Connecting Canada startups with Taiwan: Q&A with Jordan Reeves, executive director of Canadian Trade Office in Taipei

The Canadian Trade Office in Taipei is endeavoring to accelerate collaboration between Canadian startups and Taiwanese companies. Canada’s AI strength and car-manufacturing prowess and Taiwan’s competitiveness in ICT hardware manufacturing are complementary and have great potential to create synergies.

Jordan Reeves, executive director of the Canadian Trade Office in Taipei, explained in a recent interview by Digitimes how his office is forging ties to benefit both Canda and Taiwan.

Q: We learned that the Canadian Trade Office in Taipei has a new project to introduce Canada’s startups to Taiwanese companies. Could you share the purpose of the project and explain why Taiwan has suddenly become important for Canadian companies?