As the Engineering Director, Jason Ma oversees Google Taiwan’s site growth, business management and development, as well as leads multiple R&D projects across the board. Before taking this leadership role at Google Taiwan, Jason was a Platform Technology and Cloud Computing expert in the Platform & Ecosystem business group at Google Mountain View, CA. In his 12 years with Google, Jason has successfully led strategic partnerships with global hardware and software manufacturers and major chip providers to drive various innovations in cloud technology. These efforts have not only contributed to a substantial increase in Chromebook’s share in global education, consumer and enterprise markets, but have also attracted global talents to join Google and its partners in furthering the development of hardware and software technology solutions/services.

Prior to joining Google, Jason served on the Office group at Microsoft Redmond, WA. He represented the company in a project, involving Merck, Dell, Boeing, and the United States Department of Defense, to achieve solutions in unified communications and integrated voice technology. In 2007, Jason was appointed Director of the Microsoft Technology Center in Taiwan. During which time, Jason led the Microsoft Taiwan technology team and worked with Intel and HP to establish a Solution Center in Taiwan to promote Microsoft public cloud, data center, and private cloud technologies, connecting Taiwan’s cloud computing industry with the global market and supply chain.

Before joining Microsoft, Jason was Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Soma.com. At Soma.com, Jason led the team in designing and launching e-commerce services, and partnered with Merck and WebMD on health consultation services and over the counter/prescription drugs/services. Soma.com was in turn acquired by CVS, the second largest pharmacy chain in the United States, forming CVS.com, where Jason served as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer and provided solutions for digital integration.

Jason graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Cheng Kung University, subsequent which he moved to the United States to further his graduate studies. In 1993, Jason obtained a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, with a focus in the integration and innovation of power systems and AI Expert Systems. In 1997, Jason joined the National Sun Yat-sen University as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. To date, Jason has published 22 research papers and co-authored 2 books. Due to his outstanding performance, Jason was nominated and listed in Who’s Who in the World in 1998.

ST Liew is a Vice President of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and the President of Qualcomm Taiwan and South East Asia, Australia, New Zealand. ST was born in Malaysia and was educated in Malaysia, Singapore and the UK. His permanent home is Singapore.

In this role, ST is responsible for leading all business and operational functions for Qualcomm in the region. Prior to this role, ST served as the Vice President and President of Qualcomm Taiwan.

ST has more than 30 years of experience leading businesses and R&D in the telecommunication industry. Most recently ST was the President of Acer’s new Business Group SPBG that focused on R&D and Sales of non PC lines of product for the global market while living in Switzerland and later in Taiwan.

Before joining Acer, ST was in Motorola for over 18 years leading Regional R&D Teams and later in Product planning, business Teams across the world in products ranging from Mobile radios, Pagers, Data terminals to Cellular phones. ST has lived in China, Korea, USA and India during his tenure.

Liew received his MBA from the National University of Singapore, and holds a BSc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Leeds, UK.

Dr. Bor-Sung Liang is currently a Senior Director of Strategic Technology Exploration Platform at MediaTek, Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan, and concurrently serving as a Visiting Professor at Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, EECS and GSAT in National Taiwan University, as well as a Professor Ranked Specialist at Institute of AI Innovation, IAIS in National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. He received his Ph.D degree from Institute of Electronics, National Chiao Tung University, and graduated from EMBA, College of Management, National Taiwan University.

Dr. Liang has received several important awards, such as Ten Outstanding Young Persons, Taiwan, R.O.C., National Invention and Creation Award for three times on Invention (one Gold Medal and two Silver Medals) from Intellectual Property Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan, Outstanding Youth Innovation Award of Industrial Technology Development Award from Department of Industrial Technology of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan, Outstanding ICT Elite Award of ICT Month, R.O.C., and K. T. Li Young Researcher Award from Institute of Information & Computing Machinery and ACM Taipei/Taiwan Chapter. He is also the major inventor of more than 80 patents worldwide.

