2016 SAUPO: Symposium on Asia-US Partnership Opportunities

The Symposium on ASIA-USA Partnership Opportunities (SAUPO), the largest Asia business conference in the U.S., will be held on Friday April 22, 2016 at Renaissance Atlanta Waverly Hotel & Convention Center (at Cobb Galleria).

There will be some Asian companies and investors coming to 2016 SAUPO, due to the very successful Shanghai SAUPO Summit last week. It is anticipated about 350 global and local business leaders will attend SAUPO. We will have officials from the White House, U.S. Dept. of State, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, state government of Georgia and Alabama, and diplomats from Asia at SAUPO. The main purposes of SAUPO are information exchange, network building, global visibility, and investment from/to Asia.  Speaker Highlights:

• Greg Agvent, Senior Director of News Operations, CNN

• Brian Bieron, Executive Director, eBay 

• Sandeep Dadlani, Executive Vice President, Infosys Global

• Patricia Decker, U.S. Operations Director, Habitat for Humanity

• Jun Ji, President, Shanghai WBSA Investment Management Co

• Adil Kabani, Private Equity Associate, OPIC

• Alan King, VP of Sales, Yingli Green Energy Americas

• David Kirk, President & CEO, Murata Electronics

• Pat Kirwan, Director, Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee‬, U.S. Dept of Commerce

• George Mui, U.S. Dept. of Commerce & White House Initiative on AAPIs Regional Network

• Julia Nesheiwat, Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. State Department

• Brian Whitfield, Executive Vice President, IBM

Topics Covered: *Global Branding; *Technology and Innovation in Asia; *New Initiatives in Asia-Pacific: From TPP to AIIB; *Global Trends in Media & Education