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Helping innovators build the future since 2004. Canonical’s story is closely linked to the communities that shape us, including the global community of open source contributors and enthusiasts who are part of our team.

Since 2004, we have nurtured a community around Ubuntu, a Linux distribution that leveled the playing field by making software accessible to everyone - whether you are a developer in Calcutta, an end user in Cape Town or a sysadmin in California. Today, we continue to build and grow communities around us, as we help make open source more secure, reliable and manageable at scale.

Together, we enable organizations and end users everywhere to innovate with confidence on the largest supported collection of open source software.

Information Management Association (IMA), Taiwan Founded in 1982, IMA is one of Taiwan's longest-established IT professional organizations, dedicated to strengthening Taiwan's digital competitiveness.

Since 2022, the association has been chaired by Rock Tsai, CIO of Taiwan Mobile. Our members: ．Industrial Enterprises: AMD, Phison, Taiwan Mobile, Fubon Bank, etc. ．IT Solution Providers: Top 10 SI companies such as Systex Group, WITS, Syscom Group

In 2026, IMA focuses on four key initiatives:

1. IT Matters Awards: Recognizing outstanding IT employers, technology talent, digital transformation achievements, and innovative projects, co-organized with CommonWealth Magazine to share best practices and foster collaboration.
2. Government Digital Development Programs: Supporting policy implementation through industry events, networking activities, Demo Days, and multi-channel communications.
3. Taiwan Tongues: Building an open corpus covering Taiwanese Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien, Hakka, and Indigenous languages to help global language models better understand Taiwan.
4. Taiwan Open Source Initiative: Promoting technical collaboration, open-source project showcases, and international exchange; building “Team Taiwan” in the global open-source ecosystem.

IMA remains committed to advancing IT value, fostering cross-sector collaboration, and positioning Taiwan at the forefront of the global digital and AI landscape.

Cathay Financial Holdings (FHC) is committed to being a technology company with finance at its core. We actively develop and adopt international innovations to build cutting-edge platforms and services through digitalization, data, and technology. By integrating group-level resources, Cathay FHC leverages its strengths in continuous innovation, intelligent applications, and technological leadership to set a benchmark for development environments. At the same time, we continue expanding across the Asia-Pacific, aligning with global trends to become the leading financial institution in the region. Driven by a data-driven culture and a highly collaborative matrix organization, Cathay FHC is dedicated to shaping the future of finance.

E.SUN Bank, established in 1992 and named after Taiwan’s highest mountain, is dedicated to customer-centric values and committed to developing financial strategies centered around technology and ESG. With more than 1,300 technology professionals forming a technology team responsible for overall digital development, AI applications, IT research, and information security management, we are the first bank in Taiwan to deeply integrate AI into various businesses and the first bank to build our core system using cloud-native technology and a microservices architecture. In recent years, E.SUN Bank has demonstrated outstanding comprehensive performance, winning a total of 8 major awards at the 12th Elite Awards for Taiwan Banking Excellence, which maintain our industry-leading record in total awards received. From Taiwan to Asia, E.SUN Bank steadily grows with flexible strategies and efficient execution, creating sustained value for our customers and moving toward a future of sustainability.

MySQL is the World’s Most Popular Open Source Database. It powers the most innovative companies including Facebook, Booking, Uber, and Tesla. It is available on-premises and as the MySQL Database Service on Oracle Cloud. For developers, it’s an easy to use, reliable and high-performance database with NoSQL and SQL support. SaaS, ecommerce, financial, telecom, and Fortune 1000 companies rely on the MySQL Enterprise edition advanced security features to protect the privacy of information, prevent data breaches and help meet regulatory requirements such as GDPR, PCI, HIPAA. MySQL High Availability has native HA, fully integrated into the MySQL Server for 99.99% uptime.

Berry AI leverages computer vision and AI to help U.S. quick-service restaurant (QSR) operators analyze drive-thru workflows and improve operational efficiency. Our products run in real time at restaurants across the U.S.—detecting vehicle journeys from camera feeds, timing service stages, and generating operational insights. For our engineers, that means working on real-world, large-scale Vision AI challenges every day. Berry AI serves several of the world's top ten fast-food chains. Following our 2025 full-brand agreement with Zaxby's covering nearly 1,000 locations, we kicked off another full-brand deployment with Culver's in 2026, and our business continues to grow rapidly. We are backed by Flytech Technology, a publicly listed Taiwanese company and one of the world's top three POS manufacturers. Our team is based in Taiwan, with members from top universities and major tech companies worldwide—engineers here directly contribute to the core of products deployed in the U.S. market. As we grow, we're also hiring; visit berry-ai.com to learn more.

