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Ravi Belani

Managing Director of Alchemist Accelerator

Ravi Belani Managing Director of Alchemist Accelerator http://www.linkedin.com/in/ravibelani/ Ravi Belani is Fenwick & West Lecturer of Entrepreneurship at Stanford University, and Managing Director of the Alchemist Accelerator, an enterprise seed accelerator backed by Cisco, DFJ, Khosla Ventures, Salesforce, Sapphire Ventures, and USVP. Ravi formerly spent six years as part of the investment team at Draper Fisher Jurvetson's Menlo Park global headquarters, where he led investments and served on the boards as the first institutional investor in companies such as Vizu (acq’d by Nielsen), Yield Software (acq'd by Autonomy), Justin.TV/Socialcam, Pubmatic, and Komli. Ravi formerly worked in product management at two Kleiner Perkins enterprise startups, and as a consultant in McKinsey and Company's San Francisco office. Ravi is a Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi graduate of Stanford University, holding a BS with Distinction and MS in Industrial Engineering. Ravi also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. 79

Ravi Belani

Managing Director of Alchemist Accelerator

Ravi Belani Managing Director of Alchemist Accelerator http://www.linkedin.com/in/ravibelani/ Ravi Belani is Fenwick & West Lecturer of Entrepreneurship at Stanford University, and Managing Director of the Alchemist Accelerator, an enterprise seed accelerator backed by Cisco, DFJ, Khosla Ventures, Salesforce, Sapphire Ventures, and USVP. Ravi formerly spent six years as part of the investment team at Draper Fisher Jurvetson's Menlo Park global headquarters, where he led investments and served on the boards as the first institutional investor in companies such as Vizu (acq’d by Nielsen), Yield Software (acq'd by Autonomy), Justin.TV/Socialcam, Pubmatic, and Komli. Ravi formerly worked in product management at two Kleiner Perkins enterprise startups, and as a consultant in McKinsey and Company's San Francisco office. Ravi is a Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi graduate of Stanford University, holding a BS with Distinction and MS in Industrial Engineering. Ravi also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. 129

Zvika Popper

VP of Strategy

Zvika Popper VP of Strategy https://www.linkedin.com/in/zvika-popper-1721a626/?originalSubdomain=il Zvika Popper is part of the founding team of HYPE Sports Innovation - the largest global sports innovation ecosystem of over 40K members. HYPE is dedicated to positively impact people’s lives through the power of sports and innovation. Zvika is also leading HYPE's annual TOP50 programs while personally mentoring and supporting dozens of startups from around the globe. He holds Bsc in Environmental Health and MA in Sustainable Development and has vast experience in leading various large scale international projects (public and private) and strategic collaborations. VP Strategy of HYPE Sports Innovation 323

Adriana Gascoigne

Founder & CEO of Girls In Tech

Adriana Gascoigne Founder & CEO of Girls In Tech http://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianagascoigne/ Adriana is the Founder and CEO of Girls in Tech (GIT), the world’s first group focusing on Millennial women in technology and entrepreneurship. She created GIT in 2007 because of a crucial need she lacked herself at that time in her tech career - a support framework to help women advance their careers in STEM fields. Adriana, who has worked together with tech companies like Indiegogo, Involver (Oracle) as an advisor, Change.org, Social Gaming Network (SGN), and Algentis, and has led GIT to where it is today - with 100,000 members in 60 chapters across the world, and igniting women in tech movements into countries like India, Kuwait, Nigeria, Chile, and Japan. Her background includes key executive roles at Ogilvy & Mather, Interpublic Group of Companies and SecondMarket, the largest secondary trading platform. Adriana is a Singularity University Impact Fellow Scholarship Recipient and holds degrees from the University of California at Davis and El Tecnologico de Monterrey in Aguascalientes, Mexico. She is fluent in Spanish. 163

Adriana Gascoigne

Founder & CEO of Girls In Tech

Adriana Gascoigne Founder & CEO of Girls In Tech http://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianagascoigne/ Adriana is the Founder and CEO of Girls in Tech (GIT), the world’s first group focusing on Millennial women in technology and entrepreneurship. She created GIT in 2007 because of a crucial need she lacked herself at that time in her tech career - a support framework to help women advance their careers in STEM fields. Adriana, who has worked together with tech companies like Indiegogo, Involver (Oracle) as an advisor, Change.org, Social Gaming Network (SGN), and Algentis, and has led GIT to where it is today - with 100,000 members in 60 chapters across the world, and igniting women in tech movements into countries like India, Kuwait, Nigeria, Chile, and Japan. Her background includes key executive roles at Ogilvy & Mather, Interpublic Group of Companies and SecondMarket, the largest secondary trading platform. Adriana is a Singularity University Impact Fellow Scholarship Recipient and holds degrees from the University of California at Davis and El Tecnologico de Monterrey in Aguascalientes, Mexico. She is fluent in Spanish. 235

Albert Liu

Founder & CEO

Albert Liu Founder & CEO Founder & CEO of Kneron 358

Alessandro Gasparini

Executive Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer of ImmerVersion

Alessandro Gasparini Executive Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer of ImmerVersion https://www.facebook.com/ImmerVision-113594679218/ https://twitter.com/ImmerVision Alessandro Gasparini is Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer of ImmerVision, the global experts in wide-angle imaging technology and intelligent vision. He has more than two decades of experience, including over 15 years in the emerging technology space, in the areas of corporate strategy, technology innovation, strategic management, business definition, planning and execution, and sales & marketing. Alessandro joined ImmerVision in 2005 as Chief Commercial Officer and was later appointed to Executive Vice President. He is responsible for leading ImmerVision’s commercial strategy, global presence, and overseeing the company’s expansion into new markets. Before ImmerVision, Alessandro was Vice President of Strategic Alliances and Business Development at Polyplan Technologies until it was acquired by PTC, a strategic partner. When not traveling the world, Alessandro fulfills his passion for alpine skiing. He is a certified Canadian Ski Instructor, and coaches, mentors and certifies new instructors. Alessandro has a penchant for sport cars, especially convertibles and when he’s not driving he enjoys fine dining and great wines. 217

Alessandro Gasparini

Executive Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer of ImmerVersion

Alessandro Gasparini Executive Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer of ImmerVersion https://www.facebook.com/ImmerVision-113594679218/ https://twitter.com/ImmerVision Alessandro Gasparini is Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer of ImmerVision, the global experts in wide-angle imaging technology and intelligent vision. He has more than two decades of experience, including over 15 years in the emerging technology space, in the areas of corporate strategy, technology innovation, strategic management, business definition, planning and execution, and sales & marketing. Alessandro joined ImmerVision in 2005 as Chief Commercial Officer and was later appointed to Executive Vice President. He is responsible for leading ImmerVision’s commercial strategy, global presence, and overseeing the company’s expansion into new markets. Before ImmerVision, Alessandro was Vice President of Strategic Alliances and Business Development at Polyplan Technologies until it was acquired by PTC, a strategic partner. When not traveling the world, Alessandro fulfills his passion for alpine skiing. He is a certified Canadian Ski Instructor, and coaches, mentors and certifies new instructors. Alessandro has a penchant for sport cars, especially convertibles and when he’s not driving he enjoys fine dining and great wines. 275

Alessandro Grande

Ecosystem Manager

Alessandro Grande Ecosystem Manager Alessandro is the ecosystem manager in the automotive and IoT division at Arm. Alessandro is part of a global team that focuses on driving innovation by supporting a diverse range of developers building solutions in IoT, embedded, robotics, drones, machine learning and security. Alessandro joined Arm as an electronic engineer in 2014. After four years working as a design and validation engineer, he spent six months as an Education Specialist, equipping engineers from across the globe, with the right tools and support they needed to help students pursue a career in electronics and computer science. Prior to joining Arm, Alessandro achieved an master in nuclear physics, with a focus on electronics, from the University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy. Ecosystem Manager of Arm 306

Alex Chang

Director

Alex Chang Director https://www.facebook.com/MediaTekTaiwan/?brand_redir=1492939347703469 Alex is from MediaTek Computing and AI Group, responsible for AI algorithm and software framework solutions Director of MediaTek Computing and AI Group 352

Amanda Hsu

Managing Partner of Shape Prototype ＆ Co-Founder of Women in IoT

Amanda Hsu Managing Partner of Shape Prototype ＆ Co-Founder of Women in IoT https://www.linkedin.com/in/nihaoamanda/ In the past 3 years, Amanda led a product management team helping over 100 tech & IoT startups worldwide in product solutions. Prior to this, she was a lead project manager based in Shenzhen, responsible for projects from Fortune 500 companies. Before working in Asia, she had worked in the UK as a B2B marketing specialist in a multinational industry manufacturer. She graduated from Leeds Business School with a MSc in Marketing Management. She is passionate about entrepreneurship. She believes technology can positively change lives, and her work is to be one of the enablers to push things happen. 173

Amanda Hsu

Managing Partner of Shape Prototype ＆ Co-Founder of Women in IoT

Amanda Hsu Managing Partner of Shape Prototype ＆ Co-Founder of Women in IoT https://www.linkedin.com/in/nihaoamanda/ In the past 3 years, Amanda led a product management team helping over 100 tech & IoT startups worldwide in product solutions. Prior to this, she was a lead project manager based in Shenzhen, responsible for projects from Fortune 500 companies. Before working in Asia, she had worked in the UK as a B2B marketing specialist in a multinational industry manufacturer. She graduated from Leeds Business School with a MSc in Marketing Management. She is passionate about entrepreneurship. She believes technology can positively change lives, and her work is to be one of the enablers to push things happen. 242

Amanda Liu

CEO

Amanda Liu CEO https://www.facebook.com/amanda.liu.9279 Amanda Liu is the CEO and founder of StarFab Accelerator, the biggest theme-based corporate accelerator in Taiwan. She is known for being the pioneer of cloud application development in Taiwan having worked across wireless communication, broadband internet, cloud computing SaaS ( Software as a Service) development, and international marketing for more than 20 years. After graduating from the National Chiao Tung University with a Master of Science in Management degree, she had experience working for the Industrial Technology Research Institute and a well-known semiconductor company. In 2013, she founded the first CIAT Accelerator program and curated a thematic training and corporate-startup mentorship mechanism unique to the CIAT Accelerator program, which is now the most successful accelerator program in Taiwan that has introduced startup innovations to more than 30 countries worldwide. 369

Amit Pradhan

President

Amit Pradhan President https://www.linkedin.com/in/amitpradhan/ A seasoned startup founder, investor and speaker, and spend his time creating, evangelizing and investing in the future of responsible AI and decentralization. A 19-year veteran of Silicon Valley, he has built deep-tech startups with multi-million-dollar revenue streams and focus on technology, startups and systems that have a positive impact on the humans they serve. He is the co-founder & President of the Silicon Valley Blockchain Society, a network of some of the largest Investors, Thinkers, Practitioners and Creators, with Chapters around the globe – with a core mission to ‘Fund the Revolution’ and bring with it a thoughtful and responsible approach to the impact, value and culture in the Decentralized Ecosystem. President of Silicon Valley Blockchain Society 354

Andrés Saborido

Founder and Director

Andrés Saborido Founder and Director https://www.linkedin.com/in/andr%C3%A9s-saborido-16949a8/ Mr. Andrés Saborido launched Wayra Argentina in 2011 and currently lead Wayra and Telefónica Open Future_ in Spain, with +700 invested startups worldwide. He developed businesses between tech-startups and big corporations for the last 7 years. Highly experienced in Open Innovation and passionate about startups and entrepreneurship, he has fostered seed investment ecosystems in Europe. Founder and Director of Wayra 357

Andrew Batten

Managing Director of Hyperform Consulting

Andrew Batten Managing Director of Hyperform Consulting Andrew Batten started his 30-year career with BT in the UK specializing in Product Development – also the topic of his MBA thesis. For the last 15 years he was based on APAC, providing consulting services before joining EY also as a Regional Director of Consulting. He now works as an Independent Consultant. 207

Andrew Batten

Managing Director of Hyperform Consulting

Andrew Batten Managing Director of Hyperform Consulting Andrew Batten started his 30-year career with BT in the UK specializing in Product Development – also the topic of his MBA thesis. For the last 15 years he was based on APAC, providing consulting services before joining EY also as a Regional Director of Consulting. He now works as an Independent Consultant. 265

Andrew Chen

Director of Product & Service Management

Andrew Chen Director of Product & Service Management Since joining Trend Micro from 2006, Andrew started as Director of Core Technology Solution PM group. Later Andrew manages Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) product line and expanded to Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) and Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services team as part of the PM group. 421

Andrew Lu

Partner Development Lead, Global Partner Solutions

Andrew Lu Partner Development Lead, Global Partner Solutions Andrew Lu is the former Vice President of Cloud Platform Solutions of Microsoft Taiwan Expert Technology Department, Convenor of Taiwan Microsoft New Accelerator Architecture Technology Application Innovation Expert Group, with qualifications of Taiwan Amazon AWS, Yihua Computer, Taiwan Agilent Technology. Andrew has been promoting the digital transformation of large enterprises and cross-industry cloud. He has more than 20 years of experience in solutions, business and projects. 429

Andrew Tan

Founder of TinkBig Venture

Andrew Tan Founder of TinkBig Venture https://www.linkedin.com/in/drewhesper/ Andrew is a serial entrepreneur and the founding partner in TinkBig Venture where he is managing partner of the firm’s investment and management team. He is also currently the CEO of CrowdPlus Asia, one of the 6 license holder for equity crowdfunding platform in Malaysia that is regulated by the Securities Commission of Malaysia. Prior to TinkBig, Andrew was chief business development officer and a financial-services investor at Appshack Asia. While at Appshack, he led investments in seven startup deals with other co VC. Prior to that, Andrew was a private-equity investor where he regularly advised his limited Partners on private-equity deals and fund formation. Before that he successfully listed his company at the MESDAQ Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur Securities Exchange where learned the intricacies of the stock market. 184

Andrew Tan

Founder of TinkBig Venture

Andrew Tan Founder of TinkBig Venture https://www.linkedin.com/in/drewhesper/ Andrew is a serial entrepreneur and the founding partner in TinkBig Venture where he is managing partner of the firm’s investment and management team. He is also currently the CEO of CrowdPlus Asia, one of the 6 license holder for equity crowdfunding platform in Malaysia that is regulated by the Securities Commission of Malaysia. Prior to TinkBig, Andrew was chief business development officer and a financial-services investor at Appshack Asia. While at Appshack, he led investments in seven startup deals with other co VC. Prior to that, Andrew was a private-equity investor where he regularly advised his limited Partners on private-equity deals and fund formation. Before that he successfully listed his company at the MESDAQ Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur Securities Exchange where learned the intricacies of the stock market. 249

Andy Lürling

Founder of LUMO Labs

Andy Lürling Founder of LUMO Labs Andy is a Dutch serial entrepreneur in the high tech and creative industries. After selling the shares of his company iOpener Media GmbH in Germany in 2011 he started to advise and support start-ups in the high tech and creative industries. Noticing the lack of early stage ‘risk’ capital available for start-ups in Western Europe, Andy founded LUMO labs, a so-called venture builder in 2016. LUMO Labs is a two year venture builder program that besides providing seed funding, actively supports entrepreneurs with a ''hands on'' approach. LUMO labs mission is to facilitate a vibrant ecosystem and stimulate cross-pollination between start-ups. Its focus markets are on big data/deep learning, AI, VR/AR/MR, Blockchain and Robotics/IoT. Andy also is fostering social impact by creating awareness of the need for heightened focus on sustainability as well as creating profitable businesses. Andy divides his time between the Eindhoven (The Netherlands) and Los Angeles (USA) where the first two LUMO Labs are located. Andy holds a degree in Information Management from the Zuyd University of Applied Sciences (The Netherlands), and successfully completed the Master Class Technology, Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands). 224

Andy Lürling

Founder of LUMO Labs

Andy Lürling Founder of LUMO Labs Andy is a Dutch serial entrepreneur in the high tech and creative industries. After selling the shares of his company iOpener Media GmbH in Germany in 2011 he started to advise and support start-ups in the high tech and creative industries. Noticing the lack of early stage ‘risk’ capital available for start-ups in Western Europe, Andy founded LUMO labs, a so-called venture builder in 2016. LUMO Labs is a two year venture builder program that besides providing seed funding, actively supports entrepreneurs with a ''hands on'' approach. LUMO labs mission is to facilitate a vibrant ecosystem and stimulate cross-pollination between start-ups. Its focus markets are on big data/deep learning, AI, VR/AR/MR, Blockchain and Robotics/IoT. Andy also is fostering social impact by creating awareness of the need for heightened focus on sustainability as well as creating profitable businesses. Andy divides his time between the Eindhoven (The Netherlands) and Los Angeles (USA) where the first two LUMO Labs are located. Andy holds a degree in Information Management from the Zuyd University of Applied Sciences (The Netherlands), and successfully completed the Master Class Technology, Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands). 281

Anis Uzzaman

CEO & General Partner of Fenox Venture Capital

Anis Uzzaman CEO & General Partner of Fenox Venture Capital http://www.linkedin.com/in/anisuzzaman http://www.facebook.com/anis.uzzaman.37 Anis Uzzaman, Ph.D is the General Partner and founding member of Fenox Venture Capital. He serves as the Chief Executive of the company, overlooking overall management and operations. As a leader of the IBM and Cadence Management Teams, Anis led numerous strategic investments in the software development, microelectronics, and e-commerce space. A serial entrepreneur in the retail and technological sectors, Anis provides mentorship in fundraising, operations, and exit strategy to entrepreneurs. Anis has invested in over 60 startups in the United States, Japan, and South East Asia. He holds a B.Eng. degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan, an M.S. in Engineering from Oklahoma State University, and a Ph.D in Computer Engineering from Tokyo Metropolitan University in Tokyo, Japan. Anis is an honored guest speaker in international conferences, workshops and seminars, has published more than 30 technical papers, and is the author of the“Startup Bible”. 164

Anis Uzzaman

CEO & General Partner of Fenox Venture Capital

Anis Uzzaman CEO & General Partner of Fenox Venture Capital http://www.linkedin.com/in/anisuzzaman http://www.facebook.com/anis.uzzaman.37 Anis Uzzaman, Ph.D is the General Partner and founding member of Fenox Venture Capital. He serves as the Chief Executive of the company, overlooking overall management and operations. As a leader of the IBM and Cadence Management Teams, Anis led numerous strategic investments in the software development, microelectronics, and e-commerce space. A serial entrepreneur in the retail and technological sectors, Anis provides mentorship in fundraising, operations, and exit strategy to entrepreneurs. Anis has invested in over 60 startups in the United States, Japan, and South East Asia. He holds a B.Eng. degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan, an M.S. in Engineering from Oklahoma State University, and a Ph.D in Computer Engineering from Tokyo Metropolitan University in Tokyo, Japan. Anis is an honored guest speaker in international conferences, workshops and seminars, has published more than 30 technical papers, and is the author of the“Startup Bible”. 236

Artur Kadurin

CEO of Insilico Taiwan

Artur Kadurin CEO of Insilico Taiwan Artur Kadurin is Chief AI Officer at Insilico Medicine, and CEO Insilico Taiwan - companies utilizing Deep Learning techniques for drug discovery and aging research. He has strong mathematical background and experience in all flavors of Data Science, Machine Learning and Deep Learning. Prior to Insilico Medicine, he worked at Mail.ru Group - one of the biggest European IT company as the lead data scientist, where he built from scratch user segmentation system for biggest in Russia advertising system. 177

Artur Kadurin

CEO of Insilico Taiwan

Artur Kadurin CEO of Insilico Taiwan Artur Kadurin is Chief AI Officer at Insilico Medicine, and CEO Insilico Taiwan - companies utilizing Deep Learning techniques for drug discovery and aging research. He has strong mathematical background and experience in all flavors of Data Science, Machine Learning and Deep Learning. Prior to Insilico Medicine, he worked at Mail.ru Group - one of the biggest European IT company as the lead data scientist, where he built from scratch user segmentation system for biggest in Russia advertising system. 246

Aryan Hung

Founder & CEO

Aryan Hung Founder & CEO https://www.linkedin.com/in/aryan-hung-46bba8147/ iHH was founded in 2016. The company's mission is to make the transmission of the smart device "easier and straighter, with the capability of higher information protection. iHH provides an obvious cost advantage operation model, making remote integration and communication innovative. iHH's Arctos solution invites enterprises to conduct business or provide services remotely audio and video, or to create products with interactive video functions.

Aryan Hung has 20 years of working experience, involving the development, production, and sales of feature phones and smartphones, and the development of mobile applications and business systems for corporate customers. Aryan Hung and his team expect to bring better business functions and value to enterprise customers with Arctos solutions. 407

Athena Chen

Senior Strategist

Athena Chen Senior Strategist Athena has worked extensively in the creative and fashion industry, delivering a strategic perspective on global mindsets and how brands can shape ideas through creativity and innovation. With bilingual expertise in tracking regional trends, she is receptive to market and cultural nuances, and provides businesses with insight into topics related to Asia.

Athena was previously features editor at WallPaper* China, covering product and cultural trends across fashion, art and design in Asia. She also held content and marketing roles at global fashion and beauty brands including Farfetch and L'Oréal. 433

Benjamin Tseng

Founder & Chairman@Net Publishing

Benjamin Tseng Founder & Chairman@Net Publishing Experienced Founder with a demonstrated history of working in the computer games industry. Skilled in Online Gaming, Casual Games, Social Games, Digital Marketing, and Value-Added Services (VAS). Strong entrepreneurship professional with a Master focused in Industrial Engineering from National Chiao Tung University. 231

Benjamin Tseng

Founder & Chairman@Net Publishing

Benjamin Tseng Founder & Chairman@Net Publishing Experienced Founder with a demonstrated history of working in the computer games industry. Skilled in Online Gaming, Casual Games, Social Games, Digital Marketing, and Value-Added Services (VAS). Strong entrepreneurship professional with a Master focused in Industrial Engineering from National Chiao Tung University. 288

Bob Hung

Taiwan & Hong Kong General Manager

Bob Hung Taiwan & Hong Kong General Manager Bob Hung is the General Manager for Trend Micro Hong Kong and Taiwan. He joined Trend Micro in 2000 with an engineering background, now leads the sales and marketing teams in both regions with over 17 years of industry experience. Bob has had numerous successes in promoting Trend Micro security solutions to helping customer fighting against advanced cyber threat. 388

Bor-Sheng (Kevin) Ko

Attending Physician

Bor-Sheng (Kevin) Ko Attending Physician Bor-Sheng (Kevin) Ko received his M.D. degree in Medical College of National Taiwan University, and Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University in 2011. He is currently an attending physician of the Hematology Division and assistant professor at National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH), the president of Taiwan Society of Blood and Marrow Transplant (TBMT), and the president of Taiwan Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcome Research (TASPOR). In addition, he also serves as a committee member of multiple committees in Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA), and Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) in the past years. He is the co-founder for this NTUH IRB approved AHEAD project and responsible for clinical validation for the algorithm and development for related clinical application. Attending Physician at National Taiwan University Hospital 338

Bruce Bateman

Chief Technology Advise of Smart Life & Application SBG LITE-ON

Bruce Bateman Chief Technology Advise of Smart Life & Application SBG LITE-ON https://www.linkedin.com/in/brucewbateman/ Experienced Connected City technologist and designer now leading the drive for Smart City planning and technologies. Bruce has been a Serial Entrepreneur, Mentor, Angel Investor, Startup Advisor, Constant Traveler and Lover of Life with unique blend of technical, sales, marketing and customer service skills to help City Planners understand the social, financial benefits by deploying Appropriate technologies. It’s not about the technology it’s about solving a problem. Previous products / projects for the telecom, wearable, IoT, VR, M2M and enterprise industry. Excellent technical and analytic skills, extensive international experience in manufacturing and distribution, with an understanding of different cultures and business practices. Having started or been involved early stages of 9 startups, the experiences of success and failures has given Bruce an open and enlightened view of the startup world. 192

Bruce Bateman

Chief Technology Advise of Smart Life & Application SBG LITE-ON

Bruce Bateman Chief Technology Advise of Smart Life & Application SBG LITE-ON https://www.linkedin.com/in/brucewbateman/ Experienced Connected City technologist and designer now leading the drive for Smart City planning and technologies. Bruce has been a Serial Entrepreneur, Mentor, Angel Investor, Startup Advisor, Constant Traveler and Lover of Life with unique blend of technical, sales, marketing and customer service skills to help City Planners understand the social, financial benefits by deploying Appropriate technologies. It’s not about the technology it’s about solving a problem. Previous products / projects for the telecom, wearable, IoT, VR, M2M and enterprise industry. Excellent technical and analytic skills, extensive international experience in manufacturing and distribution, with an understanding of different cultures and business practices. Having started or been involved early stages of 9 startups, the experiences of success and failures has given Bruce an open and enlightened view of the startup world. 254

Bruce Lin

Chief Executive Officer

Bruce Lin Chief Executive Officer Bruce Lin, CEO of NTHU GLORIA Operation Center, is a Ph.D. in Systems Industrial Engineering University of Arizona. He used to be the top executives such as CEO of Zocean Poewr Technology Co., Ltd., Deputy General Manager of Comtrend Corporation, Country Manager of Flextronics International Ltd., and the Director of the service and production department of Zyxel Communications Corp. CEO Lin has more than 20 years of management experience, good at communication and coordination, cross-department collaboration and has dedicated his life to recruiting new team, planning and establishment new plant, integrating new department and new market development strategies. Since 2017, he has been the Chief Operating Officer of NTHU GLORIA Program Office, building a platform for enterprises and NTHU, serving NTHU teachers and benchmark enterprises; Since he became CEO in 2019, he has added to the original business responsibility of Industry Collaboration Service Division as the unified window of GLORIA Program and integrate new innovation and cultivation, intellectual property technology transfer, legal contract and other businesses, so as to gradually build the research and innovation ecosystem of NTHU. At the same time, CEO Lin invited industry experts to check the R&D capability and technical teams in school, provide value-added services, and become a bridge between the academia and the industry. The team led by CEO Lin creates customized solutions for the industry and academia, and plays the role of communication and coordination. For example, the collaboration between THSRC and NTHU is a highlight industry-academic case, and the promotion of joint R&D with enterprises based on the model of " Enterprise Issues Schools Solve " is also the key strategy of CEO Lin. That is to sign a contract with cooperative enterprises for five years and invest more than 10 million a year. For example, AcBel Polytech Inc. and NTHU set up a joint R&D center to promote the development of Frontier technology and talent cultivation. As for the industry-academic assistance of NTHU teachers, CEO Lin is planning the NTHU GLORIA project translation plan. This plan aims to strengthen the cooperation between industry liaison experts and the R&D teams composed of potential professors of NTHU, especially young scholars. There are industry experts assigned exclusively for each case to strengthen the matchmaking between professors and enterprises, assist in talent training, help the R&D team members to integrate the university professors' R&D technology and ability of communication with enterprises so as to accelerate the technology commercialization. CEO Lin and his team have implemented the GLORIA project of the Ministry of Science and Technology since September 2017, and it has entered the second phase of the project. The first phase of the project focuses on improving the service quality of research-industry cooperation and technology transfer.

