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SUMMARY:“An Advice and Networking Event (Technology)”
DESCRIPTION:Committee of 100 Asian American Career Ceilings\nAugust 26\, 2026 from 6 pm ET to 7:15 pm ET\n\n\n\nThe Committee of 100 Asian American Career Ceilings Initiative \n \n“An Advice and Networking Event (Technology)” \n \nAugust 26\, 2026 from 6 pm ET to 7:15 pm ET \n\nWe are pleased to invite you to the 60th event organized by the Committee of 100 Asian American Career Ceilings Initiative. This virtual event will enable Asian Americans who are in the early to mid-stages of their careers to get valuable advice from experienced and successful Asian Americans in the technology industry. We have been holding this event for different professions in the past and will continue to do so in the future. \n \nWe will start with welcoming comments and introduction to the advisors\, followed by virtual breakout rooms where the experienced Asian American advisors will host individual breakout rooms that attendees can join. The attendees will have a list of the experienced advisors in advance and will be able to choose which breakout rooms they want to visit to get career advice and to ask questions. The attendees will be able to move from room to room as they wish. \n \nThis will be a unique opportunity to explore career paths in the technology profession with experienced industry executives. Discussions will be frank and informative as each breakout room host will answer your questions and share personal insights and their stories about successful careers in technology. \n \nWe hope this event will help those of you who are getting ready to start your careers or who are at junior or mid-level levels of your organization. We hope that this event will help you overcome obstacles and accelerate your careers. \n \nIf you would like to join us for this networking/advisory event\, please register at https://c100-8-26-2026.eventbrite.com \n \nRegards\, \nPeter Young \nChair\, Committee of 100 Asian American Career Ceilings Initiative \nNew York Regional Chair\, Committee of 100\, and board member \n \nThe Committee of 100 \nThe Committee of 100 (C100) is a non-profit\, non-partisan leadership organization of prominent Chinese Americans in business\, government\, academia\, and the arts founded 36 years ago. \nThe Committee’s purpose is to provide leadership and act as a constructive force in the dual mission of: \n● Promoting the full participation of all Chinese Americans in American society and acting as a public policy resource for the Chinese-American community; \n● Advancing constructive dialogue and relationships between the peoples and leaders of the United States and Greater China. \nTo learn more about the organization\, please go to https://www.committee100.org.
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SUMMARY:Committee of 100 Conversations – Hao Jiang Tian on September 3\, 2026
DESCRIPTION:Hao Jiang Tian\, a world renown opera singer and the founder of iSing!\nSeptember 3\, 2026 at 6 pm ET.\n\n\nDear Friends\, \nWe are pleased to invite you to attend our 15th Committee of 100 Conversations – “Recollections\, Pioneers and Heroes” event on September 3\, 2026 that will feature Hao Jiang Tian\, a world renown opera singer and the founder and artistic director of iSing!\, which for 15 years has trained Western and Chinese singers for careers in opera. He is also a Committee of 100 member. \nHao Jiang Tian\, internationally renowned bass\, has sung more than 1\,400 performances of 50 operatic roles worldwide. The only Chinese singer to have appeared at the Metropolitan Opera for 20 seasons in 26 different operas\, Tian has been highly acclaimed for his performances in leading bass roles at major opera houses around the world. \nTian is also the founder and Artistic Director of the iSING! International Young Artists Festival. Celebrating its 15th anniversary\, iSING!‘s mission is to train Western singers to perform in Chinese while nurturing outstanding young Chinese singers for careers on the world’s leading opera stages. \nChinese Americans have contributed greatly to advance the success of this country in many walks of life – science\, the arts\, agriculture\, philanthropy\, political leadership\, architecture\, business\, and more. \nThe Committee of 100 Conversations Initiative features interviews of Chinese Americans who have contributed to the success of America through their pioneering efforts\, heroic achievements\, or recollections of important events. Each interview will start with a live broadcast and the video recording will be available on the Committee of 100 website as part of a library of the interviews. \nCommittee of 100’s purpose is to provide leadership and act as a constructive force in promoting the full participation of all Chinese Americans in American society and acting as a public policy resource for the Chinese-American community; and advancing constructive dialogue and relationships between the peoples and leaders of the United States and Greater China. \nPeter Young\, Chair of the Conversations Initiative and a Committee of 100 Member\, will be the moderator. The fireside chat will be held on June 10\, 2026 from 6:00 pm Eastern Time to 7:00 pm Eastern Time. There is no fee for the webcast. Please register at https://c100-9-3-2026.eventbrite.com. The video recording and podcast will be published thereafter and will be available on the Committee of 100 website. \nWe hope you will join us. Thank you! \nBest regards\,Committee of 100 \n \nCommittee of 100 ConversationsRecollections\, Pioneers and Heroes \nSeptember 3\, 2026 Webcast \n▦ Speaker: \nHao Jiang Tian\, a world renown opera singer and the founder of iSing! \n▦ Moderator: \nPeter Young\, CEO\, Young & Partners\, Committee of 100 \n▦ Time: \n6:00 pm Eastern Time \nDuring this webcast\, our speaker will talk about how he accidentally discovered opera\, pursued it against all odds\, established as groundbreaking career in the international opera world\, and has given back to the community through his creation of iSing! and other activities over the years. \nThe interview will be moderated by Peter Young\, Committee of 100 member and Chair of the Committee of 100 Conversations Program. The broadcast will be one hour long. \nThere is no fee