Taiwan’s AI Day 2021 Enters the Metaverse with Virtual Exhibition and Forum

TAIPEI, TAIWAN – Media OutReach – 29 October 2021 – Taiwan’s top annual event for artificial intelligence, AI
Day 2021, assembled key international
stakeholders from across public and private sectors at Gaming Space in Taipei
from October 27 to 28 morning, and online until October 29.

The physical event featured award ceremonies, announcements and
insights from Taiwan’s foremost AI industry think tanks and special interest
groups. Esteemed guests included the Director General of Taiwan’s Industrial
Development Bureau, Mr. Jang-Hwa Leu and Gretchen O’Hara, Vice President of US
AI & Sustainability Strategy at Microsoft.

Online, the virtual AI Day 2021 Exhibition connects AI-related
companies from different industries in one place, promoting global
collaboration and B2B networking. Meanwhile, the virtual AI Day 2021 Forum stages talks (in English) from six
business leaders about the bleeding-edge AI innovations spearheaded by each of
their respective organizations.

AI Day 2021 Forum

Three out of the six forum speakers explore topics
related to edge AI and smart manufacturing. Chia Wei Yang, Director of Edge
Vision Business Center at ADLINK Technology — one of the world’s leading edge
computing companies — gives a talk on smart manufacturing entitled “Re-evolve
Digital Transformation with Edge AI Vision”. Also Jack Chao, Executive Vice
President of AUO Digitech — a leading provider of digital transformation
services — introduces “Smart Manufacturing for Roll to Roll Process”,
referencing applications in flexible displays, new battery materials and more.

Bruce Bateman, Chief Advisor of LITEON — a world-leading
provider in optoelectronic components and key electronic modules — begins
his talk with an overview of the realtime two-way communications in a smart
factory. He reveals his organization’s belief that edge computing will include
machine learning accelerator chips, then goes on to introduce the thinking
behind federated machine learning in AI.

Two of the forum speakers hail from
Taiwan-based IC design firms. James Wang, CSSO of eYs3D Microelectronics —
a fabless design house that focuses on end-to-end software and hardware systems
for computer vision technology — advocates a silicon-centric approach to edge
computing and focuses on robotics. Meanwhile, Director of Egis Technology — a
Taiwan-based IC design firm that specializes in fingerprint sensors — TH Po
explains how AI is utilized in his company’s latest anti-spoofing technology.

Nolan Chen, Manager of iAmbition Technology —
an emerging company that specializes in human detection and tracking — presents
his company’s “AI Smart Care System”, which has applications in construction
and healthcare. The system utilizes convolutional neural network (CNN)
to build a deep learning engine and detect human vital signs, such as heartbeat
and breathing rate.