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The LendIt conference that many of you went to, met at and learned from this past April in New York City arrived in Shanghai & Beijing, China this month (LendIt China). Partnering with the Mobile App Show and Bund Summit (a larger finance conference in Shanghai), LendIt attendees had a full week of festivities to choose from. 

Going into the Chinese event, there was much excitement from the LendIt team and at this year’s LendIt USA. China is a massive player in marketplace lending, which is only starting to get coverage in the US. Companies like Lufax and Dianrong are leading the way for this multi-billion dollar market in China. Read more about the Chinese P2P lending companies HERE.

Peter Renton recently posted a writeup on LendIt China, which you can read HERE. Below is a tweet from the conference and you can review all the #LendItChina tweets HERE.

I'm a fan of conferences. Conferences allow for real handshakes, great verbal discussion and better relationship & community building. As the world becomes more digital, many people never even meet their "friends," "followers" or "connections" in-person. Conferences allow for that human touch that the Internet doesn’t.

Lend Academy has built a true community and their LendIt Conference has become the foundation of that community. This April 13-15 in NYC, the 2200+ most engaged players in the online lending space will come together to work towards growing this exciting industry to greater heights.

Although there’s nothing like a live event, the ability to connect and share online is still very much a beneficial tool for events. I highly suggested that you download LendIt’s event app to get all the info you need about the conference and to connect with other attendees (download on Android + iOS). In addition, the below info can be your second digital companion for LendIt--a compiled list of all the speaker's Twitter and LinkedIn profiles. Finally, if YOU are going to be attending LendIt as a delegate, please connect with me on LinkedIn & Tweet at me (if you have a Twitter account), and I'll do my best to add you to the attendee list below the following speaker list.

2015 LendIt on Twitter

Twitter Handle: @LendItConf Conference Hashtag: #LendItUSA

2015 LendIt Speaker Social Media Profiles

Ram Ahluwalia CEO and Co-Founder, PeerIQ LinkedIn @ramahluwalia

James Alexander Co-Founder, Alternative Capital Associates LinkedIn @SFOhereweGO

Steve Alloca VP & GM of Credit, PayPal - @PayPal LinkedIn

Kim Anderson Founder & CEO, Longitude Partners LinkedIn

Mike Armstrong President, ZestFinance - @ZestFinance LinkedIn

Rohit Arora CEO & Co-Founder, Biz2Credit - @biz2credit LinkedIn @RohitBiz2Credit

Nav Athwal Founder & CEO, RealtyShares - @realtyshares LinkedIn @navathwal

Douglas Bean Partner, The Private Advisory Group LinkedIn

Peter Behrens Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer, RateSetter - @RateSetter LinkedIn

Louis Beryl CEO & Co-Founder, Earnest - @MeetEarnest LinkedIn @louisberyl

William Black Managing Director, Moody's - @MoodysRatings LinkedIn

Brock Blake Founder & CEO, Lendio - @Lendio LinkedIn @BrockBlake

Etienne Boillot CEO & Co-Founder, Eiffel eCapital LinkedIn

Noah Breslow CEO, OnDeck - @OnDeckCapital LinkedIn @noahbreslow

Bo Brustkern Co-Founder & CEO, NSR Invest - @NSRInvest LinkedIn @brustkern

John Bunting Managing Director, Garrison Investment Group LinkedIn

Drew Burchard VP, Retail Banking & Wealth Markets, Union Bank - @UnionBank LinkedIn

Matt Burton CEO & Co-Founder, Orchard - @orchardplatform LinkedIn @burtomd0

Mike Cagney Co-Founder & CEO, SoFi - @SoFi LinkedIn @mcagney

Tom Capasse Principal & Co-Founder, Waterfall Asset Management LinkedIn

Brendan Carroll Partner, Victory Park Capital LinkedIn

Angela Ceresnie CFO & Co-Founder, Orchard - @orchardplatform LinkedIn @aceresnie

Connie Chern Director of Financial Platform Operations, SolarCity - @solarcity LinkedIn

Larry Chiavaro Executive Vice President & Principal, First Associates - @1stAssociates LinkedIn @LarryChiavaro

Thomas D. Christopoul Senior Partner Head of Real Estate Investment, Cain Hoy Enterprises LinkedIn @tchristopoul

Daniel T. Ciporin General Partner, Canaan Partners - @canaanpartners LinkedIn @dtcippy

Itzik Cohen VP Business Development, Prosper - @ProsperLoans LinkedIn @itzikcoh

Jim Costello Senior Vice President, Real Capital Analytics - @realcapital LinkedIn @JimCostelloCRE