Michael Chang is the Vice President and General Manager of Advantest Cloud Solutions (ACS), a strategic business unit within Advantest Corporation to enable customers in the Advantest value chain to deliver improved yield, quality, and time to volume / market. Michael boasts 25 years of diverse experience leading product innovations and business growth across AI/Machine Learning, Cloud Datacenter and Semiconductor spaces. Before joining Advantest, Michael was the General Manager of AI Solutions business at Supermicro Computer. Prior to Supermicro, he was the Co-founder of a deep learning startup company. He has also held multiple leadership roles at several IC companies including LSI, Marvell, and Vitesse semiconductor. Michael holds an MBA degree from Haas Business School at UC Berkeley, a bachelor degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the National Chiao Tung University and has completed the Executive Leadership Program from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.

Chris Scanlan is Senior Vice President Technology at Besi Switzerland where he is leading advanced technology road map development and technical promotion. Prior to joining Besi he was Vice President of Worldwide Applications Engineering at JCET Group where he was responsible for business development, technical program management, and product design. From 2009 to 2019 he was SVP of Product Development at Deca Technologies, a wafer level packaging technology provider. As a founding member of Deca, Chris was primarily responsible for the development of Deca’s portfolio of intellectual property and technology relating to M-Series fan-out, Adaptive Patterning and advanced wafer-level manufacturing methods. Chris worked at Amkor Technology for 10 years where he held leadership positions including VP of Global R&D, VP of the Advanced Products business unit and VP of the System-in-Package business unit. Chris started his career at Motorola Semiconductor where we developed a manufacturing line for high power IGBT modules, and managed the transfer of Motorola’s fcCSP technology from R&D to production. He has 70 issued US patents related to semiconductor packaging. He earned his Master of Science degree in Materials Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Experiences:

• Advisory board, ISES Taiwan
• Co-chair of Test Committee, SEMI Taiwan
• General Manager, INTEL Innovation Tech. Ltd.
• Spokesperson, INTEL Taiwan
• Consulting Committee, National QUEMOY University
• VP of Global Operations, LANTIQ Deutschland GmbH
• GM & VP of Professional Services Lab, SPIROX Corp.
• AVP of ASIC Design Services and Production Turnkey, FARADAY Tech. Corp.
• Technical Manager of CPU / Memory Design, UMC
• Project Leader of EDA DFT, SYNTEST Tech. Ltd.

Education:

• MSEE, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

Samuel Chiang is currently the deputy technical director of Andes Technology’s marketing department, assisting in the planning and promotion of Andes RISC-V 32/64-bit processors and related products. He has 15 years of experience in semiconductor IP design and development, sales and marketing, and customer technical support. He also has four years of sales and marketing experience in the field of IoT cloud and security software. Before Andes, Samuel worked at Canonical in charge of IoT sales for the Asia-Pacific region. Prior to this, he worked at Arm for 16 years, leading the Asia-Pacific and global pre-sales technical teams to cooperate with customers. He was also in charge of business development in the Asia-Pacific region at Pelion, Arm’s IoT software service subsidiary. Samuel worked as a SRAM circuit designer in TSMC’s Design Service Department in the early days. Before that, he worked on C language compiler development in IBM Software Lab in Toronto. He holds a master’s degree in administrative management from National Taiwan University, and a master’s degree and a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Queen’s University Canada.

Mr. Chen received his master’s degree at the Institute of Photonics Technologies, NTHU. He served as R&D Director at EPISTAR from 2006 to 2018 and has been the Senior Director and Quality Representative since 2018. His team has successfully developed VCSEL technology and has produced over 500kk chips through the foundry service. Furthermore, his team has also developed Micro LED technology and collaborated with other display module companies to realize mass production of Micro LED in 2023 Since 2012, he has been studying Micro LED and VCSEL devices and has obtained over 136 patents for LED, Micro LED and VCSEL.

Kamel Ait Mahiout is a seasoned professional with over 30 years of experience in the electronics industry. His expertise spans from RF and Microwave engineering to executive roles in prominent companies such as Unity SC and Amkor Technology, where he significantly contributed to the growth and alignment of the businesses with key industry players.