Yenwen Feng

Co-Founder, Perpetual Protocol

Yenwen Feng is the co-founder of Perpetual Protocol, a decentralized perpetual contract protocol for every asset.

Perpetual Protocol was launched in December 2020, pioneering the virtual automated market maker (vAMM) model. In the past 1.5 years, the protocol has facilitated over $50bn in trading volume, making Perpetual Protocol one of the top decentralized derivatives exchanges.

Before Perpetual Protocol, Yenwen co-founded several crypto projects, and a series of consumer apps, including messaging apps, social games, and mobile stock trading apps.

Jenna Fung

Digital Policy & Community Relations Manager, DotAsia Organisation

Jenna Fung is the Digital Policy & Community Relations Manager of DotAsia Organisation who oversees the youth program, NetMission Academy, and other regional community projects. She has been involved in Youth Internet Governance Forum (yIGF) in Hong Kong and the Asia Pacific as coordinator since 2018. She is also representing NetMission.Asia as one of the ALS Representatives at Asia Pacific Regional At-Large Organisation (APRALO) at ICANN. She is also an elected YCIG steering committee member for the Asia Pacific group for 2022. She has also been engaged in the secretarial team of the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) and part of the organizing committee of the Asia Pacific Internet Governance Academy (APIGA) since 2019.

She is passionate about data privacy and protection, surveillance, social innovation and digital sustainability. She has been interned in different fields including business management, company secretarial services, and marketing and public relations in Beijing, Hong Kong and Seville. She is born and raised in Hong Kong, and is currently based in Toronto. In her personal life, she enjoys dancing, reading and traveling.

Jamie Gillespie

Internet Security Specialist, APNIC

Jamie Gillespie is an Internet Security Specialist at APNIC, providing security training, outreach, and development of Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs), network operators, and Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) across 56 economies in the Asia Pacific region. This directly supports APNIC’s vision of “A global, open, stable, and secure Internet”.

When not travelling or delivering training, Jamie works across all internal teams to secure APNIC’s people, processes, and technology using administrative, technical, and physical controls.

With over 24 years of IT experience, 20 of those dedicated to Information Security, Jamie started his IT career at the backbone Internet provider UUNET Canada before holding a range of information security roles at AusCERT, Google, and Macquarie Cloud Services. Jamie is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Information Systems Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Jamie is an international presenter on an extensive range of topics including incident response, technical, physical, and management security, and has been interviewed for television, radio, internet, and print media.

Sheryl Hermoso

Training Delivery Manager (SEA/EA), APNIC

Sheryl has had various roles as a Network and Systems Administrator before joining APNIC. She started her career as a Technical Support Assistant while studying at the University of the Philippines. Sheryl later finished her degree in Computer Engineering and continued to work in the same university as a Network Engineer, where she managed the DILNET network backbone and wireless infrastructure.

Andee Hill

Director / GDD Accounts, ICANN

Andee Hill joined the ICANN organization in August 2017. She currently serves the organization as the Director of GDD Accounts. Andee has been involved in the domain name industry since 1999. She has held positions within and later created a domain name aftermarket escrow organization in addition to serving as a director at the largest new gTLD registry.

Maureen Hilyard

Chair of the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC), ICANN and co-Chair of the Dynamic
Coalition of Small Island Developing States in the Internet Economy (DCSIDS)

Maureen Hilyard is a Development Consultant from the Cook Islands in the Pacific. She mainly works on policy projects related to the Environment, Climate Change and ICT-related projects such as eGovernment and currently the Pacific eCommerce Initiative. She leads an NGO, the Cook Islands Internet Action Group which lobbies for the interest of end-users in the Cook Islands. She is the current Chair of the At-Large Advisory Committee of ICANN; the co-Chair and co-Founder of the Global IGF Dynamic Coalition of Small Island Developing States in the Internet Economy - a collaboration between the Pacific and Caribbean ISOC chapters; and a member of the Public Interest Registry's DNS Abuse Institute Advisory Committee. She is also the former Chair of the Board of Directors of DotAsia; a former Chair of the Board of the Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society (PICISOC); and a former member of the Public Interest Registry Advisory Council. While her background is in Education and Distance Learning, she also has a Bachelor of Business and a Master of Management.

