DevDays Asia 2024, the largest software developer event in Asia organized by Microsoft Taiwan and guided by the Ministry of Digital Affairs, opened yesterday at the Hua Nan Commercial Bank Convention Center in Taipei and is to run until tomorrow.
The three-day event brings together developers, decisionmakers and industry experts in an effort to unlock the potential of artificial intelligence (AI), Microsoft Taiwan said.
During the opening ceremony, Minister of Digital Affairs Huang Yen-nun (黃彥男) said that Microsoft’s data centers in Taiwan have already started providing services.
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The ministry has secured tens of billions of New Taiwan dollars from the National Development Fund to invest in the development of an AI ecosystem, including talent cultivation, Huang said.
It hopes to cooperate with major international companies like Microsoft to bring new tools and help Taiwanese companies develop international markets, he said.
AI and generative AI are reshaping business and people’s lives, and are poised to create opportunities through the digital economy, Huang said, adding that he hoped participants at the event can brainstorm more new ideas for such business opportunities.
Microsoft’s data centers assist clients in achieving more accomplishments by offering the best solutions, Microsoft Taiwan chief operating officer Flora Chen (陳慧蓉) said, declining to reveal details on their operations or the identity of its clients amid privacy concerns.
Since Microsoft announced its data center plans in Taiwan in 2021, its progress has attracted much attention. In June, the Taoyuan City Government announced that Microsoft would build two large data centers in the special municipality, with one in Gueishan District (龜山) scheduled to go online soon.
Microsoft Taiwan general manager Sien Pien (卞志祥) declined to reveal details about the Gueishan center, but said the data centers have begun providing services to some industries where data are highly regulated.
Now in its ninth year in Taipei and its third edition in southern Taiwan, DevDays Asia this year brings together 2,000 people, with the latest AI technologies in focus.
A separate one-day event is to be held in Kaohsiung on Friday.
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