Seoul City to Host 'Seoul Smart City Week' from 12th to 19th... Theme: 'Contactless Society and the Accelerated Future'

Presentation and Discussion on ICT-Based COVID Response Cases in Global Cities Including Seoul, Israel, Singapore, and LA

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on the 7th that it will hold the online '2021 Seoul Smart City Week' from the 12th to the 19th under the theme of 'Contactless Society and the Accelerated Future.'

This year's event focuses on the popularization of 4th Industrial Revolution technologies and has prepared a total of 14 programs including lectures, forums, and roundtable discussions. It is designed so that not only experts but also the MZ generation familiar with digital civilization, as well as people of all ages and genders, can easily and enjoyably engage with the related content.

Seung-gyu Lee, Vice President of SmartStudy, which developed the 'Pinkfong Baby Shark' IP (intellectual property) that ranks first worldwide with 9.4 billion YouTube views, and Jung-young Kim, Head of Business Development at DeepBrain AI, which developed an AI anchor model, will serve as lecturers presenting corporate innovation cases.

Additionally, a lecture in the style of 'Alssulsinjap' jointly planned with 'Sebasi,' a lecture content platform with 1 million YouTube subscribers, is also prepared. There will be lectures that easily explain concepts like blockchain and 5G, which have permeated daily life but remain unfamiliar.

A new concept roundtable applying a metaverse platform will also be introduced. Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon will attend as an avatar for the first time and deliver a welcoming greeting to citizens. Speakers and citizen audiences will all connect as avatars from their respective spaces.

The Seoul Metropolitan Government explained that it extended the 'Seoul Smart City Leaders Forum,' which was held over two days last year, to one week to improve citizens' access to information and arranged program times to be within two hours maximum to enhance the concentration of citizens participating online.

The main programs of Seoul Smart City Week include ▲ 'SSW Insight,' which combines innovative solution cases from digital-related companies and 4th Industrial Revolution technologies in lecture format, and ▲ 'Seoul Smart City Leaders Forum,' consisting of presentations and panel discussions on ICT policies and COVID-19 response cases from domestic and international cities, Sebasi lectures, and a metaverse roundtable.

'SSW Insight' consists of a total of 11 lectures in the corporate and scientific fields. Planners or developers from each company introduce solution cases that have provided citizens with new value through innovations never seen before in the contactless era. Science communicators working to popularize science explain unfamiliar concepts such as blockchain, microgrid, and 5G in an easy-to-understand manner.

The Seoul Smart City Leaders Forum will be held on the 19th (Tuesday) at 4 p.m. at the DDP Seoul ON Studio. It will be broadcast online without an audience via YouTube and the official website. The forum's city session will be held under the theme 'New Challenges in the Pandemic Era, Smart Quarantine,' with participation from Seoul, Israel, Singapore, and LA, where each city will present and discuss ICT-based COVID-19 response cases.

Jong-su Park, Director of Smart City Policy at Seoul Metropolitan Government, said, “We hope that this 'Seoul Smart City Week' will be a time to diagnose the changed society, forecast future directions, and steadily prepare for the new era.”

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