TaipeiFuhsingPrivateSchool
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Theme: Off the Wall

This event occurred on
January 26, 2019
Taipei, Taipei
Taiwan

"Off the Wall" serve as the spirit to challenge the status quo, break traditions, and exceed your limitations. In our daily lives, the spirit of "Off the Wall" exist within individuals, between human and environment, human and society. We hope this event can inspire, challenge our audience and take them out of their comfort zone and become the pioneers in their career.

TEDxtaipeifushingprivateschool
No. 262, Section 1, Dunhua South Road, Da’an District, Taipei City, 106
Taipei, Taipei, 110
Taiwan
Event type:
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Speakers

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Ahan Tseng

YouTuber
Ahan, a well-known YouTuber, is famous for the funny video about french fries. Though Ahan loves to make funny faces, his inner heart is very rich. Ahan has his own unique observations for various types of people. He will create some new characters in his videos base on the daily life observations. After the sudden fame, the invitations are constantly being sent. Although the brokerage agreement has been signed, many sponsored activities (sponsored post) that can make money are rejected because he feels that he has not found his position yet. He wants to think carefully before starting to stand firm in the ever-changing network system. Mr. Ahan is an ambitious and thoughtful young man who is not afraid of "change". Making good use of the trend of the times to open the eyes for many young people who have never been imagined in the past, he is expected to open up different possibilities for himself and his fans through his speech.

Andy Wang

general partner, Bonsai VC
Andy Wang, the general partner of Bonsai VC. He joins the investments in Israel and keeps trying to upgrade and build up the idea of creativity in the society. Furthermore, he often went back to his alma mater to share his idea of using efficient ways to discover yourself and your potential. During his school years, he couldn't fit in the community, especially the problem of catching up the school works, so he hoped to find or to create a way, to help his studies and suits not only him but also for everyone surrounds him. In his college year, he started creating the GIP model- He called it as a model of success and is suitable for every group of people. Now, he even put his GIP into what he loves and what he is passionate of. He starts his businesses in Israel and aims his goal. However, he isn't satisfied with the result, so he decides to travel back to Taiwan and shares his idea of GIP to every single person. He is looking forward for something bigger and more challenging.

Annabelle Mou

Student
Annabelle Mou, a 18 years old student who traveled to France alone as an exchange student. At first, she is unfamiliar with the environment, the culture, and the linguistic difference in France. As Annabelle overcame the obstacles and tried to approached others, she easily adapted to the environment and make the entire France her comfort zone. As a student in Fuhsing, she is willing to share her experience in France to the audience. Moreover, Annabelle tried to use her story to inspire more students to step out their comfort zone and experience new life.

Helen Lee

Coach
Helen Lee, currently work at Taipei Fuhsing Private School as a volleyball coach, is also an Asian Game participant. She started playing volley ball in third grade. Her extraordinary athletic ability got her into a sport specialty school. She revived formal training to become a professional athlete at the school. During her college years, she tried many different sports, activities, including kabaddi and canoe. During 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, Ms. Lee representing Chinese Taipei, received a bronze medal in canoe polo.

Hsiu Wei Chan

Founder of Otto2 Art Institution
Chan Hsiu Wei, the founder of Otto2 academy ,advocates the significance of art education. She strongly believes happiness could be simple to achieved. When witnessing how her son lost interest and joy in learning after entering elementary school, she realizes how the traditional Taiwanese teaching method, which highly values grades and obedience, could possibly destroy a child. Thus, her son's experience inspired her to create an art academy that could break the conventional teaching style. As an professor, educator, and most importantly a mother, when teaching, she tries to put herself in children's perspective. Through participating in activities such as drawing and creating, children can find back their long lost confidence and joy. Today, there are multiple Otto2 academies in Taiwan and Shanghai.

Jennifer Tsen

Founder of Cloudset
Jennifer Tsen, the founder of Cloudset, which is the first boutique rental platform in Taiwan, proposes her central idea of “renting instead of buying”. Her family's background of working in fashion industry triggers her interest and helps her develop a great sensitivity for fashion. Seeing people’s daily problems with their clothings- closet stuffed with all kinds of clothes, resulting in less space in houses; buying clothes from new collection to follow up the current fashion trend but wears only one time; wearing fast fashion clothes because of lacking spare money to wear boutique clothing, she began her life as an entrepreneur. At the end of 2017, Cloudset was found by Jennifer and her friends, she hopes that Cloudset can solve people’s daily problems, at the same time effectively reduce the waste of resources, and thus, the pollution made by fashion industry will decrease.

Madeline Wu

Producer
Madeline Wu, a member work for Public Television. Her interests toward film and video productions began when she was little. She majored in Chinese and was graduated from National Taiwan University. However, she wanted to learn more about filming and video production, therefore, she decided to travel to U.S. despite the fact that she didn't even know how to speak English.Later on, she went back to Taiwan and was eager to bring the compelling new ideas she had learned in the US. She then joined the Public Television and proposed a lot of new and creative ideas of videos and filming, but no one supported her at first. After experiencing several obstacles, finally, she succeed in 2012- she won the Golden Bell Award. Her production started making audience to reflect about themselves. Now, she continues working on her new program, On Children, a drama about Taiwan’s education system. It is the first Taiwanese drama bought by Netflix- her idea is then able to be introduced to the world.

Taylor Lee

Writer
Taylor is hailed as an outstanding writer who rose in the 2000s. With determination and courage, she went to a foreign land to study for college. In the face of heavy rains academic studies and unfamiliar environment, she still maintains to record her life by words with no burden. Even after being famous, she is able to adjust and convert her life and responsibilities. By combing various words and phrases, her mood and feelings are manifested; in Taylor’s meticulous words, she shows her unique, personal, and warm style, but never evade the inner joy and mourning. Taylor’s works have lit the light of the readers’ hearts, letting the lost and floating souls return to our bodies again. We are looking forward to what kind of planning for future writings can be shared with everyone.

Organizing team

Hannah
Chung

Taipei, Taiwan
Organizer

Theresa J.
Chen

Taipei, Taiwan
Co-organizer
  • Iain Li
    Production