Silicon Dragon
Silicon Dragon provides insights to strategize and profit in the world’s top tech innovation centers. The 30,000-strong Silicon Dragon network includes entrepreneurs, emerging company executives, deal makers, venture capitalists, angel investors, crowd financiers, investment bankers and service providers from legal, accounting and management consulting firms. The group publishes the weekly Silicon Dragon News, produces Silicon Dragon Talk, and hosts tech innovation and investment forums in Asia, the U.S. and Europe. THE FOUNDER, Journalist, author and media entrepreneur Rebecca Fannin is the founder of Silicon Dragon. She leads news, events and research at Silicon Dragon, writes a weekly column at Forbes.com and contributes to CNBC.com. Rebecca’s books, Silicon Dragon (McGraw-Hill, 2008) and Startup Asia (John Wiley, 2011), document the rise of a tech economy in Asia’s emerging markets and profile such leaders as Jack Ma of Alibaba and Robin Li of Baidu. Her books were translated into Chinese, Vietnamese and Arabic, and received favorable reviews from the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, China Daily and New York Times. She is a contributing author of a third book, Innovation in Emerging Markets (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). See more about Rebecca’s career here. Rebecca began her global journalistic career as editor of the Pulitzer-owned International Business magazine. Later she was an international editor at Incisive Media in Hong Kong and at Red Herring in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, BBC Capital, Inc., Huffington Post and The Deal. She is a key contributor to the annual KPMG report on global technology innovation, and has written several thought leadership papers for multinational companies. An expert commentator, Ms. Fannin has spoken at the World Economic Forum, Asia Society, China Institute, World Affairs Council, NASSCOM and many universities and organizations worldwide. She has appeared on CNBC, CCTV, CBC, Discovery Asia and Times of India channels. In 2010, Rebecca provided expert testimony to a U.S. Congressional committee about China’s Internet.
