First-term Team and Board

Chair, Artificial Intelligence Foundation; former Chairperson, National Communications Commission (NCC)

Former Chairperson of the National Communications Commission; a practising lawyer and strategist in digital readiness, innovation, and convergence, with front-line experience in both industry and policymaking.

Chan Ting-yi is the former Chairperson of the National Communications Commission (NCC). A practising lawyer and strategist across digital readiness, innovation and entrepreneurship, and convergence, she has held key roles across industry, government, and academia. As NCC Chairperson from 2016 to 2019 she led Taiwan's post-convergence development blueprint, advanced the Telecommunications Management Act and the Digital Communications Act and related regulations, shaped 5G and IoT policy, built up the audiovisual-platform and upstream/downstream industry ecosystem, and promoted internet governance and information-security policy, driving digital transformation and innovation across fields including fintech. She was involved in Taiwan's first wave of telecom liberalisation and the early development of internet and e-commerce law. Crossing law, technology, and cultural-creative fields, she works as a practising lawyer, industry adviser, film producer, and hypnotherapist.

Co-Founder, BSOS

CEO and co-founder of the well-known blockchain company BSOS, building next-generation supply-chain finance with Web3, with over 15 years of software R&D experience.

Daniel Huang is CEO and co-founder of the well-known blockchain company BSOS, dedicated to building a new generation of supply-chain finance services through Web3. With over 15 years of software R&D experience, he is a member of the Enterprise Ethereum specification group, setting enterprise blockchain standards alongside top global developers. He previously headed enterprise software at Cheetah Mobile and ASUS, and in 2015 founded the AI voice-communication startup OneTalk, later acquired by Kika Tech. In 2018 he founded BSOS, combining real-world assets with DeFi to activate accounts receivable across global supply chains and disrupt traditional supply-chain financing. In 2021 BSOS was named by a CB Insights institution as one of the world's 35 most promising blockchain companies.

Director, N24 Taipei Ark Innovation Base

With a graduate background in data mining and machine learning, he initiated the founding of the Taiwan Blockchain Enthusiasts Association in 2019; in 2020 the association won the right to operate Taipei's blockchain innovation base, named N24 Taipei Ark.

With a graduate major in data mining and machine learning, he served as a manager at ITRI's big-data centre leading big-data analytics projects, and later helped coordinate technology policy at the Executive Yuan's Board of Science and Technology. He has received a silver medal at the National Invention and Creation Award and been named an Outstanding Youth of Hsinchu. With government support he has organised the Blockchain Enthusiasts Annual Conference every year since 2016. In 2019 he initiated the founding of the Taiwan Blockchain Enthusiasts Association; in 2020 the association won the right to operate Taipei's blockchain innovation base, naming it N24 Taipei Ark, aiming to run proof-of-concept work through the integration of physical and virtual spaces so the public and industry can better understand blockchain and the metaverse. He now focuses on helping Web3 startups and Web2 industries co-create.

Co-Founder, NFTBoard

A graduate of UNA MBA, currently serving as co-founder and Chief Content Officer of Micro Life Knowledge Technology and NFTBoard.

A graduate of UNA MBA, currently serving as co-founder and Chief Content Officer of Micro Life Knowledge Technology and NFTBoard. Career highlights include: General Manager of Invest Taiwan Bilingual Magazine Monthly; CFO of a publicly listed company; content-operations producer for platforms with 600 million monthly active users such as Himalaya, Lizhi, 10-Point Class, and Qianliao; content-incubation planning producer for apps with 10 million paying members such as K Daibiao, Bowen Dajia, and Kaishu Storytelling; and co-producer of 'The Largest China-Netherlands Lifestyle Experiment - We Are Fifteen', jointly organized by Tencent and Dragon TV with an investment of RMB 1.2 billion, which set records of over 100 million total viewers and 7.6 million average daily viewers online. Areas of expertise include project content operations, digital content distribution strategy, online and offline market planning, and art and physical-asset investment. Believes that adopting blockchain technology can resolve many of the bottlenecks the content industry faces, potentially opening a larger market of untapped potential for creators and creating a brand-new model of shared operation and shared benefit that stimulates innovation.

Section Manager, Innovative DigiTech-Enabled Applications & Services Institute, Institute for Information Industry (III)

Section Manager of the Blockchain Technology Section at the III's Innovative DigiTech-Enabled Applications & Services Institute and one of Taiwan's early contributors to blockchain research, specializing in blockchain-related technology R&D.

