Date & Time: 2:30pm, Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
Location: Sheraton Hotel (150 West 500 South), Salt Lake City

 

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Congratulation Letters from Chinese Embassy in USA

 

Online Registration is now closed.

 

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Organizing Committee:

• Co-Chairs: Jaimee Yang, Wei Peng
• Members: Terrence Chen, Geping Cheng, Lisa Cheng, Weili Cheng, Xiaoming Dong, Xiaoli Du, Chongwen Fan, Lian Feng, Yuanzong Fu, Weimin Jiang, Zhe Leng, Mengyin Li, Bo Lu, Gary Pan, Siu-lin Santee, Xiaoming Sheng, Rujie Sun, Le Wan, Gangqiang Wang, Yuesong Wang, Ge Wu, Wayne Xia, Hao Zhu
• Advisors: Timothy B. Anderson, Densen Cao, Nam Chau, Lew Cramer, Woody Fang, Brett Heimburger, Taowen Le, Feng Liu, Paul Savage, Jin Wang

 

 

Conference Agenda

 

2:30pm – 6:30pm Open Registration (Canyons Lobby)

 

3:30pm Panel Discussion on Science & Technology (Deer Valley Room)

Topic:             International Collaboration & Cooperation in Science & Technology

Moderator:     Dr. Taowen Le, CAST-UT Advisor and Deputy Director General of Liaoning Provincial Department of Science & Technology

Panelists:

• Senator Mark Madsen, Chair of International Committee, Utah State Senate
• Dr. Bret Ellis, Vice President of Technology, Weber State University
• Dr. Hunter Jackson, President, Navigen Inc.

 

4:45pm Panel Discussion on Global Investment (Deer Valley Room)

Topic:             Global Investment and Business Opportunities

Moderator:     Mr. Gary Pan, Vice President of Public Relation, CAST-UT

Panelists:

• Lisa Cheng, VP/International Marketing Manager, First Utah Bank
• Mr. Franz Kolb, Regional Director, Governor's Office of Economic Development
• Mr. Chris Shurian, CEO, Utah Regional Investment Fund, L.L.C.
• Dr. Jin Wang, Dean of Business School, Westminster College

 

5:45-6:30pm Social Networking

 

 

6:30pm Opening Remarks (Canyons Conference Room)

6:30pm Introduction of VIP Guests and Community Leaders

            Jaimee Yang, President, CAST-UT

 

6:35pm CAST-UT Annual Report

            Wei Peng, Past-President, CAST-UT

 

6:45pm Guest Remarks

• Congratulation Letter from the Chinese Embassy in USA
• Mr. Mark Garfield, Senior VP, Zion’s Bank

• Dr. Xiaoming Sheng, President, CAST-USA

 

7:00pm Dinner

 

7:30pm Keynote Speech (Canyons Conference Room)

Speaker: Dr. Vivian S. Lee, Senior Vice President, University of Utah

Title: The Importance of Shared Values in Health Care, Education,

Research, and Industry

Introduction: Mr. Timothy B. Anderson, Attorney, Jones Waldo

 

Conference Agenda (Continued)

 

8:00pm Governor Speech (Canyons Conference Room)

Greg Bell, Lt. Governor of Utah State

 

8:10pm Presentation of Certificates (Canyons Conference Room)

8:10pm Certificates to Sponsors, Lifetime Members, Advisory Members,

Corporate Members and Recipients of Awards and Scholarships

            Le Wan, CAST-UT President-Elect                                                          

 

Sponsors

Zion’s Bank, Woody and Teresa Fang Foundation, Wang Organization, Ocean Market

Presented by Co-chairs of CAST-UT Annual Conference: Wei Peng and Jaimee Yang

 

Lifetime Members

Geping Cheng, Zhigang Fang, Enqiang He, Mingming Jiang, Ying Ma, Richard Lee, Gary Pan, Siu-lin Santee, Victor Wang

Presented by CAST-UT Past-President Wei Peng

 

Advisory Members

Timothy B. Anderson, Jin Wang, Nam Chau, Feng Liu

Presented by CAST-UT President Jaimee Yang 

 

Corporate Members

Utah Regional Investment Fund, L.L.C.

Presented by CAST-UT President-Elect Le Wan

 

Recipients of Outstanding High School Student Scholarships

Mary Peng, Yuxiao Wei, Jeannette Jiang, Alex Ho, Steve Sun, Jessie Lam, Andrew He

Presented by CAST-UT Advisor and Scholarship Sponsor Professor Woody Fang,

and CAST-UT Past VP of Education Wayne Xia

 

Recipients of Service Awards

Geping Cheng & Wendy Lu, Wayne Xia

Presented by CAST-UT Former President Lisa Cheng

 

Recipients of Special Awards of Professionalism

Bill Jiang, Lisa Cheng

Presented by CAST-USA President Xiaoming Sheng

 

8:30pm Closing Remarks (Canyons Conference Room)

Jaimee Yang, President, CAST-UT

 

8:35pm Announcement of CAST-UT BOD Election Results (Canyons Conference Room)

Victor Wang, VP of Membership, CAST-UT

 

9:00pm CAST-UT Members Group Photo (Canyons Conference Room)