This Week’s Highlights Speaker: Alec Ash Topic: Generational trends shaping young China today, and how it connects to China’s historical legacy of youth and change Our speaker Alec Ash presented Wish Lanterns, his nonfiction book published by Picador in 2016 and a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, that follows six young...
This Week’s Highlights Club Lunch at Kempinski *Above: Rotarians and guests at lunch President Russell hosted the regular club lunch on Tuesday, October 10th at Kempinski Hotel. There was no speaker. Rotaract Meeting Rotarian Gilbert attended the Rotaract weekly meeting in The Crib. Rotaract handed over the funds they collected for MCF...
This Week’s Highlights Club Trip to Huairou *Above: Rotarians and guests at the museum. On Tuesday, September 26, our club had its first club tour this year. Rotarians visited the vintage car museum in Huairou and had an early dinner. This trip was organized by Rotarian Jens Hamester. *Above: Rotarians Jens introducing the plain....
This Week’s Highlights Speaker: Viktor Arak Topic: Success Stories of Interim Management in China Our speaker Viktor began his presentation by pointing out the challenges of doing business in China, especially as a foreign company. Beside the obvious language barriers, there is also a fast-changing business environment and opaque distribution and supply chains that...
This Week’s Highlights Speaker: Sven Hundhausen Topic: Connected Mobility In this week’s presentation our speaker, Rtn Sven, provided us with insight on OEMs vs. Digitals in the automotive industry. He described an industry in a transformative stage, new competitors with a different attitude, a different culture and very different opportunities. OEMs typically have three...
This Week’s Highlights Speaker: Julian Gornall-Thode Topic: China Sport Our speaker this week was Julian Gornall-Thode, Vice President at Shankai Sports, a leading international sports business connecting the global sports world and China. He holds both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Chinese studies from Cambridge University as well as an MBA from...
