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Table of ContentWELCOME MESSAGE
About the Event
Schedule of Event
Speaker Profile
Mentor Profile
Judge Profile
Team Profile
Event Information
Logistics Information
Host / Organizer / Event Partner / Affiliator
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Anjan GhoshRegional Director, Corporate Affairs, Intel
Johnny Yun- Lung YehDirector GeneralSmall and Medium Enterprise AdministrationMinistry of Economic Affairs
WELCOME MESSAGE
Dear Distinguished Guests,
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) account for around 90 percent of businesses in the APEC region and employ as much as 60 percent of the work force. The innovation by entrepreneurs is extremely important to drive the growth of new industries and to break through the crisis when the global economy is currently facing great uncertainties. It has long been a key APEC agenda to promote entrepreneurships, remove trade barriers and enhance SMEs global competitiveness to achieve sustainable growth.
Built on the efforts to assist start-ups and entrepreneurs in the APEC region, the APEC Start-up Accelerator Initiative (ASA) has been raised by the SMEWG since 2012 and is designed to provide entrepreneurs and start-ups with better access to mentorships and funding through events and communities. By hosting the ASA Leadership Summit 2013, we genuinely seek to connect entrepreneurs with the innovation needs of the enterprises, build international business relationships, and facilitate fundraising activities. The corresponding event, the Intel APEC Challenge, sponsored by APEC and Intel Cooperation certainly brings a sense of excitement along with tenseness. It is a golden opportunity for entrepreneurs as well as the public and private sectors to exchange experience and conduct effective communication for mutual benefits.
We believe that you will find the 2-day event constructive and fruitful. If you need any assistance at any time during your stay in Taipei, all of our staffs will be pleased to assist you.
Sincerely yours,
Dear Distinguished Guests,
As a global technology leader, Intel knows that innovation and entrepreneurship are absolutely essential to build and sustain economic development. In fact, innovation is the lifeblood of our company, which is why we take great pleasure in welcoming all the guests, innovators, and entrepreneurs to the APEC Start up Accelerator Leadership Summit and Intel APEC Challenge here in Taipei, Taiwan.
We believe this event is particularly important because the Member Economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation account for approximately 40% of the world's population, approximately 54% of the world's gross domestic product, and about 44% of world trade. In addition, it is known that Small and Medium Enterprises (SME’s) are important drivers of economic growth around the world, and they can make major contributions to global economic development and recovery, especially in the areas of job creation, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
Intel Corporation, in partnership with governments, academia, non-profit organizations, entrepreneurs, business leaders, and private enterprise, works to meet the challenge of harnessing the power of entrepreneurship to promote economic development around the world. Our collaboration with APEC Start-up Accelerator (ASA) is one example of our work to support and enhance the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the APEC region.
Intel’s innovations over the last four decades have impacted lives, business and societies around the world. Our ongoing commitment to education, the environment, and health care are deeply rooted in the belief that empowering people, and enabling innovation and entrepreneurship, are crucial ingredients to worldwide socio-economic transformation.
We believe this two day event will provide many opportunities for you to learn valuable information, to engage and mentor others, to share and acquire knowledge, and to showcase ideas and innovations. We look forward to this collaboration which is sure to make this a wonderful and fruitful experience for all of the distinguished guests, particularly the young entrepreneurs.
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About APEC Start-Up Accelerator Leadership Summit
In alignment with APEC 2013 theme “Resilient Asia-Pacific: Engine of Global Growth” to achieve sustainable growth with equity by encouraging member economies to pay attention to next generation trade and investment issues, promoting SMEs development, and improving access to global markets, the APEC Startup Accelerator Initiative serves as a platform for member economies to assist startups and young entrepreneurs in building their capacities through networking, mentoring, and funding. The ASA Leadership Summit will allow SMEs and startups to identify possible opportunities and to raise capital while enhancing their capacities through networking with high profile, accomplished CEOs.
The leadership summit takes form in a symposium style, which includes plenary sessions and numerous panel discussion sessions. The esteemed speakers, startup founders, business executives and policymakers from APEC economies will discuss how industries in transition can grow and prosper from a broad perspective, including policy, finance, law, innovation and business strategy.
The ASA Leadership Summit will benefit entrepreneurs, start-ups, the private sector and government, while enhancing the potential for regional commerce and economic growth.
• For entrepreneurs and start-ups, it would mean better accessibility to established mentors and regional funding to help them launch successful start-ups.
• For the private sector, APEC corporations and businesses would get a chance to acquire and fund start-ups that are related to their own strategic interests and to booster innovation in APEC economies.
• For government, it would mean more cooperation between private and public incubators and encourage trade among participation APEC economies.
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Intel APEC Challenge provides a platform for startups at various stages to showcase their business strategies and products in front of an international panel of expert, judges and investors. The Challenge aims to connect entrepreneurs with the innovation needs of these enterprises, build international business relationships, and facilitate fundraising activities between investors and startups across Asia- Pacific region.
Event Objectives
• Networking: To hold a leadership summit in building up collaborative networks for startups, assisting them to identify global business opportunities, connecting high-profile entrepreneurs and successful start-ups, and establish a startup platform that facilitates related projects to sustain growth of startups through rotating the project event annually among member economies.
• Mentoring: To organize a demo day (Intel APEC Challenge) providing mentoring and pitch sessions for start-ups. It aims to connect entrepreneurs and startups with mentors and give better access to management and business startup information and guidance to commercialize new products, systems, services and internationalization.
• Funding: To strengthen startups’ access to financing by connecting venture capital / angel networks through events, communities and exchange programs, and facilitate closer proxim ity between suppliers of funds and those who need financing during the event of Intel APEC Challenge.
Startup Categories
• Early-Stage (Capital raised <US$250,000) Provide young startups the chance to showcase their products and services in front of experienced executives, investors, and innovators.
• Growth-Stage (Capital raised >US$250,000) Provide well-established startups with existing customers to the opportunity expand into new markets by pitching their innovativeness and business model in front of well-known entrepreneurs, VCs and corporate development executives from multinational enterprises. Pitch Opportunities
Each selected team has
• 6 minutes pitch in front of judges, top VCs, and angels.
• 4 minutes Q&A and feedback from judges, top VCs, angels, and entrepreneurs.
About Intel APEC Challenge
Mentoring Sessions:
A mentor session will be provided to startups prior to the Intel APEC Challenge, where successful entrepreneurs, mentors, and experts are invited to assess the current business models of the startups, and provide comments in accord with startups business model. In addition, an ethics compliance expert will be invited to highlight the importance of ethics compliance to the success of young companies and SMEs wanting to export abroad.
Judging Criteria:
1. Attractiveness of the business and progress to date How the business creates, delivers, and captures value. Is the business model scalable? Does the product/service have a prototype ready?
2. Is the value proposition (solution for a pain point that a customer would pay for) well defined? Clearly define value proposition for one or more customer segments with a pain point. Is the value proposition unique and differentiated?
3. Market opportunity and competitive positioning. Is this a disruptive idea/innovation that can create a large market or is it merely an incremental innovation in a crowded market space?
4. Team mix, qualification, and experience. Is there domain expertise on the team? Does the team and their advisors have prior startup (success or failures) experience? Is the team balanced with entrepreneurial, product, marketing, and business backgrounds?
5. Would you fund this business or the team? Is the team agile and flexible to run rapid experiments to validate their hypothesis? Or are they only focused on executing their business plan?
Awards:
• Early Stage Awards : Chances to 2013 Intel Global Challenge (2 Teams)
• Host Economy Award: Chances to 2013 Intel Global Challenge (1 Team)
• Growth Stage Awards :Ultrabook & Incubation Opportunity (2 Teams)
• People's Choice Award (1 Team)
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Intel Global Challenge at UC Berkeley: 7-10 October 2013
The Intel Global Challenge (formerly the Intel® + UC Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge) is a joint project of Intel Corporation and the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley that brings together entrepreneurial teams from world class engineering and business schools. Through education, collaboration, and competition in an international championship event, it provides a forum where teams can present business and technology commercialization plans that will progress their ideas.
In emerging markets, innovation and entrepreneurship are particularly important. The Intel Global Challenge showcases the global business opportunities that have the greatest potential for a positive impact on society through the deployment of new and truly innovativetechnologies. Through this exciting event, Intel and UC Berkeley are working to ensure that universities are providing technical and business curricula that will support entrepreneurs worldwide and help them make their dreams a reality.
Intel Global Challengeat UC Berkeley
About Intel APEC Challenge
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Schedule of Event / August 13
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1.2 Intel APEC Challenge: Mentorship Session (Exclusive for Participating Teams Only)
Venue: B2, Sheraton Hotel
• Training Course
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Panel Discussion: Growth across Markets, Strategic Partnerships and PolicyModerator - John Danner, Senior Fellow, The Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, UC Berkeley,United States
Panelists - Juan Raffo, Chair, APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) SMMEE 2013
Cynthia Wen-Jo Kiang, Deputy Director General, Bureau of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Chinese Taipei
Lorraine Hariton, Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs, U.S. Department of State, United States
Tom Strodtbeck, Director, Events and International Programs, National Business Incubation Association
Panel Discussion: Innovation from Below: the View from the MakerModerator - Eric Migicovsky, CEO, Pebble Technology, United States
Panelists - James Hill, Curator, Taipei StartupDigest (also Business Development at Cubie Inc.)
Mohan Belani, Co-founder & CEO, e27
Ho-Ming Huang, Founder, Chairman & CEO, Atelligent Global Consulting
Jon S. Hsu, Executive Director, South Campus, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)
Opening Remarks - Chia-Juch Chang, Minister, Ministry of Economic Affairs
Kelly Wu-Chiao Hsieh, Director General, Department of International Organizations, Ministry of
Foreign Affairs / Chinese Taipei APEC Senior Official
Jason LS Chen, Vice President, Sales and Marketing Group, Taiwan Country Manager, Asia Pacific, Intel
Photo Session
Introductory Speech - Jonathan Ortmans, President, Global Entrepreneurship Week, Kauffman Foundation,United States
Introductory Speech - Juan Raffo, Chair, APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) SMMEE 2013
Keynote Speech 1: Internationalization - Borderless Pursuits - Jeff Hoffman, Co-Founder, Priceline,United States
Tea Time
Networking Luncheon (Happiness/Longevity Room, B2 Sheraton)
Keynote Speech 2: Fostering Innovation and Entrepreneurship in a Globally Connected WorldLorraine Hariton, Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs, U.S. Department of State, United States
Registration
Opening Ceremony
Keynote Speech 3: “Bad News: Entrepreneurs Will Fail”Manav Subodh, Global Manager, Entrepreneurship & Innovation , Corporate Affairs, Intel
Panel Discussion: Overcoming Challenges of Raising Capital Outside Silicon ValleyModerator - Chester Ho, Founding Partner, Taipei Angels
Panelists - David Lee, Venture Partner, SK Telecom Ventures (Co-Founder of Kstartup), Korea
Jamie C. Lin, Founding Partner, appWorks Ventures
Nobuaki Kitagawa, CEO, CyberAgent Ventures, China(Beijing)
Ben Lin, CEO & Co-founder, POPAPP (Woomoo Inc.)
