Company type | Private |
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Industry | Tech Conference |
Founded | 2005 |
Founder | Franck Nazikian |
Headquarters | , |
Website | www |
CHINICT (Simplified Chinese: 科技明星在中国 - literally meaning "Tech Stars In China") is a conference[1][2] including a Hackathon[3][4][5] focused on the China tech innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem.[6][7] CHINICT takes place once a year at the end of May in Beijing at Tsinghua University Science Park.
Since 2005, CHINICT has been featuring policy-makers, financiers, entrepreneurs, innovators and technologists both from China and the West.[8][9][10]
The conference was founded in 2005 by Franck Nazikian (Simplified Chinese: 方克纳),[12][13][14][15][16][17] a tech entrepreneur and investor. He is the CEO & co-founder of WowTune, a company focused on creating VR singing and spoken voices, and several other Web3 enterprises.[18] Together with Renaud Laplanche, Franck co-founded TripleHop Technologies, acquired by Oracle.[19] Franck also served as a managing director at Gemplus International, making venture capital investments in tech companies, and runs DEVELOPNEUR,[20] a series of pitch competitions & hackathons[21] which he created in 2011.[22]