TTXC International Forum

Espere, Founder & CEO

Ida KYMMER is an international business strategist, speaker and startup assessor specialising in emerging creative technologies. She focuses on how emerging technologies can create new business models and solve global challenges.
Ida has an MA in Peace and Conflict Studies. She has lived in eight countries and speaks five languages. Her experience in creative technologies is extensive: she worked with Dexter Studios in South Korea to develop the 3D interior screens for SLS Hotel & Casino Las Vegas. 2021-2023 she was the Global Director of Journee.
Ida is a frequent keynote speaker, panellist, and moderator and has been speaking at events such as the World Economic Forum, SXSW, Gitex, TechBBQ, Deloitte Innovation Day, Next in Vogue and many more. She is also a startup judge and regularly assesses startups for selection to various incubator or scholarship programs.
Ida also runs the business development consultancy Espere that specializes in Korean and global business exchanges as well as Studio E, a full-service event, conference and creative production studio based in Seoul.

Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Speed 3D Inc.

Marvin CHIU, with over 27 years of experience in the software industry, is recognized as an early pioneer in Taiwan’s new generation tech trends. He has held senior management roles at global companies including Trend Micro and Cyberlink. In 2014, he founded Speed 3D Inc., focusing on cutting-edge solutions in computer vision, AI & machine learning, AR, and cloud computing. His achievements include being named one of Manager Magazine’s Top 100 MVP Managers (2018), receiving the Outstanding ICT Elite Award (2019), and being selected as an Outstanding Entrepreneur in GEM’s Global Report 2020/2021. Driven by a passion for emerging technologies, he continues to advance innovation in Taiwan’s software industry on the global stage.

HTC VIVE Arts, Executive Director

Celina YEH is the Executive Director of VIVE Arts, where she leads the team in shaping international programs and driving business development in the immersive location-based experience (LBE) sector. She has spearheaded collaborations with world-renowned institutions including the Louvre Museum, the Palace of Versailles, Art Basel, and the Venice Biennale, delivering groundbreaking VR experiences that merge technology, storytelling, and cultural heritage. With a strong focus on global expansion, she fosters cross-border partnerships and innovative growth models, positioning VIVE Arts at the forefront of the immersive entertainment industry.

Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) Deputy Chief Executive Officer

Alice CHANG, Deputy CEO of the Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA), holds a Master’s degree from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology and is currently a PhD candidate at Taipei National University of the Arts. She has extensive experience bridging technology and cultural content, having worked at the National Science and Technology Council on foresight policy planning and inter-ministerial coordination, and at the Institute for Information Industry on initiatives in digital archiving, digital content, new media art exhibitions, and museum technology. With a background spanning industry, government, and academia, she now focuses on cultural-tech innovation and global market development, believing that cross-sector collaboration can generate win-win outcomes.

Founder & CEO, Westworld Co., Ltd

A first-generation VFX Supervisor who began his career in 1998 with the film The Soul Guardians and has since played a leading role in the development of Korea’s VFX industry.

Work Experience

• Current: Founder & CEO,Westworld Co., Ltd.
• Former: President, Digital Idea

WMajor Works
<Exhuma>, <All of Us Are Dead>, <Sweet Home Season 1>, <The Silent Se>, <Hero>, <The Battleship Island>, <The Age of Shadows>, and over 150 other titles

Awards

• Best Visual Effects, 18th Asian Film Awards <;Exhuma>
• Special Award for Advanced Technology, 52nd Grand Bell Awards <Ode to My Father>
• Numerous other accolades

