The well-known Chinese blogger and social entrepreneur Isaac Mao is visiting Auckland for 24 hours on Sunday 18th and Monday 19th October.

Mao is a venture capitalist, blogger, software architect, entrepreneur and researcher in learning and social technology. He divides his time between research, social works, business and technology He is now Vice President of United Capital Investment Group and Director to Social Brain Foundation, advisor to Global Voices Online and several web 2.0 businesses.

Recently, Mao got a lot of resonance in the technology and business world with his open letter to Google, challenging the search engine giant to support anti-censorship efforts and change its strategy on China.

Isaac will be talking on the impact of blogging in China and the future of new media in the Web 2.0 world.