"Data Changed the World, Life Transformed - Reflecting, Observing, Looking Ahead!" ... 'Busan Data Week 2022' Held

December 15-16 at BEXCO, Busan Data Week (DATA WEEK) Held

An Event Focusing on Digital Transformation and Data Technology to Explore Future Prospects

Busan Data Week 2022 Poster.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Dongguk Lee] Busan City will hold ‘Busan Data Week 2022,’ organized by Busan Technopark, at BEXCO for two days starting at 9:30 a.m. on the 15th.

‘Busan Data Week’ was established this year for the first time to share the latest trends in the data industry with domestic and international scholars and to explore future development directions amid rapidly changing digital industry conditions, aiming to revitalize the local data industry and strengthen the ecosystem.

The main contents of this event are sequentially organized so that participants can access the information and data technologies needed in the industrial field without missing them.

▲ Digital Transformation (DX) Conference examining the trends of data and digital transformation ▲ Data-driven digital transformation technology sessions utilizing cloud services from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) ▲ Presentation of business model development achievements by teams participating in the Busan DX Camp ▲ Mid-sized company-startup DX win-win lounge in collaboration with the Korea Industrial Intelligence Association ▲ Performance report meeting on the small and medium-sized enterprise big data analysis and utilization support project that leads regional company growth through customized big data analysis.

In the DX Conference section, ▲ Professor Dongjin Kim, founder of Wonder Makerspace (Design Technology Lab) at Purdue University, USA, will deliver a keynote speech titled ‘The Core of Digital Transformation (DX) is Data Technology’ ▲ Hajungwoo, head of Naver AI Lab, will speak on ‘The Present and Future of the Ultra-large-scale AI Ecosystem’ ▲ Vice President Gilyoung Song of Vibe Company will present ‘Changes in Life ? Looking Back, Watching, Looking Forward.’

Additionally, there will be diverse presentations and passionate discussions by experts in each field, including ‘Strategies to Activate Industry-Academia Cooperation Based on PBL’ by Hongki Kim, head of the Big Data Innovation Sharing University Project at Seoul National University, ‘The Present and Future of the MyData Ecosystem’ by Dongho Lee, head of AWS Financial Business Division, and ‘Data Talent Development Strategy Based on Industry-Academia Cooperation’ by Byungki Kim, vice president of Silla University.

In the technology sessions related to data-driven digital transformation using cloud services, global innovative technology companies Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) will share useful tips on utilizing cloud services in an interactive manner.

In the ‘Mid-sized Company-Startup DX Win-Win Lounge’ held in collaboration with the Korea Industrial Intelligence Association, the capabilities of regional mid-sized companies and the technologies and ideas of digital innovation startups will be combined to support business restructuring and new business entry, securing new growth engines.

Two mid-sized companies, including Donghwa Entech, centered on machinery, chemistry, and shipbuilding, and eight digital innovation startups from related industries are expected to participate.

The ‘Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Big Data Analysis and Utilization Support Project Performance Report Meeting’ will demonstrate how data accumulated unknowingly in general industrial sites creates new value by easing the entry barriers to data utilization through cases of big data analysis and utilization by small and medium-sized enterprises.

Particularly noteworthy at this event is the “DX Challenge Demo Day” by teams participating in the Busan DX Camp.

The DX Camp has been promoted as a full-cycle support project for developing data-related business models from business planning to service development and launch over 16 weeks from August 22 to December 9.

A total of 10 teams are preparing presentations (pitching), among which the ‘Oneul Yeouido’ team developed a service using public legislative data and already won an encouragement award at the government-wide public data utilization startup competition hosted by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, and the ‘Hustlers’ team developed a schedule management service and won the grand prize at the ‘Timely Startup Competition’ hosted by Seoul National University of Science and Technology and others.

Through these programs, Busan Data Week is expected to serve as an opportunity to seek future directions with world-renowned scholars and to invigorate companies or data workers attempting digital transformation and change amid the flow of the 4th Industrial Revolution and digital transformation through data utilization cases in actual industrial sites.

Mayor Hyung-jun Park emphasized, “For Busan to be reborn as a digital transformation city, strengthening the self-sustainability of the data industry ecosystem and securing high-quality data are most important,” and said, “Busan Data Week is a place where companies and stakeholders share actual data utilization cases and commercialization plans together, and it will be a catalyst to solve current problems and create future growth engines through creative innovation.”

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.