CEO of Wētā FX

Daniel Seah is the newly appointed Chief Executive Officer of Wētā FX, bringing over a decade of leadership experience in the visual effects industry. Prior to joining Wētā FX, he served as CEO of Digital Domain for 12 years, where he transformed the award-winning visual effects studio, known for works like Titanic and Marvel's Avengers, into a diversified technology company.
During his tenure, Daniel spearheaded the company's expansion beyond traditional visual effects into emerging technologies, including virtual reality and artificial intelligence. Daniel’s leadership skills saw him establish a global network of post-production facilities, expanding from Los Angeles across multiple continents, with locations in Vancouver, Montreal, Hyderabad, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and more. His strategic vision and execution earned him recognition as Top 25 Media Executives of 2024 by Key Executives, and one of the Top 25 Business Leaders of Los Angeles in 2023 by The Business Report.
Before entering the entertainment technology sector, Daniel built a strong foundation in finance, working as an investment banker at Barclays and United Simsen Securities Limited. This financial acumen, combined with his technology leadership, has seen him develop a unique set of skills required to succeed in the highly competitive world of digital visual effects.
Daniel's global perspective, shaped by living in both Asia and America throughout his career, has fostered a deep appreciation for diverse cultural environments. This international outlook has proven invaluable in building and managing global teams. Drawing inspiration from figures like Stan Lee, he has consistently demonstrated an ability to bridge the gap between creative vision and technological innovation.

Staff Research Scientist, Meta Platforms Inc.

Wan-Chun Alex Ma is a staff research scientist at Meta Platforms Inc.. Prior to Meta he was affiliated with ByteDance, Google, Activision Blizzard, ETH Zurich, Weta Digital, and USC Institute for Creative Technologies. During his Google tenure as a senior software engineer, he led the research and development for AR lighting estimation to promote realism for augmented reality. He was also a research scientist at both Weta Digital and Activision Blizzard where his work on facial performance capture contributed to many recent productions, including the Hobbit trilogy, Iron Man 3, the reboot Planet of the Apes series, Furious 7, BFG, Call of Duty series, and so on. His researches have been published at top tier graphics conferences including SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, Eurographics, EGSR, SGP and I3D, in research areas such as facial animation, performance capture, photogrammetry, image-based modeling and rendering, geometry processing and machine learning. Ma received an Academy Award for Technical Achievement in 2019 for his work on the Polarized Spherical Gradient Illumination facial appearance capture system used in creating photoreal digital actors. He received his Ph.D. from National Taiwan University in 2008.

Founder of Moonshine

An engineer who entered the world of animation by chance, he firmly believes that continuous technological advancement is the key to realizing greater dreams, driving innovation in visual storytelling, and expanding the boundaries of imagination. Over the past decade since founding Moonshine Animation, he has led the team to focus on animation while extending into the development of innovative visual technologies, including gaming, VR, immersive interaction, projection, and AI, continuously exploring possibilities for cross-disciplinary integration.
With a keen eye on global trends in cultural and creative technologies, he pioneered Taiwan’s virtual production industry by introducing the country’s first LED volume stage in 2017, opening a new chapter for local film and TV production. To date, Moonshine Studio has successfully completed nearly 200 virtual production projects across diverse fields, including films, TV dramas, music concerts, and commercial showcases, continuously leveraging technology to drive innovation and accelerate the transformation and upgrading of Taiwan’s post-production industry.

Creative Experience Director of Universal Studios Japan

ARIF KHAN is a British writer & director, based in Tokyo and Los Angeles.
He’s held roles at Airbnb Creative Studio, Warner Bros. Animation and Oculus Story Studio, the Emmy Award-winning team dedicated to the research and development of virtual reality storytelling.
His recent VR experiences include FUKUSHIMA NOW, which had its world premiere at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, and BLACK ICE VR, which premiered at SXSW 2022.
His films and VR projects have screened at festivals around the world including the Sitges International Film Festival, SIGGRAPH, Trieste Science+Fiction Festival, Kaohsiung Film Festival, Imagine Film Festival, and Festival Européen du Film Fantastique de Strasbourg.
Prior to receiving his M.F.A. in Film Production at USC - School of Cinematic Arts, he earned his Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge.
He currently serves as Creative Experience Director at Universal Studios Japan.

Deputy Director, Rights and Media Business Department, Kodansha Ltd.

