Violet earns her EMBA degree from National Chengchi University and LL.M. degree in International Tax Law from Vienna University of Economics and Business. With more than 20 years of experiences in providing audit, accounting advisory and international tax consulting services to multi-national companies, Violet is now leading Innovation and Entrepreneur Services team at PwC Taiwan to help fast-growth startups strengthen company operation and raise their next major institutional funding rounds through an investor readiness program.

Ian has published for research outlets and is co-author of The Startup Community Way. His research is cited in leading press outlets, such as Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal and many others. Ian leads ecosystem development at Techstars, where he works with entrepreneurs, community leaders, and institutions around the world to support their path towards building better ecosystems.

Oko is the senior director at Techstars APAC and also an active founder and a community builder. He has co founded and helps run several startups in Asia. He advises TUZ Ventures, central asia focused VC fund as well as T10 Ventures.

Marvin was previously a Partner at Venture Capital Fund 500 Startups, running the SF based accelerator program as well as investing in Seed stage start ups. He has invested in over 414 Pre-seed & Seed stage startups during the 6 years spent there. Marvin also spent 10.5 years at Yahoo! as an executive with extensive experience across Asia, Europe, Latin America and the United States in his career at the company. Marvin presently serves on the boards/advisory boards of several internet advertising and ad technology companies across the globe.

With more than ten years of experience in Acer Group, Lucia was responsible for product strategy communication and business development during her expatriate period in EMEA regional headquarters. After returning to global headquarters, she was successively appointed to be corporate strategic planning, Asia Pacific business management, and assisted in the establishment of a new business unit.

Peter (De-Ming) Hu is leading Solutions Technical Unit (STU) and Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) of Microsoft Taiwan. STU and MTC are organizations to accelerate enterprise customers' digital transformation with Cloud solutions planning, architecture design and resource optimization. Before he joined Microsoft in 2004, he has 6 years IT work experience in Systex Corporation, which is the largest financial professional service provider in Taiwan.

Johnny Tsai, currently the co-founder and chief operating officer of VoiceTube, is dedicated to providing innovative language learning services with technology. Johnny holds a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University. Before starting the business, he worked as a Junior Manager in the Equity Investment Department of Cathay United Bank. With his passion to innovation and entrepreneurship, he serves as an operating consultant for many startups and often shares his entrepreneurial experience in universities.

James Kao has decades of experience in sales, marketing, operations and strategic management; he has successfully expanded the company's reach to different markets in APAC. James holds an MBA in Strategic Marketing, University of Hull, UK. Before joining CloudMile, James worked at EF, WSI and Yahoo!Taiwan dedicating to sales, marketing, and operation development in Asia-Pacific region.

After receiving his medical degree from National Taiwan University, Joe went to University of Southern California for PhD program in pathology. He has insatiable curiosity and is an avid self-learner. During graduate school years, he mastered tissue experiment and optical microscopy. He was also a self-taught computer programmer. He eventually left academia and founded aetherAI, where He’s dedicated to using his cross-disciplinary skills to develop medical image AI systems and solve important medical problems. Under his leadership, aetherAI has captured the largest share of the digital pathology market in Taiwan.