What Is This Conference
This is the 7th Taiwan AI Academy Conference, themed 'AI for Every Industry.' It ran 2024/09/27 (Friday) to 2024/09/28 (Saturday) at Academia Sinica in Taipei's Nangang District (the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences building plus the Academic Activity Center across from it), with an elite dinner the evening before. The conference featured 55 speakers across a two-day agenda with 4 keynotes, 1 panel, and nearly 50 industry-application sessions, covering fields such as healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, education, and agriculture.
Organizers and Partners
- Organizer: Taiwan AI Academy Foundation (財團法人台灣人工智慧學校基金會)
- Co-organizers: Academia Sinica Institute of Information Science; Academia Sinica Center for Information Technology Innovation (CITI)
- Partners: National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), National Chengchi University, Taiwan Artificial Intelligence Association
- Sponsors: 13 organizations in total, including Chunghwa Telecom, Qualcomm, AMD, Intel, MediaTek, and MSI
On-site attendance: no official public figure could be found. A handful of reports mention the venue was 'packed' on the opening morning, but no official statistic is available to cite. Likewise, no official post-event statistics (such as registration numbers or video view counts) could be found.
History of Taiwan AI Academy
In 2017, under the call of then-Academia Sinica president Chi-Huey Wong (廖俊智), a preparatory team formed and spent roughly half a year getting ready; the school's first cohort officially opened in January 2018.
The founder and first CEO was Chen Sheng-wei (陳昇瑋, 1976–2020), who held a PhD in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University. He served as CEO from January 2018 to April 2020, while concurrently serving as Chief Technology Officer of E.Sun Financial Holding and chairman of the AI Foundation (人工智慧科技基金會).
The school was established with donations from seven companies: Formosa Plastics Group, Chi Mei Corporation, Inventec Group, Elan Microelectronics, MediaTek, AU Optronics, and Shin Kong Life.
Current Board and Leadership
- Chairman: Chi-Huey Wong (廖俊智), former president of Academia Sinica, distinguished research fellow at Academia Sinica's Institute of Biological Chemistry
- Vice Chairmen (2): Kung Hsiang-tsung (孔祥重) — also President (校長) of Taiwan AI Academy and Bill Gates Professor at Harvard University; Wei Chi-lin (魏啓林) — Chairman of International Bills Finance Corporation and adjunct professor at NTU's Graduate Institute of Business Administration
- CEO: Chen Ling-chih (陳伶志), in the role since January 2025; from June 2024 to January 2025 he served as Chief Strategy Officer; he is also a researcher at Academia Sinica's Institute of Information Science and director of its Information Services Office
- Provost (校務長): Tsai Ming-shun (蔡明順)
Who held the title of CEO at the time of the 2024 conference (September 2024) is unverified — Chen Ling-chih did not take up the CEO post until January 2025, and the official pages do not state who, if anyone, held the CEO title in the interim.
One Commercial Times (工商時報) article referred to Tsai Ming-shun using the title 'Dean of Academic Affairs' (教務長) rather than his correct title 'Provost' (校務長); cross-checked against multiple other sources (Cheers magazine, National Chengchi University news), which consistently use 'Provost' — this appears to be that single article's own wording error, not a correction to make to his actual title.
Alumni scale: official 2024 figures put alumni at more than 10,000, spanning 15 major industries and reaching into more than 2,100 companies. Separately, a CommonWealth Magazine report cited '13,000 alumni' — the two figures may reflect different points in time.
Relationship with Academia Sinica: the school originated from Academia Sinica, having formed at the call of its then-president; the current chairman, Chi-Huey Wong, is a former Academia Sinica president; the 2024 conference's co-organizers included two Academia Sinica institutes; and the conference venue itself is on the Academia Sinica campus.
Origin of the Chen Sheng-wei Memorial Lecture
The lecture honors Chen Sheng-wei, Taiwan AI Academy's founding CEO, who died of a cerebral hemorrhage on 2020/4/11 at age 44. The conference has featured a memorial lecture in his name every year since 2021.
| Year | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Lee Chien-feng (簡立峰) — first lecture | Trends of AI: An Industrial Perspective (2021/10/08) |
| 2022 | No public data found | — |
| 2023 | Ed H. Chi (紀懷新), Distinguished Scientist, Google DeepMind | The LLM Revolution: Implications from Chatbots and Tool-use to Reasoning |
| 2024 | Chen Wei-chao (陳維超), Chief Digital Officer & Senior Vice President, Inventec | Delivering Trust in the AI Era |
For the 2023 lecture, an expert forum on the memorial lecture's theme was also held the next day (9/16), on building a 'human-centered AI governance framework and pathway,' with panelists including Secretary-General Hou Yi-hsiu and Minister without Portfolio Audrey Tang (唐鳳).