Wu Li-chi (Section Manager of the Blockchain Technology Section at the Innovative DigiTech-Enabled Applications & Services Institute of the Institute for Information Industry, and serving in the secretariat of the National Development Council's Blockchain Grand Alliance) is, beyond the role at the III, one of Taiwan's earliest contributors to blockchain research. Specializing in blockchain-related technology R&D - including Taiwan's first lightweight enterprise blockchain agent technology, an enterprise blockchain node management platform, lightweight feature-recognition technology combined with Ethereum smart contracts, and IoT-device smart-contract management solutions - Wu has led teams in executing the Department of Industrial Technology's key technology project, the Blockchain Innovation Ecosystem Development Program, to validate cross-enterprise blockchain solutions; executed a sub-project of the III's Forward-Looking Innovative Technology Research program that combines members' exercise results with blockchain technology; and developed a blockchain-based IoT sharing solution that drove the validation of innovative logistics-application services.

Founder, OURSONG

A well-known musician and technologist: lead singer of the band echo, partner at KKFARM, and founder of iNDIEVOX, Taiwan's first DRM-free MP3 music store. He focuses on applying blockchain to digital-content copyright and transparent revenue sharing.

Wu Po-tsang is a well-known musician and technologist. A partner at KKFARM, an investment company under the KKBOX group, and lead singer of the band echo, he founded and formerly led iNDIEVOX, Taiwan's first DRM-free MP3 music store, which grew into the country's largest independent-music commerce platform. While running StreetVoice he built the digital-distribution platform Packer and the music media outlet Blow. In recent years he has focused on how blockchain can protect digital-content copyright and make revenue sharing transparent and fair. In 2019, within the KKBOX group, he co-proposed Muzeum Protocol, a blockchain-based open protocol for the cultural-creative industry, together with Bitmark and JOYSO; that same year, with KKBOX group investment, he founded OurSong, using blockchain to make digital collectibles scarce and traceable and to restore the value of songs and works.

Founder & General Manager, Mingzhou Technology

Founded Mingzhou Technology in 2012 and serves as its general manager, applying IoT to property management and the furniture industry; began angel investing and engaging with blockchain in 2016.

Alec Liu founded Mingzhou Technology in 2012 and has served as its general manager since. Mingzhou applies IoT technology to property management and the furniture industry, serving global markets including North America, Vietnam, Japan, and Indonesia. His ventures have won recognition including the Ministry of Economic Affairs' New Venture Award, the Taipei City Spotlight Enterprise Award, the Pan Wen-yuan Foundation's Young Innovation Research Award, and 100MVP Manager awards. He began angel investing and engaging with blockchain in 2016, backing startups such as Leadbest and FST network, and lectured widely on blockchain in 2017-2018. He currently serves as a director of Mr. Living and a supervisor of LSC, and is president of the NTU Mechanical Engineering alumni association and of the New Venture Award fellowship.

Deputy Section Manager, Service Systems Technology Center, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)

Lo Kuo-shu (Jones) is an expert in the development trends of blockchain technology and applications, with extensive research experience in technology development, innovative services, and business models.

Lo Kuo-shu (Jones) is an expert in the development trends of blockchain technology and its applications, with substantial research experience across technology development, innovative services, and business models. Concurrently engaged by both the Institute for Information Industry and the Industrial Technology Research Institute, Lo integrates the resources and R&D capacity of these two major research institutes so that resources deliver maximum benefit - achieving the greatest results with the least investment. The engineering data bank service Lo developed helped the Taichung City Government win first place among the world's ICF (Intelligent Community Forum) smart cities. An electronic travel-package service spun off into a startup. Lo is also an Outstanding Youth representative, a corporate coach, and a life engineer.

Head of BlockMeet

Partner and Chief Events Officer at BlockTempo, in charge of BlockMeet, the most influential regular event in Taiwan's blockchain and cryptocurrency industry.

Lin Yu-ting is a partner and Chief Events Officer at BlockTempo. BlockTempo is Taiwan's most influential blockchain-industry media outlet, founded in 2017 by a group of NCCU students averaging 22 years of age who, keenly aware of the information gap between Taiwan and the world in the blockchain industry, connect with community hubs across countries to keep up in real time with the latest industry trends and in-depth perspectives. In 2018 and 2019, for two consecutive years, it held Asia's largest blockchain summit, ABS (Asia Blockchain Summit), inviting more than a hundred internationally renowned industry figures to Taiwan. BlockMeet, which Lin Yu-ting leads, is the most influential event in Taiwan's blockchain and cryptocurrency industry, holding regular offline meetups every week and inviting influential experts from various fields and industries to share and interact with attendees, creating a well-rounded community-exchange ecosystem.

Founder, MinerSource

Founder of MinerSource and Urban Block. He has explored Bitcoin technology and mining since 2011, and in 2017 founded MinerSource, offering end-to-end cryptocurrency-mining services across the supply chain.

