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DESCRIPTION:Taiwan helped build the world’s hardware industry. But in the
  AI era\, competitive advantage is shifting beyond manufacturing toward so
 ftware ecosystems\, developer communities\, data\, and open-source collabo
 ration.\n\nToday\, the world’s leading AI companies are increasingly bui
 lt on open ecosystems. NVIDIA transformed CUDA into a developer platform. 
 Hugging Face became a global AI community hub. Projects such as PyTorch\, 
 Kubernetes\, vLLM\, and ROS are now part of the invisible infrastructure p
 owering modern AI innovation.\n\nThis creates both a challenge and an oppo
 rtunity for Taiwan.\n\nWhile Taiwan possesses world-class engineering tale
 nt and deep hardware expertise\, its open-source ecosystem has long depend
 ed mainly on individual passion rather than systematic industry participat
 ion. As AI development becomes more open and collaborative\, Taiwan must r
 ethink how enterprises\, startups\, governments\, and communities work tog
 ether to create long-term software influence and industrial value.\n\nThis
  session explores how open source is evolving from a “developer activity
 ” into a national AI strategy. The talk will introduce the concept of th
 e “Open Source Flywheel” — where contribution creates influence\, in
 fluence attracts talent and capital\, and commercialization further accele
 rates ecosystem growth.\n\nThrough global examples and Taiwan’s emerging
  AI initiatives\, the session will discuss how Taiwan can move beyond the 
 role of hardware supplier and become an active participant in shaping the 
 future AI ecosystem.\n\nTopics include open-source business models\, AI ge
 opolitics\, ecosystem competition\, and Taiwan’s opportunities in Edge A
 I\, cloud infrastructure\, robotics\, inference optimization\, and multili
 ngual AI.\n\nAs AI reshapes the global technology landscape\, the key ques
 tion is no longer whether Taiwan can manufacture the world’s hardware 
 — but whether Taiwan can help build the world’s AI ecosystem.
DTSTAMP:20260713T142153Z
LOCATION:TR209
SUMMARY:From Code Contributor to Industry Power --How Open Source Becomes T
 aiwan’s AI Strategy - Marie Gigarel
URL:https://pretalx.coscup.org/coscup-2026/talk/UFSFQW/
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