[6][7] CHINICT takes place once a year at the end of May in Beijing at Tsinghua University Science Park.

Since 2005, CHINICT has been featuring policy-makers, financiers, entrepreneurs, innovators and technologists both from China and the West.

[11] The conference was founded in 2005 by Franck Nazikian (Simplified Chinese: 方克纳),[12][13][14][15][16][17] a tech entrepreneur and investor.

He is the CEO & co-founder of WowTune, a company focused on creating VR singing and spoken voices, and several other Web3 enterprises.

[19] Franck also served as a managing director at Gemplus International, making venture capital investments in tech companies, and runs DEVELOPNEUR,[4] a series of pitch competitions & hackathons[20] which he created in 2011.