Bruno Bensaid, Founder and Partner, ShanghaiVest, China
Time
09:00 - 09:20
09:20 - 09:30
09:30 - 09:50
09:50 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:20
10:20 - 10:40
10:40 - 11:00
11:00 - 11:20
11:20 - 12:00
12:00 - 13:40
13:40 - 14:00
14:00 - 14:40
14:40 - 15:00
15:00 - 15:40
Tea Time & Social Networking
Keynote Speech 4: Application - A Smarter WorldRui Ma, Venture Partner, 500 Start-ups, China
15:40 - 16:00
16:00 - 16:20
16:20 - 17:00
Panel Discussion: After the Mobile Revolution: What's Next?Moderator - Sumeet Verma , Higher Education and Entrepreneurship, South Asia, Intel
Panelists - Joe Cunningham, Global Head Technology Strategy and Innovation, Visa, United States
Steve Chen, Co-founder, YouTube, United States
Victor Wu, CEO, Vpon
Alex Chen, Co-founder & CEO, EZTABLE
David Chen, Co-Founder, AngelVest
1.1 APEC Start-Up Accelerator Leadership Summit
Venue: B2, Sheraton Hotel
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Training Courses Mentor
Registration
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Problem Statement, Purpose, Market Insight: 3 Critical Communication Elements for Startups
Tea Time
Business Model and Customer Development
Group Photo Session (Prosperity Ballroom)
Networking Luncheon
Pitch Skill Development
Legal Issues for Start-Up Companies
Tea Time
Shian-Shen SherDirector, Vice President, Industrial Technology
Research Institute(ITRI)
David KuoMentor & angel, The 0 Step Program &Co-Organizer of
Startup Weekend in Taiwan
John WilliamsonHead of ODM at Vertu.
(Formerly founder & CTO of Puno Systems)
John DannerSenior Fellow, The Lester Center for Entrepreneurship
and Innovation, UC Berkeley, United States
David W. SuDirector, Planning and Commercial Projects Legal
Division, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd
08:30 - 08:55
09:00 - 10:00
10:00 - 11:00
11:00 - 11:10
11:10 - 12:10
12:10 - 12:20
12:10 - 14:00
14:00 - 15:00
15:00 - 16:00
16:00 - 16:30
Time
Schedule of Event / August 13 Schedule of Event / August 14
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08:30 - 08:55 (1)
09:00 - 09:25 (2)
09:25 - 09:35
09:35 - 10:00 (3)
10:05 - 10:30 (4)
10:35 - 11:00 (5)
11:05 - 11:30 (6)
11:35 - 12:00 (7)
12:00 - 13:30
13:30 - 13:55 (8)
14:00 - 14:25 (9)
14:25 - 14:35
14:35 - 15:00 (10)
15:05 - 15:30 (11)
15:35 - 16:00 (12)
16:05 - 16:30 (13)
16:30 - 16:40
16:40 - 17:05 (14)
17:05 - 17:30 (15)
India Visionaries
Taiwan Memofun Corp
Break
Indonesia NoLimit
Japan Connexx Systems Corp
Philippines Wegentech Inc.
Taiwan Clipick
Korea Sullivan’s Voice
Luncheon
Taiwan Golface
Japan ShuR Co., Ltd.
Break
Thailand Computerlogy
Taiwan Air Bridge Technology
Korea Perples, Inc
Philippines MusikWiz
Break
Malaysia Y Us Sdn Bhd
Taiwan LongGood
Dennis HuDirector General, International Cooperation Office, Taipei Computer Association
Wen Chuan HungDeputy Director General, Industry Development Augmentation Division, Institute For Information Industry (III)
Anthony Hu (Intel)Asia Pacific (APAC) Regional Developer Relationship Group Manager, Software and Services Group, Intel
Peipei Ding (Intel)Strategic Product Development Engineer, Intel
Roger DoManaging Partner, mentored2Market
David Kuo Mentor & angel, The 0 Step Program & Co-Organizer of Startup Weekend in Taiwan
John WilliamsonHead of ODM at Vertu. (Formerly founder & CTO of Puno Systems)
Deborah Yen (Intel)Director, Corporate Affairs Group, North Asia and ANZ, Intel Apac Region
Chong-Wey LinFounder/Professor, DCMSLab@NCTU / Dept. of Communication and Technology, NCTU
MentorTeamTime
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09:00-09:10
09:10-09:15
09:15-09:35
Registration
OpeningJohnny Yun-Lung Yeh, Director General of the SMEA, Ministry of Economic AffairsJohn Danner, Senior Fellow, The Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, UC Berkeley,United States
Keynote Speech IStan Shih, Chairman of Stans Foundation and iD SoftCapital Group and Co-founder & Chairman Emeritus of the Acer Group
Photo Session
ItemTime
Growth Stage Pitch Session (Happiness Room)
VietNam IDT International JSC
USA Waygo
Peru CINEPAPAYA
Thailand Arterex Ltd.
Australia Clarinox Technologies Pty Ltd
Taiwan Gogolook
Malaysia Soft Solvers Solutions Sdn Bhd
Keynote Speech IIAnjan Ghosh, Regional Director, Corporate Affairs (Asia-Pacific), Intel
Early Stage Pitch Session (Longevity Room)
India Visionaries
Taiwan Memofun Corp.
Indonesia NoLimit Indonesia
Japan Connexx Systems Corporation
Philippines Wegentech Inc.
Taiwan Clipick
Korea Sullivan’s Voice
Networking, Exhibition and Tea Time
Growth Stage Pitch Session 2 (Happiness Room)
Peru Veronica
Taiwan 4Free WiFi Corp.
Hong Kong Coherence Web Concepts Ltd.
Indonesia 8villages
Canada Hypejar
Taiwan Funwish Corp.
Singapore Windphony
Hong Kong Roam & Wander
Award Ceremony
Networking, Exhibition and Tea Time**
Early Stage Pitch Session 2 (Longevity Room)
Taiwan Golface
Japan ShuR Co., Ltd.
Thailand Computerlogy
Taiwan Air Bridge Technology
Korea Perples, Inc
Philippines MusikWiz
Malaysia Y Us Sdn Bhd
Taiwan LongGood
Korea CTW Project
Networking Luncheon
09:35-09:55
09:55-10:50
10:50-12:00
12:00-14:00
14:00-15:30
15:30-16:30
16:30-17:10
• 1-on-1 Mentoring Session Intel APEC Challenge
Venue: B2, Sheraton Hotel
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Anjan Ghosh heads Corporate Affairs at Intel, for the Asia Pacific region. He oversees Intel’s strategic relationships with key external stakeholder groups, in Government, Academia and Community and manages the company’s Public Policy and Corporate reputation programs, with a team spread across 13 countries. Intel’s initiatives in Education, Environment and Citizenship are key pillars of its Corporate reputation.
His areas of interest include Corporate Social responsibility, Education, Public policy on ICT for development and Digital inclusion.
He has held various positions in Governing councils of Industry associations, Chambers of commerce and University advisory boards. At present he is on the Governing Body of the US-ASEAN Business council and also Chairs the ICT working group.
He received the Intel Achievement Award, the highest recog-nition at Intel.
Anjan holds a doctorate in Statistics and is based in Singapore with his wife and daughter.
Anjan GhoshRegional Director
Corporate Affairs (Asia-Pacific), Intel.
Organized in Alphabetical Order
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Alex Chen co-founded EZTABLE in 2008, a 24/7 online table reservation service for fine restaurants and diners in Taiwan and China. EZTABLE became the first Chinese/Taiwanese startup to raise fund from Rose Park Advisors, founded by Harvard Business School's Clayton Christensen. Mr. Chen graduated from UCLA and was an ex-quantitative analyst at Deutsche Bank.
Alex ChenCo-Founder
EZTABLE
High school drop out; self taught leaner; hacker; entrepreneur; Co-founder and CEO of POPAPP ( http://popapp.in )
Ben LinCEO & Co-Founder
POPAPP (WOOMOO INC.)
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Bruno is the Founder and Partner of Shanghaivest. Bruno initially
started Shanghaivest in 2008 focusing on fundraising and strategic
consulting services to early-stage technology startups in China. Since
2009, Shanghaivest “evolution” (and joint-partnership) now executes
cross-border mid-cap M&A transactions in several key sectors related
to technology, consumer, healthcare etc.Bruno is also a chartered angel
investor with AAMA Shanghai angels, investor in two startups in the
internet and mobile spaces in China.In 2006, Bruno founded the
Shanghai Chapter of MobileMonday (MobileMonday is a leading mobile
industry community and event organizer worldwide). MobileMonday
Shanghai has since become a landmark series of events for mobile and
online professionals in China, attracting more than 3,000 members in its
community.An old-timer in China (almost 13 years), Bruno Bensaid is
one of the few foreigners who successfully led a Chinese mobile
value-added services provider (under a mobile gaming license from IN-
FUSIO) from 2002 to 2005, growing it into a 35-people profitable
operation and a VC round. During the 2002-2006 period, Bruno also
helped several other mobile and online VC-backed European companies
expand in China. He then started a career as an investment
professional advising growth-stage companies and investing in several
startups.Sharing his China, Tech and Investment experiences, Bruno is a
regular speaker and moderator at local VC and technology event, as
well as international conferences such as adtech, GSMA Mobile World
Congress, GSMA Mobile Asia Congress etc.Bruno graduated from
French top aerospace engineering school (“Sup’Aero”) and is currently
following an EMBA program at INSEAD. Bruno is fluent in French,
English and Mandarin. He shares his time between Europe and China.