The second phase of the project starts in October 2020. CEO Lin integrates the R&D resources of NTHU, NCCU, FJCU, FCU, and TKU, establishes a five-school alliance platform, and adopts "centralization" and "decentralization" dual-track operation structure. In terms of "centralized" organization and operation, and set up a join office for patent and industry-academic collaboration promotion to gather and coordinate the industry-academic research capacity of the five schools, and actively invite domestic and international companies to carry out thematic, cross-field, cross-disciplinary, and cross-school collaboration to increase the corporate members, increase industry-academic collaboration membership fee income, collaboration cases and technology transfer cases, and expand platform service performance. In terms of "decentralized" organization operation, the platform is based on the operation mechanism and characteristics of each school to assist related industry upgrades and innovation and entrepreneurship. 391

Casey Yeh

Head of Group Research & Innovation Center of CTCI

Casey Yeh Head of Group Research & Innovation Center of CTCI Casey Yeh graduated from the Aviation Department of National Cheng Kung University in 1984 and received a master's degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from the University of Iowa. After graduating, he’s working for factory automation, ERP, CRM, financial services, and various systems and software development as a computer software engineer in Silicon Valley. He used to be the computer software development director of VISA. Then, he was responsible for the research and development of cloud and the new technology in Autodesk. In 2017, at the invitation of the CTCI Corporation, he returned to Taiwan to work as a research director and was responsible for the work of innovation and development. 219

Casey Yeh

Head of Group Research & Innovation Center of CTCI

Casey Yeh Head of Group Research & Innovation Center of CTCI Casey Yeh graduated from the Aviation Department of National Cheng Kung University in 1984 and received a master's degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from the University of Iowa. After graduating, he’s working for factory automation, ERP, CRM, financial services, and various systems and software development as a computer software engineer in Silicon Valley. He used to be the computer software development director of VISA. Then, he was responsible for the research and development of cloud and the new technology in Autodesk. In 2017, at the invitation of the CTCI Corporation, he returned to Taiwan to work as a research director and was responsible for the work of innovation and development. 277

Chang Hun Lee

CSO & Co-Founder

Chang Hun Lee CSO & Co-Founder https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglee93/ I am Chang Hun Lee, a serial entrepreneur, from South Korea, who have experienced one small exit and one failure. 385

Chien-Yu Chen

Professor

Chien-Yu Chen Professor Dr. Chen, Chien-Yu is currently a professor of the department of Bio-Industrial Mechatronics Engineering, National Taiwan University. From 2019/2/1, she also serves as the chief scientist of Genomic AI in the Taiwan AI Labs. She has expertise in Bioinformatics, machine learning, and gene regulatory networks. Dr. Chen received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1996, the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Taiwan University in 2003. With the strong background of developing machine learning algorithms during her Ph.D. study, the research of Dr. Chen mainly focuses on designing machine learning methods for solving problems of molecular biology, including predicting protein-DNA binding and variant pathogenicity, using both supervised learning such as classification/regression and unsupervised learning such as clustering/pattern mining. Professor of NTU, Bio-Industrial Mechatronics Engineering 296

Chih Han Yu

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Appier

Chih Han Yu Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Appier Yu leads Appier’s product development and business teams, building AI to make cross screen easy for clients. He worked on iconic AI projects such as Stanford’s DARPA Challenge self-driving car and Little Dog before leaving academia. 213

Chih Han Yu

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Appier

Chih Han Yu Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Appier Yu leads Appier’s product development and business teams, building AI to make cross screen easy for clients. He worked on iconic AI projects such as Stanford’s DARPA Challenge self-driving car and Little Dog before leaving academia. 271

Ching Yao Huang

Chairman of Chinese Business Incubation Association(CBIA)

Ching Yao Huang Chairman of Chinese Business Incubation Association(CBIA) Before joining NCTU in 2002, Dr. Huang was with Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies where he was a project leader of 3.5G cellular system development. Dr. Huang was the recipient of "Bell Labs Team Award" in 2003, "Best Paper Award" from IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference in 2004, and "Outstanding Achievement Award" from National Chiao Tung University in the years of 2007-2015. Besides Dr. Huang's academic achievement, Dr. Huang and his team were awarded the "Best Industry Contribution" from the Minister of Economic Affairs in 2013 due to the contribution in IPR management and innovation ecosystem. In 2013, Dr. Huang further established the first University Business Accelerator in Taiwan, called "Center of Industry Accelerator and Patent Strategy". With more than 50 universities participated, the center carries two national missions in both business acceleration for startups and IPR alliance. The center is UBI index (Sweden) ranked 7 global Incubator/accelerator in 2014 and 2015. 188

Ching Yao Huang

Chairman of Chinese Business Incubation Association(CBIA)

Ching Yao Huang Chairman of Chinese Business Incubation Association(CBIA) Before joining NCTU in 2002, Dr. Huang was with Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies where he was a project leader of 3.5G cellular system development. Dr. Huang was the recipient of "Bell Labs Team Award" in 2003, "Best Paper Award" from IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference in 2004, and "Outstanding Achievement Award" from National Chiao Tung University in the years of 2007-2015. Besides Dr. Huang's academic achievement, Dr. Huang and his team were awarded the "Best Industry Contribution" from the Minister of Economic Affairs in 2013 due to the contribution in IPR management and innovation ecosystem. In 2013, Dr. Huang further established the first University Business Accelerator in Taiwan, called "Center of Industry Accelerator and Patent Strategy". With more than 50 universities participated, the center carries two national missions in both business acceleration for startups and IPR alliance. The center is UBI index (Sweden) ranked 7 global Incubator/accelerator in 2014 and 2015. 251

Ching Yung Lin

CEO of Graphen, Inc. & Professor of Columbia University

Ching Yung Lin CEO of Graphen, Inc. & Professor of Columbia University https://www.linkedin.com/company/graphenai/ https://twitter.com/GraphenAI Dr. Ching-Yung Lin is the CEO of Graphen, Inc., a startup company dedicated to developing next-generation Artificial Intelligence technologies, especially for novel solutions in the Financial Services industry and the Healthcare industry. Before June 2017, He was the IBM Chief Scientist, in the area of Graph Computing, and an IBM Distinguished Researcher. He created and led the Network Science and Machine Intelligence Department in IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. He has been an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University since 2005 and was also an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington 2003-2009 and an Adjunct Professor at NYU in 2014. 215

Ching Yung Lin

CEO of Graphen, Inc. & Professor of Columbia University

Ching Yung Lin CEO of Graphen, Inc. & Professor of Columbia University https://www.linkedin.com/company/graphenai/ https://twitter.com/GraphenAI Dr. Ching-Yung Lin is the CEO of Graphen, Inc., a startup company dedicated to developing next-generation Artificial Intelligence technologies, especially for novel solutions in the Financial Services industry and the Healthcare industry. Before June 2017, He was the IBM Chief Scientist, in the area of Graph Computing, and an IBM Distinguished Researcher. He created and led the Network Science and Machine Intelligence Department in IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. He has been an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University since 2005 and was also an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington 2003-2009 and an Adjunct Professor at NYU in 2014. 273

ChingYao Huang

Chairman

ChingYao Huang Chairman Before joining NCTU in 2002, Dr. Huang was with Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies where he was a project leader of 3.5G cellular system development. Dr. Huang was the recipient of "Bell Labs Team Award" in 2003, "Best Paper Award" from IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference in 2004, and "Outstanding Achievement Award" from National Chiao Tung University in the years of 2007-2015. Besides Dr. Huang's academic achievement, Dr. Huang and his team were awarded the "Best Industry Contribution" from the Minister of Economic Affairs in 2013 due to the contribution in IPR management and innovation ecosystem. In 2013, Dr. Huang further established the first University Business Accelerator in Taiwan, called "Center of Industry Accelerator and Patent Strategy". With more than 50 universities participated, the center carries two national missions in both business acceleration for startups and IPR alliance. The center is UBI index (Sweden) ranked 7 global Incubator/accelerator in 2014 and 2015. Chairman of Asia-Pacific Accelerator Network(AAN) 324

Christine Yeh

Christine Yeh Responsible for Europe Enterprise Network (EEN), Taiwan-Africa Trade Promotion Office, MOEA (TATPO), and market expansion in the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa, assisting SME enterprises to expand their global reach. Leading Taiwan Trade Mission to a variety of Countries (i.e. UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Oman, Egypt, Turkey and Kazakhstan), establishing partnerships between Taiwanese Enterprises and the overseas companies. During Taiwan Trade Center in Kuwait, has invited Bahrain, Kuwaiti, Iraqi, Syrian industrial buyers to "Sourcing Taiwan" and to attend exhibitions such as COMPUTEX, Food Taipei and TAISPO, Medicare, and implemented Online B2B Matchmaking with Taiwanese companies.

During the Smart City Summit & Expo, executing Online and physical exhibition activities, and implement several Online business matchmaking activities, and city bilateral business conference, as well as organizing large-scale International forums such as Mayors' Summit, CTalk, creating a business platform for both Taiwanese solution providers and the overseas enterprises. 387

Cindy Sui

Correspondent of BBC

Cindy Sui Correspondent of BBC https://twitter.com/bbccindysui?lang=en BBC's Taiwan correspondent, based in Taipei. Previously worked in Beijing, Hong Kong and California. Love to look at all sides and share what I learn. 233

Cindy Sui

Correspondent of BBC

Cindy Sui Correspondent of BBC https://twitter.com/bbccindysui?lang=en BBC's Taiwan correspondent, based in Taipei. Previously worked in Beijing, Hong Kong and California. Love to look at all sides and share what I learn. 290

Connyn Chang

Director

Connyn Chang Director Connyn Chang received the MSc degree in ICMA Centre, Henley Business School from University of Reading, U.K. She's currently Treasury VP in Global Capital Markets Group at CTBC Bank Co., Ltd., as well as the Director of Taiwan Artificial Intelligence Association (TAIA) and Taiwan Artificial Intelligence for Adolescents Association. She joined Taiwan AI Academy (AIA)'s Executive Program in Artificial Intelligence in 2019 and FinTech Program in 2022, organizing various events for all of the alumni since 2019. She also holds the certificate of Microsoft Certified Azure AI Fundamentals and the certificate in structured finance from UC Irvine.

As derivatives PM at the trading floor and top financial presentation/infographic designer, Connyn's expertise is to convert big data in financial derivatives & global capital markets into useful info with aesthetics. In recent years, she leads many projects of TAIA, such as 2020 AI in Taiwan Hackathon, a series of AI Hub x AI Day events, etc. She has served as the moderator in Taiwan's biggest AI forum - AI Academy Annual Conference, 2021 UK-Taiwan AI+ Smart Manufacturing International Online Conference, and the bilingual hostess in the Toastmasters D67 annual conference. 420

Craig William Harding

Angel Investor

Craig William Harding Angel Investor https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-harding-1348817/ Craig William Harding is the Angel Investor, Band of Angels & Life Science Angels. He specializes in-house legal work, corporate, financing, stock option admin, intellectual property,HR, sales and marketing. Angel Investor, Band of Angels & Life Science Angels 355

Dave Drach

Vice President of Corporate Strategy Techstars

Dave Drach Vice President of Corporate Strategy Techstars Dave Drach is Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Techstars where he helps entrepreneurs and corporates prosper together. With a small team at Techstars he created the first corporate backed, partnership driven, startup accelerator with the powered by Techstars model and has evolved that model into successful partnerships with corporations like Microsoft, Barclays, Disney, Google, Nike and Ford. Prior to Techstars Dave was a Managing Director in Microsoft’s Emerging Business Team, Microsoft’s venture arm. Prior to Microsoft he was with Great Plain Software and Boeing. He has an engineering degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University. Dave enjoys building hotrods, playing a little golf and spending time with his family. 225

Dave Drach

Vice President of Corporate Strategy Techstars

Dave Drach Vice President of Corporate Strategy Techstars Dave Drach is Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Techstars where he helps entrepreneurs and corporates prosper together. With a small team at Techstars he created the first corporate backed, partnership driven, startup accelerator with the powered by Techstars model and has evolved that model into successful partnerships with corporations like Microsoft, Barclays, Disney, Google, Nike and Ford. Prior to Techstars Dave was a Managing Director in Microsoft’s Emerging Business Team, Microsoft’s venture arm. Prior to Microsoft he was with Great Plain Software and Boeing. He has an engineering degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University. Dave enjoys building hotrods, playing a little golf and spending time with his family. 282

Dave NG

Head of Southeast Asia

Dave NG Head of Southeast Asia Dave Ng is the Head of Southeast Asia for Eight Roads Ventures, based out of Singapore. He comes with a track record of backing promising consumer, fintech and enterprise technology companies. Prior to this, he was a Venture Partner at B Capital Group, where he was first based in San Francisco and subsequently moved to Singapore to help launch the Asia office. At B Capital, Dave co-led investments into several tech companies globally, including Ninja Van, CXA Group, Icertis, Mswipe, Capital Match and Carro. He served on the Board of Capital Match, CXA Group and Ninja Van. Besides investing, Dave spent many years operating and building companies within the technology industry. He was a Director at Oracle, where he led the strategy for Cloud and Converged Infrastructure business. Before that, he was an early employee at Zuora, the leading enterprise SaaS for Subscription Business management that went public on NYSE. At Zuora, he led strategy and operations for the Services business, focusing on people, process, and infrastructure growth – scaling and expanding across US, EMEA and APAC. Earlier on, Dave was a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group. He began his career in product development as a software engineer at Oracle, delivering multiple major product releases. Head of Southeast Asia, Eight Roads Ventures 367

David Chiang

David Chiang With years of experience in NPO and ICT industry promotion and facilitating business engagements for tech-startups. Using platforms such as COMPUTEX TAIPEI and InnoVEX, and with online and onsite activities such as exhibitions, webinars, keynotes, matchmaking, networking parties and social media to bridge tech-startups with potential investors, industry professionals, press media internationally to maximize business opportunities. Due to the abundant work experience from South Africa, U.K., Sweden, and in industries such as hospitality management, foreign exchange trading and the ICT industry, David is also holds the mission of maintaining a close relationship with over a dozen Trade Offices in Taiwan. 368

David Huang

Manager

David Huang Manager David Huang received his Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering in 2007. Then he joined Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) as a researcher focusing on computer vision and machine learning. In 2013, he joined Intelligent System Division in Quanta Storage Inc. This team then became Techman Robot Inc. in 2016. Now he leads Vision Business Department of Techman Robot and dedicates on the development of AI and Robotics vision. 418

David Peng

Chief Executive Officer

David Peng Chief Executive Officer 392

David Weng

General manager

David Weng General manager David Weng is recognized as a seasoned angel and venture investor with proven track record of bringing startups to successful IPOs, mergers and acquisitions. He focuses primarily on early-stage investments in Internet, enterprise software, wireless, cyber security, and rapidly-growing technology companies. He has invested in about 80 early-stage high technology companies. Some of the more notable successes include the NetScreen Technologies IPO and its acquisition by Juniper Networks for US$4 billion, and Protego Networks' acquisition by Cisco Systems. Prior to his investment projects, David served as Software Engineering Director at Cisco Systems and at Hewlett-Packard before that. He actively participated in M&A activities during Cisco fast-growing time in the 90's. He has over 20 years of experience in software engineering and Internet technologies. David was President of the Silicon Valley Taiwan Angels Group and on the board of the San Jose State University Tower Foundation as he received his M.S. in Computer Science Engineering from San Jose State University in 1983. General manager of Taiwania Capital Management Corporation 317

David Yeh

Principal

David Yeh Principal David is a practitioner of the human-centric approach to tech innovation and ecosystem. As an experienced consultant, David provided digital transformation solution and implementation consultation to multiple industries including manufacturing and healthcare.

David is currently the Principal of BE Accelerator, responsible for Connecting three distinct stakeholders: 1) hospitals needing to adopt innovative solution to improve healthcare delivery and patient experience; 2) corporates wanting to enter the MedTech/HealthTech industry; and 3) start-ups preparing go-to-market strategy in the MedTech/HealthTech industry. Understanding and communicating goals of each stakeholder to facilitate the negotiation of business terms and co-working model between BE Health Ventures investment portfolio, hospitals, corporate partners, and BE Accelerator trainees are David's daily responsibilities.

Prior to Joining BE Accelerator, David founded a start-up in the smart factory domain and was a Manager of Customer Success Team in the CTO Office at Advantech. 384

Dominik Schiener

Co-Chairman of the Boards of Directors & Founder

Dominik Schiener Co-Chairman of the Boards of Directors & Founder A passionate and aspiring entrepreneur. Dominik is currently working on several projects that make use of the Blockchain and Smart Contract to create new and socially impactful applications. Co-Chairman of the Boards of Directors & Founder of IOTA Foundation 302

Dr. Jason Ma

Engineering Director

Dr. Jason Ma Engineering Director As the Engineering Director, Jason Ma oversees Google Taiwan's site growth, business management and development, as well as leads multiple R&D projects across the board. Before taking this leadership role at Google Taiwan, Jason was a Platform Technology and Cloud Computing expert in the Platform & Ecosystem business group at Google Mountain View, CA. In his 12 years with Google, Jason has successfully led strategic partnerships with global hardware and software manufacturers and major chip providers to drive various innovations in cloud technology. These efforts have not only contributed to a substantial increase in Chromebook’s share in global education, consumer and enterprise markets, but have also attracted global talents to join Google and its partners in furthering the development of hardware and software technology solutions/services.

Prior to joining Google, Jason served on the Office group at Microsoft Redmond, WA. He represented the company in a project, involving Merck, Dell, Boeing, and the United States Department of Defense, to achieve solutions in unified communications and integrated voice technology. In 2007, Jason was appointed Director of the Microsoft Technology Center in Taiwan. During which time, Jason led the Microsoft Taiwan technology team and worked with Intel and HP to establish a Solution Center in Taiwan to promote Microsoft public cloud, data center, and private cloud technologies, connecting Taiwan’s cloud computing industry with the global market and supply chain.

Before joining Microsoft, Jason was Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Soma.com. At Soma.com, Jason led the team in designing and launching e-commerce services, and partnered with Merck and WebMD on health consultation services and over the counter/prescription rugs/services. Soma.com was in turn acquired by CVS, the second largest pharmacy chain in the United States, forming CVS.com, where Jason served as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer and provided solutions for digital integration.

Jason graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Cheng Kung University, subsequent which he moved to the United States to further his graduate studies. In 1993, Jason obtained a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, with a focus in the integration and innovation of power systems and AI Expert Systems. In 1997, Jason joined the National Sun Yat-sen University as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. To date, Jason has published 22 research papers and co-authored 2 books. Due to his outstanding performance, Jason was nominated and listed in Who's Who in the World in 1998. 409

Dr. Mario Urbina Cazenave

Lead User Experience & Interaction Design of BMW

Dr. Mario Urbina Cazenave Lead User Experience & Interaction Design of BMW 220

Dr. Mario Urbina Cazenave

Lead User Experience & Interaction Design of BMW

Dr. Mario Urbina Cazenave Lead User Experience & Interaction Design of BMW 278

Dr. Sam Shen

Secretary General

Dr. Sam Shen Secretary General Dr. Shen has been appointed as the Secretary General of Taiwan Advanced Automotive Technology Development Association (TADA) since December 2021. The association is striving for the goal of developing EV and intelligent solution of moving vehicles, by leveraging Taiwan's semiconductor and ICT industries strengths in conjunction with the automotive and mobility service industry

Dr. Shen also served as Senior Director of Taipei Computer Association (TCA) since October 2020. Dr. Shen has more than 30 years’ experience in the ICT industry market research and high-tech start-up incubation. He has led several major projects helping Taiwanese government formulate and implement its ICT industry development policies.

He worked for Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute (MIC) of Institute for Information Industry (III) for more than 25 years, providing consultation to both government agencies and private enterprises. In 2000, he went on to start his own venture capital (VC) business, focusing on software and IC design industries investment both in Taiwan and Silicon Valley areas.

Dr. Shen holds a PhD degree in Information Management from Taiwan's National Central University (2015) and a Master of Public Affairs (MPA) degree from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA (1991). 434

Duncan Huang

CEO

Duncan Huang CEO Duncan Huang, CEO of Yallvend Co., Ltd., leads the team to push vending machine industry become digital-transforming and data-driven. By catching up the IoT trends in 2010, his first business once acquired 20 million NTD in one year.

Accumulating the experiences in vending machine, IoT, and partners, his proposal of upgrading vending machine won the third place in 2018 Cloud Computing and IoT Association in Taiwan Demo Day, and the Pitch King in 2019 Pitch Camp. The little victories were two of the hints that the business of IoT vending machine business would go big and global. Yallvend team has upgraded vending machines in 6 countries since 2019, including Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines.

Welcome to contact Duncan via: duncan@yallvend.com 380

Ed Deng

Co-Founder & CEO of Health2Sync Inc.

Ed Deng Co-Founder & CEO of Health2Sync Inc. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-deng-048a38/ Ed Deng is the Co-Founder and CEO of Health2Sync; he co-founded Health2Sync after witnessing many in his family battle diabetes and learning what works in managing diabetes. Prior to Health2Sync, Ed was Chief marketing Officer of Hesine Technologies, and end-to-end push-platform for mobile devices, which was acquired by NQ Mobile. Ed started his career as an Investment Banker at Lehman Brothers’ Technology Mergers & Acquisitions Group in Palo Alto, CA. Ed obtained a BS in Finance from McIntire School of Commerce at The University of Virginia. 197

Ed Deng

Co-Founder & CEO of Health2Sync Inc.

Ed Deng Co-Founder & CEO of Health2Sync Inc. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-deng-048a38/ Ed Deng is the Co-Founder and CEO of Health2Sync; he co-founded Health2Sync after witnessing many in his family battle diabetes and learning what works in managing diabetes. Prior to Health2Sync, Ed was Chief marketing Officer of Hesine Technologies, and end-to-end push-platform for mobile devices, which was acquired by NQ Mobile. Ed started his career as an Investment Banker at Lehman Brothers’ Technology Mergers & Acquisitions Group in Palo Alto, CA. Ed obtained a BS in Finance from McIntire School of Commerce at The University of Virginia. 258

Edouard Plus

Fintech Business Incubator

Edouard Plus Fintech Business Incubator https://www.linkedin.com/in/edouard-plus-swaver/ Fintech Business Incubator of Paris&Co 343

Edward Greve

Head of Engineering IOTA Foundation

Edward Greve Head of Engineering IOTA Foundation Edward Greve has been a software developer for a number of years, most recently at WillowTree Apps in North Carolina, where he worked on cutting edge digital products for nationally and internationally recognizable brands, such as CBC and National Geographic. His area of expertise is in full-stack web development, and he understands how to work with business partners to develop advanced cloud-based systems that support applications with a world-class user experience. Edward holds degrees in Mathematics and Physics from Rowan University and is fully self-taught in computer science. He is also a language enthusiast and polyglot, and he speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese, Dutch, and French in addition to conversational bits and pieces in a half-dozen other languages from around the world. He spent almost a decade living and working in Taiwan. Edward Greve has a wide range of experience from different regions and brings with him a varied skill set to the IOTA Foundation, and while his primary role will be full stack front-end development, he plays a key role in supporting the IOTA Foundation’s efforts on the ground in Asia to establish IOTA as a standard in the region for IoT and beyond. His polyglot abilities is also a very useful asset for obvious reasons. 226

Edward Greve

Head of Engineering IOTA Foundation

Edward Greve Head of Engineering IOTA Foundation Edward Greve has been a software developer for a number of years, most recently at WillowTree Apps in North Carolina, where he worked on cutting edge digital products for nationally and internationally recognizable brands, such as CBC and National Geographic. His area of expertise is in full-stack web development, and he understands how to work with business partners to develop advanced cloud-based systems that support applications with a world-class user experience. Edward holds degrees in Mathematics and Physics from Rowan University and is fully self-taught in computer science. He is also a language enthusiast and polyglot, and he speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese, Dutch, and French in addition to conversational bits and pieces in a half-dozen other languages from around the world. He spent almost a decade living and working in Taiwan. Edward Greve has a wide range of experience from different regions and brings with him a varied skill set to the IOTA Foundation, and while his primary role will be full stack front-end development, he plays a key role in supporting the IOTA Foundation’s efforts on the ground in Asia to establish IOTA as a standard in the region for IoT and beyond. His polyglot abilities is also a very useful asset for obvious reasons. 283

Elisa Chiu

Founder & CEO

Elisa Chiu Founder & CEO https://linkedin.com/in/elisachiu/ Elisa Chiu is an entrepreneur who operates at the intersection of innovation, investment and cross-border collaboration. She sailed from Wall Street with a decade of experience at top tier investment banks and hedge funds, overseeing US$1 billion+ in APAC. In 2017, she founded Anchor Taiwan, a platform to provide industry access, market immersion and technology partnerships in Asia with clients and partners from 15+ countries.

Elisa is an ecosystem builder at heart (e.g. convener for Corporate Venturing Roundtables with 90+ corporates, and Women in Venture network with 100+ women investors). She sits on the Strategic Advisory Council of Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and the Advisory Committee of MIH, an open EV platform initiated by Foxconn. 428

Fan-Tien Cheng

Professor

Fan-Tien Cheng Professor Professor Fan-Tien Cheng focuses his academic researches on the production process improvement, production automation, e-Manufacturing/intelligent machinery, and Industry 4.0 of both high-tech (semiconductor, TFT-LCD, and solar-cell) and traditional (aerospace, blow molding machine, machine tool, and carbon fiber) industries. In this way, he has been helping various industries to surpass Industry 4.0 and reach the state of Industry 4.1 (Zero Defects). His splendid outcome of both academic and industrial applications has won him dozens of awards both internationally and domestically. He is thus famed "the Father of Taiwan's semiconductor automation." Professor of NCKU, Intelligent Manufacturing Research Center 292

Feipei Lai

Secretary in medical affairs/Professor

Feipei Lai Secretary in medical affairs/Professor Feipei Lai received a B.S.E.E. degree from National Taiwan University in 1980, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984 and 1987, respectively. He is a professor in the Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, the Graduate Institute of Medical Device and Imaging, the Graduate Institute of Health Policy and Management, the Department of Computer Science & Information Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University. He serves as secretary in medical affairs, National Taiwan University Hospital. He was a vice superintendent of National Taiwan University Hospital. He was the chairman of Taiwan Network Information Center. His current research interest is Medical Informatics. Secretary in medical affairs/Professor of National Taiwan University Hospital 297

Frankie Chen

CMO

Frankie Chen CMO https://www.linkedin.com/in/yen-cheng-frankie-chen-07b24037/ Frankie is the co-founder and CMO of Spatial Topology Co., Ltd..

