Creating a Platform for Marine×Data Convergence and Industry-Academia-Research Exchange! ... Busan City Hosts 'Marine New Industry Networking Day'

Held at Busan Marine New Industry Open Platform at 2 PM on the 21st

Hybrid online and offline format, seminar and networking sessions conducted

Busan Marine New Industry Networking Day Poster.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Dongguk Lee] Busan City and Busan Technopark will hold the ‘Busan Marine New Industry Networking Day’ at 2 p.m. on the 21st at the Busan Marine New Industry Open Platform located in Dongsam Innovation District.

The ‘Busan Marine New Industry Networking Day’ is an event prepared to share technology trends among local innovation entities regarding the ‘data-driven marine new industry,’ which will be fostered as a food industry of the future marine city Busan, and to activate exchanges among government, industry, academia, and research sectors.

On the day, the event will be held in two parts in a hybrid format of online and offline so that participants can directly and indirectly share trends in marine, space, and data industries that will lead Busan’s marine new industry.

▲ In the first seminar session, lectures by experts in marine, space, and big data fields, which are major convergence technologies of the marine new industry, will be conducted, and participation online is also possible.

▲ In the second networking session, a networking time will be provided where key companies in the local marine new industry sector and innovation entities from government, industry, academia, and research can freely interact on-site.

The event will also include an awards ceremony for contributors to the marine industry, providing a meaningful time to encourage the efforts of local companies.

At the awards ceremony, the city plans to present the mayor’s commendation to CEO Changhoon Koo of Dolphin IT, selected as the best case in the company-led technology development contest conducted as part of the ‘Project to Create an Innovative Growth Ecosystem for the Future Marine City Busan,’ a representative marine new industry fostering project.

Kim Byung-gi, Director of the Marine Fisheries Bureau of the city, said, “We expect that this event will further strengthen the cooperative relationships among innovation entities in government, industry, academia, and research regarding the ‘data-driven marine new industry.’” He added, “Our city will continue to actively support related projects to foster the ‘data-driven marine new industry’ that will lead the future of Busan, the marine capital.”

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