Taipei | December 12-13, 2018 9:00AM - 5:00PM

Shirley Strachan is the General Manager of the APAC IoT Sales team, responsible for building intelligent systems and solutions and driving sales and go to market execution. Her team drives execution of digital business transformation with partners across the APAC region, enabling solutions development leveraging Azure cloud services to collect and analyze data, provide insights and drive intelligent actions that deliver value to their customers business

In her 10 years with Microsoft Shirley has held several leadership positions managing partner and customer engagement teams. Immediately prior to Microsoft, Shirley co-founded of a successful retail solutions start-up and spent 6 years as VP WW Sales & Business Development. Preceding that Shirley had an 18-year career with Fujitsu where she held various leadership positions including: Sales Director Local Government, driving sales and business strategy for Government solutions in the UK; VP GIS Pan-Caribbean, leading the Geographical Information Solutions for utilities network management and government land management projects and VP Sales for Retail Solutions across the Americas.

Her career spans 30+ years in sales, business development and strategy development leadership roles in the Technology Industry across multiple geographies.

Leading the Microsoft Internet of Things Innovation Center based in Taiwan, Cathy is responsible for establishing and enlarging IoT ecosystem, enabling customers and partners to accelerate digital transformation through Industrial IoT and AI. Prior to this role, she served as Director in Microsoft Taiwan Marketing and Operation organization, in charge of the marketing strategy and execution for Microsoft's cloud services and solutions for enterprise. She also took a role in Microsoft OEM global business group, responsible for product design-in and distribution business. Prior to joining Microsoft, she served as Hewlett-Packard's senior system architect and TrendMicro developer.

Josh Nash is a Principal Product Planner on the Azure Sphere engineering team at Microsoft. In his role, he is responsible for representing the product team in customer engagements as well as communicating priorities of new customer requirements to engineering. In previous roles at Microsoft, Nash was Director of Escalations & Resolutions for the Cloud + Enterprise business, Chief of Staff and Strategy to the Chairman of Emerging Markets and a Product Manager in the Windows Emerging Business Unit. He has served in leadership roles at Calgary Scientific Inc. and Intellectual Ventures and began his career as a Consultant at Accenture. Nash holds a BA from Columbia University as well as an MBA with distinction from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Dr. Lin leads a team of talented IoT and Data solution architects in Greater China Region. We architect end to end IoT and cloud solutions for GCR IoT device partners. Thru ecosystem partners including SI, ISV, and xSP, we accelerate partners to build repeatable vertical intelligent edge + intelligent cloud solutions and services.

Tommy graduated from the NCCU MIS master in 2000 with specialties in object-oriented design and distributed engineering. He has worked for TBLink, IBM, and is responsible for software engineering and system analysis and design related solutions. He also delivered a brilliant speech at the seminar. He currently serves as the Cloud Solution Architect in the Microsoft IoT department. He specializes in the innovative use of the cloud and the Internet of Things. He combines the latest cognitive technologies and deep learning to develop a variety of Internet of Things solutions and AI. Applications,. In addition, he combined the chat robot with LINE or FB to become mobile assistant, fully demonstrating the powerful capabilities of cognitive computing and artificial intelligence. He also has ever been the techbang guest speaker /Cloud campus promotion seeder / Watson AI Service Promotion Program Member/ Pycon guest speaker for AI speech / Cloud Maker Promotion speaker / CAVEDU IoT classroom guest speaker/ Maker Faire 2016 AI adaption Guest speaker

The mission of the Windows IoT team is “Be the platform and service of choice for all device builders”. As the Senior Director for Sales Strategy & Operations within Microsoft’s IoT Device Partner group, Andrew leads both the business transformation plans and also the operational capability development for our fast-moving IoT Device business.

In his 17 years at Microsoft, Andrew has held positions in the Enterprise Sales, Enterprise Services, Public Sector, and Marketing & Operations divisions of Microsoft’s UK Subsidiary, and has held leadership positions with worldwide responsibility for sales strategy and execution in both the Small & Medium Solutions & Partners group and the OEM Division. Prior to joining Microsoft, Andrew held a variety of engineering, management and policy-making roles within the UK Government.

Andrew graduated from the University of York in the United Kingdom with a Master’s degree in Electronic Engineering. He is a Chartered Engineer and outside work is a keen pianist.

Ben has been with Insight for two years and is responsible for managing architects and developers as well as ensuring project delivery. He has been building with IoT solutions for a number of years in areas like industrial, residential, agriculture and heavy machinery. He has been writing software in .NET to solve business problems by introducing automation and building robust, cloud-based applications. He has worked in many industries including service-based organizations, lecture capture software, and commercial insurance. His passion is to be able to deliver value to his customers as well as building solutions where scaling and performance are part of the design from the first line of code to go-live.