Frankie specializes in serving digital transformation for smart building authorities and creating practical AIOT solutions in each vertical, such as asset locating for Manufacturing, indoor navigation for Transportation, and offline data analytics for Retail.

Spatial Topology is dedicated to influence how mobile user interact with the physical world. 『stoVENUE metaverse』is a Map-based Conference-Call Platform, breaks online/offline boundaries via transforming all users into avatars, also enables remote avatars (online customers) starting business talk in real-time with onsite avatars (store clerks). This map platform not only creates brand engagement through in-store gamified customer experiences, but also starts a new OMO sales channel for Retail and Exhibit authorities. 404

Gene Song

Technical Director

Gene Song Technical Director Technical Director of AllBio Science Incorporated 301

Giuseppe Izzo

Chairman

Giuseppe Izzo Chairman Giuseppe Izzo is Regional Vice President and Taiwan Managing Director at STMicroelectronics’ Asia Pacific Region. Izzo joined SGS-Thomson Microelectronics (now STMicroelectronics) in 1987 and shortly thereafter relocated to Asia, living and working in many different Countries, from Korea to Taiwan, to Hong Kong to China. He has held various positions within ST’s Asia Pacific organization, covering marketing, application development and product design for power management, consumer and computer systems, automotive, and multi-segment products. Izzo established ST’s Automotive and Multi-Systems Competence Centers in Shanghai and Power Management Competence Center in Taiwan, contributing to the Company’s success in power management solutions for PC motherboards and building its presence in the car body and power train arenas, as well as the digital audio markets in Asia Pacific. Chairman of European Chamber of Commerce Taiwan 336

Handol Kim

General Manager of Quadrant

Handol Kim General Manager of Quadrant Handol is the General Manager of Quadrant, a D-Wave Business. Handol has 20+ years of technology business experience in cloud, virtualization, HPC, mobile and telecom software in Silicon Valley, Asia and Canada. 218

Handol Kim

General Manager of Quadrant

Handol Kim General Manager of Quadrant Handol is the General Manager of Quadrant, a D-Wave Business. Handol has 20+ years of technology business experience in cloud, virtualization, HPC, mobile and telecom software in Silicon Valley, Asia and Canada. 276

Hanlin Tang

Principal Engineer of Artificial Intelligence Products Group Intel Corporation

Hanlin Tang Principal Engineer of Artificial Intelligence Products Group Intel Corporation https://www.linkedin.com/in/hanlintang/ Hanlin Tang, Ph.D. is a Principal Engineer at Intel’s AI Products Group, where he directs computer vision research and applications. His team is also responsible for algorithm-hardware co-design of next generation accelerators, and federal AI projects. Hanlin joined Intel from its acquisition of the deep learning startup Nervana Systems. At both Intel and Nervana, he has contributed to the development of deep learning frameworks, and deployed algorithms in domains ranging from remote sensing to computational neuroscience. Hanlin received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he applied recurrent neural networks to study the human visual system. His research has appeared in scientific journals such as Neuron, Scientific Reports, and eLife. 203

Hanlin Tang

Principal Engineer of Artificial Intelligence Products Group Intel Corporation

Hanlin Tang Principal Engineer of Artificial Intelligence Products Group Intel Corporation https://www.linkedin.com/in/hanlintang/ Hanlin Tang, Ph.D. is a Principal Engineer at Intel’s AI Products Group, where he directs computer vision research and applications. His team is also responsible for algorithm-hardware co-design of next generation accelerators, and federal AI projects. Hanlin joined Intel from its acquisition of the deep learning startup Nervana Systems. At both Intel and Nervana, he has contributed to the development of deep learning frameworks, and deployed algorithms in domains ranging from remote sensing to computational neuroscience. Hanlin received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he applied recurrent neural networks to study the human visual system. His research has appeared in scientific journals such as Neuron, Scientific Reports, and eLife. 262

Hao Chen

Head of Product at Qubic

Hao Chen Head of Product at Qubic Hao's team has built a one-stop NFT service (NFTaaS) that includes Qubic Wallet and Qubic Creator; The former aims to make NFT more accessible to the general; whereas, the latter provides enterprise clients with services from NFT issuance to launching their own NFT marketplaces. In 2017, after joining MaiCoin, he has led team members to develop MAX and MaiCoin App. Previously, he'd worked at HTC VIVE, where his team specialized in the development of VR devices, then at HTC Health Care, where he was responsible for the front-end developments for portable medical devices. His team had even competed in the 2017 Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE, winning second place and worldwide recognition. 432

Hironao Kunimitsu

President & CEO of gumi Inc.

Hironao Kunimitsu President & CEO of gumi Inc. Mr. Hironao Kunimitsu founded gumi Inc., in June 2007 and it started listing on first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in December, 2014. He has been its President since June 2007. Mr. Kunimitsu serves as Chief Executive Officer at Tokyo VR Startups. He joined Atmovie Inc. as a Company Director since May 2004. Mr. Kunimitsu produced movies and TV Dramas, and started ventures. He is a Director of inXile entertainment, Inc. Mr. Kunimitsu serves as a Director of gumi ventures. He has been Representative Director at gumi Inc. since June 2007. graduated from Santa Monica College. 221

Hironao Kunimitsu

President & CEO of gumi Inc.

Hironao Kunimitsu President & CEO of gumi Inc. Mr. Hironao Kunimitsu founded gumi Inc., in June 2007 and it started listing on first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in December, 2014. He has been its President since June 2007. Mr. Kunimitsu serves as Chief Executive Officer at Tokyo VR Startups. He joined Atmovie Inc. as a Company Director since May 2004. Mr. Kunimitsu produced movies and TV Dramas, and started ventures. He is a Director of inXile entertainment, Inc. Mr. Kunimitsu serves as a Director of gumi ventures. He has been Representative Director at gumi Inc. since June 2007. graduated from Santa Monica College. 279

Hongwen Zhang

Founder, CEO & CTO

Hongwen Zhang Founder, CEO & CTO https://www.linkedin.com/in/hongwen-zhang-2a3b1a/ https://twitter.com/hongwenzhang Co-founder of Wedge Networks, Inc.,
Dr. Zhang previously co-founded the 24C Group Inc., which pioneered the first digital receipts infrastructure for secure electronic commerce, and was a principal of Servidium Inc., a global leader in agile development methodology. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and a M.Sc. in Computer Engineering. Throughout his 25+ years career and leadership in the enterprise software industry, Dr. Zhang has been instrumental in launching several commercially successful cyber security and safety products into the global market. This has resulted in successful customer adoptions; from his involvement in the Digital Receipt Infrastructure (with the 24C Group, and later AxWay), through his work with companies such as Valmet/Telvent (now Schneider), and Servidium (acquired by Thought Works Inc.). Dr. Zhang served as the Chair of the Metro Ethernet Forum's (MEF) Security-as-a-Service working group, which defined the practices of Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) for many of the largest telecom service providers in the world. He is a well-respected speaker and writer in the areas of security and cloud computing. As a co-founder of Wedge Networks, Dr. Zhang has led the design, implementation, and launch of the firm's patented, award-winning Deep Content Inspection and Security Services Orchestration platform. 389

IC Jan

Ambassador

IC Jan Ambassador https://www.linkedin.com/in/icjan/?originalSubdomain=tw Dr. I-Chien (IC) Jan joined NBRP at the end of 2017 as Assistant Chief Executive of BioHub to strengthen the biomedical startup ecosystem in Taiwan. Prior to joining NBRP, Dr. Jan was co-founder and full-time partner of AppWorks Ventures between 2010-2016. Ambassador in Taiwan at Startup Genome 362

Ivan Liao

CEO

Ivan Liao CEO Ivan Liao, currently the CEO of Openfind and is responsible for marketing, product management and strategic planning for the global market (Taiwan, Japan, Southeast Asia, Greater China and Emerging Markets). 20+ years of experience in the information software industry. In recent years, he has actively promoted the business model of cloud service, successfully led the team to exploit worldwide markets and been the first software company won The 20th Rising Star Award. 423

Jack Chao

Chairman

Jack Chao Chairman Jack is extolled as the rising star of Taiwanese entrepreneurs. As a scholar, he is the youngest PhD. Candidate of the department of electrical engineering in National Taiwan University (NTU). His research results in wireless mobile networks are widely adopted in 4G international standard communication protocols. As a teacher, he is the co-founder of Creativity and Entrepreneurship Program (CEP) in NTU. In addition, his lecture about mobile and Internet application development was one of the most popular courses in NTU. As a serial entrepreneur, he founded his first startup company when he was 19 years old. In 2013, he founded Zuvio, which is one of the market leaders of educational technology in both Taiwan and mainland China. Since 2017, Jack has been devoting himself to Fintech. His company, BravoAI focuses on providing AI solutions for insurance industry and stays ahead of the competition. More than that, Jack also dedicates his life to government policies and laws for startups. Currently, he is the chairman of the Association of Taiwanese Startup in Silicon Valley (SVEAT) and XFail Conference, which is one of the most important annual events for startups in Taiwan. Chairman of Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Association of Taiwan 346

Jack Chen

COO

Jack Chen COO In charge of corporate operation/quality system/legal. Before funding RelaJet, Jack had years of experience of working as an investment lawyer.

RelaJet was co-founded by two brothers in Taiwan, Blue Chen and Jack Chen. As a hearing aid user, Blue gathers his observation of hearing aid user experiences and his engineering knowledge to build Otoadd, a product with innovative AI technology to enhance the audio quality and overall product practicality. RelaJet implements innovative software engineering with AI technology to identify and separate different speakers’ voices with Edge Computing processors. Through RelaJet's Speech Enhancement Engine, the environmental noises are identified and significantly denoised from the output, hence the user is able to hear the voices clearly. By leveraging Blue's personal experience and knowledge of hearing aid products, along with Jack's expertise in operation and investment law, RelaJet is ready to "Help the World Hear Better."

RelaJet was the winner of Qualcomm Innovate in Taiwan Challenge in 2019 and joined Qualcomm Advantage Network in 2020. 376

Jack Wang

TCE Application Development Manager

Jack Wang TCE Application Development Manager Jack Wang serves as TCE Application Development Manager in Rockwell Automation. Jack lead the consultant and project deliver team to assist factories execute digital transformation. Jack and his team has experience leveraging ML, AI, MR technology with conventional industrial automation and bring value to customer. Besides, Jack and his team also provide consulting service for semiconductor fab facility and help providing strategy to make the fab more efficient and safer. Before joining Rockwell Jack was in charge of the business developing and technical skill enablement for APAC region for Beijer Electronics. 419

Jackal Chen

Senior Vice General Manager, R&D Department

Jackal Chen Senior Vice General Manager, R&D Department Experiences
－QT Medical, Inc.
－MediaTek Inc.
－M.S in Computer Science , National Tsing Hua University

Field of specialty
－Software/Hardware integration development for wearable and medical device
－Wireless Protocol and IoT device design
－EMC compliant design
－Biosensor patch and flexible PCB design
－Strategic Patent Portfolio, Patent inventor
－Mobile communication methods
－ECG design methods
－Electrode patch design

QT Medical is a medtech company with a focus on high quality 12-lead diagnostic electrocardiogram (ECG) for use by healthcare professionals and patients. Cleared by the FDA, TFDA, and CE marked, PCA 500 is the world's most compact 12-lead ECG system. With its simplicity, ease of use, mobile technology and cloud management, PCA 500 brings hospital-grade ECG to homes, and enables doctors to make informed decisions anywhere, anytime. Powered by advanced AI diagnostics, QT Medical will revolutionize cardiac care in the 21st century for millions of patients. 381

James Wang

Chief Strategy & Sales Officer

James Wang Chief Strategy & Sales Officer James is a business person with serial successes. He is currently the Head of Sales & marketing and the Chief Strategy Officer of eYs3D Microelectronics, an ARM invested fabless semiconductor company. He also serves as special assistant to the chairman of Etron technology.

He comes with a track record of promising business leadership and success in consumer, machinery and semiconductor companies. Before joining the tech industry, he was the corporate partner as well as CEO of the greater China region of Sappe Public Company, a listed FMCG group built in Thailand, where he built the greater China entity and distributor network along with a market presence with over 40 Million US dollars in revenue.

Prior to that, he was the Vice President of YXP packing group in Shanghai, where he led the company winning rewarding business in machinery and the HDPE supply business, with customers such as uni-president and other global brands which generated multi-million US dollars in revenue. With the success of several design-wins since joining eYs3D, James has led the company's corporate strategy and business planning.He has also helped eYs3d in receiving ARM IoT Fund, WI Harper as well as other reputable investors' investments. James serves on the boards of several technology and consumer product companies, as well as as an advisor to a few private equity firms. 394

Jane Hsu

Director of IOX Center NTU

Jane Hsu Director of IOX Center NTU Jane Hsu is a Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University, where she served as the Department Chair from 2011 to 2014. As the Director of the NTU IoX Center, Prof. Hsu is leading the global research collaboration on Augmented Collective Beings and Internet of Things. With more than 30 years of experience in AI, her research interests include multiagent planning/learning, crowdsourcing, knowledge mining, commonsense computing, and context-aware smart IoT. Prof. Hsu served on the editorial board of Journal of Information Science and Engineering (2010-), International Journal of Service Oriented Computing and Applications (Springer, 2007-2009) and Intelligent Data Analysis (Elsevier/IOS Press, 1997-2002). She has been actively involved in international conferences of AAAI, IEEE, and ACM, and served as an executive member of the IEEE Technical Committee on E-Commerce (2000), the Taiwanese Association for Artificial Intelligence (2004-), and as TAAI President in 2013 and 2014. Prof. Hsu received the MSRA Collaborative Research Award, and Intel Labs Distinguished Collaborator Award in 2016. 176

Jane Hsu

Director of IOX Center NTU

Jane Hsu Director of IOX Center NTU Jane Hsu is a Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University, where she served as the Department Chair from 2011 to 2014. As the Director of the NTU IoX Center, Prof. Hsu is leading the global research collaboration on Augmented Collective Beings and Internet of Things. With more than 30 years of experience in AI, her research interests include multiagent planning/learning, crowdsourcing, knowledge mining, commonsense computing, and context-aware smart IoT. Prof. Hsu served on the editorial board of Journal of Information Science and Engineering (2010-), International Journal of Service Oriented Computing and Applications (Springer, 2007-2009) and Intelligent Data Analysis (Elsevier/IOS Press, 1997-2002). She has been actively involved in international conferences of AAAI, IEEE, and ACM, and served as an executive member of the IEEE Technical Committee on E-Commerce (2000), the Taiwanese Association for Artificial Intelligence (2004-), and as TAAI President in 2013 and 2014. Prof. Hsu received the MSRA Collaborative Research Award, and Intel Labs Distinguished Collaborator Award in 2016. 245

Jason Hsu

Legislator aka Crypto Congressman

Jason Hsu Legislator aka Crypto Congressman https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonhsu1/ The curiosity to understand the world and passion to change it influence my life decisions. I believe that in order to change the system you must create something new to make the original system obsolete. For me, entrepreneurship was the answer -- a way to create opportunities for many. In 2008 I co-founded The Big Questions Conference to bring together leaders from all fields to engage in conversations and actions for sustainable future. In 2009 I co-founded TEDxTaipei. Since 2011 I have been serving as TEDx Ambassador for Asia. Over the course last years I have organized conferences and gatherings that promote cross-boarder dialogues and innovation. More than 35 cities and 400 leaders and innovators participated in these meetings. Legislator at Executive Yuan 363

Jay Chen

CEO

Jay Chen CEO https://www.linkedin.com/in/jay-chen-innovation/ Jay Chen, Co-founder and CEO of Avalanche Computing. He got his Ph.D. degree at NTU. He is doing big data research for more than 15 years and then focusing on AI at NVIDIA Santa Clara. His research includes Bigdata Analytics, Deep Learning, and Distributed Algorithm. He was one of the founders of NTU Design Thinking Club, ex-NVIDIA PESA, Berkeley Skydeck GIP #12, member of Phi-Tau-Phi (2004 and 2016), et., al. Now, he focuses on AI end-to-end performance optimization for the data center. After 2022, he led Avalanche Computing Taiwan and developed business in the US market. 403

Jeff Hung

General Manager

Jeff Hung General Manager Jeff Hung, the general manager of CHT Security., possesses not only more than 25-year experience among telecommunications, information communications technology and cybersecurity industries but also comprehensive capabilities from R&D, sales to business management. Since CHT Security founded in 2017, he has led the company with 40% CAGR to win the 2021 Taiwan Managed Security Services Company of the Year Award from Frost & Sullivan and achieved the top rating for 3 consecutive years in the government's annual review. 422

Jeff Karp

Professor

Jeff Karp Professor Dr. Jeff Karp works in the fields of drug delivery, medical devices, stem cell therapeutics, and tissue adhesives. He has published over 125 peer-reviewed papers, with >17,000 citations, and has given over 300 invited lectures. He has over 100 issued or pending national and international patents. Several technologies developed in his lab have led to multiple products currently in development or on the market and for the launch of seven companies that have raised over $180 million in funding  Karp has received over 50 awards and honors. Boston Magazine recently recognized Karp as one of 11 Boston Doctors Making Medical Breakthroughs. The Boston Business Journal recognized him as a Champion in Healthcare Innovation and MIT’s Technology Review Magazine (TR35) also recognized Karp as being one of the top innovators in the world (three members from his laboratory have subsequently received this award). Karp was elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering’s College of Fellows in 2013 and a fellow of the Biomediacl Engineering Society (BMES) in 2018. In addition to his research goals, Karp is dedicated to developing the careers of the next generation bioengineers at the forefront of regenerative medicine. He was selected as the Outstanding Faculty Undergraduate Mentor among all faculty at MIT and he received the HST McMahon Mentoring award for being the top mentor of Harvard-MIT students. To date, 20 trainees from his laboratory have secured faculty positions. Professor of Harvard University 333

Jeff McDonald

Co-Founder

Jeff McDonald Co-Founder Early blockchain advocate, builder, and foundation co-founder of a multi-billion dollar blockchain. Co-Founder of NEM.IO Foundation 303

Jeffrey Ling

Startup Ecosystem Builder

Jeffrey Ling Startup Ecosystem Builder Jeffrey Ling is a startup ecosystem builder and innovator with particular interest in venture building and corporate innovation in Taiwan and beyond. He founded Entrepreneurs Society of Taiwan in 2011, currently numbering 4300+ members. Thereafter, he held leadership role in two startup ventures before joining Taiwan Startup Stadium, a government-funded project tasked with globalizing the Taiwan startup ecosystem, where he handled, among other things, startup development and investor relations. He has worked with over 100 tech startups covering various verticals. Before his startup-related roles, Jeffrey spent the first 10 years of his career as a legal professional in both New Zealand and Taiwan. 234

Jeffrey Ling

Startup Ecosystem Builder

Jeffrey Ling Startup Ecosystem Builder Jeffrey Ling is a startup ecosystem builder and innovator with particular interest in venture building and corporate innovation in Taiwan and beyond. He founded Entrepreneurs Society of Taiwan in 2011, currently numbering 4300+ members. Thereafter, he held leadership role in two startup ventures before joining Taiwan Startup Stadium, a government-funded project tasked with globalizing the Taiwan startup ecosystem, where he handled, among other things, startup development and investor relations. He has worked with over 100 tech startups covering various verticals. Before his startup-related roles, Jeffrey spent the first 10 years of his career as a legal professional in both New Zealand and Taiwan. 291

Jeffrey Wu

Founder & CEO

Jeffrey Wu Founder & CEO Jeffrey Wu, the founder and CEO of WeMo Scooter, he grew up in Taiwan, and he went to the United States to study at university and work, but he had a deep affection for his country (Taiwan).After working outside for fifteen years in the current era of talent exodus, he has given up the well-known international consulting company to return to Taiwan with high salaries and returned to his hometown to start a business.Starting from local thinking, combined with sustainable management development, we will build a shared intelligent locomotive WeMo Scooter from scratch, hoping to change the appearance of transportation and make a better urban life with the concept of sustainable business development. WeMo Scooter is now Asia's largest sharing-scooter service brand. 427

Jennifer Wang

Vice President of National Cheng-Chi University

Jennifer Wang Vice President of National Cheng-Chi University Professor Jennifer Wang is the Distinguished Professor and Vice President at National Cheng-Chi University. She is the chairman of Fintech Research Center at National Cheng-Chi University. She is also the current President of Pension Funds Association in Taiwan. For the past three years, she has served as the Chairperson of the Financial Supervisory Commission in Taiwan. Professor Wang was also elected as a board member of both the American Risk and Insurance Association and the Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association. She was also the president of Taiwan Risk and Insurance Association (TRIA). 216

Jennifer Wang

Vice President of National Cheng-Chi University

Jennifer Wang Vice President of National Cheng-Chi University Professor Jennifer Wang is the Distinguished Professor and Vice President at National Cheng-Chi University. She is the chairman of Fintech Research Center at National Cheng-Chi University. She is also the current President of Pension Funds Association in Taiwan. For the past three years, she has served as the Chairperson of the Financial Supervisory Commission in Taiwan. Professor Wang was also elected as a board member of both the American Risk and Insurance Association and the Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association. She was also the president of Taiwan Risk and Insurance Association (TRIA). 274

Jerry Damon Chang

Founder of SocialMatters

Jerry Damon Chang Founder of SocialMatters https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerrydamonchang/ Business Development Executive and Product Manager with 10 years experience creating web applications, dashboards and data algorithms. Concentration on social media data sets including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. Focus in marketing-tech & ad-tech. 7 years of entrepreneurship experience as founder: Spring 2013 Fortify Ventures Accelerator Program, 2015 Capital Factory Incubator company, and 1776 member company in Washington, DC. Project management experience in web and embedded solutions, film and TV sets. 193

Jerry Damon Chang

Founder of SocialMatters

Jerry Damon Chang Founder of SocialMatters https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerrydamonchang/ Business Development Executive and Product Manager with 10 years experience creating web applications, dashboards and data algorithms. Concentration on social media data sets including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. Focus in marketing-tech & ad-tech. 7 years of entrepreneurship experience as founder: Spring 2013 Fortify Ventures Accelerator Program, 2015 Capital Factory Incubator company, and 1776 member company in Washington, DC. Project management experience in web and embedded solutions, film and TV sets. 255

Jesse Chen

CEO of Global Academia & Industry Alliance NCKU

Jesse Chen CEO of Global Academia & Industry Alliance NCKU Co-founded BusLogic in 1988 and served as CEO till it was acquired in 1996 (now part of IBM). BusLogic designed, produced & marketed ASIC, PC board and software for IT and storage industries. Investors received 60 times return in 6 years. Dick Kramlich of NEA was my board of director who was original Apple investor. Co-founded Maton Venture in 1997 and invested in 33 technology companies with 6 IPO and 9 M&A. All 6 CEO of the IPO were the founders of the companies. (AATI, ENVI, OVTI, OPLK, IET, SYSCAN) Served as Chairman of Monte Jade Science and Technology Association from 1998 to 2000 and its US West (Silicon Valley) Chapter from 1997 to 1998. Initiated and organized the first Wall Street style Investment Conference for the Taiwanese / Chinese community with over 150 VCs from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan attended. Founded SVT (Silicon Valley Taiwan) Angels in 2013 and served as Chairman till 2016. (Members include all major Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists from Taiwan.) Started the Silicon Valley Immersion Program invited and selected many start up teams from Taiwan to stay in Silicon Valley for 3 months with mentorship support. 205

Jesse Chen

CEO of Global Academia & Industry Alliance NCKU

Jesse Chen CEO of Global Academia & Industry Alliance NCKU Co-founded BusLogic in 1988 and served as CEO till it was acquired in 1996 (now part of IBM). BusLogic designed, produced & marketed ASIC, PC board and software for IT and storage industries. Investors received 60 times return in 6 years. Dick Kramlich of NEA was my board of director who was original Apple investor. Co-founded Maton Venture in 1997 and invested in 33 technology companies with 6 IPO and 9 M&A. All 6 CEO of the IPO were the founders of the companies. (AATI, ENVI, OVTI, OPLK, IET, SYSCAN) Served as Chairman of Monte Jade Science and Technology Association from 1998 to 2000 and its US West (Silicon Valley) Chapter from 1997 to 1998. Initiated and organized the first Wall Street style Investment Conference for the Taiwanese / Chinese community with over 150 VCs from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan attended. Founded SVT (Silicon Valley Taiwan) Angels in 2013 and served as Chairman till 2016. (Members include all major Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists from Taiwan.) Started the Silicon Valley Immersion Program invited and selected many start up teams from Taiwan to stay in Silicon Valley for 3 months with mentorship support. 263

Jim Hou

Director, Engineering

Jim Hou Director, Engineering Jim Hou is Director of Engineering at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc . Hou has been responsible for technical support and project management of customers’ product development since 2006. Hou's work involves leading customers' engineering team to enable Taiwan OEM/ODM to commercialize products utilizing Qualcomm's technologies ranging from wireless communication, mobile computing, multimedia, XR, IoT and automotive fields.

