Parallel Venue 1 (Mingyuan Hall in Villa 6)
13:30 - 15:00
Session 1: Platform mechanism and operations
Moderator: Steve Tadelis (Professor at UC Berkeley)
Speaker: Kaifu Zhang (Researcher of Alibaba) - Platform operations in practice
Speaker: Zhengyun Patricia Sun (PhD Candidate at Harvard University - Product Innovation and Development
Speaker: Geoffrey Parker (Professor at Dartmouth College) - Platform revolutions
Speaker: Jieyuan Liao (Founder and CEO of WeDoctor) - Technology transforms health industry
Speaker: Alvin Roth (Professor at Stanford University, 2012 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics) - Matching mechanisms in healthcare
15:00 - 16:00
Panel Discussion
Parallel Venue 2 (Youyi Hall in Villa 6)
13:30 - 15:00
Session 2: Platform and Ecosystem
Moderator: Patrick Bolton (Professor at Columbia University)
Speaker: Jun Su (CEO of Smartmi Technology) - Consumption upgrades and supply coordination
Speaker: Shanglue Xiao (Founder and CEO of Yunji Sharing Technology) - Future of retail
Speaker: Wenlan Qian (Associate Professor at National University of Singapore) - Does e-commerce crowd out consumer spending offline?
Speaker: Sir Chris Pissarides (Professor at LSE, 2010 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics) - Work in the age of robots and artificial intelligence
15:00 - 16:00
Panel Discussion
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:50
Dialogue: Platform in the Digital Age
Moderator: Long Chen (Luohan Academy)
Speaker: Daniel Zhang (CEO of Alibaba Group), Bengt Holmstrom (Professor at MIT, 2016 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics), Thomas Sargent (Professor at NYU, 2011 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics) and Sir Chris Pissarides (Professor at LSE, 2010 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics)
