Friday, October 14, 2016
- 10:00-19:00:Registration and Exhibition Open
- 15:00-15:30:Welcome and Opening Remarks
Zhixiong Chen, President of CAST-USA
Futao Chen, Counselor Minister, Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United States of America
Representative of United States Senator in Utah
- 15:30-17:00:Keynote Speeches
Professor Thomas C. Sudhof, Stanford University, Winner of 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: "Understanding synaptic transmission - yesterday, today, and tomorrow"
Professor Gerald Stringfellow, University of Utah, Member of the National Academy of Engineering: "Materials and Processes for Light Emitting Diodes"
- 17:00-18:00:Parallel International Business and Trade Forums
- 18:00-19:00:Keynote Speeches
Professor Lieping Chen, Yale University: "Adaptive resistance: From a hypothesis to anti-PD-1/PD-L1 cancer therapy"
Professor Xiang Zhang, Member of US National Academy of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley: "Creating materials that do not exist in Nature"
- 9:00-20:30:Banquet and CAST-USA Excellence Award Presentation
Yunming Song, Chairman of BOG, CAST-USA
CAST-USA Award Excellence in Science Leadership
CAST-USA Award Excellence in Technology Management Leadership
CAST-USA Award Excellence in Technology Innovation Leadership
Dinner Speech
Saturday, October 15, 2016
- 08:30-18:30:Registration Opens
- 09:00-10:00:Keynote Speeches
Bill Jiang, President Elect of CAST-USA
Gary Herbert, Governor of Utah: "US and China in Scientific Innovation International Collaboration & Entrepreneurship"
Dr. Xuedong (XD) Huang, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Scientist of Speech at Microsoft Research: "Speech and Natural Language Progress for Enterprise Artificial Intelligence"
- 10:00-18:30:Exhibition
- 10:15-12:15:Parallel Scientific Forums
Biomedical Sciences: Airong Li
Innovative Materials: Rujie Sun
- 12:15-13:15:Lunch Break
- 13:15-13:45:Keynote Presentation
Professor Zhonglin Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology, Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Science: "From Micro Nano Energy to Blue Energy"
- 13:45-15:45:Innovation & Entrepreneurship Forum
Startup Competition
Internal Talent Exchange
- 16:00-18:00:Parallel Scientific Forums
Information Technology: Jizhong Xiao
Education Technology: Fred Yan
- 18:30-19:30:CAST-UT 20th Anniversary
Rujie Sun, President of CAST-UT
20th Anniversary Celebration and Awards of CAST-UT
- 19:30-20:30:Banquet, CAST-USA Awards Ceremony, and Closing Remarks
Howie Yu, Chairman of BOD, CAST-USA
CAST-USA Technology Innovation Awards, Young Elite Awards, and Outstanding Awards
Closing Remarks, Bill Jiang, President Elect of CAST-USA
- 21:00-23:00:CAST-USA Work meeting
Sunday, October 16, 2016
Touring Salt Lake City, Utah
