United Daily News Group (UDN Group) is Taiwan’s largest pioneering Chinese-language newspaper group. The UDN Group publishes the United Daily News, the Economic Daily News, and the World Journal, with editions published in North America and Southeast Asia, and udn.com. Founded in 1951, the UDN Group has chronicled news and history made each day for more than 70 years. Looking forward, the UDN Group continues to move to digital convergence for sustainable operation of its journalistic endeavors, aiming to make Taiwan a better place.

CTBC Bank has been in operation for more than 55 years. It is not only the most among all privately owned banks in Taiwan, but also the best-performing bank in other indicators, such as profits, tier 1 capital, and client base. As the most extensive international presence of any Taiwanese bank, CTBC Bank has more than 370 branches and outlets across 14 countries and regions. We will continue to cement our status as “Taiwan Champion, Asia Leader.”

The Google News Initiative is Google’s effort to work with the news industry to help journalism thrive in the digital age. Our efforts focus on three pillars: working with the news industry to evolve their business models and drive sustainable growth, elevating quality journalism and empowering news organizations with new technology.

Within the Google News Initiative, the GNI Digital Growth Programme has been designed with industry experts and news publishers to support small and medium publishers grow their digital publishing business. From free interactive workshops, to in-depth labs in multiple European languages, news publishers can learn more ways to develop their digital presence, grow their audience online and strengthen their revenue strategy.

The Cultural Foundation of The United Daily News Group goes from strength to strength and integrates its all resources into action plans, aiming to uphold the sustainable path of education by awarding scholarships to nurture talents. We strive to promote cultural events and encourage outstanding literary creators to produce. Furthermore, we actively works with cultural and charitable platforms to facilitate exchanges and collaborations between businesses and performers with disabilities.

Delta, founded in 1971, is a global leader in switching power supplies and thermal management products with a thriving portfolio of smart energy-saving systems and solutions in the fields of industrial automation, building automation, telecom power, data center infrastructure, EVs and EV charging, renewable energy, energy storage and display, to nurture the development of smart manufacturing and sustainable cities. As a world-class corporate citizen guided by its mission statement, “To provide innovative, clean and energy-efficient solutions for a better tomorrow,” Delta leverages its core competence in high-efficiency power electronics and its ESG-embedded business model to address key environmental issues, such as climate change. Delta serves customers through its sales offices, R&D centers and manufacturing facilities spread over close to 200 locations across 5 continents.

Throughout its history, Delta has received various global awards and recognition for its business achievements, innovative technologies and dedication to ESG. Since 2011, Delta has been listed on the DJSI World Index of Dow Jones Sustainability™ Indices for 12 consecutive years. In 2022, Delta was also recognized by CDP with leadership level ratings for its substantial contribution to climate change and water security issues and named Supplier Engagement Leader for its continuous development of a sustainable value chain for the 3rd consecutive year.

Reuters is a global news and information provider that was founded in 1851. It is headquartered in London, UK, and has offices in more than 100 countries around the world. Reuters is known for its coverage of business, finance, politics, and other news topics, and it provides news in a variety of formats, including text, video, and pictures.

In addition to its news services, Reuters also offers financial data and analytics through its Reuters Financial Markets division. The company is owned by Thomson Reuters, a multinational media and information company.

Reuters has a reputation for providing accurate, unbiased news and has won numerous journalism awards over the years. It has also been at the forefront of digital innovation, developing new tools and technologies to enhance its news coverage and distribution.

In 1986, based on corporate social responsibility, the founder of Yulon Group, President Vivian Wu, established the Vivian Wu Journalism Award Foundation to encourage journalists to value their social impacts. The foundation aims to reward the excellence of the journalism professionals and students and to uphold the standards of the media. It holds news awards and sponsors events associated with journalism and other educational arrangements serving the public interests. The Vivian Wu Journalism Award has been known for its high journalism professionalism and its objectivity. The recipients of the awards are regarded as the best in the field, and they demonstrate the contribution and positive impacts of news media to society.

The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. Online: www.ap.org

Athens Technology Center (ATC) has been designing, developing and supporting leading technology solutions for publishers and news agencies globally for over 20 years.

From editorial and digital asset management tools, integrated with cross channel publishing capabilities, to awarded solutions that help media organizations fight misinformation, we are committed to help our clients transform digitally and seize opportunities for better business outcomes.

