Sources and verification
Every externally verified claim, with its source link and a confidence rating. Filter by category, sort any column, or search. Where nothing could be confirmed, the row says so rather than guessing.
| Category | Item | What was verified | Source | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Event | Dates, venue, organiser | 9–10 September 2025, Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Academia Sinica; organised by the Taiwan AI Academy Foundation, co-hosted by Academia Sinica's Institute of Information Science and CITI. | conf2025.aiacademy.tw | High |
| Event | Scale and attendance | 4 keynotes, 2 topic forums, close to 44 track talks across three rooms, 10 flash talks convened by the Taiwan AI Association, plus an R3 workshop on day one; close to 1,500 attendances, historically about 70% from industry, government, academia and research. | aiacademy.tw | High |
| Event | Sponsors and partners | Eight listed: Cisco, Deloitte, Meta, cacaFly, E.SUN Bank, IISI, Siemens, Frontier Foundation. | conf2025.aiacademy.tw | High |
| Event | Ticket types and prices | Neither the official site nor the news page gives ticket information. No public data found. | Not found | |
| Media | Jonney Shih's three strategic advantages | Compute engineering (world's strongest AI server supply chain), model engineering (open-model customisation), application deployment (rich vertical experience). Taiwan should not go head to head with the US, China, Europe or Japan. | ctee.com.tw | High |
| Media | ASUS transformation and GPU market share | Near 90% global share of GPU system products; open-model talent second only to the US and China; a dense ISV/SI ecosystem. | money.udn.com | High |
| Media | Vice President's opening remarks | AI is Taiwan's future economic engine and Taiwan pursues balance in developing it; embodied intelligence will bring AI into the physical world; labour transition, privacy and disinformation risks must be faced. | president.gov.tw | High |
| Media | Why Huang Neng-fu gave the memorial lecture | He supervised Chen Sheng-wei's master's degree at NTHU, hence the invitation to give the Chen Sheng-wei Memorial Lecture. | cna.com.tw | High |
| Speaker | Chen Ling-jyh (AIA CEO) | Research fellow at Academia Sinica's Institute of Information Science and head of its Information Technology Services; UCLA computer science PhD; adjunct professor at NTNU. | aiacademy.tw | High |
| Speaker | Hou Yi-hsiu's appointment | Announced by the Executive Yuan on 27 August 2025, effective 1 September — so she was already in post during the conference, though the official agenda still listed her as AIA Secretary-General. | cna.com.tw | High |
| Speaker | Ed H. Chi | VP of Research at Google DeepMind; PhD from the University of Minnesota; formerly at Xerox PARC; joined Google in 2011 and became Chief Scientist in 2017; a core researcher on Bard and Gemini. His specific representative publication list could not be verified. | inside.com.tw | High / partial |
| Speaker | Cheng Teng-hu | Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NYCU since August 2023; Chief Roboticist at Tron Future Technology since February 2024; research in autonomous flight control, vision-guided UAVs, cooperative swarms and SLAM; 2023 Ta-You Wu Memorial Award. | web.nstc.gov.tw | High |
| Speaker | Roger Jang (E.SUN CTO) | UC Berkeley EECS PhD (1992); taught at NTHU from 1995 and NTU from 2012; head of NTU Hospital's information office 2017–2019; director of NTU's FinTech research centre from 2018; seconded to E.SUN as CTO in 2020 and stayed on after retiring from NTU. | ctee.com.tw | High |
| Speaker | Chen Wei-chao's 2025 title | Digital Officer and Senior VP at Inventec (not CTO), consistent across 2024–2025 reporting; head of Inventec's AI centre; his Inventec tenure ran to September 2025. | money.udn.com | High |
| Speaker | Chen Cheng-jan's think-tank title | Listed as a director of the New Frontier Foundation for its ninth and tenth terms. No public record found of a deputy executive director or formal policy-committee title, so on-stage attribution as executive director could not be confirmed. | Medium | |
| Speaker | Su Chun-jung, Chiu Wei-chen background | No reporting directly tied to this conference's panels could be found confirming Su Chun-jung's identity and current post. Chiu Wei-chen is an associate professor at NYCU (Max Planck Institute PhD) whose published research is mainly computer vision; no public record directly linking him to AI safety was found. | eecshp.nycu.edu.tw | Low / not found |
| Terminology | Frank Grunert = Chang Ho-hsi | The same person. Chairman, President and CEO of Siemens Ltd. Taiwan since August 2024. The official speaker page uses the Chinese name with the English name alongside; on stage only the English name was used. | conf2025.aiacademy.tw | High |