Founder of MinerSource and Urban Block. He began exploring Bitcoin technology and mining in 2011, took part in Taiwan's first Bitcoin annual conference in 2014, started setting up Ethereum mining farms in 2016, and in 2017 founded MinerSource, providing end-to-end cryptocurrency-mining services from components to full facility build-outs. He has carried out professional mining-farm construction and consulting for world-class mining farms, mining pools, and listed companies, and later launched blockchain lending, arbitrage, and DeFi liquidation bots, while regularly running a variety of blockchain-related courses. In 2021 he founded the Urban Block café to promote weaving blockchain into everyday life, hoping to let the general public start engaging with blockchain applications easily and naturally.

Chief Architect, JOYSO

A graduate of National Central University's Computer Science institute, he leads JOYSO's system architecture and is a full-stack engineer with over ten years of software-development experience.

A graduate of the Institute of Computer Science at National Central University, he is responsible for JOYSO's system architecture. He is a full-stack developer with more than ten years of software-development experience and a regular contributor to many open-source projects on GitHub, including js-sha3. His work experience spans front-end and back-end development, as well as settlement and clearing for Titansoft, a global online-gaming company with more than 100,000 users.

Principal Attorney, Chien Chung International Law Firm

He has long devoted himself to human-rights, labor, and fair-trade social issues; currently chair of the Taiwan Association for Human Rights, he also handles legal work for a number of blockchain startups.

He has long devoted himself to social issues relating to human rights, labor, and fair-trade law. He currently serves as chair of the Taiwan Association for Human Rights, an executive committee member of the Judicial Reform Foundation, a director of the Taipei Bar Association, and a researcher at the Public Interest Law Research Society. He has previously served as a director of the Taiwan chapter of Amnesty International, a director of the Media Reform Society, and a member of the Ministry of Culture's regulatory committee. His specialties are corporate and business investment, administrative remedies, communications and broadcasting law, and patents and trademarks, and he also handles legal work for many blockchain startups.

Technical Business Manager, CYBAVO

Currently Technical Business Manager at CYBAVO and co-convener of the MIH EV Alliance carbon-neutrality Interest Group, he specializes in telecommunications, fintech, and finance.

Kuo Mao-jen is currently Technical Business Manager at CYBAVO and also co-convener of the carbon-neutrality Interest Group of the MIH EV Alliance. He specializes in telecommunications, fintech, and finance. He has worked at TAISAT Satellite Communications, Taiwan Mobile, FarEasTone, and the Telecom Technology Center, where he handled the centralized database management center for telephone-number portability and research on related telecom regulations; served as an adviser to the Asia Pacific Smart Card Association, linking Taiwan's resources with countries across the Asia-Pacific to host numerous international forums on mobile payments, PKI, and eID; and at C-SAM Inc (merged into Mastercard in 2015) completed the build-out of FarEasTone's Friday Wallet and the localization of Masterpass white-label wallet services. At Taishin Bank's digital-finance division he advanced cross-border payment services with electronic-payment institutions in Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia, and took part in the GLN cross-border loyalty-points blockchain exchange platform and Fubon Bank's blockchain interbank transfer-payment sandbox experiment. He was previously responsible for Taiwan's financial-sector business in First Data's Greater China region, and is skilled at strategic planning, government relations, and cross-industry collaboration. He is currently pursuing an EMBA at National Chengchi University.

Head of Blockchain Team, Cathay Financial Holdings

Formerly head of the blockchain team at Cathay Financial Holdings, he used blockchain technology and products to support the group's digital transformation, with the team focused on developing enterprise-grade consortium chains.

Yang Chun-shu (Nicholas) previously worked at Cathay Financial Holdings' Data and Digital Development Center as head of its blockchain team, using blockchain technology and products to help the group with digital transformation and break through data-exchange bottlenecks within its ecosystem. The team is dedicated to developing enterprise-grade application consortium chains: in 2019 it was first to market with a blockchain for electric-vehicle telematics; in 2020, through blockchain, it formed a consortium for interbank data exchange, the Global Trade Sharing blockchain; in 2021 it passed the Banking Bureau's business-trial application; and in 2022 it further used its self-developed consortium chain to organize a property-insurance consortium chain, bringing 14 property-insurance peers across Taiwan on-chain to exchange claims data. Going forward, through blockchain's decentralized mechanisms and technology, it will develop diverse Web3 services suited to both enterprises and ordinary consumers.

Founder, LeadBest Consulting Group

A pioneer of industrial innovation in Asia, he founded LeadBest Consulting Group and, in 2021, founded EchoX and launched the world's first "edible NFT."

