Taiwan-Belgium(Wallonia)Innovation Forum

June 7, 2024 13:00-15:00 click to share

InnoVEX Center Stage

The economies and industries of Taiwan and Belgium have long been supported by strong government subsidies for innovative R&D. Due to academic-based R&D centers have been the main sources of disruptive innovations in various core industries.

In both countries, these research entities have succeeded in developing applied technologies that are extremely "disruptive" to the industries, and through such technology and business transfer have successfully spawned "scale-up innovative startups" that are outstanding in the industries, generating “unicorn” miracles. This forum has invited Prof Lin Chi-Hung, President of the National Yangming Chiaotung University, and Mr. Nicolas Bioul, Director of Louvain Tech Transfer Office from the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve from the French-speaking part of Belgium. (the UCLouvain has accumulated a total of 80 Spin-Offs by 2020) With speakers that are executives from outstanding innovative companies from Taiwan and Belgium (Wallonia) to present the latest developments in the field of "Scale-up's" that are successful spin-offs from universities’ research projects.

Agenda

13:00 - 13:10 Opening Remarks
Opening Remarks
Dr. Chi-Hung Lin President of National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, National Yanming Chiaotung University
Philippe LACHAPELLE Director of Technical Partnerships and Networks of Innovation, Wallonia Export-Investment Agency
Matthieu Branders Director, Belgium Office Taipei
13:10 - 13:20 Signing Ceremony
NYCU x UCLouvain MOU Signing Ceremony
Dr. Chi-Hung Lin President of National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, National Yanming Chiaotung University
Philippe LACHAPELLE Director of Technical Partnerships and Networks of Innovation, Wallonia Export-Investment Agency
Michael Lin CEO, Center of Industry Accelerator and Patent Strategy, IAPS
13:20 - 13:50 Keynote
Academic Institutions Setting Sail: Bridging the Academia-Industry Divide to Cultivate Future Innovative Talents
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Dr. Chi-Hung Lin President of National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, National Yanming Chiaotung University
13:50 - 14:20 Keynote
Open Hub of UCLouvain, a technology platform and its contributions to applications in Artificial Intelligence and medical data
NICOLAS BIOUL Director, OpenHub
14:20 - 14:40 Demo Pitch
Pitching session by startups and SMEs from Wallonia, Belgium
Pascal De Vincenzo Co-founder and General Manager, Open Engineering
Maxime Gravet Co-founder and R&D Engineer, Mekanika
Philippe Baijot Co-founder and CEO, D2D3
Geoffroy Gosset Co-founder and CEO, e-peas
Andrew Willems Founder and CEO, AWIT Consulting
Jungmin Joo Taiwan and Korea business representatives, Intopix
14:40 - 15:00 Panel
On SMEs Innovation in Belgium (Wallonia) and Taiwan
Moderator
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Moderator
Dr Hank CY Huang Vice President of Innovation, National Yanming Chiaotung University
Panelists
Yu-Te Wu Founder, Altewan BioMedical Technology Inc.
Panelists
John K. Zao Chairman, FiduciaEdge
Panelists
John Chang CEO and founder, Jmem Tek
Panelists
Vincent Colard Business Coach and director of Soft Landing Program, WSL
Panelists
Geoffroy Gosset Co-founder and CEO, e-peas