Hans Petter Holen

Managing Director, RIPE NCC

Hans Petter Holen has been active in the RIPE community and the Internet industry for over 30 years. He was RIPE Chair from 2014 to 2020 when he took on the position of Managing Director for the RIPE NCC. He has extensive first-hand knowledge of IP address policy development from his time as Chair of the RIPE Address Policy Working Group. Hans Petter has also been a part of ICANN's ASO Address Council since its formation in 1999 until 2013, with ten years as Chair and Co-Chair.

Meili Hsiao

Independent Consultant

Expertise e-Commerce, SME ICT enabled service cluster, e-Government, Emerging industry development strategy planning and promotion, Information system planning, Business modeling for startups.

Education:

• Master of Science, Computer Science, Queens College, City University of New York, U.S.A.
• Bachelor of Science, Hunter College, City University of New York, U.S.A.
• Bachelor, School of Education, University of Taipei

Professional History:

• Consultant, Cultural Technology Alliance, Taiwan (2020/07~ Present)
• Mentor and Consultant, Innovation to Industry Co. Ltd. (2019.06~ Present)
• Director General, International Division, Institute for Information Industry (III) (2012/05~ 2018/06)
• Deputy General Director, Industry Support Division, III (2004 ~ 2012/04)
• Secretary General, Chinese Non-store Commerce Association (2007 ~ 2012/04)
• Special Assistant to Chief Operating Officer, Director General, Value-Added Service Division, Taiwan Fixed Network (TFN). (2001~ 2004)
• Senior Vice President, Sinfotek Information Technology.(2000 ~ 2001)
• Deputy Director General, Manager, Engineer, System Engineering Division, Institute for Information Industry. (1988~ 2000)
• Teacher, Section Chief of Discipline, Director of Academic Affairs, in three elementary schools of Taipei City (1973 ~ 1984)

Kenny Huang

CEO and Board of Director, TWNIC
Chair of ccPDP4 Working Group, Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO)

Dr. Kenny Huang is currently chairing a working group to recommend a policy for the (de-) selection of Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) country code top-level domains (ccTLD), commonly termed ccPDP4. He is also co-chair of the Chinese Generation Panel.

Dr. Huang’s interests at ICANN are varied. Besides IDN, he is also keen on topics like Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC), Internet governance, policy development, and stakeholder engagement. He actively participates in the Asia Pacific Internet Governance Academy (APIGA) to encourage youth participation. He is also the co-organizer for the ICANN APAC-TWNIC Engagement Forum.

A leading figure amongst the Internet communities in Asia, Dr. Huang has taken up roles in many Internet technology and policy organizations including Executive Council of Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC), Addressing Supporting Organization (ASO) Address Council, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TWNIC, to name a few.

Geoff Huston

Chief Scientist, APNIC

Geoff Huston is the Chief Scientist at the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), where he undertakes research on topics associated with Internet infrastructure, IP technologies, and address distribution policies.
Widely regarded as the preeminent researcher on IPv4 exhaustion, he is routinely referenced by international agencies and frequently quoted by the ICT media.
Geoff has also presented at a number of global technical and government forums, including:

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU)
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
His research was recently quoted in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) publication, The Internet Technical Community Issues Memorandum on the Future of the Internet in a Global Economy published in 2008.

He has also been recently quoted in a number of news features for ComputerWorld, ZDNet, CommsDay, MISAsia, PC Authority, The Register, and CIOL Cybertimes.
In 2020, Geoff was made a member in the general division of the Order of Australia (AM) for his role as an Internet pioneer in Australia.

Tomo Ito

International Collaboration Specialist, Early Warning Group, JPCERT/CC

Tomo is a vulnerability information coordinator and an International Collaboration Specialist of JPCERT/CC Early Warning Group. His current focuses are CVD and international collaborations with organizations around the globe, regarding CVE, SBOM, ISO/IEC SC27 WG3, and many more.

