Session Overview
Welcome to the Metaverse: The Wild West for Creative Industries
11/10

Today’s youth have migrated to the virtual world for socializing and entertainment, blurring and blending the borders between virtuality and reality. For future generations, daily life on the internet will cover gaming, entertainment, arts & collection, fashion, and retail. A new economy is hatching within the metaverse as well. As corporations are boldly proclaiming their metaverse strategies, join us to explore the challenges and advantages of Taiwan’s creative content industry to gain a first-mover advantage in the wild west for creative industries.

 

Venue|Multifunctional Exhibition Hall (Tobacco Factory 2F), Songshan Cultural and Creative Park (or online) in Taipei, Taiwan
Join Us |Book Onsite Ticket / Watch YouTube Live
YouTube Live|
現場直播(中文頻道):https://youtu.be/xSPuU0tlank
LIVE (English):https://youtu.be/KMM3-0eNWgI

 

Moderator | 
Hsiao-Ching Ting(Taiwan Creative Content Agency/Chairperson)

Speaker |
Audrey Tang(Executive Yuan/Digital Minister)
Ethan Tu(Taiwan AI Labs/Founder)
T.H. Tung(Pegatron Corporation/Chairman)
Sandee Chan(Le Musique Co.,Ltd/Music Producer)

11/10
Venue Multifunctional Exhibition Hall Tobacco Factory 2F
Date/Time 13:30-15:00
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    During the years serving as political deputy minister of culture, Ting participated in launching multiple initiative programs for cultural content industries and in legislative enactment of major bills regarding cultural affairs. She engaged in the establishment of Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab C-Lab. In May 2019, Ting was inaugurated as board chair of TAICCA. She will utilize institutional support to establish a platform for interdisciplinary cooperation, to accelerate the progress of content industries, to plan for global distribution and to build a brand identity for Taiwan’s cultural industries." }
    Moderator
    Hsiao-Ching Ting
    Chairperson
  • { "cover": "https://tccf.taicca.tw/files/20211025135109993.jpg", "pos": "Moderator", "nameZh": "Audrey Tang", "nameEn": "Digital Minister", "desc": "Audrey Tang is Taiwan’s digital minister in charge of Social Innovation.

    Audrey is known for revitalizing the computer languages Perl and Haskell, as well as building the online spreadsheet system EtherCalc in collaboration with Dan Bricklin.

    In the public sector, Audrey served on Taiwan national development council’s open data committee and the 12-year basic education curriculum committee; and led the country’s first e-Rulemaking project.

    In the private sector, Audrey worked as a consultant with Apple on computational linguistics, with Oxford University Press on crowd lexicography, and with Socialtext on social interaction design.

    In the social sector, Audrey actively contributes to g0v “gov zero”, a vibrant community focusing on creating tools for the civil society, with the call to “fork the government.”" }
    Moderator
    Audrey Tang
    Digital Minister
  • { "cover": "https://tccf.taicca.tw/files/20211025135149107.jpg", "pos": "Speaker", "nameZh": "Ethan Tu", "nameEn": "Founder", "desc": "Ethan Tu contributes to using artificial intelligence to solve the problems we encounter in society. Prior to founding Taiwan AI Labs, Ethan worked in the National Institutes of Health NIH to develop cancer detection systems and human genetic research in the US. In 2006, Ethan had started to work in Microsoft’s AI team and be the principal development manager in 2012.

    Taiwan AI Labs aims to develop next-generation AI solutions and define future experience with AI for the world. There are three topics that Taiwan AI Labs focuses on, which are “HealthCare,” “Smart City,” and “Human Computer Interaction.” The mission statement of Taiwan AI Labs is: Innovate AI in Taiwan and for The World, bring technology to meet nature and humanity, and create impacts and improvements for human well-being.”

    Ethan Tu holds bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in computer science from National Taiwan University NTU." }
    Speaker
    Ethan Tu
    Founder
  • { "cover": "https://tccf.taicca.tw/files/20211025135214724.jpg", "pos": "Speaker", "nameZh": "T.H. Tung", "nameEn": "Chairman", "desc": "Mr. T.H. Tung is the founder and chairman of Pegatron Group, and he is also the honorary president of TCA. As one of the co-founders of ASUSTeK Computer, he led a team to develop a laptop computer brand which later earned highest market share in Taiwan and made its name to the top 10 laptop brands in the world. In 2008 Pegatron split from ASUSTeK, Mr. T.H. Tung joined Pegatron as chairman and group CEO. Pegatron Corporation employs strong design capability and abundant experiences to develop diverse DMS services. With the upmost usage of its net asset of NT$198.9 billion and the outstanding performance of 160,000 Pegatron employees worldwide, the consolidated revenue of Pegatron reached NT$1,399 billion in 2020." }
    Speaker
    T.H. Tung
    Chairman
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    Speaker
    Sandee Chan
    Music Producer