From 26Aug2015 email from diana.levey
DISCOVERY SUMMIT CHINA 2016
Ideas for Plenary Speakers
26 AUG 2015 STATUS: To Anne to complete, then to Bryan and Jon for consideration
John Sall
Kaiser Fung, New York University
TOPIC: Data Visualization and/or How to Build Effective Data Teams
SAMPLE VIDEO: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wtt2V6Y7t1A
WEBSITE: http://www.kaiserfung.com
BIO: Kaiser Fung is a professional statistician with more than a decade of experience applying statistical methods to unlocking the relationship between advertising and customer behaviors. His blog, Junk Charts, pioneered the critical examination of data and graphics in the mass media. Since 2005, Junk Charts has received rave reviews from Science magazine, the Guardian, Yahoo!, and Stanford University Libraries. He is also author of Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Numbers and Statistics on Everything You Do. Fung is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and an adjunct professor at New York University, where he teaches practical statistics to professionals. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, in addition to statistics and engineering degrees from Princeton and Cambridge Universities.
Willy Shih, Harvard
TOPIC: Maybe manufacturing competitiveness
SAMPLE VIDEOS: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/b/7563f2e7-75b2-4114-a15c-a9ec606b3e7a
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/b/0751413b-3ebb-4f30-bf5a-1482f45bf89f
WEBSITE: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=194874
BIO: Willy Shih is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration. He is part of the Technology and Operations Management Unit, and he teaches in the MBA and Executive Education Programs. His expertise is in manufacturing and product development, and he has written or co-authored more than 125 cases and teaching materials in industries ranging from semiconductors, information technology, consumer electronics, aerospace, transportation equipment, manufacturing processes and tools, and intellectual property. His paper, “Restoring American Competitiveness,” co-authored with Gary Pisano, won the 2009 McKinsey Award. His recent book, “Producing Prosperity – Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance,” co-authored with Gary Pisano, has called attention to the link between manufacturing and innovation. He is also the author of “Back Bay Battery,” a best-selling innovation simulation.
LINKS:
Harvard Magazine article: http://harvardmagazine.com/2012/09/manufacturing
David Fogarty (Anthem is acquiring Cigna and it’s unclear if David’s position will be affected by the acquisition, so now is not the best time to approach him. I don’t believe he speaks Chinese well enough to give a talk I Chinese.)
TOPIC:
SAMPLE VIDEO: N/A
WEBSITE:
BIO: David Fogarty is Global Head of Customer Value Management and Analytics at Cigna where he works to harness data to drive influence.
LINKS:
Wharton article: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/health-insurers-can-get-closer-consumers/
Interesting article I found about Cigna and health care in China: http://fortune.com/2013/05/28/cignas-unlikely-partnership-to-change-chinese-health-care/
Victor Lowe, Fidelity
TOPIC: Uplift Modeling (or something broader—he is working on a Business Analytics book with 2 professors in the greater Boston area. He speaks Chinese and has engaged with the professional stats community in China.)
SAMPLE VIDEO: N/A
WEBSITE: http://atcweb.bentley.edu/conferences/virtualanalytics/?page_id=253
BIO: Victor S. Y. Lo is a Vice President at Fidelity Investments and visiting research fellow/executive-in-residence at Bentley University. Previously, he was VP and manager of modeling and analysis at FleetBoston Financial, and senior associate at Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman).
He has over 20 years of experience in analyzing real life data, applying quantitative methods to numerous business areas such as customer relationship management, advertising strategy, market research, database marketing, financial econometrics, risk management, transportation, insurance, and human resources.
Additionally, Victor has been actively engaged with Big Data analytics, practical causal inference, and is a pioneer of Uplift/True-lift modeling. Victor has managed teams of quantitative analysts in multiple organizations.
Victor earned a master degree in operational research and a doctorate in statistics, and was a postdoctoral fellow in management science. He has co-authored a graduate level econometrics book and published articles in data mining, statistics, and management science.
Peng Liu: http://sww.sas.com/sww/tools/phonelist/?empno=14011
Jianfeng Ding: http://sww.sas.com/sww/tools/phonelist/?empno=5415
Jian Cao: http://sww.sas.com/sww/tools/phonelist/?empno=15246
Additions from anne.milley, 31Aug2015:
It also occurs to me that Jeffrey Ma (whom we had speak at a past Discovery Summit (Boulder?)) might make a good candidate. Though he is of Chinese descent, it’s unclear if he speaks Chinese. These are some speech descriptions from his
agent:
Ten Times Better: Maximize Performance through Big Data
Data, gleaned through technology, is not only supposed to help us do our jobs, but do them better. Sometimes, it can even make us ten times better than the average employee. Through the lens of his experiences in blackjack, pro sports consulting, and Hollywood, Jeffrey Ma discusses the importance of setting goals as well as tracking your progress and productivity along the way, and how gaming, analytics, and competitive tracking can lead to more useful, constructive feedback and more motivated teams and employees.
The $100,000 Lesson: Business Lessons from the World of Blackjack
How one deals with losing tells a lot about the person. Losing tests our confidence, our conviction, our ability to deal with future risk and more importantly our character. The real story and real lessons of 21 come from the adversity faced on the blackjack table. Sharing the story of losing $100,000 in two hands of blackjack, Ma reveals how he recovered his confidence through teamwork, trust, creativity, and goal-setting. "The $100,000 Lesson" is about more than winning and losing: it is about learning how to fight obstacles in order to create the best team possible.
21 and Other Numbers That Changed My Life: Harnessing the Power of Analytics to Improve Your Business
Drawing from his unique personal experiences, from the blackjack table to consulting professional sports teams, Ma talks about innovative metrics in a way that will make you reevaluate how your group accesses talent, finds undervalued assets, and measure the true worth of your business. By eschewing emotion and honing in on hard facts and results, Ma has helped usher in what Newsweek calls "a new age of numbers in corporate America.”
