How Experts Actually Use AI
How Industry Experts Use AI to Enhance Their Work
Personal, practical perspectives beyond generic AI workflows
Taiwan AI Startups Community is an IRL-first community bringing together founders, engineers, researchers, students, and operators who are actively building and using AI in Taiwan. The community exists to create a clear meeting point for Taiwan’s AI ecosystem — connecting people across disciplines and stages, and focusing on real experience over theory or hype.
For our first public event, we’re exploring a simple but grounded question:
How do individual experts actually use AI in their own work today?
Rather than presenting end-to-end “AI workflows for an industry,” this session focuses on personal usage: how AI fits into daily thinking, research, product building, and decision-making — and where its limits still are.
Speakers will share:
How AI supports their individual work in practice
Where it creates real leverage, and where it doesn’t
Trade-offs, constraints, and lessons learned from real usage
How individual practices may scale into broader impact
Speakers
Ben Sadeghi — Founder perspective
Ben is an ex–Y Combinator founder and CTO with a background spanning large-scale data systems, AI, and startups. He is currently building omoomi, an offline-first, privacy-aware AI companion designed to support learning and human connection. Ben will share how founders use AI as a thinking partner and product-shaping tool, beyond simple automation.
Gareth Kennedy, PhD — Research & applied AI perspective
Gareth originally worked as a scientist in Australia, Spain, Germany and China and transitioned into AI in industry in Shanghai. Since then, he established and led a team safeguarding AI using MLOps for government and enterprises in Deloitte Australia while maintaining industry-academia positions at an astrophysics center of excellence and 2 universities. He has published papers and spoken internationally on the application of AI in science and is currently building a startup around these ideas.
Who This Event Is For
Founders and operators building with AI
Researchers and engineers using AI for deep work
Students and professionals looking for practical insight
Anyone curious about how people actually work with AI today
Format:
Panel discussion followed by networking
產業專家如何運用 AI 提升工作效能
從個人實踐出發，而非制式化的 AI 工作流程
Taiwan AI Startups Community 是一個以實體活動為核心的社群，聚集在台灣實際從事 AI 建置與應用的創業者、工程師、研究者、學生與產業從業者。社群的目標是成為台灣 AI 生態系中一個清楚的交流節點，促進跨領域、跨角色的連結，並聚焦於真實經驗與實務應用。
在第一場對外公開活動中，我們將聚焦一個簡單但關鍵的問題：
產業專家在日常工作中，實際是如何使用 AI 的？
本場活動不討論制式化的「某產業 AI 工作流程」，而是從個人角度出發，探討 AI 如何實際融入思考、研究、產品開發與決策過程，以及它目前的限制在哪裡。
講者將分享：
AI 在他們個人工作中的實際使用方式
AI 真正帶來價值的地方，以及不適合使用的情境
實務應用中的取捨、限制與經驗反思
個人實踐如何擴大為更具影響力的應用
講者
Ben Sadeghi — 創業者觀點
Ben 是一位創辦人與 CTO，擁有橫跨大型資料系統、AI 與新創的背景。目前他正在打造 omoomi，一個以隱私與離線體驗為核心的 AI 夥伴產品，專注於學習與人際連結。Ben 將分享創業者如何將 AI 作為思考夥伴與產品塑造工具，而不只是自動化手段。
Gareth Kennedy 博士 — 研究與應用 AI 觀點
Gareth 最初以科學家身分於澳洲、西班牙、德國與中國工作，並在上海轉入產業界，開始從事 AI 相關應用。此後，他在德勤澳洲成立並領導團隊，為政府與企業建置以 MLOps 為核心的 AI 治理與安全機制，同時持續在天文物理卓越研究中心及兩所大學擔任產學合作職位。他曾發表多篇論文，並於國際場合分享 AI 在科學研究中的應用，目前正以這些理念為基礎打造一間新創公司。
適合參加對象
正在使用或打造 AI 產品的創業者與經營者
將 AI 作為深度工作工具的研究者與工程師
對 AI 實際應用有興趣的學生與專業人士
想了解「人們實際如何使用 AI 工作」的你
活動形式
座談討論，接續自由交流