During this year’s Congress, ATC will showcase newsasset PLUS , an intuitive and secure platform that facilitates the implementation of a truly Convergent Newsroom, going beyond an all-in-one, editorial, digital asset management &multichannel publishing platform. Newsasset PLUS embodies advanced AI & ML capabilities to help media organizations verify digital content, automate production processes and engage audiences in more productive ways. It provides a common Content Hub that consolidates editorial production and cross channel content distribution for Print, Digital, Radio, TV, even News Agencies.

AFP is a leading global news agency providing fast, comprehensive and verified coverage of the events shaping our world and of the issues affecting our daily lives. Drawing from an unparalleled news-gathering network across 151 countries, AFP is also a world leader in digital verification. With 2,400 staff representing 100 different nationalities, AFP covers the world in six languages, with a unique quality of multimedia storytelling spanning video, text, photos and graphics.

Chartbeat is the leading content intelligence platform, empowering media companies with data to build loyal audiences with real-time and historical analytics across desktop, social, and mobile platforms.

Chartbeat helps media companies understand what, within their content, is keeping people engaged. Tracking over 50 billion pageviews across more than 70 countries, Chartbeat’s real-time and historical dashboards, in-depth headline testing and in-page optimization tools, robust reporting, and more help the world’s leading organizations understand, measure, and build value from the attention earned by their content.

China Development Financial Holding Corporation was established on December 28, 2001 and listed on the same day (Stock Code: 2883). We are one of the TWSE-listed companies with the largest number of individual shareholders, with more than 820,000 shareholders. Our total consolidated assets are NT$3.5 trillion, with NT$293.1 billion consolidated equity and NT$ 19.09 billion paid-in capital. With 60 years of industrial investment experience, CDF has been an important driving force in Taiwan’s industrial development. CDF incorporated China Life Insurance as a wholly owned subsidiary of CDF through public acquisitions, cash and stock exchange. After gaining 100% CL Insurance shares in 2021, we can provide sustainable financial solutions for stakeholders through life insurance, commercial bank, securities, and venture capital/private equity, thereby becoming a leading financial company in Asia through our entrepreneurial spirit and innovation capabilities.

Chun Shin Limited, the Country Master Distributor for ETS, represents the TOEIC program including TOEIC and TOEIC Bridge tests since 2001.

TOEIC and TOEIC Bridge are English-language proficiency tests for people whose native language is not English. They were developed to assess the English-language listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills needed in the workplace and everyday life. Test scores indicate how well a person can communicate in English with others.

The TOEIC program is the global standard for assessing English-language communication skills, and is the most widely used around the world with more than 14,000 organizations across more than 160 countries trusting TOEIC scores to inform the decisions that matter.

Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world’s largest news-gathering operations globally. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America’s largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barron’s, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Investor’s Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, OPIS and Chemical Market Analytics. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).

FT Strategies is the digital growth consultancy from the Financial Times. Staffed by the experts who successfully transformed the FT’s business model in the face of disruption, FT Strategies work with organisations worldwide, from a wide range of sectors, helping them increase recurring revenue, monetise audiences, grow subscriptions, build engagement, transform digitally, and thrive in the digital economy.

The International Science Council (ISC) is a member-based organization that works at the global level to catalyze and convene scientific expertise, advice and influence on issues of major concern to both science and society. Advancing human development within sustainable planetary and social boundaries is the most important challenge for humanity and for science. We defend the free and responsible practice of science and see many links with news media organizations and the values of freedom of expression and access to information and data in ensuring open knowledge-driven societies.

Labrador CMS for news with built in self-optimizing AI. Are you ready to take your digital newsroom to the next level?  Labrador CMS is your strategic platform choice. It is tailored specifically for the media industry, supporting high-traffic online newspapers, magazines, and TV stations. With our Beyond Headless approach, you combine headless techniques with our built-in rendering engine, providing unparalleled flexibility and speed. And now, with our AI-powered title generator, you create compelling headlines that capture the essence of your content and drive audience engagement. Join the ranks of top publishers like Elle, Dagbladet, ComputerWorld and TV2.no who trust Labrador CMS to power their content and stay at the cutting edge of digital journalism. We promise – it is unlike anything you have seen before. And yes, we still support print. Ask us how.

At Naviga, we believe that the world is a better place when we’re all connected.

We don’t just mean physically—we mean digitally. That’s why we’ve engineered a Content Engagement Platform (CEP) that’s flexible and powerful enough for media companies of any kind to create, enhance, distribute, and monetize your content with ease.

Our CEP orchestrates a seamless engagement journey from start to finish and ensures your business can evolve alongside the rapidly changing digital landscape.
At Naviga, our rich heritage in the media sector combined with an unwavering commitment to digital innovation has enabled us to engineer cutting-edge AI powered software that allows any content-focused enterprise to confidently navigate the future with automation.

