iDark Horse News From June 8th to 9th, the two-day 36Kr WAVES New Wave 2023 Conference was grandly opened at the Jinhai Lake International Convention and Exhibition Center in Beijing. With the theme of "Waves Favor Young People", in addition to the main venue of WAVES, the conference also set up WAVES Night, Venture Capital Krypton Hall and other sub-venues, gathering outdoor camps, street stall markets, venture capital salons, band performances, open-air movies, camping panels and other emerging games, creating a party of new business forces focusing on young founders and investors.
Wang Shi, founder of Vanke Group, Shenshi Group and chairman of Vanke Public Welfare Foundation, Fu Sheng, chairman and CEO of Cheetah Mobile and chairman of Orion Star, Dai Yusen, managing partner of ZhenFund, Zhu Sixing, partner of Shanhang Capital, Zheng Aiguo, general manager of Lenovo's global SME products and solutions, Ma Min, executive president of Ape Counseling, and other well-known experts, entrepreneurs and investors from various fields of the new economy attended the conference with an open, relaxed and valuable social scene. Become an expression ecological field for the output and collision of a new generation of venture capital groups.
Feng Dagang, CEO of 36Kr, said in his opening speech: Inspur favors young people, and 36Kr also prefers young people. "Young" is not only a concept of age, but also a description of vitality and imagination. 36Kr is a company that has grown up with the younger generation of entrepreneurs, or "innovative spirit".
Li Yang, director and chief content officer of 36Kr Media, delivered a speech on the change in the trend of the investment industry: "Whenever change occurs, it is often when opportunities are born. A new era has begun. The first dawn of China in the 21st century occurred at 6:27 a.m. Beijing time on January 1, 2001. For the Chinese investment industry, it's 6:27 a.m. ”
The front wave and the back wave collide fiercely, opening a high-energy dialogue between reality and the future
The power of young people is a new generation of business power, emerging endless creativity and imagination, supporting the business wave forever. On the first day of the WAVES New Wave 2023 Conference, in-depth discussions were held in the form of super speeches, big coffee roundtables, special dialogues, etc., opening a journey for young founders to truly talk to business leaders and collide with entrepreneurial ideas and venture capital.
Wang Shi, founder of Vanke Group, Shenshi Group and chairman of Vanke Public Welfare Foundation, shared his experience and experience in the entrepreneurial process with the content of choice, concentration and professionalism in times of crisis, and explained what is the "new wave" of the times from multiple angles. Fu Sheng, chairman and CEO of Cheetah Mobile and chairman of Orion Star, analyzed the beginning and end of social productivity transformation under the new wave of AI with the topic of "Why a Chat Software (ChatGPT) Triggers a Social Productivity Revolution". Ma Min, executive principal of Ape Counseling, told the whole process of corporate response, transformation and innovation with his personal experience. In addition, well-known investors and entrepreneurs in the venture capital field, such as Liu Guangyao, founder of Bosie, Du Guojian, COO of Dustfeng, and Zhou Zhifeng, partner of Qiming Venture Capital, shared and discussed their insights, current situation and trends in their respective fields.
In the roundtable session, Yusen Dai, Managing Partner of ZhenFund, Zhang Jiaxing, Chair Scientist of the Institute of Cognitive Computing and Natural Language of IDEA Research Institute, Lu Zhiwu, Professor of Hillhouse School of Artificial Intelligence of Chinese Minmin University, and other guests discussed the changes in China's venture capital industry in recent years and milestones in the new wave of business with the themes of "Admired and Forgotten", "It's not that I don't understand, but the world is changing too fast".
The new 1V1 special dialogue, including Han Rui, Partner of Gaorong Capital, Huang Jinfeng of Yixian E-commerce, Zhu Sixing, Partner of Shanhang Capital, and Yao Song, Co-founder and Co-CEO of Oriental Space, elaborated on the two themes of "Looking Up at the Starry Sky Down-to-earth" and "Let Some People Go to Space First", elaborating on the action, innovation and imagination in the ups and downs of the business wave, and arousing deep thinking with open-ended discussions.
On June 9, the second day of the WAVES New Wave 2023 Conference, a forum with different themes will be created to gather big names and young founders in the venture capital industry to open up the fierce collision between reality and the future.