Michael Kende

Senior Adviser, Analysys Mason / Study of Technical Success Factors

Michael is a a Senior Adviser at Analysys Mason, assisting with internet-related initiatives and advising clients across the globe on internet policy and strategy. Michael brings extensive knowledge on internet policy, technology standards and future development, having spent 3 years as Chief Economist at the Internet Society (ISOC), leading research activities on a wide spectrum of Internet issues. Prior to joining ISOC, Michael was co-head of Analysys Mason's regulation practice and kick started the firm's internet practice and thought leadership addressing key internet challenges and policy issues

Taiji Kimura

Researcher, JPNIC

Taiji Kimura is a researcher in Japan Network Information Center (JPNIC). Taiji has been involved with building/operating PKI and researching on information security in JPNIC since 2002. He enjoys everything such as architectural considerations, system design, development and customer support. His current focus is about deploying security mechanisms.

Ching-Heng Ku

Director of IP Department, TWNIC

Dr. Ching-Heng Ku received Ph.D. degree in the Department of Computer and Information Science at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan in 1999. He had worked as associate research scientist in the department of system and networking at National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC) of Taiwan on 2000-2004. He has been working for Taiwan Network Information Center (TWNIC) since 2004. He also has participated APNIC meeting since 2000 and had ever been the chair of the NIR Hostmaster workshop and the co-chair of Policy SIG, NIR SIG, and DB SIG at APNIC meeting. He had ever taken in charge of the Secretariat of Asia Pacific IPv6 Task Force, and hold the Asia Pacific IPv6 summit and Asia Pacific IPv6 Task Force meeting, as well as supports organizing IPv6 Readiness Measurement BoF and IPv6 Deployment session in APNIC Conferences.

He is now the director of IP department of TWNIC and take in charge of the IP Policy research and Number Resources Services at the TWNIC. He also took in charge of the project of IPv6 and RPKI deployment and promotion in Taiwan. He was the deputy director of the operation division in Internet Protocol Upgrade and Promotion Office of National Information and Communications Initiative Committee, Executive Yuan, Taiwan. He also joined the IPv6 upgrade and promotion program of MOTC and chaired the Advanced and complete IPv6 ecosystem promotion plan of NCC in Taiwan.

Thomas Kuiper

Director, Taiwan Trademark Association

Thomas Kuiper is originally from Germany and is the founder and General manager of Gandi's Asia business unit in Taipei. Since its launch in Asia, Gandi (www.gandi.net) added Chinese and Japanese support to its website and has supported the developer community in the region.

Before he started Gandi in Asia he was a project manager at MiTAC International Corp. (神達電腦股份有限公司) for mobile medical devices. When he first came to Taiwan 13 years ago, he worked in the Hsinchu Science Park on embedded systems such as DSL routers.

Alban Kwan

Regional Director, East Asia, CSC

Alban Kwan is the regional director, East Asia for CSC and based in the Hong Kong office. He has been with CSC's Digital Brand Services unit and affiliated companies since 2009, and leads the team responsible for all key accounts within the China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan markets. Alban has developed a deep understanding of online brand protection, digital assets management, and cyber-security, specifically for the Asia-Pacific region, and he advises top global and local companies. Alban frequently engages with local policy makers and is often invited to speak at conferences, where he shares his invaluable insight on brand protection, security, and local policies affecting businesses.

Neko C. Y. Lee

Director, Information & Product Security Management Division, Unizyx Holding Corporation

Neko Lee received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan in 2010. From 2011 to 2013, he was a Research Fellow in the Information and Communication Technology Labs at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. From 2019 to 2020, he was an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Tunghai University, Taiwan.

Dr. Lee joined Unizyx Group since 2016. He currently is Director of Information & Product Security Management Division and served as Head of Zyxel Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT).

Sabrina Lim

Stakeholder Engagement Programs Manager, Asia Pacific, ICANN

Sabrina focuses on widening the Internet community's participation in ICANN through engagement programs with stakeholders across the Asia Pacific region. She comes from a specialized background in Communications for the Singapore government. She served 8 years in the Ministry of Communications and Information, with secondments to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of National Development. She has an Honours degree in Sociology from the National University of Singapore, and a graduate diploma in Mass Communications from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Fan-Chieh Lin

Engineer, Data Communications Business Group, Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd.

