Seoul Institute, Big Data International Forum on 'Solving Urban Problems with Digital Technology' on 24-25

Jointly Hosted by Seoul Institute and 4 Investment and Funded Institutions with Seoul City
Exploring Solutions to Urban Problems Using Digital Technologies Such as Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Metaverse

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] The Seoul Institute announced on the 21st that it will hold the '2021 Seoul Big Data Forum' on the 24th and 25th at the multipurpose hall on the 8th floor of Seoul City Hall, under the theme 'Challenges and Future of Cities After the Pandemic.'

This event will feature keynote speeches by world-renowned big data scholars, including Professor Alex Sandy Pentland from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Professor Bin Jiang from the University of Yeble.

The forum will be held over two days with a total of six sessions. On the 24th, the sessions will proceed in the order of ▲Challenges and Future of Cities in the Post-COVID Era ▲Changes and Responses in Metropolitan Living After COVID-19 ▲Paradigm Shift in Urban Management Based on Artificial Intelligence. On the 25th, the sessions will cover ▲Metaverse City Seoul: Urban Changes and Responses Brought by Digital Transformation Technologies ▲Urban Inequality and Gaps in the COVID Era Seen Through Data ▲Potential and Role of Big Data After COVID-19.

This event, held non-face-to-face, will be broadcast live through the forum's official YouTube channel, and any citizens interested in big data and smart cities can watch it. Those wishing to participate online can check event information and pre-register through the 2021 Seoul Big Data Forum website.

Park Jong-su, Director of Smart City Policy at Seoul City, stated, “Seoul City is continuously promoting objective data-based administration by developing and publicly releasing living population and mobility data, and reflecting big data analysis results in COVID-19 quarantine measures. As big data is becoming a key clue not only in the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution but also during the COVID-19 phase, I hope this forum will provide an opportunity to discuss various uses of big data.”

Yu Ki-young, Acting President of the Seoul Institute, said, “It has been three years since the Seoul Institute, Seoul City, University of Seoul, Seoul Digital Foundation, and Seoul Technology Research Institute joined forces to create an international public forum exploring big data-based urban policies. We hope that this forum will seek ways to solve new urban problems after COVID-19 by applying digital technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence (AI), and the metaverse, while also expanding international cooperation networks.”

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