▶️Empowering Talents Social Prosperity        ▶️Industrial Interaction         ▶️Social Impact

WPG Holdings actively engaged with industrial associations and established an instant communication service platform by organizing and participating in a variety of activities. This platform assists members in sharing knowledge resources and increasing opportunities for external strategic alliances and partnerships. The company aims to enhance the industrial network position and height of Taiwan's distributors. Leveraging the company's core expertise, WPG Holdings actively assists in promoting various aspects of supply chain management, fulfilling corporate social responsibilities.

In order to cooperate with the supply chain to create environmentally sustainable values, WPG Holdings has participated in climate initiatives and joined the Taiwan Climate Partnership (TCP) as a corporate member, hoping to combine the strengths of all partners to achieve Net Zero Emissions.

Industry Co-Creation

• Taipei Electronic Components Suppliers’ Association “Passing on the Wisdom Lecture”

To promote on-the-job learning for practitioners in the electronic component and distribution industry, and to strengthen the cultivation of talents, as well as to enable the continuous transmission of knowledge and experience in the supply chain and access industry, the Taipei Electronic Components Suppliers’ Association held the “Passing on the Wisdom Lecture.” 

In 2024, we invited outstanding entrepreneurs, business leaders, industry elites, experts, and scholars to share their successful experiences, rich knowledge, and insights. This initiative provided participants with diverse learning opportunities, inspirations, and experiences, resulting in positive gains for their lives and careers. The program also offered a two-way interactive communication platform for knowledge exchange.

• Chinese Management Intelligence Sharing Association (MISA)

Based on the experience transfer as the core value, the Chief Sustainability Officer of WPG Holding, K.D. Tseng, serves as the Chairman of MISA, and a number of veteran entrepreneurs serve as business gurus to pass on management wisdom to growth and transformation business leaders. The MISA Academy planed a rich and diversified management curriculum, and via the “MISA Multimedia Academy,” the online/offline learning leads the entrepreneurs to accelerate the growth of transformation. In 2024, continuing with its original mission, MISA introduces fresh multimedia content, inviting around ten distinguished scholars to create a series of multimedia courses.

By joining the multimedia academy, companies essentially bring the "avatars" of these scholars into their businesses for internal training, with the scholars
sharing their expertise across various fields such as talent organization, service innovation, business management, and workplace skills, allowing MISA to lead viewers into the "Knowledge Metaverse."

Courses Organized in Collaboration with WPG Holdings

•  Taiwan Industrial Holding Association（TIHA）

Since its establishment in 2005, the Taiwan Industrial Holding Association (TIHA) has achieved remarkable business results with its industrial holding management model. In order to share experiences, stimulate management thinking and promote the concept of industrial holding models, the Taiwan Industrial Holding Association (TIHA) was established in 2019, with Chairman Simon Huang of WPG Holdings serving as the first Chairman of TIHA. Through the TIHA, it is hoped to increase the exchange and experience sharing with industry, government, and academia, and to promote more industrial cooperation or various strategic alliances. 

The association regularly collaborates with government departments to advance the development of industry holdings. In August 2024, the association invited Liu Jingqing, the Chairman of the National Development Council, to attend the members' meeting and engage in discussions on industry holding topics. The issue of industry holdings continues to receive attention from the newly appointed Minister of Economic Affairs, Kuo Chih-hui, and Chairman Liu Jingqing of the National Development Council. The association also promotes the industry holding policy by providing recommendations through policy briefs and publications, in line with the government's progress, with the aim of rooting the concept of industry holdings in Taiwan.

The association continues to promote industrial holding knowledge. In 2024, it collaborated with Senior Advisor Jung-Jui Tu and leveraged the practical expertise of members from the Education and Training Committee to publish Industrial Holding Practice. The book was successfully adopted as an elective course in the NTU EMBA program, where enrollment exceeded the quota—highlighting the growing relevance of industrial holding strategies in today's evolving industrial landscape, particularly as companies reevaluate their transformation and upgrade pathways.

Additionally, content from the first season of the podcast channel Industrial Holding Interview Room was compiled into a publication titled The Era of Co-opetition. The book features insightful conversations with M&A attorney Jack J.T. Huang, securities expert Hsien-Hua Huang, and WPG sub-group chairmen K.Y. Chen, K.D. Tseng, Min-Jen Hsu, as well as Chairman Simon Huang. It was distributed to all listed companies in Taiwan as a strategic reference on key success factors in industrial holding. The Association has also seen continued interest from enterprises in joining and currently has the support of 98 companies and 120 members, steadily advancing its mission of helping enterprises grow stronger and achieve mutual success.

