Molly Barnes Brown Bag Lunch at the Roger Smith Hotel

501 Lexington Avenue, New York City 10017

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Glenn O’Brien and Mark Kostabi Glenn is the former editor of Art in America and Interview Magazine and is currently writing for G.Q., Vogue and Vanity Fair. During this Brown Bag Lunch Glen and artist Mark Kostabi discuss their take on the art-world today.

Girls in Tech China is part of the larger organization Girls in Tech, founded in Silicon Valley in 2007. GIT Global is a social network enterprise focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of influential women in technology. GITChinas mission is to provide Chinese female entrepreneurs, from a diverse range of industries, the technology and skills to create more disruptive business models.

Jenny Bai
Director, Girls in Tech China
Co-Founder, Girl 2.0

Jing Zhou
Deputy Director, Girls in Tech China
Co-Founder, Girl 2.0

Yuan Zou
Girl 2.0 2010
President of Media Consulting, Sinotech Group

Cindy Gallop
Founder & CEO, www.ifwerantheworld.com
US Advertising Woman of the Year 2003

Stephanie Hanbury-Brown
Founder & Managing Director, Golden Seeds

Nancy Hechinger
Teacher of Communications, ITP (Tisch School of Arts, NYU)

Shauna Mei
Founder & CEO, AHAlife

Melissa Gonzalez
Co-founder, RS Pop Shop
CEO, Lion’esque Productions

Sponsored by GIT China, Girl 2.0 Campaign is a cross-border platform, inclusive of all women-oriented organizations, that leverages technology, capital and a stellar global network to catalyze female business and innovation between China and the U.S. In order to raise awareness and incite action around these issues, Girl 2.0 is putting on a series of events in New York and Shanghai this October and November.

The events will be spotlighting the Girl 2.0, an aspirational figure chosen this summer via a national new media search for Chinas most innovative female. As Chinas Ambassador of Innovation, the Girl 2.0 will serve as a courier of innovation stories between China and the U.S.Although China may be known as the world’s largest and fastest-growing source of entrepreneurial startups” according to Edward Tse, Booz & Company’s Chairman for Greater China, the challenges for entrepreneurs, especially female ones, cannot be ignored. Some are more universal, like access to network and capital. Others more unique, including building effective teams and the lack of soft skills like creative problem solving. The most significant hurdle, however, is Chinas social intolerance for failure.

How to Fail Up will be the kick-off event for the New York portion of Girl 2.0. The entire series of events will culminate on Nov. 6 in Shanghai, at the Girl 2.0 Expo, where the most innovative, cross-border business models and minds will be showcased in front of Chinas highest profile executives, investors and government officials.The 2010s Girl 2.0, Yuan Zou, was born and raised in China and schooled in Japan, U.S., and England. After graduating from UCLA, Zou launched her career as a management consultant in finance and telecom at Accenture in Los Angeles. She then joined PubliGroupe, a multinational media group in Switzerland. When PubliGroupe eventually sent her to Beijing to grow its China market, Zou discovered her true passion for entrepreneurship. She is now President of Media Consulting at SinoTech Group in Beijing, a tech startup that uses search engines and marketing metrics to decipher brand sentiments of the complex Chinese consumer market. Zou has an MBA from Cambridge University in England.