The devastating results for companies of global cyber-attacks Wanncry, and Petya earlier in the year reiterated the critical importance of cybersecurity to all companies. Mitigating the security risks, securing processes and finding appropriate solutions, services and products to handle security threats, vulnerabilities or even simple misconfigurations has become a business critical issue.

• 2017-09-14 | 16:00 - 17:30
• TANG III, 3d Floor, Four Seasons Hotel

The European Chamber is delighted to welcome veteran China watcher, Kerry Brown, to share some of the key ideas underpinning his most recent book, CEO, China: The Rise of Xi Jinping, mapping Xi’s grassroots climb from banished farmhand to one of the most powerful leaders in modern Chinese history.

• 2017-09-12 | 09:00 - 10:30
• QINGI, 5th Floor, Four Seasons Hotel

The European Chamber is pleased to invite you to an Exclusive Dialogue with Mr Ye Wei, Deputy Director General of Department of Foreign Investment Administration, MOFCOM to interpret Guo Fa [2017] No. 39.

• 2017-09-08 | 10:00 - 11:30
• Rosewood Beijing Hotel, Ballroom, 2nd Floor

The European Chamber is delighted to invite you to welcome Sarah Qin, chief consultant, EBS, to interpret the new policies and assess the impact these changes will have on HR practitioners at the working level.

• 2017-09-07 | 15:00 - 17:00
• Rosewood Beijing Hotel, Salon 201, 2nd Floor

In their recently released report The Fat Tech Dragon: Baseline Trends in China’s Innovation Drive, the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) have sought to make a quantitative assessment of where China stands in terms of innovation. In doing so they have assessed a wide range of macro-economic indicators; going beyond simply measuring R&D as a percentage of GDP, to paint a broader picture of the China innovation, its links to industrial policy, and its implications for companies; both Chinese and multinational.

• 2017-09-06 | 09:30 - 11:00
• Four Seasons Hotel, Tang III

The European Chamber, partnering with AmCham China, invites you to attend an exclusive dialogue with Mr Zhang Xiaoqiang, former Vice Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and Executive Vice Chairman of the China Centre for International Economic Exchanges (CCIEE).

• 2017-05-24 | 14:30 - 16:30
• Kempinski Hotel Beijing Lufthansa Center

The advancement of the digital age has blurred the lines between B2B and B2C marketing. Marketers are increasingly asking are B2B buyers really different from B2C and should the approach to selling to these two groups be fundamentally different?

• 2017-05-23 | 19:00 - 21:00
• The Opposite House, BEI Room

The EU Chamber is delighted to welcome back Yukon Huang, Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington DC and former World Bank country Director for China. Huang will talk about three challenges facing China in the coming years: (1) US-China trade tensions; (2) China’s growth and debt dilemma; and (3) Implication of Xi’s corruption campaign . The presentation draws on his forthcoming book “Cracking the China Conundrum: Why Conventional Economic Wisdom Is Wrong”

• 2017-05-19 | 09:00 - 10:30
• Kempinski Hotel Beijing Lufthansa Center, 3rd Floor, Hangzhou Room

This seminar will provide a list of proactive steps that companies can take in order to counter fraud and other forms of white-collar crime, better understand their potential business partners and limit their risk profile in China.

• 2017-05-18 | 09:00 - 10:45
• Four Seasons Hotel, TANG I

Mr Elijah Whaley will present insight into influencer marketing social content creation and online distribution, and how brands can work with influencers to design marketing strategies that maximise ROI.

• 2017-05-16 | 16:00 - 18:00
• European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C411A