Youth Training

WPG Holdings hopes to be a support for young people, providing young people with resources to make themself become the best guider in solving social problems, and continue to promote various youth science and technology competitions, to stimulate young people’s innovative capabilities, and take root for Taiwan’s science education. It also continues to provide scholarship to colleges and universities every year to subsidize the R&D and training of future scientific and technological talents.

Tech Friends Maniac AI Innovation and Application Campus Design Competition

• In 2024, The 2nd Tech Friends Maniac Campus Design Competition
• Reason for Promotion

As AI technology rapidly advances, its applications are becoming increasingly diverse. The "2nd Tech Friends Maniac Campus Design Competition," organized by YOSUN Group and held by WPG Holdings, and co-organized by WPGDADATONG, was created through collaboration between the enterprise and the campus. WPG Holdings hopes to root the corporate brand in the students’ mind and make it the first choice for technology. Meanwhile, it helps students and engineers communicate with each other via the WPGDADATONG platform to achieve a win-win situation.

• Implementation Results

The 2nd Tech Friends Maniac Campus Design Competition saw an increase in participation from the first edition, with 65 teams from 33 schools and a total of 175 participants, compared to 35 teams from the previous year. Through these two campus competition events, WPGDADATONG has built a technology solution knowledge base across university campuses. The original manufacturers also had the opportunity to introduce their latest application products to students, allowing them to engage with these products during their learning stages. Through communication via the WPGDADATONG platform, creativity was sparked among participants, helping students accumulate practical experience while allowing companies to identify suitable newcomers to the workforce. Ultimately, 15 teams were selected for the finals, each receiving NT$10,000 for development expenses, and a total of NT$300,000 in prizes was awarded based on the judges’ results.

• Highlights of Promotion

• Scholarship and Internship Projects

In 2024, WPG Holdings provided scholarships, internship projects and laboratory projects in many universities. It not only encourages young people to study but also provides excellent students with practical experience. At the end of studies, the students may become formal employees; therefore, a win-win situation may be created between WPG Holdings and students.

Note : Thank you letters from students who were awarded the
WPG Holdings scholarship/fellowship for students from
low-income family.

• WPG Holdings scholarship/fellowship for students from low-income family in the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Taipei University of Technology for 14 consecutive years 

Since 2011, the WPG Holdings Education Foundation has offered the “WPG Scholarship” to students from the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of National Taipei University of Technology, offering at least five scholarships each semester in 2024. Through financial support, students from disadvantaged backgrounds will not lose their education due to family hardships or changes and will be able to complete their studies with the support of the community. In order to encourage students to develop their professional abilities, the scholarship program is included in the selection criteria, and it is expected that the scholarship will not only help to alleviate financial hardship, but also become an aid to the beneficiaries in their academic growth.

• Supply Chain Management Program” Industry-Academia Project

WPG Holdings has partnered with the College of Business, National Chengchi University since 2010 to sponsor and support the “Supply Chain Management Industry-Academia Collaboration Project.” As of 2024, the Project has entered its 14th anniversary. The Collaboration aims to organize the knowledge of supply chain management in Taiwan and create a complete set of supply chain management teaching materials and plans, in order to provide supply chain management talents to Taiwan’s industries as the ultimate goal.

The reason why it is difficult to train the supply chain management in academia is that it is a cross-disciplinary management science, and related courses are distributed in various departments of the College of Business.

In consideration of the department’s positioning, it is difficult for any single department to establish a more complete, professional and market demand-oriented academic training program. Therefore, WPG Holdings participated in the student affairs program of the College of Business, National Chengchi University. With the solid market experience of WPG Holdings with the rich business management teaching resources of the College of Business, National Chengchi University, the existing course resources of various departments are integrated to create the emerging courses in line with the supply chain management, i.e. the tailor-made “supply chain management credit program,” to provide supply chain management professionals for Taiwan industries.

• Information Technology Internship Program,” National Yunlin University of Science and Technology and Soochow University

The Information Technology Internship Program has been implemented since 2017 and has been carried out for many years in collaboration with several national universities, including National Chengchi University, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, and National Taipei University of Technology. In 2023, Soochow University joined the program for the first time. WPG Holdings will be able to nurture professionals for the industry, and at the same time, allow students to apply what they have learned in practice, enhance their competitiveness in the workplace, and explore different possibilities and explore themselves through practical experience in the workplace.

WPG Holdings also helps students to identify their future career paths. In 2024, ten IT interns were recruited and five of them were directly transferred to full-time employees after the internship, achieving the goal of campus career integration.