Best-selling author and columnist Thomas Friedman gave the keynote speech at AliFest 2011, Alibaba Group's annual conference that brings together the global e-commerce community to exchange ideas, network, source products and discuss the future of the Internet.
This was the eighth year that Alibaba Group Chairman and CEO Jack Ma hosted AliFest (aka the Netrepreneur Summit), which features presentations by influential figures from the world of business, sports, media and the Internet. Past participants include former U.S. President Bill Clinton; NBA star Kobe Bryant; Howard Schultz, chairman and CEO of Starbucks; former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger; John Donahoe, president and CEO of eBay; former U.S. ambassador to China Jon Huntsman; as well as prominent Chinese business leaders such as Liu Chuanzhi, founder of Lenovo.
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