Kakao Pay Securities Holds 1st "AI Hackathon"...Transforming the Way We Work with AI

AI Utilization Idea Contest for Employees
29 Teams and 99 Participants
Discovering Ideas for Work Efficiency and Service Innovation

Kakao Pay Securities (CEO Shin Hocheol) announced on the 14th that it held the awards ceremony for its "1st AI Hackathon" at its office in Pangyo, Gyeonggi Province, recognizing and awarding outstanding ideas.

Previously, Kakao Pay Securities hosted the "1st AI Hackathon" for its employees last month at the Kakao AI Campus located in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province. The event was designed to help employees become more familiar with artificial intelligence (AI) and to actively utilize AI for work and service innovation.

Held under the theme "With AI and by AI: Better Customer Experience and More Efficient Work," the hackathon attracted a total of 29 teams and 99 participants from both development and non-development departments, including legal, HR, and business planning. Participants formed teams of up to four or worked individually to develop ideas and present their results after 10 hours of implementation.

Prior to the main event, Kakao Pay Securities invited experts from various AI fields to share the latest AI trends and practical implementation know-how, thereby enhancing participants' AI capabilities from multiple perspectives.

At the awards ceremony, the "Forking" team, which implemented an automated advertising review function, took first place. The team was highly praised for automating the complex advertising review process using AI. The "Ancamillo" team, which developed features to improve web accessibility for users with low vision, won second place, while the "Jeongmal Joheun Gongsi Saenghwal" team, which developed a solution to automatically select key public disclosures by analyzing disclosure data, took third place. The top teams received generous prizes, including the latest MacBooks, iPhones, and Galaxy Folds.

Kakao Pay Securities explained that the evaluation focused on AI ideas that could create real value in actual work and service environments, rather than simply on technical competition. The company plans to use this event as an opportunity to foster an organizational culture where AI naturally integrates into not only work efficiency but also the overall planning and development of user services.

Follow-up work is underway to ensure that the results developed during the hackathon lead to enhanced services and improved internal work efficiency. This year, Kakao Pay Securities has been accelerating innovation in the user investment experience through technology, including the sequential launch of AI-based investment information services as a fintech securities company.

Lee Hyungjoo, head of the AI Service Center at Kakao Pay Securities, said, "Many of the ideas presented at this hackathon resonated as being truly useful for everyday work. The most meaningful aspect was that developers and non-developers came together as teams, gaining positive experiences in both a convergent perspective on problem-solving and practical approaches using AI."

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