Jim holds a Master of Computer Science and Engineering from National Chiao Tung University. 414

Jinger Zeng

ARM Innovator and Business Development Specialist at Auterion

Jinger Zeng ARM Innovator and Business Development Specialist at Auterion https://www.linkedin.com/in/jingerzeng/ https://twitter.com/zengjinger Jinger Zeng is a technologist and entrepreneur from United States currently living in Mainland China. She loves to bring people together to solve meaningful problems using technology. She is a mechanical engineer by training, and led a team in the development and realization of a net-zero solar house that won international award when she was at University of Nevada Las Vegas. She then co-founded Dronesmith Technologies in 2014, a company that develops drone hardware and software for developers and corporates. She is an alumni founder of two accelerators - Women’s Startup Lab and Techstars IoT. In 2016, she is one of the five “Outstanding Young Persons” honorees of Japan. Her experience spans across product, marketing, business development, and management. She is an evangelist of open source and maker movement, and specializes in cross-boarder innovation projects. Currently, she works for Swiss startup Auterion, heading its platform adoption and community building in Asia. 196

Jinger Zeng

ARM Innovator and Business Development Specialist at Auterion

Jinger Zeng ARM Innovator and Business Development Specialist at Auterion https://www.linkedin.com/in/jingerzeng/ https://twitter.com/zengjinger Jinger Zeng is a technologist and entrepreneur from United States currently living in Mainland China. She loves to bring people together to solve meaningful problems using technology. She is a mechanical engineer by training, and led a team in the development and realization of a net-zero solar house that won international award when she was at University of Nevada Las Vegas. She then co-founded Dronesmith Technologies in 2014, a company that develops drone hardware and software for developers and corporates. She is an alumni founder of two accelerators - Women’s Startup Lab and Techstars IoT. In 2016, she is one of the five “Outstanding Young Persons” honorees of Japan. Her experience spans across product, marketing, business development, and management. She is an evangelist of open source and maker movement, and specializes in cross-boarder innovation projects. Currently, she works for Swiss startup Auterion, heading its platform adoption and community building in Asia. 257

Joe Yeh

EA & EVP

Joe Yeh EA & EVP Education：
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering , University of California , San Diego
Bachelor of Economics , University of California , San Diego

Experience：Business Development Lead , ELAN Microelectronics Corp. 426

John Jorritsma

Mayor

John Jorritsma Mayor https://twitter.com/JJorritsma040 John Jorritsma is a Dutch politician. He has been mayor of Eindhoven since 13 September 2016. He was the King's Commissioner of the Dutch province of Friesland between 16 May 2008 and 12 September 2016. Jorritsma was a member of the States of North Brabant from 1994 to 1998. He was mayor of Cranendonck between 1997 and 2002. Mayor of Netherlands, Eindhoven 305

Johnny Chen

Chairman

Johnny Chen Chairman BNP Securities Taiwan, Head of Research
Deutsche Securities, Senior technology analyst
CSFB Hong Kong, Associate
Stern Stewart, Consulting Firm 416

Kai Yang

VP of Product

Kai Yang VP of Product This is Kai.
I am currently the VP of Product at Landing AI. Being Landing AI for 3 year, my team is responsible for the LandingLens product vision and development. I also oversee the product roadmap, and work very closely with our strategic partners. Before joining Landing, I found an AI startup for 2 years that focused on biological applications. Before that, I spent 15 years in semiconductor / EDA. Got my Ph.D from UC Santa Barbara and BS in National Tsing Hua University. 417

Katrina Chan

Director

Katrina Chan Director https://www.linkedin.com/in/krchan/ Kat serves as Director of QBO, a Philippine innovation hub and startup platform which she cofounded in 2016. QBO is the first of its kind public-private partnership initiative in the country formed by a collaboration among the Department of Science and Technology, Department of Trade and Industry, IdeaSpace and J.P. Morgan, specifically geared to provide resources, connections and support to accelerate the growth of Philippine tech startup companies. At QBO, Kat advises startups and leads overall program and business development activities collaborating closely with startup ecosystem partners. Kat previously served as Associate Director and Head of Growth and Strategy at IdeaSpace, the Philippines’ largest private startup accelerator, and draws on prior experience working with senior management in corporate development, capital markets and process engineering positions. Kat completed her undergraduate degree at Carnegie Mellon University, obtaining a degree in Materials Science and Engineering, with a double major in Business Administration. Kat is a Filipina millennial that advocates for spurring innovation and technopreneurship as an engine for driving economic growth and global competitiveness in emerging economies. Director of Qbo Innovation Hub 327

Kelly Liao

Co-Founder of KuoBrothers Corp.

Kelly Liao Co-Founder of KuoBrothers Corp. Kelly is a Taiwan famous female serial entrepreneur. She graduated from National Taiwan University. Kelly joined the Atlaspost.com, under her leadership, this company envolved as top 3 social network website in Taiwan. The company was acquired by Groupon. She became the co-founder and CMO of Grupon Taiwan. After that, she founded the Kuobrothers Corp. with her husband (Andy Kuo) and his family. Kuobrothers made its official IPO in Taiwan’s capital market and reaches 100 millions USD in 2017. 170

Kelly Liao

Co-Founder of KuoBrothers Corp.

Kelly Liao Co-Founder of KuoBrothers Corp. Kelly is a Taiwan famous female serial entrepreneur. She graduated from National Taiwan University. Kelly joined the Atlaspost.com, under her leadership, this company envolved as top 3 social network website in Taiwan. The company was acquired by Groupon. She became the co-founder and CMO of Grupon Taiwan. After that, she founded the Kuobrothers Corp. with her husband (Andy Kuo) and his family. Kuobrothers made its official IPO in Taiwan’s capital market and reaches 100 millions USD in 2017. 239

Kevin Lin

Co-Founder of Twitch

Kevin Lin Co-Founder of Twitch https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinlin3/ Kevin Lin is a 2004 Yale graduate and Co-Founder of Twitch, the world’s leading social video service and community for video game culture and emerging content. He was instrumental in Twitch's 2011 launch when he joined Justin.tv in 2008. Kevin now leads Culture, Strategy, and Innovation, responsible for new Twitch programs including original content and corporate strategy. Currently, 15 million users gather daily to stream, watch, and chat. 195

Kevin Lin

Co-Founder of Twitch

Kevin Lin Co-Founder of Twitch https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinlin3/ Kevin Lin is a 2004 Yale graduate and Co-Founder of Twitch, the world’s leading social video service and community for video game culture and emerging content. He was instrumental in Twitch's 2011 launch when he joined Justin.tv in 2008. Kevin now leads Culture, Strategy, and Innovation, responsible for new Twitch programs including original content and corporate strategy. Currently, 15 million users gather daily to stream, watch, and chat. 256

Kevin McSpadden

Editor of e27

Kevin McSpadden Editor of e27 As the Editor at e27 his main focus is to steer the ship for content and make long-term decisions for the editorial side of the company. He learned the journalism trade at the University of Hong Kong. Professionally, Kevin cut his teeth as a Production Assistant at Reuters and a reporting intern at TIME. In 2015 he took the leap of faith to move to an unknown city and begin working at e27. When not working, Kevin likes to spend time outdoors exploring as much as is reasonably possible. 211

Kevin McSpadden

Editor of e27

Kevin McSpadden Editor of e27 As the Editor at e27 his main focus is to steer the ship for content and make long-term decisions for the editorial side of the company. He learned the journalism trade at the University of Hong Kong. Professionally, Kevin cut his teeth as a Production Assistant at Reuters and a reporting intern at TIME. In 2015 he took the leap of faith to move to an unknown city and begin working at e27. When not working, Kevin likes to spend time outdoors exploring as much as is reasonably possible. 269

Kevin Su

Project Manager

Kevin Su Project Manager Kevin Su is the Project Manager for DT42, and is responsible for bringing Enterprise AI Solutions to clients. Currently, he is spearheading the BerryNet edge hardware project: codename AIKEA, in the hopes of bringing accessible visual AI to developer and educational communities. Prior to DT42, Kevin built machine vision and automation equipment for neuro-behavioural research at the University of British Columbia. Project Manager of DT42 351

Kevin Yu

Founder of Taiwan Accelerator

Kevin Yu Founder of Taiwan Accelerator https://www.facebook.com/accelerator.tw/ K. Yu is a serial entrepreneur since the age of 23, founded numerous companies (one of which was a VC firm), and has raised more than USD300 million for his own companies and other startups. Prior to TA, he is the co-founder of MZ Asia-Pacific, the world’s leading independent IR firm, helping more than 600 companies in 14 countries with public listing and investor relations management. In October 2016, Mr. Yu founded Taiwan Accelerator (TA) - the first seed accelerator in the region. 183

Kevin Yu

Founder of Taiwan Accelerator

Kevin Yu Founder of Taiwan Accelerator https://www.facebook.com/accelerator.tw/ K. Yu is a serial entrepreneur since the age of 23, founded numerous companies (one of which was a VC firm), and has raised more than USD300 million for his own companies and other startups. Prior to TA, he is the co-founder of MZ Asia-Pacific, the world’s leading independent IR firm, helping more than 600 companies in 14 countries with public listing and investor relations management. In October 2016, Mr. Yu founded Taiwan Accelerator (TA) - the first seed accelerator in the region. 248

Kim Chang

CEO & Founder

Kim Chang CEO & Founder Kim Chang came from Rong Seng Laboratories from National Central University, providing outsourcing R&D service. Kim led the team won maker's prize in Taoyuan City in 2016 by Open source Smart wrist band; winner in Singularity APAC Challenge 2018 by Vibrasee, the Parkinson's Disease Scanner supported by MOST; won the seat to CES 2019 sponsored by MOST; inception program by NVIDIA; winner in TRANS competition held by H spectrum.

Kim was trained in Singularity University in 2018 and founded the team Vibrasee. Later, the team turned into Smart Tag Inc. for Industrial Diagnosis Service in 2020. Smart Tag won Kaohsiung Startup Award, Qualcomm Innovation Taiwan Challenge Winner, Mobile Hero Winner in late 2020, and get selected into TAcc+, AWS, and Spark Labs Taipei accelerator programs.

Kim is also a historical novelist and has his first historical novel "Stories before VOC" in May 2019, published by Avanguard. 377

Kim Chang

Founder & CEO

Kim Chang Founder & CEO https://www.linkedin.com/in/kim-chang-89469428/ Kim Chang came from Rong Seng Laboratories from National Central University, providing outsourcing R&D service. Kim led the team won maker's prize in Taoyuan City in 2016 by Open source Smart wrist band; winner in Singularity APAC Challenge 2018 by Vibrasee, the Parkinson's Disease Scanner supported by MOST; won the seat to CES 2019 sponsored by MOST; inception program by NVIDIA; winner in TRANS competition held by H spectrum.

Kim was trained in Singularity University in 2018 and founded the team Vibrasee. Later, the team turned into Smart Tag Inc. for Industrial Diagnosis Service in 2020. Smart Tag won Kaohsiung Startup Award, Qualcomm Innovate in Taiwan Challenge Winner, Mobile Hero Winner in late 2020, Meet Taipei 2021 Neo Star Winner, and get selected into TAcc+, AWS, Chunghwa Telecom 5G, and SparkLabs Taipei accelerator programs.

Kim is also a historical novelist and has his first historical novel "Stories before VOC" in May 2019, published by Avanguard. 406

Kristy Yeh

Co-Founder and CEO

Kristy Yeh Co-Founder and CEO Kristy Yeh is the co-founder and CEO of Nestech. Nestech is an IoT/ICT solutions provider, mainly specializing in smart locking/access control systems for hospitality and property management industries towards building a smart city.

Before starting up Nestech, Kristy worked in the manufacturing and high-tech industry in Vietnam and Mainland China for 3 years. Nestech is one of the shortlisted teams of Qualcomm Innovate in Taiwan Challenge 2019. Its front desk system CellBedell and Fuzzy Intelligent Networked Detection System (FIND) with NB-IoT technology won the CES 2020 Innovation Award and will further use Qualcomm Wifi 6 technology platform to upgrade the system. Kristy holds Master's degrees from Feng Chia University, TAITRA's International Trade Institute, and GMBA of National Chiao Tung University. 382

Kyle Chen

Director of Community & Media Business Next Media Corp.

Kyle Chen Director of Community & Media Business Next Media Corp. Joined Business Next Media Corp. as a marketing and event coordinator in 2011. Started to work as the community manager of Meet, the biggest startup community in Taiwan, also a platform for startup founders to find opportunities of investment, startup resources, and global network. Discovered more than 500 startup companies via one by one interviews. Started to join the curation team of Meet Taipei Startup Festival, the first and biggest startup festival from local to global since 2014. In the 3 days event in 2017, there have been 400 booths (including 100 foreign startups), 20 different programs on 4 stages, 70+ global speakers and investors, 200+ sets of investor/startup match making, and 68,800 visits in total. 210

Kyle Chen

Director of Community & Media Business Next Media Corp.

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Kyle Chen

Director, Startup Media & Community

Kyle Chen Director, Startup Media & Community https://www.linkedin.com/in/chenkyle/ Joined Business Next Media Corp. as a marketing and event coordinator in 2011. Started to work as the community manager of Meet, the biggest startup community in Taiwan, also a platform for startup founders to find opportunities of investment, startup resources, and global network. Discovered more than 500 startup companies via one by one interviews. Started to join the curation team of Meet Taipei Startup Festival, the first and biggest startup festival from local to global since 2014. In the 3 days event in 2019, there have been 460 booths (including 100 foreign startups), 25 different programs on 5 stages, 70+ global speakers and investors, 300+ sets of investor/startup match making, and 26,000 visitors in total. 374

Laetitia Lim

Co-President

Laetitia Lim Co-President Laetitia is Co-President of La French Tech Taiwan and CEO of Quividi a French Tech company, global leader in computer vision software solutions for retail. She started her career at L'Oréal where she held several general management positions across Asia. She then co-founded Hyphen Group, a leading fintech company in Greater Southeast Asia, present in 6 countries and serving 10M+ consumers per month. With extensive experience in corporates and start-ups, Laetitia has a proven track record in setting up and scaling up international businesses. She enjoys experience sharing and believes technologies are here to improve people’s life. She is graduated from INSEAD and ESCP Europe business school. 430

Laurent Le Guyader

Community Lead & Member of the board

Laurent Le Guyader Community Lead & Member of the board For the past ten years Laurent has facilitated partnerships between Europe, China and Taiwan at multiple levels. In the biology and medical sectors at first as a French researcher (Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 2008-2011) then as business developer for a Belgian healthcare cluster (BioWin, Shanghai, 2011-2015). This allowed him to build a strong knowledge of the whole value chain in healthcare, from biomanufacturing to connected health. Then, as international innovation Experts for the French ministry of foreign affairs (MOST, Taipei, 2016-2018) he has widened this expertise into key technological sectors driving innovation such as IoT, AI, Greentech... Laurent always has played a role in bridging and in federating innovation stakeholders: a good example is the establishment of La French Tech official community in Taiwan which took a lot of efforts to assemble French and Taiwanese stakeholders toward a common goal, as well as some convincing at the government level. La French Tech Taiwan, with an office in Taiwan Tech Arena, is today a strong platform to supports Taiwanese start-ups in accessing France’s resources and reciprocally. Laurent is board member of La French Tech Taiwan since 2016. Lately he has been working with French IoT company Sigfox (2018-present) and successfully established its second global Hacking House, which opened last March at Digiblock Taipei. Laurent graduated in Biophysics, Toulouse University, France. He is married and lives in Taipei. Community Lead & Member of the board at French Tech Taiwan 348

Leo Guo

Founder & CEO

Leo Guo Founder & CEO Leo Guo is the founder and CEO of Nuwa Robotics Corp. Nuwa provides the most cost-effective robots from AI companion/education robots, and home robots to professional service robots. Besides, Nuwa provides a complete robot development platform with not only SDK but also software tools to facilitate robot content, and application development. Nuwa will be the largest robot provider in terms of shipping quantity in Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong. Nuwa just won the 1st prize in Qualcomm Innovate in Taiwan Challenge (QITC) in 2021.

Before starting up Nuwa, Leo has more than 25 years of working experience in the IT industry, such as Foxconn, Pegatron, Softbank, and Mitsubishi Electric, and served as a software engineer, project/product manager to BU head. Leo holds a Master of Computer Science degree from Stanford University.

Leo's contact info: guo.leo@nuwarobotics.com 402

Lewis Chen

Managing Director

Lewis Chen Managing Director https://www.linkedin.com/in/lewis-chen-%E9%99%B3%E7%AB%8B%E5%81%89-6855a349/?originalSubdomain=tw Managing Director of Taiwan Tech Arena 365

Li Chen Fu

Distinguished Professor of Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering NTU

Li Chen Fu Distinguished Professor of Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering NTU Li-Chen Fu (F'04) received B.S. degree from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 1981, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. in 1985 and 1987, respectively. Since 1987, he has been a member of the faculty, and is currently a full professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan, R.O.C. Currently, he serves as Director of NTU Center for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Advanced Robotics as well as Co-director of MOST (Ministry of Science and Technology)/NTU Joint Research Center for AI Technology and All Vista Healthcare. He was awarded Lifetime Distinguished Professorship from his university in 2007. He has received numerous academic recognitions, such as Distinguished Research Awards from National Science Council, Taiwan, R.O.C., the Irving T. Ho Chair Professorship, Macronix Chair Professorship, Academic Award from Ministry of Education, Taiwan, R.O.C., IEEE Fellow in 2004, and IFAC Fellow in 2017. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Asian Journal of Control as well as Vice-President of IEEE Control Systems Society. His research interests include robotics, smart home, visual detection and tracking, intelligent vehicle, production scheduling, virtual reality, and control theory & applications. 208

Li Chen Fu

Distinguished Professor of Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering NTU

Li Chen Fu Distinguished Professor of Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering NTU Li-Chen Fu (F'04) received B.S. degree from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 1981, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. in 1985 and 1987, respectively. Since 1987, he has been a member of the faculty, and is currently a full professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan, R.O.C. Currently, he serves as Director of NTU Center for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Advanced Robotics as well as Co-director of MOST (Ministry of Science and Technology)/NTU Joint Research Center for AI Technology and All Vista Healthcare. He was awarded Lifetime Distinguished Professorship from his university in 2007. He has received numerous academic recognitions, such as Distinguished Research Awards from National Science Council, Taiwan, R.O.C., the Irving T. Ho Chair Professorship, Macronix Chair Professorship, Academic Award from Ministry of Education, Taiwan, R.O.C., IEEE Fellow in 2004, and IFAC Fellow in 2017. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Asian Journal of Control as well as Vice-President of IEEE Control Systems Society. His research interests include robotics, smart home, visual detection and tracking, intelligent vehicle, production scheduling, virtual reality, and control theory & applications. 266

Light Lin

Founder

Light Lin Founder https://www.linkedin.com/in/lightlin/ Light Lin is the Co-Founder of Poseidon Network, a decentralized content acceleration network based on Edge Computing, and Co-Founder of BiiLabs, a Taiwan-based startup focusing on distributed ledger technology (DLT) with IOTA, providing scalable Internet of Things (IoT) applications to build a trusted economy. Its specialities include secured data transaction for distributed identification, smart city solutions (e.g. Air Quality Sensor Grid), and smart energy management. It partners with Taipei City Government, IOTA Foundation and other world-class organizations to enable industry innovation with real-world use cases. Prior to BiiLabs, Light Lin co-founded Wretch.cc (2003-2007, acquired by Yahoo!), flyingV.cc (2012-2017, successful exit), and also managed 2 angel funds (37 portfolios with 40M USD AUM). Light Lin received 2014 “Award for Creativity & Research” from Pan Wen Yuan Foundation, a key indicative award in technology field. He also sits on the “Youth Advisory Board” for Governmental Executive Yuan. He received the “100 MVP Managers Award” in 2014, and also “Young Achiever Award” from Monte Jade Science & Technology Association, a key organization that takes a pro-active role in enhancing Taiwan’s tech entrepreneurship. In 2015, he was invited by Taipei City Government to serve as the Advisor for Taipei Municipal. He also actively participates in the legislative process toward a more open platform for equity crowdfunding. In addition, he advises the amendment in corporate laws that govern closely-held companies. In 2016, he joined the Advisory Committee of National Project ASVDA (Asia Silicon Valley Development Agency). In 2017, he serves on the Advisory Committee of DIGI+ (a national digitalization project) by Executive Yuan. Founder of POSEIDON NETWORK 320

Limas Lin

VP of Technical Marketing & Business Development

Limas Lin VP of Technical Marketing & Business Development https://www.linkedin.com/in/limas-lin-8990a17/ Mr. Lin serves as Etron/eYs3D VP of Technical Marketing & Business Development (BD) with a demonstrated history of working in the semiconductors industry and skilled in Consumer Electronics, ASIC, and Start-ups. Prior to join Etron/eYs3D, Mr. Lin was the Sr. Strategic Marketing Manager at Intersil & BD Director at TranSwitch. Before that Mr. Lin co-founded Kolorific in 2003 and served as its President & Marketing VP. He was the Marketing Director of Panstera which was acquired by Pixelworks in 2001 with $127M. He also held various positions in ITE and National Semiconductor. Mr. Lin is a strong engineering professional earned a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University. VP of Technical Marketing & Business Development of Etron Technology 353

Mack Chen

Senior Manager, Marketing

Mack Chen Senior Manager, Marketing Mack Chen is the Senior Manager of Marketing at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. He specializes in 5G-NR, modem HW/SW technology, auto telematics and RF technology support. In this role, he is responsible for communication of product plan and specification, working on modem solution with mmWave and Wi-Fi 6 as indoor interface with customers.

Before joining Qualcomm, Chen worked at HTC as Principal Engineer and specialized in GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/LTE RF hardware system architecture and RF Front-End Module system. In addition, he was the Senior Engineer at BenQ, where he was responsible for developing Qualcomm's platform and leading RF project.

Chen graduated from National Chiao Tung University with a Bachelor of Science in Communication Engineering. He also holds a Master of Science in Communication Engineering from National Taiwan University. 379

Mack Chen

Senior Manager, Marketing

Mack Chen Senior Manager, Marketing Mack Chen is the Senior Manager of Marketing at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. He specializes in 5G-NR, modem HW/SW technology, auto telematics and RF technology support. In this role, he is responsible for communication of product plan and specification, working on modem solution with mmWave and Wi-Fi 6 as indoor interface with customers.

Before joining Qualcomm, Chen worked at HTC as Principal Engineer and specialized in GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/LTE RF hardware system architecture and RF Front-End Module system. In addition, he was the Senior Engineer at BenQ, where he was responsible for developing Qualcomm’s platform and leading RF project.

Chen graduated from National Chiao Tung University with a Bachelor of Science in Communication Engineering. He also holds a Master of Science in Communication Engineering from National Taiwan University. 401

Maggie Hsu

Director

Maggie Hsu Director Maggie is now the Director of International and Cross-Strait Sports Division at the Sports Administration, Ministry of Education (SAMOE), as well as a current member of the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee (CTOC). She got her master degree from the University of Texas at Austin in USA and bachelor degree from the National Cheng-Chi University (NCCU) in Taiwan. Being a junior handball player, she has passion in sports and has been working for the sports related fields for years. Her job is to bring major sporting events to Taiwan, including 2009 Kaohsiung World Games, 2017 Taipei Summer Universiade, etc. She used to be the Assistant to the APEC SMEWG Chair 2011-2012, initiated the APEC Accelerator Network (AAN) in 2012 and launched the APEC Sports Policy Network (ASPN) in 2016. In 2018, SAMOE cooperated with HYPE Sports Innovation and National Chiao Tung University to set up Asia’s first sports innovation accelerator, a step further to advance sportsmanship to entrepreneurship in the Asia Pacific region. Director of Int'l & Cross-Strait Div, Sports Admin of MOE 347

Mars Hsu

Business Executive of IBM Cloud IBM Taiwan

Mars Hsu Business Executive of IBM Cloud IBM Taiwan https://www.linkedin.com/in/mars-hsu-2b659b10/ Mars Hsu is in charge of Cloud business of IBM Taiwan, overlooking IBM Cloud strategy and ecosystem development. He manages the functions of sales, marketing, technical and operation to fuel IBM’s core business growth, and carries out the mission to make IBM Cloud the leading cloud platform in the market. He also dedicates to assisting enterprises’ digital transformation by deploying cognitive computing platform. Prior to this role, Mars is the senior sales manager of IBM middleware, responsible for strategic planning, go-to-market, marketing and branding, as well as customer services. He has been working with enterprises across various industries to lead strategic transformation and disruptive innovation with his rich experience in financial services, IT architecture, and industry reinvention. Mars was awarded of a number of recognitions including “Best Sales Manager of Greater China Group” in 2105 and “Hundred Percent Club” along his carrier in IBM. Mars obtained Bachelor of Economics at National Cheng Chi University and Master of International Economics at University of Westminster 200

Mars Hsu

Business Executive of IBM Cloud IBM Taiwan

Mars Hsu Business Executive of IBM Cloud IBM Taiwan https://www.linkedin.com/in/mars-hsu-2b659b10/ Mars Hsu is in charge of Cloud business of IBM Taiwan, overlooking IBM Cloud strategy and ecosystem development. He manages the functions of sales, marketing, technical and operation to fuel IBM’s core business growth, and carries out the mission to make IBM Cloud the leading cloud platform in the market. He also dedicates to assisting enterprises’ digital transformation by deploying cognitive computing platform. Prior to this role, Mars is the senior sales manager of IBM middleware, responsible for strategic planning, go-to-market, marketing and branding, as well as customer services. He has been working with enterprises across various industries to lead strategic transformation and disruptive innovation with his rich experience in financial services, IT architecture, and industry reinvention. Mars was awarded of a number of recognitions including “Best Sales Manager of Greater China Group” in 2105 and “Hundred Percent Club” along his carrier in IBM. Mars obtained Bachelor of Economics at National Cheng Chi University and Master of International Economics at University of Westminster 260

Martin Tin

General Manager of 7STARLAKE

Martin Tin General Manager of 7STARLAKE Human has been dreaming of smarter life for centuries, unmanned technology is one of main drive. In this program, SSL invites top technology and industry experts to discuss this innovative emerging force. Panelists including core technology “Lidar Sensor” and “computing” developers with application vehicle makers to share how their advanced know-how are shaping the new world and what’s new milestone to be achieved in near future. 227

Martin Tin

General Manager of 7STARLAKE

Martin Tin General Manager of 7STARLAKE Human has been dreaming of smarter life for centuries, unmanned technology is one of main drive. In this program, SSL invites top technology and industry experts to discuss this innovative emerging force. Panelists including core technology “Lidar Sensor” and “computing” developers with application vehicle makers to share how their advanced know-how are shaping the new world and what’s new milestone to be achieved in near future. 284

Masashi Sato

Manager

Masashi Sato Manager https://www.linkedin.com/in/masashi-sato-40975255/ https://twitter.com/masasi_jp?lang=en Mr. Masashi Sato is a business management consultant having worked on startup ecosystem development, open innovation, industry policy, public affairs, and NewSpace development. Manager of Nomura Research Institute 332

Matt Lai

Founder & CEO

Matt Lai Founder & CEO Matt Lai founded LINGBO Co., Ltd., realizing the necessity of the transformation in gas retail industry, and providing a platform management system for the industry. The IoT detector developed by LINGBO can track home energy usage, grasp the stock to achieve advance notification of the distribution of the way, and achieve "planned delivery" services.

LINGBO focuses on innovation in the energy industry and is one of the Qualcomm Innovate in Taiwan Challenge 2021 teams. Its IoT Solution won the first prize in the 2021 Communication Innovation Award. Before that, Matt was also the founder of Braxx Biotech, got an FDA approval and affirmed by the 2019 National Innovation Award.

