Partners

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  Python Software Foundation

  The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers. The majority of the PSF's work is focused on empowering and supporting people within the Python community. The PSF has active grant programs that support sprints, conferences, meet ups, user groups, and Python development efforts all over the world. In addition, the PSF underwrites and runs PyCon US, the primary Python community conference. Being part of the PSF means being part of the Python community. Recently we changed the PSF to an open membership organization, so that everyone who uses and supports Python can join. To learn more, visit https://www.python.org/psf/membership.

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  玉山銀行

  Named after the highest mountain in Taiwan, E.SUN Bank determined to be the best and most favorable bank for its shareholder, employees and customers. E.SUN is the leading domestic bank in performance, corporate governance, service quality and CSR, and expanding its footprints in Asia-pacific. E.SUN is also the first Taiwan financial ever been included in Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI).

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  國泰金控

  Cathay Financial Holdings Corpration (CFH) established the Digital, Data & Technology (DDT) practice, contributing to Fintech developments and digital transformation, to build a digital and data ecosystem via “data-driven culture” with its subsidiaries
  DDT is highly committed to investing people. We are dedicated in creating an open environment suitable for cross-border talents from diverse backgrounds such as technology, start-up, e-commerce, retail, telecommunication and finance, to satisfy our people’s desire to growth. In DDT, we share ‘One Team’ value with open minded discussion, problem solving mindset, team work, proactive learning and continuous collaboration. With respect to data science and data engineering, we also established a “Data Science Lab” to ensure our technical capabilities with research and innovation back-up which is rare and unique to industry.
  DDT provides innovative digital products and services driven by data with brilliant customer experiences, aiming to become the top in Asia Pacific Fintech ecology.

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  Appier

  Appier is a technology company which aims to provide artificial intelligence platforms to help enterprises solve their most challenging business problems. Appier was established in 2012 by a passionate team of computer scientists and engineers with expertise in AI, data analysis, distributed systems, and marketing.

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  InfuseAI

  Founded in 2018, InfuseAI builds high-quality software and services to help people work smarter and happier.

  PrimeHub, our first product, provides ready-to-use research and training environment for data scientists. Backed by our on-premise and mixed cloud solutions, we help achieving successful AI/ML adoption across industries.

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  Gemini Data

  Gemini Data connects human and machine intelligence for faster, AI-driven analysis. Gemini provides data availability by unifying all silos without data movement. Led by experts from AppDynamics, Cisco, and Splunk - Gemini is dedicated to helping global customers leverage AI for a competitive advantage. Find more information at geminidata.com

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  Microsoft

  微軟一直專注於技術創新與變革，透過卓越的軟體、設備和服務，能夠幫助用戶提昇生活和工作生產力，讓數億的使用者真正受益於科技。最耳熟的就是，Satya Nadella 在上任後提出了新願景：「在這個行動優先、雲端至上的世界裡，微軟的核心競爭力，就是成為一個提供生產力與平台的公司，幫助在這個地球上的每一個人到每一個組織，都能貢獻更多、成就更大。」

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  創順科技

  ChuangShun Technology is an innovative provider of online entertainment technology and solutions. The company’s gaming products are competitive and promising in the Southeast Asia market.

  " Technology, which is the foundation of career success " is the company's belief as well as the Team's belief. With a lightweight workflow and a flattened company organization, the communication is straightforward, transparent and agile.

  Challenges never stop. We are always looking for more engineers. We sincerely invite people with capability and acknowledge with the company’s value to join the family.

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  Shopee

  Shopee is the leading e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia and Taiwan. It is a platform tailored for the region, providing customers with an easy, secure and fast online shopping experience through strong payment and logistical support.

  Shopee, a Sea company, was first launched in Singapore in 2015, and has since expanded its reach to Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines.

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  iCHEF 資廚

  We build the best restaurant POS in the world, and keep making it better.

  Believing technology should help but handicap entrepreneurship, iCHEF works with hundreds of restaurants owners to design and deliver POS technology and service that helps every restaurant to prevail in their own way. Turning enterprise level technologies into affordable and understandable for small restaurants, iCHEF is making opening restaurant a better business.

  Award Record
  2016.02.27 iF Design Award, Gold Award
  2015.11.06 Red Dot Design Award, Winner
  2015.09.29 Good Design Award, Winner
  2014.11.25 Start Up Nation Summit, Top 15
  2013.12.12 Neo Star Demo Show Top Award Winner

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  Hacarus

  Hacarus Inc. founded 2014, in Kyoto, Japan is the leading provider of explainable lightweight AI Tools, backed by Miyako Capital (Kyoto University) among others. Its solutions are used in the Medical and Manufacturing fields to enable humans to make better, faster and more reliable decisions, based on AI driven insights. Hacarus proprietary AI engine is built using Sparse Modeling, an AI method that understands data like a human would - by its unique key features and is far more resource, time and energy efficient when compared to deep learning. We are actively hiring talent in Taiwan and beyond - to learn more, visit https://hacarus.com

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  Umbo CV

  Umbo Computer Vision is hiring! We are an AI company building an autonomous video security platform for communities, organizations and enterprises. Our mission is to help protect people and their loved ones. Our products make up the foundation of security services for major multinational corporations, hotels, and schools around the world.
  Umbo has been featured alongside Shopline, Appier, and KKday as some of Taiwan’s most prominent startups. We are at the cutting edge of video security and we need you to help us stay there. Umbo is hiring front/backend engineers, AI engineers, and more! Check out our open positions here: https://angel.co/company/umbocv/jobs

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  Kloudless

  Kloudless is the go-to platform for enterprise software integrations. Businesses use our unified API products to connect to many kinds of enterprise applications like Salesforce, Box, Dropbox, G Suite, Slack and more. With Kloudless, developers can stop building tedious and expensive one-off integrations by using Kloudless to build once and integrate many.