Bruno BensaidFounder & Partner of Shanghaivest LtdFounder & Organizer of Mobilemonday Shanghai
Angel Investor of Member of AAMA Shanghai Angels
Professor Chester Ho holds Ph. D. in Biochemical Engineering, Massa-chusetts Inst. Of Technology and M.S. in Chemical Engineering, Kansas State University, specializing in innovation management, strategic management, leadership, equity investment entrepreneurship.
Dr. Ho is currently the Managing Director, IMBA, College of Commerce, National Chengchi University. His previous positions in other colleges and academic institutions include: Editorial Board, Harvard Business Review; Senior Advisor to President Y.T. Lee of the Academia Sinica; Visiting Scholar, M.I.T. Sloan School of Management; Professor, Institute of Biological Science and Technology; Adjunct Professor, Institute of Management of Technology, National Chiao Tung Univer-sity; Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo; NSF Review Board, Small Business Innovative Research Program.
His corporate experience includes: Director, Food, Pharm & Bioeng Division, American Institute of Chemical Engineers; Councilor, Biochemical Technology Division, American Chemical Society; Editorial Board, Enzyme and Microbial Technology; Secretary General, Monte Jade Science and Technology Association, Taiwan; President, Boston Life Science Venture Corporation; Executive Director and V.P. of R&D and Manufacturing, Charles River Labs; Executive Director of Technol-ogy Development, Invitron Corporation.
Chester S. HoFunding Partner
Taipei Angels
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Deputy Director-general Kiang holds LL.M, University of Pennsylvania, USA. Her governmental experience includes: Deputy Director-General, Bureau of Foreign Trade, MOEA (2012 - Present); Chief Secretary, Bureau of Foreign Trade, MOEA (2009 - 2012); Director：Trade Development Division, Bureau of Foreign Trade, MOEA (2007 - 2009); Executive Secretary：Department of Commerce, MOEA (2004 - 2007); and Section Chief, Industrial Development Bureau, MOEA (1996 - 2000)
For overseas professional experience, Deputy Director-general Kiang served as Executive Assistant, Economic Division, Taipei Economic & Cultural Office in Canada (2000 - 2004); and Senior Assistant, Economic Division, Taipei Economic & Cultural Representative Office in USA (1990 - 1996).
Cynthia Wen-Jo KiangDeputy Director-General
Bureau of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Economic Affairs Chinese Taipei
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David Lee was hired in 2000 as an early employee at Google and was the first Executive to lead Google overseas. He launched Google's offices in Korea, Japan, Greater China, Australia, UK, Germany and Latin America, where he also led business development, sales, and operations. David hired the first management teams in each country and established Google's initial international presence and revenue base. As Senior Director he also leads many major international search advertising partnership deals with eBay, Daum, Yahoo, and others, including Google’s investment into Baidu in China. David is also a Co-Founding Partner of XG Ventures, a Google alumni angel fund. His fund has had 5 acquisitions in the last year to Facebook, Google, AT&T, and Disney. Some of his past and current investments include Tapulous, Posterous, Twitter, Facebook, Kabam, and Greplin. David is an LP in Y-Combinator, and SV Angels Fund. He’s also a Board Observer of English Central, and sits on several other advisory boards in US, Korea, and China. His accomplishments have been featured in Forbes, Business Week and various other publications. David is based in Palo Alto, California.
David LeeVenture Partner of SK Telecom Ventures
Co-Founder of Kstartup
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Mr. David Chen is a seasoned business leader and entrepreneur with over 20 years of global experience focusing on operations, investments, and business development in China and the United States. He is a hands-on execution professional and has helped companies achieve their strategic and operating goals. Mr. Chen comes from a global background and is also well-networked in the venture capital and private equity community.
Mr. Chen co-founded AngelVest (angelvestgroup.com), an investment interest group helping individual angel investors identify and invest in early stage companies in China. AngelVest has grown to be one of the largest angel groups in China with over 70 members in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong – and has funded over 24 companies. Previously, Mr. Chen founded and managed technology start-ups and led strategy, operations, and finance activities.
In addition, Mr. Chen has extensive transaction and investment experience in China and the US. He has worked at large institutions including Salomon Brothers, Advanced Micro Devices, Honda Motor and at specialty boutique investment banks, where he helped a number of clients pursue and complete cross-border M&A (particularly China inbound) and financing transactions.
Mr. Chen earned his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester and MBA from Harvard Business School, and studied Chinese at Peking University. Mr. Chen is a native speaker of English, fluent in Mandarin Chinese and conversant in Japanese. Originally from New York, Mr. Chen has been living in Shanghai for the last seven years.
David ChenCo-Founder
AngelVest
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Eric Migicovsky is the Founder and CEO at Pebble Technology which
is a Smartphone-related Company, started out of the University of
Waterloo.(Pebble is proud to announce their new product - Pebble:
E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android.) He is the Systems Design
engineer focused on developing creative products that integrate
smoothly into daily life from the electronics test bench to industrial
design product sketching to wireless network design.
Mr. Migicovsky was also Velocity Incubator at University of Waterloo
and the Project Engineer, Co-op employee at Raytheon managed
engineering configuration of radar product line with hundreds of
international installations, investigated and evaluated third-party
PCB manufacturers and fluent with large-scale hardware
configuration management processes and tools. Besides, he was
also the Information Security Research Associate, Co-op employee
at Scotia bank to troubles hooted install of a major Network Access
Control project, developed policies to ensure only compliant clients
could gain access to VPN and researched, developed and
implemented secure wireless network authentication and
encryption system.
In the Atria Networks, as the wireless project assistant, Mr.
Migicovsky focused on developing street-level diagrams of a
city-wide wireless mesh network, working with Cisco Systems to
identify product benefits and limitations and facilitating a
two-week government test of RF coverage and network
performance.
Eric MigicovskyCEO
Pebble Technology
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Dr. Ho-Ming Huang holds a Ph.D. in Business from National Taiwan University and BS in Electrical Engineering from National Chiao Tung University. His expertise includes multi-national enterprise business strategy & operation management, corporate policy and system, executive development, business & strategic alliance development, global investment & business development, and organizational restructuring. His experiences include Chairman at Institute for Information Industry, Chairman at Hewlett Packard Taiwan Ltd, and Chairman at Hewlett Packard Thai Ltd.
Ho-Ming Huang Founder, Chairman & CEO
Consulting
James Hill, Global Shaper in World Economic Forum, runs international outreach and business development at Cubie Inc. and helps to coordinate projects locally to impact humanity globally. He is also the Taipei Curator in Startup Digest, which is a weekly email list focusing on startup and tech events across most major cities in the world. He creates the list for Taipei, Taiwan - the first weekly events list for the city's startup ecosystem. He worked as a Project Manager as part of a team which helped provide advice and information to the Taiwanese government about web 2.0 and the internet industry. The main duties included research, in which he helped plan the myriad of events that the project organizes and liaise with international contacts. A big part of the job involved working alongside Taiwanese startups which they were incubating, as well as the wider tech community in Taiwan. In the TechOrange Global, he worked as a Guest Writer. Based in the heart of Taipei; they are passionate about the potential of technology to influence the Asian business and social landscapes. For that reason, they hope to further bridge the East-West gap through English coverage, interviews, and analysis on the tech and startup industries in China, Taiwan, and beyond.
James HillCurator at Taipei Startup Digest
International Messenger at Cubie Inc.
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Jamie Lin is an entrepreneur turned venture investor. He’s the Founding Partner of appWorks Ventures, a US$ 11M Super Angel Fund located in Taipei, Taiwan with a focus on the Mobile Internet and Consumer Internet. appWorks runs an accelerator program, inspired by Y-Combinator, that has helped more than 150 startups, including EZTABLE, the leading online restaurant booking service in Southeast Asia and PubGame, one of the leading web and mobile game publishers in Southeast Asia.
Prior to appWorks, Jamie was once an Associate at HSS Ventures and an Analyst at All Asia Partners. During his life as an entrepreneur, Jamie co-founded Social Sauce, which is behind travel social network Sosauce.com and web 3D game production house Muse Games. Prior to that, he co-founded Intumit, the leader in Chinese search engine technologies, and Hotcool.com, a build-to-order online PC retailer, among other things.
Jamie Lin received his MBA from NYU Stern School of Business and his B.S. in Engineering from National Taiwan University.
Specialties: Venture Capital, Angel Investment, Seed-stage Incubation, Consumer Internet, Web, Mobile, E-commerce, Search, Gaming, Software, Marketing, Finance.
Jamie C. LinFounding Partner
appWorks Ventures
Jeff Hoffman is an accomplished entrepreneur and innovator in the fields of Internet, e-commerce, and entertainment. Having launched his first software company while still a student at Yale University, Hoffman has founded and grown a series of successful startup companies in his career, guiding his companies to both acquisitions and public offerings.
Jeff writes a regular column on innovation and entrepreneur-ship for Inc. Magazine, and works with the White House, the Executive Office of the President, the US State Department, and the US Department of Commerce to support business and economic growth initiatives all over the world.
Hoffman is perhaps best known as a founder and CEO in the Priceline.com family of companies, where Jeff led the develop-ment and launch of Priceline’s consumer company (Priceline YardSale). Hoffman also served as an executive in Walker Digital, the parent company of Priceline and one of the country’s most innovative creators of intellectual property and new business models.
Jeff recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Collegiate Entrepreneurship Organization for his contributions to the field of entrepreneurship, as well as being inducted into the Hall of Fame by the National CEO Council, and receiving the 2012 Champion of Entrepreneurship Award from Rising Tide Capital and JP Morgan Chase.
Jeff HoffmanCo-Founder
Priceline
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Joe Cunningham is the Global Head Technology Strategy & Innovation in Visa Inc. and the founder in adaptev labs. Having a history as a consensus-builder, a motivator and a key architect and driver of organizational change, he has deep expertise in the development and execution of technology strategy, innovation strategy and business-IT governance frameworks at global organizations. He has good creative skills in the areas of technology innovation, technology research & development, and the entrepreneurial application of emerging/ disruptive technologies as a source of business growth, equips substantial general IT management experience, leading the turnaround of troubled operations and leading departments through complex re-engineering projects. Furthermore, he has the international experience in the UK & Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and the USA. Since early 2012, He has been based in Singapore. He specializes in technology strategy & planning; Technology business management; Business-IT governance; Payments Technology; Research & Development (R&D); Innovation; People leadership; Motivation & Performance Management.