Steve Hsu was the CEO of AAEON Technology Inc. in Taiwan and chairman of AAEON Electronics Inc in USA. ASUS-AAEON acquisition project was successfully executed under his supervision. Steve also has over 10 years experiences in AT&T Bell Labs. Now his main focus as senior advisor of AAEON Technology Inc. is to search for innovative new business, e.g., IoT solutions to bring company to the next level. He also serves as advisor for Taiwan’s software research org. - Institute of Information Industry. Steve has dual graduate degrees; MS of Industrial & Systems Engineering from University of Southern California, and MS of Computer Science from New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Adeline Hsieh is a Principle Solution Specialist, IoT for Microsoft. In this role, Adeline helps Microsoft’s customers and partners across South East Asia, New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan to leverage the power of IoT to transform their businesses.

Adeline has held a number of roles in Microsoft, from Senior Channel Account Executives, Devices OEM , and OEM account manager for Windows phone. She worked with partners to grow their business together with Microsoft

A native of Taiwanese, Adeline has a MSc Degree in Analysis, Design and Management of information system from London school of Economics and Political Science, University of London

She dedicated in Smart Retail and Smart Manufacturing business development and strategic partnership.

Experienced in IoT project management.

Philip Chang is the General Manager of Avalue Technology, who is the executive accountable for obtaining profit contribution, establishing and accomplishing business objectives.

Being an Avalue’s top leader, he realized the enormous potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) early on. Avalue’s Intelligent Solutions: Smart Retail, Digital Healthcare, Smart Manufacture and Intelligent Transportation are the pioneer to move swiftly and capture potential market opportunity of IoT-driven digital transformation.

Paul Shieh, Founder & CEO of Linker, was a founding member of Starent (Boston based, early invested by Matrix Partners in 2000, and acquired by Cisco for US$ 2.9B in 2009). After acquired by Cisco, he then served as GM of Mobile Internet Technology Group, Cisco for about 2 years. In 2011, Paul solely founded Linker, focusing on AI and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) intelligent platform to deliver “AI + 5G” services for various vertical market segments.

Linker Networks is an innovative startup. Our End-to-End Continuous Learning AI Platform supports state-of-the-art deep learning frameworks to provide customers with the ability adding intelligence at any or all of workflow stages including dataset preprocessing, workspace, distributed training, model deployment and management. The AI platform SaaS, that Linker has developed, enables revenue-generating AI Managed Services for Enterprises & Mobile Operators.

Cameron is a Program Manager on Microsoft’s Azure IoT Central team. IoT Central is a SaaS platform that allows users to create robust IoT applications in a no-code environment. IoT Central is the only end-to-end, fully managed SaaS platform in the IoT space.

He is specifically responsible for customer engagement, market alignment, and contributes to strategic planning for the product. He helps to ensure that IoT Central continues to be the best in class offering for organizations and individuals that want the key insights and actions that IoT offers, but don’t want the hassle of maintaining a full-stack development environment.

Marcello Majonchi is a Program Manager at Microsoft where he works in the Azure engineering team driving strategy and product roadmap for Azure IoT Central. A veteran of the IoT space, he has a passion for helping people transform their work and life by designing new, simpler, and more efficient software solutions on the edge and the cloud, and evangelizing about the value that technology can unlock, publishing articles and books, and speaking at conferences and events.

Dr. David Hsu is a solution architect in the IoT sales team of Consumer and Device Sales at Microsoft. Having years of development experience and over a decade’s analytics experience in academia and industry, he works with partners as well as customers to develop end-to-end IoT solutions, most of which are powered by AI, especially for industrial automation. His research capability has helped his customers achieve high ROI. He received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of Minnesota, USA.

Jean-Sébastien Brunner is an engineer with more than 15 years of experience across research and product groups. He joined Microsoft in 2010 and works in Azure Big Data where he leads the Program Management team for Azure Stream Analytics. He has been focusing on IoT Analytics and Streaming Analytics at scale.

Previously, he worked in SQL Server Information Services team and Bing Geospatial, focusing on data representation and processing.

Before joining Microsoft, Jean-Sébastien worked for IBM Research, and Thales Innovation centers, where he worked on Information Retrieval and Semantic Web technologies

Xumin Sun is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, where she works on partner ecosystem of the Great China Region for Windows Server and Windows IoT products. Xumin has 18 years of experience in software industry, worked on telecommunication, network load balancing, network protocol analysis tools and Nano Server in the scope of Windows Server, and Windows IoT. She has transitioned from a developer, to feature program manager, to her current role on partner engagement. She holds a master degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from McGill University, Canada.

