VIPKID Founder and CEO Cindy Mi Speaks at SXSW 2018 Event in Austin, Texas, Presented by GeekPark

VIPKID Founder and CEO Cindy Mi introduced the company, its recent teacher events across the USA and discussed how technology can bring people together and create a global classroom.

She began her presentation by mentioning how pleased she was to be in Austin, Texas, saying: "We have the most (VIPKID) teachers in Texas. It feels like home." VIPKID now has over 5,000 teachers in Texas.

Cindy Mi spoke about the recent VIPKID teacher event in Salt Lake City, with over 250 VIPKID teachers, and the power of both the online and offline teacher community, citing the over 26,000 teacher-generated YouTube video posts as well as the supportive offline community (such as the Utah event) and the 30-40 teacher planned teacher meetups per month, saying: "One thing that makes VIPKID very unique is our teacher community."

Cindy Mi also spoke on the power of technology to empower student learning outcomes and teacher success saying: "Teachers are amazed at how the technology can bring people together," and "What online education can do is very amazing. A teacher in Austin can tutor a child in Shanghai. They wouldn't have met if not for the online education technology. Now they are best friends."

The core theme of Cindy Mi's discussion was the power of technology to disrupt and transform the way students learn and teachers teach, saying, "Learning in the future will be so different," and "There is so much to disrupt for the learners of the future." Cindy also touched upon her future vision of a global classroom: "What if we built a global classroom for all of the learners and encourage that curiosity and aspiration to explore? I think the world of learning will be a much better place."

Cindy Mi also spoke about VIPKID's rural education project with the Jack Ma Foundation, which will reach 1,000 classrooms in 2018, and she also spoke about VIPKID's innovative Mandarin program Lingo Bus and how it is poised to disrupt international Mandarin language learning.

ABOUT VIPKID

VIPKID connects children in China with the world's best teachers for real-time one-to-one online English immersion learning. A global education company, VIPKID's mission is to inspire and empower every child for the future. VIPKID adheres to the belief that education is not one-size-fits-all: all students are unique and the world is within their reach when connected with great teachers capable of personalizing learning and sparking curiosity. Founded in 2013 and formally launched in 2014, VIPKID has become China's market-leading online education startup, attracting investment from Sinovation Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Tencent, Yunfeng Capital, Matrix Partners, Learn Capital, Northern Light VC, Bryant Stibel, among others. The company offers a progressive pedagogy based on the US Common Core State Standards and now serves a community of over 200,000 paying students and over 30,000 teachers in the US and Canada.

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