Joe CunninghamFounder at adaptev labs
Global Head Technology Strategy & Innovation at Visa Inc
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John Danner is Senior Fellow at the Lester Center. An experienced management consultant and entrepreneur, he has advised senior executives of multi-billion-dollar international enterprises on strategy, value management and business growth, as well as management teams of emerging ventures on competitive positioning, marketing and product strategy. His clients include leading companies in healthcare, energy, entertainment, food products, telecommunications and information and startups in energy management, e-commerce and supply chain integration. He has designed and successfully launched several new business initiatives for client organizations over the past twenty-five years. Mr. Danner is a senior moderator for The Aspen Institute, and conducts seminars on leadership, innovation and entrepreneurship around the world.
John DannerSenior Fellow
The Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, UC Berkley
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As the Executive Director of ITRI South Campus, Dr. Hsu leads a team in the southern region to do research and technology development projects as well as industry services. In the past, he was the General Director of Commercialization and Industry Service (CIS) Center. Before that, he was the Deputy General Director at the Electronics and Optoelectronics Research (EOL) Laboratory. In 2003, he was recommended by ITRI to serve at Ministry of Economic Affairs as the Science and Technology Advisor. During this tenure, he oversaw several national science and technology research projects, such as: The National Telecommunication Project, The National SOC Project and The National Digital Content Project. Prior to that, Dr. Hsu was involved both R&D and managerial works in various private enterprises, such as the VP of Optical Communication Business Group (OCBG) at Foxconn/Hon Hai Group、Business Services Manager at Macronix、Vice President for new business development at KLT as well as the Test & Measurement Manager at SONY/MRC in the US.
As the General Director at CIS, he initiated an effort to promote technology to non-technical arena and seek to jointly form a value-added team with engineer and designer. Hence a new word “Dechnology” was coined and registered for this purpose. While serving as Deputy General Director at EOL Laboratory, in view of the domestic needs for 3D image processing, ITRI called and set up the "3D Interactive & Display Association (3DIDA)" to promote join effort between industry and research institute.
Jon S. HsuExecutive Director
ITRI South Campus
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Jonathan Ortmans has dedicated his professional career to stimulating informed dialogue and deliberation around the issues that matter most–at local, national and global levels.
Most recently, he has focused on developing a global engagement project called Global Entrepreneurship Week on behalf of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, where he has worked to align 120 countries to inspire, connect, mentor and engage the next generation of entrepreneurs. In doing so, he has helped assemble an informal coalition of more than 25,000 organizations dedicated to stimulating entrepreneurial activity. The November 2010 campaign engaged over 10 million people in 40,000 concurrent activities.
Ortmans brings a wealth of experience to the field, serving as a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation where he advises the Foundation on its global footprint and its interface with policymakers through the Policy Dialogue on Entrepreneurship, a public policy initiative to focus attention on the importance of entrepreneurship to the economy and society. Based in Washington, DC, Ortmans also serves as an interface between new research and initiatives to advance entrepreneurship at the Foundation and the questions and concerns that arise from policymakers in the nation’s capital.
Ortmans has a background as an entrepreneur –being part of his first startup team at the age of 19 in his native United Kingdom and starting PFI at 34 after a career on Capitol Hill working for the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee focusing on trade policy. He blogs regularly for the Policy Dialogue on Entrepreneurship as well as Global Entrepreneurship Week. You can also follow him on Twitter or connect with him via LinkedIn or Facebook.
Jonathan OrtmansPresident
Global Entrepreneurship Week
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Juan Francisco Raffo is the honorary chairman of the Raffo Group, one of Peru’s most important conglomerates, which includes the holding company L.P. Holding, Compañia Minera Caudalosa S.A., and real estate developer Los Portales S.A. He is a director and past president of the Peruvian Foreign Trade Association (COMEXPERU) and a member of the think-tank Peruvian Institute of Economics. In addition to representing Peru in the APEC Business Advisory Council, he is the chair of ABAC’s SMME and Entrepreneurship Working Group.
Juan Francisco RaffoChairman
APEC Business Advisory Council SMMEE 2013
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Lorraine Hariton was sworn in as the State Department’s Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs on September 14, 2009. Her experience in innovation and entrepreneurship provides a unique perspective in addressing our global economic growth challenges. She is responsible for State Department outreach to the business community and commercial advocacy efforts. She works with the business community worldwide to ensure that commercial diplomacy efforts support U.S. foreign policy objectives.
During her tenure, CBA has expanded cooperation and coordination with other trade promotion agencies and U.S. diplomatic posts overseas to support U.S. exporters and business interests in support of the President's National Export Initiative.
In her first year with CBA, Hariton oversaw the launch of the Global Entrepreneurship Program (GEP), a U.S. State Department-led effort to promote and spur entrepreneurship around the world. She has been instrumental in successful undertakings as the Palestinian Information Technology Initiative (PITI) and she chairs the U.S. delegation to the U.S-Russia Innovation Council on High Technologies (ICHT).
Ms. Hariton brings to the State Department more than 25 years of experience in the information technology sector in Silicon Valley. Throughout her business career Ms. Hariton worked with various technologies and products including mainframes, thin-client technology, e-commerce financial infrastructure, internet audio solutions and speech applications. Most recently Hariton worked on Smart Grid initiatives including advanced metering and intelligent street lighting.
Ms. Hariton has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Mathematical Sciences from Stanford University.
Lorraine HaritonSpecial Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs
U.S. Department of State
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Manav Subodh works as Global manager, entrepreneurship and innovation at the corporate affairs group at Intel. With Intel since early 2005, his main charter is to work with young innovators, inventors, designers and technology startups in over 30 countries and provide them opportunities for tech-nology commercialization, licensing and entrepreneurship. Manav is passionate about empowering young people to activate their ideas to reality- a topic on which he also gave a talk at TED @Intel. Besides Intel, Manav has worked with other leading organiza-tion in the telecom and software industry. He is a UC Berkeley certified trainer on entrepreneurship and in the last few years he has also done several workshops for startups, govern-ments and other Intel partners.
Manav SubodhGlobal Manager
Entrepreneurship & Innovation Corporate Affairs, Intel
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Mohan Belani is the Co-Founder and CEO of e27 at Optimatic Pte. Ltd., where he also runs Asia's leading web technology event, Echelon. Apart from events, he runs all business develop-ment and strategic partnership related activities. Mohan Belani is the also the co-founder of Gokil Games, a startup focused on the social gaming industry. Mohan Belani is an avid fan of Skyrim and loves mountain climbing. He loves meeting new people, anytime anywhere.
Mohan BelaniCo-Founder & CEO
e27
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Mr. Kitagawa joined a major mobile communication company as a member of their Corporate Development and International Investment Division, where he worked international large-scale M&A. He joined CyberAgent Investment, Inc. in May 2006, and he has been leading the company's international expansion. The CyberAgent Investment has changed the name of company to the CyberAgent Ventures, Inc. He was appointed a Director, Overseas Investment in April 2008, and in June he has assumed the post of Head of Overseas Investment, Representative of the China office, which was same time as the Beijing office opening. He administers the company's overseas Investment projects both in China and Vietnam. Graduated from Hitotsubashi University with a major in Economics and MBA from Georgetown University.
Nobuaki KitagawaCEO
CyberAgent Ventures Beijing Co., Ltd.
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Rui Ma is a Venture 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. 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, and is in the process of completing a Masters in Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as well as an Executive MBA from INSEAD and Tsinghua University.
Rui MaVenture Partner, Greater China
500 Startups
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Stan Shih is the Chairman of Stans Foundation and iD SoftCapital Group, Co-founder & Chairman Emeritus of the Acer Group, and the Chairman of National Culture and Arts Foundation. Throughout his career, he has been a social entrepreneur all his life.
Mr. Shih serves on the Boards of ABW family (Acer, BenQ, and Wistron), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., and Nan Shan Life Insurance Co., Ltd. In Social & Public Services, he acts as the Chairman of the ADOC 2.0 Project Non-Government Steering Committee, an Asia Business Council member, Board of Director of the National Chiang Kai-Shek Cultural Center, and Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation. Furthermore, he is the Co-Chairman of White Paper on Talent Cultivation Steering Committee, Ministry of Education.
Mr. Shih had the honor to get One of the 10 Most Outstanding Young Persons in Taiwan in 1976, The Most Outstanding Young Engineer in Taiwan in 1981, and the 1st One of the 10 most Outstanding Young Persons in the World in 1983. He is a former Chairman of the Asia Business council, a Governor of the Asian Institute of Management, and an Honorary Chairman of the Taiwan Excellent Brand Association. He also serves as an International Advisory Board (IAB) member of the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS).
BusinessWeek named Mr. Shih one of its 25 Top Managers of the Year in 1996. Time featured him in its article “60 years of Asian Heroes” for turning Taiwan into a PC-manufacturing powerhouse. In 2007, Mr. Shih, as Taiwan’s Special Envoy, attended the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Summit in Sydney, Australia. Being that he has given long-term outstanding contributions, the President honored him the Order of Brilliant Start with Grand Cordon in Oct., 2011. and the 1st Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) Laureate in 2012.
Mr. Shih obtained a Bachelor’s, Master’s, and honorary Ph.D in electronics engineering from the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Technology by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and an Honorary Doctor of International Law from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Stan ShihChairman of Stans Foundation and iD SoftCapital Group and Co-Founder & Chairman Emeritus of the Acer Group
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Internet entrepreneur, co-founder of YouTube. Born in August 1978 in Taiwan. Raised in Taiwan, Chen and his family immigrated to the United States when he was 15.
After graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chen worked at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. In 2005, the three founded YouTube, a website designed to simplify video sharing online.
YouTube quickly became one of the web's fastest-growing sites, and was ranked as the 10th most popular website just a year after its launch. There are reportedly 100 million clips viewed daily on YouTube, with an additional 65,000 new videos uploaded every 24 hours.
Chen currently serves as Chief Technology Officer and was named one of the "The 50 people who matter now" by Business 2.0 magazine in 2006. That year, he and Hurley sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion in stock.
Steve ChenCo-Founder
YouTube
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Tom Strodtbeck is the director of international programs and the director of events and training for NBIA. He oversees the development, programming and execution of the International Conference on Business Incubation, the largest conference on business incubation in the world. Additionally, Tom is responsible for the development and management of NBIA’s other large training event: the Training Institute, a three-day educational event featuring nine full- and half-day workshops.