Naviga’s global footprint is as expansive as our client portfolio: we have regional offices around the globe serving more than 5,000 publications and websites spanning news media, broadcasting, magazine publishing, and diverse corporate sectors in 42 countries.”

PEGATRON Corporation (hereafter referred to as “PEGATRON”) was founded on January 1, 2008. With abundant product development experience and vertically integrated manufacturing, we are committed to providing clients with innovative design, systematic production and manufacturing service in order to comprehensively and efficiently satisfy all of our customers’ needs. PEGATRON features a solid R&D team, friendly, fast service quality as well as a high degree of employee cohesion. Furthermore, we have combined EMS and ODM industries to become an emerging Design and Manufacturing Service (DMS) company. Consequently, we are able to offer industry-leading, state-of-the-art products and profitable business opportunities for our partners.

Piano’s Digital Experience Platform empowers organizations to understand and influence customer behavior. By unifying customer data, analyzing behavior metrics and creating personalized customer journeys, Piano helps brands launch campaigns and products faster, strengthen customer engagement and drive personalization at scale from a single platform. Headquartered in Amsterdam with offices across the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific, Piano serves a global client base, including Air France, the BBC, CBS, IBM, Kirin Holdings, Jaguar Land Rover, Nielsen, The Wall Street Journal and more. Piano has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing, most innovative technology companies in the world by World Economic Forum, Inc., Deloitte, American City Business Journals and more. For more information, visit https://piano.io/.

Project Syndicate produces and delivers original, high-quality commentaries to a global audience. Featuring exclusive contributions by prominent political leaders, policymakers, scholars, business leaders, and civic activists from around the world, we provide news media and their readers with cutting-edge analysis and insight, regardless of ability to pay. Our membership includes over 600 media outlets – more than half of which receive our commentaries for free or at subsidized rates – in 156 countries.

Protecmedia is the software company of choice for the media industry since 1979. We offer the most innovative solutions for rich content, news, advertising, media analytics, subscriptions and digital asset management.

Close cooperation with our clients and independent media advisors has led us to be pioneers in the use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to simplify processes for the art of news-making.

As long-term members of the WAN-IFRA Association, we highly value our membership as it gives us a broad view of the digital and print media worldwide challenges. Their community offers a perspective of the innovation needed today to ensure the future of the industry.

With offices in Spain, France, Germany, Portugal and Chile, Protecmedia offers a 24/7 multilingual support service worldwide. Our team of consultants, developers, media and content experts keeps improving to better serve our clients pivot with the everchanging market requirements

PUBLISH is a WAN-IFRA’s winning TechMedia company based in South Korea. It provides Web 3.0 solutions for newspapers, helping media organizations combat misinformation, increase user engagement, and provide financial sustainability.

Qanvas is the world’s first graphic news and information syndication platform: the home of cutting-edge graphic storytelling, marrying original high-quality art and narrative heft to create powerful media stories that radically disrupt the media and information landscape.

Qanvas puts the power of world-leading graphic storytelling into the hands of media platforms across the globe in every language, harnessing global writing and art talent from every continent. With discipline masters and top flight writers, commentators and analysts on our roster, we are remaking the world of news and current affairs.

Media is stuck in a time and technique warp. The same communication tools, formats, platforms and techniques we’ve used for decades, even though we know information consumption has been entirely up-ended — shorter attention spans, a neurological shift towards visual media, and screens and devices mediating how we process information. In this era of mounting crises, we use comics to engage with urgent and complex issues, shattering barriers along the way.

Based in Singapore, Auteur Pte. Ltd  was founded by a diverse team of artists, writers, educationists, and journalists who are reshaping the information landscape for the visual age. Qanvas is Auteur’s media syndications service.

Quintype is a leading digital newsroom growth platform that empowers publishers to create, distribute and monetize their content. The platform enables editors to improve the speed and efficiency of publishing by automating and simplifying the process of creating and distributing content across all channels, from websites to mobile apps to social media, from a single CMS.

It also enables publishers to create an engaging and interactive community around their content through commenting systems and monetize their content effectively through subscriptions and paywalls.

Quintype manages over 1Bn monthly pageviews for over 200+ publishers, including marquee brands like BQ Prime, The Quint, Fortune India, Karjalainen, and i-mediat.

Quintype was founded in 2015, headquartered in Bengaluru, India, and has recently opened its UAE office to further its expansion across MENA.

