The Future of Community and Mobility Week
AI Solutions Shaping the Future of Urban Innovation
Startup Island TAIWAN
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- AI and Smart City
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- * Programme times and content are subject to change. Any changes will be announced on this website and via the ticket booking system.
- * The schedule is subject to change depending on the organiser's circumstances.
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2025.08.20[Wed]
13:00 ～ 17:00
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- Venue
- Theme Weeks Connect (Outside Venue)
- Inside Hankyu Hanshin MEETS, 1-1-3 Shibata, Kita-ku, Osaka 530-0015
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Programme details
This presentation event is designed to align with the vision of the Osaka-Kansai Expo, "Designing Future Society for Our Lives," and serves as a platform to explore innovative social experiments aimed at enhancing the welfare of human society. Focusing on startups from Taiwan, it will showcase cutting-edge innovations in fields such as autonomous driving, artificial intelligence, ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance), and smart cities, with the goal of realizing a sustainable future. Leveraging the Expo as a catalyst, the event aims to establish news normals and establish an international co-creation platform.
Cast
Speakers
David Bae
BIG Impact VC
David Bae is a venture capitalist and board member at BIG Impact VC, a Japan-based fund focused on supporting early-stage tech startups in sectors such as AI, robotics, healthcare, and mobility. Through his work with BIG Impact VC, he has played a key role in driving innovation and cross-border collaboration, particularly in the Kansai region, including partnerships with Hyogo Prefecture and Kobe City. With a background in cross-border consulting and fund management, David actively supports startups entering the Japanese market, providing hands-on assistance with fundraising, business development, and government-led innovation programs.
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Joshua Flannery
Innovation Dojo group
Joshua is a recognised innovation ecosystem leader in both Japan and Australia, as the co-founder and CEO of Innovation Dojo group, including operations in both countries. His experience includes leading the Japan expansion efforts for both European open innovation firm Rainmaking (later acquired by Bain & Company), and Australian SaaS company StudyLink (later acquired by Flywire). As an employee of the New South Wales government, Joshua has held the Lead director position for the largest startup hub in the Southern Hemisphere, Sydney Startup Hub, and was the first hire and penned the initial plans for the University of New South Wales startup programs, which grew to become the leading university for entrepreneurs in APAC.
Aside from managing Innovation Dojo, Joshua personally mentors science-based ventures at Osaka University, consults large Japanese corporations on startup engagement strategy participating in the J-Bridge program, and holds an Adjunct Professor role in Entrepreneurship at the Kansai University of International Studies. Joshua is recognized by METI Kinki as an Official Startup Recommender under the J-Startup Kansai initiative, is a Board Director for the Australia Japan Business Council of Victoria, and sits on the Innovation, Technology & Startups (ITS) Sub-Committee for the Australia Japan Business Cooperation Committee.
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Brian Lim
Encognize GK
Brian is the COO of Encognize GK, where he oversees market expansion initiatives which support startups, scale-ups, and SMBs in expanding internationally by helping them identify new markets, design go-to-market strategies, and facilitate key business introductions.
He was the former APAC Head of Startup Programmes / Expand at Rainmaking, where he
worked extensively with scaleups, industry-leading corporations and government agencies
to drive new commercial opportunities and search for new sources of growth. He also launched offices in Singapore, Malaysia and Japan where he recruited and trained > 30
core team members.
When Brian started his career, he spent time at Intel in Malaysia and Portland, Oregon,
where he spearheaded an international benchmarking exercise to identify operational gaps
and proposed recommendations, yielding a 20% increase in engineering workforce
efficiency while optimizing business processes and overseeing a budget of >$100M,
resulting in organisation-wide cost savings of $1M / quarter and time savings of > 1,000
hours.
Brian is inspired by visionary founders who build and create transformative businesses, and
always seeks to deliver meaningful impact to their growth story. His sector specialisation
includes semiconductors, electric mobility, energy, TravelTech, construction and has a
passion for SportsTech.
In addition to the presentations, an exhibition highlighting Taiwan's advanced technologies will be held at the same venue from August 19th to August 27th.
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The Future of Community and Mobility Week
AI Solutions Shaping the Future of Urban Innovation
-
2025.08.20[Wed]
13:00～17:00
(Venue Open 13:00)
- Theme Weeks Connect (Outside Venue)
- * Programme times and content are subject to change. Any changes will be announced on this website and via the ticket booking system.
- * The schedule is subject to change depending on the organiser's circumstances.
©2025 by Startup Island TAIWAN
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