Tom also leads NBIA’s international programs department, where he has worked on training and capacity-building projects in Russia, China, Singapore, Mexico, Ghana and Malaysia, among others.
Tom is the author of five training workshops on business incubation: The Fundamentals of Incubator Management, Serving Client Companies, Facilities Management, Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship, andInternational Business Incubation.
Tom StrodtbeckDirector
National Business Incubation Association
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Sumeet heads Intel® higher education, including promoting research ecosystem, technical curricu-lums etc. in South Asia. He is in charge of the creation & execution of new product development and rollout strategy.
He also leads several innovation and technical entrepreneurship initiatives across south asian countries. He is passionate to improve the skills of students to bridge the industry-academia gaps and promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship.
The Intel® Higher Education Program brings cutting-edge technology expertise to universities, encourages students to pursue technical expertise, and helps move technology out of university labs and into local communities. Under Sumeet’s leadership, Intel is bridging the technology gap by accelerating the development of cutting-edge technology curriculum modules. More than 240 Indian Technology Institutes have added ‘Multi-Core Processing Curriculum’ through Intel Partnership. With embedded technology now starting to form one of the major aspects of the modern global economy, one of the program’s current focus is to build a new curriculum on embedded system that can be adopted by Indian institutes and bridge the opportunities and challenges to develop more powerful, energy efficient processors, peripherals and other accessories for these complex embedded systems.
Sumeet leads the ‘Intel India Embedded Challenge’, an all India contest, that encourage ideation and innovation in the areas of embedded Technology among engineering students and technical professionals of the country, and ‘Next Big Idea’, a business plan competition that create a platform where any individual can post their innovative ideas and seek mentoring, access to incubation and angel funds to help them create a real business.
Sumeet has been with Intel for over 10 years and holds varied skills and knowledge from his technical, business and management expertise. Prior to this role he has been an Engineering Manager, managing a team of software engineers, as well as a Business Capability Manager, leading a global team & managing worldwide stakeholders on an enterprise product.
Sumeet has done M.S in Information Technology and holds B.E degree in Computer Science.
Sumeet VermaHead - Higher Education and Entrepreneurship
South Asia, Intel
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Victor held system engineering and marketing positions for an extended period of time at IBM while he led IT system planning and designing efforts for many financial institutions, including ABN AMRO, ING Group and UBS with annual sales of millions of US Dollars. As CEO of Vpon, Victor is responsible for the creation and implementation of business strategies, manag-ing businesses cross nations and regions and leading the team to provide Citibank, McDonald's, Coca-Cola and other world famous brands with mobile marketing solutions. He also raised the first venture capital funding of some US$ 10 million in 2011.
Victor WuCEO
Vpon
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Anthony Hu is the Asia Pacific (APAC) Regional Developer Relationship Group Manager of Software Solutions Group of Intel Corporation. His role is in charge of APAC software solutions providers’ account relationship with Intel. Anthony previously had served as Strategic Relationship Manager at Intel Taiwan, managed the Intel Taiwan Solution Provider Program to enabling developers and solution providers to deliver Business Solutions on the Intel platform. Anthony joined Intel Taiwan in 1998. Prior to Intel Taiwan, Anthony worked as Marketing Department Manager of Gainward Co., Ltd., Product Manager of Ulead systems, and senior R&D engineer at Eten. Anthony has published papers on fuzzy logic controller at IEEE. Anthony holds Master of Computer Science from University of Tulsa.
Anthony HuAsia Pacific (APAC) Regional Developer Relationship Group Manager
Software and Services Group, Intel Corporation
Chong-Wey Lin has been working as professor in the department of communication and technology at National Chiao Tung University Taiwan since 2005. With multiple academic trainings in both social and information science, he launched the Digital Creativity and Marketing Strategy Lab ([email protected]), led a serious of culture-oriented smart living projects (CRE@Taiwan Innovative University Educational Alliance, Department of Information and Technology Education, Ministry of Education, Taiwan) and devoted himself in empowering social participation and creative operation models for the continuous development of smart living industries and social enterprises in Taiwan.
Chong-Wey Lin PhDFounder / Professor
[email protected]. of Communication and Technology, NCTU, TW
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David is a mentor and practitioner of lean/agile and project management. He is passionate and committed in helping innovators, entrepreneurs and companies to accelerate the “search phase” for business model and market segment when launching new product and/or service.
Early this year, he has been embarking on a new initiatives with launch of his proprietary “the 0 step” program in which he is committed to simplify the learning of innovation into 3 key steps. (objective of launch, purpose of launch, method of launch).
David is fluid in social and business practices between the East and West, and this experience enables him to assimilate the success formula and best practices of both worlds. He loves to share and is certified to teach in the discipline of both agile and traditional project management. (PMP® & PMI-ACP®)David was born in Taiwan and educated in Canada. He is committed to help Taiwan innovators and companies from ODM/OEM success formula to 21st century innovation. He is also heavily involved in Taiwan Startup eco-system as co-organizer and facilitator of Startup Weekend and a mentor of m2M pre-incubation 8 weeks acceleration program.
He believes with “share, try and learn” as the 3 key values of the 0 step program where anyone can learn to innovate.
David KuoMentor & Angel
The 0 Step Program
David W. Su is Director of TSMC’s Planning and Commercial Projects Legal Division, and is responsible for the management of legal and transactional issues. He joined TSMC in November 2006 as Director of the Intellectual Property Division. Prior to joining TSMC, Mr. Su was a Partner at Lee & Li, the largest law firm in Taiwan. His practice included IP, litigation, and competition laws, and is well known for his experience in handling some of the most significant IP/antitrust litigation in Taiwan. Mr. Su is an adjunct associate professor at Taiwan’s National Chengchi University and Tsinghua University, where he teaches IP contracts and the law of trade secrets.
Mr. Su graduated from National Taiwan University, and received an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School. He also received an SJD degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School.
David W. SuDirector
Planning and Commercial Projects Legal DivisionTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd
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Interest and specialized in International Cooperation, Sales & Marketing, Government ICT Policy, ICT Industry Research. Holding a Ph. D. from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, M. Bus. From Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia, and B. Eng from Feng-Chia University, Taiwan.
Working experiences include Director of International Marketing Department at Taipei Computer Association (TCA) and Executive Assistant at Industry Committee of National Information Infrastructure, Executive Yuan, Taiwan, during 1991-1999. Then became Special Assistant to Chairman at Mitac-Synnex Group in Taiwan during 1999-2000. Between 2001 and 2006, joining the IT Source Technology Limited in New Zealand as the Managing Director, later became the General Manager at EMEX ICT Show Bridge Exhibition Service Co. Ltd in Suzhou, China in 2006-2007. Since 2008, Dennis is currently the Director General at Taipei Computer Association’s International Cooperation Office, as well as the Deputy Director General in ADOC2.0 Project Non-government Office Secretary General, Foundation for Commerce & Culture Interchange (FCCI), Taiwan.
Dennis HuDirector General
International Cooperation OfficeTaipei Computer Association
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Deborah Yen is Director of Corporate Affairs Group of the Mature Markets for Intel Asia Pacific Region. She is responsible for managing Intel’s government affairs, education initiatives, employee volunteer-ing and the overall reputation as well as corporate responsibility programs for the mature markets in the Asia Pacific region, including Australia, Japan, Korea and Taiwan.
Prior to her current assignment, she held different roles at both country and regional level including Director of Corporate Affairs Group for Intel Taiwan, Director of Public Relations Group for Intel Asia Pacific Region and Director of Brand and Corporate Marketing Group for Intel Taiwan.
Yen joined Intel in 1996 as a Public Relations Manager for Intel Taiwan responsible for Intel’s media relationship, external communi-cations and product launches in Taiwan. In 2000, she moved into her corporate marketing role focusing on planning and building Intel’s brand and marketing campaigns in Taiwan with charters including public relations, branding, advertising, channel and internet marketing, Intel Inside® Program and market development. In 2004, she moved to Hong Kong to manage the regional Public Relationship group where she focused on alignment and synergy between PR function and the country teams. When she moved back to Taiwan in 2006, she formed the Corporate Affairs Group to manage Intel’s government affairs, education initiatives, employee volunteering and the overall reputation and corporate responsibility programs. Prior to joining Intel, Yen worked for NCR as Corporate Communication Manager.
Yen received her bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication from San Jose State University of California. In her leisure time, she enjoys travel, reading and volunteering.
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Corporate Affairs Group / North Asia and ANZIntel APAC Region
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John Danner is Senior Fellow at the Lester Center. An experienced management consultant and entrepreneur, he has advised senior executives of multi-billion-dollar international enterprises on strategy, value management and business growth, as well as management teams of emerging ventures on competitive positioning, marketing and product strategy. His clients include leading companies in healthcare, energy, entertainment, food products, telecommunications and information and startups in energy management, e-commerce and supply chain integration. He has designed and successfully launched several new business initiatives for client organizations over the past twenty-five years. Mr. Danner is a senior moderator for The Aspen Institute, and conducts seminars on leadership, innovation and entrepreneurship around the world.
John DannerSenior Fellow
The Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, UC Berkley
My first startup Send it was the first European company to be bought by Microsoft. My second startup was i-mate, I co-founded and floated on the London AIM for $400M. Currently Head of ODM at Vertu, based in Taipei.
Extensive smartphone, tablet, and mobile network design and delivery experience. Well-established vendor, distributor & operator facing skills. Proven design, leadership, product & project management skills. Responsible for several world firsts including numerous Windows Mobile smartphones, the radio aspects of the world’s first commercial GPRS network, the world’s first cellular to e-mail gateway, & SMS push - data fetch patents.
John WilliamsonHead of ODM
Vertu
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Peipei Ding is Strategic Product Development Engineer in PCCG Client Strategic Planning (CSP). In this role she oversees all Apac & PRC innovation project developments and collaborations for CSP New Growth & Innovations team. Peipei joined Intel in 2007 as platform application engineer. From 2007 to 2009, she held positions of system application engineer for customer and supplier thermal mechanical solution enabling. Peipei joined Visual Computing Group as thermal mechanical integrator in late 2009, her duties was expanded to lead a thermal-mechanical design team to deliver thermal solutions in 2010. Peipei received her Ph D in Mechanical Engineering from Taiwan National University in Taiwan on 2003, focused on research studies in high aspect ratio micro structure fabrication for Microelectromechanical System (MEMS).
