Late May every year sees the gathering of a who’s who of startups in the IT world here in China. They’re both the known — such as China’s number one personal gadgets maker Aigo — and the new-and-coming, such as Ushi.cn. David Feng (remember that guy?… from CN Reviews during the Beijing Olympics; it’s that Subway freak in tech mode) was there to live-blog the entire event.
(Truth to be told, it’s time for the first person.)
My goal: tweet the whole thing out, as I had done at tech events of years gone by — including 2009′s CHINICT. I’m still there tomorrow, so for live tweets of the entire event, follow @DavidFeng and @DavidFengTwo (Twitter can and has locked folks (like me) out who tweet too much over a given period of time). You can also go to techblog86.com or follow @techblog86 for updates — drafts of the tweets sent out in summary form will be posted at the end of every speech, and we’ll go through the cleaning up within the day to make it more legible.
Day 1 saw an upbeat kick-off to the event with Franck Nazikian (@franckn5) interviewing Aigo, who started out by making computer keyboards and is now onto the next-generation personal multimedia player (MP7s, anyone?). The showstealer, though, came in the afternoon, with Dave McClure (@davemcclure) and Mark Suster (@msuster) stealing the spotlight — after all, they came in all the way from America.
Full, complete coverage is available at techblog86: here comes the links for Day 1:
- Morning coverage: Kaixin001, Aigo, Wukong, Exmart, Borqs, Ushi.cn, Tencent
- Afternoon coverage: 3g.cn,Dave McClure, Mark Suster, KookyPanda, PPLive, Yeepay and 360.cn
The interviewers were mainly Franck Nazikian and Jeremy Goldkorn (who also did things in Chinese!). Lara Ferrar did the interview with Kaixin001. And, of course, TechCrunch TV and InformationWeek TV livestreamed the whole thing, as did Sina and local media.
The action continues tomorrow with Kai-Fu Lee kicking things off at 09:00 sharp. Stay tuned to techblog86 for more!