"The financial home for independent medicine." Nitra is the AI-native financial platform built for U.S. healthcare specialty practices — helping every independent practice spend less time on paperwork and more time on patients.

The platform brings together financial management, a medical supplies marketplace, and patient administration — automating payments, procurement, inventory management, scheduling, insurance eligibility verification, and patient communication. Nitra has raised $187M in funding and surpassed $1B in processing volume, making it one of the fastest-growing healthcare fintech startups in the U.S.

From its earliest days, Nitra chose to build its core R&D team in Taiwan. Today, Nitra Taiwan leads the majority of the company's product development, with the local team more than doubling in size over the past six months — spanning software engineers, designers, and product managers — and continuing to expand.

Founded in 2005, Gamesofa is a leading Taiwanese game developer powered by top-tier core web technologies. We’ve self-developed and operated over 30 multiplayer games across web, iOS, and Android platforms.

Living by our motto, "Fun in Five Minutes," we successfully launched Taiwan’s #1 online Mahjong game, GodGame Mahjong. We're also capturing hearts across Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, and North America with Texas Hold’em, local card games, and our casual simulation hit, Catfe World. With over 75 million registered users worldwide and 2 million+ daily active users, our community keeps growing!

We don't just innovate; we run on data. By leveraging advanced data analytics and predictive models, our development, operations, and marketing teams can instantly read the game environment and pivot strategies. At Gamesofa, we combine passion with high-efficiency execution.

Linux Professional Institute is a non profit organization. Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is the global certification standard and career support organization for open source professionals. With more than 250,000 certification holders, it’s the world’s first and largest vendor-neutral Linux and open source certification body. LPI has certified professionals in over 180 countries, delivers exams in multiple languages, and has hundreds of training partners. Our mission is to promote the use of open source by supporting the people who work with it.

As Taiwan and Hong Kong’s leading platform for event ticketing, registration, and live streaming, KKTIX is dedicated to empowering organizers with reliable technology and seamless event experiences. From technical conferences, open-source community meetups, and educational programs to large-scale forums, live performances, and online events, KKTIX supports events of all sizes and formats.

Since its founding in 2010, KKTIX has amassed more than 7 million registered members and proudly supports over 75,000 events annually. The platform provides comprehensive solutions—including event registration, ticketing, payment processing, membership management, and data analytics—enabling organizers to focus on curating impactful content and fostering vibrant communities.

KKTIX has a long-standing commitment to driving the growth of technology and open-source communities, partnering with developer ecosystems, user groups, and non-profit organizations to bring people together. We believe that every event serves as a catalyst for knowledge sharing and community

building, and that the right tools empower people to focus on learning, collaboration, and creating lasting value.

National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC), founded in 1991,is committed to strengthening national high-performance computing (HPC)technology, providing world-class supercomputing and academic researchnetwork infrastructure, and laying foundation for the development oftechnology in Taiwan. NCHC, in the spirit of "driving transformation fora better future with HPC", is dedicated to promoting HPC technology andapplications development, leading digital transformation in industriesand smart living.

ONLYOFFICE, an open-source office software project, focuses on advanced and secure office solutions. With over 15 million users worldwide, it is recognized for its innovation in the online office domain. The ONLYOFFICE ecosystem includes collaborative applications such as online editors for text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms, and PDFs, along with a room-based collaborative platform. As an international company, ONLYOFFICE has employees and contributors across the globe, with offices located in Singapore, Dallas, Shanghai, Riga, London, Belgrade, Yerevan, and Tashkent.

QNAP (Quality Network Appliance Provider) is a global leader in software development, hardware design, and in-house manufacturing, delivering solutions that help businesses and individuals securely store, connect, and innovate. We drive breakthroughs in storage, networking, and smart video, and advance an Edge AI strategy that integrates edge-first deployment with cloud collaboration—enabling real-time data analysis, decision-making, and collaboration across diverse environments.

QNAP is also a comprehensive cybersecurity brand, embedding data protection, anti-ransomware resilience, immutable storage, and multi-layered security into our solutions. For us, NAS has evolved beyond storage—turning NAS into the platform that drives AI, edge intelligence, and trusted data protection worldwide.