For 2022, no public data on that year's memorial-lecture speaker could be found despite multiple searches; this gap is noted explicitly rather than guessed at.
Media Coverage
Eight outlets covered the conference, most focused on Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim's (蕭美琴) opening remarks. Two Economic Daily News (經濟日報) article links returned a 404 error at verification time, so those two rows below are based on their headlines cross-referenced against other outlets' coverage, without fabricating content beyond that.
| Outlet | Date | Key Points |
|---|---|---|
| Office of the President (中華民國總統府) | 2024/09/27 | Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim attended the opening ceremony and said 'AI industrialization' and 'industrial AI-ification' are now everyday practice, stressing balanced development and inclusive growth; she described the AI era as a 'revolution' and thanked Taiwan AI Academy for its role in talent cultivation. |
| Radio Taiwan International (中央廣播電臺, RTI) | 2024/09/27 | Hsiao Bi-khim said AI issues now touch on sovereignty, ethics, and national security, so government must plan ahead; she praised Taiwan AI Academy for helping ease the industry's labor and talent shortage. |
| Economic Daily News (經濟日報) | 2024/09/27 | Headline captures the core argument of Hsiao Bi-khim's speech — whether Taiwan can keep pace with the times will decide success or failure. The original article link (udn.com) returned a 404 error at verification time, so content is drawn only from the headline and cross-referenced with other outlets, without fabrication. |
| Economic Daily News (經濟日報) | 2024/09/27 | Headline reveals Vice Chairman Wei Chi-lin's opening-remarks theme: using AI across every industry so Taiwan becomes an AI 'disseminator' rather than merely a user. The original link has also gone dead, so fuller verbatim details could not be recovered. |
| Public Television Service News Network (公視新聞網, PNN) | 2024/09/27 | Reported that Hsiao Bi-khim shared her own experience trying to use AI to help draft a speech; also covered MediaTek's demonstrated generative AI platform and virtual-assistant enterprise use cases. |
| Central News Agency Press Release Platform (中央社訊息平台) | 2024/09/27 | Far EasTone Telecommunications was invited to share its digital-transformation experience, using 'big shots' technology (big data, AI, IoT) to drive enterprise transformation; it emphasized being the only Microsoft-licensed solution partner among Taiwan's telecom carriers, and introduced applications such as the 'Far EasTone Copilot Anti-Fraud Assistant.' |
| Commercial Times (工商時報, CTEE) | 2024/09/29 | Explained that Taiwan AI Academy was founded with donations from seven companies including Formosa Plastics Group and MediaTek; described an 'AI for Every Industry' promotion strategy split into key industries and high-impact job functions, echoing the Executive Yuan's 'AI Cabinet' policy. This article referred to Tsai Ming-shun as 'Dean of Academic Affairs' (教務長) rather than his correct title 'Provost' (校務長) — that outlet's own wording error. He said that by the end of October, 732 officials at rank 12 or above across 31 ministries would complete AI training. |
| Newtalk News (Newtalk新聞) | 2024/09/27 | Focused coverage on the opening ceremony, Hsiao Bi-khim's remarks, and the VIPs in attendance. |
Resources Speakers Released Publicly
The organizer did not publicly release official slides or recordings for the conference. Cross-referencing attendees' collaborative notes turned up the following resources released individually by speakers or third parties — official speaker pages, slide links, model or project pages, and the like — organized below for easy reference. Most links have been tested for availability, with results noted; links not individually tested are marked as such. Unless otherwise noted, all sessions below are from Day 1 (2024/09/27).