In charge of domestic and international rights and merchandising, and involved in the development and promotion of anime titles such as Attack on Titan, FAIRY TAIL, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, and BLUE LOCK. Actively works to expand the fan base and advance global strategies through corporate tie-ups and IP collaborations.
Since 2012, Yohei ITO has worked in the Rights Department at Kodansha, and since 2021 he has also overseen the merchandise business. As an anime producer, he has been involved in the following TV animations:
- Skip and Loafers (2022)
- Ya Boy Kongming! (2021)
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (2018-2021)
- Cells at Work (2018-2021)
- Flying Witch (2016)
- FAIRY TAIL (2014-2019)
- Attack on Titan" (2013-2023) etc.

President of Brogent

Mr. Chih-Hung Ouyang founded Brogent Technologies in 2001. Leveraging his strong background in Electrical Engineering and simulation, he guided his team in 2008 to develop the world’s first six-degree-of-freedom flying theater, the “i-Ride”, redefining immersive entertainment experiences.
Under his leadership, Brogent has grown into a global brand, with more than one hundred immersive attractions installed across major cities and countries worldwide. Mr. Ouyang continues to explore cross-disciplinary innovation, blending AI, big data, and visual computing to enrich cultural and entertainment experiences. Guided by his vision of “using technology to convey emotions,” he has positioned Brogent at the forefront of immersive entertainment while showcasing Taiwan’s technological innovation and cultural creativity on the world stage.

Vice President of Operations, Digital Domain

As the Vice President of Operations at Digital Domain Holdings Limited, Jimmy is leading the trading business (SSD / Memory) between Digital Domain and its strategic partners / shareholders in North/South America and Greater China.
Jimmy is also focusing on immersive distribution, which is still acting as the Director of International Partnership at Sandman Studios. Representing contents from over 100 immersive / XR studios (Atlas V / City Lights / Faber Courtial / etc.), and servicing different online platforms, offline locations, and screening events to find suitable distribution opportunities.

Co-founder & Creative Director, Marshmallow Laser Feast

Ersin Han ERSIN is an artist and director of London based experiential artist collective Marshmallow Laser Feast. Ersin’s art practice combines a wide range of disciplines including sculpture, installation, live performance, and mixed reality. His work illuminates the hidden natural forces that surround us, inviting participants to navigate with a sensory perception beyond their daily experience. In these spaces, the known physical world is removed to reveal networks, processes and systems that are at once sublime, underpinned by research, and fundamental to life on Earth.

Director of APAC Business Development,Moment Factory

Jérôme De BAECQUE is the Director of APAC Business Development at Moment Factory, based in Sydney, where he leads commercial growth and partnerships. Acting as the company’s ambassador in Southeast Asia and ANZ, he brings extensive experience managing international teams and navigating APAC markets. With over 30 years of expertise in digital, advertising, media, entertainment, and communication, the Paris native has successfully led three local businesses. Passionate about transmedia storytelling and human connection, he places strong emphasis on user experience and client trust. Since joining Moment Factory in 2019, Jérôme has contributed to major projects such as Astra Lumina, Light Cycles, Mirror Mirror, Changi T2, and Vivid Sydney, helping expand the company’s presence across Asia.

Co-founder and current Director of ULTRACOMBOS.

ULTRACOMBOS redefines the way you see the world, blending it with a unique digital perspective through experiential art.
The studio is composed of professionals from various fields, and their works span from new media art to digital experience design.

Founder & CEO of Surprise Lab

Albert Chen is the founder and CEO of Surprise Lab, an experience design company which is dedicated to crafting the most inspiring and life-changing experience for the audience.
Albert excels in integrating various media for experience innovations. Immersive experience, food design, theater, photography, and filmmaking are all part of his repertoire. With an extensive portfolio, Albert pioneers in Taiwan’s emerging market of immersive experience.
Works：“Dining in the Dark,” “table for ONE,” “Dining in the Dark S2,” “The Great Tipsy,” “Club Tomorrow,” “WHEE!” “The Great Tipsy2:1980s,” “Project S : BADASS ONLY,” “Dining in the Dark S3,” “Sunset Terminal,” “Mind The Gap,” “Love And The City,” “Together In This Happyland.”

