Sponsors

George Mason University

Since its founding in 1972, George Mason University has grown into a major educational force and earned a reputation as an innovative, entrepreneurial institution. Just minutes from Washington, D.C., George Mason has a growing and diverse student body and an exceptional faculty of enterprising scholars. At the center of the world’s political, information, and communications networks, George Mason is the university needed by a region and a world driven by new social, economic, and technological realities. http://www.gmu.edu/

Northern Virginia Technology Council

The Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) is the membership association for the technology community in Northern Virginia. NVTC has about 1100 member companies representing more than 200,000 employees. Its membership includes companies from all sectors of the technology industry including information technology, software/hardware, Internet, ISPs, telecommunications, biotechnology, bioinformatics, aerospace, and nanotechnology, as well as the service providers that play an important role in supporting these companies. In addition, universities, foreign embassies, non-profit organizations, and governmental agencies are members and take an active participation in meeting NVTC goals and objectives. http://www.nvtc.org

ITS America

Intelligent Transportation Systems, or ITS, encompass a broad range of wireless and wire-line communications-based information, control and electronics technologies. When integrated into the transportation system infrastructure, and in vehicles themselves, these technologies help monitor and manage traffic flow, reduce congestion, provide alternate routes to travelers, enhance productivity, and save lives, time and money. http://www.itsa.org

Founded in 1995, the Maryland-China Business Council (MCBC) is the premier private non-profit organization dedicated to helping Mid-Atlantic companies succeed in the China market. MCBC members include corporations, consultancies, government agencies, non-profit organizations, and academic institutions involved in a variety of business activities with China. MCBC also welcomes individual members with varied interests in trade with China. http://www.mcbc.net

The United States-China Business Council, Inc. (USCBC) is a private, nonprofit organization of more than 250 American corporations that do business with China. Founded in 1973, USCBC has provided unmatched information, advisory, advocacy, and program services to its membership for over three decades. Through its offices in Washington, DC; Beijing; and Shanghai, USCBC is uniquely positioned to serve its members' interest in the US and China. USCBC's mission is to expand our commercial relationship with China to the benefit of our membership and, more broadly, the US economy. We advocate a balanced approach to our commercial relations with China—one that expands opportunities while identifying and removing trade barriers. Our focus is on rules-based trade, investment, and competition, and on developing a commercial environment in China that is predictable and transparent to all parties. http://www.uschina.org/

Panacea Consulting, Inc.

Panacea Consulting, Inc. is a small disadvantaged business headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. We deliver quality Program Management, Information Technology, and Information Management solutions to our Federal, State and Fortune 1000 clients. Panacea builds client satisfaction through quality performance and "helping our customers deliver the best possible solutions to their customers." Our best-practices serve as the foundation for consistency in our project performance and quality and drive our ongoing corporate commitment to excellence. Our executive team takes a "hands-on" approach to every project through oversight and by regularly and independently confirming Panacea's quality of performance directly with our customers. Quality performance, commitment, and alignment of our expertise with our customer's vision has helped us grow to over 150 employees with annual revenues of $19 million since our creation in 1990. http://www.panatech.com/

Quantitative Technology(Taiwan) Co., Ltd

QTC is founded in 1987 as a Proprietary Software and Consulting Firm in USA for Government and Industry. It started to work for Ministry of Economic Affairs, Department of Transportation, and Bureau of Census in Taiwan since 1989, for World Bank with State Planning Council in China since 1993, for CRC, NTT, NEC and 7 leading Newspapers in Japan since 1994, for Hardee in Korea since 1995, for Philip Morris in Hong Kong since 1997, and continue to work for more than 250 clients such as American Express, Standard Chartered Bank, ShenZhen Development Bank, Avon Cosmetic, McDonald, KFC, 7Eleven, Ford Taiwan, GM, Toyoda, DHL etc. from USA and Asia on Consumer Profile Analysis, Strategic Planning, Marketing, Channel Distribution, and Site Selection with Cartographic(Maps) and local Demographic Databases. QTC has recently become very active in technology transfer and trade promotion activities such as (1) Organized the 2004 Secondary City Trade and Investment Conference in Anhui for China’s 40 Cities in 4 Eastern Provinces (Anhui, Shanung, Henan, Jiangsu), attended by more than 1500 guests including 218 from US, Japan and Taiwan, (2) Conducted Trade Missions to China (4 Times) and (3) Supported 2008 Beijing Olympic Marketing Efforts by US Firms. QTC is also the principal organizer of this 2007 China Seminar and Workshops. http://www.qtc.com.tw

Data and Analytic Solutions, Inc.

