Taipei Fusion Rotary Club 14th In-Person Meeting | Recap

[Recap] Come with a pain point, leave with a solution! Highlights from our hands-on AI workshop ✨
Remember the evening at Happ. Treehouse? It wasn't a one-way lecture but a full-throttle, sleeves-rolled-up, immersive AI workshop where everyone built something.

Everyone arrived with laptops and tablets, and each person brought an idea they were mulling over, a project in progress, or even a nagging problem they'd happily pay to make go away. Over 100 minutes of hands-on work, we paired an AI coach (a custom Gem) with synchronized course materials to break down problems and validate business ideas on the spot.

🔥 Three highlights of the night:
💡 Start from the pain point, validate immediately: no abstract theory. Real frustrations from work and daily life became prompts, and solutions came out live.
💻 High-density interaction and practice: working along with the slides, ideas kept colliding to the sound of keyboards, and everyone felt the startling efficiency of human brains working with AI.
🤝 Cross-disciplinary exchange and deep Q&A: after 9 pm the energy stayed high, with members trading prompt tips and project highlights. Community learning at its best.

🚀 What's next: from solving problems by hand to seeing the new global map of AI startups
If the in-person workshop taught us how to use AI to boost personal and team execution, the August online meeting will pull the lens all the way back to show how AI is rewriting the rules of global markets and cross-border entrepreneurship.

🌐 [August Online Meeting] Innovation Talk 03: From Ethiopia to Polaris Dawn
— What a decade on one problem taught me (Build Anything, the new world of AI)

🗣️ Speaker | Christopher Peng
Co-founder and CEO, Labfront
Former co-founder, Emergency Medical Dispatch Africa

📌 What you'll learn:
1️⃣ How AI reshapes the startup landscape: a deep look at how AI is changing the rules for early-stage startups competing globally.
2️⃣ Cross-border case studies: the real story of going from EMS (emergency medical services) in Africa to the supply chains of Harvard and MIT, and what made the connections work.
3️⃣ Survival and go-global strategies for the new era: three breakthrough principles early founders and outbound teams must master in a time of rapid technological change.

🗓️ Event details
Time: Monday 3 August 2026, 19:00–21:00 (talk starts 19:15, Q&A included)
Venue: Online via Google Meet, join from anywhere
Who it's for: startup teams expanding overseas, professionals interested in global supply chains and applied technology, and anyone hungry for first-hand go-global experience.

👉 Event details and registration:
https://taipeifusion.org/en/activities/8%E6%9C%88%E7%B7%9A%E4%B8%8A%E4%BE%8B%E6%9C%83%E5%89%B5%E6%96%B0%E8%AC%9B%E5%A0%8203from-ethiopia-to-polaris-dawn-what-a-decade-on-one-problem-taught-me