In this opening speech from Taiwan Tech Day: From Lab to Market, Quei-hua Yang sets the stage for a powerful conversation on how Taiwan’s breakthrough research can move from the lab into real-world markets. The event connects Taiwan’s deep tech innovation with Silicon Valley’s startup, investment, and technology transfer ecosystem.

How will custom silicon be built in an AI-native world? In this talk, Mohamed Kassem (CEO of Native Chips) explores how agentic AI and automated workflows are transforming ASIC development—compressing timelines, reducing complexity, and redefining how chips go from idea to production.

In this talk, Sam Fok, Co-Founder and CEO of femtoAI, shares how ultra-efficient AI inference is enabling intelligence to run directly on embedded and edge devices. Drawing from real-world experience at the intersection of silicon and software, he explains why efficiency—not scale alone—will define the next wave of AI, how co-design unlocks major gains in power and cost, and what it takes to move edge AI from research prototypes into scalable, deployable systems.

From mind-bending virtual worlds to AI-driven spatial computing, four incredible startups, Geopogo, Mused, Zeality, and N.Link, lit up the stage with live demos and bold visions for the future of VR, AR, and XR. These founders are reshaping how we live, see, and interact with the world around us—proving that the line between human and machine is getting blurrier… and more exciting.