As a member of HiNet DNS team, Fan-Chieh Lin has participated in development, operation, anti-DDoS protection of 168.95.1.1, which is a million-QPS-scale resolver system in Taiwan. Being in charge of designing and implementing HiNet DNS Hosting services and undertaking DNS projects of XXIX Summer Universiade, national elections etc. bring him experiences in planning, maintaining and monitoring authoritative name servers. He's also enthusiastic about organizing and sharing his understanding of DNS issues, looking forward to future interactions with you.

Ying-Dar Lin

Chair Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

YING-DAR LIN is a Chair Professor of computer science at National Yang-Ming Chiao-Tung University (NYCU), Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1993. He also cofounded L7 Networks Inc. in 2002, later acquired by D-Link Corp, and O'Prueba Inc. in 2018. His research interests include network security, wireless communications, network softwarization, and machine learning for communications. His work on multi-hop cellular was the first along this line, and has been cited over 1000 times. He is an IEEE Fellow, and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. He has served or is serving on the editorial boards of several IEEE journals and magazines, including Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (COMST, 2017-2020).

David Liu

CEO, Net-Chinese Co., Ltd

Immunology, ecology, and history of Rome are the areas of knowledge David acquired. CDC OS and Constitution are the fields of expertise David gained from several acclaimed scholars. Game theory, found interesting and proven useful, is the know-how David dabbled in out of curiosity. Interdisciplinary as he is, David sees his educational background nothing but ordinary.

A journalist, a businessman, and a man flying around the world are the identities David once possessed. 3 is the sum of the corporations he had worked for, and 4 is the total of the companies he has established. Sophisticated as he is, David sees his work experiences nothing but ordinary.

In a period of 33 years devoted to Information Technology industry, David has dedicated 23 years to Internet industry, and an partial overlap of 21 years to the field of domain names. Committed as he is, David sees himself nothing but ordinary ― just one netizen among many.

Phyo Thiri Lwin

Project Coordinator, YIGF Myanmar

Phyo Thiri Lwin is an active young woman who was born in Myanmar. She is always eager to spend her time on benevolent works. So, she joined the Internet governance community in 2020. Before joining this community, she participated in the volunteering activities in the local community. She is also an alumna of Asia Pacific Youth Internet Governance Virtual Camp 2020, NetMission Ambassador Program 2020-2021 and Asia Pacific Internet Governance 2021 Fellowship Program. Moreover, she also contributed to Asia Pacific Internet Governance Academy 2021 and NetMission Academy 2022 as a part of the NetMission organizer team. She has also done many voluntary works and she also joined the youth dialogues, workshops and seminars especially related to Internet Governance and SDGs as well. Currently, she is contributing as a project coordinator at the local youth Internet initiative and she is also joining in the APNIC fellowship program 2022. She is a life-long learner, content writer and music lover. Her interests are oriented towards technology and innovation, development studies and public policy.

Akinori Maemura

General Manager, Internet Development Department, JPNIC and ICANN Board Member

MAEMURA Akinori (surname, first name, 前村　昌紀) is General Manager of the Internet Development Department of JPNIC – Japan Network Information Center – the not-for-profit Internet promotion body and National Internet Registry for Japan. He currently serves as a Board Director of ICANN – Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers – appointed by its Address Supporting Organization, on top of his responsibility at JPNIC. He also serves as a Board Director at JPCERT Coordination Center, the national computer incident response team in Japan.

Maemura is responsible for JPNIC's Internet promotion business covering information dissemination, communications, events, technology and policy research, international affairs, and the oversight role of .jp ccTLD. Among them, he is directly involved in policy research for domain names and Internet governance.

