To cope with the disruptive changes that generative AI is bringing across all sectors, companies today have soaring needs for AI talents with real-world experience, global vision and bilingual proficiency. Following the success of the first AIWave: Taiwan Generative AI Applications Hackathon, held in 2024, DIGITIMES again organizes the 2025 competition with the support from the National Development Council in Taiwan for the purpose of cultivating more world-class AI talents that will invigorate AI development for Taiwan's industries. The 2025 event will take place on April 26-27.
Contestants will be able to utilize cloud and generative AI services from Amazon Web Services (AWS), including LLMs such as Amazon Nova, Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet, the generative AI-powered assistant for software development - Amazon Q Developer, as well as the no-code, generative AI app builder - PartyRock. The competition is open to anyone in Taiwan, whether students or professionals.
Contestants will be divided into a hacker group and an idea exchange group. They will tackle challenges set by renowned Taiwanese companies including Advantech, Chang Chun Group, Cooler Master, ETMall, Gamania Vyin AI, Taishin Financial Holding, and Walsin Lihwa.
To build up competency, DIGITIMES and AWS will also hold preparatory workshops covering enterprise data workshops and generative AI workshops to guide teams in utilizing multi-agent collaboration, multimodal models, and large language model reasoning. A panel discussion on nurturing generative AI talents will also be held alongside AI EXPO 2025 from March 26-28 to broaden contestants' perspectives. There will also be a mentorship session from industry experts. After one month of training, teams will be able to create innovative applications and minimum-viable products in a secure environment using company data.
"Amid the sweeping generative AI wave, governments and leading high-tech companies around the world are pouring tremendous resources into AI development. To keep up with the strong trend, the Taiwanese government is making efforts toward fostering AI industry growth, strengthening domestic AI research capabilities, promoting cross-border collaborations, and training multi-lingual AI talents. These efforts not only set a clear roadmap for Taiwan's AI development but also signify the Taiwan government's determination to play a part in the global race for AI," noted DIGITIMES.
DIGITIMES further commented "By organizing the hackathon and workshops, DIGITIMES aims to help Taiwan's developers and students leverage Taiwan's unique strength to create globally competitive generative AI applications. Taiwan has a well-established high-tech supply chain, an abundance of data resources, and a solid foundation for AI research. It is hoped that through the hackathon, Taiwan will develop innovations that overcome challenges the world faces today and usher in a new generative AI era."
AWS remarked "Working with schools, governments and companies through AWS Educate, AWS Academy, Cloud Innovation School, and AWS Training Partner, which are programs for different talent incubation stages, AWS has trained more than 100,000 cloud professionals in Taiwan. For generative AI, AWS also launched AI Ready in 2023, a program that aims to provide free AI training and education resources to two million people around the world by 2025. It also teamed up with online learning platform Udacity to award scholarships to students while working with Code.org to teach students about generative AI."
"A new AWS Region is coming to Taiwan in 2025. AWS also plans to invest billions of dollars over the next 15 years in Taiwan to support local digitization and AI developments. AWS hopes that more creative talents will be discovered at the hackathon and that its support will help not only transform Taiwan's industries but also build world-leading Taiwan-based unicorns," added AWS.
Online registration for the 2025 AI Wave: Taiwan Generative AI Applications Hackathon is open until March 30, 2025. Both students and professionals are encouraged to register. Click here for more information.
Article edited by Jack Wu
