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2020 AI NOW Examines AI in the Contactless Economy with ASUS and More

TAIPEI, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#ai--Researchers at McKinsey predict that AI will boost global economic activity by $13 trillion over the next decade. As economies begin reopening to the post-pandemic world, AI industry growth is being accelerated by social distancing in the contactless economy. With this in mind, the highly anticipated 2020 AI NOW Online Tech Forum stages talks from six leading AI innovators (including ASUS) on how their AI solutions are contributing to innovation in mobility, retail, and manufacturing for the post-pandemic world.


The 2020 AI NOW Online Tech Forum will premiere on the Tech NEXT YouTube channel this September 17 at 10am in New York, 3pm in London, 10pm in Taipei, and 11pm in Tokyo. Each speaker will present for an average of ten-minutes, beginning with talks on smart manufacturing from ASUS, Accton, and RIOS Corporation, followed by speakers from eYs3D and iKala discussing smart retail, and finally SLAMcore Limited addressing smart mobility. Between each section of the talks, the Information Technology Industries Division Director of Taiwan�s Industrial Development Bureau, Jiunn-Shiow Lin will speak for six-minutes about transforming the Taiwanese technology industry through AI innovation, overseas investment, public support, and global trade.

Title of Talk

Speaker

Digital Transformation � AI Smart Manufacturing

Rick Peng, Director of ASUS AI Solution Business Unit

AI in New Era: From Factory to Smart Factory - Pallas

Colby Chou, BU Head of Accton IoT Center

RIOS - Dextrous, AI-Powered Robots for Factory Automation

Dr. Bernard Casse, CEO of RIOS Corporation

Booming LifeSense� Age Fueled by AI-on-Chip and Tackling COVID Hardships

Dr. Nicky Lu, Chairman and Founder of eYs3D Microelectronics and Etron Tech

The Next Frontier: AI Commerce for the Era of New Retail

Sega Cheng, Co-founder and CEO of iKala

Democratizing Spatial AI for Autonomous Machines

Owen Nicholson, CEO of SLAMcore Limited

The 2020 AI NOW Online Tech Forum is split into two episodes � the first episode coming out on September 17 and the second episode on October 15. These online events are part of the AI NEXT program, which is organized by Taiwan�s Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs and executed by Taipei Computer Association � the organizer of world-leading technology trade show COMPUTEX.

Contacts

Media: Daniel Cunningham +886 2 2311 7007 [email protected]

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