What’s next – and which innovations will actually last?
From green vaping and alternative delivery pathways to circular systems and next-generation heat technology.
Moderation:
Marc Reisner, Editor-in-Chief DTZ/Smokers Club/TJI
Editor-in-chief DTZ/Smokers Club/TJI
Publishing director Konradin Selection GmbH
Regional Sales Director
Vaporesso / Smooretech
Regional Sales Director
Vaporesso / Smooretech
Aron is an NGP expert and through his company NGP Trends provides businesses with technical insights and product development support in the vape, heated tobacco, and nicotine sectors. Through monthly reports, consulting, and workshops, he helps clients take concepts to volume manufacturing, unlocking consumer value from technology benefits.
Aron is an NGP expert and through his company NGP Trends provides businesses with technical insights and product development support in the vape, heated tobacco, and nicotine sectors. Through monthly reports, consulting, and workshops, he helps clients take concepts to volume manufacturing, unlocking consumer value from technology benefits.
Founder ChillMist / HEATX
Ms. Du is the founder of ChillMist and HEATX brands.
She holds a bachelor’s degree from Renmin University of China. She further pursued her studies overseas, earning master’s degrees in Business Administration and International Finance from the Keio University Business School in Tokyo, Japan, and the Brandeis University Graduate School of Business in Massachusetts, USA.
With many years of experience in the international financial industry, Ms. Du previously served as a trader in the Stock Index Futures Division at Merrill Lynch in Tokyo, Head of Asian Central Banks in the Financial Markets Division at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, and later as an Executive Director of the Global Capital Markets Division at Banco Santander in Hong Kong.
In 2017, she founded Millennium Plus Holdings Group Limited in Hong Kong and serves as its Chairman. The group’s businesses cover equity investment, fintech, Japanese real estate investment, and corporate mergers & acquisitions.
In 2019, she established Qianhe Technology Co., Ltd. in Shenzhen, focusing on the design, R&D, production, and sales of electronic atomization devices. In 2022, the company became one of the first batch of brand enterprises in China to obtain a tobacco monopoly license (only 46 nationwide). It currently ranks among the top 10 domestic brands and is a leading brand in both atomized e-cigarettes and heat-not-burn devices in Japan.
Over the next 5 to 10 years, the company will focus on the R&D, sales, and brand building of next-generation tobacco products globally, with the goal of becoming an influential new tobacco brand at home and abroad.
Founder ChillMist / HEATX
Ms. Du is the founder of ChillMist and HEATX brands.
She holds a bachelor’s degree from Renmin University of China. She further pursued her studies overseas, earning master’s degrees in Business Administration and International Finance from the Keio University Business School in Tokyo, Japan, and the Brandeis University Graduate School of Business in Massachusetts, USA.
With many years of experience in the international financial industry, Ms. Du previously served as a trader in the Stock Index Futures Division at Merrill Lynch in Tokyo, Head of Asian Central Banks in the Financial Markets Division at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, and later as an Executive Director of the Global Capital Markets Division at Banco Santander in Hong Kong.
In 2017, she founded Millennium Plus Holdings Group Limited in Hong Kong and serves as its Chairman. The group’s businesses cover equity investment, fintech, Japanese real estate investment, and corporate mergers & acquisitions.
In 2019, she established Qianhe Technology Co., Ltd. in Shenzhen, focusing on the design, R&D, production, and sales of electronic atomization devices. In 2022, the company became one of the first batch of brand enterprises in China to obtain a tobacco monopoly license (only 46 nationwide). It currently ranks among the top 10 domestic brands and is a leading brand in both atomized e-cigarettes and heat-not-burn devices in Japan.
Over the next 5 to 10 years, the company will focus on the R&D, sales, and brand building of next-generation tobacco products globally, with the goal of becoming an influential new tobacco brand at home and abroad.