Information Award:

Dr. Chung-Ming Kuan
Distinguished Research Fellow and Director, Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica.
Professor at large, National Chengchi University
Professor (Joint Appointment), Department and Graduate Institute of Finance, National Taiwan University.
Professor (Joint Appointment), Department and Graduate Institute of Economics National Taiwan University.
Director of Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica
http://www.sinica.edu.tw/as/ssrc/ckuan/index-e.html

Keynote Speakers:

CIEF

Dr. Jonathan Feistein
Professor of Economics, Yale University, School of Management
Topic: The Distinctiveness of Individuals: Using Knowledge Structures To Represent Research Focuses; the Field of Stem Cell Research
http://www.jonathanfeinstein.com/ 

FTT

Dr. Ronald R. Yager
Fellow of the IEEE
Director of the Machine Intelligence Institute
Professor of Information and Decision Technologies at Iona College
Topic: Fuzzy Methods for Intelligent Information Systems

CVPRIP

Professor Hong Yan FIEEE, FIAPR, FIEAust
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)
Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia (IEAust)
member of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
Topic: Pattern Recognition Techniques for DNA Microarray Data Analysis
http://www.ee.cityu.edu.hk/~hpyan/ 

Invited Speaker:

Dr. Chien-Fu Jeff Lin
Professor of Economics, College of Social Science, National Taiwan University
Topic: How to become a master of collecting financial data
http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~clin