Benjamin Joffe is a leading expert on Asia's digital scene. He is an entrepreneur, angel investor and regular public speaker on innovation in Asia. He has keynoted and moderated at over 100 conferences on topics such as mobile and web business models, innovation and entrepreneurship in Asia.

Joffe coined the terms of "Innovation Arbitrage", "Techno-Darwinism" and the concept of "5C's of Innovation" (Copy, Combination, Competition, Constraints, Context). His research today covers artificial artificial intelligence, virtual economy

Virtual economy

A virtual economy is an emergent economy existing in a virtual persistent world, usually exchanging virtual goods in the context of an Internet game...

, digital third place and social dynamics

Social dynamics

Social dynamics can refer to the behavior of groups that results from the interactions of individual group members as well to the study of the relationship between individual interactions and group level behaviors...

. Joffe was selected among China’s Top 100 mobile industry influencers in 2007 and 2008 as founder of Mobile Monday in Beijing.

Biography

Benjamin Joffe was born in France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 and graduated with a MS in engineering from Ecole Centrale de Lyon and a MS in Acoustics from Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

The Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, also known as Université Lyon 1 or UCBL, is one of the three public universities of Lyon, France. The dominant areas of study covered by the university are science and medicine. The main administrative, teaching and research facilities are located in...

. Joffe also studied Japanese, Korean and Mandarin Chinese and has been living in Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

, Korea

Korea

Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...

 and China

China

Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

 since 2000 and is one of the most respected experts about Asia's digital space.

Before founding his consultancy +8* in 2003, he was a technology consultant in Tokyo, a mobile market analyst covering Japan & Korea at France Telecom

France Télécom

France Telecom S.A. is the main telecommunications company in France, the third-largest in Europe and one of the largest in the world. It currently employs about 180,000 people and has 192.7 million customers worldwide . In 2010 the group had revenue of €45.5 billion...

, and a Mobile sns pioneer with NewtGames in Japan and Korea. He is the founder and CEO of +8* | Plus Eight Star, a strategy and research consultancy specializing in mobile and internet innovation in Japan, Korea and China. Benjamin is a partner in the 3D social gaming startup, CMUNE

CMUNE

Cmune is creating a next-generation 3D social platform for the Internet.Established in 2007, Cmune also creates, develops, distributes and monetizes 3D browser-based games and virtual worlds in-house and for third parties...

, which was featured at Le Web Paris 2008, Infinity Ventures Summit in Japan and GDC 2010. Last, he is the co-founder of the Mobile Monday forum in Beijing, which he runs monthly since 2006.

Joffe has been quoted in numerous media such as Forbes, CNN, IHT, The New York Times, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and more. He has spoken in dozens of events (e.g. Ad-Tech, Media 08, O'Reilly GSP, International Telecommunication Union

International Telecommunication Union

The International Telecommunication Union is the specialized agency of the United Nations which is responsible for information and communication technologies...

Asia, Open Web Asia etc.), conferences and public and private workshops including at Stanford University and the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley.

External links

• +8* | Plus 8 Star
• Presentations
• Interview by Read Write Web
• Joffe publishes monthly columns in Asian Business Leaders (Chinese) and TMT Interfax new service (English) -