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  EMQ

  EMQ is Asia’s leading financial settlement network that seamlessly integrates ecosystem participants, providing a faster, cheaper and more transparent financial settlement solution for the underserved individuals and businesses across the world.

  Leveraging our scalable network infrastructure, proprietary technology, and a comprehensive network of strategic partners, EMQ has built a neutral settlement network that is completely independent and does not compete with our front-end/app-based customer-facing customers. Our flexible network infrastructure can effectively settle any cross-border movement of capital across multiple vertical industries for a broad range of services, while adhering to complex regulations and compliance standards in different markets.

  EMQ’s network coverage currently spans Asia, including China, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Indonesia, Japan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Taiwan, and the Philippines. The company has recently become the first fintech to be accepted into the Taiwan’s Regulatory Sandbox, to provide a more convenient and lower cost remittance services for migrant workers in Taiwan.

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  Avnet

  Avnet is a global technology solutions provider with an extensive ecosystem delivering design, product, marketing and supply chain expertise for customers at every stage of the product lifecycle. We transform ideas into intelligent solutions, reducing the time, cost and complexities of bringing products to market. For nearly a century, Avnet has helped its customers and suppliers around the world realize the transformative possibilities of technology. Learn more about Avnet at www.avnet.com.

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  Carousell

  Carousell is a mobile classifieds marketplace that makes selling as easy as taking a photo, buying as simple as chatting. Launched in August 2012, Carousell began in Singapore and has spread to 19 cities around the world. With over 65 million listings, we are one of the world’s largest and fastest growing marketplaces.

  Carousell has been ranked as the top Lifestyle and Shopping app in Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, and is backed by leading international Venture Capitalists Sequoia India, Rakuten Ventures, 500 Startups, Golden Gate Ventures, and QuestVC. Download the app for iOS or Android, and visit www.carousell.com for more information.

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  Tagtoo 塔圖科技股份有限公司

  Tagtoo

  We believe big data is next new black gold.

  Tagtoo focus on digital advertising display technology to reach potential customer cross border and cross screen.
  We use big data analysis to discover consumer behavior and display personalized recommendations ads.

  - Reach your potential customer cross border
  - The largest DSP for E-commerce in Asia
  - Cross-device remarketing Perfectly re-engage potential customers across screens

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  趨勢科技

  As a leader in global cybersecurity, Trend Micro focuses on securing the exchange of digital information among enterprises and individuals. Since its establishment in California in 1988, Trend Micro has established an organizational structure without national boundaries and has created headquarters in multiple countries. There are 45 offices worldwide, which include team members from Greater China, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, the Philippines, India, New Zealand, Australia, and the United States. The number of employees worldwide has exceeded 6,500. Taiwan is the R&D center of Trend Micro with over 1,200 engineers.

  We have always believed that the source of creativity comes from the well-being of our employees. Our core belief, “Be The Best Part of Yourself”, is a goal we constantly aim to achieve. Our company principle, "BEST (Beloved, Enjoyment, Self-realization and Take-calculated Risk)", helps to describe a Trender’s comprehensive happiness rules.

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  卓騰語言科技

  Droidtown Linguistic Tech. focuses on NLP solutions across Asia languages. Our service includes AI, natural language human-machine interface, text analysis and searching. Our Articut Chinese Word Segmentation (CWS) and Semantic Part-of-speech (POS) inferencing engine provides state-of-art online/offline accessibility. Its rule-based kernel makes it possible that no prior data collection or model training is needed. Our customers privacy is our highest conern. The performance is much better than Jieba CWS module basing on SIGHAN 2005 dataset evaluation.

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  群暉科技

  Data is at the heart of every industry's transformation, and this is where Synology has a profoundly important role to play. At its very core, our mission is to manage and protect the world’s data. Synology uniquely enables every business to manage, secure, and protect their data wherever access is needed from flash to disk to multiple cloud architectures – at the scale needed to accommodate the exponential data growth of the digital world.

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  O'Reilly

  O’Reilly is a learning company that helps individuals, teams, and enterprises build skills to succeed in a world defined by technology-driven transformation.

  From in-person conferences and live online training courses to self-directed learning and immediate access to problem solving online, O’Reilly has you and your team covered.

