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CHINICT (Simplified Chinese: 科技明星在中国 - literally meaning "Tech Stars In China") is a conference including a Hackathon focused on the China tech innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem. CHINICT takes place once a year at the end of May in Beijing at Tsinghua University Science Park.
Since 2005, CHINICT has been featuring policy-makers, financiers, entrepreneurs, innovators and technologists both from China and the West - including Eduardo Saverin, Christine Lagarde, Kai-Fu Lee, Victor Koo, Dave McClure, Kaiser Kuo, Tim Draper, Mark Suster, Daniel Wu - as well as key executives from Google, Microsoft, Baidu, Alibaba, Yahoo, Youku, BlackBerry, Tencent, Sina, AngelList, Aigo, Linkedin, Zhongguancun Science Park, Nokia, Kaixin001, Qunar Viadeo, PPLive, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Nasdaq, London Stock Exchange, the United Nations, Intel Capital, Steamboat Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, Softbank, Playfish, Kongzhong, Phoenix Television, Beijing University, Qihoo, China E-Commerce Association, Tsinghua University.
The CHINICT conference is also live-streamed throughout major media such as TechCrunch, InformationWeek, Les Echos, Sina, Tencent, Sohu, Netease, Xinhua News Agency, People's Daily.
Franck Nazikian
Franck Nazikian (Simplified Chinese: 方克纳) is a tech entrepreneur and investor. He is the CEO & co-founder of WowTune, a company focused on creating VR singing and spoken voices. He is also the founder of Tempo2 Ventures, and PROFETERNITY - a blockchain company and a bitcoin fund.
Previously, he was president of CHINICT - he founded in 2005, and also run DEVELOPNEUR - a series of pitch competitions & hackathons - he created in 2011.
In 2012, Franck Nazikian was invited by Liu Qi, member of the CPC Politburo and former President of the Beijing Olympics Organizing Committee, and Wan Gang, Minister of Science and Technology of China, as a distinguished guest at the Great Hall of the People.
Prior to CHINICT and DEVELOPNEUR, together with Renaud Laplanche, Franck co-founded TripleHop Technologies, acquired by Oracle. Franck also served as a managing director at Gemplus International, making venture capital investments in tech companies.
Franck is supporting different charity organizations - including the United Nations's World Food Programme.