Peipei DingStrategic Product Development Engineer
Intel Corporation
Serial entrepreneur from California and now in Asia. Co-founded PeopleWorks, GMG Systems and consulted for government agencies, NGOs and MNCs. Recently founded computer-assisted translation services and natural language text analytics.
Loves the transforming power of entrepreneurship. Adjusting American style startup methodologies to unleash innovations for entrepreneurs shaped by Asian cultures. Combating failure fears with objective-based mentoring and gamification.
The marketing half of the mentored2Market, a pre-incubation acceleration service for startups. Worships Pretotype, Lean-Startup, and Adam Smith.
Roger DoManaging Partner
mentored2Market
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Shian-Shen Sher holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from National Central University. His working experiences include Purchasing Engineer at Yue Loong Motor Company, Greater China Brand Manager at IBM Taiwan Corporation, Vice President of North Asia Product Marketing at Lotus Development European Corp., Taiwan Branch, Country Manager at Silicon Graphics Corp., Taiwan Sub, General Manager of Nokia Taiwan System, Country Manager at Comverse Taiwan, General Manager of Global Enterprise Business Unit at HTC Corp, and currently the Chairman at AmoeSolu Corpora-tion.
Shian-Shen SherDirector, Vice President
Industrial Technology Research Institute
Being Deputy Director General, Ms. Wen-Chuan Hung is mainly responsible for promoting the Digital Content Industry in Taiwan, and also operating Nangang Software Incubator. She involves not only stimulating the industry how to take advantage of digital innovation to enlarge and optimize its core values, so-called “one-source-multi-use”, but also to encourage them how to explore new business opportunities and to extend their global markets by utilizing the ICT advantages and cooperative networks. Moreover, training and incubating the talents are also the fundamental tasks for her in order to ensure the adequate human resources for the industries use.
During 2004 to 2010, she also participated the Project, named APEC Digital Opportunity Center (ADOC) and initiated by Taiwan in APEC community in 2003, which is related how to utilize the ICT advantages to transform the digital divide into the digital opportunity among 10 APEC member economics, including Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippine, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Mexico, Peru, Chile and Russia. Not only hundred thousands people benefited and incubated, including SMEs, women, children, visually impaired, etc., but also she gained the various practical entrepreneurial experiences.
Combining the specialty of ICT knowledge and the international and entrepreneurial experiences, Ms. Wen-Chuan Hung will continue to focusing on the development of digital innovation to strengthen the competitiveness of digital content industry in Taiwan, and to exploring the outstanding talents to encourage and incubate them to join entrepreneurial world and to bridge them work closely with the industries in order to create the mutual cooperation relationship for new entrepreneurs as well.
Wen Chuan HungDeputy Director General
Industry Development Augmentation Division, Institute For Information Industry (III), Taiwan
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John WilliamsonHead of ODM
Vertu
Mohan BelaniCo-Founder & CEO
e27
John DannerSenior Fellow
The Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, UC Berkley
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Nobuaki KitagawaCEO
CyberAgent Ventures Beijing Co., Ltd.
David LeeVenture Partner of SK Telecom Ventures
Co-Founder of Kstartup
Lorraine HaritonSpecial Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs
U.S. Department of State
Wen Chuan HungDeputy Director General
Industry Development Augmentation Division, Institute For Information Industry (III), Taiwan
Anthony HuAsia Pacific (APAC) Regional Developer Relationship Group Manager
Software and Services Group, Intel Corporation
Peipei DingStrategic Product Development Engineer
Intel Corporation
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David KuoMentor & Angel
The 0 Step Program
Y.K. ChuManaging Director
WI Harper Group
Dennis HuDirector General
International Cooperation OfficeTaipei Computer Association
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Early Stage Growth Stage
1. VisionariesIndia
2. Memofun Corp.Taiwan
3. NoLimit Indonesia Indonesia
4. Connexx Systems CorporationJapan
5. Wegentech Inc.Philippines
6. Clipick Taiwan
7. Sullivan’s VoiceKorea
8. Golface Taiwan
9. ShuR Co., Ltd.Japan
10. ComputerlogyThailand
11. Air Bridge TechnologyTaiwan
12. Perples, IncKorea
13. MusikWizPhilippines
14. Y Us Sdn BhdMalaysia
15. LongGoodTaiwan
16. CTW ProjecKorea
1. IDT International JSCVietNam
2. Waygo USA
3. CINEPAPAYAPeru
4. Arterex Ltd. Thailand
5. Clarinox Technologies Pty Ltd.Australia
6. GogolookTaiwan
7. Soft Solvers solutions Sdn BhdMalaysia
8. VeronicaPeru
9. 4Free WiFi Corp.Taiwan
10. Coherence Web Concepts Ltd.Hong Kong
11. 8villagesIndonesia
12. HypejarCanada
13. Funwish Corp.Taiwan
14. WindphonySingapore
15. Roam & WanderHong Kong
Our company aims at developing an affordable visual aid suited for a low vision patient in India, which has
over 11 million people with low vision. We have come up with a low cost real time video processing unit
which takes in a video input fo the surroundings, processes it and displays on wearable video glasses. We
have tested the product on Low Vision patients in one of India's leading eye care center, Sankara
Nethralaya and have taken their valuable feedback. The feedback given for the product by low vision
patients was overwhelming. Our vision is to help low vision patients lead a more normal life and help them
contribute more to the society by helping them be more self-reliant.
Visionaries
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Mukul MohanCo-Founder
Jairaj M VCo-Founder
Mukul Mohan
Jairaj M V
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MemoFun Corporation, a solution provider for social media marketing and business development, was
founded in 2012 in Taiwan.
Three founders of MemoFun are experienced, enthusiastic, and good at in this field. Through awesome
social media strategy, excellent technical background, and strong marketing sense, MemoFun is focused
on continuous innovation with a goal of effective solutions.
Our mission is not only to create the strong brand awareness for enterprise customers on social media,
the most important thing is to turn out the number of fans on social media to the real sales revenue via
online to offline mechanism.
MemoFun Corp.
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www.memofun.biz
Fang-Chuan WuCEO
Yi-Bang JianCTO
Ya-Ling HsianSales Director
Shu-Chi YangMarketing specialist
Yi-Bang Jian
Fang-Chuan Wu
Ya-Ling Hsian
Shu-Chi Yang
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NoLimit is a Social Media Technology Company from Bandung, Indonesia. It first began with an academic
research about Sentiment Analysis for Bahasa Indonesia in 2010 and continued to be a well-established
company in 2012.
Since then,NoLimit has released three ultimate products named NoLimit Dashboard, SocialMeter, and
IndSight. The response is good, since there are not many companies jump into this business while the
demand of social media insight is rising in the 5 years. We aim to be the one stop solution for social media
monitoring. We have served about 20 clients consist of enterprises, organizations, and agencies.
NoLimit Indonesia
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www.nolimitid.com
Aqsath Rasyid Naradhipa
CEO
Adiska FardaniCOO
Harimurti PrasetioCTO
Andi Taufan Garuda Putra
CBO
Aqsath Rasyid Naradhipa
Adiska Fardani
Harimurti Prasetio
Andi Taufan Garuda Putra
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CONNEXX SYSTEMS was founded in 2011 and started the business activation in 2012. The purpose of
the company is to develop breakthrough innovation of energy storage systems. The company has the
R&D center in Kyoto with seven employees and the research institute in Pasadena with two employees.
These institutes have strong academic linkages with Kyoto University and California Institute of
Technology. The competence of the company consists of several unique technologies, and one of them
is the Shuttle-Battery, next generation high energy storage system powered by Ferrum (iron). The
developed novel Shuttle-Battery can generate electrical power from hydrogen which is produced from
ferrum and water vapor. This device can store 10 times higher energy than conventional Li-ion batteries.
CONNEXX SYSTEMS
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www.connexxsys.com
Hisashi TSUKAMOTO, Ph.D.Global CEO / Chairman of the Board
Eiichi YAMAGUCHI, D.Sc.Managing Director / Member of the Board
Hisashi TSUKAMOTO, Ph.D.
Eiichi YAMAG
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WegenTech,Inc. is a start-up company being incubated by IdeaSpace Foundation,Inc., a non-profit
organization that aims to help technopreneurs develop their products into viable and commercial ones.
The company was founded by a team of individuals that would like to address the expensive cost of
electricity and reliance on nonrenewable sources. It focuses on providing renewable sources of energy
using innovative technologies in a clean,cost-eddective and accessible way even reaching those areas
with no available power source. Aside from generating power, it aims to be able to generate more jobs
and give quality service to other people.
Wegentech,Inc.
• Contact Information
www.wegenstartup.com
KARL IVAN E. ESTADOLACTO
JEAH C. ALICANTECEO
JILLIAN L. AREVAOCFO
KARL IVAN E. ESTADOLA
[email protected]: charlesestimate
JEAH C. ALICANTE
[email protected]: jcalicante
JILLIAN L. AREVAO
[email protected]: ArevaloJillian
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Golface provides a comprehensive and highly flexible application on iPad and iPhone for golf courses to
service their members by integrating immediate reporting system, marketing and social networking
functions.
Golface
• Contact Information
www.golface.com.tw
Ian LiaoSales Manager
Pat LeeDeveloper
Henry TsenUI Designer
Alin Chen Marketing managerr
Pat Lee
Ian Liao
Henry Tsen
Alin Chen
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ShuR Group was founded by Junto Ohki when he was 21 years old, a sophomore student at Keio
University in 2008. ShuR is a Social Enterprise which helps Deaf people with IT. ShuR created the
management principle “Tech for the Deaf”. ShuR won twelve awards in ten different business contests;
including international student’s business contest “The Best Business Entrepreneurship Award”
GlobalTiC Talentrepreneur Award, Taiwan.
ShuR offers an interpretation service via video chat, the guide application on smart phone, and cloud
source online dictionary in sign language fields.
In 2012, Junto was selected as the first Ashoka Fellow in East Asia, became a member of Global Shaper
Community, World Economic Forum, and selected as Forbes 30under30.
ShuR Co., Ltd.
• Contact Information
www.shur.jp
Junto Ohki
[email protected]: juntoohki
Junto OhkiCo-Founder the President
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Computerlogy was founded in 2009 by a group of experienced software developers. Our goal is to deliver
the high standard products and services that help corporations with their business
achievements.
