Best Ziv Talk Podcasts (2024)

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3DInAction - Yizhak Ben-Shabat 30:55

1M ago30:55

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🎙️ **Unveiling 3DInAction with Yizhak Ben-Shabat | Talking Papers Podcast** 🎙️ 📚 *Title:* 3DInAction: Understanding Human Actions in 3D Point Clouds 📅 *Published In:* CVPR 2024 👤 *Guest:* Yizhak (Itzik) Ben-Shabat Welcome back to another exciting episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, where we bring you the latest breakthroughs in academic research…

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Cameras as Rays - Jason Y. Zhang 42:47

4M ago42:47

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Talking Papers Podcast Episode: "Cameras as Rays: Pose Estimation via Ray Diffusion" with Jason Zhang Welcome to the latest episode of the Talking Papers Podcast! This week's guest is Jason Zhang, a PhD student at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University who joined us to discuss his paper, "Cameras as Rays: Pose Estimation via Ray Diffu…

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Instant3D - Jiahao Li 52:41

5M ago52:41

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Welcome to another exciting episode of the Talking Papers Podcast! In this episode, I had the pleasure of hosting Jiahao Li, a talented PhD student at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC), who discussed his groundbreaking research paper titled "Instant3D: Fast Text-to-3D with Sparse-View Generation and Large Reconstruction Model". This …

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Variational Barycentric Coordinates - Ana Dodik 41:03

7M ago41:03

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In this exciting episode of #TalkingPapersPodcast, we have the pleasure of hosting Ana Dodik, a second-year PhD student at MIT. We delve into her research paper titled "Variational Barycentric Coordinates." Published in SIGGRAPH Asia, 2023, this paper significantly contributes to our understanding of the optimization of generalized barycentric coor…

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Reverse Engineering SSL - Ravid Shwartz-Ziv 1:08:59

8M ago1:08:59

1:08:59

Welcome to another exciting episode of the Talking Papers Podcast! In this episode, we delve into the fascinating world of self-supervised learning with our special guest, Ravid Shwartz-Ziv. Together, we explore and dissect their research paper titled "Reverse Engineering Self-Supervised Learning," published in NeurIPS 2023. Self-supervised learnin…

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CSG on Neural SDFs - Zoë Marschner 59:06

8M ago59:06

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Welcome to another exciting episode of the Talking Papers Podcast! In this installment, I had the pleasure of hosting the brilliant Zoë Marschner as we delved into the fascinating world of Constructive Solid Geometry on Neural Signed Distance Fields. This exceptional research paper, published in SIGGRAPH Asia 2023, explores the cutting-edge potenti…

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HMD-NeMo - Sadegh Aliakbarian 35:53

9M ago35:53

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🎙️Join us on this exciting episode of the Talking Papers Podcast as we sit down with the talented Sadegh Aliakbarian to explore his groundbreaking ICCV 2023 paper "HMD-NeMo: Online 3D Avatar Motion Generation From Sparse Observations" . Our guest, will take us on a journey through this pivotal research that addresses a crucial aspect of immersive m…

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CC3D - Jeong Joon Park 56:34

9M ago56:34

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Join us on this exciting episode of the Talking Papers Podcast as we sit down with the brilliant Jeong Joon Park to explore his groundbreaking paper, "CC3D: Layout-Conditioned Generation of Compositional 3D Scenes," just published at ICCV 2023. Discover CC3D, a game-changing conditional generative model redefining 3D scene synthesis. Unlike traditi…

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NeRF-Det - Chenfeng Xu 29:47

10M ago29:47

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Welcome to another exciting episode of the Talking Papers Podcast! In this installment, I had the pleasure of hosting Chengfenfg Xu to discuss his paper "NeRF-Det: Learning Geometry-Aware Volumetric Representation for Multi-View 3D Object Detection" which was published at ICCV2023. In recent times, NeRF has gained widespread prominence, and the fie…

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MagicPony - Tomas Jakab 50:18