Deh Hui is currently the Senior PM for Strategic Engagements & Industrial IoT under Microsoft’s Cloud & AI Product Group where she partners closely with key customers towards their success in Industry 4.0 transformation.

Some years back in university, Deh Hui stumbled upon Pervasive Computing and was apparently pretty good at it that she was awarded Hewlett Packard Singapore’s prize for Best Pervasive Computing Student. Many years later… many believe the Internet of Things evolved largely out from Pervasive Computing.

Mr. Tsai Chih-Ta has been researching in the field of renewable energy for more than 10 years, especially in the design, planning, construction and operational performance evaluation of solar photovoltaic (PV) system, rural area off-grid hybrid power system and micro-grid.

Currently working for Tatung's Smart System Division, responsible for the R&D of the micro-grid team (such as system integration and energy management system), and guiding the development of the new generation solar PV system monitoring system to manage more than 540 solar PV power plants.

Mr. Li is the Principal Solution Specialist for Azure IoT in APAC region at Microsoft. He manages end to end IoT solution development and co-sell with key partners. His primary work includes Computer Vision, Azure Machine Learning and Edge inferences at verticals such as smart manufacturing, robotics smart city and building automation. Through Azure AI and IoT, the solutions are assisting Microsoft partner digital transformation to add value to existing hardware/silicon products for new business models and revenue streams. Mr. Li has prior experiences in financial industrial, consulting services and embedded device business.

Young Liang is CEO and founder of xMight, an Electricity Vehicle (EV) charging solution provider. With strong will and insight of trend of new energy, he wishes to the company be one of an essential driving factor of EV market expansion. He is leading the development of the xMight EV charging management system/ platform to turn EV charging into a reliable business.

Young leads teams focused on helping customers to enable EV charging service based on intelligent cloud through intelligent edge devices. This includes working directly with retail, commercial building, parking operators, power companies and electric vehicle manufacturers.

Zake Lin was graduated from National Taiwan University in Taiwan and the Master of Electrical Engineering. He has more than 10 years of the experience in Test & Measurement field and profession in the product/application development and project management. Before he joined in ADLINK Technlogy.co. Currently, he is holding a position of Product Manager in Connected Factory Center, IoT Solutions Technology Business Unit, ADLINK Technology co., taking charge of the development of Connecting the Unconnected solution.

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Jerry Hsieh has been engaged in intelligent manufacturing system research and development for almost twenty years in Foxconn and became a vice president of CAD/CAM Center of Foxconn. An expert in professional mold manufacturing and mold auto-manufacturing, he is now the general manager of CIMFORCE International Limited.

The team lead by Jerry applies their system development, the automated mode which combines information, profession, fineness, and cloud technologies, to the practice of die-mold production. By utilizing experiences in intelligent manufacturing and information management system, we founded the “Intelligent manufacturing system”, a service-oriented intelligent manufacturing end-to-end solution. It utilizes data analysis, expands manufacturing service platform, and integrates supply chain resource planning which succeed in enhancing the productivity as well as quality control for die-mold production and processing industries.

Vice President of Turn Cloud Technology Service Inc. A graduate of University of Southern California (USC) with a master’s in science. With over 15 years of experience in the retail information system and technology industry, specializing in business integration analysis, customer relations management and after-sale services.

As the demand for multi-digital payments and cashless transactions increases, so will the demand for "smart retail" services increase from retailers to stay competitive. Responsible for leading the company’s integrated solutions of retail technology and financial technology, striving to achieve Turn Cloud’s goal of “New Retail, New Lifestyle” technology services. Allowing retailers to further enhance customer experiences for their businesses.

Strong expertise in shopping malls, department stores, F&B, chain convenient stores and supermarkets. Not only is she in charge of client development in Taiwan, but also in China, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, and Vietnam.

Chun-Nan Chen is Vice President of Enterprise Data Technology and Customer Analysis Division in Test Rite Group, which is one of the largest retailers of home industry in Taiwan and China. In this role, he leads a technical team and develops strategies to push digital transformation forward in the retail business of Test Rite.

The technical team focuses on leveraging wireless communication, IoT, big data, cloud computing, computer vision, and AI technologies to implement related practices in Test Rite retail stores and collecting enterprise data to contribute to a data-driven business decision and enhance personalized customer experience. Chun-Nan believes that the true value of technologies is in their capabilities to support real business needs.

Before joined Test Rite Group, Chun-Nan co-founded Athentek (2014-2017), a big data start-up utilizing AI on location-based applications. From 2002 to 2014, he acted influential roles including product marketing manager and digital IC designer of WiFi and GPS product line in the leading IC design company, MediaTek.

25 years. Working at an ODM/OEM IT company, the main work is industrial analysis and product planning.

