Keynote Speaker at Young Practitioners Forum in Taipei, Taiwan; Awarded to the team from Zhongshan Medical University

Keynote speaker at Young Practitioners Forum in Taipei; award presented to team from Zhongshan Medical University

2026/01/22

Young Practitioners Forum 2026 Implementation Report

Leave a Nest to Present Riverness Award for Keynote and Poster Presentations

Event Summary

Event NameYoung Practitioners Forum
date(s) (e.g. for exhibition): January 17, 2026
venueTaipei Nangang Bottle Cap Factory 13+ (Taipei, Taiwan)
organizingHarbor Angel Group
webThe "M" in "M" is a combination of "M" and "A":https://obla.harbor.tw/en/

The Young Practitioners Forum is an international forum that encourages young practitioners to put their ideas into action and implement them in society. The Forum was held as a place for the next generation of practitioners to share challenges and create new value while connecting companies, universities, and society.

Keynote Speech (Liverness Corporation)

Keynote speaker from Liverness, Inc. Shuichiro Takahashi(President and COO), ,Nami Akinaga (Strategic Development Division)took the stage.

Mr. Takahashi spoke about the idea behind the founding of LIVERNESS, which is to value the interests and questions of each of the next generation of researchers and to create a world where they can continue their research. As a concrete example of his efforts, he introduced the "Rivanes", a place for young researchers to present and refine their own questions, and the "Rivanes", a place for researchers to share their research results with each other. Science Castle The following is a brief introduction to the program. Furthermore, for entrepreneurs who are pursuing research in depth and taking on the challenge of social implementation and commercialization,TECH PLANTER Through a place called "The World's First Research Center", we are providing a full range of services from commercialization support to capital investment. We shared the story of how we have built an ecosystem to bring the seeds of our research to society.

Akinaga then continued with the theme of "Strengthening the Connection between Japan and Taiwan" and beyond to 2025. Various activities promoted in cooperation with the Harbor Angel Groupintroduced the following. Through these efforts, he shared that some Japanese companies are beginning to show interest in collaborating with Taiwan. In his speech, he noted that while both Japan and Taiwan have strengths in research and manufacturing, Taiwan also has a spirit of autonomy, with its own entrepreneurial spirit, and that Japan has much to learn from Taiwan. With this background in mind, the concept of the "Japan-Taiwan Joint Venture" will be discussed beyond fields and positions to create a new type of collaboration in FY2026. HIC Taiwan, the Association of Hyperdifferent Fields to be held for the first time.

Poster Presentation: Awarding of the Liverness Prize

The poster presentation was awarded the Riverness Award for "Mobile Systems to Support the Lives of Parkinson's Disease Patients and the Elderly".

This study is,Undergraduate students at Zhongshan Medical UniversityThis project is promoted by the "Gait and Falls" project, which proposes a system to support daily life by detecting abnormalities in gait and falls and alerting the user. The presenter's own original experience was behind the research theme, and his development of the research with the involvement of his team members, starting from that desire, was highly evaluated.

The Young Practitioners Forum's objective is not only technical perfection, but also the expansion of efforts together with peers based on an individual's awareness of the issues at hand.

Future Development: Hyperdifferential Conference Taiwan (HIC Taiwan)

Based on the content of the presentations and discussions, Liberace will further accelerate collaboration across disciplines and borders. As part of this effort,April 24, 2026indicates such things as location of person or thing, location of short-term action, etc. HIC Taiwan, the Association of Hyperdifferent Fields will be held for the first time.

Through this competition, RIVERNESS aims to build a new ecosystem where research, technology, and human resources are connected across borders by crossing the strengths of Japan and Taiwan. We look forward to your participation!

- Date: April 24, 2026
- Venue: National Taiwan University (NTU)
- Poster deadline: March 24, 2026
- Web site:https://hic.lne.st/schedule/tw2026/

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