Purpose of competition

Seeing the trend of automation, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and robots, rapidly spread to countries around the world, and facing the challenges of emerging technologies in the future, Taiwan is currently implementing the "5+2 Industry Innovation Plan" to drive comprehensive industrial innovation. In addition, in response to the needs of industries for digital and intelligent transformation, a full range of relevant talent cultivation (training) plans have been launched. Starting from school education, on-the-job training and employee training, to general AI talents, the "Industry Professional Assessment System" was expanded to closely link training courses to the workplace, and various measures such as the “Digital Innovation & Governance Initiative (DIGI+)” and the “AI Taiwan Action Plan” were launched to enhance the smart technology application skills of industry talents. These endeavors aim to reduce the threat that automation brings to the labor market while welcoming new job opportunities created by new technologies.
Since the release of ChatGPT at the end of 2022, it has attracted more than 100 million active users around the world in just two months, driving a new production method of using generative AI to automatically create content. Given that generative AI has changed how people work and how businesses operate, this trend of generative AI is expected to have a deeper impact on industrial development.
The competition provide trainings for industry AI professionals, with AI as the core focus, to cultivate industry AI technology integration and innovative application talents, in order to meet the demand on industrial talent. Regarding the industry AI talent cultivation model, we encourage cross-disciplinary teams to think openly about the AI needs within industries and companies from the bottom up when facing the popularization of AI, improving the issues faced by the industry by designing AI solutions, and promoting the adoption of AI technology. We will simultaneously carry out learning and training activities to enhance the capabilities of domestic AI talent and accelerate the pace of making industries smarter.

Eligibility

I. This is a team competition with 2-10 people in each team. Duplicate team registration is not allowed, and each team must have one representative. However, the representative must be a citizen of the Republic of China (R.O.C.) and have a permanent address registered in the R.O.C. The representative is responsible for contacting the organizer, confirming competition documents, and other competition-related processes. The team representative (individual) receives awards on behalf of the team.
II. If any team members are under 20 years old, they must obtain the consent of their legal representative before they may participate.
III. Problem-solving teams are not allowed to participate in the AI+ Rising Star Competition under the AI Application Service Development Environment Promotion Project at the same time. Violators will be disqualified from both competitions.

Contest Topic

I. This competition is open to propositions, and problem-solving teams are asked to focus on application topics related to "generative AI" (for example: internal AI database of companies - generative chatbot, but not limited to such application proposals). Problem-solving teams must make a joint proposal with their partnering requesting unit (must be a company or government agency), and team are encouraged to use Taiwan’s large language model during implementation.
II. Problem-solving teams may submit up to two proposals. Please avoid duplicate technology applications in the two proposals.
III. The proposal must be a clear proposal related to the topic of this competition, a project that has not yet commenced tendering procedures, and must not have applied for government budgets.

Registration Process

I. All times of the process are estimated times. The final schedule shall be based on the announcement on the website. The organizer and executing organizer reserve the right to adjust the schedule based on actual needs. ( Competition website: aitalents.tca.org.tw/ )

Prizes

I. The prize is divided into three levels: "Gold award", "Silver award" and "Bronze award," and the rest are honorable mentions.

II. Any disputes or questions regarding the division of labor or distribution of rights and interests within the proposal team (such as bonus collection and distribution) shall be handled by the team on its own. The organizer and executing organizer will not interfere or get involved in disputes and rulings, such as division of labor or distribution of rights and interests within the team.
III. Award winners must pay taxes in accordance with the tax laws of the R.O.C., and must fill out and submit in accordance with regulations before they may collect the prize. Failure to cooperate will be deemed to have abandoned the right.