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  KlickKlack

  KlickKlack Communications

  提供專業的有線與無線網路服務，使人與人間的通訊落差降到最低。團隊已服務上百場活動，包含台灣地區最大的線上遊戲、網路直播、資訊社群、產品發表會、演唱會、會場展覽與電音派對等。整合網路監控、系統交叉備援、即時廣告互動，量身為客戶打造優質的網路服務體驗。

  精彩案例請參見 https://www.kkco.com.tw

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  HackMD

  HackMD lets you create realtime collaborative markdown notes on all platforms. It could be used to organize your thoughts, discuss with your teammates, and preview the result in realtime.
  You write in markdown and we make slides, charts, and math expressions for you!

  Since launch, more than 1,210,000 notes have been taken in HackMD.
  Users write documents, jot down memos, take meeting minutes, and even debate public issues on HackMD.

  Join us now! You could write smarter!
  Come and love it <3

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  Bloomberg

  Bloomberg is building the world's most trusted information network for financial professionals. Our 5,500+ engineers are dedicated to advancing and building new systems for the Bloomberg Terminal to solve complex, real-world problems. ​We trust our teams to choose the right technologies for the job, and, at Bloomberg, the answer is often Python. We employ an active community of more than 2,000 Python developers who have their hands in everything from financial analytics and data science to contributing to open source technologies like Project Jupyter. We also sponsor and host many events for the Python community.

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  琅茶

  "Teas grown in the same tea garden but harvested on different days can yield subtle differences in aromas and flavors. Each harvest produces a unique taste.”

  Originated from Alishan, Wolf Tea makes every effort to bring the finest Formosa teas to the world since 2013. The owner inherits the skills from her father, who has over 20 years of experience in selecting teas. The team visits tea gardens every season and carefully taste test every batch of tea. Each Wolf Tea comes from a single origin and has a unique ID number. This ensures that every sip of Wolf Tea brings you a once in a lifetime taste.

  「同じ茶畑であっても、収穫一日違うだけで、 香りと余韻も微妙に違う」

  琅茶は阿里山に立脚、台湾茶の繊細さを世界中に届けたい！ お父さんから二十何年の選茶経験を受け続かれ、 琅茶は季節の変わり目の最も良い時期に、優れた職人が上質な茶畑から厳選した 「單品茶 Single Origin」 で作り上げました。 「單品茶」 ひとつひとつが限定品で同じ物は二つとなく、お茶本来の風味をお楽しみいただけます。 お茶を 「シングルオリジナル」 の形で提供するのは、 まさに味で台湾頂上の風景を眺めるでしょう。

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  中央研究院資訊科學研究所

  The Institute of Information Science (IIS) was formally established in September 1982 after a five-year preparation period, and is one of the eleven institutes and research centers within the Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences. IIS presently has 39 full-time research fellows, 29 postdoctoral research fellows and over 300 full-time information technology specialists and part-time research assistants supporting research and development of information science and engineering. All members of IIS prescribe to the motto, "Every job is a self-portrait of those who did it; autograph your work with quality," emphasizing excellence and synergistic teamwork effort.

  The mission of IIS is to conduct quality fundamental research in information science, develop cutting edge technologies applicable to advanced information systems, and improve our national competitiveness in information technology, and international visibility. Being a member of the highest research institution in Taiwan, IIS is obligated to assuming the leadership role in the area of information science and engineering, and aims to establish itself as one of the first-class research institutions in the world.

  The institute has eight research labs: Bioinformatics Lab, Computer System Lab, Data Management and Information Discovery Lab, Multimedia Technologies Lab, Network System and Service Lab, Programming Languages and Formal Methods Lab and Computation Theory and Algorithms Lab.Current research areas include: bioinformatics, parallel and distributed computing, internet intelligent agents, document analysis and recognition, multimedia, computer vision and image processing, Chinese language and information processing, natural language understanding, computer communication and networking, web-based computing and eXtensible Markup Language technology, network and software security, formal verification, design and analysis of algorithms, cryptography, robotics.

  Research funding of IIS is primarily from the Academia Sinica, the National Science Council (NSC), Ministry of Education, Department of Health, and other government agencies, and some from the private sector. Researchers of IIS collaborate with local industries and universities, as well as overseas institutions.

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  財團法人開放文化基金會

  The Open Culture Foundation (OCF), is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, founded in 2014 by several members of Taiwan’s open source community. Our main goal is to support local communities advocate the use of open technologies in broader sectors, including open source software, open hardware, and open data. We help government, enterprises, and NGOs better understand the benefits of adopting open source,and promote the importance of open data to the public sphere. We believe that a culture of open collaboration is the foundation for an innovative society, and the engine of a participatory democracy.

  Since its establishment, OCF has supported local communities to run large-scale conferences, seminars, and hackathons, as well as collaborate with a number of international offices and multilateral institutions to deepen Taiwan’s connection to the global open culture community. Some of our past collaboration partners include the American Institute in Taiwan, British Office Taipei, Bureau Francais de Taipei, and the World Bank. OCF also has strong connections with the global open source community, and regularly exchanges experiences with civic tech groups worldwide. Our mission is to build bridges between local and global “open” communities, and hope to act as a mediator for open culture.

  Check out our annual report 2018: https://ocf.tw/en/p/2018/

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