Luke Lee

TEDxWeekendTaipei Organizer / Curator

TEDx Ambassador / TEDxDaanPark Organizer

Managing Director, The School of Life Taipei

Jiunshi Lin

Taiwan's first female parkour coach

Navigators

Fang-Ming Lu

Chairman of Asia Pacific Telecom GroupExecutive Director of Board, Hon Hai Precision Inc.Corporate Executive Vice President of Hon Hai Technology Group.

Innovation

Mr. Fang-Ming Lu has been a Corporate Executive Vice President of Hon Hai / Foxconn since the intelligent hub and switch products ODM manufacturing company he co-founded was acquired by Hon Hai / Foxconn in 2002. In 2014, Mr. Lu took over as Chairman of Asia Pacific Telecom Group.

Architect

Sustainability

Hsieh Ying-Chun

Hsieh devotes himself to post-disaster reconstruction for more than 17 years. He considers architecture and town-planning a collective endeavor and participatory effort. His projects often originating from the need to provide a prompt response to sudden and unexpected environmental or climatic emergencies focus on principles such as biocompatibility, sustainability and self-sufficiency.

Orientation I - Innovation

1. The Future of Humanity & Technology

Fang-Ming Lu

Chairman of Asia Pacific Telecom Group
Executive Director of Board, Hon Hai Precision Inc.
Corporate Executive Vice President of Hon Hai Technology Group.

Andrew Schwabecher

CEO of Japan Computer Vision Corp.

Vice President in SoftBank Corp Business Development Unit

Andy is the CEO of Japan Computer Vision Corp., a partnership between SoftBank Corp and Sensetime Group based in Tokyo, Japan and a Vice President in SoftBank Corp Business Development Unit where he established SoftBank’s cloud computing and cyber security portfolio. Andy has served as a director of Dome9, a Cyber Security startup acquired by Checkpoint, and as well as a member of the Equinix Technical Advisory Board.

2. Social Innovation and Cross Generation

Pan Hsin-rong

Co-founder and

Brand & Business Development Director of 9floor

Pan established 9floor co-living in 2015, aims to provide better living experiences in urban area through space and user design. Now besides from the renovation works, 9floor also provide planning and management consulting services to companies and governments. As a creative entrepreneur, Pan leads 9floor won the several significant global awards include Good Design Award in Japan, 2018; Asia Social Innovation Award in HongKong, 2017; ANYSE in Seoul, 2016 and Shopping Design Award best 100 in Taiwan,2018.

TEDxer / WeWork Japan

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Yusuke Suzuki

Yusuke Suzuki is a Data Analyst and an Idea Catalyst. He joined WeWork Japan as Product Marketing Manager in 2019. Previously, he worked at INTAGE (Marketing Research Company in Japan) and Google Japan.

Besides the works, he’s involved in TED/TEDx from 2010. Founded 3 TEDxes, and mentored 20+ TEDxes. Currently, he contributes the initiative as Co-organizer of TEDxTokyo, Head of TEDx Japan Portal Project, and global TEDx Ambassador.

3. Digital Governance & Maker X

Audrey Tang

TEDx Speaker @ TEDxVitoriaGasteiz / @audreyt

Audrey Tang is a “poetician” working on Open Government, Social Innovation and Youth Engagement.

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 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.”

TED Fellow
Director of MakerBay

Cesar Jung-Harada

Cesar Jung-Harada is a French-Japanese inventor, environmentalist, entrepreneur and educator living in Hong Kong.

Cesar TED Talk "How I Teach Kids to Love Science" has been translated into 36 languages and viewed more than 1.5 million times.Cesar used to teach Masters of “Design and Environment” at Goldsmiths University and "Cultural Entrepreneurship" at Hong Kong University.

Orientation II - Sustainability

1. Regional Revitalization

CHIEH-YU LIN

Deputy Secretary-General of

New Taipei City Government

A high level Public Affairs/Corporate Communications Executive with proven records in policy shaping & media planning that support tangible business outcome. Possess solid parliamentary and political intelligence and the highest stakeholder mapping skills. Also come with global corporation management experience and can thrive in a highly competitive and unpredictable environment.