| Terminology | Taiwania 2 | The NCHC supercomputer: 252 nodes, 9 PFLOPS, 20th on the global TOP500 in 2020; half the capacity for academia, half operated commercially. The Taiwania 2 → Jonney Shih → Taiwan AI Cloud → language model chain checks out; the specific Hakka-model training claim could not be sourced first-hand. | technews.tw | High / partial |
| Terminology | Taiwan AI Cloud is not TSMC | Taiwan AI Cloud Corporation, an ASUS-affiliated company (public-private partnership). Unrelated to TSMC — the similar-sounding Chinese names cause the confusion. | twincn.com | High |
| Terminology | Basic Law on AI timeline | Not yet passed at the time of the conference. The Executive Yuan approved the draft on 28 August 2025; the Legislative Yuan passed its third reading on 23 December 2025, with the National Science and Technology Council as competent authority. The conference (9–10 Sept) falls between the two. | cna.com.tw | High |
| Terminology | NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1 | The first open general-purpose foundation model for humanoid robots (vision-language-action, dual-system architecture), announced at GTC on 18 March 2025. | nvidianews.nvidia.com | High |
| Terminology | V-JEPA 2 | Yann LeCun's world-model architecture at Meta; V-JEPA 2 released June 2025, trained on a million hours of video, supporting zero-shot robot control. | ai.meta.com | High |
| Terminology | Scamlexity | A term from Guardio Labs' August 2025 research report for the new scam surface created by agentic AI browsers such as Perplexity Comet, where AI rather than a human is the target. | guard.io | High |
| Terminology | DARPA AIxCC timing | US$8.5m total prize; finals results announced on the DEF CON 33 main stage on 8 August 2025 (Team Atlanta first). The speaker said two weeks before the conference; it was actually about 4–5 weeks. | darpa.mil | High / timing off |
| Terminology | Cisco's acquisition of Splunk | US$28 billion, at US$157 per share in cash, closed 18 March 2024 — Cisco's largest acquisition. | newsroom.cisco.com | High |
| Terminology | Operation Spiderweb figures | 1 June 2025, run by Ukraine's SBU after 18 months of planning. Drone counts differ: Ukraine says 117 trucked in, The Economist estimates about 150. Damage assessments differ too; total Russian losses are put at about US$7bn. Cite the divergence, not one number. | en.wikipedia.org | High / figures vary |
| Terminology | Eric Schmidt on Taiwan | From his 14 August 2024 Stanford ECON295/CS323 lecture (later taken down): Taiwan is a fantastic country, whose software is terrible, while its hardware is amazing. A 2024 remark quoted by a panellist, not something said at this conference. | gist.github.com | High |
| Terminology | Genesis Technology SmartPlus MES | Genesis Technology (ticker 6221, headquartered in Hsinchu, founded 1994); SmartPlus MES is its registered trademark (registered 1 December 2021), positioned as a smart manufacturing engine. | genesis.com.tw | High |
| Terminology | Auterion | A drone software company founded in Zurich in 2017, pivoted to defence after the Russia-Ukraine war, developing a drone operating system; raised US$130m in 2025 to expand production. | therobotreport.com | High |
| Terminology | CoachAI / TrackNet code and papers | Both public. CoachAI is a research project of NYCU's Advanced Database System Lab, with published papers including KDD'19 (TrackNet), AAAI-22/23 and KDD-23 (ShuttleSet). Note: the project lead found in public records is Prof. Peng Wen-chih; the relationship to the listed speaker Yi Chih-wei could not be further verified. | github.com | High / partial |
| AIA | Founding and cumulative training | Prepared from March 2017 by a team led by Academia Sinica President Liao Chuan-chih, Academician H. T. Kung and Dr Chen Sheng-wei; formally opened January 2018 with Kung as principal and Chen as CEO. Cumulative training is reported at about 13,000 managers and technical leads across 15 industries; the exact publication date of that report could not be fully verified. | aiacademy.tw | High / partial |
| AIA | Who Chen Sheng-wei was | Computer scientist, data scientist and AI expert (1976–2020). Founded the Taiwan Data Science Conference in 2014 and the Taiwan Data Science Association in 2016; co-founded the Taiwan AI Academy in 2017 and served as its first CEO. Died 11 April 2020 after a head injury from a fall while exercising, aged 44. | zh.wikipedia.org | High |
| AIA | When the memorial lecture began | Launched in 2021, with Jan Li-feng giving the first lecture on Trends of AI: An Industrial Perspective. Only the 2021 and 2025 speakers could be confirmed; 2022–2024 could not be found. | aiacademy.tw | High / partial |
| Recordings | Session recordings and slides | The official YouTube channel shows past years' opening ceremonies, so recording is customary — but no 2025 per-session playback list or slide download page could be found on the channel or the official site. No public data. | youtube.com | Not found |