How to Use Entrepreneurial Skills for International Career

Join the Blackstone LaunchPad and student organization WeMedia Lab for hybrid event. The free event is geared toward international students but is open to all. American and Cantonese refreshments will be served.

For those attending in person, please register by emailing LaunchPad@syr.edu.

Participants can also join via Zoom at https://syracuseuniversity.zoom.us/j/91056615229.

The event will feature brief presentations by:

• Xinye (Cindy) Zou ’17, an influencer, media entrepreneur and blogger with one million followers who is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge, and
• Minhao Chen ’12, strategy manager at DiDi and former senior product manager at Amazon.
• Guest hosts are Ze Zeng ’22, founder of Paymenta, director of WeMedia Lab and LaunchPad Scholar, and YongZhang (Lawrence) Lin ’18, China Netcasting Service Association, Open Voice, co-founder of China Youth Polo, former LaunchPad Global Fellow, and serial student entrepreneur.

After the presentations, attendees will break up into small groups to join successful Syracuse University alumni from the around the world who excel in their respective fields for advice on building your resume and expanding your network. Panelists will provide insight on how they utilized entrepreneurial skills to grow their careers. Panelists include:

• Amos Cohen ’20, Product Manager at Deloitte Digital (Israel)
• Saniya More ’19, Content Strategy Lead at Flux, and founder of SU Globalists (Mumbai)
• Quentin Rosso ’18, Cofounder and CTO, Gamercraft, investor, TEDx speaker, former LaunchPad Global Fellow, and serial student entrepreneur (Paris)
• Camia Gui ’14, Account Director, Activation Group (China)
• Mengke Liang ’10, Senior Manager, PWC (China)
• Michael Meng ‘17, Senior Consultant, IBM (China)

For accommodations or questions, email launchpad@syr.edu.