Swiss Impact with Banerjis

Host - Sveta and Ben Banerjee

Topic: How is Impact Investment in the world of AI and Crypto

Special Guests: Jason Hsu

Chapters:

0:00 Intro

1:32 Opening remarks

7:40 Jason Hsu's bio

How is Impact Investment in Taiwan

11:47 Family Offices and Impact Investment

14:05 Taiwan's role at promoting Impact Investment

17:03 President Tsai Ing-wen and Impact Investment

19:15 High Tech industry's focus on Impact Investment

Artificial Intelligence

22:40 Impact Investment's role on Artificial Intelligence

26:42 Why AI can be used for Impact Investment?

31:00 Blockchain and Cryptocurrency

37:09 Q/A: Thoughts on decentralized banking system

Impact Investment in the New Economy going forward

39:35 Cryptocurrency regulations

44:31 Q/A: Are you invest in cryptocurrency?

45:23 Digital currencies and central banks

50:02 Illegal business in the crypto sector

52:50 Call to action

56:09 Closing remarks

57:07 Outro

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Jason Hsu currently is Chief Initiative Officer at Taiwan AI Labs. With this role he is responsible for creating public awareness on AI bias, ethics, development and regulations. Taiwan AI Labs is a non-profit foundation that focuses on building AI solutions for advancing humanity. From 2016 to 2020 he served as Legislator At-Large in Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan (national parliament) overseeing technology policy, development, entrepreneurship and innovation. Among the crucial legislations that he authors and sponsors include FinTech Regulatory Sandbox Act, Selfdriving Vehicles Act, Angel Investment Law, Cybersecurity Management Act and Virtual Currency Guidelines (Security Token Offerings), Artificial Intelligence Development Act, Digital Economy Principle Act, Same Sex Marriage Act. Jason is a proponent for cryptocurrency and blockchain. Known as Crypto Congressman, Jason is credited for setting up Asia Blockchain Alliance (ABA),Taiwan Parliamentary Coalition for Blockchain(TPCB) and Self-Regulatory Organization(SRO). Legislator Hsu is in charge of setting up Council on AI, Law and Ethics. Concerning impact investment, Legislator Hsu amended Corporation Law to include Beneficial Cooperation and allow Impact Investment. Legislator Hsu also founded Indo-Pacific Cybersecurity Alliance under auspices of US State Department’s Global Training Framework Workshop with ICT Ministers from 15 countries. In 2019 Jason Hsu led Taiwan’s parliament with bipartisan effort to pass same sex marriage law, which is the first in Asia.

A regular keynote speaker on blockchain and cryptocurrency regulations, Jason has spoken at Global Blockchain Forum, BlockCity, Seamless Asia, World Economic Forum (WEF) Center for Industry 4.0, Google, G20 Summit in Osaka, Berkeley Blockchain Club and Taiwan RegTech Conference, Asia Leadership Summit, World Knowledge Forum, Harvard Law School’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet, Yale’s Jackson Institute of Global Affairs. Jason is a founding member of Global Blockchain Policy Council.

Jason Hsu co-founded TEDxTaipei in 2009 and served as TEDx senior ambassador to Asia from 2011~2015. Hsu graduates from Singularity University’s executive program with a focus on exponential technology. He is a Draper Hills Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Democracy Development and Rule of Law(CDDRL). He’s also selected as an IVLP (International Visitor Leadership Program) fellow by U.S. State Department in 2019. He is invited as a Senior Fellow at Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School in 2022.