TEDxHonolulu Speaker: Kaiser Kuo
Kaiser Kuo is an American writer, rock musician, and culture/technology commentator who has lived in China for the last 15 years. He previously worked as director of digital strategy, China, for the advertising agency Ogilvy, as China bureau chief for Red Herring magazine, and as a freelance contributor for numerous English-language news publications. He is the author of Ich Bin Ein Beijinger, an anthology of columns by the same name published in The Beijinger magazine over the last eight years. He is a regular guest on China’s leading English-language news talk show Dialogue, and is frequently asked to speak publicly on topics ranging from technology to music to politics. He was co-founder and lead guitarist for China’s first and most successful heavy metal band, Tang Dynasty, and has been profiled in numerous documentary films and print articles. Kaiser remains active in the rock scene in Beijing as lead guitarist for Mandarin metal band Chunqiu (Spring & Autumn). He lives in Beijing with his wife Fanfan and two young children, Guenevere (5) and Johnny (3).
His TEDx talk will cover:
- The SHIFT in the “balance of power” online.
- The SHIFT in political voice in China.
- A SHIFT –in this case, a decline–in people-to-people relations arising in part because of the first two shifts.