11M ago50:18

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Welcome to another exciting episode of the Talking Papers Podcast! In this installment, I had the pleasure of hosting Tomas Jakab to discuss his paper "MagicPony: Learning Articulated 3D Animals in the Wild" which was published at CVPR 2023. The motivation behind the MagicPony methodology stems from the challenge posed by the scarcity of labeled da…

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Word-As-Image - Shir Iluz 26:06

12M ago26:06

26:06

All links are available in this blog post Welcome to another exciting episode of the Talking Papers Podcast! In this installment, I had the pleasure of hosting Shir Iluz to discuss her groundbreaking paper titled "Word-As-Image for Semantic Typography" which won the SIGGRAPH 2023 Honorable Mention award. This scientific paper introduces an innovati…

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Panoptic Lifting - Yawar Siddiqui 45:17

12M ago45:17

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In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Yawar Siddiqui to chat about his CVPR 2023 paper "Panoptic Lifting for 3D Scene Understanding with Neural Fields". All links are available in the blog post. In this paper, they proposed a new method for "lifting" 2D panoptic segmentation into a 3D volume represented as neural fields using in-t…

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MobileBrick - Kejie Li 46:15

1y ago46:15

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In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Kejie Li to chat about his CVPR 2023 paper "MobileBrick: Building LEGO for 3D Reconstruction on Mobile Devices". All links are available in the blog post. In this paper, they proposed a new dataset and paradigm for evaluating 3D object reconstruction. It is very difficult to create a digital t…

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IAW Dataset - Jiahao Zhang 34:32

1y ago34:32

34:32

All links are available in the blog post. In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Jiahao Zhang to chat about our CVPR 2023 paper "Aligning Step-by-Step Instructional Diagrams to Video Demonstrations". furniture assembly diagram. To do that, we collected and annotated a brand new dataset: "IKEA Assembly in the Wild" where we aligned …

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INR2Vec - Luca De Luigi 49:15

1+ y ago49:15

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All links are available in the blog post: https://www.itzikbs.com/inr2vec/ In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Luca De Luigi. We had a great chat about his paper “Deep Learning on Implicit Neural Representations of Shapes”, AKA INR2Vec, published in ICLR 2023 . In this paper, they take implicit neural representations to the next…

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CLIPasso - Yael Vinker 45:43

1+ y ago45:43

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In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Yael Vinker. We had a great chat about her paper "CLIPasso: SEmantically-Aware Object Sketching”, SIGGRAPH 2022 best paper award winner. In this paper, they convert images into sketches with different levels of abstraction. They avoid the need for sketch datasets by using the well-known CLIP m…

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Random Walks for Adversarial Meshes - Amir Belder 26:45

1+ y ago26:45

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All links are available in the blog post. In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, we hosted Amir Belder. We had a great chat about his paper "Random Walks for Adversarial Meshes”, published in SIGGRAPH 2022. In this paper, they take on the task of creating an adversarial attack for triangle meshes. This is a non-trivial task since meshes are…

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SPSR - Silvia Sellán 40:51

1+ y ago40:51

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In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Silvia Sellán. We had a great chat about her paper "Stochastic Poisson Surface Reconstruction”, published in SIGGRAPH Asia 2022. In this paper, they take on the task of surface reconstruction with a probabilistic twist. They take the well-known Poisson Surface reconstruction algorithm and gene…

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Beyond Periodicity - Sameera Ramasinghe 32:46

1+ y ago32:46

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In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Sameera Ranasinghe. We had a great chat about his paper "Beyond Periodicity: Towards a Unifying Framework for Activations in Coordinate-MLPs”, published in ECCV 2022 as an oral presentation. In this paper, they propose a new family of activation functions for coordinate MLPs and provide a theo…

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KeypointNeRF - Marko Mihajlovic 23:57

1+ y ago23:57

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In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Marko Mihajlovic . We had a great chat about his paper "KeypointNeRF: Generalizing Image-based Volumetric Avatars using Relative Spatial Encoding of Keypoints”, published in ECCV 2022. In this paper, they create a generalizable NeRF for virtual avatars. To get a high-fidelity reconstruction of…

