OK, thank you. Have a great day!

Okay, that’s very clear. Thank you very much.

Yes, it’s incredible.

Yeah, well, fantastic. Well, I mean, I’m going to be in Copenhagen, actually in May for the Copenhagen Democracy Summit. So, if I don’t know if you are going or if there’s anyone from your team who is going, I’d love to meet them in person and get to know… ...

That’s right. John, do you have any questions? I’m not sure if there’s anything that we can help with as well on your end.

That’s right. That sounds fantastic. And if you ever have any concerns about the details, we can also provide things in writing to make it clear for you on your end as well.

What would be helpful for you going forward?

We will follow up with more information about what convenings later this year might look like. And maybe we can set up some time to talk about the programing element of you know, what kind of workshops you might be interested in doing for us in September.

Yeah. This was really… a really introductory meeting and so, we were really, really chuffed that you actually responded to us when we reached out. And it’s such an honor to meet you in this forum. So, thank you very much for taking the time at such short notice to ...

No? I think this was really, you know…

Nick, Johannes, Andrew, Kyle, do we have anything else that we want to share? Anything to add?

Well, this is fantastic. It’s a very exceptional. I think Johannes has been behind and Kyle who have been behind the design of our hackathons, we can take some inspiration from this, certainly.

So, that’s something we wanted to draw attention to, but we can also send you more information about all this as well, depending on which programs, which stream takes your fancy.

So, I think we had done a little bit of brainstorming beforehand to see whether you might benefit from seeing where there might be more overlapping interest. One of the ones we wanted to draw your attention to was actually also the Innovation Fellows, which falls within the first pillar ...

Okay, sure. The Schmidt Futures was only founded in 2017, so it’s a relatively new organization. It’s largely divided between Talent Engine and Talent Ventures. On the Talent Engine side is sort of where we have these more traditional networking-based talents that we invest in. So, like our fellows in ...

Fantastic. And I mean, would it be helpful if we also talk through a little bit more about Schmidt Futures and the other programs that we have outside of the International Strategy Forum?

I would love to know also, Minister, if you have anyone else who you could recommend as potential advisors from Taiwan. As you know, we’re still trying to expand our network and we would love to hear your recommendations. Maybe, you know, the um… This is… I mean…l you’ve just ...

That’s fantastic. I love the pioneering spirit of the radical transparency. As somebody who used to work in government, this is all very fresh to me. I used to work for the Australian government as a foreign service officer, so this is… it’s all very new, which is great.

Anything else from the team? Because otherwise I think I might also… I’d love to hear and learn more about your networks and also your priorities in the region, Minister. Because I think one of the things that we’re trying to do is trying to diversify our reach internationally, but ...

Yeah, I think we’d be comfortable with that, especially if we’re able to anonymize it and not attribute, so that’s great.

Yeah.

I think, you know, in terms of regional convenings with this year, unfortunately we are quite locked out in terms of our timing and scheduling because this starts planning a year before. But for future cooperation opportunities, I would love to talk more about what other capacity we could potentially ...

And I think Taiwan has had such an exceptional example that I don’t think as many people out there realize the impact that you’ve had in recent years. So, I think we would love to hear in that capacity from you as part of our digital programming in particular and ...

No, I mean, just to say that we are very enthusiastic to have you on board and particularly your technical skills, Minister. I know that there’s a lot of people who talk about translating… how do you sort of digitize the process of democracy?

Yeah. Well, I mean, maybe Kyle, you can speak a little bit more of the advisor role and what we might expect this year.

Fantastic. You’re very well prepared, Minister.

We would love to hear about your priorities for Taiwan, especially in the region and internationally in this very interesting time we’re living though. And then we can go into a little bit more detail about the advisor position and what that might entail. Does that sound okay?

So, Johannes, you’ve introduced yourself, but maybe you can tell us a little bit more about what you work on in addition to ISF and then we’ll go to Kyle and Nick and then Andrew.

And so, I might pass it on to some of my other colleagues and introduce them first, but also let them tell you a little bit about the program and the fellows that we’ve had come through and maybe about what we hope to be able to work with you ...

What the program looks like is we have an 11-month, non-residential fellowship, as I mentioned, which starts off the year in a bit of global convening. And then we gather around the world in different regions with regional convenings. And so last year, we had our global convening in February ...

So, the idea of the International Strategy Forum is to bring together technologists and people working in global affairs, public policy, national security together in a forum and doing an 11-month, non-residential fellowship where they can actually learn from each other and grow their networks. With the idea being that ...

So, as you know, the ISF is the International Strategy Forum and it is a part of Schmidt Futures which is a philanthropic initiative of Wendy and Eric Schmidt. So, the whole bet for the initiative is that we solve problems… the hardest problems actually, at the intersection of science ...

Hi, Minister Tang, so lovely to meet you. I have family in Taiwan actually, so I’ve been a big fan of Taiwan for a long time.