Brett Crosby Co-Founder & COO, PeerStreet - @PeerStreet LinkedIn @brettc

An Danfang CEO, GTRiches

Jeff Danford CEO, BlueYield - @BlueHarborAuto LinkedIn @JeffreyDanford

Stephen Dash CEO & Founder, Credible - @credible LinkedIn @stephenjdash

Raj Date Managing Partner, Fenway Summer - @FenwaySummer LinkedIn @rajdate

Michael Deck Founder & CEO, PeerTrader - @Peer_Trader LinkedIn

Andrew Deringer VP Head of Financial Institutions Group, Lending Club - @LendingClub LinkedIn

Richard Dougherty, Sr. Sr. Director Risk Management Line of Business, FICO - @FICO LinkedIn

Christian Faes CEO & Co-Founder, LendInvest - @LendInvest LinkedIn @ChristianFaes

Yihan Fang CEO, Yirendai LinkedIn @yfang

Nino Fanlo CFO & COO, SoFi - @SoFi LinkedIn

Bill Fisher Founder & CEO, PLUM - @PlumLending LinkedIn

Barry Freeman Co-Founder & CEO, Jimubox - @jimubox LinkedIn

Jason Fritton Co-Founder & CEO, Patch of Land - @PatchOfLand LinkedIn @JasonFritton

Gilles Gade CEO & Founder, Cross River Bank - @crossriverbank LinkedIn @GillesGade

Chris Ganan Co-Founder & President, AssetAvenue - @AssetAvenue LinkedIn @cganan

Michael Garrity CEO & Co-Founder, Financeit - @financeit LinkedIn @mgarrity

Greg Gibb Chairman & CEO, Lufax LinkedIn

Ryan Gilbert CEO & Co-Founder, Better Finance LinkedIn @rgoffice

Dave Girouard Founder & CEO, Upstart - @upstart LinkedIn @davegirouard

Tom Goila Senior Managing Director, Aequitas Capital - @aecapital

David Goldin CEO, AmeriMerchant - @AmeriMerchant LinkedIn

Glenn Goldman CEO, RetailCapital - @Retail_Capital LinkedIn

Al Goldstein Co-Founder & CEO, Avant - @AvantCredit LinkedIn

Brian Graham CEO, Alliance Partners LinkedIn

Sam Graziano Co-Founder & CEO, Fundation - @fundationgroup LinkedIn @sam_graziano

Vance Gudmundsen Regulatory Counsel-Vice President, FICO - @FICO LinkedIn

Kevin Guo Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Dianrong.com LinkedIn

James Gutierrez Co-Founder & CEO, Insikt - @InsiktInc LinkedIn

Melissa Guzy Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Arbor Ventures - @ArborVentures1 LinkedIn

Andrew Hallowell Co-Founder & CEO, Arcadia Funds LinkedIn @ahallowell

Anton Hanebrink Head of Corporate Development, Square - @Square LinkedIn @antonhanebrink

Scott Harmon CEO, Noesis - @NoesisEnergy LinkedIn @scotthar_tx

Matt Harris Managing Director, Bain Capital Ventures - @BainCapVC LinkedIn @mattcharris

John Hecht Managing Director, Jefferies - @JefferiesEvents LinkedIn

Jared Hecht Co-Founder & CEO, Fundera - @fundera LinkedIn @jaredhecht

Jilliene Helman Founder & CEO, RealtyMogul - @Realty_Mogul LinkedIn @JillieneHelman

Sam Hodges Co-Founder & U.S. Managing Director, Funding Circle - @FundingCircleUS LinkedIn @HodgesSam

Mark Hookey Founder & CEO, DemystData - @demystdata LinkedIn

Janice Horan Senior Director, FICO - @FICO LinkedIn

Soul Htite Co-Founder & CEO, Dianrong.com LinkedIn

Amy Huang Chairman & CEO, Wheat Financial

Sid Jajodia Vice President - Small Business, Lending Club - @LendingClub LinkedIn

Jaidev Janardana COO, Zopa - @Zopa LinkedIn

James A. Jones CEO & Founder, IRA Exchange LinkedIn

Jason Jones Co-Founder & Partner, Lend Academy - @LendAcademy LinkedIn @cardinalrose

Patricia Kao Director, Financial Institutions Policy, U.S. Dept. of Treasury - @USTreasury LinkedIn

Brad Kime Chief Revenue Officer, LendKey - @LendKey LinkedIn @bradkime

David Klein CEO & Co-Founder, CommonBond - @CommonBond LinkedIn @DavidXKlein

Jeff Knott Assistant Vice President, Equifax - @Equifax LinkedIn @IMKnottJeff

BJ Lackland CEO, Lighter Capital - @LighterCapital LinkedIn @bjlackland

Renaud Laplanche Founder & CEO, Lending Club - @LendingClub LinkedIn

Stuart Law CEO, Assetz Capital - @AssetzInvestors LinkedIn @AssetzPlc

Doug Lebda Chairman CEO & Founder, LendingTree - @LendingTree LinkedIn @DougLebda