Maemura's career has more than 20 years' experience in Internet technical operations and coordination. He started his Internet career as a network engineer in 1994 at NEC Corporation, Japan, launching its ISP business which is now known as BIGLOBE. Following that, he began being involved in Internet coordination among ISPs and associations as commercial Internet emerged in Japan, including the establishment of JANOG – the Network Operators' Group of Japan – and IP address management at JPNIC. His involvement then expanded to the region when he was first elected in 2000 to the Executive Council (EC) of APNIC – Asia Pacific Network Information Centre – one of five Regional Internet Registries which administer the Internet number space for respective regions. He served as an EC member for 15 years, especially as its Chair for 13 years until February 2016.

Yoshinobu Matsuzaki

Senior Engineer, Internet Initiative Japan Inc

Yoshinobu Matsuzaki, also known as 'maz', began his career working for a commercial ISP in Japan in 1998. He has more that two decades of network operation experience with the backbone network team. He has spoken and presented at many network operators' communities around the world.

Carles Gomez Montenegro

Chair of the IETF 6Lo working group, and Academic Director and founder of the Master in Internet of Things at Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)

Carles Gomez received his Ph.D. degree from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in 2007. He is an associate professor at the same university. He is a co-author of numerous technical contributions including papers published in journals and conferences, IETF RFCs, and books. His current research interests focus mainly on the Internet of Things. Dr. Gomez serves as an editorial board member of several journals.

He is also an IETF 6Lo working group chair.

Nguyen Thi Oanh

Internet Number Resource Manager, VNNIC

I have been working as Internet Number Resource Manager at Vietnam Internet Network Information Center (VNNIC) and involved in the APNIC community since 2013. I have much experiences in working as an IP hostmaster, IP/IPv6 policy maker, IPv6 development analyst and IPv6 trainer.

I am developing an instruction document about using IP, AS for Viet Nam community, which will be released in at the end of September 2021. I was also one of the authors of the Viet Nam IPv6 For Gov Program (the Program of Ministry of Information and Communications, Viet Nam Government), be the author of the document 03 stage – 10 steps IPv6 deployment for Government agencies.

I also joined the project of ASEAN community: Smart ICT Ecosystem (Architecture for the ASEAN Smart Cities platforms with due consideration on the Use of ICT for Disaster Risk Reduction Management (DDRM) System and the availability of a secure, scalable, and connectable Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) address identifiers) (2019-2020), the project team from Philippines, Brunei, and Viet Nam.

In addition, I am a secretary of Communist Youth Union of VNNIC and the member of the Standing Committee of Communist Youth Union of Ministry of Information and Communications. I hold and join a great number of youth union activities, especially supporting Viet Nam community in the difficult area. With many achievements and I have received the certificates of merit from the Central Youth Union and the national advanced youth badge from the Central Youth Union.

I also work close with APNIC and NIR team. I would like to improve the activities at NIR SIG and NIR Workshop, moreover the activities among NIRs communities. I believe good balance, enthusiasm and experience is important between local situation within NIRs economy and APNIC region. I look forward to making contribution in such a way as NIR SIG Chair for the coming two years.

George Odagi

Services Team Lead (East Asia) / Senior Internet Resource & Policy Analyst, APNIC

George Odagi is the Services Team Lead for the East Asia sub-region. His role is responsible for leading the end-to-end membership lifecycle services of the sub-regional team, whilst working collaboratively with the team in consulting with members and interested parties regarding all APNIC services including, but not limited to, membership matters, online facilities, policies, and internet resource management advice.

He also provides support to the APNIC Policy Development Process as a Policy Analyst and acts as the Liaison officer to members and stakeholders in the East Asia sub-region.

George joined APNIC in 2014 and has experience working both in the Member Services and Registration Services teams. George represents APNIC's Services area at internal and external meetings, both regionally and globally.

Crystal Peterson

Sr. Director, Registry Operations and Account Management, GoDaddy Registry

Crystal Peterson is Director of Registry | Franchise TLD Business Affairs for GoDaddy Registry, one of the world’s largest registry services providers, with nearly 250 top-level domain extensions (TLDs) under management. Crystal is responsible for the operation, management, growth and development of many of the world’s most prominent TLDs, including .CO, .US, .biz and .nyc, among many others. With deep expertise in the domain industry, Crystal both guides the sales and marketing strategies for Godaddy’s TLDs, through integration, strategic planning and competitive global environmental analysis, while at the same time advancing the company’s policy and compliance efforts in support of a safe and secure internet.i

Amongst her many roles prior to her position at Godaddy, Crystal handled the Global Sales and Channel Marketing for the .CO domain, launching and growing the TLD to over 1 million domains under management in less than a year, with currently more than 2 million domains in use from registrants worldwide. She was also the Marketing & Communications Manager for Public Interest Registry, which manages the .ORG Top-Level Domain; and the Marketing Manager for dotMobi, assisting in its launch to be available for registration to the general public.