Matt graduated from the National Defense Medical Center and the National Chengchi University with dual master's degrees. 408

Michael J Chang

Director of Artificial Intelligence Research & Development Center Microsoft

Michael J Chang Director of Artificial Intelligence Research & Development Center Microsoft https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-chang-b708a3/ Mr. Michael J. Chang is currently holding the position of Director General of Microsoft AI R&D Center in Taipei. Mr. Chang was formally the Director of Engineering of Software Technology Center in Asia before the assignment to set up the AI R&D Center in Taipei. On top of his Office development charter, Mr. Chang also drove the China Incubation engineering efforts in Office Product Group. This unique team is experimenting the new Mobile Productivity Scenarios with WeChat and other mobile conversation platforms. Graduated from State University of New York at Stony Brook with Master of Science in 1996, Mr. Chang joined Microsoft Corp, Redmond, WA in 1997 as Campus Hire. Though he later relocated to Microsoft Taiwan in 2004 and Microsoft China in 2012, his career has always been within Office Product Family innovating for the best user experience, from Win32 clients, to Service Products, and to Online Services. He has been working on Project, Word, OneNote, Office Shared Engineering, SharePoint, Exchange, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, Office365 Cloud Service Management, Big Data, Office ecoSystems/Extensibility, and Office Online. As a senior Engineering Leader and 20 years of veteran in the corporation and Microsoft Office Products, Mr. Chang is also a Microsoft certified As-Appropriate Interviewer. He drove recruiting efforts in Greater China Region. Mr. Chang was invited by many world-class companies in the region to speak and consult their engineering and technology evolution efforts on behalf of Microsoft. In his spare time, he also teaches EMRD (Executive Master of Research and Development) post graduate program in National Taiwan University of Science and Technology as professional adjunct faculty. Mr. Chang holds two US patents on software development tooling and technology. His expertise is in large scale Software Project Management, Software Development and Process, Software Automation, Online Services Product Development (PaaS & SaaS) and Management, and Management Excellence. 201

Michael J Chang

Director of Artificial Intelligence Research & Development Center Microsoft

Michael J Chang Director of Artificial Intelligence Research & Development Center Microsoft https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-chang-b708a3/ Mr. Michael J. Chang is currently holding the position of Director General of Microsoft AI R&D Center in Taipei. Mr. Chang was formally the Director of Engineering of Software Technology Center in Asia before the assignment to set up the AI R&D Center in Taipei. On top of his Office development charter, Mr. Chang also drove the China Incubation engineering efforts in Office Product Group. This unique team is experimenting the new Mobile Productivity Scenarios with WeChat and other mobile conversation platforms. Graduated from State University of New York at Stony Brook with Master of Science in 1996, Mr. Chang joined Microsoft Corp, Redmond, WA in 1997 as Campus Hire. Though he later relocated to Microsoft Taiwan in 2004 and Microsoft China in 2012, his career has always been within Office Product Family innovating for the best user experience, from Win32 clients, to Service Products, and to Online Services. He has been working on Project, Word, OneNote, Office Shared Engineering, SharePoint, Exchange, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, Office365 Cloud Service Management, Big Data, Office ecoSystems/Extensibility, and Office Online. As a senior Engineering Leader and 20 years of veteran in the corporation and Microsoft Office Products, Mr. Chang is also a Microsoft certified As-Appropriate Interviewer. He drove recruiting efforts in Greater China Region. Mr. Chang was invited by many world-class companies in the region to speak and consult their engineering and technology evolution efforts on behalf of Microsoft. In his spare time, he also teaches EMRD (Executive Master of Research and Development) post graduate program in National Taiwan University of Science and Technology as professional adjunct faculty. Mr. Chang holds two US patents on software development tooling and technology. His expertise is in large scale Software Project Management, Software Development and Process, Software Automation, Online Services Product Development (PaaS & SaaS) and Management, and Management Excellence. 261

Michael Lur

Michael Lur A marketer who understands both Western and Eastern marketing cultures. With many years of international working experiences in the United States & Taipei, professional in Social Media & Digital Marketing, International Exhibition, and Startup Community organizing. Dedicated to exploring business opportunities for ICT, Technology, and Startup Industry. 383

Michael Yeh

Senior Director, Automotive BU

Michael Yeh Senior Director, Automotive BU 20 Years IT filed experience include
- PC Marketing / Program Management / Innovation Architecture for MNC Customer
- Automotive Marketing Program / Product Development 399

Min Sun

Chief AI Scientist

Min Sun Chief AI Scientist Dr. Min Sun is Chief Artificial Intelligence (AI) Scientist of Appier. He joined Appier from National Tsing Hua University , where he served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering. Dr. Sun has worked under some of the most influential AI leaders, including Andrew Ng, Fei-Fei Li and Silvio Savarese. He contributed crowdsourcing ideas to the revolutionary ImageNet project led by Fei-Fei Li in 2009, and he is also an early contributor to the Robot Operating System (ROS) and Microsoft Kinect’s human pose estimation system. His areas of expertise are computer vision, natural language processing, deep learning, and reinforcement learning. Dr. Sun received his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering: System from the University of Michigan and his M.S in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Chief AI Scientist of Appier 349

Minesh Pore

Head of Startup Launchpad Global Sources

Minesh Pore Head of Startup Launchpad Global Sources https://www.linkedin.com/in/mineshpore/ Minesh is a highly regarded global trade expert with over 15 years’ experience leading multinational organizations in corporate transformation, business development, and strategic planning. Mr. Pore is currently the Director of International Business at Global Sources and Head of Startup Launchpad (SULP), a division dedicated to developing the global startup ecosystem through business conferences, investor-focused events, mentoring, manufacturing and supply-chain expertise, and direct access to global buyers. Startup Launchpad organizes Asia’s largest hardware startup tradeshow in Hong Kong every spring and fall, offering exhibitors access to distribution, manufacturing and thought leadership. The show provides companies with access to 60,000+ distributors and some of the largest and most recognized retailers worldwide. 212

Minesh Pore

Head of Startup Launchpad Global Sources

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Ming-Yang Chih

CEO

Ming-Yang Chih CEO https://www.linkedin.com/in/my-chih/ https://www.facebook.com/yammechih Ming-yang graduated from The Graduate Institute of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, which has the strongest cryptographic laboratory in Taiwan. He also specializes in cryptographic systems, cloud technologies, and has long been concerned about information security protection

Major Experience:
-CEO of CHELPIS Co., Ltd.
-CTO of Sentri Labs Inc
-R&D Specialist of Quanta Computer Co., Ltd.

Ming-Yang works in new technology development over 10 years and joins over 20 advance products from Health care, Crypto, IoT, Blockchain. He has involved four startups as co-founder. He learns from the experiences to build up the leadership, business development, product management and build future. These knowledge base apply on Chelpis to develop many products.

CHELPIS was founded in 2017 to provide enterprise zero-trust identification and access management information security solutions. Our products can help companies protect important online and offline data and authority control.

Our products:
1. CELLWALL-CELLWALL takes the zero-trust architecture as the core to help companies protect important data in cloud services and control employee permissions.
2. Podrick Space Management System - Podrick apply high-security identity authentication, IoT technology and cloud services to helps client to build a modern workspace.
3. SecID 2FA identity authentication card -the card uses EAL6+ security chips and a standard password system to protect the important data in company.
4. KelvinWallet - Quantum proof wallet, the safest cold wallet on blockchain cryptocurrency. It can protect digital assets and cryptocurrencies. 390

Molly Huang

CEO

Molly Huang CEO https://www.linkedin.com/in/molly-huang-594a9058/ CEO of Velodash 326

Nils Beers

Director of Startup Delta

Nils Beers Director of Startup Delta At the age of 22, Nils started his first company that built speedboats on solar power. After this, he was asked to develop new business for BAM, one of the largest construction companies of Europe with clients like Tesla, and he got another taste of the startup world by working for a well-funded scale up for electronic locking devices Clay. He then became the commercial director of Yes!Delft, the largest and most respected tech incubator of Europe. At StartupDelta Nils’ entrepreneurial mindset and commercial experience are essential in building the 1 innovation nation of Europe, together with corporates and leading policymakers. 223

Nils Beers

Director of Startup Delta

Nils Beers Director of Startup Delta At the age of 22, Nils started his first company that built speedboats on solar power. After this, he was asked to develop new business for BAM, one of the largest construction companies of Europe with clients like Tesla, and he got another taste of the startup world by working for a well-funded scale up for electronic locking devices Clay. He then became the commercial director of Yes!Delft, the largest and most respected tech incubator of Europe. At StartupDelta Nils’ entrepreneurial mindset and commercial experience are essential in building the 1 innovation nation of Europe, together with corporates and leading policymakers. 280

Noa Lifshitz

CEO of Noa's Mark

Noa Lifshitz CEO of Noa's Mark https://www.linkedin.com/company/noa'smark https://www.facebook.com/NoasMark?_rdr=p http://twitter.com/Noas_Mark Noa's Mark founder and CEO Noa Lifshitz has over 10 years of marketing experience and has worked with numerous Israeli companies helping them achieve their business goals. At Noa's Mark, she now consults for companies in Taiwan, China, Singapore, and Israel on their business plans, marketing strategies, and fundraising campaigns, and has helped Asian companies raise millions of dollars from international VCs. Coming from the startup nation of Israel, Noa teaches ambitious entrepreneurs how to efficiently communicate with diverse audiences around the world as well as how to build effective ventures that not only raise funds but also achieve long-term success. She studied psychology in the Open University of Israel, managed a sales division for Israel’s largest paper manufacturer (Glil On), was a manager at a premium wines store chain (Wineways). assistant to Marketing VP, in charge of business partnerships, content marketing, and B2C sales for Israel’s leading interior doors manufacturer (Pandoor), marketing manager for Perion (TLV: PERI), one of Israel’s leading tech companies. She has a total of 12 years’ experience in sales, marketing, and business development; and pro bono work with young startups, animal rights organizations and other charity organizations. 169

Noa Lifshitz

CEO of Noa's Mark

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Onail Liang

Deputy Executive Manager

Onail Liang Deputy Executive Manager 393

Pan-Chyr Yang

Attending Physician/Professor

Pan-Chyr Yang Attending Physician/Professor Dr. Yang is Chair Professor of the Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine. He was the former President of National Taiwan University. His major research interests are pulmonary and critical care medicine, lung cancer genomics and precision cancer therapy. He was elected as member of Academia Sinica in 2006 and the World Academic of Science in 2008 as well as the National Academy of Inventors of USA in 2015 because of his contributions in leading the translational research and implementation of precision medicine for lung cancer, which have significantly improved the survival in lung cancer patients in Taiwan. His research group identified novel biomarkers and pathways that associated with lung cancer risk and progression. They successfully established new platforms of theranostic applications of aptamer, lung cancer stem cell and tumor microenvironment directed therapy that may be beneficial and improve treatment outcome of lung cancer patients. Attending Physician/Professor of National Taiwan University Hospital 299

Paul Hwu

Attending Physician/Professor

Paul Hwu Attending Physician/Professor Dr. Paul Hwu is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) in Taiwan. Professor Hwu completed his medical and PhD degrees at College of Medicine, National Taiwan University. He completed his residency at NTUH. He has also done fellowship at the Department of Genetics at Johns Hopkins University, and was a Visiting Scientist at the Department of Medical Genetics at Mayo Clinic. He was the Department Head of Medical Genetics at NTUH from 2006 to 2012, and the Inaugural President of the Taiwan Human Genetics Society from 1999 to 2002. He is a Board Member of the Taiwan Foundation for Rare Disorders. Professor Hwu set up the Newborn Screening Program for Pompe Disease in Taiwan, one of the first in the world, and has dedicated much of his research and clinical effort in the diagnosis, management, and gene therapy for patients with rare genetic diseases. His recent interests include employing next generation sequencing (NGS) and artificial intelligence to facilitate the diagnosis of genetic disease and related conditions. Attending Physician/Professor of National Taiwan University Hospital 298

Peko Wan

Vice President

Peko Wan Vice President Peko Wan has over 15 year experience in the IT industry. As a Vice President at Pundi X, Peko has facilitated strategic partnerships as well as launched Pundi X payment products in the global markets. She leads Pundi X on branding, marketing and communications strategy, and other initiatives. Peko received her MBA from Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Languages and Literature from National Sun Yat-sen University. Vice President of Pundi X 304

Peter Wu

CEO of ASUS Cloud Corporation

Peter Wu CEO of ASUS Cloud Corporation 228

Peter Wu

CEO of ASUS Cloud Corporation

Peter Wu CEO of ASUS Cloud Corporation 285

Phillip Kemp

CEO of Business Foundations Inc. Australia

Phillip Kemp CEO of Business Foundations Inc. Australia https://www.linkedin.com/in/phillipkemp/ https://twitter.com/phil_kemp?lang=en Phillip is the Chief Executive of Business Foundations Inc, a national business advisory, incubation and training organisation based in Western Australia. He holds key positions on a number of national boards and associations including being the Vice-President of the Asian Association of Business Incubation (AABI) and deputy chairman of Business Innovation and Incubation Australia (BIIA) and former Chairman of the organisation. 190

Phillip Kemp

CEO of Business Foundations Inc. Australia

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Ping-Hang (Eric) Fan

Deputy Director, Div. VI,

Ping-Hang (Eric) Fan Deputy Director, Div. VI, Dr. Fan is currently the Deputy Director of Div. VI at Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER), director of AppWorks Fund II and Harbinger Venture Fund VI. TIER was established in 1976 by Dr. Chen-Fu Koo as the first private independent economic think tank in Taiwan.

Dr. Fan is the lead of government projects, which aims to promote early stage investment and startup ecosystem in Taiwan. He is responsible for conducting the global early stage investment database, research analysis and startup fundraising events. In addition, he covers the research of emerging technologies, innovation and entrepreneurship policies, and angel/venture capital investment. 395

Pochang Wu

Co-Founder of KKFARM

Pochang Wu Co-Founder of KKFARM https://www.facebook.com/echo.pochang/ Co-founder of KKFARM, Lead vocalist of Echo, founder of iNDIEVOX, the first DRM Free MP3 online music store in Taiwan. 198

Pochang Wu

Co-Founder of KKFARM

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Pranesh Sinha

Sr. Director, Product Management Qualcomm Technology Licensing

Pranesh Sinha Sr. Director, Product Management Qualcomm Technology Licensing Pranesh Sinha leads Technology and Product Strategy initiatives at Qualcomm. Currently, he is driving Qualcomm's collaboration efforts in multiple countries by building innovation labs which benefit ecosystem partners. Pranesh has been at Qualcomm for more than 10 years in various roles including 3GPP standardization, technology strategy, and product development. Some of his key accomplishments include delivery of the world’s first HSPA+ and LTE products, establishing LTE-TDD as a global standard for unpaired spectrum, and delivering the first world-mode cellular modem including TD-SCDMA. For the past 3 years, Pranesh has also been leading Qualcomm’s start-up incubation efforts in India. Pranesh has also worked in management and technical leadership roles at Intel, Texas Instruments, and Conexant. He is published in technical journals and holds multiple patents. He graduated from the National University of Singapore. Sr. Director, Product Management Qualcomm Technology Licensing, Qualcomm Inc. 361

Qingqi Chen

Professor

Qingqi Chen Professor The MIAT (Machine Intelligence and Automation Technology) laboratory was founded in 1998 by Dr. Chen Qingqi. The purpose of the lab is to build a globally leading approach to innovative design, with a focus on forward-looking embedded software and hardware and application system development. The research themes of the doctoral students of MIAT Lab are all based on the technical development trend and actual needs of the industry. The technical results of the research and development are closely combined with the industrial application value. Professor of NCU, CSIE 295

Rajendra Jagdale

Director General & CEO of Science and Technology Park Pune India

Rajendra Jagdale Director General & CEO of Science and Technology Park Pune India Dr. Rajendra P.Jagdale, Ph.D. is a Director General of Science and Technology Park, a not for profit autonomous institute established by Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India and it is hosted by University of Pune. The Park acts as a bridge between industries and academia to make available resources and expertise from academia, research and development labs to industries. Dr. Rajendra Jagdale was instrumental in making Indian Universitirs ‘Technology Database that showcases some of the emerging technologies and potential of researchers from Indian Universities. This database was made for University Grants Commission, Govt. of India and supported by UN-Asian and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology (APCTT). Dr. Jagdale is a trainer in Entrepreneurship and mentor for several start-up companies and works closely with DST’s Technology Business Incubation and Innovation Management Programmes. His major areas of expertise are Urban e-transformation using Science and Technology tools, IT open source and freeware, Intellectual Property Management and Technology transfer, Business incubation and promoting Innovation driven cluster development. Due to his initiative Science and Technology Park developed and launched India’s most robust GIS based e-transformation called GISDA (GIS for Dynamic Administration). 191

Rajendra Jagdale

Director General & CEO of Science and Technology Park Pune India

Rajendra Jagdale Director General & CEO of Science and Technology Park Pune India Dr. Rajendra P.Jagdale, Ph.D. is a Director General of Science and Technology Park, a not for profit autonomous institute established by Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India and it is hosted by University of Pune. The Park acts as a bridge between industries and academia to make available resources and expertise from academia, research and development labs to industries. Dr. Rajendra Jagdale was instrumental in making Indian Universitirs ‘Technology Database that showcases some of the emerging technologies and potential of researchers from Indian Universities. This database was made for University Grants Commission, Govt. of India and supported by UN-Asian and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology (APCTT). Dr. Jagdale is a trainer in Entrepreneurship and mentor for several start-up companies and works closely with DST’s Technology Business Incubation and Innovation Management Programmes. His major areas of expertise are Urban e-transformation using Science and Technology tools, IT open source and freeware, Intellectual Property Management and Technology transfer, Business incubation and promoting Innovation driven cluster development. Due to his initiative Science and Technology Park developed and launched India’s most robust GIS based e-transformation called GISDA (GIS for Dynamic Administration). 253

Ravi Belani

Managing Partner

Ravi Belani Managing Partner https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravibelani/ Ravi Belani is co-founder and Managing Director of Alchemist. He also teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford. He led the investment team at Draper Fisher Jurvetson’s and worked as a consultant at McKinsey. BS & MS from Stanford Univ., and MBA form Harvard Business School. Alchemist Accelerator Managing Director 339

Ravi Belani

Managing Director

Ravi Belani Managing Director https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravibelani/ Ravi Belani is co-founder and Managing Director of Alchemist. He also teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford. He led the investment team at Draper Fisher Jurvetson’s and worked as a consultant at McKinsey. BS & MS from Stanford Univ., and MBA form Harvard Business School. Co-founder and Managing Director of Alchemist 340

Renee Yeh

Lead Interpreter/Translator

Renee Yeh Lead Interpreter/Translator https://www.linkedin.com/in/reneeyeh/ Renee is a serial founder and an experienced interpreter. She masters the art of storytelling to communicate big ideas. Appreciates discussions about: startups, entrepreneurship, making technologies accessible, making technologies friendly, turning users into evangelists, just to name a few. 171

Renee Yeh

Lead Interpreter/Translator

Renee Yeh Lead Interpreter/Translator https://www.linkedin.com/in/reneeyeh/ Renee is a serial founder and an experienced interpreter. She masters the art of storytelling to communicate big ideas. Appreciates discussions about: startups, entrepreneurship, making technologies accessible, making technologies friendly, turning users into evangelists, just to name a few. 240

Rich Fuh

Manager of Taiwan Tech Arena Ministry of Science and Technology

Rich Fuh Manager of Taiwan Tech Arena Ministry of Science and Technology Rich is responsible for Taiwan Tech Arena, a flagship tech startups ecosystem building program funded by Ministry of Science and Technology in Taiwan. Rich has extensive experience in tech industry from startups, local Taiwan company to Fortune Top 50 company in high tech area in Taiwan and US. Rich loves new things and have a big passion in working with people to use technology and innovation to make the world a better one. 209

Rich Fuh

Manager of Taiwan Tech Arena Ministry of Science and Technology

Rich Fuh Manager of Taiwan Tech Arena Ministry of Science and Technology Rich is responsible for Taiwan Tech Arena, a flagship tech startups ecosystem building program funded by Ministry of Science and Technology in Taiwan. Rich has extensive experience in tech industry from startups, local Taiwan company to Fortune Top 50 company in high tech area in Taiwan and US. Rich loves new things and have a big passion in working with people to use technology and innovation to make the world a better one. 267

River Lin

Deputy General Manager

River Lin Deputy General Manager Insight into the development trend of global information security technology, with more than 20 years of industry experience, expertise in system architecture design, detailed specification design, operation quality verification, education and training, document quality requirements, and assisting thousands of enterprises to build a new generation of information security and cloud collaborative operating systems , leading projects include Cathay Life Insurance, Sanshang American Life Insurance, Changhua Bank, Taishin Bank, Taiwan Property Insurance, South China Property Insurance, the police department, the Central Meteorological Bureau of the Ministry of Communications, ASE Group, Far East Group, Evergreen Group, King Car Group, etc., "Intelligent Security · Elite Customization" is an important key for its team to achieve high customer satisfaction. 424

Rutger de Graaf

Director

Rutger de Graaf Director Rutger de Graaf is working closely with the Dutch ecosystem to open the doors for ambitious startup founders, entrepreneurs and foreign investors. He is highly skilled in Economics, Analysis, International Relations, Research, and Market Analysis.   Currently, he is Director Netherlands Point of Entry at Netherlands Entreprise Agency where he advises on residence permits for startups (the Startup Visa), foreign investors, ambitious entrepreneurs & knowledge workers. The agency stimulates entrepreneurs in sustainable, agricultural, innovative and international business and aims to improve opportunities for entrepreneurs, strengthens their position and helps them realise their international ambitions with funding, networking, know-how and compliance with laws and regulations. Prior to this, he was Senior Economic & Commercial Officer at the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Director Point of Entry/ Netherlands Enterprise Agency 356

Ryosuke Furihata

Vice President

Ryosuke Furihata Vice President Career Overview

Extensive international experience
-Lived or worked in the US, Brazil, and the UAE (Dubai) for a total of 9 years

Mission-driven business builder
- Built Japanese Corporate Team from scratch in Brazil following the first acquisition of a locally-based bank
- Launched and led Administration Team of USD390M Gulf Japan Food Fund with strategic profit, sustainability, and social benefit criteria

Innovative Startups Coordination Department (2021-Present)
-Provide comprehensive solutions to post-IPO innovative clients to support their further business growth and expansion by working closely with bank branches and other Mizuho group entities 410

Sahil Bansal

Sr. Director of Product Management

Sahil Bansal Sr. Director of Product Management https://www.linkedin.com/in/sahil-bansal-2a4852/ 366

Samson Ellis

Taipei Bureau Chief of Bloomberg

Samson Ellis Taipei Bureau Chief of Bloomberg https://twitter.com/samsonellis?lang=en We are the central nervous system of global finance. Born in 1981, Bloomberg is a forward-looking company focused on building products and solutions that are needed for the 21st century. As a global information and technology company, we connect decision makers to a dynamic network of data, people and ideas – accurately delivering business and financial information, news and insights to customers around the world. 232

Samson Ellis

Taipei Bureau Chief of Bloomberg

Samson Ellis Taipei Bureau Chief of Bloomberg https://twitter.com/samsonellis?lang=en We are the central nervous system of global finance. Born in 1981, Bloomberg is a forward-looking company focused on building products and solutions that are needed for the 21st century. As a global information and technology company, we connect decision makers to a dynamic network of data, people and ideas – accurately delivering business and financial information, news and insights to customers around the world. 289

Sansanee Huabsomboon

Director of Technology Business Incubation Center NSTDA Thailand

Sansanee Huabsomboon Director of Technology Business Incubation Center NSTDA Thailand From many years ’s experiences of fostering & incubating New Technology Entrepreneurs through Business Incubation Center of NSTDA. Being a judge committee and speaker of many stages of Technology Business competition and Startup pitching challenges of Domestic and International. Today Sansanee is one of the key person to set strategic move of Thailand about Startup ecosystem under Ministry of Science and Technology. She is one of “Startup Thailand” Core team to initiate new programs to strengthen Thai Startup and fulfil Thai Startup ecosystem and policy support. 187

Sansanee Huabsomboon

Director of Technology Business Incubation Center NSTDA Thailand

Sansanee Huabsomboon Director of Technology Business Incubation Center NSTDA Thailand From many years ’s experiences of fostering & incubating New Technology Entrepreneurs through Business Incubation Center of NSTDA. Being a judge committee and speaker of many stages of Technology Business competition and Startup pitching challenges of Domestic and International. Today Sansanee is one of the key person to set strategic move of Thailand about Startup ecosystem under Ministry of Science and Technology. She is one of “Startup Thailand” Core team to initiate new programs to strengthen Thai Startup and fulfil Thai Startup ecosystem and policy support. 250

Sarah Tatsis

Senior VP, IVY Platform Development

Sarah Tatsis Senior VP, IVY Platform Development BlackBerry provides intelligent security software and services to enterprises and governments around the world. The company secures more than 500M endpoints including 195M vehicles with its QNX software. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, the company leverages AI and machine learning to deliver innovative solutions in the areas of cybersecurity, safety and data privacy solutions, and is a leader in the areas of endpoint security, endpoint management, encryption, and embedded systems.

Blackberry and AWS are co-developing BlackBerry IVY, an intelligent vehicle data platform used to generate insights from vehicle data on the edge, controlled via the cloud, that enables new experiences and improved operations for connected vehicles.

Sarah Tatsis is the Senior Vice President of the IVY Platform Development at BlackBerry. Having worked at the company for over 20 years, Tatsis has held a number of leadership positions in areas of research and development, operations, quality, pricing, analytics, and customer support. 398

Sau-Hsuan Wu

Professor

Sau-Hsuan Wu Professor Sau-Hsuan Wu received the B.S. and the M.S. degrees from National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, in 1990 and 1993, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, USA, in 2003. From 1995 to 1999, and from 2004 to 2005, he served in the industry first as a senior circuit and system design engineer, and then as a technical consultant for wireless communication system designs. Since 2005, he has been with National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, and is currently a full Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests lie in the areas of signal processing, system design and performance analysis for wireless communications, and bio-medical signal processing. He has won the best paper award in IEEE Greencom 2013, and the first prize award in AIoT innovation contest in 2018 Mobileheroes. Professor of NCTU, Electrical and Computer Engineering 300

Scott Wu

Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Business Weekly

Scott Wu Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Business Weekly 230

Scott Wu

Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Business Weekly

Scott Wu Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Business Weekly 287

Sean Moss-Pultz

Co-Founder & CEO of Bitmark

Sean Moss-Pultz Co-Founder & CEO of Bitmark https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-moss-pultz/ Sean Moss-Pultz is an expert in developing technology for consumer electronics and Internet services – with a focus on blockchain related projects. He graduated from U.C. San Diego with bachelor's degrees in mathematics and physics. Prior to Bitmark Inc., he was a senior executive for EMQ Limited, a financial technology startup which provides secure and lower cost method for transferring funds internationally. Moss-Pultz also launched and was CEO of Openmoko Inc. Recognized as a pioneer of open source hardware, Moss-Pultz led a staff of 80 people to build the first open source phone, a precursor to iPhone and Android smartphones. 175

Sean Moss-Pultz

Co-Founder & CEO of Bitmark

Sean Moss-Pultz Co-Founder & CEO of Bitmark https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-moss-pultz/ Sean Moss-Pultz is an expert in developing technology for consumer electronics and Internet services – with a focus on blockchain related projects. He graduated from U.C. San Diego with bachelor's degrees in mathematics and physics. Prior to Bitmark Inc., he was a senior executive for EMQ Limited, a financial technology startup which provides secure and lower cost method for transferring funds internationally. Moss-Pultz also launched and was CEO of Openmoko Inc. Recognized as a pioneer of open source hardware, Moss-Pultz led a staff of 80 people to build the first open source phone, a precursor to iPhone and Android smartphones. 244

Sean Wu

Deputy Director

Sean Wu Deputy Director Dr. Wu is an Deputy Director at PUFsecurity and currently leads the Digital Marketing Team to promote both eMemory and PUFsecurity branding and products. He returned to the semiconductor industry in 2021 after previously holding leadership positions in manufacturing and SaaS companies globally. He brings a wide array of experience to his work, extending from component-level research, to product promotion, and business development. 425

Seth Welday

Product Marketing Manager

Seth Welday Product Marketing Manager Seth started as a developer evangelist at Dronesmith Technologies, a provider of IoT drone hardware and software for developers and businesses. Currently, he works at Seeed Studios promoting and shaping new IoT hardware with the aim of creating a more connected and sustainable world. Seth believes that this vision can become a reality by supporting developers with flexible IoT platforms to allow them to innovate and quickly move to field-ready devices. Product Marketing Manager of SEEED Studios 344

Shaw Wu

CEO

Shaw Wu CEO Shaw Wu, the CEO of DataYoo, position himself as a pioneer of data analytics and data science application in agriculture. Based on data analysis and AI technique, we tracked crops growing condition and market intelligence to predict the next steps. Though this system, we provide total solution of risk management from producers to consumers. Furthermore, it is feasible for us to concatenate the agriculture supply chain with the data application services.

