Audrey Tang / Digital Minister / Government of Taiwan, ROC

“Technology and the World and Workplace of the Future”

The impact of technology in changing the world is without question. How we utilize, depend on, and interact with technology brings countless possibilities and more than just a little risk. In order to be prepared, competitive, and simply happy in the world of tomorrow depends strongly on how well we as a species understand the effects of technology on our lives, and how we choose to meet the challenges and opportunities of the fourth industrial revolution. VIS is happy to announce that digital minister Audrey Tang has agreed to join us in sharing her thoughts and observations on current technological developments, and what it means for today’s young adults who are readying themselves to face a brave new world.

A civic hacker and Taiwan's Digital Minister in charge of Social Innovation, Audrey is known for revitalizing the computer languages Perl and Haskell, as well as building the online spreadsheet system EtherCalc in collaboration with Dan Bricklin. In the public sector, Audrey served on Taiwan national development council's open data committee and K-12 curriculum committee; and led the country's first e-Rulemaking project. In the private sector, Audrey worked as a consultant with Apple on computational linguistics, with Oxford University Press on crowd lexicography, and with Socialtext on social interaction design. In the voluntary sector, Audrey contributed to Taiwan's g0v ("gov-zero"), a vibrant community focusing on creating tools for the civil society, with the call to "fork the government".

More information about Audrey and her views can be found on her personal blog at: https://pugs.blogs.com/audrey/

We welcome you to join us for what will be a very interesting, very important talk.