| Speaker / Session | Resource | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Tung Tzu-hsien (童子賢), Keynote | Google Med-PaLM research source cited in the keynote (gol.idv.tw) | Tested: opens normally, content matches the cited research |
| Tsai Ming-shun (蔡明順) | iThome news report on the AITCE professional-level certification mentioned in the talk | Not individually tested |
| Wu Chun-hsing (吳俊興), 'Build Your Own AI Think Tank with Kuwa' workshop | Slide link (open.gai.tw) | Tested: redirects to a National University of Kaohsiung Office 365 SharePoint folder that is password-protected and not publicly accessible |
| Wu Chun-hsing (吳俊興), Kuwa workshop | Setup manual, 'Kuwa AI Installation Notes' (HackMD) | Tested: page opens and the title/summary are visible, but the full content requires a HackMD login |
| Chang Chau-lyan (張朝亮), National Center for High-performance Computing | Official speaker page | Not individually tested (other pages on the same site tested fine — see Yeh Chia-shun below) |
| Hu Te-min (胡德民), Far EasTone Telecommunications | Official speaker page | Not individually tested |
| Hsu Ta-yung (徐達勇), Arm | Official speaker page | Not individually tested |
| Huang Hen-hsen (黃瀚萱), Academia Sinica | Official speaker page | Not individually tested |
| Hsu Chao-yung (許朝詠), China Steel Corporation | Official speaker page | Not individually tested |
| Kao Shih-fang (高士方), MSI | Official speaker page | Not individually tested |
| Chang Ou Yu-hao (張歐佑豪), AMD | Official speaker page | Not individually tested |
| Chiu Ming-chang (邱銘彰), Taiwan Hacker Association | Official speaker page | Not individually tested |
| Lee Muyueh (李慕約), Day 1 workshop | Official speaker page | Not individually tested |
| Chueh Wen-yuh (覺文郁), National Taiwan University | Official speaker page | Not individually tested |
| Lin Mao-chang (林茂昌), 新漢智能 | Official speaker page | Not individually tested |
| Yang Tzu-hsiang (楊子翔), Quanta Computer | Official speaker page | Not individually tested |
| Weng Hao-cheng (翁浩正), DEVCORE | Official speaker page | Not individually tested |
| Yeh Chia-shun (葉家順), MediaTek | Official speaker page | Tested: opens normally; speaker, topic, and time-slot information are all correct |
| Chen Yi-chang (陳宜昌), MediaTek Research (聯發創新基地), Breeze 2.0 session | Breeze-7B-FC-v1_0 model page (Hugging Face) | Tested: opens normally, model information is complete. Attribution note: attendees' collaborative notes originally listed this link under Yeh Chia-shun, but Yeh's talk was actually about the MediaTek DaVinci GenAI Platform (an internal enterprise-productivity platform) and has nothing to do with Breeze or function calling; based on the talk content, this link belongs to Chen Yi-chang's Breeze 2.0 session — the two speakers' affiliations (MediaTek vs. MediaTek Research) are easily confused |
| Chen Yi-chang (陳宜昌), same Breeze 2.0 session | Traditional Chinese function-calling benchmark (GitHub repo) | Tested: the repo exists and its name/description are readable, but the page threw a GitHub-side rendering error; readers are advised to open it directly in a browser to confirm. Same attribution note as above applies |
| Chou Che-wei (周哲維), Feng Chia University | Official speaker page | Not individually tested |
| Lin Wei (林緯), Phison Electronics | Official speaker page | Not individually tested |
| Cha Shih-chao (查士朝), National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST) | Official speaker page | Not individually tested |
| Tsai Chung-han (蔡宗翰), Day 2 | Barbara Plank's ACL 2024 keynote slides, cited in the talk (bplank.github.io) | Tested: link is dead (HTTP 404), no replacement link found |
| Wu Wei-han (吳威翰), Flash Talk, Day 2 | Company website (accucrazy.com) | Tested: opens normally |
| Chang Wen-tien (張文鈿, ihower), Day 2 | Personal blog, said to include the full text of this talk's slides (ihower.tw/blog) | Tested: the blog homepage opens normally, but it does not directly show this talk's article on the front page; may require browsing by category or using search |
| Chang Wen-tien (張文鈿, ihower), Eval-Driven-Development talk, Day 2 Flash Talk (09/28) | Slide PDF hosted on his own site (ihower.tw/presentation/ihower-edd-202409.pdf) | Tested: link works and the file downloads (over 10MB; page text could not be extracted this time). The same deck was also used at other events that same month on the same topic (Hello World Dev Conference, 9/11; AI Meetup, 9/18), highly related to this talk's content, but it is not certain whether it is the exact same version presented here |
| Chen Sheng-wei Memorial Lecture (Chen Wei-chao), Day 2 | Livestream replay link (Facebook, facebook.com/share/EqkzDukm4VMfi3xV) | Tested: link resolves normally; the page title reads '【2024 陳昇瑋紀念講座】陳維超 數位長' (2024 Chen Sheng-wei Memorial Lecture — Chen Wei-chao, Chief Digital Officer), matching the session. Because Facebook restricts automated capture of video playback status, it could not be confirmed whether the video itself is still playable |
- 童子賢 Keynote — Google Med-PaLM 研究來源
- 蔡明順 — AITCE 工程級認證新聞報導（iThome）
- 吳俊興 Kuwa 工作坊 — 簡報連結（open.gai.tw）
- 吳俊興 Kuwa 工作坊 — 操作手冊《Kuwa AI 安裝過程筆記》
- 張朝亮（國網中心）官方講者頁
- 胡德民（遠傳電信）官方講者頁
- 徐達勇（Arm）官方講者頁
- 黃瀚萱（中研院）官方講者頁
- 許朝詠（中鋼）官方講者頁
- 高士方（MSI）官方講者頁
- 張歐佑豪（AMD）官方講者頁
- 邱銘彰（台灣駭客協會）官方講者頁
- 李慕約（Day1 工作坊）官方講者頁
- 覺文郁（臺大）官方講者頁
- 林茂昌（新漢智能）官方講者頁
- 楊子翔（廣達電腦）官方講者頁
- 翁浩正（DEVCORE）官方講者頁
- 葉家順（聯發科技）官方講者頁
- 陳宜昌 Breeze 2.0 場次 — Breeze-7B-FC-v1_0 模型頁
- 陳宜昌 Breeze 2.0 場次 — 繁中 Function Calling 評測集
- 周哲維（逢甲大學）官方講者頁
- 林緯（群聯電子）官方講者頁
- 查士朝（台科大）官方講者頁
- 蔡宗翰引用 — Barbara Plank ACL 2024 Keynote 投影片
- 吳威翰（Flash Talk）公司網站
- 張文鈿／ihower 個人部落格
- 張文鈿 Eval-Driven-Development 簡報 PDF
- 陳昇瑋紀念講座（陳維超）直播回放連結
Verification Notes
Facts in this fragment were checked as of 2026-08-25, with all facts backed by public source links; anything not found publicly is explicitly marked as such rather than guessed at.
