Ulsan Metropolitan City Reviews 24 Billion-Won 'Locally Led AI Transformation' Project
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Ulsan Metropolitan City is reviewing the progress and results of its locally led AI transformation project and pushing ahead with the spread of AI transformation among local small and medium-sized enterprises.
On the 8th, it held a performance-sharing session and a review meeting with the Small and Medium Venture Business Corporation at Lotte Hotel Ulsan, where it examined the project’s progress and results.
Ulsan said it will spread the project’s demonstration results across local small and medium-sized enterprises and strengthen the full-cycle support system.
Ulsan Metropolitan City is reviewing the progress and results of its locally led AI transformation project and pushing ahead with the spread of AI transformation among local small and medium-sized enterprises. To that end, it held the 'Locally Led AI Transformation Project Performance Sharing Session and Small and Medium Venture Business Corporation Review Meeting' at Lotte Hotel Ulsan on the 8th.
The meeting was attended by more than 70 people, including Ulsan Metropolitan City Vice Mayor for Economic Affairs Shin Min-sik, project operators, officials from the Small and Medium Venture Business Corporation, and representatives of local small and medium-sized business groups. The meeting reviewed the project’s progress and results.
It also shared AI application cases from participating companies and discussed on-site difficulties. It was also introduced that companies receiving support for AI solutions and technology verification had seen higher sales and lower defect rates.
The locally led AI transformation project is an initiative overseen by a metropolitan local government and aims to support the use and spread of AI tailored to local industrial characteristics. Ulsan Metropolitan City is investing a total of KRW 24.06 billion, including KRW 14 billion in national funds. The city is making the entire process, from AI adoption to demonstration and expansion, available as part of its support for local small and medium-sized enterprises.
The project is being carried out in four areas: building manufacturing AI innovation hubs, building computing infrastructure, customized corporate support, and talent development. Ulsan Techno Park is the lead organization, while the Ulsan Information Industry Promotion Agency, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan University, and the Ulsan Creative Economy Innovation Center are participating as implementing organizations.
The manufacturing AI innovation hub will be built with an AI experience exhibition hall, academy, and networking space. The hub will be operated for local small and medium-sized enterprises and is intended to allow them to experience AI technologies firsthand and review their possible on-site application.
The manufacturing AI computing center will be built as a GPU cluster and an AI utilization platform. AI computing resources will be operated in a shared-use model for resources that individual small and medium-sized enterprises would find difficult to secure on their own, and the center will support 15 companies for technology demonstration while also providing on-site support for each company.
Customized corporate support includes business diagnosis and consulting for 150 companies, distribution of AI solutions in manufacturing processes, safety, and quality inspection for 100 companies, demonstration-based technology verification for 15 companies, real-time data pipeline linkage for 30 companies, and support for 30 AI technology startups.
Ulsan City is running hands-on AI education, field-linked specialist training, and education for CEOs and employees in the talent development area. Through this, it plans to improve the AI utilization capabilities of local small and medium-sized enterprises and secure the specialized personnel needed on-site.
Ulsan City and the Small and Medium Venture Business Corporation reviewed on-site difficulties in the project implementation process and discussed future cooperation measures. It also said that, through this performance-sharing session, it would spread the project’s demonstration results across local small and medium-sized enterprises.
Shin Min-sik, vice mayor for economic affairs of Ulsan Metropolitan City, said the Ulsan-led AI transformation project is strengthening the support system for the full cycle of local small and medium-sized enterprises. He added that, through this performance-sharing session, the city will push ahead with accelerating AI transformation among small and medium-sized enterprises and establish a sustainable innovation ecosystem.
Source: TECHWORLD · Kim Seung-gi
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=407971
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