1. The event itself
| Fact | Evidence |
|---|---|
| The 2025 Generative AI Conference ran as a double bill: the developer conference and the main conference on separate days | KKTIX ticket page |
| The venue was Excellence Hall, Howard Civil Service International House, Civil Service Development Institute, No. 30, Sec. 3, Xinsheng S. Rd., Da'an District, Taipei | KKTIX ticket page |
| Main conference standard ticket NT$6,000, developer conference standard ticket NT$3,000, plus the main visual artwork at NT$4,000 | KKTIX ticket page |
| The developer conference began with a company asking the curator to broker a technical exchange, which then grew into a full afternoon's programme | Official announcement |
| The two days were ticketed separately and held at the same venue | Official announcement |
| Per-session start and end times | No public record. The ticket page presents the schedule as an image, and no other official text source provides it |
| The number and length of the breaks | No public record |
2. Organiser, co-host and production
| Fact | Evidence |
|---|---|
| The named organiser is the Generative AI Conference Production Committee | KKTIX ticket page |
| TNL Mediagene (Nasdaq: TNMG) co-hosted the two-day double bill with the curator | TNL Mediagene press release |
| Elsewhere the official press release describes TNL Mediagene as a supporting organisation, while the host on stage said co-hosting partner | INSIDE press release. Three wordings coexist for the same relationship |
| Group subsidiary 士奇傳播整合行銷股份有限公司 handled end-to-end production, including event design, run-of-show, speaker coordination and the exhibition area | The News Lens report |
| Curator 李慕約, born 1988, graduate of NTU Business Administration, founded his company in 2014 | Business Weekly issue 1964 |
| Whether the NTUT Department of Industrial Design was a supporting organisation | No public record for 2025. The only evidence found covers the 2026 edition |
3. Sponsors and partners
The official tiered sponsor list for 2025 has been taken down, so this table only includes those whose registered full name could be verified or who were named in the official press release.
| Fact | Evidence |
|---|---|
| Sponsors named in the official press release include NVIDIA and Appier, with a note that others are unlisted | TNL Mediagene press release |
| Appier's registered name is 沛星互動科技股份有限公司, founded 2012 | Wikipedia: Appier |
| 91APP's Taiwan branch is registered as 英屬開曼群島商九一應用軟體股份有限公司台灣分公司 | TechNews company database |
| PicCollage's Taiwan branch is registered as 美商凱德諾藍股份有限公司台灣分公司, parent company Cardinal Blue Software | 104 company page. Whether it sponsored in 2025 has no public record; only its 2026 gold partnership is confirmed |
| APMIC's registered Chinese name is 亞太智能機器股份有限公司, representative 吳柏翰 | Company registration. The official site lists only the English name |
| Media partners were INSIDE, The News Lens, Business Yee and Cool3c | TNL Mediagene press release |
| Company names of the sponsors providing on-site coffee and the interactive installation, and of the technology partners | No public record |
| Whether E.SUN Bank and CTBC sponsored in 2025 | No direct evidence for 2025. Both are confirmed as sponsors of the 2026 edition |
4. Attendance figures
Three sets of numbers exist for the same event, from different sources counted on different bases. Listed side by side, not adjudicated.
