china investment forum event plan

7/23/2019 China Investment Forum Event Plan

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As Chinese investment in

California wine grows, so does

interest among Chinese investors in

Californias wineries. To date, at

least three multimillion-dollar

acquisitions of California wineries

and vineyards by Chinese investors

have been recorded.

Rhodium Group,

Chinese FDI in California,

November 2012

Advisory Committee

Wang Bin > Matsunichi Digital USA and Goldin Financial Holdings

Bob Burke > Greenheart Land Company, East Bay Programs Co-Chair, Urban Land Institute (invited)

Dr. Hong Chen > Hina Group (invited)

Duncan Clark > BDA China (invited)

Dr. Robert Edelstein > Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics

James Feng > Shanghai Foreign Investment Development Board

Ellen Gao > W.I. Harper

Song Jen Jen > AIG Group, Shanghai China

Rita Ling > Buchanan Street Partners (invited)

Peter Liu > W.I. Harper (invited)

Ted Liu > Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, State of Hawaii (invited)

Ed McFarlan > JRDV Urban International

Yuan Nansheng > San Francisco Chinese Consulate General (invited)

Stu Shiff > DivcoWest (invited)

Xiaoxi Xu > UC Berkeley Chinese Student Association

Dr. Pengpeng Zhan (Ponpon) > HIWAYS Law Offices

Wang Zhe > Shanghai Forte Land Company (invited)


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The Occident and the Orient,

the past and the present,

will here commingle their culture,

and the Pacific will be

illuminated from Berkeley.

Arthur Rodgers,

Berkeley graduate and

well-traveled business professional,

in his commencement

address, 1883

Draft Program

8:009:00 AM Registration, Networking, Continental Breakfast

9:009:15 Opening Remarks

9:159:45 Keynote Address & Words from Sponsor

9:4510:45 Panel Discussions, Q & A

10:4511:00 Coffee Break


11:30Noon Deal-Making

Noon1:15 PM Lunch


1:452:45 Panel Discussions, Q & A

2:453:15 Concluding Keynote & Words from Sponsor

3:154:00 Deal-Making

4:005:00 ROI Reception

Note: translation services to be provided, as necessary


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Event Committee Structure

While Chinese investors aren't

exactly going to save California

from financial malaise, the report

underscores the state's potential

and its position to court new money

in a place that needs it. Badly.

CNN Money, in reference toa report published by Asia Society,

October 2012

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

PROGRAMMING

Define overall panel theme

Develop one or two guiding questions

for each panel

Develop possible moderator questions

Choose, confirm, coordinate panelists

Choose moderator(s)

Develop program & panel logistics

Convey expectations and logistics in an

organized fashion to panelists

Choose event master of ceremonies

Coordinate venue & catering

Budget development

Reservation tracking

Obtain participant biographies

Hardcopy event program development

Event signage

Ensure sponsorship fulfillment

Secure translator

Secure volunteers

Name badges

Coordinate day-of event logistics

Volunteer coordination

Day-of registration management Coordinate special needs of panelists in

cooperation with Programming

Further develop sponsorship program

Contact potential sponsors

Recruit attendance through calls and

correspondence

Coordinate participation of potential

partners

Media placement

Press releases

LOGISTI S

Debbie Hauser

EVENT STEERING COMMITTEE

MARKETING LOGISTICS


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When the Yuan truly steps onto

the world's stage in 2015, the game

will change forever because there

will be a fourth currency that has

enough liquidity to absorb global

capital flows. The sacred

triumvirate of the U.S. dollar, the

yen and the euro will shatter.

Money Morning Chief Investment

Strategist Keith Fitz-Gerald,

April 2013

Underwriting through Sponsorship

The opportunity to bring a high quality, dynamic forum to fruition is the primary motivating factor

in launching the CIF effort, one that seeks to assemble in one room the regions leading experts in

business, finance, real estate, and investment to discuss, debate and highlight Chinas current place

in the Bay Area marketplace. Through an exchange of information that also offers sponsor visibility

and the opportunity for deal-making at one of the countrys most prestigious institutes of higher

education, it is hoped that both attendees and participants of the China Investment Forum leave

better informed and positioned than when they arrived.

Sponsorship that offsets event-related expenses and efforts made by Bridges China Program Seriesprincipals, in working with a volunteer Advisory Committee and Event Committee, is necessary for

a successful forum. Five levels of event sponsorship are anticipated, subject to definition by the

Event Committee:

> Gold Mountain Title Sponsorship

> Equity Partner Sponsorship

> Market Force Sponsorship

> Capital Market Sponsorship

> ROI Reception Sponsorship


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His plans for those buildings are

even more ambitious: by the end of

this year, Henderson expects to have

raised $100 million from foreign

investors seeking green cards under

the federal EB-5 visa program. That

money is being invested in real estate

and job-producing companies.

San Francisco Business Times,

July 2013, in regards to

Tom Hendersons recent purchase of

iconic Oakland buildings under the

EB-5 visa program

Summary Revenue and Expense Sources

R V NU

Gold Mountain Title Sponsor @ $10,000 = 10 seats

Equity Partner Sponsor @ $7,500 = 10 seats

Market Force Sponsor @ $7,500 = 10 seats

Capital Market Sponsor @ $1,000 = 5 seats

ROI Reception Sponsor @ $1,000 = 0 seats

Individual, Early Bird 5 anticipated

Individual, Pre-Registered 30 anticipated

Individual, Week/Day of 20 anticipated

Partners & Panelists 20 @ N/C = 20 seats

90 Paid Attendees, 20 Comp Attendees

XP NS S

Food and Beverage Inclusive of venue and set-up

Audio Visual Podium, microphones, screen package

Venue Decoration, signage

Marketing Communications Hard costs, soft costs, staff time > July Jan

Program Development Hard costs, soft costs, staff time > July Jan

Logistics Delivery Hard costs, soft costs, staff time > July Jan

110 Attendees


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Angel Island Cultural & Recreational Excursion

An exclusive optional Angel Island excursion available to top level

sponsors, forum speakers and selected guests is in the beginning

stages of planning.

Envisioned as a one-day event that brings together participants in a

recreational setting prior to the China Investment Forum, the

excursion will set out from Oakland, traverse San Francisco Bay

by boat, view the new East Span and the San Francisco skyline,

then dock at Ayala Cove on Angel Island for a day that includes

shopping, sightseeing, and a visit to the islands U.S. Immigration

Station. In operation from 1910-40, the Station served as the main

processing center for hundreds of thousands of immigrants from all

over the world looking to start a new life in America. As a result of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, the

U.S. Immigration Station detained immigrants an average of two weeks, sometimes years, while they

endured interrogations, medical exams, and more, for, sometimes, no other reason than their national

origin. Today the U.S. Immigration Station serves as a museum dedicated to interpreting and making

connections between the experiences of those who made the journey to America over 100 years ago and

the continuing story of immigration in America today. A visit to the museum provides context for the ChinaInvestment Forum.

Angel Island has something for everyone:

music, shopping, food, wine, sightseeing,

nature, exercise, culture and history.

The China Investment Forum Angel Island

Excursion will be charged as a separate

event for those who wish to participate,

pricing of which is pending further

logistics and planning.

To express their feelings, some of the

detainees, especially the Chinese, found

a release by carving and writing on the

walls of the barracks and hospital. They

created images, left messages or wrote

poems that have become a

predominant piece of the sites cultural

history. Some poems are still visible

at the museum today.

Angel Island History

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