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Shawn Guan
Shawn Guan is the CEO and co-founder of Umbo Computer Vision, an AI company building autonomous video security systems that watch camera feeds and flag real threats instead of stray animals and swaying trees. After roughly 2,000 client meetings in the traditional surveillance business taught him how badly false alarms wear people down, he co-founded Umbo in 2014 with Ping-Lin Chang and Tingfan Wu to put deep learning behind the lens. The company raised about $17.6 million, won a Best Startup nod at NVIDIA's 2016 deep learning conference and SIA's Best in Video Analytics in 2017, and ran offices in San Francisco, Taipei and London.
Steve Huang
Steve Huang is the founder and CEO of KiWi New Energy, a Taiwan-born, San Mateo-based startup building what he calls an operating system for global renewable energy. A serial green entrepreneur with more than 15 years across the semiconductor and solar value chain, Huang went from NVIDIA and public silicon-wafer ventures to a near-total collapse when Chinese rivals undercut his micro-inverter business, then rebuilt around an AI-driven energy datacenter that matches clean supply with retail and small-business demand in real time.
Hsin Hsiao
Hsin Hsiao (蕭新晟), also known as 蕭A, is the co-founder and CEO of OenTech (應援科技), a Taipei-based fintech building a one-stop integrated payment cloud platform that combines third-party payment processing with supporter-relationship management. A physicist turned software engineer, he trained at UCLA and Stony Brook before working across New York startups, co-launched the crowdsourced 'National Treasure' archival project through Taiwan's g0v civic-tech community, and ran for Taipei City Council in 2018. Since founding OenTech, he has grown it to more than 3,000 organizations, secured a NT$100 million Series A in 2025, and pushed payment security and agentic-commerce standards in Taiwan.