How to Prepare for AI’s Industry Transformation and Job Market Disruption?

Seamon Chan is Founding Partner at Palm Drive Capital, a venture capital firm invested in over 180 technology startups across five continents. Previously, he was at Insight Partners and brings entrepreneurship and operating experience through startup, corporate, and research roles at multiple startups, Hitachi Data Systems, Citigroup, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab, and Stanford Center for Integrated Systems.

Seamon serves as Chair of the Milken Institute Young Leaders Circle (Asia), Trustee and Review Committee Member of the United Chinese Americans Community Foundation, Advisory Board Member of the Mekong Future Initiative. He is a Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations, Member of the Economic Club of New York, and China Institute Next Gen x Serica. Seamon was recognized as an Asia Society Asia 21 Next Generation Fellow in 2023 and serves on the Asia Society Southern California Advisory Council. He was honored as a Committee of 100 Next Generation Leader in 2018 and currently serves on the C100 NGL Planning Council. Seamon served as Co-Chair of the Atlantic Council 2023 Global Citizens Awards.

During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Seamon co-founded MillionLives.org, a non-profit initiative to donate medical supplies to underserved communities around the world. Seamon graduated from Stanford University where he setup an endowed scholarship called the Kai Yuen Chan Family Fund. He also graduated from the Owner/President Management program at Harvard Business School.

With a passion for technology, Matt is the global Leader of QuantumBlack Labs, McKinsey’s AI software development group, which builds all of the firm’s sector-based machine learning products (e.g., PMPx, GemX, InsureX), horizontal ecosystem tooling (e.g., Horizon, Kedro, Brix, Iguazio), and GenAI solutions (e.g., LegacyX), all designed to enable digital transformation at scale.

Matt also leads the firm’s financial-services digital and technology solutions: a suite of seven solutions, 75 assets, and more than 500 colleagues globally. These seven solutions, FinLab, GCI Analytics, Finalta, PriceMetrix, Performance Lens, ACE, and Panorama, enable business transformation with data, analytics, and software tools across banking, wealth and asset management, real estate, and private equity. Matt founded FinLab—a team of data scientists, systems architects, and engineers spread across Atlanta, Boston, London, New York, and Silicon Valley—that builds at-scale data and software applications for financial institutions.

Matt’s expertise extends to strategy and corporate finance, and he has led the firm’s work in this space in the northeast United States. Prior to rejoining McKinsey, Matt cofounded a multicategory ecommerce retailer and worked as private-equity investor.

Drawing on his extensive experience in software and technology, Matt helps clients transform their businesses with technology tools, new digital-product launches, and analytical use cases, which includes multichannel customer acquisition, customer retention, credit underwriting, credit collections, natural-language processing of contract data, real-estate location selection, fraud, smart operations and robotic-process automation, and people analytics.

Qingyi Huang is a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley in Research. She is Head of AlphaWise quant team and is responsible for conducting quantamental research and using AI to generate alpha signals. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley,Qingyi was an assistant professor at Guanghua School of Management at Peking University from 2011 to 2014. Qingyi holds a PhD degree from Kellogg School of Management and a BS degree from Fudan University.

Susan Yuqing Feng joined China Institute in America as Director of Programs in 2023. Before joining CI, Susan was the Editor in Chief of Bitpush News, a leading block chain media based in New York and a columnist for the Financial Times Chinese Edition.

Throughout her journalism career, Susan conducted interviews with a multitude of world economic and political leaders, including Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Alan Greenspan, Paul Volker, President Bill Clinton, Zbigniew Brzeziński, Michael Bloomberg, Thomas Friedman, and many more.  Susan has also directed the documentary series “World Movers” which was released in March 2018. It illustrated the emerging new world order 70 years after WWII, shedding light on what has changed the U.S. and the world and the forces affecting everyone. It focused on the relationships between technology and globalization, the impact on immigration, and the future of U.S.-China relations.

Susan graduated from Columbia University and got her MA in International Affairs.