Computerlogy is proud to announce that it has been selected as one of the initial members of the
Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer Program (PMD) in Apps. We are the only one PMD in Thailand,
along with other few selected developers in Asia.
Computerlogy
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www.computerlogy.com
Vachara AemavatCo-Founder and Managing Director
Vachara Aemavat
[email protected]: vachara.aemavat
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We are a group of people with same philosophy of design. Recently, our Apps had been emerged
internationally and that motivates us so much. We believe changing the world is not just a dream, but
fulfillable with our positive attitude toward every aspect of our works. Our newly invented wedding
platform helps newlyweds to hold a different wedding ceremony. We would like to bring happiness to
people by our Apps.
Air bridge Technology Co.,LTD
• Contact Information
www.airbridge.com.tw
Chia-Ming Chang
[email protected]: chiaming.chang
Jian-Hang Li
[email protected]: banPrint
Chun-Hua [email protected]: mychunhua
Chao-Hsuan [email protected]: darrenchwu
Chia-Ming ChangGeneral Manager
Chun-Hua ChengProject Manager
Jian-Hang LiProject Manager
Chao-Hsuan WuProject Manager
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When we started to develop Evenesis in 2010, our focus is very simple and clear. Our proposition is to challenge the traditional ways of doing things in event planning industry in this region. We want to rejuvenate and modernize the way people in South East Asia doing events. Here in this region, the people in the industry are still using manual ways to do planning and managing their events. We see there is a lot of room for improvement and through technology; we know for sure we can provide them with the right tools to automate some of the event planners’ tedious work. Challenging a status quo is not a popular move around this region, but we are crazy enough to answer that challenge.At Evenesis, we care about our customer. In real plain simple words, we go extra miles when it comes to our customers. Without them, there won’t be Evenesis. Because of that, we pay attention to every detail in what we develop for them. Of course, there are plenty of spaces that we need to improve on the system level. We can assure you that “improvement” is a verb here in this company. We deliver changes to the system on daily basis. And we want the users to experience the best from us.Our team is small and yet, we have giant list of things we need to build in order to deliver the highest quality features to our users. Our team members are diverse in culture and professional skills. We respect each other but we demand the best from each other. We make mistakes, we learn quickly from them, and always ask ourselves, “How can we make things better?”. We work hard, we kick our own butt sometimes far beyond our own wanting, but we also have fun while doing that. We want everybody in the company to have fun at what they are doing and at what they are contributing back to the users. Love begets love.Our story does not end here. We want to keep creating new chapters in our story. We also want you to be part of our story. Write to us if you like our system. Write to us if you are not satisfied with our product. We listen.
Y Us Sdn Bhd (Evenesis)
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Mohd Yusno Bin Mohd Yunos
CEO
Mohd Farid bin Mohd Nor
VP Marketing & Sales
Zuhaini bin Kardi
Marketing & Sales Evangelist
Siti Norasyikin binti Mat Yaacob
Programmer & Innovator
Mohd Yusno Bin Mohd [email protected]
Mohd Farid bin Mohd [email protected]
Siti Norasyikin binti Mat [email protected]
Zuhaini bin [email protected]
www.evenesis.com
The vision of LongGood is to “make the world healthier by innovation.” At LongGood,
we strive to make the world healthier through consistently innovation. Our goal is to improve the
rehabilitation process, to make it more entertaining, effective and also engaging. Moreover, the solution we
provide is affordable for everyone which would benefit more patients. Currently, LongGood has developed
technology that could revolutionize physical therapy by using Microsoft Kinect’s motion tracking technology.
We are confident that LongGood would inject new vitality to medical field. And together LongGood will
strive for excellence and try to benefit more people.
LongGood
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www.longgood.com.tw
Ray Chen
Stacy Wang
Mak Chang
Shine Liu
Ray ChenFounder, CEO
Mak ChangCTO
Stacy WangSales Manager
Shine Liu Software Engineer
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International Trading, Investment and Technology Development Joint-stock company was established in 2007. As a young company, but IDT has maximized its financial and technology potentials and has applied properly its business strategy to initially create its brand reputation.Mission Contributing to raise material and spritual living standard of each individual and community by offering highly educational and humanitarian products and services.Vision Being the pioneer in using innovative financial, training and technology tools to create new, superior and stable value for society.IDT operates in the following fields:
•Financial Investment•Training•Developing and implementing Internet -based projects
IDT now focuses on investing in 2 major fields i.e training, technology and real estate.
IDT International JSC
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www.idt.vn
CTW Project starts with inspiration for ‘change the world for the better place’. The first project is involved
with supermarket shopping. The project suggests new way to shop in supermarket, using smartphone
application or barcode scanner.
CTW Project got prize in 2013 Korea start-up audition which ‘The Korea Foundation for the Advancement
of Science and Creativity’ hosted and ‘Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning’ supported.
Our final goal is to suggest our own creative solution to solve world’s various exist problems and make our
world better place.
CTW project
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Mr. Le Linh LuongVice Director of
“Hoc Lam Giau” Project
Mr. Le Quoc Trung“Hoc Lam Giau” Project Manager
Dr. Pham Thanh HaiFounder & Director
of “Hoc Lam Giau” Projectr
Dr. Pham Thanh Hai
Mr. Le Linh Luong
Dr. Pham Thanh Hai
Chan hyun Kim
[email protected]: chanhyeon.kim.5
Chan hyun KimDirector
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Cinepapaya.com started as a R&D Project funded by the Innovation Fund of the Ministry of Production of Peru. The project developed into a Startup company which received equity-free seed capital from the Government of Chile’s Startup Chile Program. Cinepapaya also received investment and acceleration from Wayra Peru, and received investment from 500 Startups from Silicon Valley. Currently we are deployed in Peru, Chile, Colombia and Mexico with our movie showtime website and APPS for Smartphones (iPhone, Android and Windows Phone) and SmartTVs. We are currently selling movie tickets in Peru, and soon to deploy in Chile and Colombia.
• Founded: May 2012• Total Investment Raised USD 500,000. • Current Valuation USD 2,500,000• 60,000 active registered users (growing at 10% per month)• 50,000 downloaded Smartphone Apps (Average rating 4.7/5 Stars)
CINEPAPAYA.com
• Contact Information
www.cinepapaya.com
Waygo is the start of a real-time computer vision platform on mobile devices. The first platform product
is a suite of translation apps. Our apps use a phone camera to instantly translate text without an internet
connection. Just point and translate.
The first Waygo app is for Chinese to English translation and is available in the app store. We have
patent-pending technology and will add more languages in the coming months.
Download Waygo: http://bit.ly/yUib1Q
Try on a sample menu: http://bit.ly/N7oott
We'd love to hear from you!
Waygo
• Contact Information
www.waygoapp.com
Gary UrteagaCo-Founder
• Monthly revenue of USD 100,000.• 12 Employees.
Gary Urteaga
Ryan RogowskiCEO
Huan-Yu WuDirector of Technology
Kevin ClarkDirector of Product
Robert SanchezDirector of Operations
Ryan Rogowski
[email protected]: ryan.rogowski
Kevin Clark
Huan-Yu Wu
[email protected]: albert.wu.90
Robert Sanchez
[email protected]: robertsanchez88
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Clarinox Technologies provides short range wireless protocol stacks and related engineering services. The
product portfolio includes ClarinoxBlue, ClarinoxWiFi and ClarinoxSoftFrame. By handling the inherent
complexity of wireless, Clarinox allows developers to be free to concentrate on their application enabling
faster integration of wireless connectivity into product developments. In the near future Clarinox will be
releasing two innovative developments: an Intelligent Design Environment to guide the engineer through
the product life cycle; and hardware evaluation modules. Eliminating the causes for project delays and
budget overruns, by giving engineers the components and tools they need, is the driving force behind
Clarinox solutions.
Clarinox Technologies Pty Ltd
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www.clarinox.com
Arterex Ltd. specializes in building and maintaining content/community websites. We have expertise in IT
consulting and digital marketing with strong focus in healthcare and education industry. We own and
operate #1 healthcare website in Thailand (haamor.com) and early-child education website
(taamkru.com). Our superior content-creation team consists of more than 100 doctors and child-
development experts whose content attracts more than 500,000 unique visitors a month. Our unique
ad model delivers 10x ROI for advertisers compared to regular ad banners. All of our 10+ advertisers are
leading brands of their own industries with more than US$100 million in revenue each. We are now
expanding into mobile applications where we can take advantage of our 4 million users and 4 million
monthly impressions.
Arterex Ltd.
• Contact Information
www.haamor.com
Patricia MessiterCEO
Gokhan TanyeriCTO
Patricia Messiter
[email protected]: au.linkedin.com/in/trishmessiter/
Gokhan Tanyeri
[email protected]: au.linkedin.com/in/gokhantanyeri/
Wicharn ManawanitjarernCo-Founder & Managing Director
Keerati InochanonCo-Founder & IT Director
Wicharn Manawanitjarern
Keerati InochanonV
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SoftSolvers creates and implements cloud based business solutions that improve financial and
operational performance, drive customer relationships, and facilitate collaboration among customers and
employees. SoftSolvers helps companies to Organise, Analyse and Optimise their business processes and
take them to the NEXT level.
SoftSolvers product Second CRM is a cloud based Customer Relationship Management Solution designed
for Small Businesses, who have never used any automated tool other than MS Excel - Everybody’s First
CRM. Second CRM is designed to upgrade Small Businesses using Excel to an Online Solution, with
minimal learning curve.
SoftSolvers utilizes Cloud Computing, Open Source and Asia Cost advantage, to offer world-class
solutions and best support at the affordable prices.
Soft Solvers Solutions Sdn Bhd
• Contact Information
www.secondcrm.com
Gogolook Co., Ltd is a startup company based in Taipei. The firm was formed by a group of young people
known for their passion and innovation abilities. Our team comes from diversified academic backgrounds
such as computer science, design, technology management, etc., and with extensive working experience
in the IT industry with companies such as HTC, MEDIATEK, NOKIA, NEC, TrendMicro, etc. Gogolook has
received public praise by Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, and has won accolades such as the
2012 Chinese Mobile Applications Awards and Google's Innovation of the Year Award (2012). The
primary product of Gogolook Co. is WhosCall, which has accumulated more than 4 million downloads.
