Taipei — The Hult Prize Foundation has officially announced the locations and co-hosts of its 2021 Impact Summits. For the first time, Taipei has been selected as one of the cities to host the Impact Summit in Taiwan. To announce the event to the Taiwanese community, a press conference with the presence of all the event’s sponsors, including Hao-Shi Foundation Food Accelerator, Ming Chuan University, Jonnesway, and Viewsonic, was held on the 5th of March. The event also had the support of the College of Commerce at National Chengchi University, Q-YO Bio-Technology CO., LTD (Mushroom), the Taiwan Taifu Startup Association, and Xpand Latam.
Representatives
of different organizations such as the Board Members of Social Value
International in Taiwan, the Embassy of the Republic of Guatemala, the Embassy
of the Republic of Honduras, the Mexican Trade Services Documentation and
Cultural Office, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry France Taiwan and the
British chamber of commerce in Taipei were also present during the event.
National
Taiwan University has been selected to host the impact summit on April 9th,
where more than 100 university students in Taiwan will participate to represent
30 startup ideas. The Impact Summit Taipei will be one of the 50 summits
happening during the months of March and April. In its 12th year, the Hult
Prize Foundation received a record number of city-wide bids from over
one-thousand applicants across the world, representing more than 3,000
organizations including private foundations, NGOs, and higher education
institutions.
“We
are happy because in 2021. The Hult prize community in Taiwan is bigger. For
the success of Taiwan’s epidemic prevention, we have the first opportunity to
hold an Impact Summit of the Hult Prize in Taipei. We are also one of the few
cities that will hold an in-person program. We hope that the world can see
Taiwan’s outstanding student teams,” said Joseph Liao, president of Taiwan
TaiFu Startup Association.
Hult
Prize Impact Summits have a history of being life-changing experiences for
attendees and bring together a community of people with an outlook of changing
the world through business. Events are open to college and university students,
industry professionals, academic leaders, and non-profit / government
executives. Planned programming includes professional networking mixers, social
events, inspirational keynote speeches, workshops, and the headline activity of
the summit - the regional final demo day of the million-dollar Hult Prize
Challenge. More than 200 short-listed entrepreneurs will be pitching startups
that solve this year’s UN issued food challenge. At stake for one lucky
team is a golden ticket invitation to attend the award-winning Hult Prize
Accelerator program getting them one step closer to winning US$1,000,000 in
startup capital.
This
year, the event was organized by the Hult Prize representatives Emilia Gonzales
and Agnes Mutiara, the Copa America Taiwan representatives Fernando Ramos and
Tracy Lee, and with strong support from the Taiwan Taifu Startup Association.