ChinaHACK: Nail your China Strategy

We're far enough into this now to know that China's a huge deal, right? China's rise over the past decade means it's ever changing, filled with opportunity and challenges for every sector and is the biggest thing since digital.

Did you know?

• China is our largest trading partner by far, eclipsing our second and third largest partners combined, the USA and Japan.


• China is also the largest trading partner of 127 other nations.


• Only 9% of businesses in Australia do any trade with Asia, let alone China!


• Two way trade of goods and services is a $660 billion dollar market for Australia.


• Increasing the number of businesses who trade with China by even 5% is a multi-billion dollar opportunity.

"But how?!" we hear you ask. "I am not sure how, I don't know who to trade with or the best place to start and besides, isn't China filled with people who are just going to rip off my IP?"

Any good business is driven by strategy, and this is where ChinaHACK comes in. Over the course of this 48 hour hackathon-style workshop, you will meet and learn from some of China's leading innovators and companies, such as China's largest and most used internet portal Tencent, receive a template for creating your own China strategy and walk away with a living China strategy outlining your business or project's best next steps when it comes to engaging the Middle Kingdom.

Proudly presented by the China Australia Millennial Project, the UTS Business School and VIVID.

Facilitator: Vivien Sung, CAMP Co-founder and Chief Experience Officer

Vivien is a design strategist, innovation facilitator and educator with a specialty in facilitating innovation using design processes to solve complex problems, projects that require cultural intelligence engaging Chinese audiences and designing user and brand experiences which cross over multiple touchpoints. She is responsible for developing the design, strategy and experience of the CAMP learning program across the 3 month online and offline program.

Guest Speakers:

Shaper Dang, Open Platform, Group Innovation Space Manager

6 years within Tencent Group, Shaper has initiated and developed numerous innovative projects to help businesses expand on the global level, which include promoting tourism destinations (Japan, Korea, West Australia) with selected Chinese celebrities in 2015 as well as leading China innovation delegation to attend Harvard China Forum in 2016.

Shuai Zhang, CEO of the C2B e-commerce platform ‘请出价(qing chu jia)’

Previous Employee of Alibaba, the CEO of ‘qing chu jia’ founded this new C2B e-commerce platform through wechat. The C2B business model is described by Jack Ma as the ‘future of e-commerce’. Within 2 years, Qing Chu Jia has grown as the most promiinent C2B e-commerce in China. The company obtained significant investment from JD.com and closed strategic partnership status with Tencent Group and JD.com.