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BACON - David Lindell 41:13

2y ago41:13

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In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted David B. Lindell to chat about his paper "BACON: Band-Limited Coordinate Networks for Multiscale Scene Representation”, published in CVPR 2022. In this paper, they took on training a coordinate network. They do this by introducing a new type of neural network architecture that has an analytica…

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Lipschitz MLP - Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu 35:59

2y ago35:59

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In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu to chat about his paper "Learning Smooth Neural Functions via Lipschitz Regularization”, published in SIGGRAPH 2022. In this paper, they took on the unique task of enforcing smoothness on Neural Fields (modelled as a neural network). They do this by introducing a regularizat…

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DiGS - Chamin Hewa Koneputugodage 40:32

2y ago40:32

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In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Chamin Hewa Koneputugodage to chat about OUR paper "DiGS: Divergence guided shape implicit neural representation for unoriented point clouds”, published in CVPR 2022. In this paper, we took on the task of surface reconstruction using a novel divergence-guided approach. Unlike previous methods,…

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Dejan Azinović - Neural RGBD Surface Reconstruction 31:15

2y ago31:15

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In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Dejan Azinović to chat about his paper "Neural RGB-D Surface Reconstruction”, published in CVPR 2022. In this paper, they take on the task of RGBD surface reconstruction by using novel view synthesis. They incorporate depth measurements into the radiance field formulation by learning a neural …

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Yuliang Xiu - ICON 36:01

2y ago36:01

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In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Yuliang Xiu to chat about his paper "ICON: Implicit Clothed humans Obtained from Normals”, published in CVPR 2022. SMPL(-X) body model to infer clothed humans (conditioned on the normals). Additionally, they propose an inference-time feedback loop that alternates between refining the body's no…

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Itai Lang - SampleNet 37:51

2+ y ago37:51

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In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Itai Lang to chat about his paper "SampleNet: Differentiable Point Cloud Sampling”, published in CVPR 2020. In this paper, they propose a point soft-projection to allow differentiating through the sampling operation and enable learning task-specific point sampling. Combined with their regulari…

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Manuel Dahnert - Panoptic 3D Scene Reconstruction 26:17

2+ y ago26:17

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In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Manuel Dahnert to chat about his paper “Panoptic 3D Scene Reconstruction From a Single RGB Image”, published in NeurIPS 2021. In this paper, they unify the task of reconstruction, semantic segmentation and instance segmentation in 3D from a single RGB image. They propose a holistic approach to…

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Songyou Peng - Shape As Points 34:34

2+ y ago34:34

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In this episode of the Talking Papers Podcast, I hosted Songyou Peng to chat about his paper “Shape As Points: A Differentiable Poisson Solver”, published in NeurIPS 2021. In this paper, they take on the task of surface reconstruction and propose a hybrid representation that unifies explicit and implicit representation in addition to a differentiab…

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Yicong Hong - VLN BERT 22:57

2+ y ago22:57

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PAPER TITLE: "VLN BERT: A Recurrent Vision-and-Language BERT for Navigation" AUTHORS: Yicong Hong, Qi Wu, Yuankai Qi, Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo, Stephen Gould ABSTRACT: Accuracy of many visiolinguistic tasks has benefited significantly from the application of vision-and-language (V&L) BERT. However, its application for the task of vision and-languag…

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Despoina Paschalidou - Neural Parts 40:43

2+ y ago40:43

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PAPER TITLE Neural Parts: Learning Expressive 3D Shape Abstractions with Invertible Neural Networks AUTHORS Despoina Paschalidou , Angelos Katharopoulos, Andreas Geiger, Sanja Fidler ABSTRACT Impressive progress in 3D shape extraction led to representations that can capture object geometries with high fidelity. In parallel, primitive-based methods …

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Guy Gafni - NerFACE 32:44

2+ y ago32:44

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PAPER TITLE: Dynamic Neural Radiance Fields for Monocular 4D Facial Avatar Reconstruction AUTHORS: Guy Gafni Justus Thies Michael Zollhöfer Matthias Nießner Project page: https://gafniguy.github.io/4D-Facial-Avatars/ CODE: 💻https://github.com/gafniguy/4D-Facial-Avatars ABSTRACT: We present dynamic neural radiance fields for modeling the appearance …

