Kai-Fu Lee is the CEO of Sinovation Ventures and
New York Times bestselling author of
AI Superpowers. Lee was formerly the president of Google China and a senior executive at Microsoft, SGI, and Apple. Co-chair of the Artificial Intelligence Council at the World Economic Forum, he has a bachelor's degree from Columbia and a PhD from Carnegie Mellon. Lee's numerous honors include being named to the
Time 100 and
Wired 25 Icons lists. He is based in Beijing.
Chen Qiufan (aka Stanley Chan) is an award-winning author, translator, creative producer, and curator. He is the president of the World Chinese Science Fiction Association. His works include
Waste Tide, Future Disease, and T
he Algorithms for Life. The founder of Thema Mundi, a content development studio, he lives in Beijing and Shanghai.