Cambridge China Business Forum 2025

🎫 🔥 🎓  EXCLUSIVE STUDENT TICKET ONLY £28!

💡Theme

Innovation-Driven Future: Advancing Global Markets with Emerging Tech

In an era of rapid technological disruption and shifting global dynamics, the Cambridge China Business Forum 2025 convenes academics, entrepreneurs, investors, and corporate leaders for a full-day dialogue on the technologies and strategies shaping tomorrow's markets.

Main Forum Highlights 

Gain exclusive insights from top speakers representing Tencent, Jinko Solar, Envision Energy, Octopus Energy, 01.AI, and leading Cambridge scholars.

Key themes include:

• 🤖 AI disruption
• 🌱 Green technology
• 🛒 E-commerce & consumer lifestyle trends

Through keynote speeches and expert panel discussions, the forum delivers practical case studies, frontier trends, and market strategies to help participants better understand China’s evolving role in global innovation.

 Featured Group Sessions (Invitation-based)

• Entrepreneurship & Early-Stage Growth – Insights into startup funding, growth strategies, and founder-investor dynamics  
• AI in Action – Practical discussions on AI implementation across sectors, from LLMs and enterprise solutions to SaaS and healthcare.  

📌 Note: These sessions are invitation-based. Please leave your company or university email at checkout. Attendance will be confirmed via email.

Guest Speakers Overview

• Gishan Dissanaike, Dean of Cambridge Judge Business School
• Professor Per Ola Kristensson, Professor of Interactive Systems Engineering, University of Cambridge; Co-Director, Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence 
• Dr. Ning Ning, Vice President of Enterprise Services, 01.AI
• Xiaowei Zhu, International Business Leader, AWS  
• Ling Lei, Vice President, JD.com & Head of JD World Food Category
• Haopeng Li, UK & Ireland Sales and Marketing Manager, BYD
• Xiao-Xiao J. Zhu, Digital Operating Partner, KKR
• Kidd Wang, Head of Marketing Technology,Tencent
• David Newbery, CBE, FBA, Member of the Energy IRC Steering Committee, Director of the Energy Policy Research Group, Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge
• Jerry Zhang, CEO, SFC Capital China
• Ms. Dany Qian, Global Vice President, JinkoSolar
• Mr. Alex Schoch, Group Director of Flexibility and Electrification, Octopus Energy
• Dr. Kotub Uddin, Chief Engineer, Envision Energy
• Dr. Jerry Wu, Managing Director & UK Head, Longriver Investment
• Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes, Associate Professor in Economics and Policy, Deputy Director of the Cambridge Executive MBA Programme, Fellow and Co-Director of the King’s Entrepreneurship Lab at King’s College, University of Cambridge

Agenda

🍽 What’s included: 

✔ Full access to main forum sessions
✔ Light breakfast and lunch for early arrivals – ideal for networking
✔ Exclusive Networking Opportunity – End the day with a Cambridge Formal Dinner, an intimate chance to connect with speakers and guests in a candlelit hall. (Available only with the Exclusive Bundle.)

🎟 Tickets are limited – reserve your place now and be part of shaping the future of global business.

Organised by:
Cambridge China Business Society × Chinese Students and Scholars Association in Cambridge
In collaboration with:
CBAIA  ×  King’s Entrepreneurship Lab