Head of strategic development of Museum Booster and curator

My role at MUSEUM BOOSTER involves designing long-term, multi-constituent programs for the ecosystemic advancement of museums, particularly through the activation of collective intelligence. I combine applied research and curatorial when designing long-term multi-constituent programmes. My academic background as an art historian (CUNY, NYC) informs a long-term research focus on artistic forms of knowledge production and art institution itself as a medium. My practice is committed to the path and process of interrogation organisational and collaborative structures that empower learning en route other possible ways of being and working together, ways of knowledge and art production that fuse the cognitive and the imaginary and allow to work through different notions of the political as necessarily unfinished. Convinced that instituting differently cannot be done alone, but only as a collective practice, I am carving out space and possibility for new grammar of sharing and being in common, enabling unexpected encounters and curating relationships.
This has included serving as a research curator for projects like the Future Museum and Museum Leadership House, and designing incubation programs for EU Horizon initiatives such as DOORS: Digital Incubator for Museums and the Excentric project. This experience manifest my deep commitment to applied research and curatorial practice that directly addresses organizational innovation and, lately, digital renovation within cultural institutions. In navigating the discourse around the cultural sector's "digital transformation," I explore how can and should we, as a sector, shift our focus from technologies of ‘information and data’ to those of world-building, imagination and caring. As an architect of multi-constituent partnerships and funding programs, I specifically inhabit the intersection of art, social design, and creative technology, investigating ways to nurture shared social ecologies for collaboration across diverse epistemic cultures.
Beyond my commitment to the institutional field - working with and for institutions, - I maintain a more straightforward curatorial practice, exemplified by projects such as the Ars Electronica Festival’s main theme exhibition, Hope: the Touch of Many, or the Open Group’s Repeat After Me II presentation in Finland, which included a museum exhibition at Serlachius (Mantta), public program, and book publication. Currently I am working on a travelling exhibition with partners from Finland and Japan.
I believe my practical experience, coupled with my commitment to interrogating and transforming institutional frameworks, aligns with your inquiry of institutional and sectoral change towards relevance and resilience.

Head of Programme of VIVE Arts

Samantha is Head of Programme at VIVE Arts (HTC), a global arts initiative supporting artists and cultural organisations to experiment with immersive technology, where she leads the creative development, production, and strategic direction of the programme. Previous to VIVE Arts, she was Senior Producer of Audience Labs at the Royal Opera House, an innovation programme bringing together artists and immersive technology to create contemporary opera and ballet experiences. She has also produced exhibitions at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and Museum of the Moving Image in New York.
Samantha specialises in producing multilayered, interdisciplinary experiences and exhibitions that explore creative innovation using digital tools. She has worked with a range of artists, designers, technologists and creatives, and with partners across sectors in the UK and internationally including Google Creative Lab, UKRI, Versailles, National Gallery, Musee d’Orsay, and Art Basel. She is interested in new forms of cultural infrastructure, the transformative potential of immersive technologies on artistic practice, and how interdisciplinary collaborations and creative R&D can offer new possibilities for artists, audiences, and the future of culture.
Samantha is a member of the British Interactive Media Association Immersive Tech Council, on the advisory board of Immersive Arts, a three-year development programme supporting artists across the UK to explore the possibilities of immersive technology, and a trustee of the Manchester-based arts organisation Abandon Normal Devices.

Director of Dimension Plus

He devotes himself into digital art research, promotion and creation. He is the Creative Director of Dimension Plus and Hello World, and Director of Arts and Technology: Creative Innovation and Counseling Project, and 5G Computing Art Project. He also curated 2025 NTT Arts NOVA 《MODERN TIMES》及《New Century of Ukiyo-e》, 2024 TTXC《 G.A.M.E.》,《Hello, Human》at MoCA Taipei, 《The Era of Human-made》and 《RE:CAVE》at, National Taichung Theater, 《LIVES》at Jut Art Museum, 《Taoyuan Art and Technology Festival》, and , 《C-LAB Future Media Arts Festival》.

