Yiguo English held the Digital Time Capsule launch ceremony at the "AI Wave Star Show" Grand Finals, symbolizing the preservation of the children's dreams and aspirations for the future.

Yiguo English's annual brand event, "A Message to My Future Self — Unlock AI, Meet the Future Me," officially kicked off this year. The opening chapter, the "AI Wave Star Show," went through open auditions and intensive training before holding its Grand Finals and Awards Ceremony on the 6th. Centered on the theme of "conversing with your future self," the event combines all-English public speaking, AI creative tools, and stage performances — guiding children to draw from everyday observations, reflect on their relationship with the future world, and build confidence through creation and expression.

At COMPUTEX 2026, AI technology is gradually moving from infrastructure to real-world applications, with smart healthcare emerging as one of the key directions of development. Centered on the theme of "AI Factory," Inventec showcased its smart health and medical care layout, presenting a complete medical AI application ecosystem spanning AI infrastructure, edge computing, and health management services.

On the application front, Inventec unveiled its health Domain Agent, "HealioV Health Manager," which uses image analysis and a virtual health management interface to help users conduct health checks and assessments in their daily lives—extending parts of the health management workflow that previously required visits to medical institutions into the home environment.

The launch press conference for the "2026 Hakka Fashion Awards" was held this morning (the 15th) at the "CORNER MAX Grand Corner Multi-Function Exhibition Hall." Wu Wen-De, Chairperson of the Hakka Affairs Commission of the Taipei City Government and CEO of the Taipei City Hakka Culture Foundation, remarked at the event: "This edition of the Hakka Fashion Awards takes inspiration from the works of the 'Hou Sheng Literature Award.' We sincerely invite fashion designers aged 18 and above to participate enthusiastically, combining literary elements with sustainable materials and upcycled fabrics to create garments that showcase the unique charm of urban Hakka culture in Taipei." This year's competition format breaks through the previous division between the student group and the open group for the first time, encouraging cross-generational design exchange. The finals and awards ceremony will be evaluated on-site by a professional judging panel, selecting 1 Gold Award, 1 Silver Award, 1 Bronze Award, 5 New Talent Awards, 2 Popularity Awards, and 1 Jury's Special Award. The grand prize carries prize money of NT$350,000, with total prize money exceeding NT$1 million. The submission period runs from today through May 10. Designers from all walks of life are warmly welcomed to register and jointly showcase the innovative flair of Taipei's Hakka fashion.

Recently, OEM manufacturer Inventec unveiled its latest "VRSTATE Health" system at Taiwan's Information Month event. In an interview, the company's Director of Metaverse Technology stated that the VRSTATE Health is one of the first applications in the field of intelligent health management under Inventec's strategic combining artificial intelligence and reality-virtuality integration. The goal is to enable people to receive continuous and traceable health advice and risk alerts through digital avatars in daily situations.

VRSTATE, Inventec's metaverse brand, participated in this year's Taipei Information Month. Based on its development philosophy of promoting the virtual through the real, and the real through the virtual, with the virtual and the real mutually reinforcing each other, VRSTATE highlighted its upgraded "Domain Agent Pro" series of professional virtual human products, including the VRSTATE Guide, VRSTATE Fashionista, and VRSTATE Health. VRSTATE aims to continue playing a leading role in innovation, bringing smarter and more convenient innovative applications to everyone.

Chiu Chaucer, General Manager of Inventec Corporation (Beijing) Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., giving sideline interview. Photo by Li Ya-Wen, CNA, Shanghai

The 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) Cross-Strait Forum was held this morning at the Shanghai Expo Center. Taiwanese enterprise representatives attending the forum believe it's good to have venues for exchanges and dialogue, and suggest the forum could be organized "more freely" to allow businesses to connect with needed solutions.

The "2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-level Meeting on Global AI Governance" is being held from the 26th to the 28th (exhibition runs through the 29th). This year's WAIC has established a "Cross-Strait AI Integrated Development and Innovation Exhibition Zone" for the first time, leading to the "Cross-Strait AI Integrated Development and Innovation Forum," where several Taiwanese enterprise representatives participated to present reports on AI-related development issues.

EMS giant Inventec announced on the 17th that the team will participate in the "2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference" at Shanghai World Expo from July 26 to 29 with its latest servers and liquid cooling innovation solutions. The team revealed that Inventec will not only lead a delegation to exhibit but also showcase its latest servers and liquid cooling innovation solutions at its own booth. Simultaneously, multiple latest "AI application solutions" will be displayed in the Cross-Strait AI Integration Development Innovation Exhibition Area (Strait Economic and Technology Zone), fully demonstrating Inventec's comprehensive layout in both software and hardware in AI, smart healthcare, and metaverse applications, actively assisting industries in embracing digital transformation and intelligent upgrades in the era of large models.

Fu Jen Catholic University faculty and students visiting 2025 Computex, hosted by colleagues from Inventec's Metaverse Technology Division

Amid the global wave of artificial intelligence reshaping the fashion industry, Fu Jen Catholic University has taken proactive steps to collaborate with leading technology brands NVIDIA, MSI, and Inventec’s VRSTATE platform. Together, they are building an AI-driven ecosystem for fashion design education and creative innovation, ushering in a new era for AI-powered fashion education in Taiwan.

Inventec, a major contract manufacturer, has taken another significant step forward in its virtual-physical integration technology! Recently, the team collaborated with group partners Inhon and Asia University to integrate their metaverse "Virtual-Physical Integration Space" with the cutting-edge "AI Virtual Human" technology and Inhon's self-developed comprehensive physiological measurement system "Family Treasure," successfully developing the latest "AI Virtual Health Manager" within the Virtual-Physical Integration Space. The team is further introducing it into dozens of care institutions participating in the USR project in the Greater Taichung area, striving to capture the vast business opportunities in smart healthcare through high-performance cloud-based care technologies.

Inventec's metaverse strategy is gaining traction. The company is set to unveil its latest technological achievement, the "VRSTATE Metaverse Photo Frame," at COMPUTEX 2025, scheduled from May 20th to 23rd in Taipei. This is Inventec's first display device integrating metaverse technology and 2D-to-3D conversion functionality, targeting enterprise customers to boost sales performance.

Recently, more than 50 young people from both sides of the Taiwan Strait gathered in Kunshan, embarking on an exciting fashion and creative study tour.

Through industrial internships, employment and entrepreneurship training, cultural design field trips and other forms, they conducted exchanges and interactions around the theme of fashion creativity, enhancing their understanding of the fashion industries on both sides, and injecting new vitality into the integrated development of the fashion and creative industries across the Strait.

From silent to sound, from black and white to color, from film to digital, movies have continuously reshaped artistic boundaries through technological iterations. Nowadays, virtual reality technology offers multi-dimensional interactive immersive experiences, making it possible for audiences to "step into" the parallel worlds constructed by films.

The National Film Bureau recently issued a "Notice on Promoting the Orderly Development of Virtual Reality Films," encouraging the exploration of virtual reality film technologies by all parties, improving the full-process supervision from script registration to public screening permits, and injecting standardized momentum into the industry by expanding virtual reality film screening spaces in theaters.