TAITRA Promoted Taiwan AIoT Industry and COMPUTEX 2018 in Vietnam

Bangkok, December 1, 2017: Focusing on the market of more than 600 million ASEAN population and the huge business opportunities promoted by the local government in digital economy and smart city, TAITRA organized two press conferences on the AIoT in Taiwan and COMPUTEX 2018: November 28 in Ho Chi Minh and November 30 in Bangkok. These events were sponsored by the Ministry of Economic Affairs Bureau of Foreign Trade, Taiwan. Representative from TAITRA introduced the current development of Taiwan ICT industry and how it is moving toward IoT and AI as well as its transformation situation to the local media. These COMPUTEX promotional activities are to attract local system integration entrepreneurs and buyers to visit, to source and to find strategic partners in Taiwan. The two press conferences held at the Taiwan Trade Center, Representative Office in Ho Chi Minh City (November 28) and Bangkok (November 30) attracted nearly a hundred ICT-related professionals and media. Mr. Simon Gong, Director of Economic Division, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Ho Chi Minh City, Mr. Vu, Secretary General of Ho Chi Minh City Computer Association, important media such as PC World Vietnam & Investment Newspaper, ICT enterprises such as CMC Telecom, ANH Phuong Information, and more joined the event in Ho Chi Minh. Mr. Jason Hsu, Director of Economic Division, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Thailand, Mr. Gunatilaka, Director of The Association of the Thai ICT industry, important media such as ARIP Public Company Ltd. and Thairath Newspaper, ICT enterprises such as Computer Union and True GS were invited to the Bangkok event. Ms. Emilia Shih, Deputy Director of Exhibition Dept., TAITRA, indicated during her presentation that Taiwan ICT companies are moving toward AIoT and announced the themes of COMPUTEX 2018. In response to the global ICT industry focusing on artificial intelligence, cloud, and data analysis, Taiwanese companies, with strong R&D and OEM/ODM strength as the backing, are actively cooperating with world manufacturers such as: ARM, Intel, Microsoft, SIEMENS, to develop IoT, VR/AR, artificial intelligence and robotics, to connect the inseparable AIoT ecosystem. The Taiwan government has also been actively mentoring startup companies, activating innovative talents, helping ICT entrepreneurs, accelerators and research institutions to combine their efforts to accelerate the hardware and software integration and to inject new energy into the ICT industry in Taiwan through the "Asia Silicon Valley Plan" and the "Taiwan Rapid Innovation Prototyping League for Entrepreneurs”. COMPUTEX has been through transformation the past two years. With this foundation, the show continues with the position of Building Global Technology Ecosystems, focusing on 6 main themes: AI, 5G, Blockchain, IoT, Innovations & Startups, and Gaming & VR and reinforce on exhibitor lineup for SmarTEX (IoT applications exhibit to be located in TWTC Hall 1) and InnoVEX (displays of international startups to be located in TWTC Hall 3). Mr. Vu Anh Tuan, Secretary General of Ho Chi Minh City Computer Association mentioned during the press conference that the city has just announced promoting smart city plan last week; business opportunities for IoT applications are expected to be infinite. In order to effectively facilitate cooperation between Taiwan and Vietnam, the association is expecting to organize a delegation of 100 system integrators, ICT and startup companies to visit COMPUTEX 2018. Mr. Le, Deputy General Manager of An Phat Co., visited COMPUTEX the past 10 years and found reliable partners. He is also very optimistic about Taiwanese companies transitioning from hardware providers to system solutions, IoT technology and AI providers and is even more actively searching for Taiwanese suppliers to bring AIoT related products into Vietnam market.   The Thai government introduced the EEC plan and smart city is an important part of the plan with multiple increase demand for wireless communications, network connection and cloud service applications. With emphasis on the smart city business opportunities, TAITRA invited Mr. Sttichaisrichart, General Manager of SiS Distribution, who attended COMPUTEX more than 10 times and Mr. Curtis Ku, representative from DELTA, Thailand who witnessed the recent transition of COMPUTEX toward artificial intelligence, IoT and startup to the press conference. During the event, Mr. Ku also introduced the IoT solutions, home solar power storage systems and electric vehicle charging stations and other development, combined with the local government smart city promotion which will bring new opportunities to the Taiwan ICT industry. For more updated information on COMPUTEX 2018, please check out the official website: www.computextaipei.com.tw