Cormac Leech Equity Research, Liberum - @LiberumToday LinkedIn @CormacLeech

Sun Lei Founder & CEO, 9Fbank.com

Kenneth Lin CEO & Founder, Credit Karma - @creditkarma LinkedIn @kennethlin

Zhengyuan Lu SVP Capital Markets, OnDeck - @OnDeckCapital LinkedIn @zlu94

Peter Manbeck Partner, Chapman and Cutler LinkedIn

David Mandel Director Consumer Finance Group, Citi - @Citi LinkedIn

Michael Mandel Co-Founder & CEO, CompStak - @CompStak LinkedIn @CompStakCEO

Emmanuel Marot CEO & Co-Founder, LendingRobot LinkedIn

Brayden McCarthy Head of Policy & Strategy, Fundera - @fundera LinkedIn @btmccarthy

Mark McGuinn Director Opportunity Advancement, Datamyx - @Datamyx LinkedIn

James Meekings Chief Commercial Officer & Co-Founder, Funding Circle - @FundingCircle LinkedIn @JCMeekings

Siddharth N. (Bobby) Mehta Former President & CEO, TransUnion - @TransUnion LinkedIn

Bertram Meyer CEO, Taulia - @taulia LinkedIn @bertrammeyer

Daniel Miller Co-Founder & President, Fundrise - @fundrise LinkedIn @dan__miller

Geoffrey Richard Miller CEO, GLI Finance Limited LinkedIn @geoffmiller66

Karen Gordon Mills Former Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration - @SBAgov LinkedIn @KarenGMills

Charles Moldow General Partner, Foundation Capital - @FoundationCap LinkedIn @cmoldow

Krista Morgan CEO, P2Binvestor - @P2Binvestor LinkedIn @krismtl

John C. (Hans) Morris Managing Partner, Nyca Partners - @nycapartners LinkedIn @HansMorrisSF

Nigel Morris Managing Partner, QED Investors LinkedIn

Daniel Nestel Senior Director of Government Relations, FICO - @FICO

Jorge Newbery CEO, American Homeowner Preservation - @AHPinv LinkedIn @JorgePNewbery

Rodrigo Niño CEO & Founder, Prodigy Network - @ProdigyNetwork LinkedIn @ProdigyNino

Sasha Orloff CEO & Co-Founder, LendUp - @LendUpLoans LinkedIn @sashaorloff

Demetris Papademetriou Co-Founder & Partner, Middlemarch Partners LinkedIn @dpapad

Vince Passione CEO & Founder, LendKey - @LendKey LinkedIn @VincePassione

Gil Penchina Angel Investor, Penchina Syndicate LinkedIn @gilpenchina

Yang Peng Co-Founder, Xintong China

Kathryn Petralia COO & Co-Founder, Kabbage - @KabbageInc LinkedIn @Kabbitch

Rob Pfeifer Head of FP&A, Affirm LinkedIn

Dan Pillemer President, CardWorks LinkedIn @danpillemer

Santo Politi General Partner, Spark Capital - @sparkcapital LinkedIn

Alexander Prokhorov Partner, FinSight

Zander Rafael CEO, Climb Credit

Perry Rahbar Co-Founder & CEO, dv01 LinkedIn

Michelangelo Raimondi Executive Director SPG Warehouse Lending, Morgan Stanley - @MorganStanley LinkedIn

Garry Reeder Partner & CEO, Fenway Summer - @FenwaySummer LinkedIn

Robert Reffkin Founder & CEO, Compass - @CompassInc LinkedIn @RobReffkin

Peter Renton Co-Founder & Partner, Lend Academy - @LendAcademy LinkedIn

Neil Roberts CEO, Harmoney - @HarmoneyNZ LinkedIn @neilharmoney

Mark L. Rockefeller Co-founder & CEO, StreetShares - @StreetShares LinkedIn @MarkRockefeller

Jeffrey Rogers President & CEO, LiftForward - @LiftForward LinkedIn @JeffreySRogers

Frank Rotman Partner, QED Investors LinkedIn

Darpan Saini CTO & Co-Founder, Cloud Lending - @cloudlending LinkedIn

Ohad Samet Co-Founder & CEO, TrueAccord - @trueaccord LinkedIn @ohadsamet

Scott Sanborn COO, Lending Club - @LendingClub LinkedIn

Joanna Schwartz CEO & Co-Founder, EarlyShares - @EarlyShares LinkedIn @JoannaSchwartz

