LG Electronics to Gather 1,500 AI Developers for 'LG AI DevCon'
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LG Electronics announced on the 16th that it will hold 'LG AI DevCon(DevCon) 2026,' hosted by the LG SW Council.
The event will run for two days starting on the 15th at LG Sciencepark in Magok, Seoul, and is a software developer conference restructured around AI.
About 1,500 developers from LG affiliates, including LG Electronics, LG CNS, and LG Uplus, will participate both online and offline, with exhibits, keynote speeches, and case-sharing sessions scheduled.
LG Electronics is accelerating innovation in software development using AI. LG Electronics announced on the 16th that it will hold 'LG AI DevCon(DevCon) 2026,' hosted by the LG SW Council. The event will take place for two days starting on the 15th at LG Sciencepark in Magok, Seoul.
'LG AI DevCon' is a rebranded version of the software developer conference that has been held annually since 2022. LG Electronics reorganized the existing conference around AI to respond to changes in the AI-based software development environment.
This event consists of technology trend lectures, exhibits of the latest AI technologies, and sharing sessions on AI-based development innovation cases. It is designed to strengthen the AI utilization capabilities of developers at LG affiliates and enhance their competitiveness. About 1,500 developers from LG affiliates, including LG Electronics, LG CNS, and LG Uplus, will participate both online and offline.
An exhibition area where visitors can experience the latest AI technologies from major companies and institutions will also be set up at the venue. Participants in the exhibition include NVIDIA, Microsoft, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and LG AI Research.
There will be two keynote speakers. Professor Chung Ji-hoon and Professor Shim Hyun-chul of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) will deliver the keynote speeches. Professor Chung Ji-hoon, founding partner of Silicon Valley-based investment firm A2G Capital and adjunct professor at DGIST, will introduce the process of changes in AI-based software development methods. Professor Shim Hyun-chul, regarded as one of the first-generation drone researchers in Korea, will explain trends in physical AI technology and its future development direction.
Participants will then share real-world cases of improving software development productivity using AI. LG Electronics will introduce its know-how and achievements in using AI in the software development process for its proprietary smart TV platform webOS.
LG CNS will present the results of using AI to improve legacy systems. LG Uplus will present the results of content production using conversational AI agents. In this way, participating companies will share the results they have achieved by applying AI to actual development and production sites.
The event will also address strategies for responding to security threats accompanying the spread of AI. Ways to build management systems for improving the reliability and transparency of AI services will also be discussed.
On the 15th, the first day of the event, the final round was held for the 'LG Prompthon Challenge 2026,' an AI service development competition using EXAONE, AWS AI development tool 'Kiro.'
The competition held its preliminary rounds last August, with a total of 84 developers from 28 teams participating. In the preliminaries, a range of ideas was presented, including a home appliance installation simulation service and a customized proposal writing service for B2B customers, and the top 10 teams advanced to the finals. The teams that advanced to the finals enhanced their development services over the past 3 weeks with technical support from LG AI Research and AWS before competing in the final round.
Kim Dong-wook, executive vice president and head of LG Electronics' SW Center, said the company would actively share the AI utilization experience and innovation cases accumulated in development sites, accelerate AI-based development innovation, and connect it to new values and services that customers can directly experience.
LG AI DevCon is operated as one of the LG Spark(SPARK) programs held at LG Sciencepark from the 7th to the 17th, and LG Spark(SPARK) is a festival of AI innovation, technology, and culture. The festival has already featured the LG Tech Fair, which shares new technologies from LG affiliates, the LG AX Fair, which shares AX achievements, and the LG AI Talk Concert, which shares LG AI Research's AI vision and industry proof-of-concept cases. After that, Culture Week, an event where LG employees, their families, university-industry talent, local residents in Magok, and small business owners communicate together, will continue through the 17th.
Source: TECHWORLD · Park Kyu-chan
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