Event Programme

Taiwan's AI Basic Act passed in December 2025, setting out a principles-based framework for AI development, deployment, and oversight. The UK has taken a different route, building assurance, standards, and sector-level guidance rather than primary legislation. Both approaches are now being tested against the same question: how do you make AI systems that organisations, regulators, and the public can actually trust?

This panel brings that question into the open. Expect a direct discussion of where governance frameworks help, where they slow real deployment, and what UK and Taiwan partners can usefully build together on data assurance, standards, and accountability.

Moderated by YJ Chen (Tech London Advocates Taiwan), the panel features Ching-Yi Liu, Vice Chair of the Taiwan AI Center of Excellence and one of the legal architects behind Taiwan's data governance work; Maya Carlyle, Principal AI Engineer at the National Physical Laboratory, leading ISO 42001-aligned AI infrastructure; Greta Wen, CEO of AI Foundation Taiwan, working on enterprise AI adoption at scale; and John Spindler of Twin Path Ventures, who sees first hand which trust signals investors and customers actually weigh.

Taiwan and the UK share more than a technology agenda. Both face ageing populations, productivity slowdowns, healthcare systems under pressure, and net-zero commitments that will not be met without significant productivity gains. Applied AI is part of how both countries are trying to answer that, and the question is no longer whether to deploy, but where, how, and with what safeguards.

This panel moves the conversation from policy to practice. Expect grounded discussion of where AI is already delivering measurable productivity, healthcare, education, and sustainability outcomes, where the gap between pilot and production remains widest, and where UK and Taiwan partners can usefully collaborate on shared challenges.

Moderated by Lin Kuan-yi, Chief of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Affairs at Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council, the panel features Jane Yung-jen Hsu, Chair of the Taiwan AI Center of Excellence and one of Taiwan's leading voices on agentic and sustainable AI; Viola Jardon, Head of Innovation Programmes at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership; Professor Cathy Weng of NTUST, working on AI in digital learning and workforce capability; and Jeffrey Ng of Blok and 3Ventures, who brings the perspective of deployed AI products and the investors backing them.