On the 12th of October 2017 ChinaTalk’s Ed Sander gave a guest lecture about the WeChat ecosystem to international students of the HAN University of Applied Sciences in Arnhem (a comparable lecture can be watched here). After the main presentation and answering many questions from the enthusiastic students there was some time left for a little ‘encore’. Ed took a final ten minutes to share some of the craziest examples of mobile payment and the ‘sharing’ economy, which in China are both facilitated by the scanning of QR codes. The examples include himself singing in a karaoke booth and a rather kinky business idea …
You can watch a slidecast, in which we combine the slides and audio of the lecture, below.