Since 1987, the Archilife Research Foundation started long-term researches in architecture, sustainability, and go on to other areas of knowledge integration. Efforts including previously giving scholarships in aforementioned areas, and currently holding reading group meetings and communion events for knowledge keepers to better our understandings of the world. Starting from 2011, we also have been sponsoring various open source related events, holding meetups and game jams for local game developers’ groups, in the hope of supporting the growth of relevant communities in these fields.

Sun Square Co., Ltd. provides cybersecurity, technical consulting, and industry standard implementation services to help organizations strengthen product security, system security, software supply chain security, and practical compliance capabilities.

We have long followed open source governance, SBOM, open source supply chain security, industrial cybersecurity, and practical implementation of industry standards. We also continue to participate in and contribute to open source communities and related engineering practices. We believe open technologies and engineering practices are important foundations for building a trustworthy digital environment.

Sun Square welcomes developers, researchers, and technology partners interested in open source, security engineering, SBOM, supply chain security, and industrial cybersecurity to connect, exchange ideas, and collaborate with us.

Asia's healthcare systems are strained aging populations, a shortage of physicians, and medical knowledge scattered across too many disconnected channels. Penpeer was built to close that gap, starting in Taiwan.

We give healthcare professionals one place to get reliable medical knowledge, AI tools built for clinical work, and access to a professional community, plus the career and industry resources that help them grow. The goal is simple: make it easier for medical expertise to move from the page to the patient.

Penpeer now serves more than 90,000 healthcare professionals in Taiwan, including over 30,000 licensed physicians. Medical societies, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and other industry partners use our platform to reach this audience through AI tools, scientific content, digital education, and direct engagement.

Daiwa Corporate Investment (DCI) came on as a strategic investor, which we take as a strong signal that the model works and the vision holds up.

We're starting in Taiwan and expanding across Asia. As AI changes how medicine is practiced, we believe platforms healthcare professionals actually trust and use will end up doing the heavy lifting — connecting the profession to what's next.

As a Founding Premier member of RISC-V International and a leader in commercial CPU IP, Andes Technology (TWSE: 6533; SIN: US03420C2089; ISIN: US03420C1099) is driving the global adoption of RISC-V. Andes’ extensive RISC-V Processor IP portfolio spans from ultra-efficient 32-bit CPUs to high-performance 64-bit Out-of-Order multiprocessor coherent clusters. With advanced vector processing, DSP capabilities, the powerful Andes Automated Custom Extension (ACE) framework, end-to-end AI hardware/software stack, ISO 26262 certification with full compliance, and a robust software ecosystem, Andes unlocks the full potential of RISC-V, empowering customers to accelerate innovation across AI, automotive, communications, consumer electronics, data centers, and mobile devices. Over 20 billion Andes-powered SoCs are driving innovations globally. Discover more at www.andestech.com and connect with Andes on LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter) , YouTube and Bilibili.

Appier (TSE: 4180) is an AI-native Agentic AI as a Service (AaaS) company that empowers businesses to create value through cutting-edge AdTech and MarTech solutions. Founded in 2012 with the vision of “Making AI Easy by Making Software Intelligent,” Appier helps businesses turn AI into ROI through its Ad Cloud, Personalization Cloud, and Data Cloud—each powered by Agentic AI that enables autonomous, adaptive, and real-time decision-making. Today, Appier operates 17 offices across APAC, the US, and EMEA, and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Learn more at Appier | Empowering Businesses to Turn AI into ROI .

Geode Labs is an Ethereum ecosystem development organization and product studio that connects developers and contributors worldwide through talent development, grant programs, community infrastructure, and practical tools. ETHTaipei is a leading Ethereum community event in Taiwan, bringing together developers, researchers, and ecosystem teams from Taiwan and around the world to exchange cutting-edge knowledge, foster international collaboration, and showcase Taiwan’s vibrant developer community on the global stage.

As the pioneers who introduced RISC-V to the world, SiFive is transforming the future of computing by bringing the power and flexibility of RISC-V to the world. SiFive’s market-leading IP provides the blueprint for high-performance, customizable, and energy-efficient processor cores across the entire computing spectrum, from the intelligent edge to the most advanced AI data centers. For more information, visit www.sifive.com

Smart Taiwan: A Model of Democracy

Taiwan’s broadband as a human right policy allows anyone to broadcast live from Jade Mountain, the country’s highest peak. An ultra-low barrier to Internet access serves as a rock-solid foundation for the ongoing advancement of one of the world’s most free and open societies.