In 2019, in cooperate with the client, we managed the exporting pineapple in KaohSiung through the Data Analysis and Prediction Service. We raised the standard products from 50% to 80%, rejected substandard products from 8% to 1% as well.

Besides, through our developed remote monitoring technique, we helped our client, which is a banana farmer cooperative in Yunlin, increase 2 times of managed field and 4 times of corporate farmer.

Focusing on risk management in agriculture, we combined models of crop physiology and AI machine analysis techniques to provide our client two services: Crop physiology Models Building and Harvest and Supply Prediction.

Crop physiology Models Building Service helps to stabilize crop quality, maximize the yield and gives some cultivate advices as well. Harvest and Supply Prediction System can predict the price fluctuation in order to sell the crops at better prices, give export or import advices, also stabilize the market.

We are eager to make data analysis product technique in Taiwan well-developed and promote it to all over the world. Hope to create new era of smart agriculture in Taiwan. 378

Shu Huang

Division Director

Shu Huang Division Director Shu Huang received the Ph.D. degree in Department of Mechanical Engineering from University of Leuven, Belgium, in 2011. He is currently the Director of Intelligent Robotics Division in Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan, as well as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in NYCU, Taiwan. His research interests are in the areas of robotics, advanced motion planning, CPS system, medical robotics, and bio-inspired behavior-based mobile manipulation. He leads ITRI Robotics team to develop various kinds of industrial manipulators, vision-guided robotic applications and intelligent CPS manufacturing systems. The novel software-defined joint module has won the R&D100 Award in 2021. His goal is to provide value-added robotic technology to the industry. 415

Simon See

Senior Director of Solution Architecture & Engineering NVIDIA

Simon See Senior Director of Solution Architecture & Engineering NVIDIA https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonsee/ Prof. Simon See is currently the Solution Architecture and Engineering Director and Chief Solution Architect for Nvidia AI Technology Center. He is also a Professor and Chief Scientific Computing Officer in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Prof. See is also the Chief Scientific Computing Advisor for BGI (China) and has a position in NanyangTechnological University (Singapore) and King-Mong Kung University of Technology (Thailand). Prof See is currently involved in a number of smart city projects, especially in Singapore and China. His research interests are in the area of High Performance Computing, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, computational science, Applied Mathematics, and simulation methodology. Prof. See is also leading some of the AI initiatives in Asia Pacific. He has published over 200 papers in these areas and has won various awards. Prof. See is also a member of SIAM, IEEE, and IET. He also a committee member of more than 50 conferences. Prof. See graduated from University of Salford (UK) with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and numerical analysis in 1993. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Prof. See worked for SGI, DSO National Lab. of Singapore, IBM, International Simulation Ltd (UK), Sun Microsystems, and Oracle. He is also providing consultancy to a number of national research and supercomputing centers. 206

Simon See

Senior Director of Solution Architecture & Engineering NVIDIA

Simon See Senior Director of Solution Architecture & Engineering NVIDIA https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonsee/ Prof. Simon See is currently the Solution Architecture and Engineering Director and Chief Solution Architect for Nvidia AI Technology Center. He is also a Professor and Chief Scientific Computing Officer in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Prof. See is also the Chief Scientific Computing Advisor for BGI (China) and has a position in NanyangTechnological University (Singapore) and King-Mong Kung University of Technology (Thailand). Prof See is currently involved in a number of smart city projects, especially in Singapore and China. His research interests are in the area of High Performance Computing, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, computational science, Applied Mathematics, and simulation methodology. Prof. See is also leading some of the AI initiatives in Asia Pacific. He has published over 200 papers in these areas and has won various awards. Prof. See is also a member of SIAM, IEEE, and IET. He also a committee member of more than 50 conferences. Prof. See graduated from University of Salford (UK) with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and numerical analysis in 1993. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Prof. See worked for SGI, DSO National Lab. of Singapore, IBM, International Simulation Ltd (UK), Sun Microsystems, and Oracle. He is also providing consultancy to a number of national research and supercomputing centers. 264

ST Liew

Vice President & President of Qualcomm Taiwan

ST Liew Vice President & President of Qualcomm Taiwan 229

ST Liew

Vice President & President of Qualcomm Taiwan

ST Liew Vice President & President of Qualcomm Taiwan 286

ST Liew

Vice President and President of Qualcomm Taiwan and South East Asia

ST Liew Vice President and President of Qualcomm Taiwan and South East Asia ST Liew is Vice President, QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies Asia-Pacific Pte. Ltd., and President of Qualcomm Taiwan & SEA. In this role, Liew is responsible for leading all business and operational functions for Qualcomm in these regions. Prior to this, Liew served as Vice President and President of Qualcomm Taiwan. Liew has more than 30 years of experience leading business and engineering teams in the telecommunications industry. Most recently, Liew was President of Acer Smart Product Business Group.

Before joining Acer, Liew worked at Motorola where he held multiple business and technical roles, including leading Motorola's design centers as well as in product management, product development, manufacturing and test engineering. Liew spent many years in Motorola responsible for a variety of R&D projects ranging from walkie-talkie, pagers and cellular products in markets all over the world. Liew received his MBA from the National University of Singapore, and holds a BSc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Leeds, UK. 372

Stephanie Tang

Managing Director of Rookie Fund

Stephanie Tang Managing Director of Rookie Fund https://www.linkedin.com/in/sttang/ Stephanie is a recent Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree of 2018 and Managing Director at Rookie Fund, a student-run venture fund investing in the best student startups in Asia. She oversees recruiting and curriculum, provides guidance to the Rookies in investment and portfolio management, and maintains and grows the mentor network. She was formerly Manager of the Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance at HTC Vive, a venture alliance focusing on VR investments. Prior to that, she handled Business Development for Zoodles, an edtech startup. She has a BA in Economics from Oberlin College and is a recent honoree of Forbes' 30 under 30 Asia, 2018. 172

Stephanie Tang

Managing Director of Rookie Fund

Stephanie Tang Managing Director of Rookie Fund https://www.linkedin.com/in/sttang/ Stephanie is a recent Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree of 2018 and Managing Director at Rookie Fund, a student-run venture fund investing in the best student startups in Asia. She oversees recruiting and curriculum, provides guidance to the Rookies in investment and portfolio management, and maintains and grows the mentor network. She was formerly Manager of the Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance at HTC Vive, a venture alliance focusing on VR investments. Prior to that, she handled Business Development for Zoodles, an edtech startup. She has a BA in Economics from Oberlin College and is a recent honoree of Forbes' 30 under 30 Asia, 2018. 241

Stephen Coates

Vice President, Global Operations and General Manager, Asia

Stephen Coates Vice President, Global Operations and General Manager, Asia Canada's power chip maker GaN Systems is a leader in Gallium Nitride (GaN) power transistors. Applications include consumer electronics, automotive, renewable energy and more. Most recently, it raised $150 million in a funding round led by Fidelity Management & Research to expand its market share to the EV market. BMW and Toyota Motor have been investors in GaN Systems for several years.

As GaN Systems'VP of Operations, Stephen Coates joined GaN Systems in 2015 from DigiLens, where he was Head of Manufacturing. Stephen has more than three decades of experience in engineering, manufacturing operations, and supply-chain management. He has extensive experience in building and running advanced technology fabs (front end and backend). In addition, he has expertise in establishing and developing strategic relationships to support full product commercialization, high-volume manufacturing, and device packaging and integration which is key to ensuring that GaN Systems meets global demands.

Stephen moved to Taiwan in 2016 to establish GaN Systems Asia and has successfully grown the team to be the second largest and the fastest growing office in the company. 400

Stephen Su

Senior Solution Specialist

Stephen Su Senior Solution Specialist Based in San Jose office. Focus on maximizing the long-term success and revenue in IoT and embedded segments. Lead customer engagement across the whole value chain - design wins, OEM and SIP engagement in new markets and new business development. Stephen is also the Product Manager of Armv7-A cores to manage product portfolio of Cortex-A5, A7, A9, A15 and 17. Before Arm, Stephen was the Applications Engineering Manager at Apical Ltd. Senior Solution Specialist, Arm Automotive & IoT Line of Business group 345

Steve Hsu

General manager

Steve Hsu General manager https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-hsu-1081a43a/?originalSubdomain=tw Mr. Hsu found TXA Private Board which is the largest Advisory Board organization in Taiwan with records of over 260 board meetings in major cities in Asia. Mr. Hsu has nurtured over 600 startups with over 20 listed in Taiwan Stock Market. Mr. Hsu has over 20 years of experience on business consultant, corporate training, new business development, venture investment, and startup incubation. General manager of TXA Private Board 318

Sudeepto Roy

VP, Engineering, Qualcomm Incorporated and Lead of Regional Strategy and Engagement for QTL

Sudeepto Roy VP, Engineering, Qualcomm Incorporated and Lead of Regional Strategy and Engagement for QTL As Vice President of Engineering at Qualcomm Technology Licensing, QTL, San Diego, Sudeepto focuses on worldwide Regional Strategy and Ecosystem (RSE) engagements. His team leverages technology, design, business and IPR expertise to help strategic licensees, startups, universities and governments succeed in their business and policy goals while utilizing Qualcomm's technologies and innovations. Sudeepto has been with Qualcomm for over two decades, in various pioneering and strategic roles across engineering, product management and customer engagement, spanning infrastructure, IoT, and 2G through 5G devices from major worldwide manufacturers.

He has a BSCE from MS University of Baroda, India, MSCE from Old Dominion University, Virginia and has completed post-graduate programs in technology management, IPR law and advanced computing from Caltech, UCSD and MIT.

Outside of work, Sudeepto volunteers for matters of local community interests and children's well-being, including serving on the Boards of two non-profit schools. 373

Su-Wei Chang

President

Su-Wei Chang President Mr. Su-Wei Chang was involved in developing the mmWave and sub-mmWave receiver systems for radio telescopes in ASIAA. He received a master's degree and is a Ph.D. candidate in the ECE at U. Mass-Amherst. His research interests include low noise, cryogenic circuits design, and applications, silicon-based MMIC up to mm-wave bands. He founded TMYTEK in 2014, deliver millimeter-wave solutions in 5G/B5G and satellite communication applications. Su-Wei received the Young Scholars‘ Creativity Award of Pan Wen Yuan Foundation. 411

T.H. Tung

Chairman of Pegatron

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Tai

President

Tai President In order to explore new media in his youth, Tai experienced advertising, publishing, and online financial industries, and constantly explored opportunities for the new generation of revolution in various fields. In 2007, in the late stage of the global Internet bubble, Tai founded Richi, a virtual currency service, and was selected by the Silicon Valley Venture Capital Bible "Red Herring" as one of the "Top 100 Global Innovative Technologies".

Tai is also an early explorer of Fintech financial technology. Founded TechOrange Media in 2010, hoping to become a searchlight and spotlight for Taiwan's future industries, illuminating business models, entrepreneurs and the possibilities of Taiwan. In 2015, he served as chairman of EasyCard. 431

Tom Vanhoutte

Founder & Managing Partner of Imec.xpand

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Tom Vanhoutte

Founder & Managing Partner of Imec.xpand

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Tony Yu

Partner

Tony Yu Partner https://www.linkedin.com/in/%E4%BD%99%E6%9D%B1%E6%B4%9B-tony-yu-ab47bb1/?originalSubdomain=tw Having worked in industries of embedded software, IC design, telecommunications, medical devices and consumer electronics, Tony brings more than 20 years of management experiences in R&D and worldwide business development. Tony has served companies of diverse background and growth stages. This allows him to provide unique perspectives on organizational culture and corporate operations when coaching entrepreneurs.

Founded in 2015, Mesh Ventures is an investment firm that leverages the engineering, manufacturing, research, and channel resources in Asia to accelerate the growth of disruptive early-stage companies. It works with industry-leading partners, ranging from tier-1 manufacturers, system-level solution providers, to financial institutions, to help startups innovate and scale. Mesh Ventures focuses on exploring global investment opportunities of new mobility technologies, data center technologies, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. 370

Tsai-Yi (Iris) Wu

Founder of Ambidio

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Tsai-Yi (Iris) Wu

Founder of Ambidio

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Victor Chen

Co-Founder & CEO

Victor Chen Co-Founder & CEO Victor is the founder and CEO of Foodland Ventures - VC & Accelerator founded in Taiwan focusing on the AgriFood tech sector in APAC & North America. He’s a serial entrepreneur, community builder and an active investor in global AgriFood tech startups. By leveraging partnerships with leading F&B brands globally, Foodland Ventures helps startups fundraise effectively while growing their business. 413

Vineet Johnson

Founder and CEO

Vineet Johnson Founder and CEO https://linkedin.com/company/iregained-inc https://m.facebook.com/Iregainedinc/?ref=bookmarks https://twitter.com/iregained CEO of IRegained Inc.
Neuroscientist and Physiotherapist with more than 25 years academic clinical / research experience in Canada, UK and India. In addition, leadership experience in managing department and participating in University senate committees. 386

Violet Lo

Director, Innovation & Entrepreneur Services

Violet Lo Director, Innovation & Entrepreneur Services Violet earns her EMBA degree from National Chengchi University and LL.M. degree in International Tax Law from Vienna University of Economics and Business. With more than 20 years of experiences in providing audit, accounting advisory and international tax consulting services to multi-national companies, Violet is now leading Innovation and Entrepreneur Services team at PwC Taiwan and established PwC's Scale-up Program to help fast-growth startups strengthen company operation and raise their next major institutional funding rounds through an investor readiness program. Violet is also the program leader of the 2018-2021 Taiwan Startup Ecosystem Survey, and has an in-depth understanding of the development of Taiwan's startup ecosystem. 397

Vitaliy Goncharuk

CEO & Founder

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Yan Li

Director

Yan Li Director https://www.linkedin.com/in/yan-li-7644153/ Yan is a Director at Qualcomm Ventures. She has contributed to the investment and management of China deals, including AccuVally, CooTek, Dolphin Browser, Eques, GFan, Mobike and Neobear. Prior to joining Qualcomm, she worked for Moody’s Investors Service’s Corporate Finance division and Lehman Brothers’ Investment Banking division in New York. Yan was a member of Lehman’s Global Technology team, involved in both M&A advisory roles and debt and equity financings. She holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School and a M.Eng. and S.B. from M.I.T. Director of Qualcomm Ventures 360

Yu Chuan Jack Li

Dean of College of Medical Science and Technology TMU

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Yu Chuan Jack Li

Dean of College of Medical Science and Technology TMU

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Yu-Chin Hsu

Deputy Minister

Yu-Chin Hsu Deputy Minister Deputy Minister, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan 364

Yuma Saito

Founder & General Director of Deloitte Tohmatsu Venture Support

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Yuma Saito

Founder & General Director of Deloitte Tohmatsu Venture Support

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YUMA SAITO

President & CEO / Certified Accountant

YUMA SAITO President & CEO / Certified Accountant Graduated from the Economics Department of Keio University. Passed the Certified Public Accountant and joined Deloitte Tohmatsu Ltd. in 2006.

Since 2010, Yuma Saito has been involved in launching Tohmatsu Venture Support Co., Ltd. (currently known as Deloitte Tohmatsu Venture Support Co., Ltd.).

In 2019, he was appointed as the Managing Director of Deloitte Tohmatsu Venture Support Co., Ltd., and he is also a Japanese Certified Public Accountant.

He is engaged in helping large corporations all over the world launch new businesses, as well as designing startup policies. He was the founder of "Morning Pitch", an early morning event where entrepreneurs give presentations to 100 large corporations. His main publication is "How to Find a Job Worth Betting Your Life On" (Diamond Publications). He has also appeared in various media such as newspapers, magazines, TV programs, and online media. He was chosen as one of Nikkei Business's "100 People Who Will Create the Next Generation" in 2017. 396

Yung-Pin Cheng

Associate Professor

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Yvie Tai

Staff Manager, Business Development at Qualcomm & Program Manager of QITC

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Since joining Qualcomm in 2007, she has held various roles including as software lead in the Customer Engineering department and senior manager in the Product Marketing department of Qualcomm CDMA Technology (QCT) where she led the adjacent market business development in Taiwan and drove design wins and products launch.

Yvie holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from National Tsing-Hua University and National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan. 375

Yvie Tai

Director, Business Development & Program Manager of Qualcomm Innovate in Taiwan Challenge (QITC)

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After joining Qualcomm in 2007, Yvie has held various roles including as software lead in the Customer Engineering department and senior manager in the Product Marketing department of Qualcomm CDMA Technology (QCT) where she led the adjacent market business development in Taiwan and drove design wins and products launch.

Yvie holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from National Tsing-Hua University and National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan. 405

Yvonne Chen

Founder

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- Successfully closed more than 20 early-stage deals amounting to over USD 40M and managed Alibaba Taiwan Entrepreneurship Fund II (USD 100M) as a partner at WI Harper
- Headed the leading smartphone maker HTC's direct investment division prior to WI Harper
- Completed USD 435M strategic investments in England, France and US
- Managed investment portfolio valued at over USD 500M
- Executed HTC's limited partner commitments in VC/PE funds of over USD 120M

Ceres Capital founded in 2018 by Yvonne Chen and Bonnie Hsiao, is a financial advisory and investment representative firm to reshape the value and engagement of investments in 5G/6G, AI Health, AI manufacturing, Fintech and new material/alternative energy. 371

Anis Uzzaman

CEO & General Partner of Fenox Venture Capital, USA

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Urvi Bhandari

CEO/Co-Founder of Seer& Managing Director, Radical Roamer

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Urvi Bhandari

CEO/Co-Founder of Seer& Managing Director, Radical Roamer

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Hanno Brenner

Procurement of Innovation Management and Strategic, Audi

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Hanno Brenner

Procurement of Innovation Management and Strategic, Audi

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Jerry Yang

General Partner of the Hardware Club

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Eric Chang

Senior Director of Technology Strategy at Microsoft Research Asia

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Eric Chang

Senior Director of Technology Strategy at Microsoft Research Asia

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Justin Hendrix

Executive Director of NYC Media Lab

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Raymond Pao

Vice President of VR New Technology Division of HTC

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Roger Chen

Vice President of Content Strategy Group, Samsung Electronics Greater China Head Quarter

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Roger Chen

Vice President of Content Strategy Group, Samsung Electronics Greater China Head Quarter

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Celia Yu

Senior Marketing Director of Samsung Electronics Taiwan

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Yurong Chen

Sr. Research Director of Cognitive Computing Lab, Intel Labs China

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Yurong Chen

Sr. Research Director of Cognitive Computing Lab, Intel Labs China

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Kent Larson

Director of the MIT Media Lab City Science Initiative

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Laurent Le Guyader

Innovation Expert of French Office/MOST

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Hans Tung

Managing Partner of GGV Capital

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Holly Harrington

General Manager of Taiwan Startup Stadium

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Holly Harrington

General Manager of Taiwan Startup Stadium

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Volker Heisterman

Managing Director of Yushan Venture

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Volker Heisterman

Managing Director of Yushan Venture

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LZ Wang

Managing Director of AMD Taiwan

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Peter Hsieh

General Manager of ARM Taiwan

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Peter Hsieh

General Manager of ARM Taiwan

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Patryk Kadlec

Head of Business Development of G2A.COM Sp. z o.o. (Ltd.)

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Peter Hsieh

PhD General Partner Acorn Pacific Ventures

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Peter Hsieh

PhD General Partner Acorn Pacific Ventures

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Joel Boulay

Business Development Manager of ROBOSOFT

Joel Boulay Business Development Manager of ROBOSOFT Engineer SUPELEC Paris in 1995 and holds a Masters in Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Automation at the University of Bordeaux in 1993. His main expertise lies firstly in the design of critical systems for automotive (PEUGEOT SPORT) and aerospace (THALES, ESA) industries and secondly in the definition of real time software architectures hard with very high availability. He acts as international project manager for Capgemini during nearly 15 years on some of the major European Program like EGNOS and GALILEO. He joined ROBOSOFT in 2015 to participate in the definition of the new range of company products and drive the launch of associated projects (Citymobile 2 driverless shuttle bus). He is in charge today of all business development related to autonomous vehicle dedicated to goods transportation. 3

Steve Hsu

Founder of TXA Private Board of Directors

Steve Hsu Founder of TXA Private Board of Directors http://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-hsu-1081a43a/ http://www.facebook.com/stevechhsu Mr. Hsu is the Chairman of Innovation Research Institute. The TXA Private Board of Directors he found is the largest Advisory Board organization in Taiwan and South East Asia region with records of over 100 board meetings in Taipei, Beijing, Hochiminh City, Okinawa, Shenzhen, New York, Paris, Melbourne and Bangkok. Mr. Hsu has nurtured over 500 startups with over 20 listed in Taiwan Stock Market. He has been certified to be the official investment partner by France government’s La French Tech program. Mr. Hsu has over 20 years of experience on business consultant, new business development, venture investment, startup incubation and has been the judge and mentor of international startup contests in many different regions. 78

Steve Hsu

Founder of TXA Private Board of Directors

Steve Hsu Founder of TXA Private Board of Directors http://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-hsu-1081a43a/ http://www.facebook.com/stevechhsu Mr. Hsu is the Chairman of Innovation Research Institute. The TXA Private Board of Directors he found is the largest Advisory Board organization in Taiwan and South East Asia region with records of over 100 board meetings in Taipei, Beijing, Hochiminh City, Okinawa, Shenzhen, New York, Paris, Melbourne and Bangkok. Mr. Hsu has nurtured over 500 startups with over 20 listed in Taiwan Stock Market. He has been certified to be the official investment partner by France government’s La French Tech program. Mr. Hsu has over 20 years of experience on business consultant, new business development, venture investment, startup incubation and has been the judge and mentor of international startup contests in many different regions. 128

John Eggert

Senior Sales & Marketing Manager of Velodyne LiDAR

John Eggert Senior Sales & Marketing Manager of Velodyne LiDAR John Eggert has more than 20 years of international experience in program management and sales and marketing management of products for the automotive industry, including automotive interiors and passive safety components and systems. His interest in the trends and technologies that will upend the automotive industry in coming years led him to Velodyne LiDAR in 2015. As Velodyne's Automotive business lead, Manager, John has had the unique opportunity to discuss and witness first-hand the perception strategies of many traditional and new automotive OEM in the quest to achieve high-level ADAS functions and autonomy. 5

Sansanee Huabsomboon

Director of Technology Business Incubation Center, NSTDA

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Sansanee Huabsomboon

Director of Technology Business Incubation Center, NSTDA

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Ta Han Lin

Co-founder & CEO of Backer Founder

Ta Han Lin Co-founder & CEO of Backer Founder Involved in crowdfunding matters since 2011, participating in up to 400 crowdfunding projects, across the areas of technology, design, social, film & video, and citizens. Founded Taiwanese crowdfunding consulting agency “Backer-Founder” in October, 2014, providing comprehensive services of advisory, production, and marketing for international crowdfunding projects, raising over $15 million. Current team consists of 60 employees and interns. Since its establishment, the agency has been a visible partner, on European, US and Taiwanese crowdfunding platforms, of successful projects including: Jingshuan Half Sugar Fonts, Polar Ice Tray, Wansei Back Home, Yocam , Mooncup, Luna, Piconizer, Flux 3DP, Taiwan Bar, ARRC, ODiN, etc. 8

Winston Hsu

Professor of National Taiwan University & Visiting Scientist at IBM Watson Research

Winston Hsu Professor of National Taiwan University & Visiting Scientist at IBM Watson Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonhsu/ Prof. Winston Hsu (徐宏民) is an active researcher dedicated to large-scale image/video retrieval/mining, visual recognition, and machine intelligence. He is keen to realizing advanced researches towards business deliverables via academia-industry collaborations. He is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University. He founded MiRA (Multimedia indexing, Retrieval, and Analysis) research group and co-leads Communication and Multimedia Lab (CMLab). Working closely with the industry, he was a Visiting Scientist at Microsoft Research Redmond (2014) and is now in his sabbatical leave (2016-2017) at IBM TJ Watson Research Center, New York, to enhance Watson's visual cognition, where he contributed the first AI produced movie trailer. He is the Director and PI for NVIDIA AI Lab (NTU), the 1st in Asia. Having investigated deep neural networks for numerous image/video challenges, recently, he is also helping companies set up the AI/deep learning teams for advanced products. He received Ph.D. (2007) from Columbia University, New York, under the supervision of Prof. Shih-Fu Chang. Before that, he was a founding engineer and research manager in CyberLink Corp, now a public image/video software company. He serves as the Associate Editors for IEEE Multimedia Magazine and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, two premier journals. He is proud to be a marathoner, a triathlete, and a father of three.In his internationally competitive research group, he is always looking forward to working closely, as a partner, with enthusiastic and motivated team members for the exciting projects. Feel free to contact for further opportunities as postdocs, research assistants, and (PhD, master, undergraduate) students. 80

Winston Hsu

Professor of National Taiwan University & Visiting Scientist at IBM Watson Research

Winston Hsu Professor of National Taiwan University & Visiting Scientist at IBM Watson Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonhsu/ Prof. Winston Hsu (徐宏民) is an active researcher dedicated to large-scale image/video retrieval/mining, visual recognition, and machine intelligence. He is keen to realizing advanced researches towards business deliverables via academia-industry collaborations. He is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University. He founded MiRA (Multimedia indexing, Retrieval, and Analysis) research group and co-leads Communication and Multimedia Lab (CMLab). Working closely with the industry, he was a Visiting Scientist at Microsoft Research Redmond (2014) and is now in his sabbatical leave (2016-2017) at IBM TJ Watson Research Center, New York, to enhance Watson's visual cognition, where he contributed the first AI produced movie trailer. He is the Director and PI for NVIDIA AI Lab (NTU), the 1st in Asia. Having investigated deep neural networks for numerous image/video challenges, recently, he is also helping companies set up the AI/deep learning teams for advanced products. He received Ph.D. (2007) from Columbia University, New York, under the supervision of Prof. Shih-Fu Chang. Before that, he was a founding engineer and research manager in CyberLink Corp, now a public image/video software company. He serves as the Associate Editors for IEEE Multimedia Magazine and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, two premier journals. He is proud to be a marathoner, a triathlete, and a father of three.In his internationally competitive research group, he is always looking forward to working closely, as a partner, with enthusiastic and motivated team members for the exciting projects. Feel free to contact for further opportunities as postdocs, research assistants, and (PhD, master, undergraduate) students. 130

An Ting Liu

Chair of Board of Teach For Taiwan

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Ching-Yao Huang

Director of Center of Industry Accelerator and Patent Strategy, National Chiao Tung University

Ching-Yao Huang Director of Center of Industry Accelerator and Patent Strategy, National Chiao Tung University http://www.linkedin.com/in/hank-huang-36b0ba9a/ After Ching-Yao, Huang graduated from Physics Department of National Taiwan University, He proceed his Master at New Jersey Institute of Technology of EE, and His Ph. D. at Rutgers University. Nowadays, His role is as Deputy Dean of ECE of National Chiao Tung University and also Director of it’s Tainan campus and Director of Center of Industry Accelerator and Patent Strategy. 87

Jim Yu

Co-founder & CTO of Flux

Jim Yu Co-founder & CTO of Flux http://fb.com/jimyu15 Jim Yu is the CTO at FLUX. While majoring in mechanical engineering at National Taiwan University, Jim became a DIY hardware enthusiast and built his first 3D printer in 2014. After experimenting with a series of prototypes, he co-founded FLUX with some great partners and took charge of hardware design and manufacturing. Now—a year after the Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign—FLUX has shipped more than 2000 units worldwide. With this first product under his belt, Jim remains dedicated to building the best digital creating device. 18

Stanley Huang

CEO of Taiwan Rapid Innovation Prototyping League for Entrepreneurs(TRIPLE)

Stanley Huang CEO of Taiwan Rapid Innovation Prototyping League for Entrepreneurs(TRIPLE) http://www.linkedin.com/in/stanley-h-huang-2a5949ab/ Dr.Huang is the Deputy General Director in the Commercialization and Industry Service Center (CIS) / Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and the CEO of TRIPLE (Taiwan Rapid Innovation Prototyping League for Entrepreneurs). Dr. Huang received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from National Chiao Tung University in 1997. He spent more than 20 years in the areas of advanced electronic packaging, MEMS, flexible electronic and emotional design. 97

Kuldar Väärsi

CEO and co-founder of Milrem (Chairman of the Board of Defence Industry Association)

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Tadaaki Kimura

CEO of addlight Inc.

