Samsung Electro-Mechanics Launches First In-House AI Hackathon, Kicks Off 'One Person, One AI Agent' Initiative
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Samsung Electro-Mechanics announced on the 13th that it will hold its first in-house AI hackathon.
The event will take place from the 13th to the 16th at the Suwon campus, with 200 employees participating in pairs.
Participants will use SEMCo-Work to develop Agentic AI that automates repetitive tasks, and five teams that pass the preliminaries will advance to the finals.
Samsung Electro-Mechanics will hold its first in-house AI hackathon. Samsung Electro-Mechanics announced the plan on the 13th, and the event will take place over four days from the 13th to the 16th at its Suwon campus. The purpose of the event is to develop agents for automating repetitive tasks by leveraging the company's in-house generative AI platform.
A total of 200 employees will take part in the hackathon, with 100 teams formed in pairs. The competition will focus on reducing repetitive work and developing Agentic AI that can be applied immediately in the field. Participants will identify work procedures that take a long time and build AI agents to automate or streamline those procedures.
The event will make use of Samsung Electro-Mechanics' in-house Agentic AI platform, 'SEMCo-Work.' 'SEMCo-Work' is a name combining 'SEMCO' and 'Co-work.' The platform is designed to run on the company's own servers to ensure internal security and improve compatibility between existing internal systems and AI.
Samsung Electro-Mechanics designed 'SEMCo-Work' with the goal of improving work efficiency. This hackathon is a venue for applying the in-house developed 'SEMCo-Work' to actual work and linking it to real improvements in efficiency. In line with the article headline, the push is toward kicking off 'One Person, One AI Agent.'
Samsung Electro-Mechanics is running the hackathon with its focus not just on discovering ideas for AI use, but on creating outcomes that can be applied to actual work. Taking into account the characteristics of a manufacturing company, Samsung Electro-Mechanics is encouraging the development of agents that solve on-the-job problems such as product development, production, quality control, and customer response.
Participants are implementing ways to automate repetitive tasks such as data management, information gathering, inspection requests, and system registration during the development process. Pro Yoon Sae-mi said it is easy to implement the needed functions by using SEMCo-Work.
Pro Yoon Sae-mi said she is developing an agent that streamlines data management in the development process and automates repetitive tasks involving information gathering, inspection requests, and system registration. The competition's judging process will be divided into preliminaries and finals.
Five teams that pass the preliminaries will advance to the finals. Samsung Electro-Mechanics plans to select gold, silver, bronze, and encouragement prize winners, and the total prize money is KRW 33 million. The final award-winning works will be honored at the company's anniversary ceremony on November 2.
Samsung Electro-Mechanics plans to increase the fairness of the finals by forming the judging panel with company executives and AX executives from Samsung affiliates. In the finals, the results will be evaluated based on the level of AI use, the problem-solving approach, and applicability to actual work.
After the competition ends, Samsung Electro-Mechanics plans to make the developed agents public to all employees. The goal is to ensure that outstanding results do not end up as one-off competition entries.
All employees will be able to use the agents. Samsung Electro-Mechanics plans to share feedback from the usage process with the development team and reflect it in future feature improvements.
President Jang Duk-hyun stressed the importance of long-term innovation, saying that the AI era is still January 1. Samsung Electro-Mechanics plans to use this hackathon as an opportunity to enhance employees' AI capabilities and expand workplace innovation across the organization.
Vice President Jang Woo-seok said it is important for employees who know the field best to directly create the agents they need based on AI. He also said it is important to improve them together with colleagues. He added that the company will support every employee so they can use AI in their work and will help outstanding projects spread into real workplace improvements.
Samsung Electro-Mechanics President Jang Duk-hyun emphasized that AI transformation must be pursued from a long-term perspective. He described the current stage of the AI era as still the early 'January 1' phase and explained that the response direction to AI-driven growth and innovation should be based on a long-term time horizon.
Jang said the meaning of this hackathon lies in the experience of directly creating task-specific agents. He added that this experience marks the start of 'One Person, One AI Agent.'
Samsung Electro-Mechanics is pushing to make employees' use of AI a part of everyday work culture. To that end, it will hold a quarterly 'Agentic AI contest' and, alongside this hackathon, will run an AI ideas contest and a use-case contest. The purpose of the contests and hackathon support is to encourage employees to propose new ways to use AI and to help them share their experiences with one another.
Source: TECHWORLD · Park Gyu-chan
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=408079
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