Ethan Senturia Co-Founder & CEO, Dealstruck - @dealstruck LinkedIn @esenturia

George Shapiro CEO & Chairman, The Interface Financial Group - @FactoringPro LinkedIn

Rick Sharga Executive Vice President, Auction.com - @auction LinkedIn @ricksharga

Allen Shayanfekr CEO & Founder, Sharestates - @Sharestates LinkedIn @allenshayanfekr

Stephen Sheinbaum Founder, Merchant Cash and Capital - @MCCfunding LinkedIn

David Shellenberger Senior Director - Scoring and Advanced Analytics, FICO - @FICO

Paul Shi CEO, WangDaiZhiJia

Eyal Shinar CEO & Founder, Fundbox - @fundbox LinkedIn @EyalShinar

Marc Siden Co-Founder & CEO, Onboard Informatics - @Onboard_Info LinkedIn @MarcatOnboard

Jed Simon CEO, FastPay - @GoFastPay LinkedIn

Evan Singer General Manager, SmartBiz - @SmartBizLoans LinkedIn

Eric Siragusa Partner, MHP Funds LinkedIn

William Skelley Founder, Chairman & CEO, iFunding - @inno_funding LinkedIn @SkelleyWilliam

Michael Slavin Founder & CEO, Privlo - @Privlo LinkedIn

Tharon Smith, PhD Founder & Managing Director, The Strontium Group - @StrontiumGroup LinkedIn @DrTharon

Tyler Smith Owner, Loftopia - @Loftopia LinkedIn

Andrew Smith Partner, Covington & Burling LinkedIn

David Snitkof Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder, Orchard - @orchardplatform LinkedIn @davesnitty

Michael Solomon Co-Founder & CEO, CircleBack Lending - @CircleBackLend LinkedIn

Shaun Sorenson General Manager & Vice President, Prosper Healthcare Lending - @ProsperLoans

Kim Stempel VP, Sales and Business Development, Nortridge Software - @Nortridge LinkedIn

Peter Sterling President, Overland Advisors LinkedIn

Brian Stern Managing Director, BlackRock - @blackrock LinkedIn

Cameron Stevens CEO & Co-Founder, Prodigy Finance - @ProdigyFinance LinkedIn

Ron Suber President, Prosper Marketplace - @ProsperLoans LinkedIn @RonSuber

Lawrence H. Summers Economist, Former U.S. Treasury Secretary LinkedIn @LHSummers

John Sun Co-Founder & Chief Credit Officer, Avant - @AvantCredit LinkedIn

Richard Swart Alternative Finance Scholar, UC Berkeley - @UCBerkeley LinkedIn @richardswart

Greg Symons Co-Founder, SocietyOne - @mysocietyone LinkedIn @gregsymons

Shangxuan Tan CEO, OverseaCrowd LinkedIn

Ning Tang Founder & CEO, CreditEase LinkedIn

Heath Terry Global Investment Research, Goldman Sachs - @GoldmanSachs LinkedIn @heathterry

Denise Thomas CEO, ApplePie Capital - @applepiecapital LinkedIn

Ben Thypin Managing Partner, Progress Group LinkedIn @Bthypin

Daniel Tilipman President & Co-Founder, National Debt Relief - @NationalRelief_ LinkedIn

Pärtel Tomberg Founder & CEO, Bondora - @Bondora_com LinkedIn

Phin Upham Principal, Thiel Capital LinkedIn @PhinUpham

Tim VanTassel General Manager of Credit Lifecycle Line of Business, FICO - @FICO LinkedIn

James Varga Founder & CEO, miiCard - @miicard LinkedIn @jamesvarga

Aaron Vermut CEO, Prosper Marketplace - @ProsperLoans LinkedIn @vermooti

James Viceconte Portfolio Manager, AllianceBernstein LinkedIn

Stephen Vogel Managing General Partner, Vogel Partners LinkedIn

Rich Walker Chief Marketing Officer, Datamyx - @Datamyx LinkedIn

Zane Wang, PhD Founder & CEO, China Rapid Finance LinkedIn

Timothy D. Welsh President, CEO & Founder, Nexus Strategy LinkedIn @NexusStrategy

Julia Wooding Principal Consultant - Scores and Analytics, FICO - @FICO LinkedIn

Wu Xianyong CEO, Touna.com

Jin Xu Co-Founder & Partner, SyncUS LinkedIn @chicagoxujin

Liu Yao Co-Founder & VP, Marketing & Public Relations, NiWoDai

Zhen Yao Director of Scores and Analytics, FICO - @FICO LinkedIn

Stephanie Yeh Director, Investment Bank Division, Credit Suisse - @CreditSuisse LinkedIn

Meg Zwick Senior Vice President, Millennium Trust Company LinkedIn @Mzwick5

2015 LendIt Attendee Social Media Profiles