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Our keynote speaker tonight:

Click here to download Unbounded Learning’s presentation:
UBL Mobilemonday Shanghai Presentation 20071220.pdf

Wilson Cheng, Ph.D., Founder & CEO, Unbounded Learning Inc

Wilson has a long list of corporate and technology experience with both start-up and major multi-national organizations. He was an senior Manager for Oracle working on Oracle 8i replication suite performance with Amazon.com, where he help Amazon.com build the personalized purchasing, a technology now apply to UBL. He is also a former Senior Executive at Versant and the Managing Director of Versant India, Wilson completed five merger and acquisitions with an annual budget of US$8Million.Wilson also served as an adjunct professor for Department of Computer Science, San Francisco State University and was a lecturer of RMIT University, Australia. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Queensland, Australia.

About Unbounded Learning Inc http://www.ublearning.com/

Unbounded Learning Inc. (“UBL”) markets learning services through its mobile educational hub. UBL has built a powerful yet flexible software platform that delivers text, audio, and multimedia content to mobile phones as well as other mobile devices. The company has strategic partnerships with major leading content (e.g. FLTRP, Thomson Learning, Macmillan) and mobile service providers around the world to deliver the best possible mobile education and edutainment materials to its customers. UBL has become the leading provider of mobile English learning and edutainment (educational entertainment) with over 1 million subscribers since its first service launched in December 2006.

Our other guest speakers:

M. Steve Wiliams, Co-Founder, Praxis Language Ltd

Steve has a background in education and entrepreneurship, and is a co-founder of Praxis Language Ltd. He is also a director of Kai En Language Training Center (a Shanghai-based chain of language schools), and On Demand Training Ltd (a mobile learning specialist).

About Praxis Language Ltd http://praxislanguage.com

Praxis Language uses social web technologies to craft language-learning services designed around the needs of students when, where, and how they prefer to study. Services include ChinesePod.com, SpanishPod.com, and 88Groups.com.

M. Joe Constanty, Co-founder and business development director of LexDex.com

Joe Constanty has been in the Greater China region since 2000. As the co-founder of Tangential Consulting Company, Joe specializes in business development management and capital advisement. Joe is also the co-founder and business development director of LexDex.com, a project under the Tangential Group.

About LexDex http://www.lexdex.com

LexDex is a provider of mobile phone and online study tools customized to students’ textbooks. LexDex is made possible by working in partnership with several educational publishers, universities and private schools throughout the world as well as mobile carriers. LexDex enables students to dynamically create applications based upon a patented API system. While LexDex is currently focused on languages, it will quickly expand to additional subjects in the short-term future, as well as opening up its platform for outside developers and publishers. LexDex will launch its Beta version on January 1, 2008

12/10/2007 09:20AM at Kathleen's 5 Restaurant and Bar