Preston Lau is the senior director of strategy & business development at Futurewei Technologies. In his current role, He is leading cross-functional strategies for AI machine learning and open source initiatives in support of the company growth in new markets & new innovative product areas. Earlier in his career, Preston worked for Google where he led Google’s strategic partnership development in the region and successfully established key relationships with renowned telecom operators and mobile manufacturers, as well as content developers to beef up Google’s service offerings around mobile, videos, maps and finance. From AI startup to billion-dollar corporations, he has accumulated 25 years of strategy & business development experience in hi-tech companies. He earned his Computer Science degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.