons/The New School, New York, 2019), THIS COULD BE YOU. Disembodiment In Virtual Reality Art (Overkill Festival, Enschede, 2018) and PENDORAN VINCI. Art and Artificial Intelligence Today (NRW Forum, Duesseldorf, 2018).

Géraldine Zanaska is a Founder & Director of Compass Music, a music consultancy that focuses on helping clients navigate the global music industry and develop internationally. Based in France and the UK, the company works with festivals, conferences, record labels, and cultural institutions, with services including strategic consulting, project and campaign management, business development, events, communication. Beforehand, Géraldine worked in London for a record label, a music venue, live music promoters, a cultural center, and a music export office. Géraldine holds a UK Master’s degree in Music Business Management.

Joern is a specialized lawyer and strategy advisor in Music, Content, and AI with over a decade of experience in strategic planning across the music industry and for entertainment platforms – alongside a focus on Copyright, Music Rights and Global Policies.

MMS is a China-based artist, producer, and curator, working across a multiplicity of disciplines, blending art, technology, and music. He has been a constant presence in Beijing's creative domains and electronic music scene for over a decade.

MMS co-founded Metrowaves, a platform fostering electronic music and DJ culture in China; Sinotronics, a netlabel curating contemporary music; and BEME (Beijing Electronic Music Encounter), China’s most prolific annual festival for live electronic music.

Bridging the electronic music scenes from East to West, he brought artists like Monolake, Pantha du Prince, Glitterbug, Efdemin, and Lawrence to China the first time and toured with Chinese artists such as Shao, GOOOOOSE, 33EMYBW, Duck Fight Goose, White+, and MNGHN, in Berlin and India.

His musical performances range from Hybrid DJ / Live Techno sets to experimental live sets.

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Marcus Fitzgerald has, since 2001, developed his career as a concert and festival promoter and a consultant and manager for musicians. With that knowledge and his experience, he founded gigmit in 2012 and has since lead the company as CEO. His online music booking platform, gigmit, serves to connect promoters and musicians for an easier booking process. In 2017 he founded the Innovation Network of European Showcases (INES) with 8 showcase festivals in Europe (now 22).

Before Philipp founded WISE in 2018 in Beijing, he has been on the forefront of China´s music and events industry for over a decade - the only German with such a long experience in China’s music industry.

Since his first time in China in 2007, he has worked at one of the world´s largest events, the EXPO 2010 Shanghai, for German Government Agency GIZ and co-founded his own music & creative agency FakeMusicMedia. He brought over 300 artists and speakers to China since (e.g Die Toten Hosen, Hot Chip, Royksopp + many more) and has managed some of China´s best talent (Nova Heart, The Hormones, SHAO).

He has consulted for brands and government organizations on on Chinese Youth Culture, the Music Industry as well as China´s tech ecosystem and is a sought after speaker on those topics at international conferences and universities.

He has authored several reports about the Chinese Music Industry for various organizations and is author of The China Music Industry Report (being released end of 2020).

Before coming to China he worked as a (music) journalist with continental Europe’s biggest broadcaster and holds a master's in International Relations & Economics from the University of Cologne (Latin American Studies).

He is fascinated by the possibilities of AI & VR for the creative sector and DJs sometimes around the world under his moniker Metro Tokyo.