As with most successful professionals, there is more than meets the eye with Crystal. Along with a wealth of experience in marketing and administration, Crystal has performed with multiple professional dance organizations across the United States and has served the community by assisting individuals with developmental disabilities. A cornerstone of the Godaddy Registry Team, Crystal continues to push the company to new heights, one domain name at a time.

Dave Phelan

Senior Network Analyst and Technical Trainer, APNIC

Dave comes to APNIC having worked in the Australian ISP and MSP community for the last 20 years in roles as diverse as carrier transmission networks, to System Administration, to core, edge and customer networks. Having built a corporate ISP network from the ground up, he comes with an understanding of traps and pitfalls that most networks have, and do experience.

Joann Phelan

Senior Manager of Global Strategic Operations, Evidence Action

Joann Phelan is the Senior Manager of Global Strategic Operations at Evidence Action. Evidence Action is an international development NGO that scales evidence-based and cost-effective programs to reduce the burden of poverty for hundreds of millions of people. Joann is responsible for leading technology strategy -- in particular, her focus is on creating a technology governance framework, introducing cybersecurity measures, and leveraging the use of technology across all countries of operation. Joann was a member of the founding team that created Evidence Action. Joann holds a BA in economics and English from Wesleyan University and an MPA from Columbia University.

Geng-Da Tsai

Engineer, TWNIC

Geng-Da Tsai is engineer at Taiwan Network Information Center (TWNIC) and involved in the APNIC community since 2006. He has much experiences in working as an IP training coordinator and IPv6 development analyst.

Henry Tsai

Division-Chief Judge, Taiwan Shilin District Court

Dr. Henry Tsai is currently the Division-Chief Judge at the Labor Court, Taiwan Shilin District Court. Before being the Division-Chief Judge, he has been a judge at Taiwan Intellectual Property and several District Courts for almost 20 years. During his time as a judge, he adjudicated different kinds of general Criminal and Civil cases, including IP Cases, and also drafted many famous judgments. Division-Chief Judge Tsai holds Master of Laws in Public Law from Soochow University in Taiwan and LL.M with honors from the John Marshall Law School in the U.S. He obtained his J.S.D degree from the Technology Law Institute of National Chiao-Tung University in Taiwan.

Division-Chief Judge Tsai has comprehensive interests in many legal fields and one of his expertise is in Internet Governance. His research J.S.D dissertation is entitled: "The Internet Governance on Domain Name Legal System and Its Operation". He also wrote lots of articles in periodicals and newspapers. One article related to Internet Governance is "The Trademark/ Domain Name Protection War: A Comparative study of the U.S., UDRP and Taiwanese Law" which was published in the John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law (winter 2012), and cited by periodical, book and paper in different regions.

Division-Chief Judge Tsai now is also invited to teach "Intellectual Property Law" at the Central Police University as an adjunct professor.

Kowei Tseng

Dolphin Consultant, Orca Foundation; Chinese Community Cofounder, Mango Markets

Kowei was down into the rabbit hole of cryptocurrency and distribute ledger technologies since 2017.He explored various DeFi protocols back in 2019 and was amazed by the openness and composability of the space since then. He is still missing all the cray and innovation during DeFi summer 2020.

At the end of 2020, KoWei pivoted his focus from Ethereum blockchain to Solana blockchain, he then helped to establish Solana Taiwan community and witnessed the Solana Summer 2021.

