Culture Fluid: How to be the bridge in a divided world | Sharon Gai | TEDxMcGill

Where are you from? Easy question, right? Not for all of us. As someone who has struggled with her bicultural identity, Sharon eventually develops a way of thinking that might be helpful for everyone who doesn’t neatly fit into one culture. She will guide the audience in how to view disagreements from an objective lens whenever we meet something that we don’t agree with. We will all walk away more peaceful, respectful, and knowledgeable. Sharon Gai has served as General Manager at Pattern, an unicorn ecomtech company. She is a China-born Canadian who has 10+ years in ecommerce, digital marketing and branding. In her tenure at Alibaba, she has advised large to emerging internet-viral brands in crafting their digital marketing and online e-commerce strategy. She has been the keynote speaker at Singularity University, UBS, Ecomworld, Etail, and Ecommerce Asia with over 40,000 attendees as well as the presenter to governments and heads of states on the developments of the tech industry in China. She is the author of the book, Ecommerce Reimagined: what we can learn in retail and ecommerce from China. Sharon has an Honors Bachelor’s degree in International Development from McGill and a Masters in Information Management from Columbia University. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx