KT, "AI One Team, Advancing as the National Representative AI Collaboration Platform"

‘AI One Team Summit 2022’ Brings Together Industry, Academia, and Research in AI

At the AI One Team Summit 2022, representatives from participating institutions, including KT CEO Koo Hyun-mo (fifth from the left), took a commemorative photo after the event.

From the left: Shin Bong-kwan, Head of Korea Investment & Securities; Lee Jin-cheon, Director of Green Cross Holdings; Cho Hyun-min, President of Hanjin; Kim Byung-hoon, Vice President of LG Electronics; Koo Hyun-mo, CEO of KT; Park In-gu, Vice Chairman of Dongwon Group; Lee Won-duk, President of Woori Bank; Lee Kwang-hyung, President of KAIST; Kim Woo-seung, President of Hanyang University; Shin Dong-ryeol, President of Sungkyunkwan University; Kim Sung-joon, Vice President of Hyundai Heavy Industries Group; Kang Do-hyun, Director of Information and Communication Policy at the Ministry of Science and ICT; Kim Myung-joon, President of ETRI. (Photo by KT)

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Hye-sun] "We will create AI innovation in major industrial sectors of the Republic of Korea as a national AI industry-academia-research cooperation platform that can represent the country."

On the afternoon of the 25th, KT CEO Koo Hyun-mo attended the 'AI One Team Summit 2022' held at Sofitel Ambassador Seoul and said, "AI capabilities determine national competitiveness." AI One Team was launched in February 2020 with the goal of making Korea the 'No. 1 AI nation.' The team consists of KT, Hyundai Heavy Industries Group, LG Electronics, Korea Investment & Securities, Dongwon Group, Woori Bank, Hanjin, Green Cross Holdings, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Hanyang University, Sungkyunkwan University, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), and others.

Leap to a National Representative AI Cooperation Platform

At the event, participating organizations discussed the future direction of AI in Korea together. Attendees revealed a vision to elevate AI One Team as a 'national representative AI cooperation platform' that enhances Korea's AI national competitiveness. To this end, they plan to lead AI innovation in key industrial sectors, develop super-large AI models, and expand participating companies to solve various corporate challenges. They also plan to jointly promote core AI technologies such as multi-robots capable of self-learning.

Additionally, they announced plans to continuously expand the AI ecosystem by introducing the 'Korea AI Startup 100' solutions?aimed at leading Korea's innovation ecosystem?into One Team participating companies, and to expand the role of AI specialized education into AI bio and health sectors to jointly nurture practical AI talent. The 'AI Startup 100' is a program that discovers and fosters startups that will lead the industry by identifying domestic unicorns.

Sharing AI One Team Cooperation Achievements

Attendees also shared the achievements of AI One Team cooperation over the past three years. First, as an open research and development achievement, they shared cases where companies such as KT, Hyundai Heavy Industries Group, and Dongwon Group collaborated with research institutes to solve corporate issues. They mentioned securing core technologies necessary for companies through projects in voice recognition, robotics, and autonomous ship navigation, which have been commercialized in actual corporate sites to improve productivity. These projects are documented as joint papers by companies and research institutes and published in major domestic and international academic conferences. The joint development of a 'super-large AI model,' conducted through collaboration among five domestic institutions including KT (ETRI, KAIST, Hanyang University, Sungkyunkwan University) and eight research teams, is approaching full-scale commercialization.

One Team is conducting comprehensive cooperation such as business partnerships, strategic investments, and AI talent recruitment and training with 100 startups selected through 'AI Startup 100.' To expand the AI ecosystem, they participated in the LG Open Innovation event through member company LG Electronics and discovered promising startups. In the talent development field, they established recruitment-linked departments. The convergence-type industry-academia joint courses are short-term AI training programs by industry sectors such as finance, manufacturing, IT development, where employees of participating organizations receive high-level education from world-class professors. The recruitment-linked contract departments established in collaboration with KAIST and Hanyang University support companies in early securing of excellent AI personnel.

Meanwhile, the 'AI One Team Summit 2022' was attended by KT CEO Koo Hyun-mo, KAIST President Lee Kwang-hyung, Hanyang University President Kim Woo-seung, Sungkyunkwan University President Shin Dong-ryeol, ETRI President Kim Myung-joon, Dongwon Group Vice Chairman Park In-gu, Hanjin President Cho Hyun-min, Woori Bank President Lee Won-duk, Hyundai Heavy Industries Group Vice President Kim Sung-joon, LG Electronics Vice President Kim Byung-hoon, Korea Investment & Securities Head Shin Bong-kwan, Green Cross Holdings Director Lee Jin-cheon, and Ministry of Science and ICT Information and Communication Policy Office Director Kang Do-hyun, among others.

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