Member’s Event: ‘A Global EdTech Unicorn: Before, during and after COVID-19’

As the world faces the challenges brought about by COVID-19, the education industry has encountered the issue of how to better serve students and their families while they are required to stay home. For schools around the world, the solution has been to turn to online education.

As a leader in the online education industry, VIPKID has played a major role in the globalization of education. It has become a leading EdTech company in China by matching quality North American teachers to English-language learners. Despite its short history, VIPKID’s focus on innovation has made it a pioneer in the sector and even providing customized products for schools that are testing online education for the first time. Indeed, this time of crisis calls for innovation.

While the global pandemic brings challenges to many businesses, it offers opportunities to online businesses and a chance to change the status quo of education globally. Nonetheless, there are many uncertainties facing online education and the education industry as a whole:

 

• How will online education platforms attract and retain customers during and beyond the outbreak?
• What can online education do to make sure the high-quality education is accessible to all people?
• Can the online education industry sustain the current boom after schools return to their offline operations?

 

The Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB), in partnership with AustCham China, is pleased to address this pertinent topic on an upcoming webinar, “A Global EdTech Unicorn: Before, during and after COVID-19,” featuring Cindy MI, Founder and CEO of VIPKID, CKGSB Global MBA alumna and Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum; LI Yang, CKGSB Professor of Marketing and Academic Director of the Global MBA Program; and ZHOU Li, CKGSB Assistant Dean.

 

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About the Agenda

9:00pm-9:05pm Opening Remarks

• ZHOU Li, Assistant Dean, CKGSB

9:05pm-9:45pm Keynote: Decoding the Growth of VIPKID: An online education unicorn

• Cindy MI,

Founder and CEO of VIPKID,

Alumna of CKGSB Global MBA Program

Alumna of Chuang Community

Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum 2018

9:45pm-10:25pm Dialogue

• Panelists:
  • Cindy MI
  • LI Yang

CKGSB Professor of Marketing

Academic Director of Global MBA, CKGSB

• Moderator: ZHOU LI

10:25pm-10:30pm Concluding Remarks

 

About the Speakers

Cindy MI

Founder and CEO of VIPKID

CKGSB Global MBA Class of 2010 Alumna

Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum 2018

In 2013, Cindy founded VIPKID, an industry leader and innovator in real-time online English-language education for children, serving a community of over 700,000 paying students and over 90,000 teachers in the US and Canada. Now, with a valuation of $4.5 billion, VIPKID is the biggest unicorn in China’s EdTech market and is named as “The World’s Top 50 Most Innovative Companies” by Fast Company in 2018.

 Prior to establishing VIPKID, Cindy earned her MBA degree from Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) in Beijing, which fostered Cindy’s entrepreneurial spirit and encouraged her to start her own businesses, connecting her with China’s the most disruptive companies, such as Tencent and Baidu.

 

LI Yang

Associate Professor of Marketing

Academic Director of Global MBA, CKGSB

Prof. LI received his Ph.D. from Columbia Business School, where he had taught undergraduate and MBA classes. His research focuses on Internet marketing and branding. Professor LI has up-to-dated case studies on branding for young Chinese consumers including HEYTEA, Li-Ning and ANTA. He also has consulted for the most disruptive companies in China, involving Tencent, Baidu, Haier and Yonghui Groups, and also holds a U.S. patent.

Prior to joining business academia, Dr. LI had earned a Bachelor’s degree in electronics science from Peking University, a master degree in biomedical engineering from Columbia University, and worked for United Nations in New York.

 

ZHOU Li

Assistant Dean, CKGSB

Chief Editor for CKGSB Knowledge

Mr. ZHOU Li joined CKGSB in 2010 as an Assistant Dean. He is primarily responsible for the School’s English-language Executive Education Programs, Global MBA Program, overseas operations, Case Center and applied research projects. He also serves as Chief Editor for CKGSB Knowledge, the School’s English-language magazine. He teaches “Understand China and Its Businesspeople” to Executive MBA students of top-tier business schools and senior executives of global companies from around the world. 

Prior to CKGSB, Mr. ZHOU worked for more than 20 years as CEO and in other management positions at telecom, IT, investment and consulting companies in Canada, Hong Kong and mainland China. Before he joined the corporate world, Mr. ZHOU was on the faculty of Renmin University in China, where he developed and taught International Business Management courses and was given the ‘Best Lecturer’ award. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Economics at Renmin University in China and his MBA at McGill University in Canada.

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