China's Changing Financial System: Can it keep up with or even drive future growth?

Agenda Highlights:

Welcome and opening comments by Dr. Lloyd Benjamin, President, Indiana State University and Cheng Wei, President, Liaoning University, Professor of Economics

Ted Fishman, Global Economic Expert and Author, China, Inc.

Panel 1:  Why China -- What is the strategic value to your company of expanding to China? Moderator: Gerry Dick, Chm & CEO, host and creator, Inside Indiana Business; Managing Editor of Grow Indiana Media Ventures, LLC

• Steven M. Chapman, Group Vice President – Emerging Markets and Businesses, Cummins, Inc 
• Mike Sergesketter, VP, CFO, Kimball International, Electronics Group 
• Jackie Simmon, Partner, Baker & Daniels LLP, former Vice President and General Manager, Reilly Industries, manager for China project, Reilly Industries Inc.:
• Dr. Al Novick, VP Marketing Intelligence & Support, Rolls-Royce,

China in Transition  by Professor Xing Yuanyuan, PhD, Liaoning University, Indiana State University visiting scholar

Panel 2: How China -- Opportunities and minefields associated with doing business with and in China; Moderator: Kevin Snider, PhD, Executive Assistant to the President for Strategic Planning, Institutional Research/Effectiveness, Indiana State University

• M. Angella Castille, Partner, Vice Chair of International Practice, Baker & Daniels LLP
• Zack Dong, Partner, Baker & Daniels LLP
• Sun Dagang, Deputy Director General of Liaoning Foreign Affairs Office
• Kok-chi Tsim, SVP and Relationship Executive, JP Morgan Chase

Lunch and Keynote Speaker
Jack Perkowski, Chairman and CEO of ASIMCO, recently named “one of the 10 best employers in China” and considered one of the most successful businesses in China run by a Westerner

Opportunities and Challenges of Attracting Chinese Investors to Indiana:

Panel 3: Why invest in the U.S. Moderator: Marjorie Lyles, Ph.D., OneAmerica Chaired Professor of Business Administration, Professor of International Strategic Management Indiana University Kelley School of Business

• Xiao-Yan Zhu, President, C A International; Managing Director, Shenlin Corporation
• Bill Tsang, Executive Director, Worldwide Corporate Strategy, Lenovo

Panel 4: Indiana's attractiveness to foreign investors Moderator: Greg Goode, Executive Assistant to the President for External Affairs, Indiana State University

• Steve Akard, Indiana Economic Development Corp
• John Clark, Senior Fellow, Sagamore Institute
• David C. Ford,Indiana State Senator
• Brook Tuttle, President, LHP Industries

The event was followed by a reception.