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The No. 1 problem of almost every Silicon Valley entrepreneur is finding engineers. Developers in San Francisco are similar to apartments in San Francisco - really expensive, hard to get & even harder to keep. On top of a six-digit salary, bonuses, & large stock packages, you've got to offer a super-duper cool office, some unusual perks, etc.It doesn't have to be this way.These awesome companies are building their engineering team offshore, & they are kicking ass. Come to this talk & learn:
How to find quality engineers overseas?
What is the framework in terms of hiring, training & keeping them motivated
Dos & Don'ts in building an offshore development team
Why Hong Kong?
Meet our Speakers
Chien-Liang Chou - Vice President of Engineering at Flexport
Chien-Liang Chou is a Vice President at Flexport. He leads the engineering organization in its mission to build technology & products that underpin Flexport's Operating System for Global Trade. Over the last two years, Chien has built out the engineering team from 40 to 250 members across five sites. With almost twenty years of experience in small start-ups as well as enterprise companies, Chien brings a unique perspective on how to build technology that is enterprise-standard, scalable, & high-quality.
Before Flexport, Chien led LendingClub's investor & platform groups, managing $20 billion USD worth of asset transactions between investors & borrowers. He was formerly at LOYAL3 & Salesforce.
Andrew Toy - President & Chief Technology Officer at Clover
Andrew Toy is the President & Chief Technology Officer at Clover, where he is responsible for overseeing engineering, data science, product, IT & security, as well as driving the vision for how technology & analytics can improve the lives of Clover's members.Clover Health raised $925M from Sequoia Capital, GV, Spark Capital & many more.
Andrew joined Clover from Google, where he coordinated enterprise activities for the Android team & ran Machine Learning, Enterprise Search & Analytics for the G-Suite team. Before that, he was the CEO & co-founder of Divide, a company focused on creating a split between work & personal data on mobile devices, which was acquired by Google in 2014. He earned his BS & MS in Computer Science from Stanford.
Philip Lam -Co-Founder of HomeCourt
Born & raised in Hong Kong, Philip is a Co-Founder of HomeCourt - a mobile AI application for basketball training. HomeCourt raised Series A led by the NBA & many NBA/WNBA investors including Hall of Famer Steve Nash, Sue Bird & Jeremy Lin.
In 2019, HomeCourt was selected as Time best 100 inventions, won the Apple design award & selected as No.7 in the Fast Company in the Sports category. At Homecourt, Philip oversees product & engineering team, drives company vision/strategy, customer success & organizational process/structure. He builds & grows the engineering team in both Silicon Valley & Hong Kong offices from scratch, & Hong Kong now becomes the main R&D office of the company. Prior to HomeCourt, Philip worked at Apple & Microsoft as engineering manager. He also actively involved in startups advising, mentoring & non-profit works. He earned his B.Sc. in Math from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, & M.Sc. in CS from The University of British Columbia.
Edith Yeung -General Partner at Proof of Capital
Edith Yeung is a General Partner at Proof of Capital (an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund), creator of the China Internet Report & Advisor at 500 Startups - the world's most active early-stage incubator. Recognized by Inc Magazine as one of the Silicon Valley investors you must know, Edith invested in Stellar (valued at $1.2), Silk Labs (acquired by Apple), Fleksy (acquired by Pinterest), Human (acquired by Mapbox), Palantir, AISense, Solona, RapidAPI, Hooked, DayDayCook, & many more. Before 500, Edith is the general manager at Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia-backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide. Edith also worked with many Fortune 500 companies such as Siebel, Oracle, AMS, AT&T Wireless & Autodesk. She is a frequent commentator & opinion leader on BBC, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, SCMP, Techcrunch, etc. She frequently speaks on China & Silicon Valley technology & investment landscape. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at Berkeley & Stanford.
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