| Figure | What it counts | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| About 1,000 | On-site attendance; both the official press release and the group's Chinese-language coverage say close to a thousand | TNL Mediagene press release, The News Lens report |
| Over 2,000 | People who bought the online replay after the event | Same as above |
| 552 | The registration count shown on the ticketing platform page. This is one ticket type's page, counted on a different basis from total on-site attendance | KKTIX ticket page |
| From 100 to over 800 | The conference's on-site growth over the years; over 15,000 cumulative attendees online and offline | Business Weekly issue 1964 |
| 20 speakers, 45 minutes | The official announcement's account of Office Hour | Official announcement |
| 22 speakers plus 6 special guests, one hour | The curator's account during the opening, differing from the official announcement | Speaker's own account, no external source |
| Speaker gender split went from male-dominated to even; youngest speaker was 9 | The curator's account in an interview | INSIDE: Muyueh Lee on the era of AI for everyone |
5. Speaker backgrounds
| Speaker | Evidence |
|---|---|
| 林鉦育, Senior Vice President Engineer at E.SUN Bank | Official speaker introduction post, Hello World Dev Conference speaker page |
| 吳柏翰, founder and CEO of APMIC, Google GDE | TechNice expert profile |
| 劉詩雁, founder and CEO of Botsnova, registered as 戴伊爾斯股份有限公司 | INSIDE interview |
| 張文鈿, founder of 愛好資訊科技有限公司, known in the community as ihower | ihower's MCP article and slides, about page |
| Caesar Chi (戚務漢), Cympotek (信集界科技, part of the Cymmetrik group); also founded EXMA-Square and drove Node.js Taiwan | Hello World Dev Conference 2025 speaker page, Cymmetrik group subsidiaries page |
| 保哥 (黃保翕), Technical Director at 多奇數位創意有限公司, Microsoft MVP and Google Developer Expert | INSIDE interview, about.me |
| 陳俊毅, Senior Manager, Product Development at 91APP | Official speaker introduction post, DevOpsDays Taipei 2025 speaker page |
| 吳剛志, Chief Architect at 91APP | INSIDE interview |
| 吳振和, Vice President of the Cloud Intelligence Center at cacaFly 聖洋科技 | cacaFly article |
| 李昆謀, Chief Product Officer at 91APP | |
| Wisely Chen, VP of Data & AI at Ally Logistic Property | INSIDE interview |
| 李慕約, 李慕約有限公司, curator of this conference | muyueh.com, official announcement |
| 高見龍, co-founder of 五倍學院 | 五倍學院 about page, INSIDE interview |
| Vivi Chen, Sales Director at 艾迪英特股份有限公司 | |
| Peggy Lo, NGO worker at a four-person foundation secretariat; the organisation's full name has no public record | INSIDE interview |
| 海馬, primary-school self-taught developer; the project shown was an expense-tracking app | ETtoday report |
| 紀懷新 (Ed H. Chi), Google DeepMind, English title VP of Research | LinkedIn, edchi.net |
| 林彥廷, Taiwan LLM developer, previously with Meta, NVIDIA and Amazon; Research Scientist at Google DeepMind at the time of checking | INSIDE interview, personal site, Taiwan-LLM paper |
| 黃仕鎮, Chief Engineer at E.SUN Bank | Official speaker introduction post, Economic Daily News report |
| 李怡志, Assistant Professor at National Chengchi University, speaking on generated imagery at the conference for a third consecutive year | INSIDE interview |
| 張志祺, co-founder of Simpleinfo | INSIDE interview |
| 鄭晴元 (Sunny), co-founder of STR Network | Official speaker introduction post |
| 陳志信, Pet Pixels Studio, film CGI VFX producer and director | INSIDE interview, link page |
| Davis Chang, co-founder and Creative Director of Ø Studio | INSIDE interview |
6. The evening AI comedy show
| Fact | Evidence |
|---|---|
| 《炎不由衷》 was produced by 炎上股份有限公司, part of STR Network, performed by comedians 藍恩, 壯壯 and 學仁 in a roast format, running about 60 minutes | Ticket page |
| It was a new experiment by the curator with STR Network, combining comedy and AI | INSIDE: Muyueh Lee on the era of AI for everyone |
7. Press coverage
| Article | What it covers |
|---|---|
| TNL Mediagene official press release | The most complete version of the attendance figures, sponsors and media partners |
| The News Lens: TNL Mediagene co-hosts the 2025 Generative AI Conference | The production company, and the Office Hour participant list |
| INSIDE: Muyueh Lee on the era of AI for everyone | The curator's own account of the curation logic, speaker gender split and youngest speaker |
| INSIDE: reflections on the 2025 generative AI conference | Technical progress is not linear; two groups of attendees with different anxieties; the value of in-person events |
| Business Weekly issue 1964 | The curator's background and the conference's growth over the years |
| INSIDE 2025 Generative AI Conference feature | Nearly every session has a corresponding interview |
8. Items with no public record
These were searched for and genuinely could not be found. They are not items still waiting to be checked.
- The per-session start and end times for each day, and how the breaks were arranged
- The official tiered sponsor list for 2025 (that page has been taken down)
- Company names of the sponsors providing on-site coffee and the interactive installation, and of the technology partners
- The full name of the foundation Peggy Lo works for
- Whether the NTUT Department of Industrial Design was a supporting organisation in 2025
- The official total of speakers and special guests for Office Hour (the official announcement gives only 20 speakers and 45 minutes, and lists no guests)
- The collaborative notes page for the 2025 event (only earlier years could be found)