Program
2023 Seoul S&T Forum
Opening Ceremony
10:00–10:30
Opening Remarks

Bok Chul Kim, Chairperson, National Research Council of Science & Technology (NST)

Welcoming Remarks

Seok-Jin Yoon, President, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)

Mi Ock Mun, President, Science and Technology Policy Institute (STEPI)

Keynote Speech
10:30–11:10
Keynote Speech I Building Embodied Autonomous Agents with Multimodal Interactions

Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Professor, Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University

11:10~11:50
Keynote Speech II AI & Data Utilization in Public Sector

So Ah Park, Vice President, VAIV Company

11:50~13:20

Luncheon

Session I
The Issues of AI in the Public and Private Sector: Challenges and Values
13:20~13:45
Presentation I Creating an Environment for Utilizing AI Technology

Minsung Kim, Head, Government & Regulatory Affairs, IBM Korea

13:45~14:10
Presentation II Understanding of AI Regulation System and Policy Implications

KwangHo Lee, Senior Research Fellow, Office of Innovation Law & Institution Research, Science and Technology Policy Institute (STEPI)

14:10~14:35
Presentation III Aligning AI to Commercial Value

Jack Hampson, CEO, Deeper Insights/ UK Governments AI Dealmaker for the Global Entrepreneur Programme

14:35~15:20
Panel Discussion (Chair, Presenters, Panelists, Q&A Session)

Chair: Kyoungjin Choi, Professor College of Law/ Director, Center for AI·Data and Policy, Gachon University
Panelist : Won H. Cho, Founding Partner, D’LIGHT Law Group
Panelist : Hyeonkyu Lee, PM, PM Group, Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation

15:20~15:40

Coffee Break

Session II
Humans, AI, and Robots: A New Paradigm for Collaboration and Coexistence
15:40~16:05
Presentation I Machine Learning Techniques for Science and Engineering: Focused Study on Materials Science

Seung-Cheol Lee, Director, Indo-Korea Science and Technology Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)

16:05~16:30
Presentation II Geospatial Foundational AI for Sustainable and Regenerative Agriculture

Praveen Pankajakshan, Head Cropin AI Lab, India

16:30~16:55
Presentation III Efficient Large-scale 3D Modeling Using Omnidirectional Vision and Depth Sensing

Jongwoo Lim, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University

16:55~17:40
Panel Discussion (Chair, Presenters, Panelists, Q&A Session)

Chair: Hwasup Lim, Head, Center for Artificial Intelligence, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)
Panelist: Pawan Goyal, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur
Panelist: Sung Soo (Eric) Kim, Founder and CEO, Datacrunch Global/ Adjunct Professor, School of International Studies, Hanyang University

17:40~17:50

Closing

17:50~

Gala Dinner