Ulsan Metropolitan City to Host “WAVE 2026,” Bringing Factory-AX Technologies Together
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Ulsan Metropolitan City will hold the 3rd Ulsan World Future Industry Expo (WAVE) 2026 from the 10th to the 12th at the Ulsan Exhibition and Convention Center (UECO).
This expo will showcase AX technologies and application cases that apply AI to the region’s key industries, including automobiles, shipbuilding, and energy, and the exhibition will be organized around manufacturing-site use cases.
The expo will feature four sectors, along with export consultation sessions, various forums, and a job fair, while Ulsan City also plans follow-up demonstration and commercialization links.
Ulsan Metropolitan City will host the 3rd Ulsan World Future Industry Expo (WAVE) 2026. The event will be held from the 10th to the 12th at the Ulsan Exhibition and Convention Center (UECO).
At this expo, Ulsan Metropolitan City will unveil AI-powered industrial AX technologies and application cases targeting the region’s key industries, including automobiles, shipbuilding, and energy. The purpose of the event is to show the direction of the region’s industrial AX transition by linking Ulsan’s manufacturing base with AI, robotics, data, digital twins, and smart manufacturing technologies.
This year’s event puts more weight on showing how AI is actually used on industrial sites than on expanding introductions to advanced technologies. Accordingly, the exhibition has been organized around real-world applications in manufacturing settings.
The exhibition will be organized into four sectors: AI and digital innovation, future mobility, shipbuilding, defense and advanced materials, and clean energy and carbon neutrality. In the AI and digital innovation sector, panel-based displays will be reduced, while hands-on and demonstration content featuring technologies and equipment used in industrial settings will be expanded.
The exhibition will focus on manufacturing AX technologies and introduce AI technologies that improve quality and productivity based on manufacturing process data collection and analysis. It will also feature worker safety support solutions, along with automation technologies based on robots, vision, and digital twins.
To expand application in industrial settings, local companies, universities, and research institutes will take part, and major companies’ AX technologies will be introduced. Solutions that small and midsize companies can use, as well as research achievements, will also be presented. Through this, the event plans to create opportunities for cooperation among technology suppliers, demand-side companies, and research institutes.
The expo will also run programs that connect showcased technologies to actual business opportunities, and during the event it will host the ULSAN EXPORT PLAZA and the WAVE export consultation session. It will support 1-on-1 meetings between domestic and overseas buyers and participating companies, and seek opportunities for purchasing, export, and investment cooperation.
Industry-specific technology and policy events will also be held at the same time. The AI Industry Development Conference, the U-Battery Tech Plus Forum, and the 6th Ulsan International Hydrogen Energy Forum will discuss technology trends and policies in AI, batteries, hydrogen, and other future industries.
During the same period as the expo, the 2026 SK Ulsan Forum will also be held concurrently, and the forum topic will be the impact of manufacturing AX on local communities and citizens’ lives. In addition, the Ulsan Robot Competition and a battery industry job fair will be operated. Through these events, the city aims to expand opportunities for teenagers and young adults to experience future industries and to broaden career exploration opportunities for them.
Ulsan plans to push forward follow-up demonstration and commercialization links for technologies discovered through the expo, as well as follow-up demonstration and commercialization links for cooperative tasks identified at the expo. In addition, in line with the recent launch of the industrial AX consultative body, the city plans to expand cooperation centered on that body. Partners will include companies, universities, research institutes, and support organizations.
Kim Sang-wook, Mayor of Ulsan Metropolitan City, said that Ulsan is a manufacturing city that led Korea’s industrialization and a city where data-based AI for manufacturing sites can be rapidly demonstrated and spread. He added that through WAVE 2026, Ulsan will present how industrial innovation AI is implemented on the ground, and that it will promote a Ulsan-style AX that connects those results to corporate competitiveness, worker safety, citizen jobs, and changes in daily life.
Source: TECHWORLD · Kim Seung-gi
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=406440
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