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Schrödinger's cat, a famous thought experiment in Quantum Mechanics, illustrates a scenario in which a cat was locked in a box with a certain amount of radioactive substance. Under such circumstance, the cat had equal possibility to survive since its life or death depended on whether the radioactive atom decayed and emitted radiation or not.Whether it survived or not could only be confirmed when the state was observed in the form of particles after opening the box.

It is just like the city we are living in, Guangzhou.

In the era of mobile Internet, we pay close attention to the changes around us: The orange bikes can be seen everywhere. We pay with NFC. Black Technology and smart device have changed our life.

Yet it seldom occurs to us that how Guangzhou as a city will contribute to these frontier innovations. This city seems to retain its uncertainty, a state of being gracefully detached in its own pace. We taste the spirit and culture of the city, while at the same time, straying away from it, bit by bit, as we are often besieged by our career and life.

This time, we are determined to open the box of Schrödinger's cat, and try to “unveil the uncertainty”, so as to search for the answers to these questions: In what way will the changes of the world make a connection with Guangzhou? How will the native industry, in turn, be brought into contact with the world? Five years later, or maybe in the distant future, what keywords and questions will we embrace and face?

white swan hotel
No.1, Shamian South Street, Guangzhou
Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510000
China

Chao Wu

Chao is an artist with a master's degree in France. Her artworks mainly concern with life itself, and the relationship and tension between daily and spiritual life. She creates and exhibits her works by hand-drawn animation, videotaping, installations, field study and interdisciplinary cooperation. Her works received many awards and were exhibited at various film festivals and art museums home and abroad. In 2014, she cooperated with Xia Weilun to launch a project called Awaken Vegetable by Audiovisual.

De Kai Wu

He is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. De Kai's cross-disciplinary work in language, music, artificial intelligence and cognition centers on enabling cultures to interrelate in creative ways. As an AI professor, he is among only 17scientists worldwide named by the Association for Computational Linguistics as a Founding ACL Fellow, for his pioneering contributions to machine translation that established cross-lingual machine learning foundations of systems like the Google / Yahoo / Baidu / Microsoft translators. As a musician, he created one of HongKong’s best known transcultural soul/pop collectives, ReOrientate.

Michal Kulakowski

He is Psychologist MA, HPS coaching trainer, HPS mentor coach, also coach accredited by International Coach Federation - PCC Level, and by International Coach Community, and teacher at post graduated studies of coaching in Warsaw (Poland). He leads workshops and offers professional support for mind-body-spirit integration practices for happiness, health, performance and prosperity, where high level of energy and fun is important part of accelerated process of learning, encouraging and supporting creative, positive individual and social change. He is also leading educational outdoor projects for families, adults and children called "Psychology in Out Door", integrating diving and survival trainings with knowledge of modern psychology.

Michal Szczecinski

He is Head of Analytics and Data Scientist at GoGoVan/Kuaigou. Previously he used to work in data teams of PwC, NaturalMotion and Zynga. He is organizer of Data@HK, founder of Quantified Self Oxford and Artificial Intelligence Oxford. In his free time he likes to train martial arts and dance.

Robert Zetao Zhu

He is Regional General Manager of South China at Didi Chuxing. He worked as Head of Application Innovation and User Experience at IBM Global Business Services (GBS) - South China Region, Director of Digital User Experience and Digital Laboratory of Capgemini Consulting - Greater China Region. He is also a member of Mensa International Club. Under the everchanging environment in which sharing economy has become an important part of our life, what should be the best survival strategies for every individual? Robert Zhu will share his personal experience and his insight of sharing economy.

Sue Wang

Sue was born in Saigon but raised in California, USA. In 2014, she left A.I.G to start her own premium vegan business (#rawandbaked) in Guangzhou. In Guangzhou, she co-founded My PAWS And Me animal rescue center education foundation, which helps rescue, advocate, and educate positive animal welfare. In 2016, she founded Sutopia & Co. a social innovation start-up, which envisions merging social networking with e-commerce in the animal rescue e-space. The vision is to make animal rescue simple and sustainable on one simple APP.

Winnie Qiu

Winnie Qiu is an entrepreneur focusing on health care and cancer data. As a trained engineer who worked on one of the largest environmental pollution and litigation case in history, she collected and analyzed a large amount of pollutant data to help make informed decision on responsible pollutant release party. Her father's diagnosis on Stage IV lung cancer became the turning point of her career. While doing research for her father's cancer, she found that the world's cancer data base is not connected and information is fragmented, which led to inefficiency in finding optimal and effective treatment for her father. Therefore, she applied methods that she had learnt in her engineer career and founded Haalthy, a venture-backed company that uses social network and easy-to-understand medical content to encourage patients to share data, institute and doctors to provide services and share insights with cancer patients. She received her MS Degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and two BS Degrees from the University of Connecticut.

Xiaoying HUANG

She is the founder of the Fun Club in Guangzhou Children's Palace, and a planner of educational activities. Working with all sectors of society, she tries to create an inclusive education model that values students’ self-explorations beyond subjects and classrooms. She also pays close attention to new media, art nouveau and artificial intelligence.

Yimin Sun

Yimin is professor from South China University of Technology, Cheung Kong Scholar, one of National Distinguished Teachers and 100 China Architects. He worked as the leading architect for the 6 stadiums of the 29th Olympic Games (Beijing), the 16th Asian Games (Guangzhou) and the 26th Universiade (Shenzhen). He is also Vice Director of City Design Committee of Architectural Society of China, member of Committee of City Design Experts, Vice Director of Committee of Chinese Landscape Architecture, chief designer of Pazhou region in Guangzhou.