All Five Stops

On 22 September we visit the Precision Machinery Research & Development Center, the technical backbone of Taiwan’s machine-tool industry for more than thirty years. In the evening we sit down with Taichung angels and mark the launch of the SIC Taichung chapter.

• ▸ 16:00–17:00　Precision Machinery Research & Development Center (PMC)FULLY BOOKED
  Founded in 1993 by the government and the machine-tool industry, PMC is one of the most important bridges between policy and Taiwan’s machinery sector, having tested more than 19,000 machines, the highest count anywhere in the world. The visit covers two things: the current state of Taiwan’s precision machinery and smart manufacturing, and PMC’s own R&D in machine networking, sensing systems and smart robotics, including Taiwan’s first fully software-controlled dual-arm robot.
• ▸ 18:00　SIC Taichung launch dinner
  An evening with local angels and business owners alongside SIC members from Taipei and Kaohsiung, formally opening the Taichung chapter. As one of the key stops on the anniversary tour, it is also a chance to look back on four years and talk about what the central Taiwan chapter does next. Two keynotes
  Keynote 01

  Taichung’s role in the age of Physical AI

  AI is moving off the screen and into the physical world. Once models start driving arms, vision and sensors, the bottleneck stops being the algorithm and becomes who can actually put it inside the machine and onto the line. Taichung holds Taiwan’s most complete precision machinery cluster, and is at the point of generational handover. This talk asks where Taichung should stand in this round, and where investors can enter.

  黃俊傑 Amos Huang

  Sustainable Impact Capital · Managing Partner

  Keynote 02

  The AI upgrade opportunity for established companies

  What makes AI adoption hard is rarely the technology. Most companies get stuck on which process to start with, how much to commit, and how to measure whether it worked. From an operator’s point of view, this talk walks through the practical path: where the returns show up fastest, which mistakes you do not need to make yourself, and where the real upgrade opportunity sits.

  劉漢意 Allison Liu

  依利安企業有限公司 · CEO

What the visit covers

• ▸Get inside SWITCH: a curated selection of the deep tech, biomedical, sustainability and AI sessions and exhibition zones most worth your time.
• ▸Meet Southeast Asian capital and markets: connections into local funds, accelerators, government resources and the SIC Singapore community.
• ▸Portfolio bridging: for teams heading into Southeast Asia, first-line connections to customers, capital and local partners.
• ▸Time with the delegation: dinners and networking between sessions, so the group travelling together shares what it sees.

Who this is for

• ▪Investors building a position and a network in Southeast Asia
• ▪Founders weighing entry into Singapore and the wider region
• ▪Corporate partners tracking global-Asia innovation and seeking cross-border collaboration

Figures are from Meet Taipei 2025. That year the international pavilion drew over 100 overseas startups and accelerators, and the corporate VC lounge set up in-depth meetings between 19 CVCs and 52 exhibiting startups.

• ▸ 16:00–18:00　Angel Investing 3.0 forum (Meet Taipei main stage)
  From ten-year funds to one deal, one SPV; what platformisation actually looks like in the US, Europe and Singapore; first-hand views from Singapore, Silicon Valley and Phoenix; and the real gap between Taiwan’s regulation and international practice.
• ▸ Evening　SIC 4th anniversary dinner
  A closed event, by invitation, with no public registration. Put your name on the list and you will hear about it first.