Zak Dychtwald

There are few countries more important – but less understood — in our world today than China. Most people, organizations, and executives are still stuck on ‘old China’, while China’s youth is driving a massive economic engine that is already leading global growth in a post-Covid world. Their perspectives towards family, work, wealth, brands, family, their government, and our government are vastly different than past generations, and will shape the decades to come. Read More >

As a consumer, competitor, and collaborator, Young China is already redefining their country and the world. You and your organization must understand how.

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• How Young China sees us? What are their attitudes towards democracy and their own government?
• How China’s 700 million under 40 are similar and different to their global cohort, and why China has “generation gulfs.”
• What is worth it in China today? Which themes and brands are thriving amongst the biggest consumer class in the world?
• How this generation is beginning to drive global innovation, shirking the global copycat stereotype?

“Can China be innovative” is one of the defining questions of the 21st century. Read More >

While China’s reputation as a global “copycat” lingers, China is beginning to lead the rest of the world in mobile technology, e-commerce, and future-forward thinking. In fact, some of the smartest and most forward-leaning Western companies have already begun copying China.

Based on his upcoming Harvard Business Review Magazine feature article, Zak takes you to the trenches of the country’s tech and investment scene to look at how China is becoming a world class innovator, and how their greatest “innovation advantage” is a uniquely adaptive and adoptive population.

This dynamic and eye-opening session will: Read Less ^

• Explore China’s “Innovation Advantage” and the psychology of its hyper adaptive and adoptive population.
• Illustrate how Chinese businesses and entrepreneurs are competing at a world-class level, and which Western businesses are already “copying the copycat.”
• Examine what there is to learn from competition with Chinese innovators, and where.
• Western organizations still hold a major competitive advantage of their own.

In 2021 the world is looking towards China for growth. With much of the world half shuttered, China’s open shops and businesses mean that the Young China consumer will be an engine of the global Covid-19 recovery. Even “non-China” companies are increasingly China reliant: from Microsoft to Airbnb, Apple to Nike. Read More >

How has China rebounded from the COVID crisis? Which themes were accelerated, and which disrupted? How will this impact global business and politics?

This insightful, Data-Driven Session will: Read Less ^

• Dive deep into consumer sentiment of post-Covid19 China. What is seen as “worth it”?
• How resilient are consumers?
• Explore the path forward laid out by the government and private organizations to protect business growth and trade partners.