and you can register at: https://c100-9-3-2026.eventbrite.com \n \n▦ Speaker Bio: \nHao Jiang Tian \nWorld renown opera singer \nFounder and Artistic Director of iSing! \nHao Jiang Tian\, internationally renowned bass born in Beijing\, has sung more than 1\,400 performances of 50 operatic roles worldwide. The only Chinese singer to have appeared at the Metropolitan Opera for 20 seasons in 26 different operas\, Tian has been highly acclaimed for his performances in leading bass roles at major opera houses around the world\, including the Berlin State Opera\, Teatro Comunale in Florence\, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa\, the Arena di Verona\, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires\, San Francisco Opera\, Lyric Opera of Chicago\, Canadian Opera Company\, Washington National Opera\, and opera houses in France\, Belgium\, Spain\, the Netherlands\, Portugal\, Chile\, Russia\, Japan\, and all of China’s major opera houses. \nTian has collaborated with opera legends Luciano Pavarotti and Plácido Domingo in more than ten operas and over one hundred performances. In addition\, Tian performed leading roles in the world premieres of modern Chinese operas including Tan Dun’s The First Emperor at the Metropolitan Opera\, Stewart Wallace’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter based on Amy Tan’s novel at San Francisco Opera\, Guo Wenjing’s Poet Li Bai at Central City Opera\, Steve Hui’s The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci in Hong Kong\, Tang Jianping’s Voyage to the East in Tokyo\, Lei Lei’s The Orphan of Zhao at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing\, Enjott Schneider’s Marco Polo at the Guangzhou Grand Theatre\, and Chien Nan-chang’s Le Peintre at the National Theater in Taipei. \nHis autobiography\, Along the Roaring River: My Wild Ride from Mao to the Met\, was published by Wiley & Sons as a Lincoln Center Book. His Chinese-language book\, Turandot at the Arena\, was published by SDX Joint Publishing Company. \nTian is the founder and Artistic Director of the iSING! International Young Artists Festival. Celebrating its 15th anniversary\, iSING!‘s mission is to train Western singers to perform in Chinese while nurturing outstanding young Chinese singers for careers on the world’s leading opera stages. This has remained one of the Festival’s central goals since its founding. Over the past fifteen years\, nearly 400 young singers from 38 countries—including approximately 300 from the United States and China—have participated in this nonprofit program. iSING! has presented more than 60 concerts and opera performances in over 30 cities across the United States\, the United Kingdom\, France\, and China. Today\, dozens of iSING! alumni perform leading roles at many of the world’s foremost opera companies\, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York\, the Berlin State Opera\, the Vienna State Opera\, Teatro alla Scala in Milan\, San Francisco Opera\, the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto\, Los Angeles Opera\, Washington National Opera\, and the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing. \nIn January 2023\, the iSING! International Young Artists Festival presented the American premiere of Echoes of Ancient Tang Poems with the world-renowned Philadelphia Orchestra at Lincoln Center. The project was presented again with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing in 2024 and 2025. The performances featured outstanding young singers from ten countries performing\, in Chinese\, Tang Dynasty poetry written more than a thousand years ago. The music was specially commissioned from six composers representing six different countries. Hao Jiang Tian conceived the project and serves as its producer and stage director. \nHis honors include the Lifetime Achievement Award from the University of Denver (2014)\, the Ellis Island Medal of Honor (2015)\, the Carnegie Mellon Award (2011)\, and an Honorary Doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music (2021). \n \n▦ Moderator and Chair of the Committee of 100 Conversations Program \nPeter Young \nCEO\, Young & Partners \nCommittee of 100 Member\, New York Regional Chair and Board Member \nPeter Young is CEO of Young & Partners\, a boutique corporate strategy and investment banking firm focused on the life science and chemical industries. He manages the firm and is actively involved in client transactions and financings. Under his leadership\, Young & Partners has established and maintained its position as a highly regarded firm serving the corporate strategy\, M&A\, restructuring and financing needs of clients worldwide. He was previously head of industry groups at Salomon Brothers\, Schroders and Lehman Brothers\, a senior private equity executive with J.H. Whitney & Co. and a senior member of Bain & Co.\, the corporate strategy firm. \nMr. Young received a BA in Economics from Yale\, an MS in Accounting from NYU\, and MBA from Harvard Business School where he graduated with Distinction as a Baker Scholar. He is a CPA and a Chartered Global Management Accountant. He serves on a number of boards of directors\, both corporate and non-profit and is President of Société de Chimie Industrielle\, the 108 year old leading life science and chemical industry non-profit organization and on the Editorial Advisory Board of Pharmaceutical Executive. \n \nThe Committee of 100 \nThe Committee of 100 (C100) is a non-profit\, non-partisan leadership organization of prominent Chinese Americans in business\, government\, academia\, and the arts founded 35 years ago.The Committee’s purpose is to provide leadership and act as a constructive force in the dual mission of: \n\nPromoting the full participation of all Chinese Americans in American society and acting as a public policy resource for the Chinese-American community\nAdvancing constructive dialogue and relationships between the peoples and leaders of the United States and Greater China\n\nTo learn more about the organization\, please go to https://www.committee100.org. \n \n \nCOMMITTEE OF 100 | Ensuring Full Inclusion in America\, Advancing U.S.-China RelationsMailing: Committee of 100\, 28 West 44th Street\, Suite 1014\, New York\, NY 10036 \nT: (212) 371-6565
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