Experinced

• Director General
  Department of International Cooperation, MOEA
• Director General
  Department of Commerce, MOEA
• Deputy Director General
  Bureau of Foreign Trade, MOEA
• Chief Secretary
  Bureau of Foreign Trade, MOEA
• Director
  Trade Development Division, Bureau of Foreign Trade, MOEA

• LL.M., University of Pennsylvania, USA
• LL.B., National Chengchi University, ROC

James C. F. Huang is the incumbent chairman of the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), an apex body of business and trade promotion organization in Taiwan. Chairman Huang is a dynamic, charismatic and vibrant leader, who is also a distinguished entrepreneur and former diplomat dedicated to promoting Taiwan's economic development and international relations. Prior to joining TAITRA, Chairman Huang held various senior positions in the government including Minister of Foreign Affairs. He also held several senior consultant and management positions at Taiwan's leading technology companies. He has served in the public and private sectors for more than 30 years, accumulated extensive experience in formulating strategy and outstanding negotiation skills. Beginning his tenure in TAITRA in 2017, Chairman Huang has initiated several reforms within the organization, including flattening organizational structure, encourage people-to-people interactions and digital transformation. He is also actively involved in helping Taiwan’s business community building international networks by leading high profile delegations to participate in major trade, business and investment events around the world.

Brent Omdahl currently serves as the Commercial Section Chief of the American Institute in Taiwan, where he leads a team of 20 marketing and customer service professionals. His team’s primary roles are to promote cooperation between U.S. firms, Taiwan companies and the Taiwan authorities, and assist Taiwanese firms to expand in the United States. He also advises the AIT Director on commercial policy issues. Prior to Taiwan, Brent served as the Commercial Counselor at the U.S. Mission to Nigeria from 2016-2019, where he also managed the U.S. Department of Commerce’s West Africa operations. Previously, he served as the sub-Saharan Africa Regional Deputy Senior Commercial Officer in Johannesburg, South Africa; as Acting Director of the Atlanta, Georgia U.S. Export Assistance Center; and as Commercial Attaché in Manila, Philippines and Hanoi, Vietnam. Brent is a master’s level graduate of Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, with a BA from Brigham Young University. Prior to U.S. Government service, he worked for ten years in the pharmaceutical and enterprise software industries and has experience as an entrepreneur and franchise investor.

Jack Cheng is the Chief Executive Officer of MIH Consortium. With 40 years of experience in the automotive industry, Jack is a pioneer in both traditional automotive and new energy vehicles and previously held executive positions at Ford, Fiat Chrysler, and NIO. He believes that the next phase of the automotive industry and smart mobility space will be the greatest opportunity ever. The future is smart, electric autonomous vehicles and MIH will bring together the right partners to make this vision a reality.

CK Tseng is President of Arm Taiwan, responsible for Arm’s business, strategy and operation in Taiwan. He has nearly 20 years of professional experience in the high-tech industry. CK Tseng joined Arm in 2010 as a business development and sales manager, leading strategic initiatives and business engagements with key partners from silicon partners to OEMs. After then, he joined a start-up M2COMM as a Vice President of global sales and marketing, focusing on IoT innovative applications in industrial, retail and medical sectors. Besides, he also managed the oversea subsidiaries and has generated more than 10x of revenue growth in 2 years. In 2017, he re-joined Arm as senior director in charge of the sales and FAE departments in Taiwan. He was promoted to Vice President of Sales in 2018 and then President of Arm Taiwan in 2019. CK Tseng holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering and bachelor’s degree in math at National Taiwan University. CK Tseng is a person who won’t stop trying new things. He plays badminton, table tennis since childhood and most recently begins to play football with youngsters. He enjoys reading, meditating and debating in his leisure time. He believes that many questions could be answered through such practices.

Giuseppe Izzo is Regional Vice President and Taiwan Managing Director at STMicroelectronics’ Asia Pacific Region. Izzo joined SGS-Thomson Microelectronics in 1987 and shortly thereafter relocated to Asia. He has held various positions within ST’s APAC organization, covering marketing, application development and product design for power management, consumer and computer systems, automotive, and multi-segment products. He established ST’s Automotive and Multi-Systems Competence Centers in Shanghai and Power Management Competence Center in Taiwan, contributing to the Company’s success in in many areas of the business developments in Asia Pacific, while leading the expansion of the operations in Taiwan.

