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Audrey Tang
2025 Right Livelihood Laureate | Taiwan's First Digital Minister & Cyber Ambassador-at-Large | Pioneer of Digital Democracy & AI Governance
Audrey Tang reshaped what democratic governance can look like in the digital age. As Taiwan's first Digital Minister and current Cyber Ambassador-at-large, they built the global blueprint for AI-powered civic participation. A 2025 Right Livelihood Laureate and TIME AI100 honoree, they are the world's most credible voice on technology, democracy, and trust.
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Audrey Tang biography
Audrey Tang is one of the most consequential figures at the intersection of technology, democracy, and public governance in the world today. Taiwan’s first Minister of Digital Affairs (2022–2024) — and before that, minister without portfolio for digital issues since 2016 — they spent nearly a decade building what is now recognized globally as the “Taiwan Model”: a framework for participatory, transparent, and AI-enabled governance that governments across Asia, Europe, and the Americas are actively adapting. They currently serve as Taiwan’s Cyber Ambassador-at-large, expanding this playbook to international audiences and institutions.
Speaker Audrey Tang is internationally recognized for turning some of the thorniest challenges in digital governance into scalable, replicable solutions. They declared broadband a human right, co-created the Mask Map app that coordinated Taiwan’s celebrated COVID-19 pandemic response, launched vTaiwan — a participatory deliberation platform since adopted in Japan, the United States, and the European Union — and led Taiwan’s defense against sophisticated foreign disinformation campaigns during the 2024 presidential elections. As a founding contributor to g0v, the civic-tech collective that pioneered government transparency tools in Taiwan, Tang has consistently demonstrated that open-source principles and democratic governance are not in tension but mutually reinforcing.
2025 Right Livelihood Award & Global Recognition
Tang’s contributions have earned recognition at the highest levels. In 2023, TIME named them one of its “100 Most Influential People in AI.” In December 2025, they received the Right Livelihood Award — often called the “Alternative Nobel” — for pioneering the use of frontier technology to advance digital democracy with ethics and transparency. They co-launched ROOST (Robust Open Online Safety Tools) at the 2025 Paris AI Summit and serve on the Accelerator Fellowship Programme at Oxford’s Institute for Ethics in AI.
A child prodigy who mastered advanced mathematics before age six and programming before eight, Tang dropped out of junior high school at fourteen and, by nineteen, was working as an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. A classically trained musician and self-described “conservative anarchist,” they bring a rare blend of technical depth, civic philosophy, and optimism to every stage.
As an AI speaker, Audrey Tang offers senior audiences something increasingly rare: a proven, evidence-based vision for how technology can strengthen democracy rather than erode it. Drawing on real-world deployments — not theory — they equip policymakers, executives, and innovators with the frameworks, tools, and mindset to build more resilient, participatory institutions. Their keynotes are intellectually rigorous, deeply humanistic, and consistently described as among the most memorable at major global forums. To book Audrey Tang for your event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
Audrey Tang Speaking Videos
Audrey Tang: Taiwan's First Digital Minister on Innovation and Democracy
Audrey Tang: The Power of Collective Intelligence
Audrey Tang Keynote Topics
Governments and institutions worldwide face a shared challenge: AI is reshaping public life faster than democratic systems can respond. Drawing on their tenure as Taiwan's Digital Minister and their ongoing work as Cyber Ambassador-at-large, Audrey Tang maps the tools, platforms, and governance principles that allowed Taiwan to build — and sustain — public trust through open, participatory technology. From real-time pandemic coordination to AI-assisted deliberation and election security, this keynote offers a rare combination: real-world evidence that technology and democracy can reinforce each other, and a practical framework for replicating it. Attendees leave with a clear understanding of what trustworthy digital governance actually looks like in practice.
The dominant narrative around AI presents a binary choice: centralized control or unchecked disruption. Audrey Tang rejects both. In this visionary keynote, they introduce the concept of Plurality — a framework for building digital systems that are open, interoperable, and designed to deepen collaboration across differences rather than amplify division. Drawing on vTaiwan, g0v, and other civic-tech deployments, they illustrate how bridging algorithms and participatory platforms can turn political conflict into productive co-creation. For leaders navigating the governance of AI, this session provides an intellectual foundation and a set of actionable principles for building technology that serves collective intelligence rather than fragmenting it.
Disinformation, cyberattacks, and AI-generated manipulation are not hypothetical threats — they are the daily operating environment for Taiwan, one of the world's most targeted democracies. In this keynote, Audrey Tang draws on concrete experience defending Taiwan's elections, countering state-sponsored disinformation, and building public media literacy at scale to equip audiences with a practical resilience framework. They examine how open-source tools, radical transparency, and community-based fact-checking create defenses that top-down content moderation cannot match — and what organizations, governments, and platforms can learn from Taiwan's approach. An essential session for any audience operating in an environment of information complexity and institutional distrust.
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FAQs on Booking Audrey Tang
Why Audrey Tang?
Booking Audrey Tang is a statement about the kind of conversation you want your event to spark. They are not a commentator on digital democracy — they are its most credible architect. As Taiwan's first Digital Minister and current Cyber Ambassador-at-large, they built and stress-tested real governance systems under real geopolitical pressure: defending elections against foreign interference, coordinating a nationally acclaimed pandemic response, and deploying AI-driven participatory tools now being adapted by governments in Japan, the EU, and the United States. Their 2025 Right Livelihood Award and TIME AI100 recognition place them among the most decorated public technologists alive. On stage, they combine intellectual rigor with rare accessibility — making complex systems thinking actionable for audiences of policymakers, executives, and innovators alike. If your event addresses AI, governance, democracy, digital transformation, or the future of institutions, Audrey Tang belongs on your stage. Contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to explore availability.
What is the "Taiwan Model" that Audrey Tang pioneered?
The "Taiwan Model" refers to Taiwan's approach to digital governance — a set of practices combining open-source civic technology, participatory deliberation platforms, and AI-assisted policy tools to build trust between government and citizens. Key elements include vTaiwan (a digital deliberation platform), the g0v civic-tech community, real-time pandemic coordination tools, and election security measures deployed against disinformation. The model has been internationally recognized for demonstrating that digital technology can deepen, rather than undermine, democratic participation. Governments and civic organizations in Japan, the United States, and the European Union have begun adapting its methods to their own contexts.
What is Audrey Tang's book Plurality about?
Plurality — co-authored with Glen Weyl and developed as an open, collaborative project — makes the case for a new paradigm of technology design grounded in diversity and democratic collaboration rather than concentration of power. It argues that technology built around pluralist principles can bridge societal divides, strengthen institutions, and create new forms of collective intelligence. The book and the broader Plurality movement represent Tang's intellectual framework for how AI and digital infrastructure should be governed to serve humanity rather than fragment it.
What topics does digital democracy speaker Audrey Tang cover?
Audrey Tang's keynotes cover digital democracy and participatory governance, AI policy and ethics, disinformation and election security, civic technology and open-source governance, the future of collective intelligence, and the global applicability of Taiwan's democratic innovation model. Their sessions are particularly valuable for audiences in government, financial services, healthcare, media, and any sector grappling with the governance implications of AI. They adapt each keynote to the specific industry and audience context. To discuss the best fit for your event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
How to book Audrey Tang as a keynote speaker?
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