Is 'Dr. Chen Sen-wei' the Same Person as Chen Sheng-wei?
In a Day 2 talk, a speaker cited a 'four-level questioning framework' attributed to a 'Dr. Chen Sen-wei' (陳森偉博士), who might be Chen Sheng-wei — but this cannot be confirmed as the same person, and this doubt is kept unresolved rather than assumed.
Chen Sheng-wei's two known public knowledge frameworks both differ from a 'four-level questioning' framework: his book AI in Taiwan (人工智慧在台灣) centers on four questions (what is AI / AI's impact on the workplace / what conditions companies need to adopt AI / Taiwan's AI difficulties and breakthroughs); and his last interview before his death left 'four reminders' (companies must change their mindset / data must be used correctly / there must be a data-governance framework / AI is not a life raft). Searches combining 'Chen Sheng-wei' with 'questioning,' 'knowledge management,' 'DIKW,' and 'levels' turned up no record of him proposing or citing a 'four-level questioning' framework. Separately, the 'four-level questioning method' is itself a framework widely used in education (PIRLS reading comprehension) with a weak connection to knowledge management or AI, and no public writing by the Day 2 speaker was found explicitly crediting a 'Dr. Chen ___.'
Conclusion: available public information is insufficient to confirm or rule out that 'Dr. Chen Sen-wei' is Chen Sheng-wei — the doubt is kept unresolved rather than rewritten as a confirmed identification.
Who Held the CEO Title at the Time of the September 2024 Conference?
After Chen Sheng-wei passed away, the foundation's board announced on 2020/8/31 that Liao Hung-yuan (廖弘源, then director of Academia Sinica's Institute of Information Science) would serve concurrently as the foundation's acting CEO, while Tsai Ming-shun (then the school's chief operating officer) was appointed acting CEO of Taiwan AI Academy itself. Tsai's 'acting CEO' title continued at least through 2021/5/21 per a National Taiwan University Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering announcement. But by the 2023 conference (the edition before the 2024 one), the official conference website already listed Tsai's title as 'Provost' (校務長), no longer using 'acting CEO'; the 2024 conference's agenda page and press materials likewise consistently called him 'Provost.' The current CEO, Chen Ling-chih, did not take up the post until January 2025 (from June 2024 to January 2025 he served as Chief Strategy Officer).
Conclusion (a reasoned inference, not a direct statement found in any source): as of September 2024, no one at the school likely formally held the title of 'CEO' — Tsai Ming-shun had served in an acting-CEO capacity since 2020, but by the 2023–2024 conference period his official public title had shifted to 'Provost,' and the formal 'CEO' title was not reinstated until Chen Ling-chih took office in January 2025. No 2024 public source was found explicitly calling anyone the (non-acting) 'CEO.'
Day 1 Workshop Track (R4) Agenda Gaps
Of the seven time slots in the Day 1 R4 track (Academic Activity Center, 2F flat-floor briefing room; the 'AI for Every Industry' autumn workshop series), only two speakers and topics are confirmed: Wu Chun-hsing's 'Build Your Own AI Think Tank with Kuwa' workshop (13:30–14:00) and Lee Muyueh's 'Coding and Workflow Automation with AI' workshop (15:30–16:00); the moderator was Hou Yi-hsiu, Secretary-General of the Taiwan AI Academy Foundation. The other five slots (13:00–13:30, 14:00–14:30, 14:30–15:00, 16:00–16:30, 16:30–17:00) remain marked TBD even on the official agenda page as of this 2026-08 check; searches across the official agenda page, the KKTIX ticketing page, the Oen event page, and general web searches combining speaker names with workshop keywords all failed to fill the gap.
Conclusion: this appears to be information the organizer itself never published for these slots (possibly a continuous workshop block, or speakers confirmed too late to be added to the site), rather than a research gap on this note's part.