• President and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens Ltd., Taiwan
• President and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens Ltd., Hong Kong & Macao
• Vice Chairman of European Chamber of Commerce Taiwan

• Former President and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens Ltd., Vietnam
• Former General Manager Jiangsu Province and Vice President of Siemens Ltd., China
• Former General Manager and Vice President of Sales China, Mobile Networks, Siemens AG
• Former Vice President of Business Development and Strategy & Business Excellence, Mobile Networks, Siemens AG

• Master’s degree of Computer Science, Technical University of Munich Germany

In 2021, he served as the President of Tatung Company. In the past, he co-founded Advantech in 1983. In 1996, he was the general manager of Zhangliwei Industrial Company. He led the company to OTC 2000. As the general manager of Advantech Greater China for more than ten years, he laid the foundation for Advantech's industrial control market in China. Leadership, with vision and amoeba organization leading Advantech to become Taiwan’s fifth largest international brand.

Daniela Rus is the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT, and Deputy Dean of Research in the Schwarzman College of Computing at MIT. Rus' research interests are in robotics and artificial intelligence. The key focus of her research is to develop the science and engineering of autonomy. Rus is a Class of 2002 MacArthur Fellow, a fellow of ACM, AAAI and IEEE, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a senior visiting fellow at MITRE Corporation. She is the recipient of the Engelberger Award for robotics. She earned her PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University.

More than 30 years of experience in vehicle system design, system integration and project management. From R&D engineers, management R&D teams to management production teams, all have relevant practical experience. Actually participate in the project:

• 1. Army "Clouded Leopard Project", "Centrino Project", served as chief engineer and project manager
• 2. Completed the development of Master Transportation's independent low-floor bus and passed the certification.
• 3. Optimal S1/E1 medium e-bus, Taiwan supplier visits and materials supply.
• 4. Optimal S2/E2 Generation2 medium e-bus, design and development consulting, and Taiwan supplier search and cooperation plan.

Leading the Microsoft Cloud + AI product management and engineering efforts in Asia, Cathy is responsible for engaging strategic customers and partners to accelerate digital transformation through Microsoft Industry Clouds and Solutions; she also supports the Intelligent Manufacturing Center and IoT Open Lab in Taiwan to capitalize the industrial ecosystem. Prior to the current role, she served as Marketing Director in Microsoft Taiwan and product design-in with Microsoft OEM global business group. Before joining Microsoft, she served as Hewlett-Packard's senior system architect and TrendMicro developer.

Over 20 years of GPS/GIS industry experience, starting from R&D personnel, managing R&D teams, assisting investment departments in technical assessments, leading business teams, leading marketing teams, and becoming business group leaders. San has successfully led the team to challenge the BMW connected drive project and became the first Taiwanese company to enter the IoV service of international car manufacture, and passed strict international certification. Currently, San focused on the self-driving technology industry. Leveraging the successful experiences on the telematics system and developing the self-driving total solutions.

Jerry Wang has worked in automotive industry over 10 years, including his years in research and development and management positions, and his years at ARTC as vice president and assistant vice president leading the center’s Industrial Development Division.  When working at Industrial Development Bureau (IDB) of the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) as the director of Intelligent Electric Vehicle Promotion Office, Wang did a brilliant job in promoting the intelligent electric vehicle pilot initiative that he was responsible for. Recently, he has even helped the ministry push forward the projects to assist the island’s motorcycle and automotive industries upgrade themselves in line with the government’s policy to inspire local consumers to replace old vehicles with new in the hope of facilitating the growth of local automotive market.In recent years, the vehicle center has continued to improve technology in the field of electric vehicles and self-driving; the layout of the next-generation vehicle electrical research and verification has continued to promote the vehicle industry to the electric vehicle generation.

David Shen has devoted to intelligent transport systems, electric vehicle, and innovative transport service models. David was the driving force behind Taiwan’s first electric autonomous bus in 2018, after which he formed Turing Drive. Turing Drive’s autonomous driving vehicles have been tested in ten sites across Taiwan over 30,000km. The team is harnessing critical AV technologies to enhance safety and efficiency of vehicles and commercial fleets. Prior to Turing Drive, David was co-founder of Trivect Consultants and sales manager of Advanced Lithium Electrochemistry. Mr. Shen is M.S. of Civil Engineering from National Taiwan University.

Editor-in-Chief and Anchor of Business Next and its podcast. John has been focusing on technology innovation, management, and business development. John has nearly 27 years of experience in the early technologies like semiconductor, PC, mobile phone, Internet, software development, to the latest innovations like AI, EV, and other industries. John has conducted hundreds of in-depth reports covering Silicon Valley, Israel, Finland, Singapore, South Korea, and China. John has interviewed many influential tech giants such as former Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Intel founder Andy Grove. John has also been invited to moderate forums and conferences for global companies like Cisco, HP, and Interbrand.