Tadaaki Kimura CEO of addlight Inc. http://www.linkedin.com/in/tadaakikimura/ After graduating from graduate school of Tokyo University, started to work for Deloitte and engaged in various areas such as IPO consulting service. In 2008, founded addlight Inc. and providing Business consulting for big enterprises and incubation service for startups inside/outside Japan. Also on the board as director of some tech start-ups and have involved four of them to be listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange market. 95

Apu Kumar

Co-founder & CEO of LotaData, Inc.

Apu Kumar Co-founder & CEO of LotaData, Inc. http://www.linkedin.com/in/apukumar/ Apu, an acronym for "Accelerated Processing Unit", has extensive technology experience in mobile location intelligence, predictive analytics, machine learning, data science and cloud services. Apu is also the CEO & Founder of LotaData, a company famous for introducing the world’s first "People Intelligence" AI platform for translating geo-location signals into actionable insights and behavioral segments, at massive scale. LotaData’s AI can tell you “where your mobile users are, what is on their minds, and what they might do next”. LotaData’s customers include mobile operators, ad exchanges, programmatic marketing companies, connected car OEMs, smart cities and local governments. Prior to LotaData, Apu has held senior leadership roles at technology brands like BlueStacks, Hewlett Packard, Phoenix (acquired by HP), CNET.com and mySimon (acquired by CNET). 100

Jeffrey Liu

Member of the IBM Academy of Technology and IBM Master Inventor

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Jeffrey Liu

Member of the IBM Academy of Technology and IBM Master Inventor

Jeffrey Liu Member of the IBM Academy of Technology and IBM Master Inventor http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreychliu/ Jeffrey is a senior developer and architect from IBM with rich experience in Watson and robot solutions. He has 10 years experience building high performance enterprise appliances and leading incubation projects, from inception to production. He is a member of IBM Academic of Technology, a IBM Master Inventor with 30+ filed US patents, and a Bluemix Evangelist. As a robot enthusiast, he maintains an open source project called Humix that provides a framework for cloud-brained robot of any kind. He runs when he is not in front of his editor. 160

Martin Ting

Founder and GM of Seven Star Lake Consultancy

Martin Ting Founder and GM of Seven Star Lake Consultancy Martin Ting is the founder and GM of rugged computer brand PERFECTRON and Seven Star Lake Consultancy. Originator of Unmanned Technology Platform Association. Mr. Ting is specialized in integration of 3D Lidar, visual SLAM and unmanned technology; also the area of industry 4.0 robot and C4ISR. The rich program experiences including Navya's level 4 driverless shuttle vehicle project and AGV (automated guided vehicle) project with Robosoft. 7

Benjamin Wang

Vice President of StackRack

Benjamin Wang Vice President of StackRack Benjamin Wang has rich management expertise both on business development and product/solution building from segments of embedded to defense. As Vice President of top military and transportation computers manufacturer StackRack, he overseeing international sales, key accounts development while also has the power to refine creativity, ultra demand, advanced technology, esthetics into satisfying solution that impresses markets every time. 4

Bin Luo

CEO in Residence of Microsoft Accelerator Beijing

Bin Luo CEO in Residence of Microsoft Accelerator Beijing Bin LUO joined in Microsoft Accelerator in China as CEO in Residence in Feb. 2016. Bin was from Canonical Asia based in Taipei, who promoted Open Sourced Ubuntu Operation System to world top OEMs, ODMs and IPC companies with their Cloud, Client and IOT products. Before Canonical, Bin had been with Intel for 13 years in vary management positions and the last 8 years was taking care of Intel Capital Biz Development program in Asia. Bin used to be on loan from Intel to RosettaNet (a self-funded global consortium of companies creating and implementation industry wide e-biz standards) as China Director. Prior to Intel, Bin managed major account biz, government program, anti-piracy campaign and Year 2000 program at Novell China. He also served in China Hewlett Packard as channel sales manager and product marketing manager in early 90s. 69

Bin Luo

CEO in Residence of Microsoft Accelerator Beijing

Bin Luo CEO in Residence of Microsoft Accelerator Beijing Bin LUO joined in Microsoft Accelerator in China as CEO in Residence in Feb. 2016. Bin was from Canonical Asia based in Taipei, who promoted Open Sourced Ubuntu Operation System to world top OEMs, ODMs and IPC companies with their Cloud, Client and IOT products. Before Canonical, Bin had been with Intel for 13 years in vary management positions and the last 8 years was taking care of Intel Capital Biz Development program in Asia. Bin used to be on loan from Intel to RosettaNet (a self-funded global consortium of companies creating and implementation industry wide e-biz standards) as China Director. Prior to Intel, Bin managed major account biz, government program, anti-piracy campaign and Year 2000 program at Novell China. He also served in China Hewlett Packard as channel sales manager and product marketing manager in early 90s. 121

Koichi Matono

Director of Startup Policy, Fukuoka City Government

Koichi Matono Director of Startup Policy, Fukuoka City Government http://www.linkedin.com/in/koichi-matono-b310b010/?locale=de_DE http://www.facebook.com/kouichi.matono After becoming a Fukuoka City government agent, recently in charge of growth strategy planning, exclusive regulatory and system reforms, then after implementing Startup Policy. 113

Zane Moi

Head of Business Development-HKT, Amazon

Zane Moi Head of Business Development-HKT, Amazon http://www.linkedin.com/in/zanemoi/ Zane leads AWS’ business development organization for Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, which includes responsibilities around local business development, systems integrator and technology ecosystem partnerships. Prior to AWS, Zane founded a Big Data Analytics and Visualization startup called TreeCrunch and also spent over a decade at smartphone maker BlackBerry where he held leadership positions in Canada, Australia and Hong Kong, most recently as their Regional Director for Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea. He has a BA (Hons) in Economics from Wilfrid Laurier University and an MBA (Distinction) from the University of Hong Kong. 109

Zane Moi

Head of Business Development-HKT, Amazon

Zane Moi Head of Business Development-HKT, Amazon http://www.linkedin.com/in/zanemoi/ Zane leads AWS’ business development organization for Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, which includes responsibilities around local business development, systems integrator and technology ecosystem partnerships. Prior to AWS, Zane founded a Big Data Analytics and Visualization startup called TreeCrunch and also spent over a decade at smartphone maker BlackBerry where he held leadership positions in Canada, Australia and Hong Kong, most recently as their Regional Director for Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea. He has a BA (Hons) in Economics from Wilfrid Laurier University and an MBA (Distinction) from the University of Hong Kong. 154

Andy Lee

Business Development Director of Cisco

Andy Lee Business Development Director of Cisco Andy Lee has 17 years career in Telecommunications and IP technology in variety corporates all over the world. Now he acts as Business Development for IOE/IOT in Cisco. 13

Kelvin Ong

CEO of Focustech Ventures

Kelvin Ong CEO of Focustech Ventures http://www.linkedin.com/in/ongkelvin/ With over 15 years of experience in precision engineering and technology, Kelvin is the Executive Director of Focus-Tech Holding, formerly the holding company of the Seksun Group, world’s leading hard disk drive component maker. He was instrumental in driving the company’s strategic investment and business development efforts in Singapore, US, China, Thailand and Malaysia that culminated in its S$295 million exit. He is also the founder and CEO of FocusTech Ventures, a seed stage investment firm and approved technology incubator under the NRF-IDMPO’s iJAM Reload Scheme, primarily focusing on opportunities around enterprise web, mobile and hardware/internet of things. As an entrepreneur and active angel investor, Kelvin currently serves on the board of several technology startups and traditional businesses. Passionate about hardware, Kelvin went on to co-found OneMakers Group that aims to develop the regional maker ecosystem. Kelvin holds a BA degree from the National University of Singapore and an MBA in Finance and Strategy from the Nanyang Business School. 110

Christophe Pennetier

Partner of Schoolab

Christophe Pennetier Partner of Schoolab http://www.linkedin.com/in/christophepennetier/ Christophe is a PhD candidate in Technology and Operations Management at INSEAD Singapore, he is a researcher, a teacher, a strategic advisor, and an entrepreneur. He conducts research on the dynamics of innovation, in particular on identifying the effects of very specific moments in the life of companies: transitions. His personal mission is to THINK deeply, MAKE things happen, and INSPIRE others. 94

Christophe Pennetier

Partner of Schoolab

Christophe Pennetier Partner of Schoolab http://www.linkedin.com/in/christophepennetier/ Christophe is a PhD candidate in Technology and Operations Management at INSEAD Singapore, he is a researcher, a teacher, a strategic advisor, and an entrepreneur. He conducts research on the dynamics of innovation, in particular on identifying the effects of very specific moments in the life of companies: transitions. His personal mission is to THINK deeply, MAKE things happen, and INSPIRE others. 141

Mitsuo Hashiba

General Manager of DMM.make AKIBA

Mitsuo Hashiba General Manager of DMM.make AKIBA Born in 1976. Experienced an engineer and director in IT/Web industry, and started the career in DMM.com Labo in 2011. As a vice president of the business unit of online video contents delivery, launched many kind of new business. Engages in DMM.make AKIBA as a general manager from 2015 to present. Progress activating the platform of making things in the future. 14

Aymerik Renard

Director of Western Digital Capital

Aymerik Renard Director of Western Digital Capital http://www.linkedin.com/in/aymerik/ Aymerik Renard leads Western Digital Corporation’s start-up investment activities in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Aymerik has over 22 years of business development and venture capital experience, investing in start-ups involved in consumer, enterprise, and carrier technologies spanning hardware, software, and services. Aymerik has had exits via Nasdaq and NYSE IPOs as well as acquisitions by Cisco, Yahoo, Microsoft, Sun, Oracle, IBM, Ericsson, and SAP, among others. Aymerik is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University. 102

Aymerik Renard

Director of Western Digital Capital

Aymerik Renard Director of Western Digital Capital http://www.linkedin.com/in/aymerik/ Aymerik Renard leads Western Digital Corporation’s start-up investment activities in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Aymerik has over 22 years of business development and venture capital experience, investing in start-ups involved in consumer, enterprise, and carrier technologies spanning hardware, software, and services. Aymerik has had exits via Nasdaq and NYSE IPOs as well as acquisitions by Cisco, Yahoo, Microsoft, Sun, Oracle, IBM, Ericsson, and SAP, among others. Aymerik is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University. 148

Stephen Su

General Director of Industrial Economics and Knowledge, Industrial Technology Research Institute

Stephen Su General Director of Industrial Economics and Knowledge, Industrial Technology Research Institute http://www.linkedin.com/in/stephengioia/ Stephen Su expertise in strategy, operations Improvement, organization change management, business process redesign, new product development and marketing, investment due diligence, manufacturing management. 82

Tom Strodtbeck

CEO of Strodtbeck & Company Limited

Tom Strodtbeck CEO of Strodtbeck & Company Limited http://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-strodtbeck/ Tom Strodtbeck is CEO of Strodtbeck & Company Limited, a UK-based innovation and entrepreneurship consultancy. Over the past decade, Mr. Strodtbeck has partnered with governments in North Amerrica, Europe and Asia on entrepreneurial growth programmes. In addition, Mr. Strodtbeck has provided provided strategic support to large, international networks including the International Business Innovation Association and the Gloal Accelerator Network. 91

Tom Strodtbeck

CEO of Strodtbeck & Company Limited

Tom Strodtbeck CEO of Strodtbeck & Company Limited http://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-strodtbeck/ Tom Strodtbeck is CEO of Strodtbeck & Company Limited, a UK-based innovation and entrepreneurship consultancy. Over the past decade, Mr. Strodtbeck has partnered with governments in North Amerrica, Europe and Asia on entrepreneurial growth programmes. In addition, Mr. Strodtbeck has provided provided strategic support to large, international networks including the International Business Innovation Association and the Gloal Accelerator Network. 138

Vincent Shih

Global Assistant General Counsel and GM of Corporate, External and Legal Affairs Microsoft Taiwan

Vincent Shih Global Assistant General Counsel and GM of Corporate, External and Legal Affairs Microsoft Taiwan http://www.linkedin.com/in/vishih/ Vincent is responsible for leading the Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs (CELA) group in providing full scale support on IT industry policy engagement, corporate social responsibility, and serving as the main contact on government relationship and industry associations for Microsoft Taiwan and Microsoft GCR Regional Sales Group. He also leads the team providing full range of legal support on commercial and licensing transactions, IPR and cybersecurity strategy, as well as litigation and Fair Trade Law related issues. Vincent also serves as the key member of Microsoft Taiwan Corporate Governance Committee to fulfil the vision of Corporate Governance, CSR and Citizenship. In addition to supporting Greater China Region projects, Vincent has also been selected to join Microsoft GEO-Rotation program and worked in Microsoft Intellectual Property Group based in Seattle headquarter to further obtain hands-on experience on global IPR management and strategy. 116

Vincent Shih

Global Assistant General Counsel and GM of Corporate, External and Legal Affairs Microsoft Taiwan

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Yen Chi Ho

Audience Evangelism Manager of Developer Experience and Evangelism Microsoft

Yen Chi Ho Audience Evangelism Manager of Developer Experience and Evangelism Microsoft https://www.facebook.com/yenchi.ho Michael is Audience Evangelism Manager of Microsoft, having professional Human Computer Interaction development experiences in Reno, US, London, UK, Fukuoka, Japan, Tainan and Taipei, Taiwan. 15

Arthur Shay

General Counsel of Asia Silicon Valley Development Agency

Arthur Shay General Counsel of Asia Silicon Valley Development Agency Mr. Shay specializes in E-commerce and Internet, Intellectual Property Rights, Mergers & Acquisitions, Telecommunications, Media and Information Technology. Mr. Shay's practice focuses on high tech industry transactions with an emphasis on international intellectual property rights and regulatory issues arising under the various communications laws. His Intellectual Property practice includes cross border investments involving technology transfer and licensing, joint ventures, anti-counterfeiting programs (including criminal prosecutions, law reform, and regulation advise), litigation and enforcement matters, as well as E-commerce and on-line trading issues. He handles on an ongoing basis complex regulatory issues involving communications laws and regulations such as impact in-bound media and telecommunication infrastructure investments. He is also active in legal advisory work including strategic planning, contract negotiation and dispute resolution. Among other things, his experience with leading international companies includes advising multinational telecom companies on corporate and regulatory issues in Taiwan including consortium building and bidding on GSM /PCS , liberalization regarding international submarine cable landing station, VOIP , and cellular phones and a full range of transactions including digital satellite TV, multiple cable system operators, internet data centers, internet Portals, ASP , ICP in Taiwan involving start-up planning, private placements, Mergers and Acquisitions, contract negotiation and litigation. 112

KiKi Wang

Manager of Acceleration Programme

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Ryuta Takeda

Director of Global Bridge Laboratory, Leave a Nest

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Richard Tan

Chief Executive of InnoSpace

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Andrew Tan

Managing Partner of TinkBig Venture

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Hsien Hui Tong

Director of Infocomm

Hsien Hui Tong Director of Infocomm Tong Hsien-Hui graduated in 1998 from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, joining Mobil Oil. Together with a partner, he co-founded a data mining company in early 2002 which he sold in 2004 to a global bank. He has served as the CEO of the National University of Singapore Society as well as the Vice President, Asia for Staples Inc. Prior to joining Infocomm Investments Pte Ltd (IIPL), he was the Managing Partner, Asia Pacific for Wassax Ventures, focusing on startups in the Artificial Intelligence, Virtual/Augmented Reality, Internet-of-Things and Biotech sectors. As Director of Investments at IIPL, he is responsible for all direct investments, from seed funding, Series A, to Pre-IPO. 19

Richard Tan

Chief Executive of Innospace

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Anis Uzzaman

CEO, General Partner of Fenox Venture Capital

Anis Uzzaman CEO, General Partner of Fenox Venture Capital http://www.linkedin.com/in/anisuzzaman/ Anis Uzzaman, Ph.D is the General Partner and founding member of Fenox Venture Capital. He serves as the Chief Executive of the company, overlooking overall management and operations. As a leader of the IBM and Cadence Management Teams, Anis led numerous strategic investments in the software development, microelectronics, and e-commerce space. A serial entrepreneur in the retail and technological sectors, Anis provides mentorship in fundraising, operations, and exit strategy to entrepreneurs. Anis has invested in over 60 startups in the United States, Japan, and South East Asia. He holds a B.Eng. degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan, an M.S. in Engineering from Oklahoma State University, and a Ph.D in Computer Engineering from Tokyo Metropolitan University in Tokyo, Japan. Anis is an honored guest speaker in international conferences, workshops and seminars, has published more than 30 technical papers, and is the author of the“Startup Bible”. 73

Anis Uzzaman

CEO, General Partner of Fenox Venture Capital

Anis Uzzaman CEO, General Partner of Fenox Venture Capital http://www.linkedin.com/in/anisuzzaman/ Anis Uzzaman, Ph.D is the General Partner and founding member of Fenox Venture Capital. He serves as the Chief Executive of the company, overlooking overall management and operations. As a leader of the IBM and Cadence Management Teams, Anis led numerous strategic investments in the software development, microelectronics, and e-commerce space. A serial entrepreneur in the retail and technological sectors, Anis provides mentorship in fundraising, operations, and exit strategy to entrepreneurs. Anis has invested in over 60 startups in the United States, Japan, and South East Asia. He holds a B.Eng. degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan, an M.S. in Engineering from Oklahoma State University, and a Ph.D in Computer Engineering from Tokyo Metropolitan University in Tokyo, Japan. Anis is an honored guest speaker in international conferences, workshops and seminars, has published more than 30 technical papers, and is the author of the“Startup Bible”. 124

Christopher Beck

CTO and Co-founder of Reach Robotics

Christopher Beck CTO and Co-founder of Reach Robotics https://uk.linkedin.com/in/chrisjbeckuk Christopher Beck has the masters degree from the University of Reading in Robotics. While at the University of Bristol studying for a Ph.D in Computer Vision Christopher Beck met Silas and with the other Co-founders started Reach Robotics. Christopher Beck is in charge of all technical development at Reach Robotics. 29

Robert Wang

President of Digital Intelligence Service Alliance

Robert Wang President of Digital Intelligence Service Alliance http://www.facebook.com/robert.wang.taiwan Mr. Wang possesses extensive board level experience as board member and independent director of public listed companies. He too has rich international sales, marketing and operational experience of Multi-National Companies as executive at Intel in Asia Pacific region and ADI Corp. in Europe. He was previously the General Manager of BYOC (Build-Your-Own-Cloud) BU at Acer, the strategic transformation org for the corporate, focusing on global Cloud Computing, IoT, and Big Data integrated solution and services building with ecosystem partners. While working for Intel earlier, he managed to grow record 10X (~US$2.5B) revenue for Intel with Acer that as well made Acer the global top three PC brand. Mr. Wang also holds several industry community and NPO roles. He was nominated and has been working as policy advisor to the government at both cabinet and ministry level, chief consultant of TCA (Taipei Computer Association -- Computex host) heavily playing president or leadership roles in Smart City and Industry 4.0 alliance and activities, serving in different review boards for government grants, investment and representing Taiwan as Execution Committee Member in the Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) which has participation from 20 member economies around the region. 119

Robert Wang

President of Digital Intelligence Service Alliance

Robert Wang President of Digital Intelligence Service Alliance http://www.facebook.com/robert.wang.taiwan Mr. Wang possesses extensive board level experience as board member and independent director of public listed companies. He too has rich international sales, marketing and operational experience of Multi-National Companies as executive at Intel in Asia Pacific region and ADI Corp. in Europe. He was previously the General Manager of BYOC (Build-Your-Own-Cloud) BU at Acer, the strategic transformation org for the corporate, focusing on global Cloud Computing, IoT, and Big Data integrated solution and services building with ecosystem partners. While working for Intel earlier, he managed to grow record 10X (~US$2.5B) revenue for Intel with Acer that as well made Acer the global top three PC brand. Mr. Wang also holds several industry community and NPO roles. He was nominated and has been working as policy advisor to the government at both cabinet and ministry level, chief consultant of TCA (Taipei Computer Association -- Computex host) heavily playing president or leadership roles in Smart City and Industry 4.0 alliance and activities, serving in different review boards for government grants, investment and representing Taiwan as Execution Committee Member in the Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) which has participation from 20 member economies around the region. 162

Serena Pau

CEO and Founder of Groking Lab

Serena Pau CEO and Founder of Groking Lab http://www.linkedin.com/in/serena-pau-a42768/ http://www.facebook.com/serena.pau?ref=br_rs http://twitter.com/sillysala Serena Pau founded Groking Lab in Sep 2014 to harness her great passion in designing products that truly improve the way people live. She believes that making small changes in people’s lives creates large impact. Ozmo is the first project launched by Groking Lab. Its mission is to inspire busy individuals to be aware of how important it is to their health and well-being to stay hydrated. Before Groking Lab, Serena managed an industrial design studio in Hong Kong as part of the family business where she was Deputy Director in Product Marketing Department. Her passion in making great products that truly resonate in the market has led her team in winning an IF Design award and managing multiple product launches in the US market. 30

David Weng

CFO of Asia Silicon Valley Development Agency

David Weng CFO of Asia Silicon Valley Development Agency David Weng is an angel investor with a track record of bringing start-up companies to successful IPOs, mergers and acquisitions. He has invested in about 80 early stage high technology companies. Some of the more notable successes include the Netscreen Technologies IPO and its acquisition by Juniper Networks for US$4 billions in 2004, and Protego Networks’ acquisition by Cisco Systems. Prior to his investment projects, David served as Software Engineering Director at Cisco Systems and at Hewlett-Packard before that. Mr. Weng has over 20 years of experience in software engineering and Internet Technologies. He is President of the Silicon Valley Taiwan Angels Group and on the board of the San Jose State University Tower Foundation as David received his M.S. in Computer Science Engineering from San Jose State University in 1983. Asia Silicon Valley Development initiative, which aims to make Taiwan a hub for internet-based innovation and entrepreneurship in Asia, is a major component of Taiwan's economic reform agenda. Mr. Weng is one of the architects of Asia Silicon Valley Development Initiative and serves as the Chief Investment Officer. 104

David Weng

CFO of Asia Silicon Valley Development Agency

David Weng CFO of Asia Silicon Valley Development Agency David Weng is an angel investor with a track record of bringing start-up companies to successful IPOs, mergers and acquisitions. He has invested in about 80 early stage high technology companies. Some of the more notable successes include the Netscreen Technologies IPO and its acquisition by Juniper Networks for US$4 billions in 2004, and Protego Networks’ acquisition by Cisco Systems. Prior to his investment projects, David served as Software Engineering Director at Cisco Systems and at Hewlett-Packard before that. Mr. Weng has over 20 years of experience in software engineering and Internet Technologies. He is President of the Silicon Valley Taiwan Angels Group and on the board of the San Jose State University Tower Foundation as David received his M.S. in Computer Science Engineering from San Jose State University in 1983. Asia Silicon Valley Development initiative, which aims to make Taiwan a hub for internet-based innovation and entrepreneurship in Asia, is a major component of Taiwan's economic reform agenda. Mr. Weng is one of the architects of Asia Silicon Valley Development Initiative and serves as the Chief Investment Officer. 150