5 years. Worked as a system integrator, realize IoT industry characteristic

Flora Yang is the Founder & CEO of Raylios Technology. Flora has 20 years of experience in IT, semiconductor and security surveillance industries. She founded Raylios in 2006 and makes this company a pioneering in cloud video & IoT Integrated solutions. Flora anchored Raylios' strategic alliance with Microsoft Azure and realized the AI-aided audio/ video information to the applications of facial recognition, chatbot and behavior visual analytics in the realm of Retail, Healthcare and Smart Home.

Flora had a successful career development. She held positions with several major corporations, including sales manager at IBM, sales manager at Unisys, sales director at ISSI, sales director at Silicon Data Inc.

Flora received her B.S. Degree in Business Administration from National Taiwan University.

He is the co-founder and the executive accountable for designing proof of concept and the mechanical design of Neurospeed, which is an intelligent diagnostic system for brain diseases. Based on his knowledge in biomedical engineering and design thinking, he implements the prototypes, which translate the medical unmet need into a business potential for an international medical device company.

Currently, Neurospeed prototypes he developed have being operated by physicians with growing positive feedbacks. Neurobit’s product application was published in national academic medical conference. He and the team continue improving the features of the product, and actively seeking cooperation with more physicians and manufacture partners to meet regulations and requirements of signed clinical trials.

Andy is a Solution Architect in the Strategic Engagements & Industrial IoT under Microsoft’s Cloud & AI Product Group. He is responsible for enabling strategic partners to build world class IoT solutions powered by Azure IoT and AI platform, jointly to drive through the entire solutions lifecycle from envisioning, development, and deployment for end customers.

Andy is passionate on solving day-by-day problems by designing simpler, and more efficient solution on the edge and cloud. He is familiar with Azure PaaS and owns rich experience in IoT solution architecture design and development.

Philip Chen is IoT Cloud Solution Architect from Greater China team in Microsoft, now based in Taipei. He works with OEM/ODM partners for IoT cloud solutions and intelligent edge design in different vertical of Azure IoT ecosystem. Before joining Microsoft, Philip served as RD manager for TrendMicro leading 10+ engineers developing web services and machine learning microservices. Before his RD post, he was Cloud Solution Architect of TrendMicro, responsible for hybrid cloud and container-based infrastructure of cloud services. Prior to that, he was with IBM for 8 years with various posts including Advisory IT Architect, IT Specialist, and Software Engineer developing BI/data warehouse, production planning, logistics, and telematics solutions.

Mahesh is a Senior Software Engineer at Azure ecosystem team. He has worked on numerous products that has enabled machine learning and cloud to be used by all. His current work in Vision AI camera focuses on combining Azure Iot Edge with Azure Machine Learning to empower everyone to build machine learning solutions. This his second time speaking at IoT in Action Conferences.

Devin works on the core engineering team of the project Vision AI Dev Kit. Previously Devin also worked on projects such as Wi-Fi, P2P, Miracast, as well as camera and test kit development. Devin received bachelor’s and master’s degrees of Electrical engineering from National Taiwan University.

Cheryl Hsu is currently the Program Manager in Strategic Engagements & Industrial IoT under Microsoft’s Cloud & AI Product Group.

Cheryl has strong experience in system design and delivering large projects on platform integration across Financial/Manufacturing/Telecom verticals for 10+ years. Cheryl then joined Microsoft as Technical Architect and Cloud Solution Architect to help customers doing cloud transformation with best-fit architecture design using Azure platform. She is now focusing in helping partners and key customers on solution architecture design and deployment flow optimization to simplify the implementation, shorten project delivery period, and move forward to Industrial 4.0.

Tony Lin is a senior software engineer in Cloud & AI Group, Microsoft. Tony works with ecosystem partners to accelerate digital transformation through IoT and AI technologies, and enrich end-to-end solutions on intelligent edge and intelligent cloud platforms. Tony’s research interest is machine learning and has more than 10 publications in journals and conferences.

Jackie works in Partner Engineering team in Microsoft Cloud & AI Group. He has years of experiences collaborating with ecosystem partners building mobile, laptop, tablet, HMD and IoT devices, especially around security, manufacturing and deployment areas. Before joining Microsoft, Jackie had been worked in PC and Semi-conductor industrial for embedded firmware and software application development.

In charge of global sales for IoT solutions. Wearing different hats in Seeed gives her the privilege to help in many different ways. Currently trying to explore a pathway to lower the barrier of IoT hardware development.

Berry Tsai is a Technical Solution Professional in the IoT Consulting team of Consumer and Device Sales at Microsoft. Having years of Windows laptop & tablet development experience and over 10 years’ experience in consumer device development experience, he works with partners as well as customers to develop IoT device-to-Azure Cloud IoT solutions, most of which are powered by AI, Edge Computing and Machine Learning.