Theme: A sustainable future

In a turbulent year like 2020 with numerous trials in going about our way of life brought on by the pandemic, what kinds of changes can we expect to see? Also, what kinds of new opportunities for our future have been created?

This year, the theme for TEDxNeihu is A Sustainable Post-Pandemic Future. We have brought together leaders from numerous walks of life who will, in just a short 18 minutes each, share with us their various views. We at TEDxNeihu believe that through the reach of TED, we’ll be able to spark in viewers a motivational and contagious spirit of action which will ignite conversations between members of many different professional backgrounds.

Adopting TED’s slogan of “Ideas worth spreading”, TEDxNeihu will not only serve as a source of knowledge-sharing between different groups of people, but will also serve to spread the idea that everyone can realize their dreams. Through the talks given at our event, we hope to allow viewers and society as a whole to begin working together to come up with entirely new plans and concepts for the future.

In this tumultuous time, we must stand together to face an unknown future.

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No. 207, Sec. 2, Tiding Blvd., Neihu Dist., Taipei City
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Taiwan

Brendon Chen

Founder of The Escape Artist, Jewelry Designer

Brendon Chen is a man of many trades. He’s a jewelry designer, an artist, and also a stage performer. He also founded The Escape Artist 10 years ago hoping to allow more people to experience their own creativity and let workers from all different areas of expertise change their ways of thinking all while experiencing different possibilities in working together as part of a team.

Daniel Wong

Fashion Designer

Canadian-Taiwanese designer Daniel Wong is a new face in the fashion community who has drawn a lot of attention over the past few years from Lady Gaga’s Armadillo Shoes as well as the dresses he designed for Halle Berry and Heidi Klum and many others.

Edward Chiang

Founder of CYD Innovation Ltd

Edward Chiang is the founder of CYD Innovation Ltd, co- founder of JIA Inc. and DEM Inc., ascribes to value creation and design thinking. Having designed and created new innovations for several world class brands, Edward has developed a new solution for design thinking called [REdefine]. REdefine seeks to use different execution methods to outperform original expectations, increasing the quality of life. Edward is passionate about REdefine as well as to promote Chinese culture and innovation to achieve a brighter future.

Gabriel Lee

Taiwanese Artist

From his debut as a singer to recent years, Gabriel Lee has focused on film and drama performances. He will share his experience in his most recent comedy play “ Shamlet” and the impact of the epidemic on art performance staff.

MJ Huang

Physical Therapist

Shi-Fu started learning martial arts at the age of 7. At the age of 15, because of an injury, he began studying different types of Chi-Gong, martial arts, and also traditional Chinese medicine from numerous different teachers. Throughout his experience studying as well as helping numerous traditional centers receive government certification, he has seen that many traditions are being lost to time. Because of this, he has begun helping to bring these traditions to other countries allowing more and more students abroad to become interested in them.

Russell Cheng

Lawyer

Russell Cheng is a lawyer who has worked on cases in the fields of investment, banking, and finance. At the same time, he’s a private equity fund partner. From his work in economic law and investment, he has followed the development of Taiwan’s new professions. He has also done research on quantum theory, consciousness, and the multiverse.

Sandra Kuo

Psychiatrist

Growing up in the cramming education culture of Taiwan, Sandra did not have a good childhood. Originally an optimistic and helpful personality, her childhood and adolescence was overturned by a simple comment from a teacher. Fortunately, she serendipitously stumbled into studying aboard and chose relatively unpopular majors such as Psychology and Special Education. While studying abroad, friends and relatives continued to question the lessons and schooling she had acquired. But, nevertheless, Sandra found her vision and life’s work. She teaches every student by the Confucian guideline, “teach students in accordance to their aptitude.” Her famous quote is, “There are no children who cannot be taught nor cannot learn; and no child should be given up on.”

Sandy Wu

Taiwanese artist & TV Host

Sandy Wu is a Taiwanese artist, host. In 2016, she took on the role of host on Super Entourage. Together with her father, she won the 51st annual Golden Bell Award for best variety show host.

Sunny Chen

Magician

“You can rehearse magic, but your life doesn’t come with a script.” Magician, Sunny Chen. In February of 2020, he boarded the Diamond Princess to work as a performer. Originally, he was there to bring entertaining performances to the travelers onboard. However, this trip turned into a drawn-out quarantine at sea. The world watched this group’s story unfold for over a month while passengers were stuck on the boat. No matter how good his magic was, he wouldn’t be able to escape this. Sunny shared his experience with an online audience sharing what it was like to deal with this invisible virus and the fear and anxiety brought with it. Throughout this time, he changed his way of thinking, faced the situation, and got something back just like many of life’s highs and lows. We can never predict what will happen tomorrow or what accidents may occur, so sometimes we have to be able to turn a bad situation into a good one. Life always has surprises in store for us.

Thomas Huang

Founder of Gene Online

Thomas Huang is a geneticist, entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of GeneOnline, the homepage for Asia Biotech News. He has more than 10 years of experience in the life science industry from research and development in molecular test products to healthcare market research. He has also hosted many international biotech summits. With a strong passion and curiosity in the biomedical area, he is looking forward to bring the latest updates in precision medicine, drug development, gene editing, cell and immune therapy to a larger audience. He believes life science is the science of discovery, the cure of the diseases lies among us.

Xuan Liu

DJ,Writer, Psychologist

Xuan (Shiuan) Liu, is a writer, psychologist, and musician performing by the monikers of DJ SL95 and XUAN. Graduating from The Juilliard School, Harvard College, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Xuan Liu began creating work for himself in the fields of advertising, media, music, and publishing. He has also served as a creative consultant, as a music director and as a show host.