Lin Lu, partner of Northern Light Venture Capital, mentioned in his speech "It's Time to Talk About Application" that more opportunities can be found for startups in the process of large-model application. Zhang Jinjian, founding partner of Oasis Capital, summarized the structural and rhythmic issues in investment with the topic of "Structure and Rhythm in Investment", so as to find the core of entrepreneurs. Deng Tao, brand director of Shenzhen Xihao Intelligent Furniture, started from the importance of technology to seat innovation and highlighted the corporate philosophy of walking with technology. Stephen Ou Guowei, founder and CEO of Connosten, took the impact of identity change on entrepreneurs as the keynote, telling the life story of "leapfrogging, from scientists to CEOs, from scientific and technological innovation to industrial revolution", inspiring young entrepreneurs to brave difficulties and brave to go. Jing Zhao, Partner of Cathay Capital, analyzed the huge opportunities in energy transition investment from the goal of "carbon neutrality", and imagined the "world of tomorrow under carbon neutrality" with the guests.
Different from the roundtable on the first day of the conference, the roundtable dialogue on the 9th divided the direction of discussion by industry, and deeply subdivided the track for comprehensive analysis and interpretation. Tulagu, founder of Tiantu Wanjing, Xu Siqing, founding partner of Alpha Commune, Zhang Peng, general manager of CRRC Guochuang, Yuan Yang, assistant professor of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Information Studies of Tsinghua University, and other guests, around the themes of "artificial intelligence is no longer a legend", "life sciences: finding the Cape of Good Hope", "new energy: fighting for tomorrow", "intelligent manufacturing: the details of the rise" and other topics, combined with their own areas of concern, shared their thoughts and judgments on industry trends.
In the special dialogue session hosted by Chen Zhiyan, the main writer of Dark Waves, Lin Xinhe, founding partner of DCM China, and Mao Yuwei, founder and CEO of Tiamat, conducted an exchange of "being a maverick" to explore the personal charm of the younger generation of entrepreneurs in this era.
In the product presentation session on the latest trends and planning of 36Kr, Wang Kun, vice president of 36Kr, introduced how to help enterprises cross the innovation gap with the title of "The Way of Endless Life: External Living Water and Internal Efficiency", that is, 36Kr venture capital platform, to help leverage external living water, 36Kr enterprise service reviews, to help improve internal efficiency.
The four major IP rosters were released, and the forward-looking force was the benchmark in the industry
As a highlight of this conference, 36Kr released four IP rosters: "36Under36 Entrepreneurs/Investors", "2023 Science and Technology Entrepreneurs", "Most Popular Investors/Investment Institutions for Entrepreneurs", and "Most Influenced/Growth Investment Institutions", targeting the most dynamic figures and enterprises in Chinese business, and setting an industry benchmark with forward-looking power.
"36Under36 Entrepreneurs/Investors" focuses on the most energetic and enthusiastic young generation in the business world, far ahead of their peers in thinking, execution and performance, in order to flaunt the best spokesperson among young entrepreneurs/investors. "2023 Science and Technology Entrepreneurs" focuses on one of the most innovative and potential people in China's business sector today, and pays tribute to the scientific research talents who are most likely to create great companies of this era. "Most Popular Investors/Investment Institutions for Entrepreneurs" and "Most Influential/Growth Investment Institutions" are the two major sections of the "Most Popular Investors for Entrepreneurs" series of rosters, focusing on the two main lines of the primary market of "innovation" and "investment", and discovering outstanding investors and investment institutions that explore innovation with wisdom and make emerging things bigger and stronger.
Multiple social attributes to create a 2023 business new force party
Different from other traditional conferences, WAVES, as a newly launched conference IP of 36Kr, integrates multiple scenes of venture capital, technology, humanities and music, focuses on young people's social habits and gameplay, and presents dynamic, creative and positive activity content, so as to create the most influential and appealing new generation of venture capital new force offline label in China.
On the Bibo Island of Jinhai Lake, an outdoor festival continues to be popular. Open-air movies on the lawn, stall markets in outdoor camps, sharing in tents, cheerful bands and unplugged chats... WAVES strives to present a free social scene unique to young venture capitalists. As Liu Jing, editor-in-chief of Undercurrent and founder of WAVES, said: "In a few years, more than a decade or even longer, if some of us here today will accidentally remember today, probably most of the memories are blurry, but you will also feel that it is a beautiful summer night." There are sunsets, there are lawns, there are beers, there are music, there are movies. And a group of friends who were as young as you used to be. That's why we wanted to develop a new IP: WAVES today, when business summits are already so redundant. ”
36Kr CEO Feng Dagang took advantage of this conference to once again convey 36Kr's original intention: "In the era when most media are still chasing large companies, we will focus on those little-known small companies or 'little people'. This is because we believe that discovering and serving innovative companies earlier is also the duty of the media. ”
WAVES New Wave 2023 Conference is the first presentation of "WAVES", a new starting point and a new journey, I believe that with years of professional precipitation and business accumulation, 36Kr will always accompany and help young entrepreneurs and investors, so that WAVES will continue to rush.