Mr. Song Kai is Vice President of Corporate Communications in Huawei’s Public Affairs and Communications Department (PACD), based in Shenzhen. He has held this role since February 2019, although his 13-year career with Huawei has spanned roles in Africa, France and the USA.

Immediately prior to taking up his current role, he was Chief Executive Officer of Huawei USA, a role he held for two years. 

Mr Song joined Huawei Technologies in 2006 as Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the group's Senegal subsidiary, responsible for projects with Orange. In 2009, he became Regional Director of Huawei Technologies for seven countries in Africa. 

From Africa, he became Chief Executive Officer of Huawei Technologies France in 2014, holding responsibility for all aspects of the company’s operations in the country. 

Originally from China, Mr. Song has spent a considerable amount of time in France having undertaken part of his studies in Grenoble, achieving two Masters’ degrees, the first in Technology and Management Information Systems from the University Joseph Fourier, and a second in Industrial Logistics from INPG Grenoble (École Nationale Supérieure). 

Familiar with French and Chinese entrepreneurial cultures, Mr. Song Kai began his career as a logistics manager at Decathlon at the regional distribution center in Shanghai, China. He is married with two children.

Michael G Jacobides holds the Sir Donald Gordon Chair of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at London Business School, where he is Professor of Strategy. He is Academic Advisor to the Boston Consulting Group, Visiting Scholar at the New York Fed, and Visiting Fellow at Cambridge. He studies industry evolution, changes in firm boundaries, new business models, value migration and strategy in shifting environments, and looks at how digital ecosystems transform the business context. He teaches strategy, innovation, transformation and turnarounds. A frequent keynote speaker, he engages in corporate, industry, and broadappeal events such as TEDx and the Global Drucker Forum. A winner of the 2018 Theory to Practice Award, awarded yearly by the StrategieForum (WirtshaftsUniversitaet) to a thought leader based on impact, he advises disruptive start-ups and established firms alike in Europe, the US and Asia. We works with Boards, management groups, consultants and policy makers. He works on thought leadership with consultants such as McKinsey, IDEO, Accenture, PwC, Deloitte, Keystone and ECSi, and on strategy with corporates such as Santander, Helvetia, Zurich, CS, Airbus, Lufthansa, Vodafone, Nokia, DeBeers, Burberry, MerckSerono and the NHS. He has visited Harvard, NYU, Cambridge, Imperial, Bocconi and Wharton, where he obtained his PhD, after studying at Athens, Cambridge and Stanford. His work, which has received the Sloan Foundation Award, has appeared in the top academic journals such as SMJ, AMJ, AMR, OrgSci and Industrial & Corporate Change, where he is a co-Editor, as well as HBR and FT, and appears on CNN and BBC. On policy, he has worked with the UK parliament (on the future of financial services), the European Council (on innovation in Europe) and has spearheaded RedesignGreece. He served on the Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum, where he is the Academic Lead on the Digital Ecosystems project, and has presented in the Davos Annual meetings.