Taiwan’s successful experiences in digital democracy range from public affairs dialogue to cross-departmental joint efforts. Among the finest examples are the country’s internationally recognized response to COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021, including the Mask Map and 1922 SMS Contact Tracing initiatives.

In the face of a scourge of disinformation, civil society took the lead in quarantining falsehoods and paying special attention to the impact of information manipulation. This enabled Taiwan to combat the infodemic with no takedowns.

Through the DIGI+ Plan running 2017 to 2025, the Executive Yuan is strengthening Taiwan’s digital ecosystem. Tangible dividends extend to the country’s appearance on the world’s top four extremely inventive nations list for the past two years.

On this basis, the 2021 Smart Taiwan Plan continues expanding digital development. Taiwan’s digital application successes are world-leading. From community to industry and cooperation to invention, they set a benchmark for the pro-democracy camp’s technology community.

The Ministry of Digital Affairs(moda), responsible for driving Taiwan’s digital development, will connect citizens and technology, improve industry and security, fulfill the goal of a smart country and continue to lead the world via the Taiwan model.

Only a solid digital infrastructure can ensure digital applications in everyday life function as intended. The moda will continue improving the broadband application environment, shaping a diverse innovation ecosystem, and promoting and establishing standards and self-regulation mechanisms allowing anyone to access public services. This will facilitate smooth interdepartmental communication and promote further realization of equality and democracy.

Given the Internet’s decentralization and fast iteration, the government is taking a different approach to algorithm and data regulation. The moda will support civil servants in developing the necessary digital competencies, while using the current ethos of open government and citizen participation to provide flexibility. At the vanguard of these efforts are the people-public-private partnership ecosystem championed by the Presidential Hackathon. Maintaining ongoing real-time cooperation with residents serves as a motivator for policy innovation and a glue for social mutual trust.

A good innovation environment is an opportunity for the industry to sustainably develop in the digital age. The Administration for Digital Industries(ADI) will fast-track related processes of innovation and transformation, optimize overall quality, make full use of diverse talents and improve the efficiency of resource utilization. For the emerging needs of the digital age, the ADI will also adjust relevant regulations and policies to spur innovative practices, expand cross-border services, open up more business opportunities and build digital economic development for the digital era. Taiwan’s unique political situation makes the security of information transmission a matter of global concern. With the "Cyber Security Is National Security" undetaking, the newly elevated Administration for Cyber Security (ACS) oversees managing the government’s total information security efforts and associated resources. With active defense as a primary approach, the ACS will substantially boost Taiwan’s overall information security fitness and construct a cross-domain joint defense system by preventing threats and tracing the origins of assaults.

The moda is committed to promoting suitable digital tools and open mindsets through building resilience and co-creation, powering Taiwan’s shift from a digital island to a global model of digital democracy and innovation.

Rozeta AI is a real-time translation platform designed for global communication. It delivers accurate speech-to-text transcription, bidirectional translation, and live captions, enabling participants who speak different languages to follow meetings in real time and communicate confidently in the language they know best.

Unlike conventional word-for-word translation tools, Rozeta AI understands the context of each conversation by incorporating meeting topics, industry knowledge, and organization-specific terminology. This improves the accuracy of technical terms, product names, and specialized language. Whether used for global team collaboration, client meetings, training sessions, webinars, international forums, or large-scale events, Rozeta AI provides a seamless and consistent multilingual communication experience.

Participants can join through a web browser on a computer, tablet, or mobile device without downloading or installing an app. They can instantly access shared live transcripts and translations, while additional features such as floating captions for presentations, speaker identification, meeting transcripts, and AI-generated summaries support structured post-meeting review and follow-up.

With low-latency, real-time translation across 40 languages, Rozeta AI helps organizations overcome language barriers, improve global collaboration, and empower every participant to understand fully, communicate clearly, and engage meaningfully in every conversation.

Grafana Labs delivers the open observability cloud, helping builders everywhere turn signals into action. We were founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale, helping organizations run their software better, accelerate innovation, and move at the speed of their ambitions.

We’re also the team behind some of the world’s most popular open source projects, including Grafana for dashboards and data visualization, and our horizontally scalable databases: Loki for logs, Mimir for metrics, and Tempo for traces.

Today, more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers – from hobbyists to enterprises like Anthropic, NVIDIA, and Microsoft – rely on Grafana Labs to understand and improve their systems.

