Courses & Events
Innovation and Supply Chain Resilience: Understanding the role of ITRI in Taiwan
Tuesday, Oct 29, 2024
04:30 pm - 05:50 pm
In this session, we’ll hear from Dr. BoGaun Chen, Director of Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)/Industry, Science and Technology International Strategy Center (ISTI) & ITRI International Inc. about ITRI’s role as an innovation provider to enable Taiwan to keep up with its rapidly changing position in the world of advanced manufacturing and supply chains.
Dr. Laura Smoliar, Executive Director at Stanford’s Taiwan Science and Technology Hub, will be our guest host and moderator.
Our 2024 autumn seminar series on “Topics in International Technology Management | Innovations in Supply Chains and Manufacturing in Asia: Opportunities and Challenges in Realignment” begins September 2024 and continues weekly until December 2024. Seminars will be held most Tuesdays, 4:30 PM – 5:50 PM.
Details
To attend by Zoom, please register at https://stanford.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcuc-qspz4tH9c4adu7YJ1v6Tfak9ei1Nzl. This will register you for the entire series and the same link will be used for all sessions. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting series. You may cancel at anytime.
To attend in-person, please register over Eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dr-bogaun-chen-director-itriisti-itri-international-inc-tickets-1048204065577.
Agenda:
- 4:30 pm – 5:50 pm Discussion
Venue:
- Stanford University, Bishop Auditorium, 518 Memorial Way, Stanford, CA 94305 [Google Map]
Parking options:
- Memorial Way, Stanford, CA 94305 [Google Map]
- Lasuen St. and Roth Way, Stanford, CA 94305 [Google Map]
- Please check parking signs carefully to ensure that permitted parking (A or C) and metered spaces are free after 4:00 pm. Paid parking is enforced around The Oval until 6:00 pm.
Speakers
Dr. BoGaun Chen
Director, ITRI/ISTI & ITRI International Inc.
Dr. Chen is the Director of Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)/Industry, Science and Technology International Strategy Center (ISTI) & ITRI International Inc. He focuses on the U.S. high-tech innovation community and specializes in R&D within the materials, medical devices & Information and Communications Technology industries. His 10+ years career covers the negotiation of industrial-business collaboration and the commercialization of technologies at ITRI. Some of his projects include facilitating the joint development agreements & memorandums of understanding establishments between theUS/Canada-Taiwan across the public and private sectors (ITRI-US), developing smart and eco-friendly textile technologies and licensing to two of the global top five sportswear companies at Materials and Chemical Lab (TRI Taiwan), and designing high vacuum surface scattering equipment for semiconductor processing at the Institute of Chemistry, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.
Dr. Chen holds a Doctoral degree in Chemical Physics from the Fritz Haber Institute – Max Planck Society, Germany, and an M.S. in Inorganic Chemistry from the National Taiwan Normal University. He is also a Design Thinking Fellow (sister program to the Stanford d.school) from Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany.
Guest Host Dr. Laura Smoliar
Executive Director, Taiwan Science and Technology Hub, Stanford University
Dr. Laura Smoliar is the Executive Director of the Taiwan Science & Technology Hub at Stanford University. She brings over 23 years of scientific, management and venture capital experience from working cross-border between Silicon Valley and Asia. In 2016 she created a hybrid venture capital fund called the Berkeley Catalyst Fund (BCF), with for-profit and non-profit elements that shares profits with the University of California, Berkeley’s College of Chemistry (Ranked #1 Globally by US News & World Report). At BCF, she oversaw a portfolio of 26 early-stage companies, curated from strong deal flow emerging from UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, the Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, and alumni.
Laura has an A.B. Summa Cum Laude from Columbia College, Columbia University, and a Ph.D. under Nobel laureate Y.T. Lee at UC Berkeley, both in Chemistry. She was invited as a student to join Professor Lee in Taiwan to work at Academia Sinica in the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Sciences on the campus of the National Taiwan University. She was elected Fellow of the SPIE (in photonics and optics) in 2020 and was an advisor to the Haas Impact Fund at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. She currently serves on the Leadership Council of Activate.org and the Morningside Science Leadership Council of Columbia University.
