Follow Us

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)