Qing Wu

Senior Economist of Google

Qing Wu Senior Economist of Google http://www.linkedin.com/in/jhawktree/ Dr. Qing Wu joined Google in 2006 and worked on a wide range of analytic projects that include forecasting, impact of macro-economics, auction and bidding, price optimization, user and advertiser behaviour, causal inferences, etc. He collaborates with many teams across the company and provides insights and algorithmic supports for product, engineering, operations, sales and finance. He monitors Google query and revenue closely and coined up the original phrase "Google as the barometer of the world". In the past few years, he has been a frequent speaker in industry conferences on big data, uncovering economic and consumer insights from search trends and other topics. Prior to Google, he served as a lead scientist in supply and demand chain management for firms such as SAP, Manhattan Associates, and GAP. Qing Wu received a Ph.D. in Operations Research and Management from Stanford University. He also received a master of Applied Mathematics from University of Kansas. 81

Qing Wu

Senior Economist of Google

Qing Wu Senior Economist of Google http://www.linkedin.com/in/jhawktree/ Dr. Qing Wu joined Google in 2006 and worked on a wide range of analytic projects that include forecasting, impact of macro-economics, auction and bidding, price optimization, user and advertiser behaviour, causal inferences, etc. He collaborates with many teams across the company and provides insights and algorithmic supports for product, engineering, operations, sales and finance. He monitors Google query and revenue closely and coined up the original phrase "Google as the barometer of the world". In the past few years, he has been a frequent speaker in industry conferences on big data, uncovering economic and consumer insights from search trends and other topics. Prior to Google, he served as a lead scientist in supply and demand chain management for firms such as SAP, Manhattan Associates, and GAP. Qing Wu received a Ph.D. in Operations Research and Management from Stanford University. He also received a master of Applied Mathematics from University of Kansas. 131

Tony Lee

Industry Head of Ecommerce, Tech, Export, Google Taiwan

Tony Lee Industry Head of Ecommerce, Tech, Export, Google Taiwan Tony runs an two sales teams at Google which consists of top global brands & e-commerce platforms. Through the delivery consultative service & digital solutions, Tony help partners acquire better understanding of industry & consumers trends, and achieve partner's business goals. Tony comes with over 15 years of robust experience in the technology & telecom sector. Before joining Google, Tony held sales & marketing roles at semiconductor manufacturer Intel and internet startup Net2phone in US and APAC. Tony holds a bachelor degree in Industrial Management from Carnegie Mellon University. 55

Tsung-Ching Wu

CTO of Asia Silicon Valley Development Agency

Tsung-Ching Wu CTO of Asia Silicon Valley Development Agency T.C Wu is a Corporate Executive and Technical Professional in Semiconductor Industry for more than 35 years. He held a BSEE degree from the National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, a MSES degree from the State University of New York in Stony Brook, New York, USA and a Ph.D. degree in EE from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. After got his Ph.D. degree in March 1981, T.C. started his career in the Silicon Valley focusing on R&D in semiconductor devices and technologies. He first joined Philips Research Labs in Sunnyvale, California as a Technical Staff and later joined SEEQ Technology in San Jose, California as Technology Development Manager. In December 1984, T.C. and two other executives of SEEQ Technology started Atmel Corporation (listed in NESDAQ symbol ATML). He has been in Atmel for more than 31 years. 105

Jerry Yang

General Partner of Hardware Club

Jerry Yang General Partner of Hardware Club http://www.linkedin.com/in/jmyang1976/ Jerry is General Partner of the Hardware Club, a private community for global hardware entrepreneurs that has gathered 160 exciting hardware startups from 30 different countries, including Misfit Wearables, Thync, Prynt, Click & Grow, Reach Robotics, etc. The Hardware Club provides capital investments as well as manufacturing and retail resources to its member startups, for which it has partnered with prestigious EMS firms (Foxconn, Pegatron, Flex, Jabil, Quanta, Compal, etc) and retailers (Amazon, Best Buy, Brookstone, Target, Media Saturn, Citadium, etc). 72

Jerry Yang

General Partner of Hardware Club

Jerry Yang General Partner of Hardware Club http://www.linkedin.com/in/jmyang1976/ Jerry is General Partner of the Hardware Club, a private community for global hardware entrepreneurs that has gathered 160 exciting hardware startups from 30 different countries, including Misfit Wearables, Thync, Prynt, Click & Grow, Reach Robotics, etc. The Hardware Club provides capital investments as well as manufacturing and retail resources to its member startups, for which it has partnered with prestigious EMS firms (Foxconn, Pegatron, Flex, Jabil, Quanta, Compal, etc) and retailers (Amazon, Best Buy, Brookstone, Target, Media Saturn, Citadium, etc). 123

Lewis Chen

Deputy CEO of Taiwan Rapid Innovation Prototyping League for Entrepreneurs(TRIPLE)

Lewis Chen Deputy CEO of Taiwan Rapid Innovation Prototyping League for Entrepreneurs(TRIPLE) Dr. Chen has more than 20 years working experience in Taiwan and abroad. He successively worked for several well-known international enterprises such as being Board of Director of Lippo Group / PT. FIRST MEDIA Tbk, Regional Director of Green Packet Inc. Dr. Chen accumulated variety kinds of professional skills in sales and marketing, business models building, operation management and government service. In short, his previous career experience covers all over the world and he plowed every local markets indeed. 56

Ching Yao Huang

Director of NCTU Center of Industry Accelerator and Patent Strategy

Ching Yao Huang Director of NCTU Center of Industry Accelerator and Patent Strategy After Ching-Yao, Huang graduated from Physics Department of National Taiwan University, He proceed his Master at New Jersey Institute of Technology of EE, and His Ph. D. at Rutgers University. Nowadays, His role is as Deputy Dean of ECE of National Chiao Tung University and also Director of it’s Tainan campus and Director of Center of Industry Accelerator and Patent Strategy. 57

Karen Yu

Legislators of R.O.C.

Karen Yu Legislators of R.O.C. http://www.facebook.com/Yuwanju/ Yu wan-Ju(Karen) is a Taiwanese politician currently serving as a legislator. She was nominated by the DPP (Democratic Progressive Party) to be a candidate in the 2016 legislative election and was elected as a legislator-at-large-seat; Yu was assigned to the Finance Committee, and speak up for startups, young entrepreneurs and social enterprises in Taiwan. Yu is an outstanding model for young entrepreneurs because she started as a female social entrepreneur and then became a legislator. She founded her own business Okogreen, which is the first fairtrade company in 2008 and brought social impact to the society, which led her company, Okogreen won many prizes. In 2015, Yu started to run the first Social Enterprise Hub in Taiwan to further accelerate the growth of SEs. 107

Kevin Yu

Founder of Taiwan Accelerator

Kevin Yu Founder of Taiwan Accelerator http://www.facebook.com/accelerator.tw As a serial entrepreneur, Kevin began his first business at 23, and has raised a total of USD240 million for his own companies and other startups. He is the co-founder of MZ Group, helping more than 500 companies in 11 countries with public listing and investor relations management. Founded by Kevin in 2015, IRTC has already trained more than 300 CEOs / CFOs / IROs, assisting public companies in creating shareholder value and enhancing international competitiveness. 93

Rui Ma

The China partner of 500startups

Rui Ma The China partner of 500startups Rui Ma is a Partner at 500 Startups, a leading accelerator and seed investment fund in technology companies, where she is in charge of all investment activity in the Greater China region since 2013. Prior to 500, she worked for nearly a decade in private equity and mergers & acquisitions roles at the Raine Group, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch in both Silicon Valley and China. She is based in Beijing and has been living and working in China since 2007. Rui holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, a Masters in Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as well as an Executive MBA from INSEAD and Tsinghua University. She writes frequently about technology and is a regular contributor to Forbes.com, Techcrunch, TheNextWeb, and TechInAsia. 46

Robert Wang

General Manager of BYOC Business Unit Acer

Robert Wang General Manager of BYOC Business Unit Acer http://www.facebook.com/robert.wang.33483903?fref=ts Robert Wang was appointed general manager of the BYOC Business Unit at Acer in August 2014, focusing on global cloud computing, Internet of Things and big data integrated services. With two decades of industry experience, he has extensive executive and board-level experience at multi-national IT companies. He currently holds several other roles, such as executive committee member of APICTA (Asia Pacific ICT Alliance) nominated by Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs, and chief consultant of the Taipei Computer Association, involved in ICT industry advancement activities, policy making and international cooperation. Prior to joining Acer, he has served as director of the board for several publicly listed companies, director of the WiMAX Program Office of Intel Architecture Group, MNC sales director at Intel APAC, and general manager of ADI France. 41

Angel Garcia

Founding Partner of Startupbootcamp and Lanta Digital Ventures

Angel Garcia Founding Partner of Startupbootcamp and Lanta Digital Ventures Angel is an experienced executive, entrepreneur and investor. He has broad experience over more than 20 years acting in an international environments both in Asia and US building up startup projects. Angel is shareholder and has been executive at Fractus, a well-known growing European Technology start-up in the global telecom industry which implemented a patent licensing program having collected close to $ 100 million in royalties to this day from top worldwide cellphone manufacturers. Angel has attracted more than € 40 million from top venture capital firms in the startup projects he was involved. Angel holds an Economics and Business Administration Degree together with and Executive Program at Stanford University, US. 44

Lucas Wang

CEO of HWTrek

Lucas Wang CEO of HWTrek Lucas is the CEO of HWTrek, the largest global platform for hardware innovators and industry. HWTrek provides online planning and team collaboration tools, supply chain management services, and channels for global market expansion. Before HWTrek, Lucas founded TMI (Taiwan Mobile Innovation), which makes early stage investments and incubates promising entrepreneurs. More than 16 startups have been incubated through the support of TMI, ITRI, and WI Harper. Previously a partner in WI Harper, Lucas led the TMT team in Beijing and Taiwan, and co-invested in Kai-Fu Lee's new venture, Innovation Works. In addition, Lucas directed the project and market development of RFID products at MTI Technology, a well-recognized wireless communications manufacturer. 45

Eugene Kim

Principal of SparkLabs Global Ventures

Eugene Kim Principal of SparkLabs Global Ventures Eugene is currently a Partner at Sparklabs and manages the day –to-day operations of the Sparklabs accelerator program. Eugene previously served as a Director of Global Business Development at Tencent Korea. Prior to Tencent, Eugene was Director of Business Development and Marketing at Podotree, an online educational app developer in Korea. Previously, he was with Vertigo Games as the Group Manager of the Overseas Business Group. Eugene was a Manager and Group Head of the Quality Assurance and Localization Group for NHN USA. He previously served as Project Manager of the Publishing Group at NHN USA and Assistant Manager of Global Strategy & Marketing Development at NHN Corporation. He began his career at The Contents Company, an SK company, in business development and played a key role in launching Korea’s first pilot IP TV service with overseas partners. He ear 48

Peter Hsieh

General Partner of Acorn Pacific Ventures

Peter Hsieh General Partner of Acorn Pacific Ventures Dr. Peter Hsieh started his Venture Capital career about 20 years ago, he is a General Partner of Acorn Pacific Ventures. Mostly recently, Peter served as Chief Strategy Officer of Coretronic Corporation, President of Coretronic Venture Capital, and President of Optoma Corporation. Previously Peter was a partner with AsiaVest Partners in Beijing, and partner with Harbinger Ventures. He was founding team/cofounder of PanoCorp Display Systems and WebEver Inc. Before that, he worked for KLA Instruments in engineering and sales management. He also serves as board advisor to iSoftStone, a software technology consulting firm headquartered in Beijing, with close to 30,000 people worldwide. His previous investment exits include IPO’s of OmniVision, Oplink, Applied Optoelectronic Inc, and iSoftStone; as well as M&A’s of Ultima Interconnect, U-Systems, Lattice Power, and Leyou. Peter has a PhD in Ultrasound and Optics from Stanford, and a BS ME from National Taiwan University. 47

Aymerik Renard

Director of SanDisk Ventures

Aymerik Renard Director of SanDisk Ventures Aymerik has over 20 years of business development and venture capital experience, 14 of which he spent as a corporate investor for the Orange-France Telecom Group in North America, investing in start-ups involved in enterprise, consumer, and carrier technologies spanning hardware, software, and services. Aymerik has had portfolio companies go public on the Nasdaq, NYSE, and Germany’s Neuer Markt, as well as acquired by Cisco, Yahoo, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Cable & Wireless, IBM, Cox Automotive, Keynote, Ericsson, and SAP. Prior to SanDisk Aymerik headed start-up business development for a multinational consumer electronics supply chain company, culminating in the launch of an accelerator for hardware start-ups. Aymerik earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Information & Decision Systems, with an additional major in Policy & Management, from Carnegie Mellon University. 42

Tom Wang

Founder of Dream School

Tom Wang Founder of Dream School Tom received his MBA from Stanford University. After graduate school, he worked for Dun & Bradstreet, Disney, and MTV. He co-founded Flow, Inc. Flow is a venture capital firm investing in social enterprise startups. Now he consolidates all his activities into Dream School and Start Up Latte. Tom likes to write. His novel “The Protein Girl” is popular in Taiwan, China, Japan, and Korea. 58

Yuko Saito

Managing Director of Criteo in South East Asia

Yuko Saito Managing Director of Criteo in South East Asia Yuko has extensive experience and a solid track record in the Internet industries. She has a wealth of expertise and skills, mainly involving business development, at organizations including Sony, Trans Cosmos, and Walt Disney Internet Group. In 2005, Yuko was appointed chief strategy officer and director for the game developer Q Entertainment Inc, overseeing a broad range of operations that included business strategy planning and implementation, financing, sales and product development. Since joining Criteo in 2012, she has been instrumental in negotiating a strategic partnership with Yahoo Japan, and setting up entities in China and Singapore. 40

Sophia Chou

Event/TV show host

Sophia Chou Event/TV show host Sophia C. is an Event/TV show host and former news anchor. Raised in Canada, Sophia is not only a rare professional multi-lingual host who speaks 5 languages also she is one of the most trusted and popular hosts. She has hosted over 1000+ events for mainly luxury brands: jewelry, watch, sports car…etc. Sophia is the designated host for world renowned directors Luc Besson (LUCY Taipei premiere) and Ang Lee (Life of Pi Asia media event) and for many prominent international events. 67

Michael Zung

Managing Director of Fung Global Retail & Technology

Michael Zung Managing Director of Fung Global Retail & Technology http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelzung/ Michael Zung heads up marketing for Fung Global Retail & Tech, a retail think tank that is part of the Fung Group. Zung headed HSBC direct banking in Taiwan, and worked for Internet firms DoubleClick and Bazaarvoice. He sold his start-up OneXeno to marketing firm Text 100 in 2010 and continues to advise various start-ups. 118

Marco Chen

Technical Director of LINE Taiwan

Marco Chen Technical Director of LINE Taiwan Marco joined LINE Taiwan as technical director since October 2014, responsible for establishment of Taiwan application development team, support global project development project from headquarter. Over the past year, he helped the first localized e-commerce product LINE MART, and introducing the new LINE Platform into Taiwan market, making Taiwan the first foreign market of Japan to apply for LINE Platform. In February 2016, his team released the first version of global news service to Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar and the United States, this is the first global project owned by Taiwan team. Before joining LINE Taiwan, Marco worked for Yahoo Taiwan for 10.5 years, involved in search, community and e-commerce services. Booth No. G0250a 12

Nanlei Larry Wang

CEO of TIEC

Nanlei Larry Wang CEO of TIEC https://www.facebook.com/TIECTW/?ref=ts&fref=ts Dr. Wang is now the CEO of TIEC (Taiwan Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center). He's also the CTO of Information and Communications Labs, ITRI. He is familiar with Silicon Valley Bay Area as a long-time resident, an entrepreneur there himself, and community service volunteer. He earned his PhD in EECS from Berkeley. Booth No. G0448 11

Stanley Huang

CEO of Taiwan Rapid Innovation Prototyping League for Entrepreneurs(TRIPLE)

Stanley Huang CEO of Taiwan Rapid Innovation Prototyping League for Entrepreneurs(TRIPLE) Dr.Huang is the Deputy General Director in the Commercialization and Industry Service Center (CIS) / Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and the CEO of TRIPLE (Taiwan Rapid Innovation Prototyping League for Entrepreneurs). Dr. Huang received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from National Chiao Tung University in 1997. He spent more than 20 years in the areas of advanced electronic packaging, MEMS, flexible electronic and emotional design. Booth No. G0448 22

Robert Burger

COO & Founder of BluSense Diagnostics

Robert Burger COO & Founder of BluSense Diagnostics http://linkedin.com/in/burgerrobert Robert Burger studied Microsystems Engineering in Germany and obtained his PhD from Dublin City University (Ireland), developing a microfluidic platform for capture and identification of cells. He worked as a Post-doc at the Department for Micro- and Nanotechnology of the technical University of Denmark, where he worked with two other co-founders of BluSense on developing the technology. Since BluSense was founded in 2014 he has been COO and responsible for production of the test cartridges. Booth No. G0456 25

Bill Shih

VP of Sales & Marketing of Beckie Technology

Bill Shih VP of Sales & Marketing of Beckie Technology http://www.facebook.com/beckibox Bill is founder of Beckie Technology, a forerunner and creator of Beckibox, the most feasible & easy way for user to manage, protect and share mobile data using everyone's way. Endeavor his energy to make mobile data life to be a lot of easier than it is now. Booth No. G0216 36

Alex Lee

Co-founder & CEO of eyehouse virtual technology Co., ltd

Alex Lee Co-founder & CEO of eyehouse virtual technology Co., ltd http://www.facebook.com/eyehouse.co/?fref=ts Co-founders are all high-tech RDs at tier 1 company, due to well know the bottleneck of OEM/ODM, and have lots experience working in IC design/system integration/Brand/ Foreign company and industry, so just fell should take risk to focus on software development and start-up a new business. To build a team to develop VR-based business application, hope we can contribute something to our Taiwan. Mission: 1. Begin from Taiwan, then serve globally. 2. To innovate traditional industry with VR technology. 3. To leverage traditional business by integration of hardware and software to move to O2O new generation. Booth No. G0216 32

Jerry Chang

CEO of JUMPY

Jerry Chang CEO of JUMPY http://www.facebook.com/jumpy.tw Booth No. G0242 37

Dalton Hsu

Business Development Manager of FunNow

Dalton Hsu Business Development Manager of FunNow http://www.facebook.com/funnowapp Formerly an asset management veteran, Dalton discovered a new career with FunNow, where he looks over the business development department. Since then, his Mondays are no longer blue. He is looking forward to the day when he has accumulated enough riches to purchase an NBA team. And this can potentially be within reach if the Company goes public in 2020. Dalton is a die-hard fan of his UNC Tar Heels. In spare time, he frequents bars (with the wife's permission, of course) using FunNow. Booth No. G0216 31

Yuting Lin

Marketing Manager of StyleUp

Yuting Lin Marketing Manager of StyleUp http://goo.gl/aEK7v3 Msc Management and marketing of Nottingham Trent University, UK. Specialized in product placement. Now, Marketing Manager of StyleUp. Booth No. G0216 34

Ray Ing Wang

Marketing Manager of PadKaKa

Ray Ing Wang Marketing Manager of PadKaKa Graduate with a graphic design degree, and have worked in the publisher field as marketing project planner for 6 years. Also been a writer for a travel journal book and presenter of speeches for the topic of traveling in India. Look forward to promoting PadKaKa which combining new technology and material to make children learning English easier and more interesting. Booth No. G0216 35

Allen Ou Yang

Product Manager of XiaoShun Integration Consulting

Allen Ou Yang Product Manager of XiaoShun Integration Consulting http://www.facebook.com/komitwo Allen Ou Yang, currently act as Product Manager in XiaoShun Integration Consulting. Been involve with NGO for more than 20 years, thought charity and business can not co-exist in a same entity until the concept of Social Enterprise hits him. He’s aware currently the market lacks an integration service dedicate to elders and their family, with XiaoShun Integration Consulting, he sees the opportunity to service more elders and their family to reduce the burden on elder care and assistance in daily life. Booth No. G0216 33

Carman Chan

Founder and Managing Partner of Click Ventures

Carman Chan Founder and Managing Partner of Click Ventures Carman Chan started her entrepreneurship endeavor when she was in University. In order to pursue her passion for internet, she gave up a sponsored PhD offer from Imperial College and become a serial internet entrepreneur with two companies acquired by listed companies. On top, she is a best-selling book author for several accelerated learning books. Being a columnist in IT magazines for eight years, her focus was on internet business model, online marketing and mobile application. After several successful exits, Carman has started her Angel fund, namely, Click Ventures. The current portfolio includes more than 25 investments such as Spotify.com, Docusign, Palantir.com, Wefunder.com, Annelutfen.com, EventXtra.com etc. In light of her experiences in the said line of business she has been invited as a speaker or member of panel in a couple of prestigious events. To name some are Web Summit, Connected-Entrepreneurship Conference, AVCJ China Forum, Silicon Dragon in Taiwan and HK Launchpad. 49

Tim Cheng

Co-Founder and CEO of flyingV

Tim Cheng Co-Founder and CEO of flyingV Tim Cheng grew up in California and moved to Taiwan in 2004. With over 10 years experience in both tech and consulting, flyingV was launched early 2012 and Tim assumed the role of CEO. The core value of flyingV is to create an environment where creativity can shine bright without topic restrictions. flyingV is a tool where any type of project has a chance to market themselves and receive support from the public to take the first step. flyingV looks to shake up society by encouraging creativity and lowering risk. In a little more than 4 years, flyingV is not only one of the most influential crowdfunding platforms in Asia, but a testament of the vibrant creativity of Taiwan. 53

Melody Sun

President of GWC Taiwan

Melody Sun President of GWC Taiwan Melody Sun worked as a corporate trainer, often visiting Silicon Valley, China, and Taiwan on business. She is the founder of The Link, Partner of DeStone Capital and Yao Chu Fa , a Taiwan-based initiative with the vision to connect the world’s entrepreneurs with valuable resources and knowledge which will set them up for success. 50

Chih Han Yu

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Appier

Chih Han Yu Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Appier Chih Han Yu is CEO and cofounder of Appier, a technology company that makes it easy for businesses to use artificial intelligence to grow and succeed in a cross screen world. Yu has authored dozens of research articles in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and machine learning, and has been awarded two US patents. In 2010 Yu obtained his doctoral degree in computer science from Harvard University, where he collaborated with the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard Medical School to develop Self-adapting robotics systems to help polio patients walk correctly. Most recently, Yu was named a Young Global Leader for 2016 by the World Economic Forum, making Appier the only Asian AI company to make the list. Before founding Appier, Yu founded and ran Plaxie, an independent game studio focused on developing intelligent mobile and social games. 52

Zhu Bo

CEO of Inno Valley

Zhu Bo CEO of Inno Valley Mr. Zhu Bo, founder of the Dream Chaser Fund & InnoValley, has won Top 10 China Angel Investors and China's most active angel investor in consecutive years. Mr. Zhu invested in Storm Player and Kunlun Technology during his tenure as Head of Internet Business at Huawei, and they have since gone public. In June 2012, he left Huawai and successively invested in nearly one hundred startup firms like Friday, GiftTalk, FOTA, Jianzhimao, Artqiyi and Shenqibuy, which are now rapidly growing. Mr. Zhu Bo studied in the United States in his early years. After graduation in 1992, he worked for several well-known communications, IT and satellite companies like American Express and Qualcomm. With 20 years' experience in the Internet, IT and telecommunications industries; he has extremely unique and keen insights in these sectors. His investments expand to more than twenty startup firms such as CoverMe, DownTown, xTV, Weendy in the U.s., a comprehensive coverage of the forefront of innovation. 51

Jerry Chang

Founder of Aetoscan

Jerry Chang Founder of Aetoscan http://www.facebook.com/aetoscan Aetotech's founder, Jerry Chang, worked in the health care equipment field for over 10 years. Out of all of the available health care equipment products on the market, Jerry found that only the "Meridian Machine" developed based on the Huangdi Neijing could be significantly upgraded through modern technologies! Experience: Kang Fu Bao Technology Co., Ltd. –Engineer, Department of Health Care Equipment Development, Yung Feng Ding Co., Ltd. - President, UHONGI Corporation of Japan - Senior System Engineer, Ya Jia Da Technology Co., Ltd. – Quality Assurance Manager of Health Care Equipment Plant, Yung Jie Shun Technology Co, Ltd. - Senior Systems Engineer, Yun Chuan International Co., Ltd. - General Manager. Expertise: Corporate management, investment and financial management, digital multimedia. Booth No. G0303 59

WEN HSIN TIEN

Marketing Executives Supervisor of 3i Health Tech Ltd

WEN HSIN TIEN Marketing Executives Supervisor of 3i Health Tech Ltd Graduated from International Retailing of postgraduate in University of Manchester in UK. Worked within computer hardware industry as marketing executives and sales associates for nearly two and half years. After came back to Taiwan, executing Tainan city telecare project of government. Also, as the product manager and marketing executives of e54 physical check app. Booth No. G0303 60

Ren Tsai

Chief Executive Officer of InforCharge

Ren Tsai Chief Executive Officer of InforCharge http://www.facebook.com/inforcharge The founder and managing partner of InforCharge, earned MBA from University of Illinois, also has rich experience in semiconductor, consumer electronics, and car electronics. Booth No. G0303 61

Rene Lai

Academic Director of Operation Division Intelligent Education Solution

Rene Lai Academic Director of Operation Division Intelligent Education Solution http://www.facebook.com/HDeduTech/?fref=ts Rene Lai charge of the Academic Director of Operation Division in HDT. Responsible for educational research, education application Service, product development, product marketing and project management affairs. Booth No. G0303 62

Dave Zheng

CTO of PAWBO CO.,LTD.

Dave Zheng CTO of PAWBO CO.,LTD. http://www.facebook.com/pawbosite Dave Zheng is the CTO of PAWBO, PM of JSW, COO of EverSpring Shanghai. Booth No. G0303 63

Curtis Wu

CEO of 3Egreen Technology

Curtis Wu CEO of 3Egreen Technology Curtis the Wu is the founder of 3egreen.com. Leading the company to achieve break even in the second year. The main revenue is from project based in the last year. We are going to focus on the market of about Long-Term Care and Industry4.0. Booth No. G0448 64

Hsiu Chi Yeh

Product Manager of ARSENZ

Hsiu Chi Yeh Product Manager of ARSENZ https://www.linkedin.com/in/hsiu-chi-yeh-40603319?trk=hp-identity-name HC Yeh is the founder of ARSENZ. In recent years, he mainly focuses on developing and promoting wearable, mixed reality and IoT applications. Booth No. G0448 65

Chin Liang Liu

FOUNDER of DCBP Auto Fintech

Chin Liang Liu FOUNDER of DCBP Auto Fintech Studied in Taiwan, US, Europe and Russia, he completed his M.B.A in ST. Petersburg. He then founded a startup company in Russia which ran the car electronics/components importing, retailing, channel management and E-commerce businesses. In 2011, he entered the Connected Car/IoT industry and start to provide the services on IoT E-commerce. Booth No. G0448 66

Fred Chak

Director and Founding Partner of BLOCKS

Fred Chak Director and Founding Partner of BLOCKS 38

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