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Jing Zhang - UC-Net 30:21

2+ y ago30:21

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PAPER TITLE: "UC-Net: Uncertainty Inspired RGB-D Saliency Detection via Conditional Variational Autoencoders" AUTHORS: Jing Zhang, Deng-Ping Fan, Yuchao Dai, Saeed Anwar, Fatemeh Sadat Saleh, Tong Zhang, Nick Barnes ABSTRACT: In this paper, we propose the first framework (UCNet) to employ uncertainty for RGB-D saliency detection by learning from th…

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Dylan Campbell - Deep Declarative Networks 29:39

2+ y ago29:39

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PAPER TITLE: "Deep Declarative Networks: a new hope" AUTHORS: Stephen Gould, Richard Hartley, Dylan Campbell ABSTRACT: We explore a new class of end-to-end learnable models wherein data processing nodes (or network layers) are defined in terms of desired behaviour rather than an explicit forward function. Specifically, the forward function is impli…

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Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo - DORi 27:07

2+ y ago27:07

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Paper title: "DORi: Discovering Object Relationships for Moment Localization of a Natural Language Query in a Video" Authors: Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo, Edison Marrese-Taylor, Basura Fernando, Hongdong Li, Stephen Gould Abstract: This paper studies the task of temporal moment localization in a long untrimmed video using natural language query. Given…

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Ep#36: Show Business in China | Magician Geno DeVille 1:15:12

3y ago1:15:12

1:15:12

Comedy Magician Geno DeVille talks about show business in China. Geno, a true showman from England, has been an entertainer for most of his life. After doing some shows in China he decided to make it his home back in 2004. Since then he’s done various tours with hundreds if not thousands of shows all over the country. Watch this podcast on YouTube:…

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Ep#35: Challenging China Bias with Daniel Dumbrill 1:17:47

3y ago1:17:47

1:17:47

Daniel Dumbrill has been challenging misconceptions about China from around the world by making articulated arguments in his thought-provoking videos on Youtube since the beginning of 2020. After the Hong Kong riots started and due to the growing bias against China in western mainstream media, he took his opinions online trying to change those bias…

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Ep#34: Manufacturing Custom-Made Trucks in China | Webb Wehbe 1:21:14

3y ago1:21:14

1:21:14

Webb is a Canadian making custom-made trucks in his big factory in China. He’s an accomplished hands-on kind of entrepreneur who fell in love with China and became the first and only custom-made tow trucks maker in China. His manufacturing company, Metro Tow Trucks, produces impressive, heavy duty trucks for distribution all over the world. In this…

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Ep#33: AI and Innovation From Silicon Valley To China | Tony Huang 1:17:25

3y ago1:17:25

1:17:25

Tony moved from China to California in 1998 for higher education. After graduation he chose to stay in the US and worked in AI and digital innovation at Silicon Valley for a decade. In 2013 he decided to come back to China to open his own AI innovation company, Foocaa, and today he’s responsible for hundreds of smart communities managements in many…

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Ep#32: Scale Model Collectibles Made in China | Noel Lee 1:06:31

3y ago1:06:31

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Noel Lee’s die cast collectibles items are made in China in small batches, 1000 pieces per model. His brand, Calibre Wings, produces fine and accurate aviation scale models in die cast metal. Noel is a China expat from Singapore who lived in Hong Kong for more than a decade and has been based in Shenzhen in the past couple of years. Watch this podc…

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Ep#31: My Journey to China via Germany | Hunter Bliss 1:24:57

3+ y ago1:24:57

1:24:57

Hunter Bliss, an American from South Carolina, tells us about his journey to China via Germany. After he finished high school in the USA, he moved to Germany to attend university, for free! After graduating with a double major in printing and Chinese language, he moved to China and started his stone paper printing business, called Pebble Printing G…

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Ep#30: Understanding China Through Its History | Jeremiah Jenne 48:20

