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The payment options are available now. I have updated the conference information page.

• Free (student, register online before Aug. 9)
• 100 RMB (Online register before Aug. 9)
• 150 RMB (Online register before Aug. 14)
• 200 RMB (Pay at the door)
• 500 RMB (VIP seat)

Is it reasonable? Compared to our last year ticket price, you draw the conclusion. I don’t think you need the VIP seat. But if you do care about that, we have this option for you. And I recommend you to choose the online payment option, because I can expect a long queue waiting at the conference gate, if too many people pay at the door.

We started to provide free invitation to college students last year. This year we do this again. If you are student, go through our online registration form. We will inform you five days before the conference. If you are not based in Shanghai, you have to cover your transportation expense yourself.

So what are you waiting? Go register, the seats are limited.

When we contact speakers, there’s a common question for the ones not based in Shanghai: Do you have a budget to cover my transportation and hotel expense?

The short answer is sorry. The long answer is our confernece is a non-commercial event. All the conference organization committee are student volunteers. We have sponsors, but that’s all for conference expense like venue, coffee break, and lunch. We haven’t decided the ticket price. If it’s not free, most likely though, that’s all for parts that cannot be covered by our budget.

So what we can provide speakers for return:

• A chance to introduce you and your company before 200 high quality attendees
• Exchange ideas with experts within the same business area
• Gets your company logo and link on Conference paper, brochure, and website
• Some free tickets for you to invite your partner, friends, etc.
• Further networking opportunity in ATI’s events going forward.

If anyone is interested to be sponsor on stuffs like T-shirt, brochure, public media, etc, drop me a note at lychen1109@gmail.com.

I have just updated confirmed speaker’s bios. Welcome these people and companies join us!

http://chenluyi.com/ati/conference/speakerbios.htm

This is a late announcement. Lots of preparation work has already been done. Now we have a new conference homepage.

http://chenluyi.com/ati/conference/

The official website should be here, which will be updated shortly. If you have problem visiting the official website from China, here is a local mirror.

Brief information of the conference:
Conference name: Stanford ATI Entrepreneurial Conference 2006
Conference Theme: New opportunities for China
When: Wednesday, August 16, 2006, 9:00am-5:00pm
Where: Zhangjiang High-Tech Park, Shanghai

In the conference we are going to talk about emerging business opportunity from longtail, decentralization, and social community. I am trying not to use the buzz word “Web 2.0″ here, because lots of people are misusing this word.

Intellectual property is another topic in the conference. My idea is this: The central of Web 2.0 is the new way of content generation and distribution. Talking about content will bring the copyright issue. Without this, many business models won’t exist.

We also have an alternative energy panel. I don’t know much in this area, but this makes our conference more versatile.

Now the conference team are working day and night to finalize speakers and public relation issues. You can take a look at our panel wiki to know more about the topics in the conference. If you wanna attend the conference, go ahead and register.

I am browsing some alternative energy sources these days. And I just saw this news about using methane in rural area of China.

Why? Because we have an alternative energy panel in our upcoming conference. Acting as an organizer, you should learn something about the topics you are talking about.

To someone reading this blog, if you don’t know what alternative energy is, it’s mainly about wind power, solar power, auto generated heat from the deep under the ground, and many things else. Topix has a great page about alternative energy.

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