作者: Joy

On August 2^nd, by kindly assistance of Dai Wei-Shan, legislative assistant of Wu Szu-Yao, STARTBOARD team and Dong Yo had an opportunity to meet with Chu Yu-Ying, the senior executive officer of Department of Cultural and Creative Development. Developing industries of cultural and creative in SEA, Dong Yo shared lots of information and experiences of Thailand and Taiwan creative industries. STARTBOARD team also added ideas as we encourage more industries in Southeast Asia and India.

With this meeting, STARTBOARD team hope it would be the next step to increase entrepreneurs’ investment between Taiwan, Southeast Asia and India.

Taipei City hosted a two-day event for startups from around the world to gather and promote their ideas. The IDEAS Show took place in Taipei city on July 25 and 26. The show brought with it multiple startups based from all around the globe. The event was a two-day event held at the National Taiwan University Hospital International Convention Center (台北大醫院國際會議中心）.

The Ideas Show is an annual contest where multiple startups from around the world gather together and pitch their business models and ideas to the judges in an attempt to win the contest.

The show is an initiative by the Ministry of Economic Affairs to boost startups in Taiwan as well as the country’s economy.

The event celebrated its 10th anniversary this year with a total of more than 17,400 participants over the years, of whom 418 came from foreign countries and 301 from local and international teams pitching their ideas or designs for the contest. The show has been considered as a massive success.

This year’s event saw multiple startups from US, Europe, and South East Asian countries. Each startup brought in a unique idea and concept.

From virtual poultry farms to 3D screens on your iPhones, and tech startup incubators to VR, this year’s show featured a large pool of talents from around the globe.

STARTBOARD was excited to be a part of such a great event and also feels much honored to have met such interesting and great entrepreneurs from different parts of the world.

STARTBOARD is happy to have made some new friends in the industry and also was there to support our team Vnimation who were pitching for the first time in a platform like the IDEAS show to the judges. Our team also won an award and we are so proud and happy & would like to congratulate them for their achievement.

STARTBOARD had an amazing experience in the event which was hosted and carried out so gracefully and we had such an amazing time with our staff members and friends. STARTBOARD would like to thank each and every one of you who took the time out and visited our booth. We are grateful for your love and support.

The IDEAS Show @APEC Innovation is an annual startup promotional program executed by the Institute of Informational Industry and entrusted by Ministry of Economic Affairs, R.O.C. IDEAS Show has been founded for 9 years, accumulating over 17 thousand audiences, 418 teams exhibiting and 289 teams joining the competition mostly are from Asia Pacific area.

On the IDEAS Show this year STARTBOARD is honored to be the partner of the big event and we got  one Vietnam start-up called Holomia to join the competition with their project Holocare. The team’s project attracted many attention of people came to IDEAS Show 2017, made their booth to be “The most popular award”.

Entering the competition with the confidence, Holomia team had a great performance, convinced the audiences with their technology and got the prize of “International Participation Award”. The solution which Holocare offers is how to apply the 3D technology, VR/AR/Mixed reality to 3D digitalization patients’ data from CT scan and then upload all these data to Holocare platform; therefore doctors can always access to the data using VR/AR glasses or mobile phone. All the data collected would be stored on Cloud with the hope of creating an online library for further research of medical industry.

Holocare is believed to bring a brighter future to the existing healthcare industry, connecting doctors from all over the world through one platform. Congrats Mr.Christ and his team for their successful performance at IDEAS Show this year!

Holomia now is the partner of STARTBOARD batch 1 team Innoviz. They are cooperating in finding a way to bring the technology to construction industry. For the future plan, Alex’s team will focus more on VR real estate and car show room in Taiwan as well as China.

With the goal of expanding and supporting startup ecosystem, STARTBOARD always pay attention to startups not only in Taiwan but also in ASEAN countries, India … We can help to take your project to the international level just like Holomia. Other than a startup incubator, we hope to connect the startup system in Asia and bring countries closer by cooperation.

Keep supporting STARTBOARD and the startup ecosystem!