Experience in Web3:

• Community ambassador, Crypto.com, 2020/09-2020/12
• Combo Master ambassador, Furucombo, 2021/08-2021/12
• Community ambassador, Matrixport, 2021/01-2022/01
• Community ambassador, Bonfida, 2021/12-2022/02
• Cofounder, Mango Markets chinese community, 2022/02-
• Dolphin consultant, Orca Foundation, 2022/05-

Least but not least, KoWei builds up trapped ion quantum computer as PhD student at CQT, National University of Singapore in the physical world for the past five years.

Takayuki Uchiyama

Product Security Center, Panasonic Holdings Company

Takayuki Uchiyama is a member of Panasonic PSIRT and is responsible for product security activities at the business divisions overseas. His main roles include, the handling of vulnerabilities, creating and conducting product security training to product developers and providing assistance to product development teams related to product security as necessary. Aside from his role in Panasonic, Takayuki has been a CVE Board Member since 2016. Prior to joining Panasonic, Takayuki worked at JPCERT/CC, where his main tasks involved the coordination of vulnerability reports with PSIRTs, taking part in various discussions groups related to the identification / analysis / coordination / disclosure of vulnerabilities.

Adli Wahid

Senior Internet Security Specialist, APNIC

Adli joined APNIC in February 2014, bringing with him extensive experience and technical leadership in cyber security. He is APNIC’s security evangelist, spearheading security outreach, engagement, and collaboration with the regional community. Adli was elected in 2015 as a member of the FIRST.org Board of Directors.

Adrian Wan

Senior Manager of Policy & Advocacy, ISOC / Internet Way of Networking

Adrian Wan is Senior Policy and Advocacy Manager at the Internet Society. He focuses on issues affecting the Internet's openness, connectivity, trustworthiness, and security, with an emphasis on Asia-Pacific. He leads the Community Networks project.

A former business and technology journalist with the South China Morning Post based in Hong Kong and Beijing, he found interest in technology policy in Asia-Pacific, having worked in organizations including the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), Microsoft, and Huawei.

He holds a Master's in Public Policy at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, specializing in economic policy and analysis.

He is fluent in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin, and has a working knowledge of French and Vietnamese. He fell in love with Vietnam during an internship in Ho Chi Minh City and continues to learn the language. He is based in Singapore.

Champika Wijayatunga

Regional Technical Engagement Manager, APAC
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

Champika Wijayatunga is the Regional Technical Engagement Manager for Asia Pacific at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). He represents ICANN in technical, security, law enforcement and capacity building forums primarily in the Asia Pacific region.

Prior to ICANN, Champika held managerial, specialist, and liaison roles at APNIC – the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for the Asia Pacific. He started his career with IBM Corporation as a technical specialist, and has worked in the IT industry, academia, research, and training environments.

Champika holds a postgraduate degree in Computer Science & Engineering, as well as Professional Education qualifications in Cybersecurity. He also serves in various technical community groups and committees.

Ares Wu

Podcasting Producer of Internet Governance, Taiwan School on Internet Governance

Ares Wu is a master's student at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) in Taiwan, majoring in Communication Study and Content Design. He is also a Podcasting Producer working for Taiwan Network Information Center (TWNIC), discoursing on democracy internet governance issues and helping Taiwanese youths be equipped with current internet knowledge. He has been one of the attendees representing Taiwan at Youth Internet Governance Forum (yIGF) in 2021.

He is passionate about virtual community studies, such as community culture differences, Internet addiction, and online self-disclosure issues. He also relies on his skills in communication and interviews to dig out the in-depth value and needs of online users.

Benson Wu

Co-founder and CEO, CyCraft

Education and Research :

• PhD, Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University
• MS, Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University
• BS, Computer Science, Soochow University
• Speaker at Blackhat USA, DEFCON, HITCON, Japan AVTokyo, Singapore SyScan, Singapore Govware, and US NIST SATE

