Schedule

Awards

1. US Regional Finalists (12 teams)

- Eligibility for Alibaba Cloud’s international startup program Create@Alibaba Cloud where participants will receive and win USD $10,000 credit in cloud resources and free 1 on 1 Cloud infrastructure solution planning with Alibaba Cloud Architects.
- ICP application support, making it easy and smooth to set up your website and applications in China.
- Opportunities to connect with investors/incubators/co-working spaces in China.

2. CACSC US Regional Winners (2 teams)

Two teams will be selected as the US regional winners who will receive following additional awards:
- USD $50,000 credit to be used on Alibaba Cloud products and services.
- A chance to receive USD 100,000 investment from Han Hai Investment Group (Han Hai Investment Group will select 1 out of 2 winning teams to invest. Final decision is within Han Hai's discretion) .
- Sponsored trip (Air Ticket + Hotel) to compete in the World Final at the Alibaba Cloud Yunqi Conference. There the winner will have the opportunity to meet the top investment firms in China and gain coverage from global media.

3. The CACSC World Champion (1 team)

In addition to the benefits mentioned above, the winner of the global final, held in Hangzhou, China on October 2016, will receive the following rewards:
A seat in the Alibaba Cloud’s 18 Founders program, and receive USD $216,000 credit to be used for Alibaba Cloud products and services, and a tailor-made marketing support plan which will give the winner access to global media exposure and opportunities to meet with investors.

Competition Entry Requirements, Rules & Notes

1. Entry requirements & judging criterion

The entry requirements and judging criterion see the contest main page.
Only companies registered in the United States can participate in the CACSC US session.

2. Competition rules

-   Sign-up: Startups can sign-up through Alibaba Cloud website and our partners’ channels, or recommended by others, the application requires basic company information and the detailed business profile (details see the Application Form, and pls send the Form to CACSC@list.alibaba-inc.com).
-   Pre-screen:The CACSC US contest committee will carefully read the materials of each applicant, and may call or email the applicants to verify applicant's information or collect additional detail of the submission. 12 startup companies will be selected for the US regional final and they will be notified the detailed of the arrangements for the Demo Day on September 10.
-   US regional final: We will hold the demo day in public area, each startup in the finalist choose one representative to introduce their project, and the judges will select two winners for the world final in China.

3. Time and venue of the US regional final

To Be Announced.

4. Notes

Any company selected for the US regional finalist which had joined Create@Alibaba Cloud program, will not receive the USD 10,000 cloud resource credit.

Meet the Judges

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  Roger King, Founder&CEO of Chief People, Founder of Bay Angels

  Roger King is the Founder of Bay Angels, a Bay Area angel group that has helped launch a number of well known companies including OpenTable, Photobucket, and CashBet. He’s the Founder and CEO of Chief People, an executive & technical recruitment firm. Roger is an active angel investor, board member, and advisor to a number of tech start-ups including Manage, CashBet, Trpz, and GetPinn. He has been published in Forbes and Fortune magazine, and appeared on CNN News as a subject matter expert (recruiting for start-ups). He’s a talented photographer who’s led several photo trips to Cuba.

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  Linda Lu, President of Hanhai Investment Inc, US

  Linda Lu currently holds the positions of President of Hanhai Investment Inc, US. Linda has more than ten years of experiences in incubation of Startups in high tech fields includes but not limited to TMT, IoT, Big Data, Biotech and Cleantech. Linda had also worked for over ten years at government, overseas organizations, private companies. She has played leadership roles in management, marketing, investment , international collabortion, Technology Park’s strategy and innovation service. She has ample experiences in construction models, operation methods, innovation services, international expansion and financing.

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  Wei Luo, COO of ZGC Capital Corporation

  Mr. Wei Luo is the COO of ZGC Capital Corporation, which is the overseas subsidiary of Zhongguancun Development Group, one of China’s most influential investment companies. ZGC Capital created ZGC Innovation Center at Silicon Valley, and is responsible for industry-scale investments, startup incubation and acceleration, and cross border services, etc. Wei Luo has over 15 years work experience in the world class 500 companies (Nokia, Motorola, RIM etc). He has engineering background and management skills (MBA from LTU). He joined Zhongguancun Development Group (one of the top investment & service group company in high-tech field in China) from 2010 since the company formed and he managed over 30 investment deals since then. He also is a pioneer to deploy the international business (Fund and Incubator) for Zhongguancun Development Group (ZDG).

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  Michael Tsang, Regional GM of AliCloud International

  Michael currently oversees business development of American markets for Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Inc. Prior to that, he led and completed Alibaba Cloud’s European data center strategy and owned Hong Kong’s partner management. Before joining Alibaba in 2014, he served at Microsoft for 16 years in various engineering roles including development and testing; gaining experience in operating systems, business rule engines, video rendering and transcoding, online advertising, and big data stream computing. Prior to Microsoft, he served at Hewlett-Packard in LaserJet and network management products.

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