Gogolook
• Contact Information
www.WhosCall.com
DeepCEO
SarabCOO
Deep
[email protected]: my.linkedin.com/in/mdsahni/
Sarab
Jeff KuoCEO
Jackie Cheng CFO
Reiny SongCTO
Edgar ChiuCOO
Jeff Kuo
Reiny Song
Jackie Cheng
Edgar Chiu
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4Free WiFi is a digital marketing network covers restaurants / retail stores / salons / clinic, which gathered
users through free WiFi services. Users may connect to our 750+ open hotspots and a simple
click-through instantly offers personalized and location-based information and goodies about their
surroundings. We strive to provide most useful and beneficial information to our users.
Rapid burgeoning mobile network usage and inadequate use of 3G is a national topic in Taiwan these
years, which causing the phenomenon of growing demand in public WiFi users. Our remote control access
resolves 90% of hotspot WiFi issues online. 4Free WiFi is addressing to the need and provide a win-win
solution to satisfy both hotspot owners and users’ desire
4Free WiFi Corp
• Contact Information
www.4free.com.tw
VERONICA is a cloud based service for the computerized identification of objects and events in live video
feed from security cameras and the triggering of automatic alerts to security personnel, law enforcement
agencies or private clients. Our proprietary technology integrates advanced video analysis algorithms
which allow the real time recognition of objects such as faces, weapons, license plates or events such as
accidents, unusual traffic of people and vehicles. Our unique solution uses the power and scalability of
cloud computing to offer a service at significantly reduced costs. We offer a seamless integration to
standard security video systems.
VERONICA
• Contact Information
www.veronicacore.com
Lucy LiaoCEO
John LeeCTO
Isabel MelgarCo-Founder
Adolfo PizarroCo-Founder
Irina RymshinaCo-Founder
Lucy Liao
John Lee
Irina Rymshina
[email protected]: @iRymshina
Isabel Melgar
Adolfo Pizarro
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8villages is a mobile platform linking farmers to their communities of peers and their external business
partners.
• The first online network combining voice, SMS and internet that connects farmers by relevant
business communities ("Villages").
• A highly scalable platform for farmers to generate microblog posts, share brand comparison, give
feedbacks on products and farming techniques, and attend trainings provided by experts.
• A data aggregation tool to provide market intelligence to agri-business corporations on consumption
behaviors, yields, and acreages.
• A "plug'n play" API for mobile carriers to expand their reach into rural communities.
8villages
• Contact Information
www.8villages.com
Timable is an event search engine which allows users to search for event (eg Concerts, exhibitions,
festivals etc) by time and location, eg music events in downtown on coming Saturday 8pm. Such time
search fills up the gap that all search engines can’t do now. It’s now the hottest event listing web+app in
Hong Kong with 400k unique visitors per month.
Timable is not only a platform searching for fun but also a powerful marketing tool. For orgainzers and
merchants, Timable provides them a platform which connects up the demand (customers) and supply
(merchants).
Furthermore, the model of Timable can be replicated to any other big cities in the world to build a cross-
country platform of events.
Timable (Coherence Web Concept Limited)
• Contact Information
www.timable.com
Sanny GaddafiCTO
Mathieu Le BrasCEO
Sanny Gaddafi
[email protected]: sagad Tweeter: sagad
Mathieu Le Bras
[email protected]: sg.linkedin.com/pub/mathieu-le-bras/10/811/b6/en
Mike KoCo-Founder
Mike Ko
[email protected]: timable.hk
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UR-code: A new solution to replace QR-code
UR-code provides an innovative and convenient way for people to search for information using camera
phones without QR-code. Users can look up product information, including specifications, prices and reviews,
simply by ‘scanning’ the items they are interested in. Smartphone changes the way consumers shop. It is
used everywhere, including home, transportation and retail stores. 69% users have used Smartphone in a
store to compare prices and search for reviews, key factors that influence their final purchase decision. That
is why we proposed a fast interactive way for users to check products which they are interested in. After 3
years research and development, we successfully build this mobile visual searching engine for any business
enterprise. They could adopt our solution to provide this kind of mobile service for their customers. We think
mobile commerce will change consumer behavior dramatically. Now we have some successful cases in
Taiwan and hope we could export this innovative solution to overseas market.
Funwish Corp.
• Contact Information
funwish.net
Hypejar is a social platform that allows people to discover and get alerted of future product releases.
Through user interaction, the platform quantifies the level of anticipation for products (such as movies
and gadgets) before they release into the market.
Hypejar
• Contact Information
www.hypejar.com
Huang Hsin-Yi
FB: conniewish
Hu,Chao-Heng
FB: heng1005
Huang Chun -Chieh
FB: amoswish
Lin Hsin-Yu
FB: linfish
Chung,Yuan-Heng
FB: jhaoheng.hu
Grant Yim
Dylan Jude
Won Jun Bae
Mike Kwon
Grant YimCo-Founder & CEO
Won Jun BaeCo-Founder & COO
Dylan JudeCo-Founder & CTO
Mike KwonCo-Founder & CSO
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Roam & Wander is an entertainment brand reimagining the way software, devices and toys come
together to create new entertainment and learning experiences for kids ages 2 to 6. As so many aspects
of our life become more digital, we all want our kids to stay engaged with the physical world. It's time that
apps and toys came together, and our goal is to establish Roam & Wander as the brand parents think of
first as the leader in games and app-enabled toys for young kids. Our first game, Sticker Games, rewards
kids for their achievements with *real stickers*, and reached and has remained in the top of the App
Store, and our first toy was successfully funded on Kickstarter.
Roam & Wander
• Contact Information
Jason WarrenFounder
Jason Warren
www.roamandwander.com
Windphony: a sheet music self-publication website to help every musician, regardless professional or
novice, to market and publish their music with its automated sheet music distribution platform.
With Windphony, composers can dictate what they want to publish, when to publish and whether to
distribute at a cost or free. Through Windphony, they can make friends with other members and create a
community of like-minded musicians. They can manage their own sales and maintain a record of
customers who had bought their music. All transactions can be downloaded into PDFs and Excel format.
Windphony is accessible through digital or mobile devices
Windphony
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Poh Chin WeiPartner & Technology Management
www.windphony.com
Valerie TanBusiness Management
& Co-Founder
Tan Siow WeeMusic Management
& Co-Founder
Tan Siow Wee
[email protected]: siowwee.tan
Poh Chin Wei
Valerie Tan
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Conference Secretariat Room
Computers (with high-speed internet connection) and printers are provided in the Delegation Room. There will be two computers free to use in the Secretariat Room. Software available is Microsoft Office XP Std. in English. Equipment is for official purposes only.
Security and medical services will be available at the meeting site and at official hospitality functions throughout the duration of the meetings. Participants are responsible for paying medical, surgical, dental, and hospital fees, or for presenting an insurance policy covering such fees.
Delegation/Secretariat RoomStar Room, B2 Floor, Sheraton Grande
Opening Hours: 09:00-17:00
August 13th-14th
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Mobile: (886) 975-319-934
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Ms. Shaune Chen
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• 12 Zhong Xiao East Road, Sec 1 R.O.C. Taipei, Taiwan
• Tel : (886)(2) 2321 5511
• http://www.sheraton-taipei.com
Sheraton Grande Taipei Hotel12 Zhongxiao East Road, Section 1, TaipeiTEL : +886-2-2321-5511台北喜來登大飯店
地址 : 台北市中正區忠孝東路 1 段 12 號電話 : 02-2321-5511
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• Voltage: 110-120 Volts (Same as U.S./Canada, most other areas are 220-240 Volts).
• Primary Socket Types: North American Non-Grounded, North American Grounded.
• Please note that these may not be identical to U.S./Canadian sockets, and may require an adapter.
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6. Reminders for Traveler
• A great majority of in-door public areas in Chinese Taipei are non-smoking areas, such as cultural or social education institution, government offices, physical education or training sites, hotels, shopping malls, restaurants, conference halls, etc. Smoking is also not allowed around some outdoor public areas including sites for public transportation, stations sites, medical treatment service institutions, and so on.
• Smoking, eating, drinking and gum chewing are prohibited in Taipei Rapid Transit (MRT) area, also known as Taipei Metro area.
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1. Taipei in BriefTaipei City is the current capital city and it is the center of politics, economy, education and recreation of the economy and offers a wide selection of sights. It is located in the northern basin of the island, taking the Dan Shui River, Hsin Dian River, Keelung River and Taipei County as boundaries. The population of Taipei City alone is around 3 million. For more information about Taipei, please visit: http://english.taipei.gov.tw.
2. Weather in TaipeiTaipei’s weather is affected by latitude, altitude, terrain and monsoon factors; it is warm in winters and hot in summers. It rains throughout the four seasons and is commonly warm and humid. January is the month with the lowest average temperature of 15.8? (60?) whereas August is the month with the highest average temperature of 29.3? (85?). February is the month with the highest average relative humidity of 80% whereas the yearly average relative humidity of 78%. For detailed weather forecast, please visit: http://www.cwb.gov.tw/eng/.
3. TelecommunicationLong distance calls can be made from hotel rooms or public phones. Pre-paid phone cards are available at the hotel or convenience stores, and they can be used either for domestic or international calls. Please note that all charges for personal phone calls made in the hotel rooms are borne by participants.
4. Currency and BankingThe currency used in Chinese Taipei is the New Taiwan Dollar (NTD), and the basic unit is Yuan. According to Chinese Taipei’s customs, no more than NTD 60,000 in notes may be brought in by each passenger unless a permit is obtained in advance. There are no restrictions on the amount of foreign currency, traveler’s checks or credit cards brought into Chinese Taipei. However, travelers carrying more than USD 10,000 must declare them to Customs.Major foreign currencies can be exchanged at banks or third party currency exchange shops. Rates in these establishments are usually better than those in hotels. Approximately USD 1.00 is equivalent to NTD 30.
Bank notes come in denominations of NTD 100, NTD 500, and NTD 1,000. Coins are in the following denominations: NTD 1, NTD 5, NTD 10, and NTD 50.Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) are normally available in banks and other commercial establishments such as major railway stations, airports, convenience stores, petrol stations, department stores, and shopping complexes. If you make an interbank withdrawal (that is, withdrawal from an ATM that does not belong to your bank) you will be charged with a small fee for each transaction. Most ATMs offer interface in both Chinese and English.
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