Yoshikuni TAZAKI

Global Business Planning Department, Senior Consultant, GPG Senior Manager, Nomura Research Institute

Specialties

Global Business Strategic Planning, Industrial Analysis
Business Scheme, Finance Scheme, F/S
City/Real Estate Development, Infrastructure Development Planning

Books, Research Papers

The Taiwanese economy –past, now, future （2016）
The investment from Japan to Taiwan is booming （2013）
The construction and real estate market in Taiwan (2011)

Jay Klaphake

TEDxer / TEDx Kyoto Founder

Jay Klaphake is the founder of TEDxKyoto, Japan's largest TEDx event, held at the iconic Kyoto International Conference Center. The talks produced by his team have been viewed more than 12 million times and translated into 40 languages. He is currently a professor in the Department of Global Studies, in the Faculty of Global Engagement at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, where he teaches, among other things, law, international negotiation, and a seminar on innovation, creativity and leadership.

2. Economic, Social, and Environmental Sustainability

Wu Ting-An

TEDx speaker @ TEDxPetalingStreet

Executive Vice President of

Spring Pool Glass

Spring Pool Glass, the largest glass recycling company in Taiwan, which recovers over 100,000 tons of waste glass annually and transforms it into valuable material and circular products. His ultimate goal is to “forge a unique industry for a green circular economy, ” by converting limited resources into sustainable materials that can be continuously recycled.” Wu was awarded the 2018 Taiwan Presidential Innovative Award and has been featured by the Discovery Channel for his innovative invention of green building material.

Chao Wen-hao

General Manager of Cha Tzu Tang

Founded in 2004, Cha Tzu Tang dedicates in revitalizing the farming and cultural value of camellia seed oil by managing three farms in Taiwan, with the implementation of contract farming and planting plans of camellia trees and the continuous discovery of Taiwanese plants.

Stands on the theory in science, the development department of the enterprise have a clear path to achieve circular economy in 2025 by completing each of the subprojects on schedule.

Andrew Li

Founder of ECOCO

ECOCO is a points system designed with circular economy in mind. To make doing things for the environment fun and rewarding; inviting more people, companies and organizations to work together for our planet. The name ECOCO consists of ECO and COin, representing the concept of resource regeneration and sustainable development.

3. Resilient City & Communities

Lin,Sheng-Fong

Professor

Member of Control Yuan

Experience

1. Minister of State, Executive Yuan, supervising

Tourism, environmental protection, earthquake disaster area reconstruction, national land planning and major public works
International architecture competitions of national scenic areas and national gate areas
New Taiwan national landscape movement.

2. Deputy CEO, 921 Earthquake Post-Disaster Recovery Committee, Executive Yuan, in charge of the reconstructions of campus, tourism and industries

ICHIKO TARO

Professor, Department of Urban Science and Policy, Graduate School of Urban Environmental Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University

ICHIKO TARO is dedicating two theses; the former is the pre-disaster planning for post-disaster recovery in Tokyo, the latter is a long-term recovery study from the Tohoku-Pacific Ocean Earthquake (2011). Though, both theses shared a common sense to take community-based approach for resilience society and be based on the planning theory for the community development.

His thesis was awarded the encouragement prize from the City Planning Institute of Japan (2010) and Institute of Social Safety Science (2005)

Florentina Niradewi

TEDxer

Co-founder of Idelaju
Global Partnership Director of Telapak

Florentina Niradewi is passionate about social impact, arts, and sports. She is currently the Co-founder of Idelaju — an organization that aims to turn heroes into rockstars; and Global Partnership Director of Telapak — a social enterprise that focuses on solving deforestation in Indonesia.

She is also the license owner and lead organizer of TEDxJakarta, one of the first TEDx events in South-East Asia; and has been supporting many TEDx events in Indonesia since 2010.