Thank you and for your service.

Excellent. Thank you, Audrey.

OK, cool.

Feel free to take these. These two are not public. This one is public. This one I like also because this is some interviews from the New Zealand and Australian VC perspective on AgTech.

I do...

You get to keep it. Yes, please.

That’s a good story.

They already have the legendary brand of wine that we associate with the territory.

我從來沒有去過金門。Only seen it portrayed on TV or in film.

They research different types of waste from all over the world to benchmark the output. The Kinmen story itself is symbolic and wonderful.

I think so. The main idea is to get each region to find uses their surplus waste.

That would be very cool.

The founder, Julien Uhlig, came up with the idea through travels in Africa when he noticed that there were people living with more cell phones than there was power in their own homes.

One founder had a vision for it in developing countries, like sub-Saharan Africa. The other founder’s vision was for industrialized nations looking for cleaner solutions that they could generate on their own, like a factory or farm. Taiwan could be a perfect candidate to test and showcase.

That is great to hear. Last I heard Tokyo Electric is using about a dozen units to supplement their nuclear plants through a 20-year power purchase plan. Indonesia, Puerto Rico and the Philippines have a different needs and scenarios.

Great. That’s encouraging. CAGIX has a distributed energy power plant as a service company from Germany by way of California. They have a role to play in developing waste to energy power for industrialized and developing countries. They enable one to use agricultural waste as feedstock for conversion into power ...

To cultivate more interaction on going forward. These are the types of opportunities that we can be participants as well. The macroeconomic trends are there. Perhaps we can huddle more on identifying interested parties as resources?

...150 applications, from 19 countries. Taiwan had a team. Their company offers a TCM solution, Traditional Chinese Medicine to raising and feeding livestock.

While Singapore has the capital, few other countries in Asia have access to it advanced regional agricultural science in Southeast Asia. Taiwan has an enormous amount of creativity, research, and entrepreneurship in the food category that should be opened wider.

In a world where foodtech is predominately defined by online delivery, the Singapore-based boutique investment and consulting company called ID Capital that is helping startups build sustainable food solutions. The founder, Isabelle Decitre, came from the wines and spirits business at LVMH. She was the CMO of Henessey and now ...

In a recent conversation with an economist at the Asian Development Bank, which is headquartered in Manilla. This is the Japanese development bank that has been there since the 1970s. His group is trying to make economic developmental funds more widely available by adopting "venture capital" characteristics as opposed to ...

The Chinese investors have the appetite to fund these the deals, but they’re an exception. The North American venture community is also starting to grow wary. CFIUS rules are getting more stringent than ever. The impending US-China trade war is creating uncertainty in the early-stage financing and creating new roadblocks ...

Lately, I’ve also seen second generation Asian-American startups in North America appear to be having difficulty navigating their way through the process when they explore new markets into Asia. For startups with advanced software technologies like EDGE computing for distributed datacenter computing, few investors in Asia are willing to take ...

Finding ways to achieve middle-market financing is attractive since it gives the startups enough runway capital to focus on their operational needs to grow. Without it they’re left with only traditional debt instruments, donations and grants. This enables the blending of public and private capital to work together by collapsing ...

CAGIX was developed in 2016 and has helped raise over USD $60 million for cleantech startups through a vetted process along with incubation. The founder later that the APAC region sees greater value in it because the Asian capital markets are less mature. The Fintech folks in Singapore and Hong ...

My colleagues and I are aiming to build a new funding mechanism based on this kind of philosophy. The CAGIX (California Global Innovation Exchange) platform helps cleantech startups and social enterprises gain access and attention to investors, strategic partners and alternative forms of capital that might otherwise see the opportunities ...

That’s an impressive scope of dual responsibilities, but it does overlap. Agreed, the role of CSR is also mainstreaming and needs to finally break out of its box. In fact, the primary role of any 21st century organization ought to rest upon a code of ethics and core values.

Yours is much different. Sounds like an evolutionary approach.

Excellent. I spoke to former Minister without Portfolio Jaclyn Tsai a few days ago. She warned me that bureacracy might slow things down. How have you found that to be the case?

Calculus as an e-sport (laugh)... if that’s what it takes. Good for him!

Thank you Audrey. That is good to know.

Ahhh Horace and Benson. Yes, this gives both of them a broader base to be seen and heard. It too reinforces the updated themes. it’s important that they crossover to venues featuring these themes. Will the summit presentations be archived online for those to watch remotely? Social Capital Markets is ...

Yes. It takes a lifetime of learning. Seeking best practices to accelerate the agenda is time well spent.

This is disruptive. They have a process and pilot plant.

Oh yeah, Gordon. That sounds very synergistic and therefore exciting.

This is how one can grow new industrial base right here, with a stringent process that could be world-class maybe in a few years. These are some of the initiatives I’d am in the process of exploring and want to work on. It’s important to find cohorts, but I think ...

We’ll come up with a list of products. Develop programs and integrate them in ways to achieve multiple objectives without giving away while respecting intellectual property rights. Find ways to establish a certification methodology as well that meets both Circular Economy and architectural requirements.

When you see people like Jason Chou tinkering away for the past three years, you can’t not help. He is the spark plug that drives the new economy. It would be good to organize a community of veteran talent from everywhere including Pasadena Art Center College of Design and figure ...

There are others in the ecosystem starting companies nearby. Jason Chou of GoodTop Technologies in Taoyuan wants to turn "end of life’ plastics and clothing into lumber and furniture. His aesthetics are clean and crisp. After manufacturing electronics and mobile phone accessories for over two decades in China, he came ...

Twenty years of innovative recycling and re-manufacturing in Taiwan has spawned cutting-edge industries that the island can be very proud of. Romona, your friend Gordon Yu of EVP’s idea to repurpose coffee waste with a polymer back to diesel and carbon is interesting and a different approach.

On a separate note, US-based Method Soap created their own program with recycler Envision Plastics to convert ocean plastics back to a high grade hand soap packaging. A percentage of the sales would also go back to the back community of collectors. Beach to Bottle. Such ideas can be limitless ...

Keep in mind that Henkel is a 141-year-old German company which aims to triple the value it creates in relation to its environmental footprint by 2030, and is frequently recognized as a sustainability leader within its sector by independent sustainability ratings and rankings.

Yes. Plastic Bank also forms partnerships with retailers and brands like Marks & Spencer and Henkel to design premium new products feature Social Plastic® in the packaging of beauty brand Schwarzkopf and Henkel Laundry & Home Care business unit line. Henkel markets and sells the products together with a strong ...

Yes, David Katz, founder of of Plastic Bank.

David Katz started a non-profit called Plastic Bank in 2013 in Vancouver. He has as an excellent TED talk. Their goal is to create social and environmental impact in areas with high levels of poverty and plastic pollution by turning plastic waste into a currency. There is a direct correlation ...

There is an organization called Plastic Bank. Are you familiar with them?

Canal fishing is in shallow waters, but ocean fishing is a whole other ballgame.

I see. That’s more resilient thinking. The best way to change polluter behavior is to make smart bins ubquitous. The tyranny of convenience can go both ways.

It can go beyond plastic. (laugh)

Turning ocean plastic to fuel is effective reuse. I think it’s important to do it, yet not everyone wishes to be a part of it. Similar to asking a vegan if they would rather to eat meat or nothing. Bartering plastic for food is a healthy way to trade. Yes, ...