Data and Analytic Solutions, Inc. (DAS) is a full service Information Technology consulting firm. It is SBA 8(a) certified, MBE certified and woman-owned. We have provided services to the U.S. Coast Guard, the Board of Governors Federal Reserve, Dept. of Veteran Affairs, Centre for Development and Population Activities, and to quite a few Fortune 500 companies in the financial, business and technology sectors. DAS’s highly qualified team of professionals are committed to not only meeting the technological and business needs of its clients, but also to exceed them by building "performance based partnerships" with its clients. We have worked effectively with experienced software developers and web programmers in China, which enables us to have significant cost savings, efficiency, and competitiveness. http://www.dasconsultants.com

Zipzone Limited

Zipzone Ltd. is a small company based in Washington, DC, which advises IT companies on finding the right distributors for their products throughout the world, but with a special emphasis on Asia. Additionally, Zipzone helps companies find the best countries for IT outsourcing and offshoring and partners within any particular country. Zipzone has contacts throughout the world's leading IT regions and can advise companies on how to best take advantage of these growing regions and the world market. http://www.zipzone.net/

Base Technologies Inc.

Base Technologies Inc. provides end to end business IT solutions. Our focus is always the customer. Providing responsive personal service that is available throughout the life of our contracts is what differentiates us from our competitors. You are entrusting your business to us and we will earn that trust with leading-edge solutions that will help you achieve your business objectives and goals. We build lasting relationships and engineer solutions one customer at a time.

Website: http://www.basetech.com/

Opus8 is a private investment firm headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA with offices in Shanghai, China. The firm makes venture capital investments in outsourcing companies in China. Key areas of focus include IT Outsourcing (ITO), Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Call Center and Customer Relationship Managment (CRM) Outsourcing, and marketing services outsourcing. We are "Entrepreneurs investing in Entrepreneurs." Opus8's strategic advantage is the fact that its Partners and Board Members are all entrepreneurs who have started, grown, and sold multiple companies in the outsourcing space. This Fall, the Company plans to commence raising a $50 million USD fund to invest in China. http://www.opus8.com

Drawing from the experience of over eighty registered patent and trademark attorneys, Sughrue Mion offers unmatched expertise in a wide range of intellectual property matters. With over seventy patent attorneys, each holding degrees in the electrical, mechanical, physical, biological and/or chemical arts, we offer the unique ability to staff project teams with attorneys having a specialty matched to our clients’ needs. Our ability to succeed in specialized IP forums is built upon our recognized strength and leadership in patent law, both before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and before the U.S. federal courts and international trade courts. Historically, Sughrue Mion ranks in the top firms for the number of patents obtained from the U.S. Patent Office and also led the rankings in the number of trademark filings. From offices in Washington, D.C., California, and Tokyo, Sughrue Mion is proud to serve the world’s largest patent and trademark holders. http://www.sughrue.com

UCTID provides unique public relationship (PR) and marketing service for global technology based business, specially clients from USA and China. UCTID has two independent industrial clubs: IT Service International for outsourcing; Venture Investment Club for investor and innovation start-up match-making. Contact Dr. River Qu Duan, President of UCTID, Inc for details. http://www.uctid.org

The Institute for Global Business Studies is an educational institution supported by business faculty interested in promoting research and education in sustainable business growth worldwide. The institute was established on September 25th, 2006 and is incorporated in the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA. The institute is authorized by the State Council of Higher Education in Virginia to operate as an educational institution and to offer degrees. The institute aims to provide high quality graduate business education worldwide. It is governed by a Board of Governors from academia and industry. The Board and the President are advised by an International Advisory Board. The advisory board members are leaders from academia and industry. The academic quality of the program is maintained by a faculty committee. The academic committee is composed of faculty from multiple academic institutions from USA, Switzerland, and India. http://www.igbs.us/

Seth Harlem is a China business consultant based in Washington, DC. His practice focuses primarily on helping small and medium size U.S. companies find opportunities in China, and on helping small and medium size Chinese firms with their U.S. business development. He has worked with a Chinese private equity firm on finding investment opportunities in the U.S. primarily with lower middle market American companies. Seth also writes a newsletter about Chinese global investments, and is developing a business to help American organizations attract Chinese international investment. Seth has lived in China in Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Shanghai and has worked with General Motors China in the Business Development and Planning Department. In addition to working in China Seth has also studied at two Chinese universities, Zhejiang University and Fudan University. Seth sits on the young professionals steering committee, as well as the advisory council of the Asia Society Washington Center. Seth can be reached at sharlem@mac.com