"EXPLORING THE EVOLVING DIGITAL FUTURE"
"EXPLORING THE EVOLVING DIGITAL FUTURE"
This is an era of great opportunities and challenges. On the one hand, digital technology has a profound impact on all aspects of economics, commerce and social life, and will eventually lead to productivity gains and generate new production relations. On the other hand, is unprepared for these changes, leading to a restructuring of the world economic order and growing uncertainty.
As digital technology penetrates, micro-foundation of the macroeconomies are changing profoundly. Enterprise boundaries and traditional supply chains are being dismantled, giving rise to platform economies and new synergies, while the identities of consumers and producers are being redefined.
The extent of digital economy development, along with its mechanisms, trends, boundaries, and challenges, remains a critical area of exploration. To foster better understanding and utilization of technology, and to prepare society for the most pressing problems, the world's top social scientists, technical experts, privacy experts, entrepreneurs and core management of the Alibaba economy, including six Nobel laureates, have confirmed their participation and will have in-depth discussions on the most important issues in the era of digital technology.
Together, the "Top Ten Questions on Digital Economy" will be published to the world to shed light on future directions for both theoretical and practical exploration.
Date
June 25 to 26, 2019
Location
West Lake State Guest House (Hangzhou)
Sessions
June 25
9:00 - 9:30 Opening remarks
Long Chen (Luohan Academy): Purposes, arrangements and expections of the conference (10 mins)
Michael Spence（NYU)：Digital technology and the developing world (20 mins)
9:30 - 12:10
New Economy: How is digital technology reshaping the economy? (Moderator：Neng Wang（Columbia）)
Lei Yang（Hello Bike)：Technology-driven sharing travel (15mins)
Yi Wang（LAIX Inc.)：Digital technology transforming education (15 mins)
Richard Holden（UNSW）：Boundaries of the firm in the digital era (20 mins)
Yi Huang（IHEID）： Big tech and financial market structure (15 mins)
Alberto Rossi（U Maryland）： Who benefits from robo-advising? (15 mins)
Bengt Holmström（MIT）：Future of finance (20 mins)
Dialogue (50 mins)
13:30 - 16:00
New Coordination: The rising of platform economy and ecosystem
Parallel Venue 1：Platform mechanisms and operations
Moderator：Steven Tadelis（UC Berkeley）
Kaifu Zhang（Alibaba）：Platform operations in practice(15 mins)
Yizhou Jin（UC Berkeley）：Digital technology and insurance (15 mins)
Geoff Parker（Dartmouth): Platform revolutions (20 mins)
Jieyuan Liao (Microdoctor): Technology transforms health industry (15 mins)
Alvin Roth（Stanford）： Matching mechanisms in health area (20 mins)
Parallel Venue 2: Platform and ecosystem
Moderator：Patrick Bolton（Imperial College London）
Jun Su (Smartmi): Consumption ungrades and supply coordination (15 mins)
Shanglue Xiao（Yunji）：Future of retail （15 mins)
Long Chen（LHA）：ecosystem of e-commerce (20 mins)
Wenlan Qian（NUS）：Online and offline consumption (15 mins)
Christopher Pissarides（LSE）：Work in the Age of Robots and Artificial Intelligence (20 mins)
Panel Dialogue (65 mins)
16:30 - 18:00 Dialogue
Moderator：Long Chen
Theme：Platform in the Digital Era
Daniel Zhang（Alibaba）, Bengt Holmström（MIT）, Thomas Sargent（NYU）, Christopher Pissarides（LSE）
June. 26
9:00 - 12:30
New Challenge:Privacy protection and data governance (Moderator: Preston McAfee（Former VP, Microsoft)
Long Chen（Luohan Academy）：Privacy in the digital era （20 mins)
Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin（Former Deputy Chair of the French Data Protection Authority): Privacy regulations and legislations, firm operation and innovations （20 mins)
Ariane Mole (Bird & Bird）：The privacy paradox and concerns (20 mins)
Jane Horvath (Apple Inc.) ：Principles and practice of privacy protection (20 mins)
Zhengjun Nie（AntFinancial）：Practices of privacy protection at AntFinancial (20 mins)
Panel Discussion (30 mins): Law, problems, and suggestions for privacy protection + Bengt + Lars + Neng Wang.
Wei Xiong（Princeton）：Privacy and Temptation (20 mins)
Thomas Sargent（NYU）：Information, Geometries, Statistics, Computations (20 mins)
Panel Discussion (30 mins): Economic research on privacy, policy implications and practice + Xiaohong Chen
13:30 - 17:00
New Technology: Blockchain and other future digital technology (Moderator：Zhiguo He（U Chicago) )
Jared Psigoda（BitGuild）：Blockchains transforming the gaming industry (15 mins)
Lin William Cong（Cornell）：Theories and applications of blockchains (15 mins)
Markus Brunnermeier（Princeton）：Blockchain economy (20 mins)
Geoff Jiang（Damo Academy）：Applications of blockchain at AntFinancial (15 mins)
Rong Jin（Damo Academy）：Graph computing and its applications (15 mins)
Jian Wang（Damo Academy）：Computation economy (20 mins)
Lars Peter Hansen（U Chicago）：Purely evidence-based doesn't exist (20 mins)
Panel Discussion（60 mins）+ Chengang Xu
17:10 - 18:30
Concluding remarks
Moderator: Long Chen
Release "Top 10 Questions on Digital Economy"