Important Notes

I. The requesting units and problem-solving teams participating in this competition are deemed to have agreed to the competition must knows and rules. In the event of any dispute, the organizer and executing organizer reserve the right of final interpretation. In the event of any violation, the organizer and executing organizer have the right to disqualify the violator and recover the prize and award, and may make an announcement. If any violation of the competition must knows damages the rights and interests of the organizer, executing organizer, or any other third party, the violator shall be liable for damages.
II. The awards may be flexibly allocated by the panel of judges based on the level of the work and the actual situation. If necessary, awards may be "adjusted" or "increased or vacated."
III. The works entered into the competition and the content provided must comply with laws related to copyright, patent rights, trademark rights, portrait rights, privacy rights, and personal data protection. If third party rights are involved, legal authorization from the rights holder must be obtained. Plagiarism, counterfeiting, or other infringement of the rights of others is prohibited. The problem-solving team will bear all legal liabilities if it is found or reported to have violated the competition must knows, made untrue statements, or infringed on the rights of others. The organizer and executing organizer reserve the right to postpone the announcement of award winners until it is confirmed that there is no such disputes over rights; or if the objector or rights holder fails to file for a remedy with the competent authority or court in accordance with the law for more than one month after becoming aware of the infringement, or withdraws the claim after filing.
IV. If the works entered in the competition are confirmed to infringe on the rights of others by the competent authority or through litigation procedures, the organizer and executing organizer may disqualify the award winner and recover the prize.
V. The intellectual property rights of the research and development results completed by the problem-solving team, submitted works, proposal, proposal briefs, case closure reports, and case closure brief belong to the problem-solving team. However, the problem-solving team must agree to authorize the organizer and executing organizer to use its research and development results, submitted works, proposal, proposal brief, case closure report, and case closure brief free of charge for the purpose of promoting this event  without any constraints on region and in a non-profit manner, including but not limited to taking or providing relevant photos and videos to record relevant activities, and using, editing, printing, displaying, publicizing, reporting, publishing, or disclosing their results in the competition, personal portraits, names, and voices. Where slander of moral rights is not involved, problem-solving teams may not exercise moral rights against the organizer and executing organizer. VI. Based on the administrative management involved in the implementation/handling of this project, registration management, notification and contact, activity information release, prize disbursement, questionnaire survey, statistical analysis, or other activity information provided by the project’s executing organizer, the organizer and executing organizer may collect, process and use the personal information of problem-solving team members.
VII. All members of the problem-solving team must provide detailed personal information and may not impersonate or misappropriate any third party's information. If there are any untrue or incorrect information, the organizer and executing organizer may disqualify the applicant from participating in the evaluation and winning awards. All members of the problem-solving team shall bear the legal liabilities for any damages to the rights and interests of the organizer, executing organizer, or any other third party.
VIII. In accordance with Article 3 of the Personal Data Protection Act, members of the problem-solving team may make requests to the organizer and executing organizer to inquire, request copies, supplement or correct, or cease collection, processing or use of personal information provided for this competition, and may also request that the personal information be deleted, except for information that must be retained according to law. If this affects the rights to participate in the evaluation or win awards, members shall be solely responsible.
IX. The requesting unit and the problem-solving team agree to maintain the confidentiality of the trade secrets and other confidential information of the organizer, executing organizer, or other parties (including requesting units) that they learn or hold due to participation in this competition, and shall neither leak or disclose it to any third party in any way, nor use the information for their own benefit or that of others. In the event of a a violation of this confidentiality agreement, the organizer and the executing organizer have the right to terminate cooperation, disqualify the violator from participating in the evaluation or winning awards, and recover the prize. Violators shall also be liable for damages. Violations by employees shall also be deemed as a violation by the team. 
X. If the requesting unit expressly provides a confidentiality agreement or other cooperation matters in the problem, the problem-solving team's application for problem solving will be deemed as agreeing to the conditions provided by the requesting unit.
XI. All teams that are selected must cooperate with the organizer and the executing organizer in evaluation, commendation, subsidies, and media interviews and reports, and must cooperate with the organizer and the executing organizer in follow-up performance tracking.
XII. The team representative (individual) must collect the award on behalf of the team. The representative must be a citizen of the R.O.C. and have a permanent address registered in the R.O.C.
XIII. Award winners must pay taxes in accordance with the tax laws of the R.O.C., and must fill out and submit in accordance with regulations before they may collect the prize. Failure to cooperate will be deemed to have abandoned the right.
XIV. Any disputes or questions regarding the division of labor or distribution of rights and interests within the problem-solving team (such as bonus collection and distribution) shall be handled by the team on its own. The organizer and executing organizer will not get involved in disputes.
XV. Problem-solving teams are not allowed to participate in the AI+ Rising Star Competition under the AI Application Service Development Environment Promotion Project at the same time. Violators will be disqualified from both competitions.
XVI. The rights and obligations of this competition may not be transferred without the written approval of the organizer, executing organizer, and other team members.
XVII. Problem-solving teams that participate in this competition and pass the problem-solving qualification review must agree to give the requesting unit priority for technologies or services. Requesting units may not use technologies or services of the problem-solving team without consent from the problem-solving team for cooperation. The proposals and briefs of problem-solving teams participating in this competition may not be used without the consent of the organizer and executing organizer.
XVIII. This competition allocates quotas for each award based on the annual subsidy budget of the competent authority. If necessary, the quota for the winning team may be vacated or added.
XIX. If the problem-solving team engages in inappropriate behavior, remarks, or makes false accusations against the competition, the competition reserves the right to disqualify the problem-solving team from competing and winning awards.
XX. The schedule and activity information of this competition shall be subject to the announcement on the event website. Matters not specified in the competition mechanism may be adjusted according to the actual situation and announced or supplemented on the project website. The project office retains the right of final interpretation and the right to change and terminate the competition.
XXI. The organizer and executing organizer reserve the right of final interpretation of the competition must knows and the interpretation and application of various rules. Any disputes will be handled in accordance with the laws of the R.O.C., and Taiwan Taipei District Court shall be the court of first instance.
XXII. If there are any matters not covered in the competition must knows, unless otherwise stipulated by the law, the organizer and executing organizer reserve the right to modify and supplement (including postponing the competition, terminating the competition, or adjusting the competition mechanism). Please refer to the announcement on the website of this competition.

Competition contact person

Taipei Computer Association (TCA)
Optimization Service Group, Smart Industry Service Center
Ms. Zhang
Email: jen_chang@mail.tca.org.tw Tel: (02) 2570-6337 #9925

For more information, please see: 2024 AI Application Intelligence Competition Website: aitalents.tca.org.tw/Home/ContestDescription