Professor at the Department of GAC, NTNU / Founder of the AI & Metaverse R&D Center

Professor Hsiao-Yue TSAO, based at the Department of Graphic Arts and Communications, National Taiwan Normal University, is also the founder of the AI & Metaverse R&D Center. Her works have been exhibited across Taiwan and Europe, earning widespread media attention and critical acclaim. A native of Matsu, Tsao is devoted to empowering her homeland through the fusion of technology and art. Her debut VR project Blue Tears won Best Virtual Reality at the Los Angeles Film Awards and was officially selected by FIVARS – the Festival of International Virtual & Augmented Reality Stories in 2022. Her second VR work, The Painted Horizon, was selected for the 2025 Matsu Biennial International Art Festival, further expanding her exploration of immersive storytelling and leading Matsu into a new era of creativity in the metaverse.

Managing Partner of New Hope Law Firm

Mr. Pei-Chang Lee is the Managing Partner of New Hope Law Firm. He has extensive experience serving as legal counsel to arts and cultural institutions, cultural and creative enterprises, technology companies, and government agencies.
He currently holds the following positions: Person in Charge of the National Culture and Arts Foundation’s Arts and Culture Legal Consultation Service Partnership; Member of the Advisory Committee of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; Chairperson of the Cultural and Arts Law Committee of the Taipei Bar Association; Instructor of the Intellectual Property Service Team at the Intellectual Property Office, Ministry of Economic Affairs; and Chairperson of the Cultural, Arts, and Intellectual Property Trust Committee of the Taiwan Trust Association.
Mr. Pei-Chang Lee is the author of “Art Licensing for Beginners,” published in 2024 by Taipei National University of the Arts.

President for Research & Development of Taiwan Design Research Institute

Professor Shyhnan Liou is a Distinguished Professor and former Director of the Institute of Creative Industries Design at National Cheng Kung University.
In 2022, he was appointed Chief R&D Officer at the Taiwan Design Research Institute, where he has been dedicated to advancing design-oriented research and development. His research focuses on design-driven innovation and the organizational design of R&D. He has published more than one hundred academic papers and five scholarly books.
In 2023, he received the title of Honorary Professor from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, in recognition of his outstanding achievements. Also in 2023, he was elected a Fellow of the Chinese Society for Management of Technology and appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Technology Management.
In 2025, he will co-host the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR) Conference with the Taiwan Design Research Institute (TDRI) and the Chinese Institute of Design (CID).

Artistic Director of Digital Art Foundation

Po-Wei Wang is the artistic director of Digital Art Foundation, Taiwan. His research interests include Media Theory, History of Contemporary Art, Sociology of Culture and Art, and Art/Science/Technology (AST). Translated Niklas Luhmann´s Liebe als Passion: Zur Codierung von Intimität into Chinese together with Chin-Hui Chang.

Distinguished Professor, College of Communication, National ChengChi University;President, Taiwan Academy for Information Society

Tammy JihHsuan LIN is a distinguished professor in the College of Communication at National ChengChi University in Taiwan (NCCU). She is the Associate Editor of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC) and President of the Taiwan Academy for Information Association. Tammy Lin received the first HTC VIVE in 2016 globally. She has led her research team to devote to VR research ever since.
Her research focus on the immersive and interactive media including AI, virtual reality, digital games, and social media. She is interested in applying and employing communication technology to increase human psychological well-being and physical exercise.
She is awarded as the top 2% scientist in 2024 and 2025 from Stanford Report. Her research has received top awards including the Meta VR/AR Policy Award, Excellence Research Award and Da-Yu Wu Young Scholar Research Award from Taiwan National Technology and Science Counsel. She was invited to be a speaker at the Meta Connect in 2024 and was invited to OECD to present a unique case of Taiwan regarding immersive education in 2024.