During 2020 and 2021, the pandemic has struck the globe, changing people's lifestyles dramatically, and the daily routine that people were used to has become an unreachable dream.
Although the world is gradually getting on track, the loneliness, isolation, and uncertainty, have resulted in the torture and trauma of people’s mental health undoubtedly, requiring the recovery of the entire society and the policy considering every aspect in order to heal. As a result, we would like to discuss how to face the trauma while confronting such a great change, and retrieve the pace of normal life after recovery.

In the finance industry, corporations have been taking ESG issues and sustainability into considerations when making investment decisions, so as to achieve the maximum social benefit.Impact investing is a more active way of implementing ESG considerations into investing. We would like to help delegates understand that we don't have to choose between the pursuit of profits and sustainability. They can be achieved together.

As we all know, the demographic structure is determined by both birth rate as well as death rate. The decline of both rates nowadays gives rise to the occurrence of aging society and the tendency to have fewer children, which lead to great impacts on the society, economy and moral standards. This year, GIS Taiwan will place emphasis on "smart health" and "long-term care" with an eye to exploring the revolutionary innovation brought by the combination of technology and medicine as well as its future potential. What kinds of technological applications or social mechanism we can expect to assist us when we age? GIS Taiwan hopes delegates could come up with brand new solutions and possibilities for the problems brought by the aging society and therefore influence the world with their enthusiasm, empathy, kindness and wisdom.

From Bitcoin to NFT, the application of blockchain has gradually become a part of people's daily lives and has imperceptibly influenced the way people live. However, its application is by no means limited to finance. The seemingly sophisticated technology is closely related to the lives of ordinary people. The application of blockchain technology in social innovation and placemaking will help solve social problems and revitalize communities.