{"id":52228,"date":"2019-10-29T17:47:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T16:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/premium-speakers.com\/speaker\/zak-dychtwald-en\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T06:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T04:55:11","slug":"zak-dychtwald","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/premium-speakers.com\/en\/speaker-presenter\/zak-dychtwald\/","title":{"rendered":"Zak Dychtwald"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Zak Dychtwald is Founder & CEO of the Young China Group and Author, Young China.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zak Dychtwald is the Founder and CEO of Young China Group, a think tank and market insights firm and consultancy based between China and the US. He leads \u201cYCG Bridgeworks: A Global Collaboration Lab\u201d<\/strong> focused on a people-first, data-backed approach to improving collaboration between global teams \u2013 spanning both culture as well as generational gaps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has a special focus on US-China, but also more and more on Europe-China regarding politics, new technologies, artificial intelligence and economics. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zak Dychtwald Speaking Topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Zak Dychtwald is also the author of critically acclaimed Young China: How the Restless Generation Will Change Their Country and the World<\/strong> (St. Martin\u2019s Press), available in six languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • How China’s “Millenial Mindset” will redefine Global Innovation and Your Business<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Despite the stereotypes of \u201ccopycat China,\u201d Chinese millennials were bred for highspeed disruption. For rising Young China, how does a lifetime of rapid growth lead to a hyper adaptive innovation ecosystem? How do China\u2019s generation gulfs impact the way the world sees China? In what ways does an ecosystem of rapid change make for a culture of adaptation and early adoption? In this session, based on research for Dychtwald\u2019s upcoming feature in Harvard Business Review, we will rethink the role China will play in the future of innovation and your organization through the lens of its millennials\u2014as a collaborator, competitor, and engine of global disruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • Young China Rising in a Complex World: Consumer, Competition, Collaborator.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      While much of the Western world remains mired in a half-on\/half-off limbo, offices, restaurants, retail spaces, and even night clubs are filling up in China. But not all sectors have rebounded equally, and the young generation\u2019s outlook on consumption, work, and government has been impacted to its core. In this keynote, Zak explores how young China \u2013 the engine of China\u2019s consumer and innovation economies \u2013 has reacted to recent events and how they are shaping up as global consumer, competitor, and collaborator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      • Young China: How China’s Mindset will Change their Country, the World and Your Industry<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

        We often obsess over American Millennials. What are they loyal to? What are their values? Who will they vote for? Will they even vote? What do they want to buy? And yet, when we think China, we often just think of the \u201cChina Market\u201d\u2014no nuance necessary. Chinese millennials are already becoming the most powerful consumer class in the world, redefining every industry they touch. China\u2019s 420 million millennials outnumber American millennials by five times. It\u2019s time to understand the world\u2019s consumers of today and tomorrow. This session will answer, why does China have generation gulfs compared to our generation gaps? How is \u201cOld China\u201d different than \u201cYoung China\u201d? How do American millennials stack up against Chinese millennials? What do they want that is different in their products? In the workplace? For themselves, their families, and their countries? How does a generation of single children understand community, family, technology, and leisure?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        • Young China – The New State of Chinese Consumption, Collaboration, and Competition<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

          Will Young China be the consumer engine they were before COVID? For areas like travel and luxury, it less a question of \u201cwhat?\u201d – an enormous release of pent up demand – and more a question of \u201cwhen?\u201d For other consumer sectors, the answers are less obvious after a year of an on-again-off-again economy that has left more young people counting their RMB than getting ready to splurge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          We often obsess over American Millennials. What are they loyal to? What are their values? Who will they vote for? Will they even vote? What do they want to buy? And yet, when we think China, we often just think of the \u201cChina Market\u201d, no nuance necessary. Chinese millennials are already becoming the most powerful consumer class in the world, redefining every industry they touch. China\u2019s 420 million millennials outnumber American millennials by 5x. It\u2019s time to understand the world\u2019s consumers of today and tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Zak Dychtwald speaks about the attitudes and consumer drivers of China\u2019s 420 million millennials, who they are, how they stack up against global millennials, their impact on global innovation, what they want, and why they want it. This generation redefines every market they touch, and Zak gives you an insider\u2019s guide into understanding how this generation is changing the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          A frequent expert contributor to Harvard Business Review and globally sought after speaker, Zak has been invited to speak on six continents including Harvard University, The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit, Aspen Ideas Festival, among others. He has been named an Asia 21 Next Generation Fellow and elected Chair of the American Chamber of Commerce Shanghai Future Leaders Committee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

          AmCham Shanghai has announced Zak Dychtwald as Chair of the Future Leaders Committee.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

          As a strategic advisor and frequent keynote speaker with expertise in global cooperation and the emerging mindset of the youth in the East and West, Zak Dychtwald has been invited to speak at venues on six continents, including Harvard University, The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit, Google\u2019s Next Billion Users Initiative, and the Aspen Ideas Festival, among others. He has also been named an Asia 21 Next Generation Fellow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          As Chair of the Future Leaders Committee, one of AmCham Shanghai\u2019s 21 industry committees, Zak will be working with AmCham Shanghai to identify key issues and develop and lead programming for the committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Zak Dychtwald previously worked as a consultant for the Dilenschneider Group, a communications consultancy, and as a freelance translator for a game from Metheus. He is a Columbia University graduate, he has spoken at forums and summits across the world as an authority and expert in his field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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