What's Up Wudaokou: This Week's Best Events in the Heart of Studentland
What's Up, Wudaokou? Whether you're at Tsinghua, BLCU, Peking University, or even Google, there is an event for you in Haidian. In this series, we round up the best innovation, entrepreneurship, technology forums and workshops as well as student-related events. Don't worry, we'll even sneak in the occasional happy hour...
Wednesday, Mar 13
Blockchain-based Innovation
Tsinghua welcomes innovators to their latest blockchain related event with key speakers Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR, (and former Google employee) and Gao Leisenior engineer at OKCOIN (and former Baidu employee). Finally, in the name of all good things that have ever existed on account of the human hand, free pizza will be provided. Free. 5pm. Tsinghua University
Friday, Mar 15
Co-Creation Day
Startup Grind welcomes founders to Co-Creation Day, a forum held in unison with visiting UK financial services company BGL Group that aims to introduce Beijing startups to each other with the hope of initiating future collaboration. Startups will have the chance to pitch their ideas for the chance to win RMB 5,000, 3,000, and RMB 1,000 for first, second, and third place respectively. Free. 9am-5pm. Innoway, Zhongguancun
Saturday and Sunday, Mar 16-17
International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics
This conference aims to promote recent state-of-the-art breakthroughs in psycholinguistics. The key emphasis is on research cross-linguistic and East Asian language research, and feature several prominent speakers in the field of linguistics. 9am-6pm. Tsinghua University
Thursday, Mar 21
Tsinghua University Careers Fair 2019
This career fair at Tsinghua University will be attended by more than 200 companies, making it a great chance to meet your future employer and carve out your career path. The event will feature both domestic and international job opportunities. Free (valid student ID or passport required). 1.30-5pm. Tsinghua University
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Photos: Unsplash, courtesy of the organizers