Since 1986, the Live Young management team has operated shopping malls and food courts, tourist markets, real estate leasing services, and parking facilities. With more than 30 years of extensive experience working with government agencies, Live Young has partnered with over 900 well-known domestic and international brands, including McDonald’s, Burger King, Wowprime Corporation, 7-ELEVEN, and FamilyMart. Its strong corporate reputation has earned widespread recognition throughout the industry.

Live Young began operating the First Cafeteria of the Student Center at Taiwan Tech in July 2023. The newly renovated dining area features 17 popular brands and food stalls, including 7-ELEVEN, MOS BURGER, Ching Shin Fu Chuan, SHINE MOOD WAFFLE, and BAO SO HARD.

To meet the dining needs of Taiwan Tech’s large international and Muslim student communities, Live Young has also introduced O-Pass Chicken（歐趴雞肉）, which provides Muslim-friendly meals. Together, these dining options offer Taiwan Tech students, faculty, and staff a convenient and high-quality dining environment.

Three Wheel Nitro Coffee brings a compact mobile café experience to events with its distinctive three-wheeled cart, serving coffee, nitro cold brew, nitro black tea, and refreshing sparkling drinks on site.

From private gatherings and corporate meetings to birthday celebrations, markets, and public events, its smooth and refreshing beverages add a relaxed and distinctive touch to every occasion. Event collaborations and tricycle cart rental services are also available.

HackMD is a documentation-based developer community that helps devs collaborate with their team and communicate with their users, all in Markdown. The real-time online editor is designed for people who value effortless collaboration. It streamlines the documentation process with simple onboarding, lightweight design, and robust integrations with tools like GitHub and Arweave. Companies around the world trust HackMD to increase the adoption of their products by turning the one-way documentation reading experience into an interactive and engaging relationship with their users. Accelerate innovation, streamline your workflow, and bring your projects to life with HackMD

TapPay (Cherri Tech), a leading Asian payment technology provider, serves over 20,000 merchants and 18 acquiring banks. In 2023, we achieved an annual Gross Payment Volume of USD 3.2 billion. TapPay's unified API connects e-commerce platforms to e-wallets, alternative payment methods (APMs), and mobile payments like Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay. 【Achievement】 ● 2016 PCI DSS Level 1 ● 2017 KPMG Fintech100 ● 2018 TSP partner of Visa and Mastercard Asia Pacific. ● 2023 Tap to Pay on iPhone, The first wave of Apple's overseas PSP Partner; 2023 APICTA Winner Award (Business Services)

From a gathering of just over 200 people to a community event welcoming more than 3,000 participants; from communities across Taiwan coming together to organize the event, to local and international communities collaboratively curating its program today, COSCUP has continued to experiment and grow while holding firmly to one principle: COSCUP is an open source conference built by the community, for the community.

To keep this open source stage alive, and to ensure that community exchange and international connections continue to flourish, we extend our heartfelt gratitude to every sponsor, partner, and individual supporter of COSCUP.

With your support, COSCUP can continue to grow and create more opportunities for people to connect, collaborate, and exchange ideas.

Thank you for helping our open source community go further, together.

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Our university is recognized as an application-oriented research-type international university. In line with this university axis, our department's development goal is to educate high-tech personnel and supply delicate application technology. With this, our department will play a role of connecting basic technology and industrial application. As part of our government's technology policy and the internationalization of education, we will continue to emphasize practical application in our department. With a “combination of theory and application” and “balance on IQ and EQ,” electronic specialists with “international view and creation capability” will be trained in our department. These engineers will be able to design, manufacture, maintain, and test the systems and elements in electronics, information communication, and photo-electronics. With the “professional topics for undergraduate students,” “cooperation projects from the industry,” and “the enforcement of the manufacturing ability of students,” our professors will help the industry to develop their required technologies. We will be able to boost the energy of our research ability, develop our specialization, and lift our industry's global competitiveness through cooperation with neighboring educational and research institutions.

(The) Open Culture Foundation is a non-profit organization. Through promoting open technology and cross-field collaboration, we continue to connect tech communities and other public and private entities in Taiwan. By doing so, we work to promote open co-creation and protect digital rights, and thereby support a more transparent and inclusive digital civil society. Since 2014, we have functioned as a legal entity and supported over 30 open technology communities in Taiwan. Throughout this process, we have not only continued to promote the idea of open technology, we have also become involved in policy advocacy and spoken up for the public's digital rights. Through this process, we have created a base for the development of open technology in Taiwan. None of these successes are the result of OCF alone. Rather, they are the result of several open tech communities, individuals and organizations working together to make Taiwan's internet and digital environment more open, transparent, and participation.