Profile
For the last 4 years, the Chengdu Entrepreneurship Meetup brings business people together every month.
This week’s focus will be Healthy Eating in Chengdu :
Speakers:
Shaz Careem
Co-Founder, SHIFT
Shaz has been interested in health, nutrition and fitness for many years. As someone who has been exercising for the last twenty years, and practicing various martial arts, he also has been curious about natural medicine and nutrition for a long time, learning and approaching these topics from different perspectives. An AFN/CPD certificate in nutrition aside, Shaz also is a certified NLP practitioner and believes chocolate is necessary to maintain his color.
Joining forces at SHIFT, Shaz is now on the mission to create more awareness and promote healthier eating in Chengdu.
Janina Olescheski
SW China Ambassador, Green Monday
After 2 years in Chengdu and organizing different events and parties for the local Chinese and foreign community with UrTurn Events, Janina has turned to promoting healthy and sustainable lifestyle choices in the city. Green Monday is a social startup group based in Hong Kong that aims to tackle climate change and global food insecurity by making low-carbon and sustainable living simple, viral and actionable.
In September 2016, the Green Monday campaign was launched in Chengdu in collaboration with Welfare for Animals to offer corporations, restaurants, schools and the general public a platform to perform social and environmental responsibilities.
Han Lin
Founder, Healthy Gourmet
Han is one of the founders of Healthy Gourmet. He was born in Taiwan and later grew up in the Philippines. Already since his early years he has been a model and tried almost all type of sports.
After moving to China 10 years ago, he shifted is attention more and more to the practice and study of nutrition and various forms of diets. Being a practical person, Han aims to apply different diets on himself to improve his health and testing their effects. Though he realized that living in Chengdu is a big challenge to do so as the normal foot here often contains too much oil, salt, MSG and other additives. This is the reason why he opened Healthy Gourmet, creating and providing a healthy eating lifestyle that people can afford to eat everyday.
Erik Ackner
Chapter Director, Startup Grind
Erik is a talented event organizer from Germany with a MA double-degree in Chinese-European Business and Economy. He already helped bringing global events such as the Fête de la Musique, Startup Grind, the Global Citizen Festival and monthly pub crawls to Chengdu. As facilitator of Startup Weekend and director of Startup Grind he keeps trying to build Chengdu’s entrepreneurship community.
As an active entrepreneur and community builder, Erik is at the moment starting SHIFT, a fitness platform that aims to create Chengdu’s biggest active fitness community, championing brands and partners that promote health & lifestyle in China’s South West and offer healthy solutions for corporate, educational and individual clients.
Details:
Wed. Feb. 22nd, 7:30pm -10pm
啤酒窝2店(餐吧) The Beer Nest II, Bar & Kitchen
人民南路四段48号附32号，首座万里商业街1楼 (碧桂园森林城市售房部后面, AMI酒吧、中国银行、乐道茶馆附近)
Address: Renmin South Road Section 4 – No. 48-32, Master Commercial Street (F1, behind Country Garden Real estate sales office, close to “AMI Bar” or Bank of China)
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