Li Chia-hsien is a pioneer of industrial innovation in Asia and the founder of LeadBest Consulting Group. In 2017 he introduced the empowerment-style venture-capital model to Asia; in 2020 he was profiled by Fortune and named by Silicon Valley journal APAC CIO Outlook as one of the Asia-Pacific's top ten blockchain consulting firms; and in 2021 he founded EchoX and, within half a year, launched the world's first "edible NFT" across industries, causing a stir in the crypto world. He also concurrently serves as chief digital officer of Hong Kong's Empire Technology and general manager of Taiwan's Seven Elements, leading his team to create "METASENS," a massive metaverse game world for players worldwide, releasing multiple metaverse NFT games at a pace of one per quarter. Having previously served as a technology executive at the FarEasTone group, driving business development through technology, and concurrently as a director of the EasyCard Corporation, Li Chia-hsien starts from digital empowerment and, through mature software technologies such as digitalization and agile thinking, helps traditional industries innovate digitally.

Founder and CEO, JOYSO

With over ten years in the blockchain industry, he founded JOYSO Enterprise in 2016 and launched the hybrid decentralized exchange JOYSO in 2018.

Sung Cho-jung has more than ten years of experience in the blockchain industry. His deep sense of mission for the industry's development led him to help develop the world's first 28-nanometer Bitcoin mining chip and to bring a 40-nanometer Litecoin mining chip to market. He has also given much to the blockchain community, serving as a moderator of the Facebook Bitcoin Chinese-language group of more than 40,000 members and as an administrator of the Taipei Ethereum community. In 2016 he founded JOYSO Enterprise, made up of several blockchain enthusiasts and aimed at promoting blockchain-related applications and development. Besides partnering with large Taiwanese enterprises, it takes part in global technology R&D to advance the integration and adoption of blockchain into existing systems. In May 2018, JOYSO Enterprise launched its product—the hybrid decentralized exchange JOYSO. More recently he has been researching decentralized finance (DeFi) projects and will devote himself to developing decentralized derivative financial products.

Co-Founder, NFTBoard

Co-founder of NFTBoard (WeLife Knowledge Technology) and holder of a master's in communication management from USC, he took part in founding the global NFT indicator board NFTBoard in 2021.

Chang Jung-chang (co-founder of WeLife Knowledge Technology's NFTBoard) holds a master's degree in communication management from the University of Southern California. He has served as an associate researcher at the Executive Yuan's Office of Science and Technology, a researcher at the Commerce Development Research Institute, a senior planner at the Institute for Information Industry, a director of the Legislative Yuan legislative-assistants' union, founder of Invest Taiwan Monthly, and news director at Global TV, among other roles. He came into contact with blockchain in 2015 through government FinTech policy research, and in 2021 took part in founding NFTBoard, a global NFT indicator board that focuses on reporting important NFT use cases and is dedicated to studying and promoting blockchain applications toward a healthy ecosystem, helping the general public understand and follow blockchain technology, and thereby contributing to the association's Metaverse as a Service.

Early blockchain-technology contributor

One of the three founders of the Taipei Ethereum community, co-founder and CTO of Consensus Technology (JOYSO), and a PhD student in computer science at NTU.

One of the three founders of the Taipei Ethereum community, and co-founder and CTO of Consensus Technology (JOYSO). A PhD student in computer science at National Taiwan University, he was, during his master's studies in Professor Liao Shih-wei's lab, a key contributor to Gcoin, Taiwan's first approved enterprise-grade distributed blockchain infrastructure. A member of the DiQi token-wallet platform development team, he has taught many smart-contract courses at home and abroad and advised numerous blockchain projects. He has shipped many decentralized apps, including JOYSO, the world's first hybrid decentralized exchange, the Ethereum-conference voting contract LogoVote, the charity crowdfunding platform Dodoker, and the creative-industry protocol Muzeum.

Head of Block2 (Yifa Technology)

Founder of GPUMINE, Taiwan's largest cryptocurrency mining pool, and head of B2, Taiwan's first blockchain-focused coworking space; an early blockchain adopter who began mining in 2013.

Founder of GPUMINE, Taiwan's largest cryptocurrency mining pool, and head of B2, Taiwan's first blockchain-focused coworking space. An early blockchain adopter, Chu Yu-han began mining in 2013 and, as the mining landscape shifted in 2016, built a pool using GPUs as the primary mining hardware. A mining pool lets miners mine together and share the rewards; GPUMINE today accounts for roughly 1% of the global Ethereum network's computing power. In 2019 he established Taiwan's first blockchain coworking space, which now hosts several well-known Taiwanese blockchain startups. B2 positions itself not merely as an office but as a physical space that gathers talent and resources to integrate the development of Taiwan's blockchain industry.