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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
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  • Day 15/31 Tue.
  • Day 26/1 Wed.
  • Day 36/2 Thu.
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09:30–10:35Panel Discussion: How Could the Taiwanese Supply Chain Work With Startups?

Come to hear about how brilliant early-stage startups from UK, France and Hong Kong view and work with the Taiwanese supply chain partners. Learn from their approach to the inherent challenges as small-volume clients initially.

10:35–11:00Keynote Speech: Exploring Future Reality

Companies have to decide between spending money to create the capacity for making virtual and augmented reality content in-house and working with outside production companies and hardware companies. Media, tech and communications companies would be wise to invest in structuring experiments and building expertise with the tools and methods that will be used to construct "future reality". This keynote attempts to summarize what is known about the market opportunity in the near term.

11:00–12:00Panel Discussion: The Immersive World of Virtual Reality

12:00–13:10Break

13:10–13:40Keynote Speech: From mobile to where? A look into the future of online and offline retail over the next 5-10 years

13:40–14:40Panel Discussion: The Millennial Uprising

14:40–14:45Opening Ceremony

14:45–17:55Pitch Contest (Semi-final)

19:00–21:00After Party

09:30–11:10Product Demo: Start-Up Taiwan Accelerator

11:10–11:20Break

11:20–12:00Keynote Speech: Scale to Dominance: Hardware Startups by Hardware Club

Why are a few hardware startups much more successful than the others? What is the key in their success against similar products from giant tech firms and small copycats? Come hear Jerry break down the core scalability and defensibility of a true venture-fundable hardware startup.

12:00–13:00Break

13:00–13:30Keynote Speech: Click Venture

13:30–14:10LINE: Open Up Platform to Build Smart Portal Ecosystem

In 2016, LINE plans to form a Smart Portal with its vision – “Closing the distance. LINE Platform strategy includes: (1)Providing advanced functions for LINE accounts; (2)Opening business platform to external service/enterprises; (3)Expanding the functionality of ad platform.

Now LINE is opening its BOT API to external developers, connecting online/offline businesses and customers by LINE Beacon, and also plans to further develop its Chat AI Plug-in together with third party developers.

Welcome to join LINE ecosystem.

14:10–14:30Break

14:30–15:00Keynote Speech: Unicorns and Entrepreneurship in China vs U.S. vs India

15:00–15:10Break

15:10–16:00Keynote Speech & Product Demo: TRIPLE & TIEC

16:00–16:30Product Demo: The Trade Council of Denmark, Taipei

16:30–17:30Product Demo: G2A VR and The GAMIX Project

VR is the hottest Gaming topic in 2016. G2A focused on delivering quality VR experience going beyond what you see. The G2A Land Amusement park is not only digital amusement park, but the product is also enhanced by dedicated controllers, 3D printing and many other exciting technologies. Learn more about first GAMIX Center in the heart of Taipei City, Taiwan.

Center StagePi Stage
09:30–09:50AAN forum Opening Remark

09:50–10:20Keynote Speech: Resourcing Global Entrepreneurial Ecosystem to Accelerate Your Global Business Focus

10:20–11:10Panel Discussion: The New Challenge of Innovation : Super Corporate Meets Startup with Next Big Idea!

The value of new business challenges of startups meets with enterprises could be able to create amazing value. The session will ask leaders of enterprises to talk about how they deal with this new trend of outside-new-power of innovation and to link their resources to create the core competitive advantage.

11:10–12:00Panel Discussion: How to Strategically Operate the Best Business & Industrial Accelerator within the Integration of Local Area Resources & Advantages?

Understanding and embracing new international business resources is no longer a closed system , grasp and make good use of international accelerator network links will benefit the rapid development of the pivotal assist entrepreneurs of new ideas , discuss the latest business opportunities and challenges.

12:00–13:20Break

13:20–14:20Panel Discussion: Un-limit the Unmanned Technology - A New World to Where and How?

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.

14:20–14:50Keynote Speech: Beyond Smart Cities

Beyond Smart Cities, the Future of Urban Mobility

14:50–18:00Pitch Contest (Semi-final)

19:00–21:00After Party

09:30–10:00Keynote Speech: Taiwan’s Innovation Foothold from a Global Perspective

10:00–11:00Keynote Speech: Building a better world with AI

11:00–11:30Keynote Speech: Path from OEM to Brand, from Local to International

11:30–12:00Keynote Speech: How to run a successful crowdfunding campaign?

12:00–13:00Break

13:00–14:30Product Demo: Global stars

Joseph Lin, ICRT DJ(moderator)
Joshua Steimle, Founder and CEO of MWI(moderator)
1. ACCUVALLY
2. CAREMONKEY
3. IAMIP
4. SNAPAID
5. BUGWOLF
6. MYDISON
7. KONOLABS
8. DATUMIZE
9. EVENTXTRA

14:30–15:00Product Demo: Pavilion

15:00–15:10Break

15:10–16:00 Product Demo: III IDEAS SHOW

16:00–16:40Product Demo: StartUP @ Taipei

Center StagePi Stage
09:30–10:30Panel Discussion: VC/Accelerator-The Next Big Thing

10:30–11:30Panel Discussion: VC/Accelerator-Exploring Opportunities in Taiwan

Jerry Yang, General Partner of Hardware Club / Rui Ma, the China partner of 500startups / Peter Hsieh, General Partner of Acorn Pacific Ventures / Eugene Kim, Principal of SparkLabs Global Ventures / Tom Chiu, Board of Director at Sand Hill Angels

11:30–12:00Keynote Speech: Helping Startups Think BIG in a Mobile-first World

12:00–14:00Break

14:00–14:25Keynote Speech: AI Future

14:25–14:50Keynote Speech: How Taiwan can be Innovative Again: Current Problem and Potential Solutions

Taiwan had been a super power in semiconductor manufacturing for decades. But things have slowed down for Taiwan in recent years. During this presentation, Anis will explain how Taiwan can be innovative once again by adopting top techniques from around the world that had been useful in other countries. Anis will use real examples from around the world and will make specific suggestions to Taiwan high tech community that can help Taiwan be the roaring together in Asia once again.

14:50–17:05Pitching Contest (Final)

17:05–17:20Interview & Video

17:20–17:40Award Ceremony

09:30–10:00Keynote Speech: International Cross-border Investment and Innovation

11:00–12:00Product Demo: Global stars

Joseph Lin, ICRT DJ(moderator)
Joshua Steimle, Founder and CEO of MWI(moderator)
1. DRONAMICS
2. TOII
3. HAP2U
4. LUCID VR
5. VGLASS
6. iStaging

12:00–13:00Break

13:00–14:40Product Demo: Global stars

Joseph Lin, ICRT DJ(moderator)
Joshua Steimle, Founder and CEO of MWI(moderator)
Angel Garcia, Co-founder & CEO of Startupbootcamp(moderator)
1. CONNECTERRA
2. LOOKING GLASS
3. WONDERVOICE
4. MODINICE
5. NUWE
6. EYESIGHT
7. ARYBALLE
8. VIRGILANT
9. SIMPLEACCESS
10. BLOCKS WEARABLES

14:40–15:20Product Demo: Pavilion

15:20–16:00Product Demo: StartUP @ Taipei

10:00–11:00To Be Confirmed

* Programme details are subject to change without prior notice. Please refer to the website for the latest announcement. The organizers reserve the right to modify/cancel any programme.

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