READr uses data for news and content experimentation. Collaboration with diverse professionals and readers opens the once-closed newsroom. We provide services like data analysis, multimedia, ideal reading experiences, open data, and tools.

Shopee is the leading e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia & Taiwan. Shopee promotes an inclusive and sustainable digital ecosystem and offers an easy, secure, and engaging experience that is enjoyed by millions of people daily.

To promote the development of new start-up industries in southern Taiwan, the SMEA, MoEA has combined with the planning of the “”Asia New Bay Area 5G AIoT Innovation Park”” to create an international-class entrepreneurial cluster in southern Taiwan, the “”Startup Terrace Kaohsiung.”” It is in the Kaohsiung Software Park, aiming to promote startups cooperate with domestic and foreign industries. Moreover, attract foreign startups to come to Taiwan, encourage exchanges and cooperation among local and foreign talents. We hope that will boost southern Taiwan’s development of digital economy and create an internationally attractive startup ecosystem.

Stibo DX develops the media enterprise platform called CUE, which facilitates both content and digital asset management for media companies, broadcasters, and news publishers around the world. Since 1979, Stibo DX has been the leading technology partner for some of the world’s biggest media companies, including The New York Times, Gannett, Mediahuis, Amedia, The Hindu, and The Economist.

Stibo DX is an international company with offices in five countries. Over the years, Stibo DX has made significant investments in technology and innovation. CUE Print Automation and CUE Autopilot, an AI service for the CUE platform, are some of the latest results of these investments.

Tecnavia is a leading supplier of digital publishing solutions providing an engaging reading experience across multiple devices and platforms for both local independent newspapers and large media companies. We offer a full range of innovative solutions, state of art e-Paper, Native News Apps, CMS & Websites, Paywall, e-Commerce, e-Archives, advertising opportunities and much more. Tecnavia, with over 20 years experience in e-publishing, processes and manages 1800+ publications worldwide and over 8 million pages per year.

The Department of Information and Tourism is a dedicated tourism bureau operating under the Taipei City Government, established on September 11th, 2007, with the primary objective of planning and developing tourism policies that promote Taipei’s vibrant culture, heritage, and natural beauty.
The Department of Information and Tourism is known for offering an array of exciting events throughout the year in Taipei, including the 2023 Taiwan Lantern Festival, which won 16 Muse Awards in 2023, the 2023 Eid-al-Fitr in Taipei, the 2023 Taipei Summer Festival, and the Taipei New Year’s Eve Countdown Party. Additionally, the department provides a variety of ways for tourists to discover the city, including the tourism website- Travel Taipei, the Taipei Pictorial, which won the Golden Tripod Awards in 2021, 11 visitor information centers, and the Taipei Sightseeing Bus.

The Ministry of Culture of Taiwan oversees and cultivates Taiwan’s soft power in the areas of arts and humanities, community development, crafts industry, cultural exchanges, international cultural participation, heritage, literature and publishing, living aesthetics, TV, cinema, and pop music.
Culture is a concrete manifestation of human life, the cornerstone of progress in civil thought, and the root from which nations bloom and grow. As such, the Ministry holds as its core philosophy the idea that through strengthening Taiwanese content, we can build cultural self-confidence. This is realized in the five main elements of the content industries, organizations and legislation, equality and diversity, cultural assets and venues, and international exchange. Through these, we strive to help Taiwanese culture shine ever brighter.

TNL Media Group is a rapidly expanding independent digital media, advertising, and data analytics platform in Asia, delivering influential content in Mandarin, English, and Japanese to digital readers. Through strategic acquisitions and data analytics capabilities, we harness our 60M monthly unique readers via diverse databases and AI analysis. In 2023, we merged with Mediagene, a leading Japanese digital media group. The combined company comprises 20 media brands, 13 subsidiaries, and over 550 staff members across Taipei, Hong Kong, and Japan. TNL Media Group is now the go-to partner for enterprises seeking impactful digital solutions and high quality content.

United Innovation Accelerator, empowered by United Daily News Group, is the first and still only one accelerator established by media group in Taiwan, having multifarious resources and strong support from UDN Group. For the past decade, UDN Group continually POC and invested startups on interior BU for the enterprises further innovation and now, UIA as a probe to explore the potential startups in the market, and taking the role as a perfect bridge to accelerate startups to connect with possible opportunities.

YouTube is committed to partnering with the news industry to support a thriving ecosystem through our products, programs, and people. We help news organizations and journalists around the world reach audiences, build sustainable businesses, and grow their digital newsrooms.