TAITRA (Taiwan External Trade Development Council) & ITRI with support from 11 Ministries & Government institutions had again successfully organized 20th Taiwan Innotech Expo 2024 (TIE 2024) at Taipei World Trade Centre Exhibition Hall 1 (TWTC Hall1) on 17-19 October 2024.
Providing a platform not only exhibit the latest inventions and technologies, but also to connect inventors and companies with the international market, as what the Premier (PM) Cho Jung-tai said to enhanced global present for advanced technologies made in Taiwan products & services. TIE presented an opportunity for government bodies to exchange experience with enterprises and research institutions from home and abroad. Taiwan needs to speed up software application development and employ more artificial intelligence technology in the public domain so that innovative technologies bring solutions across all sectors. Focusing on digital and green transformation driven by AI technology, the administration demonstrated technology including that used in recycling of inorganic resources and metal chemicals. Ministry of Environment in the Sustainable pavilion on digital and green transformation driven by AI technology, demonstrated technology including that used in recycling of inorganic resources and metal chemicals.
Taiwan’s booming democracy and economy have developed rapidly in fields such as semiconductors and AI (artificial intelligence), becoming an indispensable part of the world’s industrial ecological chain. The world’s need for Taiwan is increasing day by day, making Taiwan increasingly important. Therefore, the government has important responsibility and must use greater power to maintain peace and stable development of the overall society.
In the Future Tech pavilion: Ministry of Education were awarded the Future Tech Award for deep space radiation probe to explore the lunar and astronomic environment developed by National Central University in Taoyuan City. Also AI application in Earth Quake & Disaster mitigation and Net Zero solution.
TIE 2024 features a variety of areas such as the Invention Competition Area, in which Pertamina participated in full team, The Innovation Pilot Pavilion including Defence Technology, Future Tech Pavilion including Generative AI & Quantum Technology, while Sustainability Pavilion includes Net Zero tech. There are more than 400 exhibitors from 22 countries participating this year, using 1,200 booths to display over a thousands invention in diverse fields such as AI, 5G, ICT, Semiconductors, Clean energy, cybersecurity, space technology and more.
There are so many application of AI including Robot Dog AI for sniffing dangerous area and Implementation and operation of innovative technologies such as value enforcement, cognitive robotic systems and intelligent robot inspection dogs, especially used in disaster and dangerous area not safe for human. Advanced AI Application such as AI Autonomous drone for Surveillance and Autonomous Vehicle display in the Future and Generative AI Pavilion.
In the Invention competition area, we can see how Taiwan successfully promote its Start-up to go Global by the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO), since IPR is vital for the high and advanced technology to honour innovation. TIPO held global invention competition every year to select innovative works with commercial potential, presenting the platinum, gold, silver and bronze awards to the inventors globally to encourage cross industry and cross-country cooperation. This year there are 150 exhibitors and nearly 600 inventions participating in the Invention competition Area including Indonesian, Pertamina start up teams.
The Opening Ceremony to mark the 20th TIE was open with keynote from Ministry of Economics & Trade and Premier (PM) Cho Jung Tai with 10 cabinet ministers.
Premier Cho also said that Taiwan’s high-tech industry is developing very rapidly, but the government will not only focus on high-tech industry and ignore all traditional industries and small, medium and micro enterprises.
The National Development Commission had submitted a report on the ‘National Talent Competitiveness Improvement Program’, which projected that by 2028, as many as 450,000 talents across fields, including Generative AI, would be trained. Taiwan also recruit 120,000 foreign professionals and 80,000 foreign technical personnel.
Premier Cho adds that the related industry assistance program from the Ministry of Economy helps all domestic traditional industries as well as small, medium and micro businesses carry out digital transformation, building a more stable and stronger foundation for economic development.
The Opening Ceremony Stage is next to the Defence Technology Pavilion, so after the Opening Ceremony, all guest of honour visited the Defence Pavilion and was briefed by Mayor General Li Jian Qing and Vice Admiral Yu Min Huang, Deputy Minister of National Défense on the Defence Technology and Industry of Taiwan.
Interesting Panel Discussion titled “The Coming Quantum Era Opportunities for the Deployment of Taiwan’s Industries” inviting keynote speech by the Nobel Prize in Physics 2022, the Father of Quantum Research Alain Aspect, Professor Universite Paris Saclay, who admired Albert Einstein with its Relativity Theory and Quantum Physics before the Cold War. With distinguished panellist from all over the world including: Tokyo University of Science l Jaw-Shen Tsai, Professor; Hon Hai Research Institute l Hsieh, Min-Hsiu, Director of the Quantum Computing Research Institute; Compal Electronics, Inc. l Shikuan Chen, SVP; IQM l Juha Vartiainen, Co-Founder and Chief of Global Affairs; Quandela l Niccolo Somaschi, CEO/co-founder; Pasqal l Georges-Olivier Reymond, CEO. Most of the panellist from academia & industries agree that Quantum Computing its still in the research stage preparing for a breakthru to be the fastest supercomputer. Benchmarking with NVIDIA Supercomputer using the GPU Superchips that has gone commercial, receiving order from Meta, Google, OpenAI for their Generative AI Computing. But Taiwan Honhai Research Institute on Quantum (Foxconn) also doing jointly research on Quantum Physics with NVDIA preparing the coming Quantum Leap (Revolution) probably in 5-10 years time.
Interesting discussion on how Taiwan is catching up with Singapore to develop its Quantum Research in par with the advanced Supercomputer developed by NVIDIA for Google, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI.
ABDI (Association Big Data & AI) will have one of the biggest Big Data & AI Summit in Indonesia, DataGovAI 2024 on 26 November 2024 at JCC, Jakarta & 28 November 2024 on Zoom.