For young Chinese professionals, building a successful career in France is a major challenge, as many factors must be taken into account to ensure success:

understanding cultural differences

managing relationships with superiors and colleagues

navigating the different stages of career progression

seizing opportunities to move into more challenging roles

To explore this topic, Club Panda & Coq is organizing a dinner-debate with the shared experiences of:

Kevin LIU, General Manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Cyclone Robotics, an AI company specializing in intelligent automation

Lei BONAMY, Group Commodity Supplier Quality Director at Valeo

The diner debate is to be conducted in Chinese, eventually in French or English if necessary.

???? Date: Thursday, September 4th, 2025, at 7:45 PM
???? Venue: Bayan, 35 rue de Rivoli, Paris 3
???? Participation fee: €15 (to be paid online)
????️ Dinner: each participant covers their own meal, around €25 per person
????️ Format: debate followed by a buffet-style dinner to encourage networking

Speaker Biographies

Kevin Qunkai Liu is General Manager for EMEA at Cyclone Robotics, an AI company in intelligent automation. He brings over 20 years of international leadership across AI, cloud, and fintech industries, having served as General Manager of Alibaba Cloud (Southern Europe), General Manager of Alipay (France & Benelux), and in senior management roles at Huawei and Orange Business (as Senior Marketing Manager). Kevin holds an engineering degree from Télécom Paris and an Executive PhD in Management from Paris Dauphine University. He also serves on EDHEC’s Global MBA Advisory Board, teaches at CKGSB, and is Vice-President of the Association of Chinese Engineers in France (AICF).

Lei Bonamy has 23 years of professional experience across several global Fortune 500 companies, working in project quality, manufacturing quality, supplier development, and R&D within the automotive industry in mainland China, Hong Kong, and France. She has extensive hands-on expertise in quality management, quality tools, and people development. Today, Lei works at Valeo Headquarters in Paris as Group Commodity Supplier Quality Director.