Gwangju Creative Economy Innovation Center Holds Gwangju-type Job Performance Sharing Meeting

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Jin-hyung] The Gwangju Center for Creative Economy and Innovation (Director Ha Sang-yong) held a performance sharing meeting for the ‘2021 Gwangju Job Creation Innovation Growth Project’ at Urban Brook in Nam-gu on the 20th.

As the executing institution for the ‘Industrial Intelligence Specialized Workforce Training and Technology Commercialization Project Support’ within this year’s Gwangju Job Creation Innovation Growth Project, the Innovation Center opened the ‘AI Industrial Intelligence Specialized Workforce Training Course’ for three months from May to August, operating ▲AI Service Developer Specialized Course ▲AI Maker Course ▲AI Pre-Startup Practical Course.

The training course broke away from the traditional software and coding-centered education by providing hands-on hardware practice incorporating AI such as ‘Jetson Nano AI’ and 3D printer modeling, and for the first time in the region, taught Microsoft’s cloud service Azure.

Moreover, the program focused on cultivating a small elite group of creative AI convergence talents by conducting multifaceted and comprehensive education, including establishing business models where job seekers themselves become entrepreneurs.

Through this training course, graduates participated in fieldwork with 3 startups in big data education, AI convergence industry, and software development, and 13 were employed by Gwangju AI startups.

At the event, excellent cases of AI trainee and company collaboration projects from Intflow Co., Ltd. and four other companies were presented.

Jeon Gwang-myeong, CEO of Intflow, said, “It has been very difficult to find AI developers in the region. Through the hiring linkage in this support project, we employed the necessary AI specialists, and the product development using the AI technology we envisioned is about to be commercialized.” He expressed satisfaction and gratitude to the related parties.

Building on this year’s project achievements, the Gwangju Center for Creative Economy and Innovation plans to create sustainable, high-quality jobs so that young people can grow into talents leading new industries in the Fourth Industrial Revolution era, and continuously supply human resources with technical capabilities to startups experiencing manpower shortages.

Director Ha Sang-yong stated, “Going forward, we will do our best to establish Gwangju’s unique innovative job creation model that creates youth jobs and fosters the growth of local startups, activate the AI industry ecosystem, and leverage the center’s strengths as a regional startup hub to create a Gwangju where people and companies coexist.”

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