Seoul AI Hub to Host 'AI for Good' Event, Seeking Solutions to Urban and Education Challenges Through AI
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Seoul AI Hub said it will hold “AI IMPACT: AI for Good, a Seoul policy forum and hackathon for an inclusive AI ecosystem” on the 18th at its Main Center in Yangjae-dong, Seoul.
At the event, participants will discuss ways to apply AI to social problems such as the education gap, aging and care, digital exclusion and urban safety, while hackathon participants will turn those ideas into prototypes for AI-based services or policy ideas.
The policy forum will cover collaboration models among universities, companies, startups and investment institutions centered on the Seoul Metropolitan Government and Seoul AI Hub, as well as ways to use Seoul Metropolitan Government AI policy and AI in education, research, startups and investment.
Seoul AI Hub said it will hold “AI IMPACT: AI for Good, a Seoul policy forum and hackathon for an inclusive AI ecosystem” on the 18th at its Main Center in Yangjae-dong, Seoul, as a venue for discussions and experiments applying AI to social problem solving. The event is an “AI for Good” policy forum and hackathon hosted by Seoul AI Hub, aimed at seeking solutions to social problems.
At the event, participants will discuss ways to use AI not only for industrial growth, but also to improve citizens’ daily lives and educational environments and to address social issues. Social problems identified for AI applications include the education gap, aging and care, digital exclusion, and urban safety.
Through this event, Seoul AI Hub said it is focusing on linking AI ideas implemented on site with policy discussions. Based on this, it plans to move toward exploring collaboration models among the public sector, universities and companies.
The main actors are the Seoul Metropolitan Government and Seoul AI Hub. Centered on the Seoul Metropolitan Government and Seoul AI Hub, the plan is to connect universities’ research and education capabilities, companies’ and startups’ technological strengths, and investment institutions’ support for growth, with a focus on linking each actor’s capabilities and support.
The policy forum will focus on Seoul Metropolitan Government AI policy and ways to use AI in education, research, startups and investment. The forum will begin with opening remarks by Byun Woo-seok, head of Seoul AI Hub, followed by presentations from a Seoul National University official and experts in each field.
At the session, the Seoul Metropolitan Government will present its AI policy direction covering citizens’ daily lives, urban infrastructure, public services and the startup ecosystem. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education will share its education AI strategy for addressing students’, teachers’ and parents’ AI literacy as well as the issues of the education gap and access to technology.
In addition, Lee Jong-ik, chairman of Quenesity, is expected to present ways to solve social problems and drive corporate growth through AI startup and impact investment. In this way, the policy forum is structured so that experts from the Seoul Metropolitan Government, education, research and industry sequentially present AI use directions and response strategies in each area.
Another pillar of the event is the “AI for Good Hackathon,” run with Team Human. Hackathon participants will directly select issues such as the education gap, aging and care, digital exclusion and urban safety, and turn them into prototypes for AI-based services or policy ideas.
The event organizers said SpaceXAI will support the hackathon’s development environment. All participants will receive credits worth USD 100. Additional credits will be awarded to top teams, with USD 2,000 for first place, USD 1,000 for second place, and USD 1,000 for third place.
Seoul AI Hub will award a special prize to the first-place team and grant extra points in future membership selection processes. It is also planning follow-up support so that hackathon outputs can lead to product development, startups and commercialization.
In the hackathon, participant teams will present social problems, AI-based solutions and implementation prototypes. The hackathon results will be linked to the policy forum.
The following policy panel discussion will be on “Policy and Collaboration Models for an Inclusive AI Society.” Lawyer Koo Tae-eon of Law Firm Lin will serve as moderator, and Ham Jong-min, a professor at Seoul National University, Lee Jong-ik, chairman of Quenesity, Byun Woo-seok, the center head, a Seoul Metropolitan Government official and a Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education official will participate. The session will discuss practical policy measures, public support and ways to apply AI in education and industry settings.
Participants plan to review ways to connect Seoul Metropolitan Government policy and public support, universities’ research and education capabilities, startups’ technological strengths and investment institutions’ support systems, starting from ideas generated at the hackathon.
Byun Woo-seok, head of Seoul AI Hub, said competitiveness in the AI era lies not only in technology development but also in solving real social problems through AI use by citizens and companies, and he said he hopes practical collaboration measures linking Seoul’s AI policy and on-the-ground implementation ideas will be explored.
Source: TECHWORLD · Kim Seung-gi
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