3+ y ago48:20

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Understanding China through its history and culture is the main topic discussed in this episode with Jeremiah Jenne, a writer and historian living in Beijing since 2002. In this podcast, filmed and recorded in a Beijing Hutong, we also discussed his work as a historian in Beijing, learning Chinese as a necessity for his work, China’s long history, …

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Ep#29: Know Your China Accounting | Senior Accountant Cathy Zhang 1:19:42

3+ y ago1:19:42

1:19:42

Do you know your China accounting well enough? Cathy Zhang is a senior accountant and tax consultant with more than 20 years experience working with foreigners on their China accounting. We talked about income tax in China, setting up companies in China, China green card, China's social security, and much more. Find Cathy via her website: https://c…

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Ep#28: Explaining Dropshipping & Opportunities in China | with Simon de Raadt 1:14:10

3+ y ago1:14:10

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Simon de Raadt, a China dropshipping business development manager, sat with us for a talk to explain dropshipping and discuss the China Dream and opportunities in China. Simon is also a podcast host at the China Business Cast and a speaker at various events. During his 10 year stay in China Simon has become an expert on cross-border trade and logis…

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Ep#27: Football in China - Playing and Coaching Children | Mateus Martins 1:14:00

3+ y ago1:14:00

1:14:00

Brazilian football player Mateus Martins moved to China in 2007. He did not speak any English or Chinese when he first got here, but his positive attitude and big personality brought him to new heights in his life in China. After playing professional football in China, he joined Arsenal Football Academy and started coaching under Michael Owen. From…

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Ep#26: The Foreign Dentist in China | Dr. Zavel Mojica 1:03:45

3+ y ago1:03:45

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Dr. Zavel Mojica, from Costa Rica, has been a foreign dentist in China in the past six years. He has seen the industry develop quickly while treating China expats and a growing Chinese clientele. His stories of fixing bad dentistry for his clients and the questions they ask him are both amusing and remarkable. Watch this podcast on YouTube: https:/…

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Ep#25: Inventing Baozza - The Ultimate Chinese-Italian Fusion Food | Co-Founder Loren Heinold 1:23:30

3+ y ago1:23:30

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Loren Heinold has been a long-time China expat. He lives in Beijing and loves it. After coming to China as an investment banker, he expanded his interests and his businesses, opened a chain of Mexican restaurant and co-founded Baozza, a combination of Baozi and Pizza, making the ultimate pizza snack. In this long form conversation we discuss the in…

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Ep#024: Comedian Joe Wong | From Roasting to Hosting - Coming to America and Going Back to China 33:00

3+ y ago33:00

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Stand up comedian Joe Wong talks about his humble beginnings. From moving to America for his PhD in Biochemistry to improving his English and starting in stand up comedy in Boston. In our conversation, he mentions roasting Joe Biden 10 years before he becomes the President with a hint to Kamala Harris, and discusses hosting his show on China's CCTV…

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Ep#023: Biking to Xinjiang and Debunking Western Misconceptions | Jerry Grey 1:29:04

3+ y ago1:29:04

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Jerry Grey is a British-born Australian who has been living in China since 2004. After a recent biking trip to Xinjiang (not his first time), his experience and recollections gathered a lot of attention as he started debunking western misconceptions about the controversial north-western province. In this episode we talk to Jerry and his wife Ann ab…

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Ep#022: Bridging Chinese and Brazilian in China | Sophie Yuen 1:31:09

3+ y ago1:31:09

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Sophie Yuen came from very humble beginnings in a far countryside in Chongqing. Her upbringing made her tough and strict, a personal style she displayed throughout her career. After coming to South China in search of financial independence, she advanced quickly and became the HR and admin manager of Paramount, the first big Brazilian shoe manufactu…

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Ep#021: Making Quality Furniture in China | Bram Vandendriessche from Belgium 1:23:34

3+ y ago1:23:34

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Bram Vandendriessche's family make and sell high quality furniture for almost 70 years. Since 2008 they're also making furniture in Dongguan, China and Bram has been living in China and running the Up2Date Medalounger factory since 2012. Growing up around furniture stores gave him a special insight for the trade and today he's become an expert on t…

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