• Alumni at 4th (Busan), 5th (Cairns), 6th (Kyoto), and 7th (Taipei) APNG Camp
• Alumni at TWING Camp, TWNIC
• Advisor to Department of Cyber Security, Executive Yuan, Taiwan
• Advisor to Digi+, Executive Yuan, Taiwan
• Recipient of Outstanding ICT Elite Award 2020, Excellence ICT Month, Taiwan
• Executive Supervisor to Taiwan Defense Industry Development Association
• Deputy Chairman to Taiwan Information Security Association
• Ex-General Manager, Verint Systems Taiwan
• Ex-Director of Engineering, Armorize Technologies
• Ex-Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
• Ex-Deputy researcher at National Information and Communication Security Taskforce (NICST), Executive Yuan, Taiwan

Kuo-Wei Wu

Chairman of MSG, TWIGF

Mr. Kuo-Wei Wu has a technical, management and policy experience in Internet. In regard to Internet-related management, Mr. Wu was the deputy director of NCHC, where he was responsible for TANET backbone operation to serve all the universities, research institutions in Taiwan. He is the co-founder of Asia Pacific Supercomputer Center Consortium (HPC Asia) to lead the experience sharing over all the Asia Pacific Supercomputer Centers.

He started Internet-related works since he worked for Cray Research, Inc., and a vice-president of Yam Digital, Inc. When he was a vice-president of Acer, he led the Internet service business for Acer (2000-2004). He actively involved in ICANN activities (GAC, ALS, ccNSO, ASO) since 1999 until now. He also actively participated UN/WSIS, and UN/IGF.

Mr. Wu holds a mathematics BSc degree from Tunghai University, a MSc degree in Mathematics from University of Cincinnati, and MSc degree in Computer Science from Columbia University.

Brian Yang

Cofounder and Chief Strategy Officer, Cacafly

Brian co-founded cacafly.com,a VC-backed leading digital marketing agency and ad-tech firm in 2007 with Nathan Chiu,. He left Taiwan in 2010 for MBA in Cambridge and spent the next decade in London, San Francisco, and Beijing in various corp venture, venture capital and startup leadership roles, before returning to Taiwan to rejoin Cacafly in 2019, which now has over 300+ employees, offices in 4 countries, with over USD 50m revenue per year. Brian led Cacafly’s international expansion and joint venture in Indonesia, to drive growth for the pre-IPO company.

In 2016-2019, Brian was General Manager of Asia market at Wonder Workshop, a VC-backed Silicon Valley robotic startup, helping raising over 60m usd series B & C from leading funds like Softbank, Tencent, InnoWorks, TAL, and led product and marketing teams in China, Korea,Hong Kong and Taiwan. In 2015-2016, He was the Head of APAC, Strategic investmen for Prosiebensat1.Media SE, a German listed media group, scouting startups in the video-tech (VR/AR), ad-tech,e-commerce AI/ML sectors for the 100 million usd cross-border fund with colleagues in US, EU.

Before his startup journey, Brian was a senior engineer in tsmc from 2003- 2008, after his electrical engineering degree from National Chiao Tung University.

As a seasoned entrepreneur and investor, he currently on startup boards of vocus.cc (digital content) , Biilabs.co (Blockchain/IoT) ,and teach startup/VC courses in NCTU GMBA as an adjunct assistant professor.

Keynote Speaker

Milton Mueller

Professor, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology

Milton Mueller is Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy, USA. His research focuses on the political economy of the Internet, including property rights, institutions and global governance in the communication and information industries. He has conducted research on IP address markets and policy, the policy implications of Deep Packet Inspection technology and the security governance practices of ISPs. His book Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace (MIT Press, 2002) is considered the definitive account of the political and economic forces behind the creation of ICANN. His 2010 book Networks and States: The Global Politics of Internet Governance, tracks the Internet governance debates after the World Summit on the Information Society. His most recent book, Will the Internet Fragment? will be published by Polity Press in 2017.

One of the founders of the Internet Governance Project, Mueller has played a leading role in organizing and mobilizing civil society in ICANN and OECD. He was co-founder of the Noncommercial Users Constituency and has twice served as its chair. He was elected to ICANN's GNSO Council, has worked on various task forces and working groups in ICANN, and served on the Advisory Council of Public Interest Registry (.org).

From 1998 - 2015 he was Professor at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies, where he was awarded the Meredith Professorship and from 2008 to the beginning of 2011 he was XS4All Professor at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Mueller received the Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989.